February 11th, 2011

How To Review the Papers

Love him or hate him there is no denying that Kelvin MacKenzie has still got it.

Last night’s Sky News paper review was certainly a lively affair.

It’s worth waiting for the last minute to see Stephen Pound feel the wrath

One day Guido will get round to making the “What Would Kelvin Do?” t-shirts…


575 Comments

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

    pound is a rent a quote loyalist arse licker , Happy Birthday Guido.

    • 23
      Pot Kettle summit says:

      Not sure you’re in a position to say anything about arse licking Billy………

    • 44
      Anonymous says:

      Love how Pound tries to out-gob the gobber but doesn’t even come close.

    • 68
      AC1 says:

      Gordon Has just wished Mubarak a long career as President.

      • 100
        AC1 says:

        Hello Tat,
        Where’s you blog?

        I’m sure the future for Egypt will be as bright as Irans.

        • 155
          V. Reasonable (Mrs) says:

          Oh do fuck off you bore

        • 157
          revolt like an Egyptian says:

          Iran? Egypt? Their futures? Take a look around you, prick. UK is a bankrupt, morally and financially, shithole, led by a CFI Zionist puppet, bankers’ buttplug, War on Terror Dave, and his cabal of blackmailed fags.

          Some say Jordan or Saudi Arabia will be next to topple, the people ridding themsellves of their Zionist, UK/US/Israel axis of evil tyrants, but smart money says people in the West will see the yoke of the bankers and their lackeys in the legislature, media and military can be overturned, with the Egyptians showing people how, a simple mass uprising of loathing for the evil wankers that terrorised them. Coming to Ireland, ‘United’ Kingdom… next.

        • 164
          Dubya and the lovely Sarah says:

          It took the Arab world a few years longer than we expected but once they’d seen Iraqis queueing up to vote for their next government they all want some of that now.

        • 169
          AC1 says:

          Tat flew over the cuckoos blog?

        • 396
          AC1 says:

          Tat,
          Get well soon. I hope the tablets the Doctor gives you start to return you to reality.

      • 277
        Fred Bloggs says:

        He’s no longer in denial. He’s in Sharm el Sheik

    • 246
      Sir Cum Spect says:

      Well done, Billy. You got there at last!

  2. 2

    even McKenzie is joining the BBC in giving comps a kicking, good on him.

    • 7
      Hang The Bastards says:

      We could do with more like McKenzie in the House of Slimely Lying Twats

      • 59
        Ampers says:

        Great video, and the BBC won’t be too happy about this :-)

        I have always said, the basic difference between the Tories and Labour is the Tories want to raise everybody’s expectations and hopes to the highest denominator, and Labour want to pull everybody down to the lowest denominator.

        I will give the Tories their due credit for that, but like Labour and the LibDems, they are still all bastards.

  3. 3
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    KM to SP “You wouldn’t know a voter if you fell over one”.

    Bloody Classic!

    • 15

      One of life’s beautiful moments. How could Piggy Pound come back from that?

    • 76
      Mornington Crescent says:

      Nice one, Kelv.

      • 145
        dutchy in scotland says:

        Stephen Pound an ex-bus conductor/driver from London says it all really !!!

      • 158
        Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

        Kelvin’s a legend – what helps him in this argument is that he doesn’t sound posh – in fact if you look at the clip Kelvin looks like the bloke down the pub while Pound speaks and is dressed like a Tory grandee who’s just come down to the studio from his club. MacKenzie is bang on with this – the main question here is how do we get state schools producing high quality candidates for prestige universities not how do we drag private schools down.

        The answer is fairly clear if you look at the nature of top performing state schools.

        • 202
          lola says:

          The answer is bloody clear – you bring back Grammar Schools.

          • Grumpy Old Man says:

            +1

          • Anonymous Misogynist says:

            Strangely, Pound went to a grammar school, left at 16 and joined the Merchant Navy. Became a bus bus conductor then a hospital porter and finally a mature student at the LSE, gaining a BSc in Economics.

            However he wasn’t very good at math, it was discovered Pound had claimed a mileage allowance of £4,251, equating to 11,004 miles of travel between his constituency and Parliament 11 miles away. He explained this by saying he made the trip ‘two or three times a day’.

          • Sir Cum Spect says:

            Absolutely!

          • Susie says:

            In some counties, Bucks being one of them they still exist — Dr Challoners in Amersham for example — still free to whoever passes the entrance exam, still excellent.

          • Mike hunt says:

            Fucking right.

            Grammars, the drivers of social mobility and excellence. Shame about the secondary moderns though, no factories for their product. That’s something to work on.

          • John Richard says:

            Who is the MP who claimed enough in mileage to go one and a half times “around the world” (Daft Punk rule!) yet lived within 20 miles of London?

          • Grammar School Boy says:

            Indeed!

            We need more, like me.

          • Derek Simpson's grace and favour mansion says:

            absolutely. a school that judges people on merit, not faux socialist crap, or whether they have a plum in their mouth.

          • +1, not that it will make a blind bit of difference.

      • 195
        Loftus Road says:

        Agreed – well done Kelvin

        • 263
          Down With Brown! says:

          State schools like Queen Elizabeth Boys Barnet, Blue Coat School Liverpool, Tiffin Girls’ School, Royal Grammar School Colchester and Royal Grammar School High Wycombe get lots of kids into Oxford and Cambridge universities.

          The secret is there are grammar schools. If you want to get more state school kids into the top unis create more grammar schools.

          • make mine a black prostitute and class a drug chaser says:

            I don’t think that I’ve ever met anyone from a grammar school. Daddy says that they are the most dreadful oiks, but can make good servants if properly trained. Why don’t their parents just pay for their education like everyone else?

          • make mine a chippy left wanker whose ignorance on the subject knows no bounds says:

            FAIL

  4. 4
    The cunt of Monte Cristo says:

    Whoa, major shock

    MucKenzie out-argues a fucking bus driver

    • 575
      Big Tony says:

      MacKenzie cannot even pronounce his own surname correctly.

      It’s not a “zee”.

      How we laugh everytime.

  5. 5
    marcus Aurelius says:

    Stephen Pound = Liebore dinosaur

  6. 6
    Labour the good guys? Excuse me while I vomit says:
    • 8
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      LOl , PFI you stupiud slag .

    • 9
      Mr Hopwood says:

      Sally didn’t spend much time in education by the look of it.

      • 18
        Sally Bercows Ladyshave says:

        Mr Hopwood thats true!

