Did Pesto Passo?
Since the new year it has become clear that Ed Miliband has upped his media game. Despite the obvious flaws in the Son of Brown, Bob Roberts and Tom Baldwin have begun the long process of shaping a message. You could say the two hacks have taken to their jobs much quicker than their boss, with Baldwin crafting lines in the back-room, leaving it to Bob to prowl the corridors and slap backs. However was this double act really Miliband’s first choice?
“Sky sources” work two ways and Guido hears Jon Craig, who wasn’t the happiest bunny at Sky last year, was talking to Team Ed but the idea fizzled out. More intriguing was the suggestion that “Mr. Exclusive“, and Darling favourite, Robert Peston had been approached. Guido spoke to Pesto earlier and despite adamant sources, he laughed heartily at the suggestion. “Of course I’ve not been in bloody talks with them.” But then he’d have to say that, wouldn’t he?
“Despite the obvious flaws in the Son of Brown, Bob Roberts and Tom Baldwin have begun the long process of shaping a message.”
Good at turd-polishing, are they?
And for their next trick, they’ll nail jelly to the ceiling.
Did we make any mistekes?
That’s right and Sky Sports Dan Lobb is being considered as a replacement for Andy Coulson.
I spoke to Lobb earlier and despite adamant sources, he laughed heartily at the suggestion. “Of course I’ve not been in bloody talks with them.” But then he’d have to say that, wouldn’t he?
Is anyone stupid enough to believe this horseshit?
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!
Labour should learn from their mistakes. They put in a lot of effort, time and money trying to polish Gordon and look where that got them. And now they are trying to do the same with his son.
As soon as they realised that Gordon was a shite leader they should have dumped him and the same goes for Ed. What’s so wrong in telling someone that he ain’t suitable for the job afterall and replacing him with someone that is? Companies and organisations do it everyday.
I’ve always believed that if something smells wrong, it is wrong.
Leaving Brown in charge of Labour was like screaming “WE WANT TO LOSE”, like they were trying to fuck up so badly that the Tory coalition would find it virtually impossible to enact the necessary cuts without mass violence.
Channel 5′s Showbiz reporter and weathergirl Lara Lewington was being lined up to lead Team Nick Clegg’s media operation.
I spoke to Lara earlier and despite adamant sources, she laughed heartily at the suggestion. “Of course I’ve not been in bloody talks with them.” But then she’d have to say that, wouldn’t he?
‘We would like to issue our sincerest gratitude to the Trade Unions for electing Ed Miliband as the labour party Leader.’
Origami is the only sort of reshaping that they can do that has any credibility, after all what else can you do with a blank sheet of paper.
Why do these commie bastards always want to take us back to year zero FFS?
Ah Peston, one of the more famous “common purpose” graduates.
If Ed Miliband upped his team, you can rely on Andrew Neil to peg them back. He introduced Ed’s PPS in today’s Daily Politics (17/1) as “Chief envelope licker”. Andrew sure has a way with words that hit the spot.
They are trying to position the son of a marxist as the caring saviour of the middle classes. Yeah, and broon saved the world…
Pith off you counter-revolutionary barftad.
and Cameron is not a turd?
Make that son of a MILLIONAIRE Marxist.
It must have been a special form of Marxism.
The idea of key workers having an over-abundance of worldly goods is a Marxist core value. cf Stalin,Pol Pot Kim Il Jung, James Callaghan, Tony Blair. It is a measure of gordon’s general ineffectiveness that he is only relatively well off.
Correction, Millionaire, marxist, conscientious objector when it came to defending the country -the UK – that allowed him to come here as an illegal.
Has Pesto got a source?
H.P.
The whole country is on H.P.
{se previous post on debt bomb}e
Well, it is brown….
I’m not on HP; when they sacked their British staff and exported the jobs, I switched to other brands. Branston’s brown sauce is very good.
Tickfords mate.
Phookin ell that’s me Ford!
Skunkie means Tiptons!!!
Has Marr poopa scooped him?
Wish someone would, because they would do us us all a favour and get him off the airwaves.
