Gordon’s Bankroller Spins for Dave
Sir Ronnie “PFI” Cohen donated £1.8 million to Labour in the past and bankrolled Gordon’s ascendency to the top. Regular readers will remember that at one time the venture capitalist had a direct debit paying £20,000 a month to the party. He pretty much owned Gordon Brown.
Bad news for Ed Miliband then, as it seems this once loyal party donor has drifted away. Guido was most surprised to see Ronnie pop up on BBC 4′s “Justice: Fairness and the Big Society” as an audience member, quick to spin for Cameron:
“The gap between rich and poor is getting bigger. Those left behind find it extremely difficult to rise out of poverty. The government hasn’t been able to do anything much about that even though it’s cost an absolute fortune for decades… I think what the Big Society really means is that space between government and the private sector, which needs to deal with social issues in a professional way. And Cameron has said that every penny out of the hundreds of millions of pounds that are unclaimed assets in bank accounts will got to create a Big Society bank, who’s role will be to empower those who want to help others.”
Watch here from exactly 40 minutes in.
If the Tories hadn’t made enough of a mess from dodgy non-domiciled donors it would be worth trying to turn Ronnie…
They are all fucking socailists and EU arse lickers !
Sounds more like a pitch for more Privatisation – PFI 2?
Theres no money left.
“create a Big Society bank, who’s role will be to empower those who want to help others.”
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid. It will be a disaster at best.
Just what the world needs. Another bank.
It would probably do more good just to divvy up the money equally amongst the UK population.
Big Society is just another name for communism innit?
So CCHQ’s.. sorry, your Spin on this is that Cameron is delighted a PFI briber has switched support from Brown to Dave because he knows who controls the contracts and pursestrings now ???
That IS a triumph for Cameron.
Well, sack more public servants and replace them with private ones.It’s already been done for Care Homes.
The service will probably be worse but who cares (in Westminster at least)
There is no such thing as the Maf.. eeeer, Israel lobby.
Gordon’s beyond the CRASH has sold 11,500 copies in the UK. Another good reason to scrap public libraries, plastic Universities and the BBC.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/226255/That-s-rich-Gordon-Brown-makes-250-000-in-just-three-months/
Think of the poor trees that have had to have Gordons bullshit written over them …….
Think of the poor mongs that have had nothing to do but write about Gordons bullshit book …….
….and the desperately sad mental pygmys that have had nothing to do but write about the poor mongs that have had nothing to but write about Gordon’s bullsshit book
you are being mocked us usual old codger
do not be alarmed
Is that all?
He’s no Jackie Collins, is he.
So Gordon has earned more than £250,000 over the last three months while he has been absent from parliament and he still has the cheek to accept an MP’s salary.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/226255/That-s-rich-Gordon-Brown-makes-250-000-in-just-three-months/
And Blair managed to sell how many in the same time?
What about Mandy and Campbell? How many copies did their books sell?
As mentioned beneath a previous post, Brown’s meisterwerk is currently being offered at 50% off over at Amazon. After less than two months on the shelves.
Has anyone seen a copy in a charity shop yet?
Inflicting Brown’s thoughts on mongs? Not even someone with the combined nastiness of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Hattie Harman would be that cruel.
My vote goes to whoever is giving out the most peerages.
So you can sit along side the other Hebrews who have bought their peerages
Ronnie, you’ve betrayed me. I see you’re just another bigot. Where’s my Nokia?
He’s just trying to make a crust by always backing the winning pony……. honest gov. Fuck politics.
Bow down before me. I am your leader. I saved the world, the galaxy and the universe. Isn’t that right, Mr Ploppy?
…And Cameron has said that every penny out of the hundreds of millions of pounds that are unclaimed assets in bank accounts… Fuck me! IT’S NOT THEIR FUCKING MONEY! It belongs to someone else, who may at any time turn up and claim it. More Statist theft.
“Fuck me! IT’S NOT THEIR FUCKING MONEY”
It’s never stoppd the thieving gets before.
So if I leave a fiver on my sideboard too long they’ll be after that as well?
