“Progressive Nonsense” on Hilton’s Policy Announcements Grid
Guido has been worrying for some time that the government is in thrall to left-wing progressive nonsense and drifting towards the soggy centre. Thankfully a document has turned up in the inbox that suggests otherwise – the Steve Hilton / Rohan Silva policy announcements grid. Whilst in opposition Steve, Rohan and the rest of the zen-men had their heads in the clouds with blue-sky thinking so much that they forgot to take one of their rather revealing policy strategy agendas out of the photocopier:
Standard Cameroon opposition fluff is all covered, along with key points to be addressed. “Progressive Conservatism” was top of the agenda with “Red-Tory” Philip Blond flavour of the month with the chattering classes, and clearly open to having his strings pulled:
CCHQ were so keen on pushing the Guardian-friendly “Progressive Conservatism” agenda that they even made a video:
Blond came up with the goods in PR terms over and over again with some ever so helpful mood-setting articles.
However there was one firm policy point on the grid to be pushed that really struck Guido:
Clearly this wasn’t a sincerely held all-encompassing broad policy, it was cynically designed to land blows on the Labour government in the pre-election air war, it was an effective ploy to spin how much the Tories were a changed ‘progressive’ party. Guido is reassured that even the likes of Steve Hilton thought it a load of nonsense…
What a bunch of cuts
Progressive Taxation is a dangerous nonsense.
As Relative pay is relative to market productivity*, making the effective pay of the productive lower, lowers the wages of those working (as they tend to be employed by those with a higher market productivity). Add in the discouraging effect of fines for working and you get a typically fucked marxist economy.
*Related to Demand v Supply of workers
We also taxed earned income more severely than investment income. We impose National Insurance Tax on the former but not the latter. The only plausible reason for this is that the governing classes tend to have relatively more investment income than the governed.
and still less tax on rent-seeking in property. Leading to house affordability collapses and hugely damaging credit bubbles.
Eh bah Gum, this is roight grande in Chunkie land
d’ya geet theese’n from a reet builder too lad?
Aahh, but the New Tories are on the left and this is just spin on spin to try and reassure the doubting voters.
When I hear the words “progressive politics” I reach for my Smith & Wesson.
Hows the great repeal bill coming along? Not kicked into the long grass I hope. Rolling back big government and labour’s stasi state is something that should appeal to con/lib dem alike? It might even provide the coalition with a non contentious carrot to deploy.
Progressive = Marxist.
Guido, oh Guido you’re a bit of a wet sack aren’t you. Easily taken in. No wonder you were so effortlessly rumbled four centuries ago. If cameron and his bunch of hoony chums are really Conservatives, then im really the King of Sardinia!! They are Common Purpose twats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don’t actually believe that the guy that writes this blog is the REAL Fawkes, do you?
Am I the only one to feel more than just a bit manipulated?
I was glued to the last half hour of Corrie expecting to see the best thing since Star Wars.
What I actually got (right at the end) was an obviously model tram floating unrealistically down on a model bit of Corro street.
“They forgot to take one of their rather revealing policy strategy agendas out of the photocopier.”
Really…?
Or was it left there…?
We should give thanks that the document found was not a photocopy of Eric Pickles’ arse.
Thanks. Some of us are cooking tea.
I hope the glass on the photocopier wasn’t hot enough to grill poor eric’s arse.
Canon have reinforced their copier glass from 3mm to 4mm, in order to prevent damage to machines this Xmas.
You’d need 25mm thick acrylic to be safe if Pickles decided to copy his immense arse.
A hideous image….
Possibly not. The load would be considerable, but it would be distributed over quite a large area. In fact, A3 would almost certainly not be large enough for a complete copy.
If he cut on food, we can use it to save Africa.
Pressure = Force / Area
Eric weighs at least 20 stone if he’s a lb but, anyone care to take a stab at the area of Eric Pickles arse?
Step forward Mrs Dale.
Mrs Dale probably knows the internal, rather than the external dimensiions…
Shut yer gob, Eric Pickles sticks up for the silent majority. It’s the rest of them that are the problem.
If they’re silent, how does he know their views?
Borneo Bob’s dylseixc raungo-utogan,
By giving them a voice, of course.
In my day, Hilton was synonymous with a tall story – like the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, where I had many a tall story.
If only Dave’s Cast Iron Guarantee and EU referendum locks on transfers of power weren’t just cynical ploys, too.
Don’t worry, Ken Clarke’s just told the BBC that they’re ditching their election promise to jail anyone found carrying a knife. You can add that to the evergrowing list of Tory U-turns.
I wasn’t aware there were any more pre-election promises left to break, but it comes as no surprise that Ken Clarke came up with something.
I had reason to attend a magistrates court recently, and was informed by the jobsworth who was pretending to be ‘security’ that he had to confiscate my 1 1/2″ penknife because it was technically a lock knife.
I now have nothing to peel my lunchtine apple with – wankers.
Your comments, sir, are as of those you deride.
Hwo mchu idd thye fein yuo fro nto hvaing a tlely liecnec?
Nice one.
Progressive bolloks is straight from Marx and co , WE just got rid of one lot of leftie wankers and ended up with ummmmm another lot of leftie wankers , If we had a real Tory party then we would have a chance of creating wealth and being able to better ourselves , Now we see the chavs doing fuck all with more than those who work .
No reward for failure ???
Get out the fuckin EU , And restore personal responsabilty .
+1
Slightly O/T Great Jon Sopel v Lord “Paddy”Ashdown knockabout just before 4.30pm to-day on BBC News Channel on “Tuition Fees”.Ashdown: You’re not listening and seem to have no concept of what I’m trying to tell you !” Sopel: I’m not here to answer questions and you’re patronising and lecturing me.Have you tried to lecture Ming Campbell or Charles Kennedy?”
Doesnt Sopel,who has recently returned from breaking his hip on his scooter relaise that Pady was a Royal Marines Commando ? A quick karate chop from the slightly miffed Lord and Sopel could be in traction …again. Still pretty amusing stuff on a cold foggy afternoon
I used to like Paddy Pantsdown, I respected him, but I saw him on Question Time at a friend’s house the other week and we agreed we’d never seen a more smarmy, patronising, arrogant little bastard in our lives.
He’s in the same ‘Fucked by Blair’ boat as everyone but Blair, so we should show our support.
You’ve summed him up to a T. He’s a fake.
I cannot respect a former marine who was totally in favour of selling our sovereignty to the EU.
Well, not selling exactly, more like paying them a fortune to take it off our hands!
The word for such a person is traitor!
Agree.
Pantsdown’s shelf life has expired…
PS He was against the Coalition BTW…so he is eating his words, hat and pants (down) every day…a difficult act to pull off with elegance……
Is Paddy Pantsdown not yet a Lord? If not – I am surprised.
The natural progression from the Commons is the Lords, which all the old git’s aspire to eventually.
He was against the coalition on principle at first, but when he saw how quickly the tories were dumping policies, he changed his mind.
Let me guess. AlJabeebya was attacking his views (which is fine) but only from a left wing perspective?
Is there any other valid perspective?
Please Guido
Tell Blue Skies Hilton that I want him on my huge staff..
Free tickets to any footie match he wants…and free Labour birds and the tra la la à la Prescott……(2 shags and 2 jags and a life peerage to boot)
You must know by now that I am the representative of progressive nonsense…
I will not tolerate imposters like Cameroon vying with
me for the most nonsencial progressive…
You are crying already Ed ?
I put you in as Labour Leader to at least keep a stiff upper lip…
You have let us all down…
“I will not tolerate imposters like Cameroon”
Imposters?! How dare you talk about imposters, you little shit. When I finally take over the Party, you are so toast, bro.
Hello David
Have you recovered ? Or are you doing a Jonah ?
I sent Florence Nightingale to see you the other day…she told me you were still crying…
You have no idea of what fighting means, kid, and before you dream of leading the Labour party you must know that my friends will destroy you, AGAIN,
You are even worse than your bro…and that is saying something…
Arrest warrant out for Julian Assange, and it comes from that whiter than white Nobel Peace Prize giving country Sweden. What next? US will be behind it, they don’t like it up ‘em do they?
