+ + + Dale Departs the Blogosphere + + +
Iain Dale has departed the blogosphere.
It doesn’t come as a great surprise to Guido, Iain has been muttering about having had enough of it all for some time. We were competitors back in the day when he was supporting David Davis for the leadership of the Conservative Party and this blog was highlighting the potential of a little known chap called David Cameron. The smartest thing we did was decide to become allies rather than enemies. The competition has been friendly and in times of trouble that friendship has been relied on.
Iain has had an awful time from some parts of the blogosphere, yet he has done more to popularise blogging than any other blogger in Britain. He advanced the cause of blogging ceaselessly when it was far less mainstream than it is now. His annual guide to blogging is the reference book for the political blogosphere and he has encouraged bloggers of all stripes, publicising them with his Daley Dozen links which have brought many to first prominence.
In the words of ABBA, Guido would like to say: Thank you for the music…
He will be missed.
But who will now defend my honour from unjustified accusations of nepotism?
Your peformance on QT a few weeks a back was simply gorgeous dahlin!!
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrap brrrrrrrrrrrrap
Hiya cute tits(for yer age)
According to the BBC on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11989216:
“He is accused of having unprotected sex with a woman, identified only as Miss A, when she insisted he use a condo”
A condo?! That must have fucking hurt!
Perhaps she was american, and wanted to have sex in a flat, rather than in an old lock up garage.
he’s a twat
and so are you
Keep Britain Bona!!
In truth, his blog has been crap for at least a year, probably longer.
Back in the day, it was vital reading, but it has been suffering from neglect for a while now.
It stopped being a must-read for me ages ago.
Agreed. Too many irons, methinks….
Personally I think he’d make a half decent M.P., certainly better than some current ones.
Too many irons in the fire, or just too many irons?
What?
Iron hoofs, you mean?
says… oh yes, Iron hooves that was what we millionaire suffragettes use to go and throw ourselves under at Ascot.
What.
I think he would have made an awful MP. I am so glad he didn’t win the North Norfolk seat.
He doesn’t understand politics and I am relieved he has come to a decision about abandoning the blogosphere.
His blog has been suffering for more than a year now, and his quality control was something to be desired.
His blog is typical of someone who doesn’t understand the complexities of the political system and who is caught in the Westminster bubble.
Sadly I have to agree his blog went from worth a good read and comment and his tv was great,especially when he called a certain person a nihlist and the idiot missed what mrs Dale alluded too,to now to what the hell is he on about and his lists well ,but good luck to him in being a media git,I wish him all the best in what he wants to do.
True
He has used his blog as a platform and is now a commentator and radio personality. Good luck to him but he does not need his blog anymore and he has stopped being a “must read” blog you are right.
He has used his blog as a platform
That’s what blogs are for. Surely?
presumably he’ll be writing the diary again then….
Not it won’t.
all viable opposition falls away Guido
He must like the money he gets from LBC radio station as a presenter.
Hey Ian, your radio voice sucks!
No he won’t, the miserable tribal Conservative Maggie T loving bore.
That’s Maggie T (PBUH) peon.
Even some comedians are getting Green is the new fascism.
No he won’t. He was losing readers and had become mind numbingly boring!
The UK has the EDL, now there a French Defence League.
http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=28249
Nice one – reckon my little sister will be sponsoring a pig for that demo – she’s a UMP councillor, but more FN in her views…
Allez les bleus!
I’ll miss him.
Yup
Agreed.
His blog was shit anyway……..whining fat t*ry bender…!
That’s not fair. He had his weaknesses but overall he was ok. Agree with Guido that she did a lot to make blogging mainstream.
Yeah, but did fuck all to help make blogging accurate or truthful. Just created another avenue for mainstream lies and propaganda and politically-correct bullshit.
Agreed.
Agreed with Ned. The idea of him as an MP was just what we didn’t need – another left wing politically correct townie with the ghastly widdicombe woman as his fag hag.
Yes, just another westminster-centred , no idea about the real world, fat old poof
Often listen to him on LBC, makes a change from all the lefties on the beeb. Never read his blog though.
He don’t look that fat either unless that’s an old picture.
http://www.labourlist.org/uploads/thumbs/L_9c1fb5b5-3c68-9904-059c-fbc4ffdd0596.jpg
Blimey,
he looks contented though
Sorry Iain but you look like Eric Pickles there!
Kick a man while he’s going down.
I always thought he looked rather a ‘passive’ actually.
“Kick a man while he’s going down” is very bad advice as it can lead to choking.
On the other hand, the West Ham Thai Masseuses Collective would rather go down on Avram Grant than stay up with Sam Allardyce…
Goodriddance.
Boring fart. N
not enough hate and putting the boot in on his blog.
Plus he wasn’t quite fat enough for my tastes.
Nor his voices, high pitched an squaeky enough.
not going to get a christmas card then
He was a fucking bore. I couldn’t stand him personally.
He knew fuck all about politics, and seemed to be on a mission to discredit people who didn’t agree with him.
What a fucking disgrace
Fucking hell !!!!!!