Get your thieving hands of our money !!
Within a few years the government will legally own master keys to our houses, they’ll pop in once a month to snoop around for loose change down the back of the sofa, check the pockets in the old jackets you keep in the wardrobe, any old euros you’ve got in a jam-jar.
Before they scoot, they’ll charge you £10 for taking up their time.
What makes you think they’ll let you have a house?
+VAT?
‘…every penny out of the hundreds of millions of pounds that are unclaimed assets in bank accounts will go to create a Big Society bank, whose role will be to empower those who want to help others…’
i.e. will be paid out in salaries to those working for said bank …
Where the money goes, the vote will follow …
Nothing but political grandstanding for the simpletons. Brown mooted this at one point. Even he dropped it fairly quickly.
I suspect that once the mandarins have sat Dave down and explained exactly what the word “theft” means it’ll be quietly kicked into the long grass, never to be mentioned again. At least not until some new tit gets to play with the train set that is UK plc.
Dave is a politicion. As such, “theft” is an abstract concept which is meaningless.
Politician
There is such a thing as going too far, even for a shameless lying Richard III. As I say, Even Brown/Blair dropped this idea very quickly.
One can only susoect it was after someone informed them that even parliament cannot legalise theft so blatant.
Personally I’d be looking around to see what other nefarious ideas are leaking out of the cesspit. This is too stupid an idea for even politicians – it’s a smoke screen for something else.
Mr Cohen, pleathe come back to Labour. We dethperately need your money. We’ll do anything you want. Pleath!
Suck my circumcised cock.
There can be no ‘space’ between government and the private sector, whatever that concept might mean, so long as one has a hyperactive governing class who want to micro-manage and stick their noses in everywhere. Government needs to wean itself off the idea that people who have never run anything can run everything. Let us have less legislation, fewer quangos, a general cull of public administration and the repeal of all regulations that no longer have any purpose except to keep people in a job administering them. (Yet on the odd occasion when we actually need a government to do something (e.g. regulating banks) it is insouciant and idle).
Belgium hasn’t had a government since last June, yet they have pootled on quite successfully without one.
‘Tea Party’ ideas will never gain any traction in Marxist Britain………fact.
It’s actually fascist Britain, though as fascism is just another strain of socialism ( minus class war ) it’s close enough.
We can all dream Sir W…..
Willie is completely correct, of course. One rider I would add, is that the reduction in public administration can not be left to the town hall wallahs – their plan for Dorset consists of closing all of the (excellent) public libraries ….and building a bloody enormous new ‘central administration building’ at vast expense.
Wealden District Council also has grandiose ideas about t a new building costing £6m+. Strange, isn’t it, how they all scream about cutting services to schools and old people’s homes and yet find other ways of wasting eye-watering sums of cash. However, some of us keep our eyes open and will relish the opportunity to show our appreciation for their selfless acts when we vote at the next local election….
The nefarious “dorset community action” a supposedly independant charitable body which is actually funded by Dorset County Council and West Dorset District Council is used as an unaccountable body which “advises” the Councils Finance Committee where public money should be spent. Hence we have public libraries closing and enormous barns of village halls springing up, largely unused except by the advocates of the “Big Society” including our MP Oliver Letwin. When challenged, the Councils stock reply is “we didn’t make the decision, dca did”
If Cameron is to put these retired busybodies in charge then yes, be very afraid.
Belgium has had a government since June. There’s just been no political control of it. Nor has there been any political oversight by the elected representatives of the people.
It’s another very good example of why the political leadership of the executive and the legislature should be two distinct entities elected completely separately.
It’s also a good example of a corrupt shithole.
Which is why senile old twats love it there.
And penguins
+++Applause+++
I wonder why Belgium is doing so well ?
Time for some more cash for the EU from all you silly countries.
I also feel another EU bailout coming on. Wallets out if you don’t mind.
Escalating micro-management and general meddling in matters none of their business has to be a result of the spineless wimps no longer being masters in their own house. They’re desperate to be seen as busy legislators rather than talking puppets.