The BBC put him on the airwaves before he’d even learnt to talk proper. WTF was that all about?
He’ll soon be flipping Bildeburgers again.
Locating the source of DeNile.
“back-room Baldwin crafting lines”
Chuckle.
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‘Since the new year it has become clear that Ed Miliband has upped his media game.’
As clear as Mud Guido. Didn’t you see him on the telly yesterday? When he is away from his two minders he reverts to form.
Poor Ed.
That’s what you get if you elect your leader by the last past the post system.
Its the taking part that counts, and isn’t it just so uplifting when the asthmatic fat boy manages to win the race against all the odds, that’s Hollywood.
I see Andy Burnham is busy positioning himself to take over as Leader of the Liebour Party – he’s defo looking to stab Gollom at the opportune moment.
And Balls and Mrs Balls.
Burnham does not stand a chance but what of Ed’s brother, has he given up the fight and taken up football or has he got a cunning plan to recover his birthright?
He who pays the piper etc.
Upping his game? No, just because Buzz Lightweight is sticking his face in front of the cameras more, doesn’t mean to say that he is actually making any progress. Quite the reverse in fact – it’s just the same old lefty drivel from this complete hoon, and the more he appears, the more people will see him for what he is; a complete waste of space. I believe it is called the law of diminishing returns.
+1 The Guardian’s website had an interview with him yesterday in which he said Labour lost because the public were rightly sick of its “state knows best” hectoring, He then went on to say (without a hint of irony) that society wouldn’t function without Labour values.
The man’s a complete and utter imbecile.
He’s got enough sense to avoid matrimony.
+ 10
@ 53 Tessa Tickles describes EdMilli as “a complete and utter imbecile.”
You may wish to revise your description Tessa after reading this extract from the Andrew Marr show yesterday:-
AM~ Do you accept that before the crisis Labour was spending too much?
EdMilli~ No I don’t.
The whole interview can be seen this week on BBC iPlayer.
Why would they hire him – he’s a mouthpiece for the Labour Party where he is and the BBC are paying him (meaning we the taxpayers)
In fairness, on his blog, he has often good stuff about the Euro and bank bonuses and so on, that rarely makes it onto the BBC news.
Agree.
A very good point. This is one of the very few examples of Labour making a cost saving.
It appears Peston has ‘c*ntdar’.
Pesto on of a Labour peer, Moll flanders ‘friend’ of Ed Balls and Red Ed. Nothing like impartiality at Al Beeb.
All this media profile really just makes it much clearer that Miliband does not have a great deal to say. Meanwhile everytime Alan Jonhson opens his mouth you get a clearer picture of why is career was in mail delivery and not finance and economics
How on earth did he ever cope with the complex house numbering systems of odd numbers on one side of the street and evens on the other?
Why d’ya think I left Royal Mail ?
His job might have been the honourable one of postie, but his career was in the murky smoke-filled back rooms of union politics.
Whose idea was it for Redski Edski to prance about with his jacket off at one of those “meet the public” events? He looked like he was about to address a conference of double glazing salesmen.
No, not double-glazing salesmen – Liebour supporters. Much, much easier.
It was straight out of the David Brent book of motivational speaking.
Yep I heard that exchange between Eddie Mair and Pesto live. Although Eddie tried to make light of it I could feel the animosity between the two coming out of the radio speakers. That is a side of Pesto I had never realised before.
with back-room Baldwin crafting lines
Forget “crafting lines” more like “doing lines”
Tom is one of my best punters
Pair of losers. They must have been desperate to take the job on. Dress it up how you may, bullshit is still bullshit. Crap is still crap. Garbage remains garbage. Milliband is and always will be a nasty charmless vicious little Trot of the thuggish variety.
We’ll put you down as a don’t know then?
Thuggish? Ed? He’s about as threatening as Charles Hawtrey.
Oooohhhh Matron….far less than that!
In his own way pesto is sometimes as difficult to understand as Presclott.
David Miliband is conspicuous by his absence…..wonder what he’s been up to.
We are considering a number of job offers he has asked us to make to him…
Monkey Tennis?
Isn’t he a football guru now ??