I cannot tell a lie.
I can.
This is the country that sold Hitler much of the iron ore he needed and allowed armed German troops to travel through its territory on their way to attack Russia.
Let’s not forget IBM helping the N@zis track down and process the, er, the 6.5 million the Nazis didn’t like very much.
2.5 million tops – get real.
Yes because 6.5 million is infinitely worse than a mere 2.5 are you really Geoff Hoon by any chance Paragnostic?
I was merely objecting to the inflation that the Rothschilds imposed…
I have no sympathy for Julian Assange.
He foolishly allows himself to be played as a patsy, thinking he is some sort of “big man” for unwittingly passing on doctored diplomatic cables, believing them to be the real deal.
What a fuckwit! An easily disposable fuckwit too!
Compare how the media are treating wikileaks, with how they treat any other other major leaks? Climategate? Sibel Edmonds? How much critical thinking are the media applying to the wikileaks info? Are they source checking before publication? or are they rushing to print information that is helpful to one nation’s foreign policy objectives, so no critical thinking is required?
Sorry Guido, I do not share your optimism where Team Dave & their “progressive Blue Socialism” is concerned.
Low taxes.
Small state.
Repeal of draconian legislation that interferes with our freedom & turns us into State clients for life – this is what should be being rammed through now for the good of all.
But no.
Team Dave are judged by their actions & found wanting – there is nothing Conservative about them.
Dear Madam
We are fighting here to try to make Britain a proud country again…
You are right about Team Dave…
The last chance we had of having a Conservative Gioverment was when Hague led the party
He has lost interest now…
We have second rate no tories leading a second rate government doing second rate things, sadly, and it will not improve…
Bring back IDS?
Yep, that’ll do.
Cameron = worst Tory leader ever, by far.
Ewdrad Haeht?
Heath? He signed us up to Europe. Cameron lies prostrate at van RumpyPumpy’s feet and hands over billions of pounds whilst England goes down the plug-hole.
Heath was an imbecile. Cameron is a traitor.
Actually, Heath was a traitor. He admitted, after retirement, that he lied to the electorate to get us into Europe. His rationale was that we were too stupid to be allowed a democratic process.
The political classes, including Cameron, share that view. We live in increasingly dangerous times. They have convinced themselves that they are benign guardians of the people and that democracy is an anachronism. Only they know what is best for us and any means justifies the end of establishing the new aristocracy.
They only really care what each other thinks. There is no fear of public opinion because the public do not matter.
In Westminster, the only important people live, work and play within a few hundred metres of the Hs of P. So, their policies converge into centre left fudge that pleases the press and reduces the chances of demanding debate. As more of them occupy the same policy space, the ground sinks under their weight and it becomes more difficult to move away from the central position.
None of this matters, of course, as it is only the game itself that matters to the political classes. The people are an abstract notion that they use as a rhetorical device.
I have reached the view that the only thing that can save our society is a revolution – which will probably be economic rather than physically violent. However, when the Euro collapses and we cannot recover what is owed us, there will be a lot of misery and violence when people have real trouble feeding themselves.
A very large proportion of people would not be able to grow or rear food if there is an economic collapse.
Bring back John Ball (1381 peasant uprising)
Guido’s been fed this nonense by CCHQ to get your waverers back into line. It’s what guys like Hannan are used for. Just when you think the Tories aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit some ersatz right wing git pipes up with a sniff of red meat to get you all chiming, “Mmm, maybe the Tories aren’t such a lost cause after all… Not with Hannan/Cash/Hague on their team”.
Time to strike out on your own and leave the SDP entryists to their ‘progressive nonsense’ . Fuck the Tories and fuck them hard – it’s all they deserve.
“some ersatz right wing git pipes up with a sniff of red meat to get you all chiming”
After 13 years of Labour’s lies, we’re all finely tuned to the lies of politicians, and our Liarometers go into overload whenever Cameron even thinks of opening his lying mouth to spout lies, and that’s never going to change.
Cameron’s a traitor and a liar, he’s openly anti-English and anti-Conservative and there’s no hope whatsoever of a second term for him and his party.
(Unless Labour stick with Miliband, of course. But they won’t, so Dave’s Tories are a one hit wonder.)
yop
We’re all reassured that the tactic employed by certain Conservatives – lets call it a Blairite tactic of reach-around – to pretend progressive is highlighted as blatent pap.
What would Peter Hitchens say?
Guido
I like the extract you do not highlight
“Our transport strategy, (if there is one)”
As a matter of fact, I have worked in the transport sector for about 25 years
Seen all the Ministers come and go…
Hammond is a decent sort of fellow (would have been good at the Treasury IMO)
HOWEVER THERE IS NO REAL TRANSPORT POLICY IN THE UK
but it is covered up by earthshaking announcements about how it could be…
Agreed. Worryingly, the same can be said for energy supply, housing, economic growth, food supply…..
In each case, the policy is that we all hold hands in a circle, shut our eyes and wish very hard.
In each case the solution is simple.
Cut tax, cut regulation.
There is one; it is called tax the motorist to death.
GMTA
Come on now.
Transport policy is too small to find (3 words), but it’s there.
Transport Policy: Fleece Motorists. Repeat.
I am trying to persuade Tony Bliar to stand as NuLiebore candidate in Oldham.
Buzz Lightweight.
“Progressive nonsense” – yes, a lot of it is; or at the very least, woolly thinking.
However, the Hilton/Silva zen policies (Happiness index, for example) have not been totally expunged from government strategy, so there is still some room for improvement.
Look chaps – the public would like you to keep it simple. Identify the problems facing Britain, and address them. Cut public spending, reduce tax levels, encourage private sector growth, distance the UK from the worst excesses of the EU Superstate (or leave it altogether), promote good relations and trade with the rest of the world (remember the Commonwealth? Our natural mates?), get educational attainment back up the international league tables, ensure a secure food supply and energy supply, address the housing shortage. When you’ve done all that, worry about woolly happiness indices.
If your last paragraph there, from the word ‘Identify’ onwards, had been the Conservative Party’s election manifesto, they’d have won outright.
Quite. Politicians tend to make politics too complicated.
“When you’ve done all that, worry about woolly happiness indices.”
Indeed, when they have done all of that…
There will be no remote need for a Happiness Index or the zen crap…
PS And a good national manifesto could be written on two A4 pages…
You miss out a few rather important ones.
Make it always beneficial to work.
Stop rewarding failure
Stop Punishing Success
Stop Government Debt.
All of those, AND…
…get really worried about the effects of the last 20 years’ *mm*grat*on; and do something about them!
“get educational attainment back up the international league tables.”‘
Learn a lesson from the example provided by the US. You will do more to improve education by controlling who enters your borders than anything having to do with classrooms. When 3rd world populations are removed from the testing mix in the US, the scores for even the worst US states start approximating those of less diversity inclined high performing nations. Daily Mail says that the white population of UK is declining. If so, unless you are bringing in only northern Asians to add to your population base, your scores are sure to fall not rise, regardless of your educational programs.
Bit late for cast iron to “forget” to collect a piece of paper from the photocopier,he has already marked himself as a bag of horsemuck and as it sticks,people can’t wait to go to the polling booths.
+1
336 pages of Progressive Nonsense coming to a remainder store near you.
Gordon Brown Beyond The Crash.
Given that his 3 years in government have frequently been likened to a car crash, his book’s title is a particularly poor choice of words.
A better title would be “I was a shite Prime Minister”.
……and an even shittier Chancellor.
It’ll be in the bargain box soon. That’s where all the books they can’t sell end up.
I might buy a few 100 copies to use for light and warmth for when his policies “work”
We only printed one copy to stop Gordon phoning us.
Listen, yeah. I’m the main man around here, yeah. I get shit done, yeah. I’m the original asian bad boy, yeah. I’m a geezer, yeah. The ladies love me, yeah. And if they don’t, I make ‘em, yeah. I’m a man about town, yeah. I’m a playboy, yeah. Don’t fuck with me, yeah. I can shout, yeah. I’ve got a bad boy temper, yeah.