Morning fellow windowlickers
Unless he is to join Sky news and have his own show there , Turning sky into fox would be good
He departs to make his career in grown-up media then – also, it is a lot harder blogging when the party you support is in government – more flak and less juicy leaks from Tory HQ. Wikileaks has rather stolen all the thunder recently and makes home grown bloggers look very small fry. It’s the left of centre blogs that will be in the ascendancy for the next few years. You pushing off Guido?
No.
Got a face for radio and fit the bill in the stature department
Hold on…if real life was an episode of ‘Yes Minister’ then your assertion of ‘No’ would actually mean ‘Yes’ and you ARE quitting!!
That’s a shame..!
With Tory Bear joining you
And Iain stopping his blog
You have the field wide open Guido…
Exploit the opportunity well please……!
It IS a loss to the blogosphere but, like they say in Battlestar Galactica, “this has all happened before; this will all happen again”.
I liked Iain Dale’s blog: it was quirky, wrong, funny, wrong, personal, wrong, insightful and often (did I mention this part?) wrong. Still, you can’t agree with everyone all the time now, can you?
Dale agrees with Thatcher on everything!
Cos she was right.
Off course she was dear! You need the same pills Gordon is on.
Country seemed to be a lot better than it was under the previous lot.
What did you disagree with?
Contrary to what lefty loons parrot, Thatcher is widely admired.
“Thatcher is widely admired.” Parroted nearly as often by right wing loons.
So do I!
Time for a new right wing blogger to fill the void left by the demise of Iain Dale and Tory Bear. DwB has a proper job that keeps him busy, but there must be other people out there who have interesting things to say and time to type it.
I really couldn’t care less about a void in the blogosphere.
I welcome it, just shows the power of market forces in the arena of blogging.
The same arena, Iain Dale failed to understand at times.
His blog was going downhill for at least a year now – with obsessive postings about lists, and personal advertisements.
The title for the, ‘Queen of British Blogging’ is now vacant. There will be no more mincing…..of words. Honorable members will rest easy in their pants, and the son will go down at the end of the gay.
Did Mossad make him do it ?
I stole his pension, then saved the world .
I’m Flash Gorgon Saviour of the World.
Tory bloggers blogged of how bad labour were and how good it would be under cameron.
Now they see that cameron is shit they have nothing left to say, and they look stupid. They are fleeing rather than facing the music.
Bastards.
Congratulations, you have just won the Prat of the Month competition.
The only disagreeable aspect I’ve ever found with Dale’s blog is his interminable craving for lists. They are as annoying on the internet as they are on the telly.
Plus his defence of obvious crooks like Nadine.
Nadine is not a crook, she’s got lovely tits.
http://tinyurl.com/35ydkxr
I’ll bet that when those tits are unleashed, they don’t look very nice at all.
I wouldnt mind giving them a try
Where the F*CK have you been for the last two days Warney, or is that a daft question?????
He’s been immersing himself in the burly hurley of London life.
Why would Dale give a shit about those?
that pair need detaining for evidence
Do you say liths or liths?
1. He hardly ever has lists.
2. Lists are very useful.
3. They give you a point of reference.
4. They are easy on the eye.
5. We like them.
6. Any other business
Only women like lists, which explains a lot….
He was obsessed with lists. I don’t know where all the fascination came from.
I felt his blog was dying a natural death anyway
Sad announcement as Iaian has been an informed source as a blogger. His LBC show is too mealy-mouthed and tediously predictable -NO
counterweight for his trenchant views of our green-benched graspers or should that be grafters ?
The blogosphere is maturing. ‘Twas ever thus. Good luck to Mr Dale whatever meeja position he adopts.
You sycophantic arse hole.
tat why don’t you go and get your colostomy emptied, preferably over your head?
You’d like that wouldn’t you? You’d like it even more if was emptied over your head.
You fucking perverted tosser.
You’re full of shit.
Cos he’d like that?
Prehaps he is going to apply for the vacent Blackburn job ?
Tony Blackburn?
I would imagine that Mr Dale got increasingly tired of the left wing bores and creeps that invaded the comments pages; God they are a prissy, self righteous, witless bunch.
Sure but he made the mistake of getting into spats with them, which they love.
Thankfully it doesn’t happen here
Absolutely.
I do miss some off the leftie troll , Charles e hardthingy was funny , The real tat ( Independent) was ok …..
Seem to be a lot of students waiting for Countdown, overdosing on pot noodles. All they do is slag the comments without wit or counterarguement.
I was going backa year ,Lately the trolls have been offf such low quality tho….
My favourite was Dirty European Socialist. Complete headcase.
And of course the immortal Gary Elsby, Stoke on Trent.
saw you on the CNN Gordon blog Mike
i would like to thank Dale Winton for his services to Strictly Come Dancing
I will also miss Mrs Dales diary
I will not miss it. To be honest, it was dying a natural death. Iain Dale’s blog was becoming a BORE anyway.
He was getting boring, becoming a parody of himself at times and becoming tied up by his own inconsistencies. It was embarrassing to read his pro-Dorries ideas. Worse, the blog just became a collection of lists with only the odd insight.
The saving grace was that – nice chap though he is – the blog showed just how inappropriate he was to be an MP. On the plus side a bit independent, on the other side he lacked an intellectual framework and seemed very prone to act on emotion and instinct.
