February 2nd, 2011

+ + + BBC’s Craig Oliver Replaces Coulson + + +

He is the 41 year old controller of BBC Global News.  A TV guy, as Guido recommended a week ago…

UPDATE : Lucy Manning points out Oliver has worked for ITV, Channel 4, 5 and the BBC. Up yours Rupert.

UPDATE :

Dear Colleagues,

As you will have seen from Peter’s email, I have decided to take the role of Government Director of Communications. It involves working in Number 10, co-ordinating the message for the Coalition Government. I’m sad to be leaving the BBC after a fascinating few years. It’s been a privilege to edit some of its key output, from BBC News at Six and Ten, to last year’s General Election. More recently I have enjoyed working at Global News. The commitment, passion and expertise in the World Service, World News and bbc.com/news has been truly inspiring. I wish everyone the best, particularly the World Service after the difficult announcements last week. I was approached about the role over the weekend, the first time I had been considered for it, and came to the conclusion that it will be an exciting and challenging opportunity.

I hope we won’t be strangers, though I am closing this chapter in my career.

Best wishes,

Craig
(Former Controller, Global News (English))


340 Comments

  1. 1
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    OMG , A bbc leftie …….. great.

  2. 2
    Airey Belvoir says:

    Who he?

  3. 3
    Jack says:

    Is this a subtle way of bringing the BBC to heel ?

  4. 4
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    “He is thee controller of BBC ”

    Typo .

  5. 5
    MI5 says:

    Sorry for Gabs…

    next time…

  6. 9
    Anonymous says:

    An ex-beeboid as Tory spin doctor. Might work, but a snake-oil salesman might have more success…

    • 333
      Hugh Janus says:

      If his letter-writing skills are any indication then he may not be a roaring success…..

  7. 10
    Anonymous says:

    Joanna Gosling’s hubbie. Mmmm.

  8. 12
    Eeu to me says:

    Depends if he’s a strongarm shite who will kick the hell out of the journo’s who don’t print what he wants or is he a handbags at dawn guy,who will just get into a twizzle and sulk or even better is he an Ally Campbell clone (spit).

  9. 13
    Bolshevik Broadcasting Corpse says:

    Well, I guess if you want someone with experience of propaganda, the BBC is one of the best places in the World to hire from. They have decades of experience in manipulating the truth.

  10. 15
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    Another bloody Beeboid.

    Great.

  11. 15
    Anonymous says:

    A Beeboid, my that is not going to down with many on this blog eh Guido

  12. 17
    Tom Baldwin says:

    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

    Is this some kind of a joke,David Cameron ???

  13. 19
    Oliver says:

    Me old muckers. He get experience with fagin.

  14. 24
    Spank Sinatra says:

    Toenails refers to him as ‘spin doctor’ at least 5 times on 5live. Never recall him using that description of Campbell – it was always PM’s spokesman or Director of Communications. Thanks Nick for your unbiased reporting. Tosser!

  15. 25
    Steve Miliband says:

    Is he going to continue with his cooking shows?

  16. 28
    Tom Badwind says:

    A BBC Left winger and nodding dog! Snort much of an opponent then.

  17. 31
    Engineer says:

    Oliver’s CV suggests that his Beeboid time may be something he is glad to leave behind him. Bit of a surprise appointment, but then who predicted that Coulson would get the job?

    We’ll have to wait and see. The sooner we hear of disagreements between him and Hilton, the better – the job needs someone direct and pragmatic, the exact opposite of Hilton.

    • 102
      I Remember You Hoo says:

      He would not have got through the door at the BBC without being a fully paid up Guardianista progressive or at the very least, lied through his teeth regarding his affiliations, if they had been anything other. Deputy news editor, would never be offered to anyone ‘off BBC message’.

  18. 37
    Gordon Brown says:

    i am looking forward to my evening flapjack

  19. 39
    Ayesha Hazarika says:

    I hope Craig Oliver is more active in his new job than he was at blogging. Four posts in three years

    • 42
      Gordon Brown says:

      You can’t keep me off the blog. it gives me time to contemplate and read the Kirkcaldy Argus

  20. 44
    Anonymous says:

    So much for all BBC News being leftie Labour loons, then, eh Guido? Perhaps, this can put that lie to bed now.

    • 61
      I Remember You Hoo says:

      Are you attempting to imply that Cameron is anything other than a lefty, progressive Fabian? I think such an assertion demands some form of evidence to the contrary, does it not?

    • 117
      fogherty says:

      Piss off, you don’t know what you’re fucking talking about.

  21. 45
    "Digger" Murdoch says:

    Craig Oliver on the phone, introducing himself. Andy Coulson has, one understands, moved on to take up a post with President Mubarak

  22. 47
    Oliver says:

    It was cruel under Labour rule and now it’s gruel under coalition rule.

  23. 49
    Tim Lovejoy says:

    I dont understand why i didnt get the job ?

  24. 50
    It'sAlreadyTooLate says:

    Why the hell have they got a cook as a communications chief? oh I see communications chef!

  25. 54
    Apple Cart says:

    Nick Robinson beat Guido to the story by 8 minutes, and his story is much longer. Worth reading his account.

  26. 59
    Oliver says:

    These sausages are mouldy.