Kulveer Ranger makes you look bad……very bad.
Hilton should know all about nonsense.
Does it matter now? She should never have been employed in the first place – and neither should her boss!
Vood you like the handjobski?
I love the way the TV people are terrified by a Still Picture. If it doesn’t move by itself they have to twizzle it round, frame it, dissolve it, zoom into it or otherwise fuss about in a kitschy way with their little electronic box of tricks. I wonder what their homes look like.
You mean second homes, surely
Jus cos i give little wanky to dirty scruffy old pervert
it no mean i spy on country
R5 keeps running an advert about how 30 years we lost John Lennon.
He wasn’t lost. He’s not Maddie!
….stop looking for him..He’s dead and buried in the cold,cold earth.
Now, not composing but rather decomposing.
I seriously doubt whether Maddie was lost either…
Call Me “U Turn” Cameron will get his sorry bull shitting arse kicked on the fee’s vote
the headless / gutless glib-dumbs are going to scupper his big idea
i feel an election brewing
Point of order, Mr Squeaker,
I say a badger on your terrace…
It really friiiighhtened me…
Are you a Wikileak Ben ?
I think you Europeans need your heads examined…
I get calls every day from some two bit European government asking me for
financial help…
In what world do you live please ?
We live in a European world, Sir, where money grows on trees…
Sadly our trees are all dying now…
So we need your trees please…
You know those dollars pounds and euros we owe you?
We’re running them off the photocopier right now.
So there’s no chance of you lot defaulting on your sovereign debt in the near future then, due to all your growth being swallowed up in a property boom and it costing nearly 2 yuan in issued money for every one yuan in growth, then?
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and the RBS (OK – no recommendation, that) seem to disagree…
If I was the Chinese Prime Minister I would be very much more concerned about the effects of the credit bubble that is about to burst in China than anything that is going on in Europe.
I did comment on the China Bubble in October. AEP is so behind the curve.
Was randy Jug ears thinking about Jackie? Or Alice? Or one of his research assistants?
http://audioboo.fm/boos/231625-jeremy-hunt-by-marr
It’d be nice to believe that the Tories weren’t in a death-dive towards soggy centre-left consensus with the Lib Dims & elements of Labour – but it’ll take more than an amusing stray photocopy to convince me that Cameron et el understand Conservative values, let alone implement them.
Et tu Guido? This is straight out of the Fraser Nelson “Let’s all give Cam the benefit of the doubt” school of wishful thinking.
You are getting far too credulous, Guido.
Yes that is what they all say all the time in Downing Street…
Ah, the neck vein throbbing, eye bulging TGF UKRAP, hates the Speccie so much he spends so much of his pitiful time posting his bitter bedsit bile there ad nauseam.
Take a bottle of scotch and a pistol to a dark damp corner of a park somewhere and end it all dear.
Mr Fawkes
I want you to know that the Czech Government has officially given
up the idea of taking on the Euro as our official currency
We have understood from reading your blog that the Euro is doomed
Thank you
Good King Welceslaw…
Don’t think Klaus ever had it on his agenda.
Of course you are right about Vaclav Klaus
More strength to him
and he’s against the AGW scam…
Maybe we should all emigrate to the land of fit Blondes, cheap booze and smaller government?
yeah!
To mark the launch of my book, tomorrow I will be a teaspoon.
“Sign ‘ere guv.. You must really like this book{ looks at manifest} Mr Brown.
25,000 copies of “Causing the crash”.. Or you’ve got a lot of friends wanting a Christmas present..eh?
Erm..no thanks mate..i don’t think its my cup of tea.. No… really, mate, if its all the same to you..oh well if you insist. Make it out to Daryll…No mate..He’s my brother -in-law.
I can’t stand him….
Well , thanks for that..mind how you go..
Oh! and mate..your flies are undone…I won’t have mentioned it but that tartan thong don’t leave much to the imagination…cheers then pal…What? Ok Mate..I’ll take another for the birdcage, sure why not?
You’ve upset me. I’m going to ram a bottle of fizzy orange up you.
I would never inflict that book on my Parrot. Or any other parrot.
I had a cockatiel that liked books once, but even she would have turned her nose up at the Brown stuff…
Bake, shrueyl.
I’m growing progressively more nonsensical.
And you will shortly disappear up your own a’rsehole and …cry…
Shhhh..!
The babies trying to sleep.
Change your own nappies then Ed
At last!
Finally, some decent exposure of the fact Cameron is nothing more than Blair with a blue tie. And just as useless.
What with most LibDems deserting the spineless Clegg and disaffected Tories going to UKIP, I’d imagine Cameron will be a one-term PM.
100% guarantee that Labour will get rid of Milibrown and replace him with a media friendly stooge not far from the next GE and Cameron will be finished.
Note to Tory HQ: next time, pick a proper Conservative and don’t choose an old etonian (unless their name starts with Boris and ends with Johnson).
labour will get rid of milibrown?
Not anytime soon.
The inflexible, out of date rules for the labour party kept gordon in power long after his sell by date. Those rules have not yet been changed, nor can they be without a wide ranging debate and vote within the party.
They’ll be years getting round to it!!
Meanwhile buzzmilitwit is still driving his teenage banger headlong into the next car crash!
My father taught me how to do slow motion car crashes…
It is quite an art…
Has anyone seen or heard from the Criminal Woolarse..
Examplary Labour Minister…
Racist and part time expense fiddler
Do the whole of the Labour Partyy support him still ?
Ever heard of advertising – for a clue look at them all around this site.
Do you think he does this nonsense for free?
Anyone can advertise here I’m sure, but not really the Labour Party target audience
Well I don;t know that the whole of the labour party did support him, hattyharpic sure didn’t.
One eminent MP though did throw his weight behind woolyarse and that was edmilitwit!!
I wonder if anyone else saw the story in The Times.
A company owned by Guido Fakwes was paid £29’000 by the Conservative Party Central Office, in “advertising fees”.
A portion of this £29’000 was then passed on to the likes of Ian Dale, and Tory Bear, by Guido’s company to fund their blogs.
Can we stop with all of this “libertarian” mumbo jumbo. Guido’s a conservative party funded blog, like any other.
Give us a real quote chum
Since no one here goes past the Times paywall !!
Yawn, it is called advertising.
Can we advertise here please?
if you’ve got the money i’m sure Guido will find a bit of space for you
after all he’s taken the “Student Shilling “at the top of the page
there is a saying and it’s true
There are no friends in business !
The problem is the vast majority of it seems to come from the Conservative party
Actually not a lot comes from the Tories relative to other advertisers.
The problem is the vast majority of it during the election campaign seems to come from the Conservative party
Thats because Labour is like the country , Skint !
You have done in the past, so have the LibDems.
Any chance you could do it for free? We’re a bit skint at the moment but we promise to pay you in about six months.
Message Space you mean?
Do some research yourself and then come and tell us all about it.
Iain Dale has explained the truth of the position on his blog. The Times has not done its research.
Ian Dale failed to state that Messagespace is owned by Guido Fawkes
Yeah and ??? Messagespace carries leftie ads as well .
I find it rather an odd conflict that the person who is supposed to the chief critic of political parties, owns a company that is quite reliant on their good will.
And surprisingly, the Conservative party show above average good will to the likes of Guido and Ian Dale
Thats enough about the Guardian , whats your beef with Guido ?
Unoions with Labourlist , is that wrong ?
I have no beef with anyone.
Well, other than bloggers who try and claim they are none partisan.
Labourlist, left foot forward, Red rag – the clue’s in the title
And you point about how the tory party spend thier money ? Buy advertising to try a attract voters , Thats what election campaigns do !!!!
Guido gives all parties shit !!!!
Do you think Political Parties advertise on favourable blogs to get exposure? Or to just hand them money, so they can keep operating?
As for Guido, the vast majority of his attacks, in and out of government have been on Labour, and the left wing media.
I dont know the stats , But i would say from what i have seen he attacks both tories and labour and the lib dems ( Have i left anyone out ?) , Whats wrong with attacking the left-wing media ? Highlighting hypocrsy, Like the G|uardians fake outrage over Phillip Green and they do similer things as to avioding Tax ( Legal of course ).