“he lacked an intellectual framework and seemed very prone to act on emotion and instinct.”
A typical poof then!
At least he had a heart, even if it was often in the wrong place. But yes, his support for Dorries just made people cringe.
She was his ‘fag hag’.
I would agree he lacked an intellectual framework and often resorted to emotional attacks on people.
I myself on his comments have been attacked for him for being ‘thick’ even though I have a BA (Hons) in Political Science.
Ooh, you bitch.
Shame all the shite MP’s didn’t find out like mrs Dale that they would be shite at being MP’s,Bliar,Brown,Cameron etc, we need a Mrs Dale to carry the list to on.
A good blogger who went off the boil. Those endless lists were just filler.
Still, it raised his profile and he got the LBC gig. An enjoyable journey even if it became a car crash in the last couple of years.
He’s been doing the filler list shite for years. May as well just reproduce a Tesco list of prices for all that they were worth.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
He lacked quality control, and it seemed to place emphasis on quantity rather than quality.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE ABOVE COMMENTS.
The problem with Iain Dale is lost opportunity. He lacked an academic basis for his own opinions. He indulged too often in lazy analysis which often showed a lack of comprehension of the issue at hand. He simply wasn’t intelligent enough to fully grasp the issues.
When he was running in North Norfolk – he hardly understand any of the local issues, and quite frankly was more interested in his own position, than the constituency.
I would say that I have a certain respect for him that he employs people and is a generator of wealth but other than that I can’t say I like him personally.
He was supportive of political elites and his defense of MPs was at times tenuous. Look for example his display of ignorance and lazy analysis of the expenses scandal.
Ian’s Blog was fairish if not that impartial I’m not surprised he gave up, pushing the unelected kindergarten koalition, must have finally taken its toll.
Maybe , Agent Dale and agent TB have done there tasks and now it is time for a new genration of right wing bloggers that will hold the goverment to account and not just tow the line ?????
Or maybe they have been offered better jobs than writing stuff on a computer
Oh TB was sh*t, no question. Not suited to blogging at all.
He was good on Guy News ! But still couldnt pull a bird .
He did manage to hold his own and pull it off quite often tho.
Of course TB was shit,where is he now ,has he joined the dole queue.
like all guidos commentators then?
FFS ‘their’ and ‘toe’.
He’s such a hissy that after saying “no more” I suspect he’ll be back in no time.
A blogger has got to have an original story or at least an original point of view. Dale had neither.
A View from an Oppressed Queer, Life as a Failed Conservative Candidate, My Wonderful Life as a Newspaper Reader/Radio Talkshow Host, Anne Widdecombe and other Ridiculous Projects … just doesn’t cut it.
Keep your eyes on the prize, Guido: the story that someone doesn’t published.
Once a “must read,” it was becoming a online repository of pointless lists.
Was his traffic down a lot?
Was his trousers down a lot?
Jeez, how many times have you said that on this thread FFS?
What the fuck are you? Some ponced up blog prefect. Jeez, just fuck off.
I just don’t like to see some old fart like you making a fool of himself is all, after all it is Xmas.
“like you”?
No, like you.
Blog off!
Ed Miliband telling porkies about Harriet Harperson’s comments on immigrants getting UK taxpayers benefit money, then sending it abroad.
Er, Ed that is EXACTLY what she said.
And how do you know it’s ‘small amounts of money’ ? Could be the whole of their benefits for all you know.
“Could be the whole of their benefits for all you know.”
And a good many postal voters’ benefits to boot…
Ooooh super! You’re really getting the hang of it now.
Darling can I take this gimp mask off – I can’t breathe properly wearing it while I”ve got an orange stuffed in my mouth. Also your super strap on is making my bum bleed
Could be for people that don’t exist except on the books of Tower rape the whitey taxpayer Hamlets council.
They’re heroes, I tell you, HEROES!
Well that’s about as barefaced as lying gets.
What did you expect from one of McTwat’s acolytes though
The lack of eye contact with the questioner tells its own story. It was bullshit.
Well done Ed !! Remember to keep a straight face ( yours is a bit like Lemsip Ropedick’s ) when your lying through your teeth. Try and smile like I do to really fool the general public.
What happened to your ‘bog brush’ hair style ?
What a wonky faced c#unt!
http://anti-citizen-one.blogspot.com/2010/09/seperated-at-birth.html
I’d open a business trading account for this bloke,
no problem. And be completely confident of being paid.
So Mrs Dale’s Diary has gone off air. Will you be like The Archers Guido and stand the test of time?
We’ve still got a leftie government in, haven’t we FFS? Fawkes is still needed.
today, I will be introducing my Tail End Charlie range of biscuits
Beyond the Crunch Assortment (half-baked).
Any chocolate fingers?
He was deffo a jamy dodger !
As a tail gunner you must prefer party rings.
I’m partial to a finger of Bourbon
itsssssssssssssssss…………………….Trumpton
Last PMQS wednesday of the term , Did anyone here Denis Skinner in the house yesterday ? Asking Home Sec about protests , So class war ( As was Balls Praised students before pigs )
Billy, it’s ‘hear’, not ‘here’.
Opppsss , Cheers .