  27. 60
    Gordon Brown says:

    Peter hurt my bum

  28. 66
    nell says:

    Is this a ploy to use oliver’s contacts to get the beeb on the side of the cioalition?

    • 83
      Eeu to me says:

      Just seen some pigs flying down the M1,Rusty an ex PR man is showing his left wing credentials by getting this ex AlJaBeeb news guy in,left left were all left.

    • 87
      I Remember You Hoo says:

      Grow up nell, Cameron is proving his ‘progressive’ credentials for his handlers. He is about as Tory as other trustafarians like Tristam Hunt. You should learn to look behind labels, the ingredients bit tells you what you are buying, not the label on the front.

      • 94
        Susie says:

        Indeed. I love those Richmond sausage packs which proudly proclaim “8 THICK Irish sausages”.

        What used to make us, as students, fall about laughing 40 years ago is still good for a chortle today. But the sausages are still crap.

  29. 67
    Jim Devine says:

    I did’ne know it was wrong. We did it all the time in the NHS. and the Union.

    • 152

      Sir Desmond Glazebrook: If you’re incompetent you have to be honest, and if you’re crooked you have to be clever.
      See, if you’re honest, then when you make a pig’s breakfast of things the chaps rally round and help you out.

      But in your case don’t expect too many phone calls.

  30. 68
    David Cameron says:

    Samantha said that my cock reminds her of her favourite supermarket.

    I said, “Why, because it’s well stocked & capable of supplying you with your every need?”

    “No,” she replied. “Because it’s Lidl.”

  31. 71
    Gordon Brown says:

    baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanzai

  32. 73
    Steve Miliband says:

    Apparantly he is set to resign as he vowed never to become ‘the story’

  33. 77
    Oliver says:

    Is he a bit of a Nancy boy then?

  34. 78
    Righty Right Wing (Mrs) says:

    Left wing media bloke joins left wing Government.

    And the story here is?…..

    • 156
      Tessa Tickles says:

      “Tax-paying public unsurprised as left-wing tax-and-spend tosspot pisses more taxpayers’ money down drain.”

  35. 86
    Tory Beeboid says:

    Will this now end the constant sniping that the BBC is stuffed with lefties? One of them’s now working for the government.

    • 92
      Engineer says:

      It might be that the right(ish) leaning or centrist ones (not that there are many) in the Beeb are not altogether disappointed at finding other opportunities.

      P.S. Margaret Thatcher was the best Prime Minister since World War II. (That’s just to wind the beeboids up. Happens to be true, though.)

    • 114
      I Remember You Hoo says:

      Once again a BBC drone makes an entirely expected appearance, proclaiming that he is a Tory and then even more laughably, that Cameron is too. You people really are transparent.

    • 125
      Righty Right Wing (Mrs) says:

      You jest, of course?

      Rusty Daves continuity Labour on course to completely drive more Tories to UKIP.

      Double plus good.

  36. 88
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    It all smacks of sheer desperation, really.

  37. 95
    Jammie Dodger Oliver says:

    Now for my yam salad recipe.

  38. 97
    Gordon Brown says:

    Why aren’t you all talking about me? I’m still your leader!

  39. 104
    David Miliband says:

    First!

  40. 107
    Martin Day says:

    The appointment of Oliver will herald a series of changes in the Downing Street communications team in which:

    • Guido Fawkes,(right wing political blogger) Cameron’s longstanding aide, will take a greater role in briefing the press. Guido Fawkes will report to Oliver, who will be in overall command and will be a political special adviser.

    • Steve Field, the prime minister’s spokesman who is a high-flying Treasury career civil servant, will have an enhanced role. It is expected that Field, who had not been attending some of the prime minister’s morning meetings, will have greater access

  41. 112
    MI5 says:

    Does he sniff as much as Baldwin ?

  42. 113
    Jammie Dodger Oliver says:

    The Labour Party should stop feeding kids cheesey wotsits for breakfast, lunch and tea. Yuck! Disgraceful.

  43. 115
    Rev. Cuntwatcher says:

    I would say Mr Fawkes returning to the original posting template is a jolly good development…many thanks

  44. 119

    Not all French polishers are French. Just 1% are.

    Not all Beeboids are lefty. Just 99% are.

    • 131
      Ron Atkinson says:

      Can’t believe c**ns is moderated. What about Sambo?

      • 137
        Ron Atkinson says:

        OK, so no c**ns and obviously N*gg*r is out, but Sambo allowed. What about Fuzzy-Wuzzy or Velcro-Head? Trying to get a level here.

        • 184
          Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

          Hi Ron – we’ve got a couple of vacancies here for people with your skills and attitude. Interested?

          You are – great can we just do a quick soundcheck. When I give the signal turn to the camera and nice and clearly (so all the viewers at home can hear you) say:

          “Lazy nig-nog”

      • 210

        Did you chose my comment to reply to at random?

        I do not see any causal connection but maybe I have missed something.

        • 286
          Ron Atkinson says:

          I’d said 99% of c**ns are thiefs but it was modded. Hence the comment about Sambos

          • The purpose of my comment was to indicate that whereas the implied nationality was NOT a good guide to the real one whereas a facet of being employed by the BBC was almost certainly an indicator of political allegiance. Two empirically provable statements that are free of bigotry.