“I think what the Big Society really means is..”
Right, so he hasn’t a clue what “Big Society” is, either? I’m glad it’s not just me.
Are you suggesting it is a fatuous headline that implies much but describes nothing, adopted by the Conservatives to sound compassionate and concerned ?
That’s one possibility. I think an advisor was playing a joke on Cameron to test how gullible he is. “Let’s give DC this really shit idea, an obviously shit idea, and see if he realises we’re taking the piss.”
That advisor was Steve ‘Blue Sky’ Hilton. He gives the distinct impression of being away with the fairies.
Nothing new there then.
Away with the fairies? You mean he’s got a job at the BBC?
Now that poor Andy has had to run off I’m the Boss.
Expect Dave to be doing far more of my marvellous ideas now.
Actually, Cameron’s the boss. Perhaps your new ideas might recognise the overall priority of sorting out the enormous economic mess the country’s in. Leave the happy-clappy stuff until we can pay the bills.
“As someone who is liberal on social issues and civil liberties, I accept that in government we were too draconian on aspects of our civil liberties. We have to have to be able to say we won’t go back to ID cards. Stop and search went too far.”
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/6796/
Ted’s Voting record: Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/edward_miliband/doncaster_north
“If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.”
Which part of that is now not applicable?
The second bit.
Who was it who said ” Goverment is the problem not the solutuion ” ?
The Clangers?
You win a signed copy of ” Beyond the crash” by Gordon Brown.
Can you afford the postage to Neptunes second moon though Billy?
Winner has to collect
What’s the weather like in NZ this time of year?
Pretty much everybody. Except politicians, of course.
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http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Gordon-Brown-at-book-talk.6707966.jp
ppl are paying to watch the twat stutter????
It’s Jockland, what do you expect?
He’d have got a bigger crowd if he put up a sign saying “free buckfast”.
As to why anyone other than pissheads would want to free that stuff from the bottle is beyond me. Still, its a great way to get some of the Barnett Formula money back from the Celts.
Ascendancy should be a term well known in Ireland……maybe with Brian Cowan gone they will be able to spell it Guido !
Gordon Brown Beyond the Crash
Thursday 17TH February, 7pm (Doors 6:45pm)
GEORGE SQUARE THEATRE, EDINBURGH, EH8 9LJ
Tickets: £4
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/editorial/shops/instore_events.jsp
Pls go along and give him our best wishes, together with advice on what to do with himself now.
“We are sorry to announce that the event this Thursday (9th December) Beyond the Crash: An evening of discussion of the new book by Gordon Brown has been cancelled due to parliamentary business. “
He bottled it.
Agreed – seeing as he doesn’t attend from one week to the next.
All parties want to tax us into the penury. Lets make a stand!
We are hitting £129.9 a litre in some areas now and soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 per litre.
This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the ‘don’t buy petrol on a certain day campaign’ that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn’t continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.
Please read it and join in!
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS – not sellers control the market place. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here’s the idea:
For the rest of this year DON’T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one) i.e. ESSO and BP.
If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers. It’s really simple to do!!
Wrong target, the government tax take is what makes petrol expensive. The green taxes and subsidy for ‘green’ energy, will send your heating and light bills through the roof next. If you want green government, be prepared to pay through the nose for it, or go without.
+1
+2. The government takes 80p a litre, having added VAT on top of fuel duty.
“Sir Ronnie “PFI” Cohen donated £1.8 million to Labour in the past and bankrolled Gordon’s ascendency to the top.”
Well, that was money well spent then, wasn’t it? With judgement like that he’s obviously incapable of spotting a complete and utter loser.
We know who to fucking blame now. We can’t really blame McSnot, being the total fruitloop that he is and therefore not really responsible for his actions.
Which is why he’s now backing Cameron.
He will be in the same company as all the deluded Tory voters.
No – I think he’s just spotted the next one to back !
O/T
Am I right in thinking that the sportsman who’s got the latest gagging order is John Terry?
The case certainly brings a new meaning to the word sportsman.