        But she did spend plenty of time face first over a wheelie bin with her knickers round her ankles.

      • 29
        A Homage to themisunderstood says:

        I’m long, tall Sally Bercow
        And I’m the Sqeakers wife
        I spend my time a-posing
        And twitter away my life.

        I tell anyone who listens
        About my past as a ‘bike’,
        The drunken stands I can’t recall
        Before I met squat Mike.

        I’m meant to be impartial
        But there’s not a chance in Hell.
        I’m meant to be so dignified -
        That can kiss my arrrse as well.

        I’m the Carla of the Commons,
        As tall and chic as she.
        We’re both married to diddy-men
        Who stand tall up to the knee.

      • 30
        Paddy Pantsdown says:

        She’s a lying (Ber)cow!

        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229912/Speakers-wife-lost-job-Oxford-degree-wasnt.html

        “The wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow was sacked from a leading City firm after it claimed she had lied about having a degree from Oxford University.

        Sally Bercow was dismissed by public relations business Consolidated Communications after it contacted the Oxford authorities and discovered they had not granted her a degree.

        The company accused her of having lied on her CV. It also claimed that Mrs Bercow – who at the time was known by her maiden name, Sally Illman – had used ‘multiple CVs’ with different ‘facts’ about her past on each one.”

    • 10
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      Engage brain first , Sally.

      Don’t you remember anything? Stupid woman.

    • 42
      Engineer says:

      Actually, Sally, BSF is a threadform. It was developed in the late part of the nineteeth century using the standard Whitworth threadform, but at finer pitches. That gave fasteners more siutable for the developing automotive (and later aircraft) industries, with their greater use of alloy steels for threaded fasteners. The BSF thread, which, like BSW, is officially obsolete, is still used, and both fasteners and threading tackle are readily available.

      Sorry – I’ll shut up now….

    • 55
      AC1 says:

      Remember, for Labour mongs. Extortion is moral and free exchange is bad.

      They have an inverted morality.

    • 95

      The sad fact is that if Sally Bercow were in parliament, she would not be the dumbest person sitting on the green benches. There would be quite a few even thicker. God help us.

    • 203
      lola says:

      Oh FFS!

    • 261
      The whore of parliaments says:

      Sally your tweets are in the style of a 12year old child !

    • 274
      Fred Bloggs says:

      I was amused when at PMQ’s Bercow exclaimed that the noise was bringing parliament into disrepute.

      I was waiting for someone to shout “What about your wife ?” but no.

      A bunch of cowards.

    • 423
      John Richard says:

      financial misconduct = conservatives?

      Where that dude gone?

  7. 11
    Education, education,education says:

    I have fallen in love with Macca – anyone who stands up and points out how poor our education system is thanks to labour is good for me and I’ll be his bitch.

    • 16
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      Are you sure you mean Macca, and not Mecca?

      Just asking.

      • 36
        Your number's up says:

        B I N G O

        • 264
          Down With Brown! says:

          But why don’t the Tories point out how crap the education system is?

          Instead they are in love with Blair and Adonis’ “academies”.

          • Sludge Pump says:

            Why don’t they subject the private schools to the National Curriculum and be submitted to Ofsted and the constant paperwork generated by the government pIllocks, Oh and while they’re at it remove the charitable status tax-fiddle?

          • Susie says:

            Because we are destined to be the offshore slave colony of Europe and slaves don’t need educating.

            They’re all in it together.

          • The real reason why politicians do not want to change education says:

            All you need to know about state ‘education’ and why it is so lethal to intelligence. The video concentrates on the USA, our government is signed up to this madness too. Dumbing down education statrs at around 5:50 in.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM

          • AC1 says:

            Sludge Pump,
            Because they are intelligent and think that hampering the good to make it as unproductive as the bad (Harrison Bergeron Style) is an idea left to those who’s envy clouds their ability to think.

  8. 12
    Lucius says:

    If by ‘still got it’ you mean ‘the ability to shout like a twat without recourse to facts’ then yes, he’s still got it.

    • 26
      Engineer says:

      Fact – comprehensive schools don’t get many people into top universities, independent schools do.

      This can be interpreted two ways. One could deduce that independent schools produce people with the skills and confidence to make best use of a university education, and that, for whatever reason, many comprehensives are less good at that. Or, one could deduce that independent schools give their pupils an unfair advantage, and must be destroyed.

      If you want Britain to compete strongly against our international competitors, you’d want our education system to produce the best-qualified, most confident and competent young people that it can. If parts of it are not doing that, is it better to improve the bits that aren’t doing well, or destroy the bits that are?

      • 35
        Lucius says:

        I am of the opinion that the top universities in the country are unfairly biased towards privately educated applicants, regardless of the educational and personal qualities of the applicant.

        • 49
          Engineer says:

          They take the most able applicants, as they should. It so happens that most of the most able applicants come from the independent sector. That means that the comprehensives are not doing a good enough job, and they need to up their game.

          • AC1 says:

            You’ll need to end the state subsidising parents if you want any improvement in the output from the state crèche system.

          • Cynical-old-bag says:

            Yes. But if they upped their game, we all know that the pass results would drop dramatically because everything has been dumbed down.

            Comprehensive schools were a huge mistake. I should know – I was one of those who could have gone to grammar school, but chose not to.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            that doesn’t sound logical Mrs. bag.

            If theres a choice between a grammar school and a comprehensive, then it can’t have been a comprehensive.

          • Cynical-old-bag says:

            Well Sockpuppet#4 it was.

            I decided to go to a comprehensive school with friends of mine who didn’t get into the grammar school.

            Stupid, I know, but it’s easy to be wise, and all that…..

          • AC1 says:

            You probably learned to use your hands during your stay in the comprehensive crèche. Punching things is a sometimes useful skill.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            So you went to a “comprehensive school” where everyone else had failed the 11+ ?

          • Cynical-old-bag says:

            Yes, I’m afraid I did.

            Although I was in the “top stream” for just about everything, I was held back so that the class could learn at a pace suitable for the slowest pupil.

            Biggest mistake I ever made.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            that sort of makes it a secondary modern.

          • Cynical-old-bag says:

            AC1. Bullying was almost a national sport even then, and I’m talking about late 60′s early 70′s.

            Both our sons went through the State Education System because we couldn’t afford to pay the fees for the local public school. We moved well out of London before our sons got to secondary school age.

          • Cynical-old-bag says:

            I would use the term “Secondary Modern” very loosely.