            Your comment appears to ascribe a characteristic to people of a certain skin colour which is based upon prejudice rather than fact. As a frequent traveller to sub-Saharan Africa, my experience is that there are at least as high a level of honest people who live there as there is in the UK.

  45. 122
    Rupert the Bear. says:

    Oi! Pick on the bear with dodgy dufflecoat and wellies.

  46. 129
    David Cameron is a manchurian candidate says:

    Another nail in the Consveratives coffin.

  47. 130

    Bad call why not get in a professional spinner Like Max Clifford ? He’ll mumble his way through coalition policy (dear old Max makes it up on the hoof anyway) just as Cleggy does – won’t need an office – the front drive of his Weybridge mansion is used with Max leaning against his Roller or by the pool in the greenhouse at the back. Sky have an uplink truck permanently parked outside anyway…..

  48. 135
    ??? says:

    How on earth do you embed an image here? I’ve tried using the html code but it doesn’t work.

  49. 140
    Sir Wiliam Waad says:

    Leaving the Beeb to join the Tories is apostasy. Men have been stoned to death for less.

    • 142
      Abdul says:

      That is most true, infidel dog! We stones to death everybodies we not likes!

    • 145
      Sleeper says:

      Most likely a lefty plant, he’ll be leaking shit all over the place. Dave, you have been conned!

    • 217
      Gonk says:

      ‘Hope we won’t be strangers’
      Matey you’ve just contracted virulent Weil’s disease
      with a touch of Scrofula

    • 230

      No. Cameron is playing the same game as the BBC, both propagating on behalf of the corporatist OWG. Ed Miliband can see that the eurosceptic vote is hungry for a party to vote for. Cameron’s let them down and broke his promises. Ed Miliband might now shock the system by offering an In/Out Referendum at the next election …

      http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2011/02/are-labour-preparing-to-launch-bid-for.html

      • 268
        Phil says:

        You mean like the last time those traitorous bastards promised us a vote, on the lisbon treaty, reneged and signed.The fact that we never gave our permission for such an act is tantamount to an act of treason both in the court of public opinion and natural justice and that treaty will only survive long enough for the first englishman with an ounce of guts who repudiates it. I personally will never forgive Brown or Milliband for signing up to this appalling treaty.

  50. 141
    Good joke says:

    Has anyone mentioned this? I read it in the Standard earlier. Absolutely shocking. It was a funny joke. Fucking muslims say what they like about us but the moment someone cracks a harmless joke about them, they get all wound up. C unts. I want to email this guy and give him my support. This is just the kind of thing the looney left will pounce on.

    A voting reform campaigner was sacked today after posting an “outrageous Islam*phobic” joke on Twitter.

    Ben Donnelly was dismissed from his volunteer post as a phone bank manager for the Yes To Fairer Votes campaign after his comments provoked a political storm.

    The part-time music teacher could yet face disciplinary action from his employers at Kidbrooke School in Greenwich, who are looking into the matter.

    The Yes to Fairer Votes campaign, which wants a switch from first-past-the-post to the alternative vote (AV), moved quickly to axe Mr Donnelly after details of his tweet were leaked to the Standard.

    Posted yesterday afternoon, it read: “Says in the Holy Qu*an M**ammad used to get his neighbours to vote by AV which of his 4 wives he’d shag each night.”

    Muslim groups were outraged, with Labour MP Khalid M**mood calling for Mr Donnelly to be referred to the police. “This is outrageous and totally Islam*phobic,” Mr Mahmood said. “What has Islam got to do with AV?”

    M**ammed Shafiq, chief executive of Muslim youth organisation the Ramad**n Foundation, described the joke as “disgusting”.

    A Yes campaign spokesman said: “These comments were utterly disgraceful. Conduct like this will not be accepted by the campaign. We apologise for any offence taken and are as offended by these appalling comments as any other right-thinking person.”

    Mr Donnelly issued a statement through the Yes campaign saying sorry for the tweet, which has been deleted from his account.

    “I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused,” it read. “My comments were thoughtless and I bitterly regret them.”

    The Yes campaign spokesman added that Mr Donnelly had only done one shift for the group in London, though an online CV claimed he managed the group’s Cambridge office for two months last year.

  51. 147
    I bet she's a Tory says:

    Stephanie Flanders is such posh totty.

  52. 155
    ++BREAKING NEWS++ says:

    Man Utd defender Gary Neville announces retirement, club says

  53. 162
    gordon says:

    Why the Fook did they saddle me with Damien McBride and Sue Nye?

  54. 163
    Curiouser and curiouser says:

    Anyone else notice that Bercow was unusually muted today at PMQs? The one time he spoke up was to say the PM should not be shouted at. Has someone been putting the frighteners on Grumpy?

  55. 164
    WTF???? says:
    • 166
      Fingers says:

      I think you will find the stink of fish is from your Twat Sally.

      • 186
        Anonymous says:

        No mention of the 3 pissed soaked tramps on the same carriage then? Always going for the easy target Sally, you stupid cow.

    • 168
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      There’s a guy with no bonus this year then.

    • 169
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      How absolutely dreadful for you, Mrs Bercow, to have to travel on a train with people eating their dinner out of tins.