The problem comes when your attacks are so much more regular against single parties, and single Newspapers, that it becomes obvious that you’re probably an agent of the other side.
I’ve yet to see a Guido expose on the Daily Mail
Could it be because Guido loathes socialists and Guardianistas?
the guardian does nothing but attack toffs??? as with the mirror , Guido attacks Politicons and thieving Piggies , Bill wiggin ???
you either are thicker than me ( I doubt it ) or you are he to wind people up .
There’s more to work with on the left
Nope i dont pay !
oops
Ever heard of advertising – for a clue look at them all around this site.
Do you think he does this nonsense for free?
Anyone can advertise here I’m sure, but not really the Labour Party target audience
I’m sure if I wanted to make sure a favourable blogs kept going strong, during an election campaign, I’d be flooding them with advertising money as well
All paties do it , The unions pay for advertising , Labour buy advertising , You really dont understand the point ???
I agree fully. But these blogs admit they are fully partisan.
It’s a bit farcical that you have Ian Dale on Sky News, asking to be referred to as a “political blogger” and denying that he is a Conservative party blogger, when he has a disclaimer on his web site, noting a conflict of interest he has, as he receives substancial funding from Lord Ashcroft!
You can try and be too clever. And I feel Guido and Ian are in that territory
How Lord Ashcroft spends his money is his buisness !!!! , how the unions spend there money is there buisness , How i spend my money is my buisness , If i wanted to take out a advert sayin vote Monster raving looney party and paid the right money , Guido would proberly take my cash , that does not mean he agrees with my advert !
Guido is fully partisan and an admitted libertarian, i.e. quite rightly an anti-marxist.
He’s by no means a conservative.
That all rather depends on whether you were giving your money to these bloggers and expecting something back for your money.
Lord Ashcroft probably does
Ask Watford F.C , Saved them going bust .
Guido Fawkes holding company, received £29’000 from the conservative party, in a one off payment, during the election campaign.
For someone who’s made a name uncovering sleaze, scandal, and corruption, could I enquire why the author is taking payments from parties during election campaigns?
You haven’t got the real story. Guido (or Adolf bin Laden to give him his real name) is really funded to the extent of £4 billion a year by Bilderberg, the Illuminati, Slash ‘n’ Burn (a shadowy consortium with interests in oil, gas, nuclear waste and logging), and giant lizards from the planet Sn!Arggz.
Oi. You left me out.
I am one, you know.
What? A Jerry?
or he simply gets paid by the conservative party to pump out all the pro Dave spin he self evidently has been running ever since the election campaign started
no bilberburgers required
Adverts ???? You also see adverts for tony blairs book , and mandy , and brown , ian dale advetrs on labourlist etc
Adverts? Is that what they were?
I’d thought they were wanted posters
So the Conservative Party paid Messagespace to put up adverts for Tony Blair’s book?
You’d need an ant size brain to see it’s just their way of funneling money to their blog network
Anyone can place a advert ( as long as both parties agree a fee) , There was one a week ago sayin ” Bobs right , Bollocks to the cuts” , that wasnt paid by tory hq , Proberly a union .
You may be a person who thinks political parties hand right leaning bloggers thousands in advertising funding, as it’s a way of attracting those vital 75 votes they need.
I just think it’s how they fund their blog networks.
Donation. Advertising revenue. Gift Aid
Call it what you want
So no party should advertise anywhere then , No blogs , no newspapers , Billboards ????
It depends whether you believe parties actually advertise on favourable blogs, to actually get exposure (I’m sure nobody on Ian Dale’s site even knows who David Cameron is) or to keep them churning out attacks on a party you don’t particularly like?
Thats politics , and at the end of the day is up to voters at the ballot box .
I agree fully.
I’m just saying, the likes of Ian Dales content, and Ian Dale’s funding mechanism, aren’t quite similar through pure coincidence.
For the likes of Guido and Dale to deny they are none-partisan, libertarians, is ludicrous
Dale is a Conservative, Guido is a libertarian.
Because “dave” is just sooo popular on here….
David Cameron isn’t very popular with the conservative movement in general.
Message Space also placed adverts with the graudian. You need the whole balanced picture. Nothing wrong in making a living from advertising.
Well, I wouldn’t be trying to bring Cameron down, if he’s handing me £29’000 a year in advertising fees
No disrepespect but as iaindale pointed out earlier in the day – his advertising share of the £29k was about £600.
What was the guardians, guido’s. and the rest of the media and blogosphere?
It’s not likely, is it, when it is spread so thin, that you’re going to buy friends.?
Advertising is a respectable way of making a living. OMG! Even labour do it!! Although to be fair, when they were in office they preferred to buy union support by channelling £millions of taxpayers money into union treasure chests instead!
Do stop being such a silly!
“No disrepespect but as iaindale pointed out earlier in the day – his advertising share of the £29k was about £600.”
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I’d say £600 for an election campaign was fair going. The payment was only for a 2 month period apparently
I just don’t get how political parties can funnel money into blogs, through advertising companies, owned by prominent bloggers, and blog readers can’t smell a fish.
I realise blogs need to be funded. However, you have to ask whether they’re given funding based on what they write, or write to get the funding.
Either way, I fail to understand how they aren’t partisan
You can’t smell a fish when there isn’t one.
And believe me when there is one ( as at the moment with mike handcrook) you can’t fail to smell it.
Of course you might be a labour urbanite, one of those folks that never venture outside of their multi story blocks in the middle of the city. Might I suggest you take to trip to grimsby or lowestoft or anywhere else where they deal in fresh fish.
Where it is you can’t fail to smell it.
But as far as Message Space is concerned you’re up a creek without a paddle and not a fish in sight!! Give it up you’re wasting your breath!
you can safely ignore nell since she’s about as unbiased a source as her fantasy man eric pickles
if Dave shit in nell’s mouth she would tell us all it’s delicious chocolate
she has no spine or mind of her own and is a conservative party drone
Bless tat you’re such a twit.
How about you do something serious for a change like advocating voting independent in the forthcoming oldham election 2011.
What no-one seems to have spotted is that Guido Fawkes is actually a pseudonym. In this case, it’s disguising the political operating arm of Sepp Blatter and FIFA, working their devious magic on UK politics – that explains the Incredible Coalition.
Their next challenge (it should be a doddle for Sepp & the Boys) is to get the 2014 Winter Olympics for Saudi Arabia – as a famous Russian meerkat observed after securing the World Cup, “Simples”.
Another tory election pledge bites the dust
“People caught carrying a knife can expect to go to prison !”
NOT !
Ken (spineless) Clarke says
now we haven’t got the room to keep locking people up
any way it doesn’t work
Another tory “U” Turn
time to start packing” Gutless Dave”
I’m ready to lead the nation again.
We’re on the same wavelength Dave
Really, is anyone surprised by Tory u-turns with Cameron leading them?
He is Blair with a blue tie and less charisma.
Anyone with a remotely traditional Conservative viewpoint should steer of the Tories until they get rid of this lefty stooge and replace him with a real Conservative. I know I am.
Another one bites the dust
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11929401
I prefer Queens version.
You don’t think there’s too much brass?
I always carry a knife when I’m out in the fields.
I think we can conclude election pledges are truly worthless now.
We always knew this, but I can’t remember a time where such naked abandonment of them occurred. Even Labour tried to spin their deceit on the euro referendum. The Tories clearly don’t even have enough respect to try that.
The Labour ads for the next GE are already writing themselves.
You know, I read this earlier:
“Messagespace has one majority shareholder, ‘Global and General Nominees Ltd’. The only other enterprise that Global and General Nominees ‘own’ is Guido Fawkes blog.”
The long winter nights must fly by
As I’ve said before, don’t think the double dealing, corruption, and sleaze ends in the commons.
The bloggers are normally part of the system as well
I am… Now give me £2k and I’ll write a puff piece about ‘Solid Ed’
If you don’t I’ll do the one about soiled Ed instead..