After making a name in the blogosphere, and then being called on to make a few tv and radio appearances, there is always going to be the temptation to take the mainstream media’s shilling. However, this is no bad thing…you can almost count the number of non leftie commentators on tv and radio on one hand (compared to the amount of raving lefties they use) so a few more personalities with right leanings might help redress the balance.
His time has come and gone. From must read, to turn off immediately.
i am the cripple boy collecting box
Tonight I am going to slide down the stairs on my tummy.
And while you are at it, could you please indicate when we are likely to get back our £10bn that you and your cronies wasted on yet another ridiculous ‘initiative’?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338417/Labours-childcare-failure–10bn-Sure-Start-scheme-effect.html
We can apparently surcharge councillors who waste money in public office. I vote that we extend this principle to ministers, and that we also make it retrospective.
There again, turkeys like these may be a little reluctant to vote for Christmas.
Lalalalala!
Can’t hear you.
Mooooo!
O/T Up the workers !!!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338368/Tony-Blairs-company-make-27m-advising-Kuwait-govern-itself.html
Like a good socialist, I will be re-distributing my income to less fortunate people – NOT !
Er, I thought B£iar was working hard on bringing peace to the Middle East ???
Perhaps I misunderstood: he’s working hard on bringing home a piece of the Middle East.
Why the pretence of doing work? Why not do a Mugabe and take the van directly to the BoE for filling up?
Dale will be missed.
This is sad news. I will unable to comment for the rest of the day. I am upset.
Can’t you just team up and have joint blog? Guido Dale? Iain Fawkes? Guidiain Fawkes?
Maybe Guidocould publish a weekly Dale list ?????
Can’t you find some other (very) mental image to masturbate over you sorry excuse for a human being?
Some cracking questions for Brown – see CNN opposite.
“I knew you when you were rector at Edinburgh University. You were intellectually second rate, manipulative and a bully. How did you manage to overcome these character faults to become leader of New Labour?”
Much too soft.
Hope you’re wearing nokia proof body armour…
why do they give this demeanted c unt any publicty ?
Haven’t watched it. Was this set up by his good muckker Piers Morgan?
Its not going well for the hoon over there.
Excellent.
Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Nicolas Macpherson, becomes McPherson; the Financial Times’s August chief commentator, Martin Wolf, becomes Woolf; and IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn changes sex to become Dominic Strauss-Kahn.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1338369/A-dunces-cap-Gordon-Brown-Beyond-Crash.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Perhaps he won’t get that big job at the IMF afterall then.
Gordon showing the attention to detail that got us where we are……
Sounds like even the proof reader couldn’t stomach checking Gordos turgid drivel.
S0unds l1k3 3v3n th3 pr00f r3ad3r c0uldn’t st0mach ch3ck1ng G0rd0s turg1d dr1v3l.
More like the arrogant arsewipe didn’t feel his work needed proof reading.
That is a possibility. They might change his “perfect prose”… I wonder who he’ll blame.
Boom and CRASH
The IMF have known for years that the Gurning Goon is a looney tune…
Today I will be a bog roll.
Your judgement has been total crap so I guess this is what you’d call ‘vocational work’ then.
And so farewell to Ian dale
A right wing bloggin daly male
instead of sinking like this blog
he would rather read the paper on the bog
I think Ian Dale has realised that blogs like this are for Public and grammar School boys to have a jolly jape being rude about people when they dont have the guts to do so pubicly in their real lives.
I only pop in here now and then and reckon its a dead un. But i am sure Guido will continue to suck in the Ad revenue while he can.
Im off to read the NEWS rahter than a load of old childish shit such as this.
Merry Christmas
And an autoerotic New Year to you!
It’s Iain you thick c/unt.
And yours is Prick, not Dick.
Iain with 2 i’s unlike Gordon with 1
Hear hear!
Read Guido’s strapline,Plots,Rumours,Conspiracy,”NEWS” is not there. Sorry.
Let’s look on the bright side. GB’s spent several days in New York but the city hasn’t been devoured by a prehistoric monster rising from the Hudson, nor has the USA declared war on us, yet. He’s mellowed.
It’s not always instantaneous. the curse can take months to unwind.
I’d expect a real life “Cloverfield” event.
lol
Nobody mention 3 mile island
As I do not like jumping to confusions Guido; did you actually SUPPORT Cameron or just “point him out” as one does a shoal of rocks, or a reef, when one is on a boat in a storm heading for a harbour? I think we should be told.
Today I will be hitting only five people.
Your aim’s getting better then. Shame your judgement isn’t.
Just you to go then.
And then we’ll be left with Labourwrist and all those other jolly leftie blogs. Comedy gold.
There is always Old Holborn blog
Think OH it trying to be libertarian with allowing some real mental cases to comment,they trying to destroy his blog,he honestly needs a wholesale delete setup,these days his blog is unreadable if you don’t come back within the day,shame really.
Could say the same about this blog
“Could say the same about this blog
”
There’s no ‘could’ about it.
Yep it’s true. Tat ruins this blog.
Sounds like a threat, Jimmy… what you going to do, denounce Guido to the NKVD?
Passive-aggressive little twat.
Dales blog was still more populor than Labourliest ……….
So are the Rug Muncher’s twatterings… So?
was just sayin .