The argument seems to be that because he sought a super injunction before but this was leaked he now needs it even more.
I honestly find it truly amazing that some petty professional footballer, who in my day would be lucky to buy two packets of woodbines and a pint of beer, can now afford to use the legal system to cover up his social activities by going to the high court.
It probably is terry, and he’s an overpaid cun’t anyway, so what more do we need to know??
Has he been shagging Tevez’ missis?
Cohen’s hedging his bets – just as the various consultancies which are handing out jobs to former Labour ministers are.
I would be surprised if the KPMGs of this world don’t have a talent-spotter looking for up and coming people in both parties to offer consultancy roles to.
Sir Ronnie “PFI” Cohen is a parasite, leaching from one host to the next.
He is an oxygen thief of the first order & I look forward to his trial for the heinous crime of inflicting McStalin upon the English.
Ronnie Cohen is looking after his own. If it costs him, then so be it – he can well afford it.
How many wouldn’t do the same thing if it were us?
Perhaps Sir Ronnie is after the post of CEO at the Big Society bank? Lot’s of stolen loot to plunder.
Apparently Cohen’s leeching behaviour is perfectly acceptable in the elite circles he mixes. It’s only the poor who get labels attached and labelled criminal for doing anything remotely similar
Business is business if he can grease political palms to help him get business, just as what happens in the rest of the world,then I don’t see anything wrong,blame the corrupt politicians and the just as corrupt uncivil service for not looking after taxpayers money.
Your usual insight, balance & calibration is somewhat askew on this one.
30,000 members of the political elite in this country now – 30,000 parasites.
Its not just the 646 – I fear when we begin to walk like Egyptians we will run out of lamp posts and piano wire.
I don’t regard MY money in MY rainy-day bank account as being there for use by the State merely because I haven’t made a credit/debit transaction recently.
“With judgement like that he’s obviously incapable of spotting a complete and utter loser”
It’s not whether Gordon Brown won that’s important. It’s whether HE won.
“Cohen was chairman of Apax at the time of the Apax owned British United Shoe Machinery pension collapse which left 544 workers, many of them long service, without any pension. Collapse followed demerger from USM-Texon and asset transfer between the companies. Pension funds were transferred to the new BUSM scheme two weeks before receivership, and 4 days before a new revaluation was due. MPs Edward Garnier, Patricia Hewitt and Ashok Kumar all called for a proper enquiry, Garnier citing the “mysterious circumstances” under which the pensions “disappeared”, whilst Hewitt said “it is clearly important that such serious allegations are properly investigated.” No new investigation took place leading Kumar to say “I think these people needed flogging. I feel so angry on behalf of decent upright citizens robbed of their basic human rights. …’These are greedy, selfish, capitalists who live on the backs of others.”"
He’s also chairman of something called The Commission on Unclaimed Assets.
I hope that doesn’t operate on the same principle as the village jumble sale, where the people who run it get first dibs at the good stuff.
Wouldn’t mind betting it is, though.
Do I take it that you are making the point that immorality runs through society, it’s just the size of the theft that is different? Not many people have the intellectual honesty to accept that.
It is, though, isn’t it.
How many of us have taken an elastic band from the office to hold papers together to take home? Even that is theft, but it is accepted becuse it is an item of insignificance.
Guido
Good to see our old friend Ronnie back from his champagne parties in Monte Carlo
You are right to call his “PFI”
With the appalling figures now coming out of just how much the taxpayer has been saddled with under these scheme
Can we have a list of the PFI “providers”
Google?
Wikipedea?
No, a good bit of investigative journalism followed by pieces in all the tabloids should do the trick..
I can’t do you a list of providers, but I can make you gasp (if you haven’t already) – according to Saturday’s DT the total PFI bill so far is £299bn for work that should have cost £59bn. Bargain!!
Well done McBust and Balls. When you screw things up, you sure know how to do it in style.
Can we also have a llist of those PFI’s and PPS the Tories opposed ?
It’s ok I have it here now…
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Looks exactly like Ed’s blank sheet of paper funnily enough.