      I’m sure if you really pressed the point, your husband might be able to change the law….?

    • 171
      Peers Morgan says:

      Did someone mention City Slickers?

    • 172
      Peers Morgan says:

      Did someone mention City Slickers?

    • 173
      Help please says:

      Can you tell me how you embedded that image? I’ve tried hmtl code but it doesn’t work.

      • 174
        WTF???? says:

        Just post the web address.

      • 182
        Steve Miliband says:

        Please don’t tell. Otherwise all the trolls will be posting stupid tweets to go along with the endless youtube drivel ad infinitum

        • 202
          WTF???? says:

          Good point Steve. Mum’s the word.

          • Help please says:

            Too late!!

          • Help please says:
          • crispin says:

            Laugh out loud stuff. Who could ever write this shit?

            “But one day, gay people decided they had had enough of cowering and hiding and being told they were sick. On the day of Judy Garland’s funeral, the police smashed their way into the Stonewall. The historian Martin Duberman distills what happened next into a single image: “A leg, poured into nylons and sporting a high heel, shot out of a paddy wagon into the chest of a cop, throwing him backwards.” The drag queen yelled: “Nobody’s gonna fuck with me no more!” And the global riot began.”

          • AC1 says:

            Yes we must remember that some people in politics/PR are gay/lesbian/Bisexual and marry in order to cover up their holidays in Cape Cod/Carpet licking/Miranda nick-names in Law-School.

          • Sarah Brown's turkey baster says:

            Why are you so interested in lesbians, Sarah?

            Sarah? Sar.. nooooooooo!

          • village peeps says:

            Any excuse to be manhandled by someone in uniform, eh Johan?

          • SamCam says:

            I’ve still got my face full of Clare’s minge every time Dave has to go round and stop Nick crying.

    • 241
      nell says:

      bercow

      ‘am intolerant’

      says everything!!

  56. 176
    The BBC says:

    We announce a Fatwah on Mr Craig Oliver.

  57. 178
    Favourite moment from today's PMQs says:

  58. 179
    For the nostalgic amongst you says:

    • 190
      Albion's woe says:

      Make the most of it as you contemplate the Socialist victory. Even after the greatest fuck-up in the history of economic policies, the t’ories could only gain office with the assistance of yet more lefties called Lib-Dem socialists.
      And what of those t’ories?
      EU cocksucking, big state spending, pocket lining, BBC loving, green agenda followers, spouting the diversity mantra as they join in with the big game changer of forced ethnic and cultural suicide. Remind you of anyone?
      The pendulum has swung too far to the left for the momentum to be checked now. The sheer number of foreign nationals and dumbed down morons glued to x factor, deciding the choice between red socialism and blue socialism are in the majority, a far bigger majority than the few remaining Englishmen and women.

      • 192
        Erm... says:

        Been a while since you had a shag, then?

        • 199
          Albion's woe says:

          Married 35 years, and still reliving that honeymoon orgasm.
          Mind you, it was while being stripped searched by Spanish customs officers at Malaga airport.

          • Gonk says:

            Did the brute put on a pair of Marigolds.
            Hang on, 35 years ago probably hessian sack
            dipped in axle grease

  59. 181
    QWERTY says:

    Cameron is not a total idiot. Appointing a beeboid might stem some of the beeboid hatred towards Cameron, a long shot I know but appointing ‘one of those twats’ means that if the BBC start digging up shit on him, he knows where the bodies are buried at the BBC.

    I wonder if he has a CD full of BBC spin and lies, you know like a copy of the Balen report, just in case.

    • 183

      Excellent point re the CD. Beeboids, the end of time is shortly to be upon you.

      • 189
        nell says:

        If only!

        Of course now that they’ve lost their Controller of Global News there’ll be another idiot for them to employ at a six figure salary.

        Oh hang on let’s not forget gordon is still looking for that elusive lucrative job. Perhaps the beeb should employ him. He keeps saying that he has a strategic global view.

    • 195
      Dumb and dumber says:

      Cameron is not a total idiot.
      I suppose, compared to Brown, you’re technically correct, and that’s why he won a landslide victory against such stiff competition.

      • 201
        nell says:

        The stiff competition was the changed electoral boundaries under labour which gave labour an advantage, postal voting, the massive increase created by labour in the welfare benefit sector and the massive increase in the numbers of non jobs in the public sector.

        Brown and bliar weren’t total idiot’s . Just economically illiterate, utterly dishonest and completely lacking in morals.

        • 206
          Dumb and dumber says:

          If only the whole country had your perceptive insight.
          Where would we be now?

          • nell says:

            Well we wouldn’t have gone to war in ir aq and we wouldn’t be at war in af ghan istan for a start.

          • David Cameron says:

            Quite right, nell. As you know, i was against it from the start. Any fool could see that the I raq dodgy dossier was a complete dog’s b’ollocks of half truths, wild speculation and downright lies that wouldn’t have fooled an imbecile, or MP, as they’re known.

          • nell says:

            As the chilcot inquiry is now finding even the cabinet wasn’t consulted.

            For the most part bliar, the now well remunerated, living amongst the world’s elite, ar ab envoy, took the decisions on his own along with his sofa pal alastairc.