You tell him Billy. BTW, it’s tat. He should be on his downers by now.
This standard tat riposte crap is as predictable and poor as the usual allegedly Daily Mail readers who visit CiF, ruffle a few feathers and get similar treatment.
Step away from the computer!
Oh Please…feck off.
No one reads his blog.
Even less comment on his blog ( very rarely get double figure thread comments ).
Wrote a book with Guido ( THAT NO ONE BOUGHT ).
Did a stint as radio presenter, show that NO ONE listened to.
Had a couple of TV appearances, with little if NO impact.
Puff.
Numerous failed attempts to become Tory PPC.
Errrr – other great Dale predictions.. “”Twitter wouldn’t catch on””
Now he’s gone, he can spend more time sucking Dave knob
I think in some respects Iain Dale’s political career has been one of unmitigated failure.
His political writings were of amateur style, he didn’t have the capacity to understand the issues at hand, and then tried unsuccessfully many times to become a Tory PPC.
He didn’t know the areas in question, he wasn’t involved locally and to be honest he couldn’t care fucking less.
I am breaking out the champagne and celebrating his demise in the blogosphere. It’s about time.
Today I will be a screwdriver.
Maybe he’s realised that after 14 years of left wing governments there really is no point until the Tories find a proper Conservative leader.
Lol.
Today I will only be eating 742,593 Big Macs. I’m on a diet.
We just need about 10 miles of hi-tech carbon fibre reinforced piping and a few sacks of titanium jubilee clips and we would be world leaders in reclaiming methane for domestic power production.
http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Council-counting-cost-cuts-bite-deep-budget/article-3001331-detail/article.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7659783.stm
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/localgov/audit/pir/Pages/nelincolnshirecouncilpir24jun2009.aspx
North East Lincolnshire Council are moaning about the cuts. Considering they lost a wad or two in the icelandic banks they should think themselves lucky. They don’t exactly give value for money. I can tell you in the Grimsby Area, wheelie bins have now not been collected for 4 weeks – Rubbish is piling up outside of people’s houses and they have issued a warning to the public in the area that collections have now been suspended indefinately due to health and safety reasons. At the moment the worst of the snow has gone in the area and there’s plenty of room for the bin men to walk without having to touch any ice. And if health and safety was an issue then why didn’t they issue the bin men with safety boots that allowed them to walk on the ice? They do exist.
Ok we had some reasonably bad snow, but there’s been much worse snow conditions in this area. They failed to get snow plows and gritters out on time and left Grimsby coming to a standstill. None of our roads or paths were gritted at all and numerous people were having to near enough break their ankles just trying to get to the corner shop. Where are the Salt bins that used to be dotted around our streets so people could at least take matters into their own hands and throw some on our paths? Or is that a health and safety issue?
And now they’re issuing a weather warning of bad weather for a month. So what will happen? One can assume that North East Lincolnshire Council will leave the rubbish piling up until this bad weather hits and then they can suspend any collections indefinately again. Presumably to cut costs.
Seems to me they look after their own interests before the general public. And they expect people to pay council tax to them.
See the links above – not sure but it looks like they’re at it again too, putting money in icelandic banks. If this is true then its a complete disgrace and really shows where their interests lay. See the bbc link in particular.
Dale was fine up to the point where you agreed with anything she said. The second you challenged a Dale Opinion, a meltdown followed that usually involved Mrs. Dale posting abusive remarks against his commenters – commenters who were usually a bit better informed than Dale herself.
For me, Iain Dale was proof positive of every Screaming Drama Queen stereotype that’s ever been associated with gay men.
He also illustrated the very problem that Guido has long complained about: the marriage between media and politics. Iain could never be a fair or honest commentator because he was too busy defending his political friends and feathering his own nest in hopes of a future parliamentary career.
Will he be missed? Not by me.
here here… spot on comment
Nonsence
No one reads his blog.
Even less comment on his blog ( very rarely get double figure thread comments ).
Wrote a book with Guido ( THAT NO ONE BOUGHT ).
Did a stint as radio presenter, show that NO ONE listened to.
Had a couple of TV appearances, with little if NO impact.
Puff.
Numerous failed attempts to become Tory PPC.
Errrr – other great Dale predictions.. “”Twitter wouldn’t catch on””
Now he’s gone, he can spend more time sucking Dave knob
Not missing you already, fucktard
I think that’s right.
Iain Dale was typically of the breed of Conservative media spokesperson’s who regularly attacked their opponents without offering an intelligent argument.
I am very critical of Iain Dale’s influence on the Conservative blogosphere as he has at times a pernicious influence.
The key problem was he didn’t understand politics, other than the Westminster bubble. He regularly would cite Nadine Dorries as the exemplar of an MP, but when she came into criticism for her expenses, he couldn’t offer a viable defense.
He often commented on the ‘poor MPs’ who are being treated unfairly. I found that to be a smack of elitism that runs through his veins. He cannot fathom why people may be cynical about MPs.
It makes me laugh that he talks about too many people going to university when he himself went to University to study German and done a sweet F A with it.
Maybe the BBC/ Sky are lineing up the Iain Dale and Yasmin alibi whatever show ???
Fawkes, haven’t you ever heard the old saw: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?