Here we go again. “Please, Miss! They dun it too” Usual Lefty Bollocks. Why not, just this once, take responsibility for your own pile of shit on life’s carpet?
Here we go again. “Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine.”
Usual Senile old Fart Bollocks.
Why not, just this once, take responsibility for the fact that Cameron supports the very thing you’re complaining about instead of your usual pitiful whining hypocrisy?
Because all three main parties, are different wings of the same looting party?
Why the surprise? Ronnie bankrolled the Schysters who call themselves socialists when they were in power. Now they aren’t in a position to help him, he’s cosying up to te schysters who call themselves conservatives.
Plus ca change and all that.
Progressives if you please, none of that party specific nonsense. We are all in this together.
We are all in this together to rape the wallets of Britain and pursue the race to the gravy train of the EUSSR.
Well, I am beginning to wonder if we’re not all part of some giant experiment to see just how far people can be pushed before they take to the streets and hang the phuquers from lamp posts.
The supine English will never rise up against the Eton/Harrow educated elite as for generations they have been taught to doff their caps to the ruling class. After all they are not French, Tunisian , or Egyptians.
Wat Tyler and the Peasant’s Revolt? The First Baron’s War and Magna Carta? Simon de Montfort and the Second Baron’s War? The English Civil War? The Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights?
Need I go on?
Death to PFI .
I’ll stone that!
“NHS reform plans have met with scrutiny because the Government has not properly explained them”
http://www.prweek.com/news/1052389/NHS-reform-plans-met-scrutiny-Government-not-properly-explained/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH
The government had the same problem over tuition fees. HMG needs to get its messages over better. I listened to Andrew Lansley when he was on PM five nights on the trot and I must confess I am not really any the wiser what these NHS reforms are all about and why they are needed.
To be fair, Lansley wasn’t given much chance to explain. He was interrupted quite frequently, and whenever he seemed to getting into his stride to explain something, he was cut off and diverted to another topic. It was not Eddie Mair’s finest hour.
Yeah! He should have given Lansley a nice cup of tea and a cuddle every two minutes.
He should have given Lansley the opportunity to explain, then come in with the hard questions. Omitting the first part leaves us all less informed.
Another big fail by Aljabeeba – or maybe, given their self-appointed role as Labour’s PR machine, they saw it as a big success.
I’m surprised he managed to do an entire interview with the handicap of your tongue thrusting up his arse Engineer.
Doesn’t it bother you to parade yourself as such a blatantly on message lickspittle with no mind of your own ? It is amusing to watch someone like you with no self respect push the Conservative Party line so slavishly, but I do pity you.
*raises eyes heavenward*
Leaving the entire future of the NHS in the hands of an oaf like Andrew Lansley is what Sir Humphry would have called “a very brave and extremely courageous decision Prime Minster.”
This will destroy Cameron in a few years.
The British public care about the NHS even if expats and windowlickers don’t.
The British people care about the ‘concept’ of the NHS i.e. decent health care free to all at the point of use.
Unfortunately (it’s criminal actually), that isn’t what they’ve ever had.
The public must be bored having all those concept operations and concept GP’s instead of the real thing.
Get it right:
expensive, out-dated, infection-risk, rationed operations
expensive, rationed, over-worked GP’s
etc, etc
And in London it was THE most important issue in the 2010 election.
As had been said expats and windowlickers might hate it but the British public don’t.
Concept and reality. It isn’t hard.
The reality is the public know it isn’t perfect but they do care about it.
It isn’t that hard.
Not entirely. The public care about getting good healthcare. There’s no other option than the NHS for most of us, so we have no option but to put up with it. If there was another option for the same cost, the NHS wouldn’t see most of us for dust.
Few years ago, my Dentist went private. Grumbling somewhat, I went too, because NHS dentists were like hen’s teeth at the time. Wild horses would not drag me back to NHS dentistry now – the service is immeasurably better, and the costs not unreasonable (so far).