Make cheque payable to BQi-investments. Same offshore account as guardian media.
Dear CCHQ i think Dave Cameron is the most fantastic leader this country has ever had
he is just so good looking and rumour has it he has a massive cock
George Osborne with his chisled looks and he man stance would grace the arm of any super model
the coalition is the most fantastic idea this century
and as for those fuckin students
i would call in the troops and shoot the scruffy fuckers
right how’s that ?
i’m not greedy so if you send me £20,000 i would be most chuffed thank you
Watched the mike hancrook story today unfold.
Why is it he hasn’t also been arrested for espionage?
His EU peers say they have long expressed concern over his close links with r+ss ia. Fellow libdems in the HoC say they have persistently warned him that his string of easteuropean women in his office were potential spies but he has ignored them.
He’s been noted to ask searching questions about defence, of ministers, whilst having no valid reason for needing to know such information.
When asked by a reporter today, how many times he has visited ru+ss ia , he replied “I don’t recall as my passport fell into the sea”
It could just be that mikehancrook is a quite sharp spy hiding behind the personae of a bumbling fool!
Methinks our se cu rityser vices are being a bit naive!!
Or could it be that he’s just a bumbling fool, who has been mistaken for a masterspy?
Well Bill if that’s the case why was he asking those detailed defence questions of ministers, that as an mp, he had no need to know?
Questions, incidentally, that attracted the attention of our sec+ urity ser+ vices?
Why has he visited ru+ ss ia so often, but can’t tell us how often, because he says, his passport fell into the sea. Where was that and how did that happen? It wasn’t thrown perchance was it?
Let’s remember , this mp has an even murkier past than prezza when it comes to dodgy s+xu al pursuits. There are rumours, as yet unproved, that he targetted a vulnerable young romani+ an lass on one of his easteuropean junkets.
If you study the handbook for spooks and who to target – he tops your list because he has so much to hide. He’ll happily work for you if you know his secrets!
Woolarse says goodbyeeeee:
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2010/12/06/phil-woolas-letter-to-the-plp/
Down with Brown says fuck off Woolarse.
Wonder what he’s going to do now?
Think he’ll turn up as buzzmilitwit’s spin doctor?
That would be fun!!
Well, nell – the only time I ever encountered Woolyarse was during the student grant demos in 86 when the c’unt was sat on top of a bus shelter near Westminster Bridge with the police photographers, pointing out people he could identify.
He was chairtwat of the NUS at the time, and I was the one that started the sit down protest that buggered up the Glasgow SWP’s plans for a scrap with the cops as soon as the first banners were thrown.
I’d guess he’ll be enrolled in the ‘supergrass’ programme and exiled to Canada, if there’s any justice…
I bumped into Phill at a New Labour party once ……
Exiled to canada!! Oh Paragnostic what are you thinking??!!
Canada’s a great place to be even in the winter.woolyarse would be far too comfortable there!!
Couldn’t we exile him to the antarctic? No s’pose not that would just pollute the really clean places on earth wouldn’t it??!!
The eminent former member of the HoC, will be found a nice and cosy, amply rewarded sinecure in Quangoland. The parasite class look after each other.
You’ve been had,Guido.
That photocopied document was a spoof
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Dream on.
Given that Labour spent 13 years dragging us back to the 1970s, it’s pretty hard to argue that the Tories aren’t progressive.
When compared to Labour’s determination to re-enact failed socialist policies that even the Soviet bloc rejected 20 years ago, pretty much anyone looks progressive.
Look up definition of “progressive”
It’s not a literal term.
It means taxing rich people more than you tax poor people.
Yep , How much of someones income should the state take , To be progressive ? 20% , 30% ? 50% , You do know the private sector pays for the public , The public sector does not create wealth .
But when you hear the term “Progressive” why do they always finish the sentence with “going forward” if it is not used literally.
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, ‘Progressive’ means, “moving forward; proceeding step by step, successive…..at rates increasing with the sum taxed….”
So, progressive taxation is the punitive taxation of those paying more tax. OK up to a point, but if you take it too far, those paying most tax pack up on the grounds that the activity incurring the high tax is no longer worth the effort, so you end up losing. Progressive taxation is not the answer to all ills.
The more you think about it the more taxing it is
OK Eng – you’re brighter (or maybe just a bit older) than I – I’m in favour of a high tax threshold, a ‘social wage’ or ‘citizens dividend’ and then flat rate tax – no progressive taxation at all.
Can anyone tell me why this is wrong? I’m just a simple mathematician who wants the state to get the hell out of his life, and don’t pretend to understand the verbal machinations of so called ‘economists’.
My manifesto wouldn’t even fill 2 sides of A4, let alone cover Eric Pickles’ modesty…
Google Laffer Curve.
Parag. – thanks for the compliment, but I wouldn’t claim more than modest intelligence.
I think that, in general, the simplest solutions are best. I’d go for a generous tax-free allowance (say £10,000 at today’s values) and then a flat-rate income tax of (say) 30%. Those on modest incomes can thus pay their basic bills from the tax-exempt part of their income, and keep 70% of the rest for discretionary purchases. Those on higher incomes would have more spending power, so there would be a trickle-down effect as they purchased goods and services. Someone on £200,000 a year would have net income of £144,000 – if they spend only £80,000 of this, they are affectively supporting about four other jobs.
Yes, flat-rate tax sounds good to the wider economy to me.
Why not just put the laffer curve on the blog Guido?
I agree with Chris. A tax bill of £100k is clearly more than a tax bill of £5,000.
Progressive means fining people for creating wealth and rewarding people for destroying it.
Progressive means lowering the market wages of the poor.
Progressive means more unemployment.
Progressive means economic destruction
Progressive is a synonym for marxism.
No, dumb-dumb. That’s merely the meaning that your leftist friends have given it because they want to pretend that their regressive policies will actually bring progress.
Now go away and contract cancer.
Can you imagine even trying to attach the expression ‘progressive’ to bullybrown or edballs?!
And you sure as hell can’t attach it to the juvenile buzzmilitwit whose still charging around in a gocart smashing into haybales!!
Dave on the other hand is a lightweight heir to Blair always keen to please his boss in the White House just like his hero Blair.
Sorry can’t see cameron and the leftwing omaha having much in common.
Even less after the last week’s wikileaks revelations.
Going to be fun if omaha loses the 2012 election to palin the bullying yank who thinks northkorea is her ally.
I suspect even hague is now sending secret cables to his ambassadors in the US of A saying, ‘treat these people like the clowns that they are’!!
Ah! omaha the lightweight!!
Obama who Dave called BRILLIANT! and who’s ministers prostrated themselves to the US ambassador
because Dave is as far up Obama’s arse as you are up Dave’s
Bless!!
Despite public statements of support, I doubt very much, after the wiki8leaks revelations, that the UK govt is privately giving much support to omaha and the U s of a!!
apart from all the dead troops in Afghanistan you mean?
amazing how quick you keep forgetting about them isn’t it nell?
Students are laying siege to the Tate Britain gallery where the Turner prize presentation is taking place
Very suitable place for them too.
Hopefully temperatures are around -10 tonight.
So what’s up for the turnerprize in 2010 +++yawn+++
another emin soiled unmade bed, pile of broken bricks, or is it a heap of dirty M25 melting snow?
“another emin soiled unmade bed,”
Yep , No 10 donated Gordons old bed .
Someone seems to have entered an old Rocking Horse.
Lots of chipped paint and the saddle smells of something familiar, yet unpleasant.
It’s bound to win.
Maybe the pile of shite they leave outside
will win it as a last minute entry ?
Is the Turner Prize an inscribed copy of ‘Lathework for Dummies’?
Banksey had the best comment on the Tate. He stencilled ” Mind The Crap” on the stairs outside.
Maybe they’re hoping the KLF are going to turn up again and this time they’ll get there before the bonfire…
Labour MP Paul Farrelly says he will not face disciplinary action for wrestling a man to the floor inside the Houses of Parliament last month. The incident happened at a karaoke party at the Sports and Social club. A newspaper seller claimed the MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme punched him, leaving him with a cut above his eye. Mr Farrelly said he acted in self-defence and has told BBC News there will not be a parliamentary investigation into the altercation. At the time, Scotland Yard said it had not received complaints about the incident on 6 November.