Don’t know how anybody else is finding it, but this blog’s about as slow-loading now as it was when you tried comment tick boxes.
Works fine here .
And here
And here.
Have you tried Firefox with Adblock and Ghostery?
It’s the ads that slow the site.
Esp, If you are still using a 486.
A 486?
Luxury!!
Just disable all the crap, works a treat here.
Apologies to our host.
The site came up in a totally different format from the usual one, to which it has now reverted.
Time to scrap this old AM2 bucket and build a new one or – Horrors! – switch to the Vista laptop.
Switch to vista and use Chrome, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Vista? That’s a pile of festering old shite. Win7 is the way to go.
Google’s OS next year………..
……..just waiting for the tin foilers to give it the ‘all your data will be raped by google’.
For blogs, I’d still be using 98SE on a Socket A rig if M$ hadn’t withdrawn support for it years ago – and have total used hard drive space less than 1GB.
It will though.
Ubuntu and Chrome. Way faster.
It’s Mossad’s fault…
you’ll be back, your a junkie and your ego will need its high
Does Denis Skinner need to be locked up in a mental hospital ?
He claimed the coalition wasa ” Right-wing goverment ” !!!!!!!!
Skinner needs to be skinned alive and then rolled in salt.
Not a fan then ?
Like The Maximum Imbecile there is no more appropriate a prison for Denis Skinner than their own fucked-up minds. It must be living hell in there.
+ + +Guido Fawkes Departs the Blogosphere + + +
Now that’s much more like it
Today I will be trying to get a job in New York. No luck so far.
Hasn’t New York suffered enough? They had 9/11. Now McDoom has visited them. Today we are all New Yorkers.
Something tells me that if Fawkes wants to continue his ‘guidoisation’ of politics, then he’ll need a lot more than a blog.
Can i see Fawkes whoring himself to the media a lot more than previous…?
Dale did it………
Only if the money is right ….
Only in the medium of radio.
David Cameron has made a Christmas record about Erectile Dysfunction.
I recon it’s going to be a flop!
Why is Cameron presiding over an electric car subsidy? Is this the start of the poisonous green shots of environmental fascism?
yep!
Even with up to £5,000 per car subsidy you will still have to lay out approx £18k plus for say a Nissan Neat.The problem is of course that electric take 7 hours to charge and have a range of 100 miles per max.In addition outside major centres such as London at present there’s a dearthg of charging points especially where I live in the West Midlands .Even the plans to role out an additional 4,000 charging points over the next year will still make electric cars a non-strater for most motorists..So the government may elect to make 2011 ..”The Year of the Electric Car” but I predict it will not be
Just 55 electric cars sold in the UK in 2010 thus far. Long way to go to make any impact on the market. Any ‘buyers’ in 2011 will be from the public sector and paid for by our taxes. No financial case for anyone else to buy until the technology and infrastructure improves. The Nissan Leaf is targeted at the wrong market and is just not trendy enough for the sloane rangers. It needs to be ‘smart’ size and used solely in cities at present.
Hanging your hat on such a money wasting, no benefit scheme smacks of Brownism grandstanding. You don’t think the Cameron is a skin suit inhabited by Brown do you? Might explain why we haven’t seen Brown in the HOC….
55 x £5000 … will it be 100 or a 1000?
Still relatively cheap for PM grandstanding.
“Still relatively cheap for PM grandstanding.”
You must be joking. The planning, ‘thinking’ and talking time, the infrastructure required to manage the scheme, policing the scheme, preventing fraudulent claims, paperwork etc.
I think you’re being too easy on Cameron but on this blog that wouldn’t be at all surprising.
Electric cars will use electricity generated in the main by coal burning power stations.
How far will they go when the temperature is -5C and heaters, demisters, and heated rear windows are going full blast?
How long before somebody freezes to death in an electric car, with a flat battery, no heat, unable to move?
I wish Cameron wasn’t such a clot; all my reservations about him, particularly his Green lunacy are coming true.
A dunce’s cap for Gordon Brown
A dutch cap for Gordon’s mother.
Fresh woods and pastures new? Good luck, Iain.
We’re all in tears up here.
The leftwing blogs couldn’t handle the windowlickers coming to their turf that is why if the right wing didn’t exist the left would invent them just to escape the loonies.
You should get out more.
He will be missed and he has done a tremendous amount for blogging in the UK.
Economics the Bob Crow way: Here’s the kind of thinking fleecing £90k directly from the hardworking brethrens pay packets every year gets you.
The man is a thick, ignorant c*nt. And he and everybody else knows it.
Hey! You’ll have to start being nice to him if you want the tubes running during the olympics.
Thats good then , I hate the C unt and the olympics !
Really, so you won’t be watching all the fit-as-fuck female athletes pulling their tiny shorts from their bum cracks during long / high / triple jumps then…? I imagine you won’t want to see Brazilian female volleyballers either….?
I like the Olympics……for reasons such as those.
Just think its a waste of money .
Yeah, you think it’s a waste of money – but you’ll still fucking watch it…
Tiny shorts….
You can still watch them if they were held in another country and save all that money in tax.
As a Londoner I couldn’t give a shit if the system is in meltdown for the duration. I’ll be driving in the Olympic fart’s Zil lanes too.
