The Ease of Opposition
Liam Byrne has popped his head above the parapet this morning to slam Francis Maude as “Britain’s most expensive butcher”. Apparently the government’s promised “Bonfire of the Quangos” has been a damp squib. But what’s this from July 2009?
The Treasury has called for a crackdown on quangos, which are costing taxpayers billions each year.
Liam Byrne, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has written to Whitehall departments demanding an urgent review of all quangos to assess which can be abolished, merged with other bodies or taken back directly into their ministries.
Where’s your axe now Baldemort?
Liam Byrne. Thought that twat would have a least had the decency to shut the fuck up, though decency and politics just don’t sit well together.
Sorry, there is no decency left.
Are you lost? LabourList is five doors down on the right.
These reforms will save nothing, and may even cost more. Plus the service will probably deteriorate. Spin, spin, spin.
Sad, but true.
Five doors down on the extreme left, actually.
Calm down, dear. Take another tranquilliser.
Oh Dear Tat. Please try and take some more of your anti-psychotics and maybe work on the blog you told us would steal Guidos readership away.
I hope “Become Sane” was one of your New Years Resolutions.
Re tat
World of Warcraft’s loss is Guido’s gain.
Chloropromazine is obviously wearing off, may i suggest Haloperidal….
So much easier slagging off other bloggers than being one myself.
Sodium Pentothal would make an interesting change for the gap town nutter.
Nick Clegg in retreat over control orders for terror suspects
Why Did CLEGG cross the road?
Because he said he wouldnt
what a fooking bell end
Tat,
You really have lost it.
P.S. Is Alan Johnson doing a good job as PM(as you “tat is never wrong” predicted)?
You’re not tat, you’re just some random person who in his exact style tries to defend his lunacy after sock-puppeting in exactly his style.
Come on I know you’re correct to be embarrassed to be Tat, but you could at least try to be honest. It might even help your mental recovery.
Surely it’s 5 doors down on the left?
AC1 really is a complete simpleton.
I’m not your little wanking partner Tat you hilariously thick far right loon.
I didn’t run away from this site twice like the coward tat did. I didn’t threaten to shut down Guido’s site like the nutter Tat did and I don’t say cripple spastic innit every other sentence like the fool TaT did.
You really are as mentally retarded as your heroes Bush and Palin.
Now run along before you embarrass yourself any more you witless NeoCon imbecile.
Have you read Lucky Jim? “Olny”, my arse!
Never tire of this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1086162/Gordon-Browns-control-freak-enforcer-cappuccino-soup-instruction-manual-civil-servants.html
Something about this odious little freak which sums up so nicely everything so terrible about the NewLabour Reign of Terror. They have fucked our country.
But he did compromise and push his soup time back to 1:30pm.
Didn’t leave any dosh, either.
Ah but ah but,that was in 2009 ,can’t a twat like him change his mind after all the wind was blowing from the east when he said that,now it’s blowing from the west so he’s allowed to change his mind.
Record breaking £4Trillion deficit that Labour racked up. In 13 years they borrowed huge amounts, taxed heavily (using stealth taxes to hide the amount of tax), sold taxpayer owned assets like the gold reserves, spent record amounts on the benefits system for vote buying, the hidden borrowing of the PFI scam. Steven Timms, and the rest of Labour still deny they f’ed up the UK economy.
Where is all the money that passed through Labour’s fingers? Which Labour MP’s now have Swiss / Cayman Islands bank accounts?
Hello, I’m the head of a union, and I still think that without the public sector, the private sector will collapse. So please all you wealth generating businesses, give us more of your money, the wealth consuming public sector will save the country!
Haven’t the rich suffered enough ??
Speak to me in May 2015 and not before.
2015, you havin’ a laugh?
Hi, I’m Mervyn King, and I colluded with and aided and abetted the biggest financial crime in the World’s history. The UK’s banks and politicians scr*wed billions of taxpayers money so bankers and politicians remain rich, while the little plebs pay for us and forever stay in debt.
They are all in the same scam together. There will be no sackings and there will be no admissions of guilt either. What we have is a ya-boo sideshow to hide each others complicity in a broken system. Labour mainly, broke it and the coalition are not minded to seriously fix it either.
Why plead guilty? Labour did nothing wrong.
“Spending far more than we earned did not cause the deficit,” said Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson yesterday. “Hopefully, by the time I become the real chancellor, I will have finished reading Economics for Dummies and will be able to continue the last Labour government’s utterly insane spending policies,” he added.
The Blairite wing of the reds needs to figure out what it is that they would have done differently before they can call the Kettle black…. Now in fairness to gordy at least he has a leg to stand on [just one mind you]. He did not want a cull of anything.
Will be trending topics on social networks as soon as the masses drag themselves out of their pits, outweighing any messages the conservative party/coalition wants to get across.
Saw a map of twitter influence the other day and its so heavily weighted towards the Guardian, Ch4 News people like Tom Watson its unreal, the Conservative Party needs to engage social networks more, or forever lose their millions of users to a tide of class bashing Tory haters
Nor any money left ! Never forget that smart-arse’s valedictory note
Someone call a taxi ?????
I didn’t created the problem claims Gordon Brown. It was “globalisation” by the New World Order crooks that made Gordon sell the UK’s gold reserves, raise stealth taxes, have the PFI scams, and p1ss money up the benefits wall.
Do you really expect consistency from a Labour politician? Aided and abetted by a willing BBC the Labour Party are rewriting history to expunge any blame from them for the UK’s economic mess and laying it all at the feet of bankers and the world economy.
It’s the Tories’ fault – they either agreed with everything that Gordon Brown did, &/or failed to physically restrain him from throwing the gold reserves into the fire of Mordor.