          • AC1 says:

            C-O-B Good for you. I also had a “comprehensive” education. Most of the “history” I was taught was the opposite of the truth. I went to uni in the 90s so I’m a bit younger than you.

            The current state system has fees they’re just disguised. Becuase if your a parent who cares about your childrens education you pay for a decent school via moving to an area without a rubbish state school. In most cases it would seem to be cheaper to go private and save on the housing costs!

          • Cynical-old-bag says:

            Agreed AC1.

            The country school which both our boys attended only had 67 children in it. The Headmaster knew each child by name. I still say that both lads had a far better education in the country than they ever would have had in London. We just had to cut our coats accordingly.

        • 99
          smoggie says:

          Balls is a case in point.

        • 111
          Mike Hunt says:

          The lefties deliberately confuse Equality of opportunity with Equality of outcome, they are NOT the same.

          Equality of opportunity – absolutely but for this to favour the bright ordinary kids we need GRAMMAR Schools. What we have is well educated but thick rich kids hogging to top places.

          Equality of outcome – dumbing down with worthless awards for all.

          • Tossflap Watch Is Back With A Vengeance!!!! says:

            Bang on the money.

            That opinion is totally free of tossflappery.

        • 391
          Lucius, are you a bit of a posh lefty twat? says:

          Because Edukayshun is free, it is not valued.

          Children play truant.
          Children fuck around in class.
          Children … etc.

          If they were charged for it, they’d place more value on it.

          Edukayshun is more valued in a shit hole village in Africa than it is in the inner cities in Britainistan.

          UK universities cannot be expected cope with this attitude.

          British kids are more worried about wearing the right clothes so they don’t get the shit kicked out of them, or who’s appearing on X-factor.

      • 93
        South of the M4 says:

        “… is it better to improve the bits that aren’t doing well, or destroy the bits that are?

        In one sentence you have summarised Tory education policy, and Labour policy.
        Separated only by a comma.

        • 147
          Cynical-old-bag says:

          That’s all very well and good, but if a student just isn’t bright enough to go to university, no amount of money will make them so. They will only take up a place which could be filled by a far more able student.

      • 142
        Anonymous says:

        There used to be a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, when things like O levels and A levels could be relied on as a measure of attainment. A combination of Labour and to a lesser extent Tories have now debased education to the point that when I now interview someone with GCSE qualifications I can no longer place any degree of reliance on these quals as being an indicator of intelligience. I insist they all sit an IQ test prior to interview and the results do not make pretty reading – the comprehensive system is churning out well qualified but dysfunctional and barely literate morons. I’ll take an old guy with 5 O level passes over any comprehensively educated GCSE wunderkind.

        Oh, and Kelvin would make a great Press Secretary – he’d disembowel the BBC !

        • 150
          Mike Hunt says:

          “old guy with 5 O level passes”

          That’s me!, 1975 Grammar school vintage.

        • 156
          Cynical-old-bag says:

          A friend in the legal fraternity told me once that he’d had a job application form written out in text speak. And this was from a Law Student with an alleged 2.2.

          Seriously.

      • 380
        Susie says:

        State school kids go home shortly after lunch. The school bus arrives about 3 pm in our village and the school’s 20 minutes away.

        At the private day-school I went to, we started lessons at 9 am after assembly at 8:45 am, 30 minute break at 11 am, lunch hour 12:45, back in classes until 4:45 pm got home about 5:30 pm.

        It’s no wonder they can’t spell, they’re not in school long enough.

      • 435
        Barry says:

        Or it could be in the genes, offspring from cart horses raely win the Derby.

    • 27
      Tony says:

      So do you think good schools providing top quality education to students who then go on to study at world class Universities are Very Bad Things as well then? Or as Kelvin tried to point out that the actual problem is the poor quality of all the other schools?
      That’s the trouble with the left, in order to make everything equal and fair, everything needs to be dragged down to the lowest common denominator

      • 37
        Droit de Cuissage says:

        Exactly, this double-think is what did for the grammar schools – dragged down to secondary-modern standards when the problem was not how good the grammar schools were, just how bad the secondary moderns were…too late now.

      • 40
        Lucius says:

        As Kelvin bellowed, you mean?

        Poor quality of state education is part of the problem, bias within universities is another.

        • 78
          Engineer says:

          Universities are biased towards the most able applicants – as they should be.

          You wouldn’t recruit a wheelchair user into the Army, however bright or determined he might be. Putting someone barely literate (even if he is from a deprived background) on a medical degree might not be the best move if you want the best doctors and surgeons.

          • Susie says:

            This interests me because my Dad got a locum doctor from Ghana last year. He was a great guy and chatted a bit about medical school.

            He said he and the public school medical students had far more in common and found studying easier, because both had had a traditional grammar type education — Latin and Greek help with medical terms — whereas the British state school lot were really struggling, they had no disciplined way of approaching problems and were constantly needing help and explanations for simple procedures.

        • 118
          smoggie says:

          In the heyday of the grammar school – in the sixties – most of the intake of Oxford was state educated. That’s a fact that damns both Labour’s educational record and your lie that the top universities are biased towards private schools.

          • Mike Hunt says:

            as was the best PM in recent year, Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts).
            Her successor was also Grammar school educated, and will be the last ever.

            All subsequent elected PMs are ex-public school, will educated but not very bright.

          • Susie says:

            This is quite true of other universities too. At University of Surrey, Guildford, the public school students were a tiny minority and usually female.

      • 46
        Cynical-old-bag says:

        +1

      • 79
        AC1 says:

        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

        THE YEAR WAS 2008, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the European Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the European Union Handicapper General.

        Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.

        It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.

    • 28
      Jon Snot. says:

      The fact is Lucius, after thirteen years of Pound, we have tens of thousands of kids who can’t read and write.
      Just walk down your nearest high street.QED.

      • 31
        Lucius says:

        That’s not a fact, and putting QED on the end doesn’t make it so.

        • 43
          Anonymous says:

          Er, it is matey. Educational standards are worse now than in 1997. Fact.

          • Lucius says:

            ‘tens of thousands of kids who can’t read or write’.

            Now, is that a ‘fact’, or not?

          • Anonymous says:

            Yes ?!?

            Maybe not in your or my house, but they exist. Absolutely.

          • Engineer says:

            Sadly, Lucius, it is a fact.

            A related fact is that 20% of pupils passing from primary to secondary education in the state sector are functionally illiterate. If secondary schools are spending that much time correcting the deficiencies of the primary sector, it isn’t surprising that their final output is not too good.