Fuck the pompous old gits in the IOC.
Just say no!
Don’t give a shit about the Olympics. Didn’t want them in the first place. More money we ain’t got being p155ed away.
The female athletes wear tiny, tiny shorts……
Tiny….
Especially the shot putters
Olympic Games is well boring, now I’m not in them.
Listening to LBC last night, the underground drivers are threatening to strike on Boxing day, the gist of it from memory was they dont like the offer of being payed for 3days + an extra day off.
They are on 44k per year for a 35hr week with something like 42days holiday
So expect lots more strikes in the build up to the olympics
You know the Jubiliee line is completed automated between westminster and stratford.
The “drivers” don’t do a thing, the train pulls into the station, lines up with the doors in the glass panels and stops then opens the doors.
Announce rolling this out PDQ for the rest of the tube at the mere mention of the next strike.
It’s time for Boris to do an ATC Reagan.
Tonight I’ll be sticking pins into a doll of Tony Blair. I should have been prime minister in 1997.
Тhе Grаunіаd, іn а ріесе thаt аttеmрtѕ tо bе ѕymраthеtіс tо Воb ‘I couldn’t care less if we had a million strikes’ Crow, has published the following gem:
Crow does say interesting things. “I’m not like one of these leftwing commentators who says: ‘Oh, don’t worry about the deficit.’ I’d put a 1 pence tax on every text message that’s sent in Britain, that would nearly wipe out half the deficit.” He’d also put a windfall tax on every share cashed in. But then he adds: “I’d have no problem – and this is what Denis Healey said, and he was no radical – to squeeze the rich ’til the pips squeak.”
Now,
Deficit: £ 150 bn Less 100bn SMS × £0.01 = £ (1)bn _________________________________ £ 149 bnHappy Boxing Day!
What a C unt !!!!
The rich have suffered enough.
Well, apart from the obvious innumeracy from the Labour school of idiocy the idea that you can squeeze the rich is laughable, they are the rich Bob, geddit?, whereas you are just very comfortably well off as a result of your years of sponging off the backs of the poor workers.
Squeeze my pips.
Socialism is when you don’t want more for yourself as much as you want everybody else to have less.
Sometimes less is more (and if you believe that you are a true socialist).
Why don’t Bob Crow and his Marxist ilk all fuck off to North Korea. Surely they’d feel much more at home there ?
These fucking idiots still think we live in the 1800′s like there backwards ideology.
Tax the rich and they just fuck off to somewhere that is happy to have them for a smaller cut i.e. a long fucking list of countries these days.
Britain really isn’t that great or got much worth staying for, it isn’t as hard to up stakes and fuck off to sunnier climes than it was say twenty years ago.
That’s exactly what we’ve done. We left the UK 9 months ago to live abroad. It may not be perfect, but it’s a damn sight better than the life we had in the UK.
Don’t blame you, I’m thinking of the same, might as well let the whole house of cards cave in on the dumbo’s.
Your own and families health and safety is more important than the parasites who pass themselves off as the british public today.
I am the second coming of jesus. Worship me.
“never trust a tory..”
i am not wearing any socks
Hands off cock, on socks!.
Samantha said “Shall i put the kettle on before we go out?”
I said “You can, but i think you may look really silly”
I think I first cracked that ‘joke’ when I was five years old.
Iain goes eh? Oh well, things never last for ever – good while it lasted. I’ll have to start reading John Redwood’s blog more for a ‘viperish’ take on the EU
I’ve never reached the end of one yet
Assange has been bailed…..
How long before he shows up at Gitmo ? I give a few days
You are Billy Bowden and…
?
Yeah , Just jumping on the bring back warne bandwagon
Bet you he tries to scarper.
tomorrow, i will be the silverback
Silverback what?
the golden globe monkey crack
Silverfish, more like.
Boom and CRASH…
Gordon please
Will you come out from under your Kircuddles stone
And do one of your slow motion car crashes
They were inimitiable acts…
No imitator is sufficiently mad or high on the white stuff to even begin to imitate you…
With the gurning to boot
My life is not the same since you plopped up every day…
Baldwin will be able to
After five of six lines of the shitie stuff…
PS Red Ed is a great sixth form imitation for the moment…
Why don’t you fiollow his example and retire too Fawkes?
He said as he added yet another post to the blog.
Fuck off you arse licking freak!
He said as he added yet another post to the blog.
the tobacco honey whack
Tonight I am going for some frottage on the Subway.
How did Allen Stanford become Sir Allen stanford ?
He’s not a credit to the knighhtood, is he ?
He bought the title from the Government of Antigua
It is not a British title
Thanks
More news on Blogs, (Will Heaven- Source)
Update: Mr Harry Cole himself has been in touch with an intriguing revelation. Guido is not packing up at all, he says. Rather, Order-Order.com is set to expand in the new year. Speaking with his new hat on – he’s now the site’s News Editor – Harry told me that big plans are afoot and that Guido Paul will soon be appointed Editor-in-Chief.
New Thread : http://order-order.com/2010/12/14/disgraced-handy-cock-triggers-council-chaos/
SACK THE SQUEAKER PLEASE
He is an embarrassment to himself (though his wife is so prejudiced she no doubt tells him he is superb), Mandelkraut (who got him there) but above all he is a disgrace to the HOUSE OF COMMONS
Applause
Who spoke about New Politics ?