Are there any Labour leaning defenders of the NHS out there in blogland who can tell me which other country, anywhere in the world, has copied the GB version of healthcare? I don’t mean borrowed bits and pieces of the concept, but actually copied it wholesale?
I thought we weren’t counting the views of windowlickers and expat twats since they are a political irrelevance ?
I find it odd that the lefties go all gibberly wobbly when profit making private companies and the NHS are mentioned in the same sentence. Who do they think makes all the drugs, plasters, surgical instruments, ambulances and beds that the NHS uses?
You missed out the part where Cameron has given full control of this massive reform to a twerp like Lansley. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of any of the reforms if you put a dickhead in charge of them it’s going to come back and bite you on the arse.
It’s not about how NHS is run it’s all about them getting the push as middlemen and the unions getting shafted after 60 odd years of running it and the money going in a direction that is going to make the Euro lottery look like a charity stall at a local church bazaar to the people who are in the queue to take on the new way.
It’s all about outcomes.
A British hospital stay is not for the faint-hearted or for those of a sensitive disposition.
The concept is fine ….but the reality?
the reality is fine for expat twats
Private health care would be cheaper and better. The NHS is, and always has been, an expensive disaster.
An expensive disaster? That’s OK then.
I came face-to-face with the reality just before Christmas. Blood left on ward floors, Oldies too weak to feed themselves left hungry, and the ward kept awake all night by some poor demented sod because the ward staff didn’t know how to handle him. Next morning, the ward nursing officer admitted that hospitals no longer were places where people could get better. In and out ASAP was the M.O.
Speaking as an ex-pat it is not fine.
I have paid into the NHS throughout my working life, just like everyone else and I do not want to see it disappear because governments can’t manage it properly.
It isn’t solely the Conservative’s fault – it has been mismanaged for donkey’s years by several governments, who have bled it dry.
They just don’t understand the concept of Irony or self-awareness.
In the last 60 years Ihave had 2 recent stays in hospital. One for stomach problem the other a major heart opp. The first a terrible eye-opener the other very good Its a bit too hit and miss if you ask me
the bastards still don’t get it
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23919419-ministers-blast-spending-watchdog-for-splashing-out-pound-900-a-chair-with-public-cash.do
anyone want a chair?? definitely not a cheer!!
“The chairs were an expense as part of a wider saving initiative and were intended to last for at least 10 years.”
Oh, that’s alright then. Phew, for a moment there I thought they had been squandering our money yet again and then trying to justify it with drivel like this.
I have no connection with this company:
http://www.925furniture.co.uk/categories.asp?cat=1
but you could buy at least 10 good chairs from them for £900.
To be fair, you need a decent chair if you’re sitting on your rump all day doing half of bugger all.
a fiver for his arse
Are you a sponge or a stone?.
Dear David Cameron
If i want to give to charity , I will . If i want to help the next door nieghbours , I will . I do not need the goverment to tell me what i will do with my time and my money , I do not need a nanny state telling me when , where and who i have a shit , do you get it yet ? We just got rid of a socailists goverment we do not want it replaced with another fucking socailist goverment .
Money is not the goverments , Its the taxpayers , So get you thieving fingers out of our bank accounts and get your socailist goverment out of our Fuckin lives !!!!
got that?
yours Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever!
it’s not New Zealand’s either you fucking twat
just another grasping 4×2 – like we need them here at all?
Cohen was chairman of Apax at the time of the Apax owned British United Shoe Machinery pension collapse which left 544 workers, many of them long service, without any pension. Collapse followed demerger from USM-Texon and asset transfer between the companies. Pension funds were transferred to the new BUSM scheme two weeks before receivership, and 4 days before a new revaluation was due.[7] MPs Edward Garnier, Patricia Hewitt and Ashok Kumar all called for a proper enquiry, Garnier citing the “mysterious circumstances” under which the pensions “disappeared”,[8] whilst Hewitt said “it is clearly important that such serious allegations are properly investigated.”[9] No new investigation took place leading Kumar to say “I think these people needed flogging. I feel so angry on behalf of decent upright citizens robbed of their basic human rights. …’These are greedy, selfish, capitalists who live on the backs of others.”[10]
The money was just lying there guv, too much of a temptation for old lags like us.