When Call Me Dave was thinking about offering Milipede I a post in Washington, it was probably as a street cleaner in County Durham.
I had read that he was involved with a club somewhere. Perhaps he wants to get out of politics altogether…..or perhaps this is all a diversion….
It was game of two halves
Still opening Supermarkets last I heard, not that I pay any attention to anyone from that family.
He’d be present at a letter opening if someone bungs him a few bob!
When you think of Peston (why isn’t he in jail) you realise that he probably wouldn’t know he had been approached. He is a perfect example of how truly awful New Labour and its cronies are.
Upped his media game? You mean relying on Labours numerous media cronies at BBC and Sky to spout the usual “Tories are baby-eaters” sound bites and left buzz-word bingo?
The massive advantage that Labour have had over the Tories for many years, is communication, not because many Labour front benchers (except Blair) have been any good at it, but because their media friends are! Left-wing politics relies on very simple messages and the likes of the BBC can deliver that to great effect, especially when demonising the Tories. What we are seeing is the established long-term Labour communication strategy, the blueprint for which was established many years ago, and put to great effect in the 80′s, 90′s.
“Left-wing politics relies on very simple messages”
This is exactly why, after 13 years, the Tories are still struggling to de-contaminate their image.
They would have done the Soviet Union proud.
Many of their political forebears did.
Red Ed’s grandfather fought for the Red Army in Poland in 1919.
Imagine the fuss the media would have made if they had found out that Cameron’s granddad was fighting in Spain for Franco.
I was actually Ed’s
tirdthird choice.What is the message Laurel & Hardy are trying to shape? Red ‘Ed is a bigger lunatic than Brown? Other than denying the previous governments failures, there is no message coming from Red Ed and his arse bandits.
Bob Roberts and Tom Baldwin are wasting their time..you can’t polish a turd.
I’ve said it once and I vill say it again… Red’s team is trying to get the media to “move on” from any discussion of the disasterous financial mess the snotmongster got us into. Of course, they are pushing at an open door with the beeb…
Surely not??
Don’t call me Shirley…
Tough to see how that works seeing as he is studying the forms of both Gormless Bruin and Kinochio to present himself as a true Labour leader?
Surely if you wish to distance yourself from the past you don’t emulate it?
I nearly turned my nose up at the job. Ed said it was an opportunity not to be sniffed at.
does this mean because ed cant think for himself unelected juornalists would be running the country if he got in ,spinning by either party should be illegal
Shut it !
Moron, you really are a sad bastard. The Yanks are welcome to you.
He makes my top ten ‘wankers’ list. Brown still top
Celia Walden’s got bingo wings.
Uhura’s got class, Morgan, you waft of fart miasma….! You’re not fit to clean her funky boots….
Beat meat up Scotty…
At the risk of being seen as a Trecky (I am relying here on the knowledge of a mini-Janus) she was actually Commander Uhura. Consequently, if you have any intention of entering her underwear, you are not likely to succeed by reducing her in rank.
She was a lootnant to begin wiv.
She could beam Skunkie up anytime, he’s at her command!
*drools*
She’s about 96 years old now, isn’t she?
Correction: 79.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629667/
Oh dear….!
nuqDaq ‘oH puchpa”e’ ?
Ed’s pisspoor media team are as short of new ideas as their pop-eyed charge.
They spend all their time trawling through Dave’s speeches and witty ripostes and handing them to Ed to read out. They are deluded enough to imagine that if it worked for Dave it’ll also work for Ed. Its like asking Norman Wisdom to read King Lear and expecting him to sound like John Gielgud just because the words are the same.
If they’ve got no original thoughts and phrases its unlikely they’ll ever come up with any ground-breaking policies.
Yep, that’s a good analogy.
The ‘let’s take my jacket off’ bit is a dead give away.
In order to know where you are going, you first have to know from where you have come. Ed’s denial of the past will always incorrectly shape any of his policies. He can but be only a caretaker.
I prefer, “squatter”.
I thay “thquater”. I thay that ath I deny the defithit.