            And we all know what happened to people who dared to say that their reason for going to war, that there was wmd, was a lie. RIP Dr David Kelly.

            Mubarek, friend of bliar, eat your heart out, because you’re headed brown’s way not bliar’s!!

          • Helpful serf says:

            David, May I just point out to you that the expression ‘dog’s bollocks’ usually refers to something that is close to absolute perfection.

            I suggest what you actually mean is ‘dog’s dinner’ which means – to use the vernacular – a total fuck up?

  60. 191
    I bet he bottles it says:
    • 196
      nell says:

      They’re selling tickets? Does that mean he’s expecting people to pay to listen to him after he’s fleesed them of their hard-earned cash for 13 years?!

      • 215
        Tessa Tickles says:

        They’re only £4 each, and the coward will probably bottle it again, like he did back in December.

        • 224
          I bet he bottles it says:

          Tempting to go there and cause a bit of mischief during the Q&A. But I think he’ll bottle it as always.

          • jgm2 says:

            Your name and address will be cross-checked with existing members of the Labour Party to ensure your likely compatibility with the sequence of events in Brown’s ‘New History’ of the ‘Great Reign 1997 – 2010′.

    • 219
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      What a cheek! Fancy charging people to listen to him drone on.

      We’re all actually living “Beyond the Crash” Gordon. You helped put us all here and you have the gaul to charge an entrance fee.

      I hope the majority of people in Edinburgh have something better to do on 17th February.

      • 254
        jgm2 says:

        A block-booking from the Edinburgh Labour Group will see Brown fielding difficult questions such as ‘At what point do you thing the Tory-led coalition destroyed your golden legacy?’

        • 262
          Clusterfucked says:

          But as you’ll be attending a “We love Dave” wankfest, what is your point?

          • jgm2 says:

            Hello stalker.

            Wiped your bookmarks yet?

          • Clusterfucked says:

            Yes indeedy!
            Unlike your shit stained tongue, fresh from cleaning Cameron’s arse.

          • jgm2 says:

            Good. I’d hate for you to have to explain to plod and the local Labour Party why you had the Horst Wessel book-marked as a ‘favourite’.

            While you’re taking advice – this stalking thing – it’s a bit weird. Entirely consistent with having the ‘Horst Wessel’ bookmarked. But weird all the same.

          • Clusterfucked says:

            Think of it not as stalking, but just watching party gabshites defending the indefensible

          • jgm2 says:

            That would require you to think of ‘watching’ as ‘watching’ – a kind of peeping-tom approach as opposed to ‘stalking’ which is that creepy, weird sending anonymous Labour apologist stuff thing you do whenever anybody questions the Maximum Imbecile or his imbecile hoards. For balance obviously.

          • Who said that? says:

            Brown isn’t here, mr jgm2. He is no longer in office. This is all a bit like saying Ach dis is gut, ve haff gotten rid of zat nasty arschehole, Herr Hitler und now ve haff zis nice Mister Stalin und ve must giff him eine chance, nein?
            I don’t know how many times I must say that despairing of the idiot Cameron is not synonymous with applauding the idiot Brown and the gangsters of New Labour.

          • jgm2 says:

            Brown, in this context, most certainly is here. Spreading his self-serving lies even yet. Just as, until Sunday (was it?) the Labour Party was still affiliated to Hosni Mubarak until it became politically expedient not to be so. And yet this observation (Labour/Mubarak/Sunday) gets countered, in typical Labour-apologist fashion, by bringing Thatch (her – from 20 years ago) into the mix.

            I mean I agree in (say) 20 years time we may have got over the Brownian clusterfuck but while he’s still influencing opposition idiocy and his Master’s voice, Ned Balls, is rewriting history as quickly as he can arrange another TV interview I think we shouldn’t forget the imbecility lurking in the wings just yet.

            As to Cameron – he’s fucked. His hands are tied. He’s been given the most brutal hospital-pass of an economy in recorded UK history. He’ll be gone in another 4 1/2 years. Maybe less. And we’ll have the wicked and malicious fuckers redux leering their imbecile leers with their economy-destroying fuckwittery all over again.

            It’s just so disp*r*ting.

          • Jasper says:

            So is your blinkered view of political corruption, but what else would we expect of Dobbin down at the ballot box?

      • 256
        Anonymous says:

        Yes I will be passing a very large kidney stone through my Japs eye on that evening and I’m glad to be doing that rather then go to see that arse hole.

  61. 193
    • 203
      nell says:

      He doesn’t want to be sexy.

      He wants to be Head of the IMF so that he can use the skills he gained in trashing the UK economy and do it on a bigger scale!

      • 211
        Herman Van Rompuy says:

        Why sod about being a big fish in a small pond, when you can be a shark in the big boy’s tank?

        • 226
          nell says:

          gordon never had the courage of a shark.

          He was one of those creatures of the deep that hide in holes and feed off the spoils of kills from other hunters.

          • Gonk says:

            Nothing like a shark in fact.
            Although I’ve never thought of sharks as brave either.
            Vicious, unthinking, slightly demonic creatures.
            …. hang on

          • Herman Van Rompuy says:

            Suck my maggot, little minnow.