          • And I will add to Engineer’s comment by quoting what an alarming number of university teachers have told me. They spend a large part of the first year trying to get their undergraduate students up to the level that they should have attained as a condition of entry.

          • Susie says:

            And the SPELLING!

            Everywhere, every day, I have to bite my lip and stop myself from pointing out to someone how to spell, for example, ‘definitely’

            … definately… defanetly… defunately… aarrgh!

        • 52
          Cynical-old-bag says:

          I’m afraid it is. My friend was a schoolteacher for almost 40 years and she retired last year.

          Not only can children not read and write, but they get no help from their parents, who think that threatening behaviour is the way to get what you need out of life.

          You really do need to get out more.

          • Mike Hunt says:

            There was much talk on the News (ok, BBC) about poor kids doing worse at school that rich, especially in the ‘early years’. This is why: ‘rich’ parents – middle class – value education as the route to a decent job which made them middle class, ‘poor’ parents do not value education (they are either unemployed or on benefits or have menial jobs) and so do not instil their children with a sense of the value of education.

            This is of course a generalisation but is mostly the case.

          • Cynical-old-bag says:

            Yes, unfortunately it is.

            Parents have a responsibility to guide their children until they reach adulthood. It is a sad fact that a lot of parents think their child’s education rests solely with the school and the teachers in it, and they actually play no role in their child’s education at all.

            If children have no decent role models to aspire to, it is little wonder that we see standards, morals and manners disappearing so rapidly.

          • Susie says:

            This is such bollocks… take my grandfather, middle child of 9, brought up in the East End, alcoholic father, no welfare state, left school at 14 and studied after WWI at night school.

            Beautiful handwriting, a determination to better himself along with his 4 brothers. All of them ended up comfortably off, after worthwhile lives.

          • What your grandad did is not relevant to the nuLabour years, geddit? says:

            You need to re-assess your time-scales Suzie, or retract your comment.

  9. 14
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    Perhaps Sally would do well to remember that her husband is part of the “New Govt (= bad coalition)” which keeps her in mobile phones!

  10. 20
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    Yes. I stand corrected.

  11. 21
    Mackenzie's a lying Murdoch Lapdog says:

    and you guys lap his shit up:

    “When I published those stories, they were not lies. They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue — and that is different. What am I supposed to feel ashamed about?”

    • 25
      Toilets MugLiar says:

      You should read my shit, it’s 90% fiction, 10% bullsh1t.

    • 394
      It's simple FFS says:

      Ptolemy was not lying when he proposed his model of the solar system. The fact that is turns out to have been bollox does not make him a liar.

      Tony Blair invaiding Iraq because there was a 45 minute warning before imminent nuclear destruction of Britain was a lie.

      Can you see the difference now?

  12. 22
    Demetrius says:

    As fifth generation Liverpool Scotland Road, born in the local workhouse, I have made my own comment:
    http://thecynicaltendency.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-future-what.html
    Oddly, I am backing Kelvin, although perhaps for different reasons.

  13. 24
    Joss Ayinglike says:

    Kelvin calls ‘Pondlife’ Pound a parasite at the end there !! Classic, how fucking true is that !!!

  14. 34
    New Statesman and other Marxist outlets says:

    John Hirst is a hero! His cause is a just one! We on the militant Marxist left proudly associate ourselves with this courageous and rehabilitated man!

    He called Priti Patel what? Um…uh…no comment…we’re busy, go away.

    • 89
      AC1 says:

      They’ll just say that he’s become alienated from society due to being in prison and is another reason not to jail “axe murdering scum”*

      *Might not use that description.

      • 132

        Was constructing a thought that posited that if one chose solely “axe murdering scum” for MPs, they might have made less of a hash of things than the last Labour government, but perhaps it is better not to go there.

        • 178
          AC1 says:

          The UK choose economy murdering scum from 1997 to 2009.

          • Or 2010 even. But perfectly true otherwise. Britain was in a fantastic financial position in 1997. In just those 13 years, Labour took the gross debt to £.25 million per person. The deficit may be reduced somewhat by the coalition but the debt? Forget it – especially when interest rates start to rise.

          • AC1 says:

            If you correct GDP by the change in debt, you get a slight decline (as seems about right) then a huge plunge during the Blair Brown junta.

    • 335
      Universal Hiss says:

      After watching that particular low life on Brillo’s prog I can understand the sympathy for lynching.

    • 389
      Susie says:

      I LOVE Priti Patel — she’s got a tough of the Margarets about her. Should go far.

  15. 39
    Disco Biscuit says:

    So was that water in the glass or something a little stronger?

    • 48
      Anonymous says:

      To literally blow up like that from a standing start is a bit worrying, actually.

      • 174
        Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

        Maybe there were words bewteen them off camera before the ‘live’ bit?

        It might explain Kelvins rather explosive acceleration…

        • 272
          sally bercow says "make mine a large one. Oh you already have" says:

          it might do, but over indulgence in alcohol would probably be closer

  16. 41
    Joss Ayinglike says:

    O/T but Liebour have run out of Taxpayers’ money and now they have run out of th unions’ money too.

    http://bit.ly/fDdZrX

    • 47
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Cant Lord P*ul donate some dosh?

    • 77
      Rat's arse says:

      This is the Party that ruined our Country. They can’t even put their own finances in order and yet STILL there are stupid w@nkers who vote for them. It beggars belief, it really does.

  17. 51
    I wish you were in Cairo too, Denis. Right in the line of fire. says:
  18. 54
    Kelvin says:

    Murbarak gone. One less socialist

    • 67
      T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

      He’s allegedly got $70 billion stashed away; I hope to have as much one day.

      • 75
        You're a hero to war criminals everywhere, Tone! says:

        Thanks to all the blood money you’ve made since leaving office, you’re three quarters of the way there already Tone! Just make sure Slotface doesn’t max out all your gold cards. And with all that dough, can’t you spend some of it on getting lipo for your fat suicidal daughter?

  19. 63
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    Still in the pub aren;t they?

  20. 66
    Fake says:

    Are some of you so thick you can’t see Mackenzie was just doing a faux tantrum? That wasn’t genuine anger. Him and Pound are both smiling throughout the whole shouting. A genuine barney was when IDS tore Blinky a new one over Labour’s disgraceful and dishonest announcement of troops returning home during the week of the Tory conference. Blinky was silenced for once when IDS showed the fire he should have had as party leader and told him “Don’t you dare play games with the lives of our soldiers”. That was genuine anger, not this playfighting.

  21. 80
    marcus Aurelius says:

    Well done Kelvin

    You have given avoice to all those of us that are furious with the destruction of objective standards in education.