David Davis to vote against the tuition fee rises !
one down how many more to go ?
Its not a rise it is an increase
a rise in pay or an increase in pay ?
both the same to me
Can’t imagine what Shami promised him if he votes against it………
Lucky B – now if only I could find something to tempt Sarah Teather with…
MIND BLEACH ULTRA POWER!
It seems if you state that the Times claimed MessageSpace is owned by the same company that owns this blog, you get moderated out.
“Messagespace has one majority shareholder, ‘Global and General Nominees Ltd’. The only other enterprise that Global and General Nominees ‘own’ is Guido Fawkes blog.””
Here’s to libertarism!
Well, the scales have certainly fallen from my eyes and no mistake!
Seriously, why does that matter?
It doesn’t. I just find it amusing, that a person who seemingly makes a living looking for juicy details, and conflicts of interest, regarding politicians, owns the advertising company, that funds political blogs, through, in general political donations.
And then moderates people who, post quotes from newspaper articles on the subject.
Probably ranks alongside his (failed) attempts to censor his own Wikipedia page, and sue other blog writers who write articles on him!
As I said, here’s to libertarism (as long as I’m not the subject”
Well you’ve just said it and he hasn’t moderated you.
That rather nullifies your argument.!!
He’s said it about 27 times.
I wonder is it projection? He sounds like he’s someone who’s easily bought, but then most narcissists (the core personality disorder underlying marxism) are easily influenced.
Ken Clark strikes again.
How very Progressive of him and “Dave”.
Ken Clarke to drop Tory knife jail pledge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11929401
Wet Ken is the criminal’s friend. The lefties in the CPS – the Criminal Protection Service – must love him. One would hope – perhaps unkindly – that he would one day have his house burgled by criminal scum and might then change his mind.
But as a former home sec he no doubt qualifies for maximum security and can therefore live out the rest of his life in a safe, crime-free, body-guarded bubble…while telling the rest of us that crime is just a figment of our imagination….and that criminals are all jolly nice chaps really…
Wet Ken lives in Nottingham who have the worse ranked police force in the country and one of the highest crime rates in the country.
I’ve just come back from there.
If you want a plate of chips at any hour of the day or night I’d recommend it.
The only other place I can recall where the chip wraps and celloplates are actually knee high at about 4am is Cardiff.
I’d rather go there.
Caroline Street FTW.
see post 114 posted at 6.15
do try to keep up
“But he [Clarke] said those guilty of using a knife would face a “serious” jail term.”
Hmm. A serious term of.. 3 weeks, being called “Mr” by the prison officers, whilst playing on their in-cell Xboxes?
If I’d bothered voting in the May election, I’d be feeling pretty cheated today. Fortunately, I stayed at home.
There is a vast conflict in wanting to be “hard on crime” and “low on taxes”.
Really? I thought most crime was committed by a ‘hard core’, so shove that hard core into an unlit, unheated prison cell for, rough estimate, 50 years, and feed them nothing but slops and rainwater.
Cost? Piss-all, really.
Or just deport them to Iran ????
How will oooman wights lawyers be able to afford their sex change operations etc?
Anyway, I’ll leave you all to your fun.
Here’s to 2015
…by which time the deficit might be eliminated, but the National Debt will have increased substantially.
It should also be pointed out that had we now had a Labour government, by 2015 the deficit would not have been eliminated, and in consequence the National Debt would have increased even more, and would be continuing to increase.
We have a jellyfish LibCon government that might just fudge, mudge and smarm it all the way to 2015 but, by that time, it has as much chance of eliminating the deficit as our cat.
(Oops, sorry, Scruffy, compared with that sack bag of pussies you’re a sabre-toothed tiger for defending your territory).
Compare the two approaches. The Coalition plan to eliminate the deficit in one term, Labour planned to halve it. Which approach leaves us better off in 2015 (assuming things go nearly to plan)? is it better to stop digging if you’re in a hole, or to keep digging, but slower?
Wasn’t it Healey, another Lib/Lab/Con economic genius, who, in a rare episode of lucidity, promulgated that the First Law of Holes is that, if you’re in one, you stop digging?
Trouble is, Digger Dave and his cast-iron spade are still at it like a demented mole.
Dave’s three billion a week hole, is certainly big enough and progressive enough to cause a lot more pain, than it solves.
Thankyou Chris,and we’ll leave you to splashing the lingerie section in your mums freemans catologue.
Do you love me? If you answer no, I’ll report you to the police.
Trashbin…Like it .
That’s going to replace Yasminge on CIF comments.
that fuckin cretin Aaron Porter says that the lib-dems should vote against tuition fees because it was students that elected them
Wrong !
very many of the people who elected them
are tax payers who are sick to death of funding your three year drinking binge
now fuck off and get a job
Aarr but most students who voted lib dem will not be paying it, only those starting uni next year will, so they never lied.
To be fair, 90% of top earners are graduates.
And they pay so much tax, to subsidise the middle classes bills, so you get nice lives, on the cheap, so you can afford caravans and foreign holidays.
So, I’d be a bit upset if I paid for my entire law education, personally, then was asked to subsidize middle income earners for the rest of my life, as I tried to pay off my huge levels of student debt.
The truth is, if you’re asking students to pay for their own education, they should have their own taxation system as well.
If we all paid our own way, we’d all be poorer. You’d be paying 35% income tax for one
Top rate of tax is 50%
I’m saying, if everyone paid fair tax (as in the same % of their earnings) you and I would be paying a LOT more every year.
It’s no good moaning about graduates, and asking that they take on huge amounts of debt to get qualified, to be doctors, and lawyers, and architects and dentists, then ask them to subsidies people who put nothing into the system, for the rest of their lives, rather than pay off their debt.
A lawyer could pay of £60k in debt quite fairly, if they were paying fair tax once they qualified.
You try paying off that sort of money, when you’re giving 60% of your salary to the government, so they can cut middle class taxes to stay in power
Students want there cake and to eat it too, if they don’t like it they should try going to another countries especially an EU countries University and see how far they get expecting a free education.
I.e. Not fucking very far.
If you go to uni in france and you try to skive by skipping lectures and getting pissed, and being mediocre you will very quickly be shown the door. They work like trojans and treat university as a priviledge, not a right.
I went to uni free, but I’d be pissed if I was a 16 year old.
The baby boomers have taken and taken and taken for decades, and what do they get as punishment? Protection from the cuts that they created. Pensioners are the least affected demographic.
What do 16 year olds get, who’ve done nothing to create the debt? Told that they’re hopes of doing something with their lives, may be dictated by their willingness to borrow £24k+ at high interest.
You know, wouldn’t you be annoyed?
50 and 60 year old passing their debt on to school kids?
Er, excuse me the baby boomers have also worked and worked and paid their taxes for decades….
Your average 16 year old will be paying tax for the rest of their life as well.
The problem being, they’ll also be paying off your debt as well.
The day a government dares to take money from a pensioner, is the day hell freezes over.
They are known to vote after all.
Interesting then that this country has some of the lowest pension rates in europe. (plus snotgobbler plundered and wrecked the private sector pension industry.) So much for caring about the grey vote.
I think they take a large whack in tax when the peg out, assuming they have saved anything, thus preventing them leaving any money to their 16 year old grandchildren.
Its a double whammy
Starvation seems to be the preferred Big Society choice.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1335980/13-500-patients-left-starve-NHS-wards-Elderly-malnutrition-hits-new-high.html
Pay attention Chris. This middle aged boomer worked from 16 until now, paid my way in tax and everything else. Didn’t go to university, just kept working and paying tax and funded my offspring so they wouldn’t have any debt when they graduated.
If you think I have had anything for free then you are very much mistaken. The workers of this country cannot be blamed for the stupidity and calculated cynicism of our political masters.
There’s a simple answer to this – if you don’t think a university education is worth it , then don’t go !!! Simple.