With a slimey left over from Gordon Brown and the Old Labour Party how can anyone seriously believe in New Politics with a prejudiced and complexed dwalf like Berco as Speaker
PS I see he is also pissing our money up the wall with trips to the provincew etc
He would do better concentrating on doing a serious job in the HoC
‘…. helped bloggers of all types,’ yes that’s true, unlike that other great blogger guido.
“And a rumour has reached me that even the great Guido is thinking about throwing in the towel and heading off on an extended Gap Yah. It’s all a bit 1969.”
Huh?
I would imagine that maintaining a major blog would be very time-consuming for the single-handed blogger, especially when the drudgery of journalism (checking leads, double-checking facts) has to be done before a post can be written. Can’t blame Dale if he feels that his time can be more productively spent elsewhere.
For someone like Dale, or for those who blog as a sideline, posting better articles less frequently is probably the way to go. The established columnists in the dead tree press tend to be weekly, which gives them time to compose a better researched and more considered piece, and time for other activities as well (cf. Charles Moore, Simon Jenkins). Perhaps that’s the way to go, Iain – a good article once a week on a mainstream Conservative blog might free up time for having a life.
Possible Engineer
But who would ever have heard of Dale were it not for the blogosphere ?
And his other activities have flourished as a reult I would think..
So time well spent for him even though it must be a sweat…
But he is single…that helps…
by the time sarah’s taken him up the Hudson he’ll be quietening down
Are you too old for a Gap Yah Guido ?!!
WIll Mrs F permit it ?!!
I heard Mrs Dale had given up blogging to become Sepp Blatter’s Goodwill Ambassador for Qatar.
But you have to do aaaawwwwful things to get that job surely ?
Guido
Re your article referenced from the Mirror…
So Handy-Cock evading declaring his income as a Councillor ?
This is open warfare between the Mirror and the Libdems
I love it…
This must be what Empty Ed Milli Child wants as well…
It all consolidates the Coalition…
bring it on….
Hancockski – you are the story. Go. Go now. There will be loads more of this until you do.
He will be seeking political asylum sooàn in the USSR, sorry Russian Federation of KBGbeasties like Vladimir Putin the Poisoner)
Wikileaks information confirms that it was indeed Putin who organised the poisoning
So like Ivan the Terrible
Putin will be the Vlad the Poisoner…
So he’s a tard botherer, a gullible stooge for Russian spies, an expense fiddler, takes whores round the house of commons and is at the centre of some very ugly rumours regarding his essential, wholly and necessarily in the line of duty foreign trips to Moscow, being the MP for Portsmouth.
Its time to pull up a chair and crack open a sixpack. Once again the libdems haven’t acted decisively right at the start so the fallout gets bigger every day.
Oh yes, he’s incompetent too.
According to this;
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BM4VtPpOws4J:jacparty.org/id12.html+mike+hancock+mp&cd=38&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
He is not eligible to be a councillor because he does not live in the City.
His “eligibility” is based on the carefully arranged ownership of a lock-up garage.
(Bought from the council; the only one sold, so I believe.)
Picture of the unused garage here;
http://www.po12bg.com/id4.html
along with the tantalising suggestion that Hancock has property in Ekatarinburg, Russia.
Well worth a read; the picture of the garage belongs on the front page.
Hancock
“I don’t know how many times I have been to Russia because my passport fell in the sea and got wet”.
http://www.po12bg.com/id35.html
I did think he was very good in supermarket sweep..good luck in the future
you wouldn’t want to take him up the kyhber would you ?
This week’s movements in the Conservative blogsophere – where Iain Dale quit his long-standing blog and Guido Fawkes consolidated his influence with the formal recruitment of the news-breaking Tory Bear – might prove just as significant as the shift to political PR by two print journalists.
http://fxbites.blogspot.com/2010/12/blogging-dead-horse.html
Iain Dale’s blog never achieved the popularity it might have done because, unlike this blog, it was necessary to login to post a comment.
You only have to look at Gawker and Wikileaks to know where that information might end up.
Tory Bear and Iain Dale’s blogs die in the same week. Surely time for some new aspiring right-wing bloggers to pick up the torch and give the mighty Guido a run for his money.
Good to see you showing respect for a decent man who will be missed.
Hear, hear
Such a pity that Iain Dale went out with a pleasant whimper on the Toady Programme.
He should have made more of an effort after all this time.
You’ll be delighted to learn that after three wekks I’m now back in the UK and your Kindle feed works throughout Europe and the Canaries. BRAYS DUCKHOUSE BLOG has been coasting whilst I’ve been cruising on the Independence of the Seas, (bloody expensive and very slow to use the marine satellite link – so didn’t) is still with you and will be ramping up the political content. Just wait until the VAT increases bite in January and the Christmas credit card bills arrive, expect acute ‘civil unreast’ by May at the latest. The student riots are nothing as to what is awaiting us all. Time to batten down the hatches and dig out the old tin helmet. As for Mr Dale, it’s a shame he always did make you look good Guido and provided you with some amazing ammunition….
weeks not wekks…. bloody keyboard