    If only David Cameron or Michael Gove had your balls. Or better still if only you were Prime Minister and Jermy Clarkson was Minister for Europe.

  22. 81
    Tweeterthrown says:

    Looks like Twitter has claimed its first revolution.

    • 103
      Anonymous says:

      yeah noticed all the grannies and old men had blackberries. what a technologically advanced nation.

      • 124
        smoggie says:

        Precisely. Did you also notice that when the Egyptian government switched the internet off, the demonstrations suddenly stopped?

        • 208
          . says:

          Is there a big plug in a socket somewhere that, when you switch it off the interweb goes down?

          Aaah, I think I see one here.

          I’ll just click and see wha

        • 398
          Clarkson says:

          No-one saw that because it didn’t happen. Did you read that one t’interweb?

  23. 82
    Nook the muslim cunts says:

    Now watch one dictator replaced by another. Just newke the fucking country before the muslim brotherhood get their hands on newks themselves.

  24. 86
    Rat's arse says:

    Isn’t Stephen Pound the one who fiddled his expenses by claiming he lived with his dear old Mother when he lived three miles away with his Wife. Wonder why his collar wasn’t felt.

  25. 88
    Why didn't we do to Jonah what the pyramid dwellers have done to Mubarak? says:

    If only the British public had done the same as the Egyptians. We might have succeeded in forcing out McDoom long before 2010.

  26. 91
    Only the beginning says:

    What’s the best a Khomeini type nutjob will fill the void in Egypt?

  27. 94
    Titford Hat says:

    Mubarak gone. Really, this time.

  28. 96
    Annnoyperson says:

    Yes. Kelvin had it, but the antibiotics worked wonders.

  29. 107
    Watch Red Ed distance himself very quickly says:

    Wasn’t Labour allied with Mubarak’s party?

    • 114
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      Shouldn’t that be “Twinned”??

    • 220
      Naive Prick Alert says:

      Yep comrades in arms for the last thirteen years. Now of course, they will pretend all along, that they were working to oust him. Typical socialist lies and revision on the hoof.

  30. 108
    Gordon Brown says:

    Can I be president of Egypt? I’m available and don’t have anything to do.

    • 117
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      Oh Yes! I think that’s a capital idea.

      Bet you don’t last 13 years over there.

      • 302
        PD77 says:

        Actually he only just lasted three here, he needs a front-man like Teflon Tone to warm the room ready for the main detraction.

  31. 112
    Gordon Brown says:

    I never resigned! I fought bravely and I won the 2010 election with a landslide. Isn’t that right, Mr Ploppy?

    • 129
      Thatcher! Thatcher! Thatcher! says:

      Rather ironic given that the left still love to mention Thatcher at every opportunity 20 years after she left office. I daresay that 20 years from now you’ll still be saying “It’s all Thatcher’s fault!”

  32. 113
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Hang him! Stephen Pound that is .

    • 457
      Aesop o'Sardis says:

      Perhaps not. He is a constant reminder of how idiotic and opinionated are most of the Labour MPs. In fact, sit him beside MacShane and the two bald twats make a complete arse of themselves!

  33. 115
    A-rabs love their food says:

    I hope there are enough falafel stands to feed the massive crowd in the square.

  34. 122
    Engineer says:

    Why? They have the finest military kit that money can buy, and they’re big mates with Uncle Sam. What are a few unarmed demonstrators in Egypt going to do to them?

    • 134
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Give their people funny ideas.

    • 198
      Engineer says:

      Not quite. Egypt’s military kit is not the world’s most up-to-date, and Egypt is not quite the strategic oil supplier that the Gulf states are.

  35. 123
    Statement in next half hour by Barack Obama, President of the United States and Commander In Chief says:

    Wassup bitches? Dat camel jockey Moobarak be gone. That’s some gangsta shit yo. I’m gonna go bang Michelle. She got da ghetto booty.

  36. 125
    Gordon Brown says:

    Today i will be a sticky wicket.

  37. 133
    Gordon Brown says:

    curry farts in an igloo

  38. 135
    Homosexual Muslim says:

    Death to dick takers!

  39. 136
    smoggie says:

    It’s very simple, there are no poor Saudis (with or without an apostrophe) who have to worry about the price of bread. Nor are they concerned about finding a job; in fact there are so many jobs going in Saudi that they have to import labour. By the lorry load.

    Whoever made that post above knows fuck all and has obviously never been East of Margate.

  40. 141
    Egyptian stall owner in Terror Square says:

    Buy your falafel sandwiches here! Get your Extra Value Resignation Meal Deal! You get sandwich, mecca cola and pocket koran. Death to the west! Allahu crapbar!

  41. 152
    Lord Fondlebum of Boy and Bankbonus says:

    You called?

  42. 159
    Ted Miliband says:

    I’ll make a statement on Egypt as soon as Mr Whelan tells me what to say.

  43. 160
    Kered Ybretsae says:

    Nice bit of shouting….must’ve done his blood pressure a real treat. But both guys were right….we need intelligent young people rich or poor in our Universities. But where are coming from? The main stream or public school education?
    I went to the University of Life got a Degree in Living my Life, done all right, dintiknowwhatimean. But going to a real University is no GURANTEE for a real success in life afterwards.

    • 320
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      Ah, but to get into politics, it all depends on WHICH university you went to.

      There is a pecking ordeer, you know.

  44. 161
    Mark Oaten says:

    Mubarak’s in deep shit.

  45. 162
    Gordon Brown says:

    My fellow Egyptians. I am ready to serve you.

  46. 163
    Arab says:

    You want chili sauce with that?

  47. 166
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Has the Middle P8ace envoy been saving Egypt?

    • 171
      The shifting sands of the land of the Pharoahs have shifted(a bit)but don't get too excited just yet says:

      Well he HAS holidayed Sharm el-sheikh…however apropos the Egyptian Revolution” it is still to early to call(army coup or democracy or islamic republic ?) and I remember the euphoria in the western media when the Shah was overthrown and look at where we are now…a powerful Islamic state controlling the Suez Canal and on the southern borders of Israel(even some secular ‘liberal” protesters want a strengthened Egyptian Army to throw the “invaders” out of Sinai)is the west’s and the USA’s “worstt nightmare”

      • 192
        Next please says:

        I hope they are pulling out any Brit workers,if there are any working in the place,remember Iran they didn’t wave the Brits or USasians off Iranian soil they wished them a happy death,wonder where the US Red Sea fleet are,also wonder if they are parked up in Jeddah or doing maneuvers,the fun has begun the toilets in Whitehall all cleared for action(s).