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Regards,
Tom
To qote Guido : ‘Pesto said “Of course I’ve not been in bloody talks with them.” ‘
Can’t believe that. I have never heard Pesto say anything in a precise manner.
I’ve heard more intelligible output from call a centre in Mumbai.
Hello…please
Hello pleses, you k’now, wot I am saying is, if it was (but we don’t know that), anyway Marr is nothing but a Hunt and my daddy is a Labour Peer, you K’now.
I hope you’ll visit him regularly after the court case.
Ed who ?
Oh come off it Prime Minister!!
Wasn’t there a post on here about son of Labour Peer, Pesto joining CCHQ?
I would not trust Robert Peston with my Sony Playstation or trust him with other things such as pillowcases
Ed Miliband is the non-thinking man’s David Miliband.
I’ve got my party back !!
We’re awwwiiggght !!! We’re aawwwiiiggggghhht !!!
You did your best to drown the wife in 3 inches of seawater and on camera, you can’t be all bad.
Class!
{Sorry Lord Kinnockio..I meant classy comment, not class war}
You sayin’ I’m fick, or summink?
Uhm, I’m too polite to say, but..
http://bit.ly/f2Ohqv
One trillion of the debt counter now.
But debt is good I read earlier from some phookin knobjockey.
No debt, no economy for phooks sake.
We is all gettin confused wiv da deficit. Which is bad. I fink
Yeah skunkie’s conphused alright!!
and Jay Blanc was talking through his ano!
Ow was Pesto pisto?
o/t
A Scotch footballer has been charged with rape.
His name is David Goodwillie.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/221246-united-player-david-goodwillie-charged-with-rape/
Reminds me of the story of a rapist from a Christian compound on the Pitcairn Islands called Randy Christian.
Wine + keyboard. Thanks!
I’ll wager that’s not the only liquid that gets spilled over your keyboard young lady.
I sneeze on it occasionally.
eeeewwwwwwww.
Thank God for anti-bacterial wipes. They kill 99.9% of germs.
I’m a bit worried about the 0.1% they don’t kill, to be honest.
Do I have a good willie?
Sarah’s new book, “Behind the Brown Door” will doubtless be a warts ‘n’ all expose.
Bob Roberts? Wasn’t that a film with Tim Robbins playing a Republican?
Today I am Spartacus.
and so is his wife.
No that’s just the beard.
I’m green with envy
I’m just green.
Lord Taylor had lied on the forms by saying he had a main place of residence in Oxford, by making the claims for night subsistence, and for claiming travelling expenses for journeys he never undertook, Guido Fawkes Q.C said.
“The only real issue in this case is Lord Taylor’s state of mind when he submitted these forms,” he added.
“Did he know that they may be false, deceptive or misleading in a significant way?
“Was he acting dishonestly when he submitted them? Was he intending to make a financial gain?
“We say he must have known the forms were false, deceptive and misleading. He must have known that to do so was dishonest and that he would get money in return for submitting the forms.”
As a last resort fall back on the old faithfuls, Aspergers or Bipolar Disorder.
Why didn’t anyone tell El Gordo to do this? He could have cleaned up!
Number of articles on Illsely by now, into double figures.
Number of articles on Conservative Lord Taylor, 1.
Debts gone over a trillion! Debts gone over a trillion!
It’s probably heading towards £5trillion when you add the PFI and unfunded public sector pensions.
Don’t worry, Dave’s added another £30 million to it.. no need to panic!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8263528/The-Equality-Duty-has-no-worthwhile-purpose.html
…..and that’s just the bits they admit to. Add in all the PFI and other off-balance-sheet bits and bats, and it’s a lot more than that. Then there are forward liabilities for public sector pensions, contingent liabilities for Network Rail, and taxpayers’ money committed to the bank bailouts (some of which we might get back). Tot that little lot up, and you’ll probably find that we’re a bit skint.
Surely skint is when you have 0.00 in your pocket. We’re in quееr street that’s where we are.
COULSON COULSON COULSON COULSON
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8264485/Lord-Taylors-expenses-claims-were-false-deceptive-and-misleading.html
“You cannot make a silk purse out of a Sow’s ear”
-perhaps not, but you can put lipstick on a pig…
“We say he must have known the forms were false, deceptive and misleading. He must have known that to do so was dishonest and that he would get money in return for submitting the forms.”