Er excuse me mr prospective lawyer
i am a fifty odd year old left school with no qualifications
went to collage learnt a trade and have worked for 39 years never having a day out of work
i for one am sick to fuckin death of paying for free loaders whether they are students or dolite scum
i put my kids through uni with tuition fee’s introduced on the English by Scotish Welsh and Dup and Labour politicians
who in my and many other peoples opinion had no right to vote on policy that did not effect them
we paid for our kids who both worked as well as went to uni
no help from the state they had debts and have paid them back so what is the problem ?
the party who introduced the fee’s have also destroyed my right to retire
after paying a pension for 39 years it is now fuckin worthless and that does piss me off
i will never get another chance to put away money for my retirment
so i am condemed to work till i drop
so dont tell me that you are middle class if you own a fuckin caravan FFS fuckin gypo’s own caravans and i wouldn’t put them as middle class !
the very people that drain my tax money will be the very people who you will make your vast fortune from
> I went to uni free,
Really the professors and lecturers were volunteers? Where is this university? Is it at the end of a rainbow?
One of the best uses for debt is to fund an education.
It makes the borrower think…
“Hmm will my higher wages be more than the interest on this course?”
That calculation then helps the economy.
Hiding the course fees in extortion has the effect of damaging the economy in a number of ways. As this is bad for the country I expect marxists to support it.
Has anyone got a wee cool tin of cola for Bobby Sands?
No, but I remember the Bobby Sandswich from the 80s – it was very like the Action Man Deserter I got for Xmas.
Yasmin aint happy with Widders
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-ann-widdecombe-and-the-rise-of-strictly-come-democracy-2152214.html
Tried reading it but lost the will to live
Does the article end with Trashbin vowing to kill herself? If so, I’ll read it.
Yeah .
It’s not right to get someone’s hopes up like that.
I am outraged that this evil sack of dogshit has the audacity to piss on the country who welcomed her and pays her a nice salary. Can you imagine the howls of outrage if someone wrote the sarcastic things she says about Britain?
Are Britons not the luckiest, nay most ingenious, people on the planet? Their ancestors – at least the power merchants among them – contrived the first parliament in the world and in time, after desperate struggles and sacrifices, came universal suffrage. Makes one proud. In the 21st century this plucky nation took people power that much further, that much higher, created The X Factor! Strictly Come Dancing!! I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!!!
Rather live in a country with X Factor than countries which stone to death rape victims and broadcast “children’s programming” that teaches kiddies that J ews are pigs and should be killed.
Please someone fucking strip this c unt of her citizenship and deport her to Uganda.
Sorry , Life aint fair
Meant to say if someone wrote the sarcastic things she says about Britain about a muslim country!
Thought the self-entitled bitch was Kenyan?
I tried to read it all, I really did, but I just could not. Someone pays here to write this garbage?
How about this line “Simon Cowell is more powerful than all MPs put together”
Really, so Simon somehow takes my money even though I don’t watch his tat, or buy his tat records? Ooh, that’s power.
Meanwhile the MPs steal my money on a hourly basis for their friends, and the bankers, and the rest of the hangers on. And once every four or five years you get to decide if you’ve had enough and a different crook steals from you for another five year term.
Oh yes, Simon REALLY is powerful. NOT.
Why do we delude ourselves that “progressive” is synonymous with “Good”. Some deadly diseases are “progressive”
Any way these words are not as important as Jim Naughtie’s blunder this morning. He does have ‘previous’ on this score he once went to say “ballot box” and it came out “bollock bats”.
There is also the Woodcraft Folk, who sound like a sort of amateur band who sing country ditties at W.I. events. Their name sounds cute but they are a lefty version of the Scouts who want to bring the benefits of the great outdoors and camping to budding Marxists. Oh, I nearly forgot, they also want them to join protests against tuition fees.
What with all those country pursuits, maybe they should change their name to “The Whittler Youth”
I think the Woodcraft Folk are having a sing-along outside The Turder Prize presentation right now.
Because everything is progressive.
Conservatism doesn’t exist. They’re just progressives who try and progress as slow as possible.
If you told a conservative voter 100 years ago, that they’d have gay MPs, and black MPs, and MPs who were taxing the wealthiest at 50% of earnings, you’d be declared a heretic.
Sorry , Theres no money left .
All the non partisan or agenda based intellectuals from the middle of last century if they are still alive must be laughing at our stupidity and also crying in despair and how we are basically perpetually reliving the same cycle and mistakes all over again.
Can you imagine being alive in the times of Hayek after he debunked and torpedoed socialism well and truly, seeing former staunch supporters like Orwell and his ilk admitting they where wrong and pouring scorn on the very ideas they onced championed.
To go through all that and then the Milton Freidman years to witness the fall of communism and the end of the socialist experiment in most of the east.
To realise the whole ideology is a cancer on the world.
To where we are today, with people wanting to go keep giving it a go and nutters like Brown at the till for thirteen years with nothing being said about his barmy wealth re-distrubiton schemes like stealing peoples pensions and bankrupting the country.
All in all we are fucked well and truly they must be thinking and glad they won’t be around to watch it happen again I bet.
If you’d told it to the old labour party, they’d have told you the same!
By that measure, there should be no Labour Party on the grounds that most of their members do not labour, in the dictionary-definition sense of the word.
Arguing about semantics might be fun, but it doesn’t solve any of the country’s problems.
If you asked a progressive a 100 years ago they belivied in Eugenics has that changed ?
I think that’s my wife.
Heard on PM this evening that HM Gov is considering relaxing MOTs from 3 years to 4 years for new cars and then every 2 years hence.
Have to say that I was gobsmacked that for once the government is relaxing a rule and freeing up its citizens.
Of course the BBC immediately found some MOT industry bod who said this would mean death on the streets but he came over as pissing against the wind.
It’s just another bit of EUSSR regulation – that’s the target standard for all the EU, so Cast-Iron Dave is trying to claim it as his own policy because it will be generally popular.
Who wants their car totalled by the Grease-Gun Gestapo every single year ?
Remember, it was the Ten-Year Test when it first came in – that made lots more sense and was a genuine safety test, rather than all the nonsense they’ve included in it now.
Trouble is, they’ll then introduce Government Test Centres, rather than private licensed operators, and it will cost lots more bung to get a dodgy pass. You’ll still got one, it will just cost more in folding stuff.
Englisher this is not your Dave’s doing. It is all down to the Glorious European Union.
Why do they keep doing that, pretending that they have come up with a good idea when in fact they are just following orders.
The MOT was set up to cope with British Leyland rust bucket crap and quite right too.
But now carburettors are thing of the past
Today’s Asian car is an altogether different kettle of fish.
The modern MOT is little more than a very expensive tyre test
Sorry cretin, British Leyland was nowhere in sight when the MoT test was introduced.
Sorry Beowulff but the MOT was a total no brainer with the absolute shite that British leyland produced,
Beowulff is correct. The MOT was introduced in 1960, British Leyland was formed in 1968 (as BLMC, British Leyland Motor Corporation).
http://www.motester.co.uk/CarOwnersGuidetoTheMOT/HistoryoftheMOTTest.aspx
The original MOT was only for cars over 10 years old, 1967 was when it applied to 3 year old jap crap and BL.
1967 still precedes the formation of BLMC.
For me it is just fantastic.
Governments do Not in my experience release their power.
The BBC wet themselves at the prospect of Julian Assange being arrested.
That sounds like a state sponsored attack on free speech.
A subject real libertarians care about.
So it has no place here on Fawke’s blog of Conservative Party spin.
They are probably jealous that he has reported more “news” in just one week than they have in their lifetime.
Assange should though IMHO slow down and stagger his releases. But well done him for Providing more info than the BBC has ever done.
The beeb long ago gave up the mantle of professional, impartial news provider.
It happened the day that bliar was first elected as pm.
Champagne bottles not only littered the corridors of the beeb but the streets outside.
They have been comically left wing biased, and completely partisan ever since!!
Why on earth do they even bother to produce a daily news programme. It is always such rubbish. Only the most uneducated rabble would ever bother to listen to it!!
And only the sheep would pay for it.