  48. 167
    Hosni Mubarak says:

    I have been asked by a Mr Millerbands to stand as Labour candidate in Mr Illsley’s former seat.

  49. 170
    Need a revolution in Iran says:

    On a serious note, let’s hope the Iranians follow this example and revolt against Madmood Amadinnerjacket and the mullah nutters.

    • 200
      Next please says:

      Even the pigs would be scared to fly in Iranian airspace,it’s not cooked enough, a few more years on a lo flame might help,while the hate in the eyes of the world are on then,they will stick together like glue.

    • 310
      PD77 says:

      Yeah they could replace them with the Muller Lights.

  50. 172
    Emily Maitlis gives me the horn says:

    Phwooar.

  51. 177
    Margaret Moran says:

    Smell my stinky flange.

  52. 179
    "That's the way to do it" says:

    Mr. Punch gets punched

  53. 180
    Gordon Brown says:

    200th!

  54. 181
    The Guardian says:

    Today we are all Egyptians.

  55. 182
    Kim & Aggie go ape says:

    Bleach the BBC. It stinks, like a big gorilla’s hairy @rsehole with piles.

  56. 183
    Mubarak says:

    I’m still leader! I’m in denial. Geddit?

    I’ll get me coat.

  57. 185
    Christ on a fucking bike, she's ugly says:

    Baroness Ashton is being interviewed on al-Jabeeba. Pass the sick bucket.

    • 197
      genghiz the kahn says:

      Did they ask her about how to win power without elections?

      • 230
        Tony Benn says:

        It’s socialist democracy.

        • 237
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          The ultimate oxymoron. Not to be confused with Tony Benn, who is the ultimate idiot savant.

        • 561
          Archie says:

          Anthony Neil Wedgwood-Benn? You are the land owning aristo wot gives ‘is kids posh names, an’ that, and would have fucked the country given half a chance. A fiver will do nicely. Ta.

      • 234
        Baroness Ashton says:

        Democracy? That’s for the likes of the primitive Egyptians. We here in Europe, have no need of such nonsense.

    • 255
      The VET from the BBC says:

      She never had a chin

      Did you notice ?

      Now she has a plastic chin provided by the EU plastic surgeon……(at € 500,000 a throw)

  58. 188
    Jon Snot. says:

    Is it a camel coat?.

  59. 189
    Yoda says:

    Fear is the path to the darkside.

  60. 191
    Victoria Sponge :Φ) says:

    Oh poor Guido. It must be awful working in a sweat shop making t-shirts for pennies.
    Fee Faw, my bob a job man, his wife and eight children will be will be willing to help out.

  61. 196
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    When Dave siad he believes in the free market ,He actully said he believes in free Meerkats .

  62. 201
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Gemma Broad is Fit!

  63. 204
    Gonk says:

    Who would you rather go to the pub with?
    Now let me think…..

  64. 205
    Ed Miliband says:

    We have 24hours to save the NHS , Education, Education,Education .

    • 214
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      *Yawn* Not again….

      • 229
        Tony Blair says:

        No more than 11,000 workers will arrive from Poland. This is vital to our economy. No British jobs will be lost. Everyone will have an NHS dentist. No mixed-sex NHS wards. Every child will leave school speaking at least 2 languages.

        Haaa haa ha ha ha hah ahhah haaaa!

    • 551
      AC1 says:

      Both areas where the state is over-stretch and and should withdraw, both areas heavily infested with the Labour voting parasite classes.

  65. 209
    NotaSheep says:

    Stephen Pound one of the more objectionable Labour MPs, remember ‘The public have spoken, the bastards’?

  66. 211
    Judge Judy for President says:

    She’s great. Doesn’t take any lefty bullshit.

  67. 215
    Gordon Brown says:

    Tonight i will be Guidos suprise stripper.

  68. 217
    Victoria Sponge :Φ) says:

    @Billy. I think meerkats should be free to roam the deserts, forcing them to make ads is cruel.
    Now go buy me a Black Russian, darling.

  69. 219
    The VET fromthe BBC says:

    I am a veterinary surgeon…

    I usually examine animals. It is my job in life and I studied under New Labour for years to get there…

    I am now obliged to examine many Labour MPs and ex-MPs, Peers and Ministers to certify whether they are normal human beings…

    It is a gruesome business and the outcome is not a foregone conclusion…

  70. 223
    Denis Macshame says:

    I wonder what kind of expenses system they have in the Egyptian parliament? Just considering my options in case things get toasty for me here.

    • 226
      The VET from the BBC says:

      You willbe welcomes by the French, Spanish, Portigese, Italian and Eu systems >Dennis

      But tha

    • 228
      Legal Beagle says:

      You will be welcomed by the French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian and EU parliamentary systems, Dennis

      Especially their Parlianmentary immunity if you are caught…

    • 231
      Legal Beagle says:

      Normally, as fellow members of the Socialist International with the Egyptian Palriament voted in without opposition.. like the Dictator

      You would have had your Balls cut off (and stuffed in your mouth)..(if not worse)

  71. 232
    The Labour Party says:

    We didnt do anything wrong in power.

    • 245
      Eeu to me says:

      You didn’t do anything right in power,you did piss billions up the wall and
      sold gold at 10p an ingot and those 3000 laws,id cards,immigration,90days,petrol taxes,tried road pricing,people dying because you let nutters out,high taxes,banking shitup no you didn’t do anything wrong in power.

  72. 235
    Ratsniffer says:

    Kelvin: top man. Why isn’t he on Question Time? Why isn’t he presenting Question Time?

  73. 236
    Guido and Kelvin saw it before anyone else says:

    Wiki
    “On 11 October 2007, MacKenzie appeared on the BBC’s Question Time TV programme and launched another attack on Scotland. During a debate about tax, MacKenzie claimed that:
    “ Scotland believes not in entrepreneurialism like London and the south east… Scots enjoy spending [money] but they don’t enjoy creating it, which is the opposite to down south.[34] ”
    The comments came as part of an attack on Prime Minister Gordon Brown whom MacKenzie said could not be trusted to manage the British economy because he was “a Scot” and a “socialist”, and insisting that this was relevant to the debate. Fellow panellist Chuka Umunna from the think tank Compass called his comments “absolutely disgraceful”

    How right he was ….And Chuka Oomygoliebird was of course in outer space…

    • 563
      Archie says:

      If I were you I’d keep quiet about Upchuck Ooomigooliebird! If the lefties think he gets up anyone’s nose he’ll be promoted! Far beyond his ability, like the rest of them, of course.