Of course he knew! The question is, when is his court case?
The drastic Tory cuts have so far yielded a spend 7% up on this time last year. according to treasury figures as analysed by John Redwood in his blog.
Do you want me to come back?
NNNOOOOOOOOO!
About 60 on-subject posts so far, with only 11 appearances of:
Soviet Union
marxist
marxism
trot
red
redski.
A little more effort, please.
Surely he said:
‘Of co-ourSE I’ve NO-t beeN in Bloody ta-a(whistle)lks wITH them.
Yeah, but you would say that wouldn’t you.
Isn’t Tunisia where they filmed parts of Star Wars?
No. It’s where they put fish in tins.
I thought that was Sardinia…
Was this in your stocking on Christmas morn, Eng?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubbish-Jokes-Really-joke-books/dp/1842293664/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1295295005&sr=8-2
Oh well. Can’t please all of the people all of the time….
They filmed Monty Python’s Life of Brian there.
You are thinking of Matmata on the Algerian border, where the Troglodytes live. And, yes, Start Wars scenes were filmed there.
Tatooine is Tunisia.
Pesto’s pass might have been salary-related. He’s currently happily sucking the public teat, and a move to the somewhat impecunious Labour party might not have conferred a pay-rise….
Then again Eng, peston may just have a finely tuned sense of survival and knows that it would do his career no good in the long term to join his fortunes to an opposition labour leader who hasn’t got a chance in hell of ever becoming pm.
Mr Peston might have his eye on a much more lucrative position – like the HoL.
Well his over-deleveloped sense of entitlement and his ego might but I doubt he’s going to make a leap to the HoL under this government!
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought both parties could nominate people for the Houses, albeit a reduced number for the opposition parties.
True. But isn’t cleggie just about to bring forward a modernising bill for the HoL that will do away with patronage appointments and introduce senatorial seats by election?!
I do hope so!!
FFS Pesto ain’t going to throw away a lucrative, rewarding and powerful career by taking on a mediocre job as Ed Miliband’s propaganda adviser.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347734/Ed-Miliband-gets-advice-Labour-losers-Gordon-Brown-Neil-Kinnock.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Apparently edmilitwit has decided that he needs kinnochio and gordon as his mentors to help him win the next election
I bet labour mp’s don’t know whether to laugh or cry at his ineptitude for the job.
Oh, bring it on, Ed! Nice to see you fall at the first hurdle.
Oh I don’t know…… perhaps he is finding out what not to do
Well they’ll both be able to give him loads of pointers on that score.
But if he’s taking their ‘how not to do it lessons’ on board, why on earth has he gone and hired his very own damian and campbell?!
Perhaps Ed thinks it’s better the devil you know…..
Who has cast iron advising him,Ricky Gervais or Noddy or the Liebour party.
It begs the question doesn’t it, why do the political classes, regardless of their politics, keep employing these unsavoury, backstabbing, damian, cameron type characters, that the public hate??
Am I the only one enraged by the actions of the Labour Lords in trying to destroy a bill passed in the House of Commons by staging a go slow?
Lords are supposed to fine tune bills and nit pick not wreck them.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1b51a3b2-2270-11e0-b6a2-00144feab49a.html#axzz1BKKxSgQg
This current revolt by labour lords is all to do with the AV referendum bill.
One wonders what they are going to do when faced with the HoL Reform Bill that will make them fight an election for their seats and turn them into senators.
No more Lord prezza or sugar no more Baroness Uddin and the rest…………..
If most of those doddery old gits go any slower they’ll be declared clinically dead…
prezza and sugar will be offended to be referred to as ‘slow doddery old gits’
But you are spot on !!!
Lord Steele was interviewed earlier on the PM programme, and made the same point. He also mentioned that many long-serving Lords were rather sniffy about the somewhat uncouth practices brought to the chamber by recent members appointed from the Commons – “Practices that may be appropriate in the Lower Chamber, but…”