      • 237
        Fabians are Evil. says:

        Yes its all very clearly part of the Fabian plan to remold the world into their ‘shape’ – but first you have to crash the existing order- and have a structure in place to ‘rescue’ us from the fallout.

        - See Cloward and Pivin

  62. 197
    Did he think it would make him popular with voters? says:

    WikiLeaks: Gordon Brown ordered Pakistani president to kill Osama bin Laden

    Gordon Brown was apparently convinced that Osama bin Laden was alive and hiding in Pakistan and ordered the country’s president to have him killed, leaked diplomatic dispatches disclose.

    In December 2009, the former prime minister told Asif Ali Zadari to “take Osama bin Laden out” during a private telephone conversation. Pakistani officials were reportedly “unhappy” with Mr Brown’s aggressive language.

  63. 198
    Sally Berk Aaaow says:
  64. 204
    Norman Bates says:

  65. 205
    Brown laughs inappropriately says:

    • 273
      jgm2 says:

      There you go. Billions saved in their first week abolishing the ID Cards. The government should make more capital out of this. There are plenty more ID-Card-sized savings to be made just stopping doing shit we don’t need to be doing.

      Dr*v*ng licences. Stop making us get a new photo every ten years. Fire the fuckers who administer it. Now that the BBC lic*nc* fee is just part of general taxation – ie there is no link between TV ownership and TV funding then just fire everybody at the TV li*cen*ing place. Better still, fire everybody at the BBC. Even better – fire both lots.

      Back to DVLA. Get rid of Tax Discs. Fire everybody. Just put 2p or whatever on fuel. MOT certificate in the shape of a tax disc – mo*or fit to be on the road. That’s all we really care about. Unnecessary duplication administering the two.

      Plenty more where that came from.

  66. 209
    Perry Mason says:

    Right Mr Devine: you are on record and you still freely admit that your staff budget had been exceeded and so you created a false invoice to boost your stationary budget and then moved that money to your Staff account.

    Question: Please supply the names of all these staff and please do tell us if you are related to any of them – your wife? Daughter? Son? perhaps.

    • 216
      Perry Mason says:

      Or was the overpayment made to your mistress? You know the one who was driving you around? And was it not proven in an Employment tribunal that you personally kept over 10,000 pounds?

      lets join up the dots: Stationary budget-Staff budget- your back pocket!

      “The hearing also heard that Devine pocketed more than £10,000 that Marion had been due for driving him around.
      Employment judge Jane Porter called Devine’s actions “bullying and harassment” and awarded £35,308 in compensation, including £10,516 in expenses.”

      Jimbo you are just another Socialist LIAR

    • 220
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      I hope that Mr Devine spends a not inconsiderable amount of time at Her Majesty’s pleasure, and I also hope that he is forced to pay back every penny of the money he stole from the taxpayer – with interest!

      Shysters.

      • 222
        Perry Mason says:

        The Squeaker is holding on to his severance money pending the outcome of the case – the Scottish Bailiffs are waiting to grab the money and pay it over to the unfortunate ‘Marion’ who is due over 45,000 pounds from the Bastard.

      • 235
        6 down, 640 something to go says:

        As Eric Cantona observed, a few sardines have been tossed overboard to feed the seagulls, whilst the trawler continues to net a profit.

        • 324
          Hugh ffishingly-Whittlingstool says:

          Since somebody mentioned fish, here’s the reason for my pseudonym. Half the fish our trawlers catch have to be THROWN BACK DEAD because they’re caught in excess of quotas. Madness.

  67. 213
    Dack Blog says:

    Apparently he voted Tory at the last election. Wasn’t open about his political views in any post. Wasn’t open about anything, in fact – referred to as ‘glacial’, and that was from a ‘friend’.

    • 236
      grobdj says:

      Good time to come out I’d say, a couple of days after Peter Sissons lifted the lid

    • 239
      Anonymous says:

      All the “knowledgable experts” might possibly wish to look back on their comments when it can be seen how Craig Oliver performs in the job.

      • 246
        Eeu to me says:

        He’s getting paid to do a job, that’s paid to outshite the Liebour party PR,why would anybody need to look back at their comments,it’s an opinion taken from a number of years,watching the NuConned us underperform and miss out on the damage that should have been done to Liebour and Brown and his clowns.

      • 248
        Dack Blog says:

        To be honest I can’t see how he can be worse than Coulson. I’ve never understood why he’s so lauded. I felt the same about Mandleson.

  68. 223
    albacore says:

    They should have hired Fawkes’ amazing automod, for a larf. All they needed was a seat-warmer for appearance’s sake, noblesse oblige and such.
    If the True Blue Pantomime front line can already and effortlessly not only perform but get away with sleights of hand like the amazing vanishing Lisbon Treaty referendum, aircraft carriers, Harriers, Nimrods, etc, they might as well have disappeared their ersatz Goebbels appointment, too. Just like that.

  69. 227
    oink says:

    it is becoming more apparent every day that Cameron is a stooge. His vanity is almost matching that of Bliar. He is only ‘init to win it’ (for himself) – not bothered about the country otherwise why continue to make inane platitudes that have no meaning?

    His latest argument is about having a ‘fair’ situation regarding petrol prices when hs government takes about 60% of the charge – he’s a bastard

  70. 240
    nell says:

    I wonder what edmilitwit is thinking tonight as mubarek’s party, aligned to the british labour party, resorts to violence to hold onto power?!!