That creepy fat cun t Mark Stephens, who represents the fucking weirdo Aussie pervert just had his firework pissed on big time on Newsnight: if diplomats don’t have the right to confidentiality, shouldn’t the same apply to journalists and lawyers? Say “sayonara” to client confidentiality, you fucking serial-killer-eyed sweating-like-a-fucking-rapist keg of walrus sperm.
Greg Dyke was sacked after the Hutton whitewash you dumb twat
Question : I was surfing the net and came across a piece on the 1980s , The first few years there was a downturn (resessicon) in the USA , Did Lady Thatcher cliam ” It started in America” or was it just Gordon Brown ( very Part time MP ) that used that line ?
It was Sue’s fault.
Plus a pisspoor opposition that couldn’t hit a barn door with an atom bomb.
Whooooops !
Now if only we had some gold to sell , We could pay of some of the deficit.
I’ve got a bit put by for a reigny day.
Isn’t the Gold price $ 141.60 an ounce ?? Isn’t that a typo ?????
I used to have some gold
But i sold it
Is George Soros still acting the dickhead and telling people not to buy it just so he can get his hands on some?
WE used to have some gold but YOU sold it.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Calgary+looking+into+possible+charges+after+Flanagan+comments/3935098/story.html
Canada looking at prosecuting people who advocate harming assange.
Pity the u s of a aren’t doing the same againsrt palin!!
He needs to get to Canada ASAP because theres nout so sure that this country will hand him over to America even if it is via the Swedes We have a one way extradition treaty with America !
It’s a sad fucking testament to modern times to say he would be safer in fucking China of all places than the USA.
chris huhne has resigned from the government over the tuition fees vote, he says that clegg has not shown leadership over the issue.
Chris Huhne is in love with himself as a government minister. resign? NEVER!
s a u s a g e s
I’m busy trimming ‘em.
For those who missed it, and for those who want a good laugh, here’s Red Ed’s shambolic interview on Today in which Humphrys pretty much demolished him.
He truly is an utterly useless cock.
Oh no, he’s back. The one who posts at 3 in the morning. Mr Wuv and Winkie.
Awwwww.. the little pussy is going to start crying again.
Try not to laugh at his tiny tears of frustration as he wails and stamps his feet because his wankfantasy Dave is proved to be as big a twat as he is.
He must be a chutney shoveller,this subject is clearly close to his heart.
I think he wants to do Daves uphill gardening,Cammers prefers fish mitten though so don’t build your hopes up.
Brokeback Cameron loves Nick shovelling his chutney.
Are you anti gays or anti Tories ?
Apart from anything else, don’t you at least get tired of monomaniacally posting the same comments again and again? At least bring a bit of variation to your deranged posts. You’re obviously a very ill man who’s lonely but try to broaden your vocabulary if not your life experience. I’ll help you with a simple suggestion. When replying to someone you delusionally believe to be a Tory employee, vary your response and say something imaginative like “Stop reading Coulson’s scripts out”. Always relying on “little baby’s gonna cry” or “lickspittle” just gets tedious.
@ Yawn . Me ????
@No Cricket Scores, no, that was directed at the fruitloop who has a fixation with anal sex and beginning his posts with Aaaaww. He’s a very troubled person.
No worries Yawn .
There couldn’t be a more useful idiot. Lets hope he stays.
He’ll still be there in 2015.
Liebour mongs are under the impression they have themselves a winner.
Complete and utter babble.
I’d tear up that blank sheet of paper and use it as a toilet roll.
I resenth thath.
Thank you for that, Ed demonstrates that he is a total wanker
Trying to be all things to all men. Total waste of space.
Not sure about that?
Just saying like …
Plus one
If your man is in UK and needs somewhere to stay, the list is long
I wonder if anyone is trying to decypher his one and a half gig file? And what success?
It was the electorate what done it guv.
Why do all the Liebour trolls wake up around this time ?? Is it because their electronic tags begin to monitor their locations around now ?
Back from the student union bar .
get a life billy
Full on socailisim cant work due to the black market , But also full on free market cant work either . However i do think goverment is to big , You cant have free market army ? Maybe all parties dance on the head of a pin ?
Apreciiate the senriment ,
‘You can’t have free market army.’ Thanks. I’m going to fall asleep churning that one over.
Sunny at moment .
Ta Billy. 243-4 ?
Yep , Cant chat cricket as Guido dont like it , As its his blog his rules .
Oh, OK. A comment’s a comment, a hit’s a hit, an advert’s an advert, I would have thought but if Guido wants to keep his gaff tight, I’ll go somewhere else.
Billy Boredom started it, anyways.
Thats life .
Fuck it , Sorry Guido , Hussy gone.
Labor are in power in austrailia ????
Well Fatty,
Your post reads as if you were drunk when you wrote it.
Regards
I’m not fat – I’m curvy.
I don’t do ‘drunk’ – just gay abandonment.
Big regards,
most of what I read is about politico’s selling us down the river big time,and yes whilst this it is true.
when oh when are we as a nation going to wake up and smell the coffee as to what is being done in our name.
Firstly we had (Liebour/EUSSR) signing us up to the EUSSR albeit that the Scottish Plonker McBroon could not be seen doing it under some pathetic exscuse.
Balls and backbone seems to be in short supply in this coalition bunch of arseholes,when is Cameronian and his pals going to grow a pair and spell out what this country really needs.
currently they are arseing around with all sorts of not really important issues and the public really needs to wake up to this.
Student demo’s so what, does this really lead to bringing a government down if so then in my opinion this government is not worth JACK SHIT.
Yep !
Small goverment is needed .
1 . V.A.T 5%
2. Tax 5% for everyone
3 > Leave the EU
4 . MPS and ministers will be paid the avarge wage 25k ( Including speaker)
5. Goverement provides Armed forces , NHS , Education upto 16 .
6. Any Local wants , Referrendum the local people .
Yep !
Small goverment is needed .
1 . V.A.T 5%
2. Tax 5% for everyone
3 > Leave the EU
4 . MPS and ministers will be paid the avarge wage 25k ( Including squeaker)
5. Goverement provides Armed forces , NHS , Education upto 16 .
6. Any Local wants , Referrendum the local people .
5% wouldn’t work – even assuming 100% employment and a minimal state (there are, after all, too many people in the world to have no state at all), 15% is a reasonable estimate – if you factor in structural unemployment you come to 20-25% with a ‘social wage’ fof arond £10K or those unable or unwilling to contribute.
And why VAT which is a consumption tax? That would deter people with spare money from spending it, which is generally a bad thing.
I’m still trying to understand AC1′s land value tax – I know it’s been around since Adam Smith but I can’t see the property meerkat adjusting fast enough to growth in production to make it work – income tax is wrong, but less wrong if you get my drift.
Defence, policing, education, and infrastructure that brings growth – that’s the limit for me – even the NHS should be cut to the bone as far as I’m concerned – critical care only.
And why, oh why can’t we have a proper written Constitution that defines the contract between State and Citoyen?
“And why VAT which is a consumption tax? That would deter people with spare money from spending it, which is generally a bad thing.”
No it would mean they have more off the money that they earned to spend how they wish .
Goverment is a servent of the people not the other way round .
No need for scores – we’ve fucked the Convicts lol
Just in case , Next thread http://bit.ly/gjJdPE
Got to hand it to the Tories, high boredom threshold.
You mean to say people PAY to advertise here and other idiots read the rubbish?
Good grief.
The best thing about our system of government is its slow decline.
is Geoff Boycott a political activist? what is his real name?
I keep my farts in a kilner jar
Off topic Guido but …
I hear that the two independent TDs are going to support the Irish Budget today. How I feel sorry for the Irish People who are being comprehensively shafted by their political class.
I don’t feel sorry for them at all.
They had a chance to show their political class who’s boss by rejecting the eu referendum.
But they rolled over and took it like spineless cretins. They deserve everything they get frankly.
They were frightened into voting ‘yes’ like lost little children. So now their politicians have so little respect for them they’ll do what they hell they like.
Jokes about the stupidity of the Irish seem more factual than humorous now…