  74. 238
    Wikileaks says says:

    On 11 October 2007, MacKenzie appeared on the BBC’s Question Time TV programme and launched another attack on Scotland. During a debate about tax, MacKenzie claimed that:
    “ Scotland believes not in entrepreneurialism like London and the south east… Scots enjoy spending [money] but they don’t enjoy creating it, which is the opposite to down south.[34] ”
    The comments came as part of an attack on Prime Minister Gordon Brown whom MacKenzie said could not be trusted to manage the British economy because he was “a Scot” and a “socialist”, and insisting that this was relevant to the debate. Fellow panellist Chuka Umunna from the think tank Compass called his comments “absolutely disgraceful”

  75. 239
    Victoria Sponge :Φ) says:

    @Vet from the BBC. So you specialise in Bulls and pigs. I have a little Brown cock that needs to be put down.

  76. 242
    S.B.S. says:

    If I ever meet pound he is going to get a broken nose and his teeth he will have to brush through his arse.
    How anyone can vote for that sack of shit beats me!

  77. 248
    Ratsniffer says:

    Next time labour tries to re-write history and blame it all on the bankers…

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356044/Labour-ministers-leant-IMF-disguise-devastating-truth-pre-credit-crunch-economy.html

    “Labour ministers ‘leant on IMF’ to disguise devastating truth of pre-credit crunch economy”

    • 250
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Cheeky Fuckers , Hang em!

    • 252
      Dominique Strauss Kahn furture President of France says:

      I am the MD of the IMF

      I like being left on by fellow socialists

      And I am a member of the Socialist Intern

      • 253
        Dominique Strauss Kahn furture President of France says:

        I am a member of the Socilaist Interenational along with

        with ex-President Mubarak of Egypt, Ben Ali of Tunisia and Ghackbo of Ivory Coast

        How, all together to the tune of the Eton Boating Song

        We are all democrats together….

        • 254
          Napoleon Carla-Sarkozy says:

          France is collapsing Dominique

          Have you noticed in your Ivory tower ?

        • 280
          Under-represented bleck says:

          Please note, following a NuLab diversity workshop its now to be called the “Eton Boateng song”. Like its namesake, the boat will indeed move oleaginously through the water.

  78. 250
    Vet from the BBC says:

    I have been delegated by the unanimous vote of the Unite/teamsters Trade Union Higher Overpaid and Underworked Committee to discover whether Blinky has one or two ?

    If he only has one, that explains it all…

  79. 256

    Mubarak has gone again. He’ll be back tomorrow. Tune in.

    Next week – Gordon Brown returns.

    BBC

    • 297
      The world's greatest influence peddler p says:

      Help me

      My main funders are going down like ninepins…

      Imelda Slotgob wants her 16th house…

  80. 258
    Gordon Brown says:

    today I will be Murbarak

  81. 259
    Victoria Sponge :Φ) says:

    @Vets. He needs to be put down. No need to charge a fee. I will donate him to Ready, Steady Cock. I am sure Mr Harriet can give him a good stuffing. He deserves a good send off.

  82. 262
    Jethro says:

    Is this a case of ‘not so much pounding the beat as beating the Pound’?

  83. 267
    streamfisher says:

    And on a lighter mood.

  84. 271
    Make the BBC work for you. says:

    Good riddance Mubarak

  85. 273
    Osiris says:

    Obumma wants to send Madoff to Egypt so he can get some military-style retribution torture. Madoff’s happy as he reckons he can do a bit of pyramid selling.

    • 301
      Madoff Mandelson says:

      My master tells me that promises of pyramids are not enough…

      He says he wants the whole of Hosni’s fornture as a fee

      Can you help Osiris ?

      My turn is only 10%…

      • 343
        Osiris says:

        You’ve been spending too much time looking at ed-chris-tal-balls. He was the co-author of the brow-nee-an economy which is written on treasury papyrus. Balls is now proposing a Kon-tiki-raft of taxes on Ban-kers whilst fully supporting his darlings policy on cu*ts which he doesn’t agree with.

        If you want all of Hosni’s pile, you should consult To-Ni and Sherri she will use ooman-rites and To-Ni will simply tell lots of porki-pies. To-Ni will be nailed by Wi-Ki Leeks (a Welsh-Egyptian friendship website).

        And at number one in Egypt is “walk like an Egyptian”

  86. 276
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Why does Mac keep up this ‘horny handed son of toil’ act? His parents were both very middle class journalists and he went to a private school.

  87. 278
    IDS shows Balls says:

  88. 281
    Victoria Sponge :Φ) says:

    I miss Ava Fiva. Goodnite. Mind the coalition cuts don’t bite.

  89. 282
  90. 284
    Gordon Brown says:

    Tonight I am an Egyptian falafel.

  91. 286
    Front page story in today's Standard: Crooks Working In Westminster says:

    Yeah, they’re called MPs.

  92. 292
    You lot are such a cliche says:

    it’s unbelievable

    Taken in by a lying tabloid scum like Mackenzie, who’s little more than a random knee jerk reactionary phrase generator, a Murdoch lackey who has is under the mistaken impression that increasing the volume at which he speaks somehow adds to the profundity of what ever mob pleasing bullshit he happens to be spouting.

    You bunch of hypocritical bell ends will cheer anyone on if they vote for the right team, the fact that you can find it in yourself to cheer on this ignorant, sleazy, boorish prick shouldn’t come as a surprise.

    Kelvin on why the lack of serious news in the Sun:

    “You just don’t understand the readers, do you, eh? He’s the bloke you see in the pub, a right old fascist, wants to send the wogs back, buy his poxy council house, he’s afraid of the unions, afraid of the Russians, hates the queers and the weirdos and drug dealers. He doesn’t want to hear about that stuff”

    • 574
      Papa don't preach says:

      Yup. That pretty much sums up Kelvin Mckenzie. And Mehdi Hassan.
      No premium on ignorance. It’s cross politics.

  93. 299
    AnotherAnon. says:

  94. 307
    MI5 says:

    Happy Birthday Guido

  95. 311
    Jack says:

    Kelvin got it right about the Jocks as well

  96. 316
    Lord "Anji" Boulton says:

    Cor…. did you see me talking abour Egypt today…

    Wasn’t I great ?

    I don’t know a bloody thing about Egypt except that Anji’s boss likes to takes holidays with Mubarak…

    But I was really imprsseive don’t you think .