    • 243
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      He thinks its ok as all socailists do , Including Dave .

    • 252
      Wallace says:

      I wonder what nell is thinking tonight, but then again, who gives a fuck.

    • 253
      What a bunch of hypocrites says:

      Howsabout Maggies love affair with Pinochet, presumably she gets a free pass on that one?

      • 260
        jgm2 says:

        I think you’ll find it was Brave Jack Straw, the torturer’s apprentice, that gave His Excellency Pinochet ‘the pass’.

      • 283
        Fabians are Evil. says:

        The reason the left hate Pinochet is simple – they cannot forgive him for being the only man to have ever overthrown a commie state.

        Yes Pinochet killed a few thousand Commies in order to secure the victory for the coming democracy – that was the price.

        If all the usual bleeding heart Fabians, and Marxist/socialist scum actually cared about human life or even human rights I would respect them – but they don’t

        Where is their condemnation of Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro etc. etc. etc. – Hundreds of Millions killed in the name of Socialism. What about the Eugenics programme as pushed by the Fabians and put into practice by a Socialist Hitler?

        Bollox to the Left and their ‘plans’ for us

        • 338
          Adolf Eichmann says:

          I knew I should have gone to Chile where my talents would have been properly appreciated…

      • 290
        Fabians are Evil. says:

        Even the BBC admit that Pinochet CURED the country!

        Yes over 17 years he did kill some 3000 uber-left terrorists but nothing like the hundreds of millions killed by Socialism – and for what?

        At least Pinochet made his country prosperous

        • 291
          Anonymous says:

          For Pinochet and his supporters.

          http://www.desaparecidos.org/chile/eng.html

          • Fabians are Evil. says:

            Ok – you have given a link to a Marxist funded web site.

            – IF you truly care about humanity please supply links to your favorite sites for the hundreds of millions killed by Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro. etc. etc.

            The Fabian, Marxist, Socialists have a history of EVIL.

            When the state sets about killing its own people, on an industrial scale, in the name of Socialism – you would think that people would steer well clear, -

            Well???

  71. 242
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Out !

  72. 244
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Dont forget , Winner of Caption Comp will be posted on thursday .

    • 249
      The Samaritans says:

      Our switchboards will be fully manned in anticipation of your call, Billy.

    • 255
      streamfisher says:

      In the unlikely event that news of the winner is personally disappointing, please accept this conciliation prize of a Nigerian e-mail, just send a cheque for £5000 to the enclosed address.

  73. 257
    Today's PMQs, the highlights says:

    Some more squaddies killed.
    Let’s all have group hug.

    • 261
      jgm2 says:

      More like Ned giving it ‘Please, please, please don’t mention that we’re politically affiliated to that anti-democratic enemy of freedom, Hosni Mubarak.’

      • 265
        Clusterfucked says:

        As Dave politically affiliates himself to Herman Von Rumpoy, Hamid Kharzai and Israel?

        • 269
          jgm2 says:

          Don’t suppose Ned would object to being associated with any of those.

          Particularly Israel. Do you?

          • Rotfl Harris says:

            Don’t suppose Dave would object to being associated with any of those.
            Particularly Israel. Do you?
            Can you see what it is yet?

          • jgm2 says:

            Yes. It’s my Labour apologist stalker. Hello stalker. What’s with the distraction technique? What particular bit are you really rattled about?

          • Who said that? says:

            Yes, exactly, mr jgm2, it’s what I call the Escalation of Impunity – because Clinton was bad, Bush was worse and he was allowed to be worse just because he wasn’t Clinton and because Bush was so fucking awfully bad Obama, just because he isn’t Bush, is allowed to be even worse. And because Major was shit, Blair, as you say, was allowed to get away with murder, just because he wasn’t Major. And now, God help us all, Cameron is permitted to put civilisation on ebay, for some Hunt bastard financier to buy, simply because he’s not who some of us call the maximum imbecile. The Escalation of Impunity, people get away with murder, simply because they’re not the last guy. We are all too busy denigrating the previous incumbent, to properly scrutinise the current one. Harold Wilson started it, with his Thirteen Years Of Tory Misrule mantra.
            They let Bush shit all over the Constitution and invent laws to put himself beyond the reach of the law. And we’re letting Cameron install himself in Downing Street for five years until he can gerrymander a certain victory for the amalgamated Tory-Toiletmen parties. The fact that Cameron is not Brown is immaterial; he’s worse than Brown; that’s the way it works.

          • jgm2 says:

            K’inell. Stalking me all over the internet now. That’s lifted from Mr Ishmael’s blog.

            You don’t think you might be a little.. a teeny bit …obsessed? I suppose I should be flattered meriting my very own internet stalker but it does seem – weird. I’m just not used to being stalked.

          • I didn't come here to be insulted says:

            You should get out more.

          • tatspotting says:

            Just don’t go to Guildford, jg – it is full of obsessive nutjobs.

          • Stop posting at 3.32am you sad lonely tat says:

            when are you going to get your own place? You’re 45, unemployed and single with no friends. Spending all day online posting the same comments isn’t healthy, that’s why you’re so easy to spot tat

          • tatspotting says:

            tatspotting isn’t in england you deviant. never occurred to our gap town billy-nomates did it?