As far as the state broadcaster is concerned, EVERYTHING is the Tories’ fault. Reminds me of a 70s Latin American President, whose private jet made a very hard landing. When the pilot apologised to him, he replied “Don’t worry – they’ll blame me when they find out who you were flying”…
Byrne has a head shaped like a fat homnasts buttock, eyes like jizz globules and a mouth designed to accommodate all but the hairiest balls…..
Other than that, he’s a laugh a minute….
Those are just my good points.
I’ll have a thick pea soup for lunch – on expenses, of course.
Why are you being so kind to him? He doesn’t look that good …
Plus “he pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity”.
What, before he nicked the money?
“We say Mr Chaytor knew the rules, why else would he produce false documents?”
Ah, but even M.P.’s can make ‘honest mistakes’? Accountancy is not their strongest suit, after all?
Complete and utter b*ll*cks. Sack ‘em all.
I am a silverback gorilla.
The mature ‘Silverback’ Gorilla has an erect penis size of 1.5″ (4cm).
Can anyone beat that?
My stalker / admirer, concrete gump can, by about 2cms.
Give QWERTY his moniker back you feeble Freddie Mercury facial…
Blogging trash is too good a description of this fool.
How many times have you seen it here, ConDems fuck up, and the attacks on Labour start, after all attack is the best form of defence.
Fair point but there’s the overall stench of hypocrisy from all of them. In Ruin, they have more in common with each other than with citizens.
‘A damp squib’ did someone write?.
Just about sums up Cameron and his entire coalition mish mash if nothing else.
It was obvious at the time that it would all end, in not tears, but a pathetic whimper.
Nothing looks surer than a Labour government at the next election and we can put the blame where you like.
I have my own views.
Look at those who engineered through the media the rise of the piece of political PR dross aka as the Shameron.
Look at those who financed this lightweight.
Look at those who were never going to have David Davis, a close friend of the late Alan Clark, as Tory leader.
We have Cameron whose millions come from Eastern European Jewish banking circles and Davis whose grandfather was on the Jarrow march.
Well we have seen the result and I suspect it will have finished off the Tories for some time.
A leader whose family background was a housing estate.
A leader who made his own way up by drive and ability.
A leader who respects freedom, democracy and who would undoubtedly done away with the Human rights monstrosity as promised. A leader who would have held the promised referendum on the Eu.
A leader with the credibilty and background to have put through any cuts.
The leader we were not allowed to have – again!.
Shades of Enoch perhaps?
Perhaps Burne and Harman can go on a tour together for Labour and explain why it was funny to write a note saying “there’s no money left” and she can explain contemplation suites…. They can then see how many people find it funny – it can finish with their leader trying to convince us again that the financial crisis had nothing to do with Labour.
Hatesmen can explain how all wimmin shortlists have improved the quality of Parliamentary representation, and how her wife Jack’s (s)election has improved the gender balance i the Commons…
This is real barrel scraping even for you guido. The ALB review was begun under Labour as you point out, but totally changed by the new administration with their ‘bonfire’.
Unfortunately the knee jerk decisions taken to coincide with the needless ‘emergency’ budget have only come to highlight the cack handed and poorly thought out way ministers currently operate.
It emerged in court that the former MP is facing a large bill for both his defence and the costs of bringing the prosecution against him.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hVtVFF_Zqkk9GGGQLR51xC5_L8Pw?docId=N0020881294369000469A
David Chaytor, 61, submitted bogus invoices to support claims totalling £22,650 for IT consultancy work and renting homes in London and his Bury North constituency.
http://www.hebdenbridgetimes.co.uk/news/national/chaytor_submitted_bogus_invoices_1_2907936
Fawkes reckons he’ll cop 2 years, i reckon he’ll cop 2 years – but it will be suspended…
He’s going to be sentenced at 2.15
Just hang him and be done with it !!!!!
He’ll try and claim it against expenses …
Is Mr Chaytor a top or a bottom? Doesn’t matter, I’ll find out soon enough. Tell him not to bother bringing lube.
Deficit, what deficit?
Gordon Brown is reported to be still alive. Fucking tragic news.
After my triumph on Radio 2 yesterday, my next media appointment will be on Doncaster Hospital radio
Don’t.
Some of those patients have already suffered enough.
David Chaytor is awaiting sentencing. There’s no word yet as to Lord Ashcroft’s possible involvement.
Joey Jones says sentencing is at 2.15. I bet the c unt gets off with a suspended sentence.
Suspened from a lampost i hope !
+1
Even the WatO news is doing a demolition job on Chaytor. Suspect that he’ll be doing porridge – but probably not that long (early parole a dead cert IMO).
Bryne is c-unt and a massive one at that !
Quangos are only there to pass the blame to from ministers , Before when a minister fucked up they resigned ………………..Now they just blame someone else.
They seem determined to ruin our canal network. British Waterways has no idea how to run canals as they are so devoted to running their property development business.
Take away the assumed development planning rights from BW. Just leave them the right of replacement and rebuild. Let democracy get in the way, and allow the normal council planning process to run its course.
The green strips and canal breaks in our cities are a wonderful resource.
As for British Waterways Marinas Limited, I suggest they destroy it. It is many levels of management that does not need to exists to manage marinas that are far better run on an individual basis.
Then they might concentrate on actually running the canals for all the people, not for their bonuses.
In which case I assume the civil service dusted down their reponse to Baldemort’s request and presented it to the ConDems as a plan ?
Politicians love quangos. They are a protective layer from the press and public and thanks to FOI a free source of research material. Why would anyone in their right mind be serious about abolishing them ?