It’s a good argument for handing control of pension savings to individuals. That would remove an administrative burden from hard-pressed employers, and would prevent dodgy employers from scarpering with the loot.
Lizard owns slug
Breaking news
Talking about spinning for Wavy Dave, I thought you meant that Labour stooge Meryn King who does Dave’s work. Despite telling you you will have it tough, Mervyn got a £1.4m increase to his pension. “We’re all in this together.”
Mervyn King should be in prison for financial terrorism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/8294253/Bank-of-England-boosts-Mervyn-Kings-pension-by-1.4m.html
Looks like the Socialist International has just expelled the Egyptian governing Party from its ranks.
Talk about jumping on the bandwagon.
Typical opportunism.
Forward the Workers.
He was OK last week, but Mubarack’s toast now. (Hope nobody noticed the overnight deletion).
Yeah, an oppressive dictator is fine as long as he’s likely to remain in power.
not if he’s got lots of delicious oil
Thank you for forwarding the Workers. I will be expecting to receive them in prime condition shortly (say the next 2 years). You may rest assured there will be no returns.
Airbrushed out by the Socialist International ….like all the snaps of Socialist Hero Stalin with Trotsky.
November Egypt still a member and full participant.
http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=2078&ArticlePageID=1528&ModuleID=18
Today. No longer on the list. Only the little red dot on the map has’t been ‘removed’ yet.
http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=1780
Exceptionally strong U.K. manufacturing figures out today. In January, the sector expanded at the strongest rate for at least 19 years.
Thanks to OUR policies.
There is NO deficit.
There is NO growth
Thank you
Thank you very much for shafting sterling.
All that money printing has had just the desired effect.
I thought Charlie Whelan owned Brown?
I own him now
Today I will be Superman.
Greetings from Spring Hill open prison, Buckinghamshire! This is a lovely place – a manor house set in immaculate gardens, offering sporting activities and college classes and commanding a fine view of manicured gardens, as the estate agents would say. In-house, we have bricklaying and IT courses. I rather fancy the bricklaying, as I consider myself a bit of a whizz at computers already. There are someextremey interesting chaps here and I’ve learnt some useful stuff already. Cheers, plebs!
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Those bloody Tories are really winding me up!
Glad to hear it.
Today I will make another cool million off the blood of dead soldiers and Iraqis. Cherie and I prospered under New Labour.
Isreal has WMD , Lets invade it !
Is that you, Bliar? Not content with winding us up to invade Iran, you want us to charge round the Middle East invading all and sundry, now. Might I respectfully suggest that you read some history books? We did quite a lot of that in the area about a century or so ago, with rather mixed results. For them, and for us. Best not go there again unless we really, really have to, eh?
Look at “seen elsewhere” before it goes missing.
“bush was right” it says. So presumably Blair was too!
Wonder how long it will be before the political pundits are grumbling that Egypt is choosing the right sort of freedom (i.e., the sort that the pundits think they ought to have, not the sort Egyptians end up choosing for themselves).
Bush was probably right to wonder out loud about the limited amount of political freedom in the Arab world, but he was wrong to charge in and try to impose his version. Ergo, Bliar was wrong too; he should have had the wisdom to use patience and diplomacy, accept the setbacks, and work more subtely.
….Egypt isn’t choosing the right sort of freedom….
Sack the proofreader!
he didn’t “wonder out loud”, his writers did.
If one really wanted an arab country to go democratic, one would have chosen one that was fairly stable and not extreme.
Not a powder keg, next door to a few other powder kegs.
Al Jabeeba seem to be wetting themselves over the prospect of revolution in the Arab world but wait and see who moves into the political vacuum if Mubaraak goes, it won’t be the US. Musselmen in control of the Suez canal? Not a good prospect for the West. Freedom? Like Iran ?
I can only say, what a distinguished looking brigand.
The Government are pushing lots of people into poverty without realising it please look at other countries people get fed up with being pushed around so dont do it