        • 271
          T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

          I befriended them first.

  74. 258
    Christy says:

    Devine is a scots arsehole,who is definately short of the grey matter,does he really think he can swing this one to a court.
    A boy in short pants would not come this caper,the courts will come to a correct conclusion I am sure,what the sentence might be is another matter,but we shall see.

  75. 280
    Atlas shrugged says:

    Craig Oliver’s appointment is a coup for the Conservative Party, and a black day for conservatives, as all other days are. It is bad enough being stabbed in the arse on a daily basis by The Labour Party, but when your own lot start greasing up your rear-end, it is well past time to start shitting yourself.

    After all doing so, might very well make a rather smelly mess of the bed sheets, but it might make the government think a bit harder before going for the full penetration without a little more foreplay.

    Further evidence, as if any were needed that the Conservative Party has completely sold out to the establishment, instead of being just a shaky at best, counter-point to the establishments worse possible excesses.

    For IMO, a man who has worked for ITV, channel 4,5, and the BBC, at only the tender age of just 41, must be an ‘establishment man’ through, and through, if not also MI5, with well trained knobs on.

    My advice for conservatives would be, if you drop anything, whatever else you do, do not bend to pick it up, before looking to see if anyone working for the government is standing any closer then 20 yards behind you. If they ever worked for the BBC, then make that at least 100 yards.

  76. 281
    Bob Crow says:

    Socialism will save Britain.

  77. 284
    Mr Yap and Winkie says:

    Any minute now the 4am mong will be here to start posting videos of H*gue and pasting Cameron’s endorsement of Inconvenient Truth for the millionth time before then spending the rest of the time calling everyone tat and whining poodles.

  78. 294
    Steve Hilton wins and gets his BBC man says:

    So how many times a week does Dave appear on the TV compared to the amount of times a week the Conservative Party appears in the Newspapers ?

  79. 307
    albacore says:

    Still awaiting moderation?
    There can be no consolation
    It’s been six hours, now
    Is Fawkes’ furrowed brow
    Down to Trots or Cons tipation?

  80. 309
    D L George says:

    Apparently Oliver voted conservative at the last election. They covered it on newsnight.

    Impartial BBC

    Paxo: “One of the BBC’s senior journalists has been recruited by the Prime Minister… It was like discovering that Terresa May moonlights as a pole dancer. No one had the slightest suspicion that Craig Oliver had any political connections”.

    Other Chap on the couch:
    “He’s been described as the most creative tv animal they’ve ever come across”
    Paxo:
    “Well the right wing aren’t going to like Him hand wringing for the BBC are they?”
    Other chap:
    “(Laughs)Well no, er, He actualy spent more of His time in ITN…”

    Paxo cuts him off…

    Paxo: “All right”
    Other Chap: “No but I think”
    Paxo: NO, you’ve got to be quiet”
    Other chap: “Oh, oh, oh, I’ve got to shut up? oh, all right” (Really put out)
    Paxo: (Realises mistake, continues as though He were reading for Jackanory) No ,we’ve got to tell the audience what’s in tomorrows papers now…”

    I just found the whole thing bizarre.

    Upside to this. The BBC management have to be sh*tting bricks that someone from their own closed ranks will not only be spilling the beans on who is to blame for the current BBC’s left of Stalin news output, but, more importantly, He’ll hopefully be in a position to do something about it.

    • 310
      loony lefty libcons says:

      cast iron grabs a lefty beeboid to replace a murdoch attack dog
      no wonder you’re excited

      • 332
        bird with small brain says:

        Surely EVERYONE who works at the Beeb can’t vote Labour? Sometimes I think they are just stupid, rather than deliberately biased. For example: the BBC announces something the goverment intends to do (reporting a fact). They then offer the opposition’s belief that the intention is a bad idea (reporting a political opinion) and they think that given the equal airtime this is balanced reporting. Could someone please explain to them that balanced reporting would involve a) reporting a fact, b) reporting a political opinion about that fact and c) reporting a counter political opinion about that fact.

    • 328
      Postlethwaite says:

      Thought i saw that paxo stuff on bbbc.

      No Lockerbie bomber info here – probably cos it was exposed by wikileaks.

      More importantly on this site:-
      how is the vd clinic going in Houses of Commons exactly Guido?

  81. 327
    oink says:

    Shell announce 90% profits whilst people pay over the odds at the petrol pumps – fascism alive and kicking – which is more than gary neville is!!

    • 330
      Eeu to me says:

      Ever heard of taxes,before your left wing attempt to blame the messenger,find out how much the tax is on petrol and also find out how much the tax is taxed,taxes are also paid at the well head.

      • 334
        oink says:

        the UK government ‘s take on a litre of petrol is roughly 65% including taxes and duty and your question is…???

  82. 331
    Gordon Brown says:

    I shall be purchasing a Nissan Micra so I can eat my hot cross buns in private

  83. 335
    Anonymous says:

    Perfect, a socialist to spout the newspeak of our socialist government. BBC, Dave ‘Boy Green’ Cameron etc all hand in glove.

  84. 339
    Chris says:

    I hope he can get to grips with being in touch with the people.

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