    Roopie will give me a raise I think…

  97. 319
    Homosexual Muslim says:

    Hello Lads , Anyone want to do me up my back Allah?

  98. 324
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Right, Dave tell the EU To fuck off , you will have popular support in the country , You will have more if you stand up to the wankers, Give us the In/out referendum we are crying out loud for and you might win a majority next time!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356037/We-expect-better-oldest-democracy-Brussels-bites-defiant-MPs-reject-votes-prisoners.html

    • 329
      Herman Van Rompuy says:

      The last t’ory PM to do that came a cropper, and so would this one if he followed your advice.

  99. 325
  100. 331
    bird with small brain says:

    Not relevant but who cares: On QT last night, the derisive audience response ( to the idea that the previous government were to blame for the financial situation necessitating cuts) has got to mean one of the following:
    1) The BBC had deliberately packed the audience with Labour supporters.
    2) The BBC selection process was fair but a substantial number of those present had, of their own accord, lied about their political affiliation.
    3) The Labour party and/or unions have an undercover scheme to get their supporters into the audience i.e. an organised scam.
    4) The audience was balanced and a substantial number of Conservative supporters don’t think the Labour government had any part in creating the deficit.
    5) Or, even if they think it might be true, the general public are fed up with the ‘blame game’.

    If it’s 4) or 5) I think Mr Cameron and friends are making a mistake in putting all the responsibility on the previous government. It invites people to reject it out of hand, even if true. A more moderate message would have greater impact, namely: Gordon Brown is responsible, the Bankers are responsible, the regulators are responsible, you are responsible for maxing out on your credit cards, we (the then opposition) are responsible for not foreseeing some of the problems, everyone who took out a self-certified mortgage for seven time their salary is responsible. And then, like the admirable Douglas Alexander, say ‘it doesn’t matter who’s to blame: we’re still in the shit. You better get used to it’.

    • 332
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      None of em , We got conned into thinking he was a Tory.

      • 339
        True colours says:

        I thought you didn’t vote Billy?

        • 341
          Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

          I never said , That , I said i vote in a area that is safe seat and no matter who i vote for it wont make the slighest bit of difference .

    • 338
      The BBC are cunts says:

      Number 1 please.

    • 395
      Ratsniffer says:

      Don’t get me started! QT makes my piles turn purple. It’s the only programme which makes me shout at the TV and then, in a rage, end up switching off. Fucking bunch of leftie wankers.

      • 408
        I'm an ordinary white english bloke, is that ok with you? says:

        Good point, well made.

        For fuck’s sake scrap the licence fee.

  101. 334
    You lot are such a cliche says:

    it’s unbelievable

    Taken in by a lying tabloid scum like Mackenzie, who’s little more than a random knee jerk reactionary phrase generator, a Murdoch lackey who has is under the mistaken impression that increasing the volume at which he speaks somehow adds to the profundity of what ever mob pleasing bullshit he happens to be spouting.

    You bunch of hypocritical bell ends will cheer anyone on if they vote for the right team, the fact that you can find it in yourself to cheer on this ignorant, sleazy, boorish prick shouldn’t come as a surprise.

    Kelvin on why the lack of serious news in the Sun:

    “You just don’t understand the readers, do you, eh? He’s the bloke you see in the pub, a right old fas cist, wants to send the wo*s back, buy his poxy council house, he’s afraid of the unions, afraid of the Russians, hates the qu eers and the weirdos and drug dealers. He doesn’t want to hear about that stuff”

  102. 337
    Mark O says:

    Happy Birthday to you
    I just done poo
    I put it in a envolope
    And sent it to you.

  103. 355
    David Cameron says:

    I am a Tory.

    • 356
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      nope , Judging by your actions , You are 30% Tory, 20% socailst and 50% Eu arse-licker.

      • 362
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        Delete 30% tory. Add 30% muscular liberal. DC is not a Tory.

        • 365
          Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

          Got the other 2 right tho :-)

          • Buggins says:

            WTF is a T’ory?

            Someone who started the whole mass movement of imm*grants from the col*nies?
            Someone who led us into the the EU?
            Someone who stabbed the Eurosceptic Prime Minister up the arse?
            Someone who was quite happy to rob the taxpayer, just as the Labour (spit spit) crooks were?
            Someone who would do a deal with the Lib Dem ho’s, just to sit on the Speakers right hand?

            T’ories? Don’t make me laugh.

        • 367
          Buggins says:

          WTF is a T’ory?

          Someone who started the whole mass movement of immigrants from the colonies?
          Someone who led us into the the EU?
          Someone who stabbed the Eurosceptic Prime Minister up the arse?
          Someone who was quite happy to rob the taxpayer, just as the Labour (spit spit) crooks were?
          Someone who would do a deal with the Lib Dem ho’s, just to sit on the Speakers right hand?

          T’ories? Don’t make me laugh.

    • 360
      KenClarke says:

      No, you mean “I am a Tony”

  104. 357
    Prezza says:

    Where’s that “Suet Canal” – it sounds really appetising.

  105. 364
    nell says:

    Hope you’ve had a great day Guido. Birthdays are for enjoying, especially as you get older year after year.

    Happy Birthday!

  106. 369
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Rumour: David Blunkett to become new expenses clerk.

  107. 372
    Steady as U Go says:

    The Gypos are going to be sorely disappointed. Their Military top Brass have the best of everything and they won’t give it up.

    The Yankers (inc UK) don’t care as long as the new gypo regime maintains stability.

  108. 375
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Can some socailist country stone Polly to death?

  109. 381
  110. 382
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    The looney left are at it again.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/11/taming-jade-goody-big-brother-globe

    • 402
      Those Cairo cunts need Gordon's iron rule, & financial genius says:

      It was only yesterday you were contrite about endless shite posts you fuckwit, cu’ntstick

  111. 399
    Gordon Brown says:

    I shook hands with Mr Mubarak last week.

  112. 400
    Those Cairo cunts need Gordon's iron rule, & financial genius says:

    Sort the modding out you Pikey scum-hole

  113. 405
    The Sun headline that never was says:

    GORDON BROWN ATE MY HAMSTER

  114. 407
    Just asking like says:

    Look at the news about Egypt.

    Watch the people shout that they love their country.
    Watch the people wave their country’s flag.
    Watch the peoples’ faces as they hope about their future.

    Now think about how this sort of thing is denied to the ordinary people of Britain.

    If you do this in Britain, you’d be branded as a Little Englander.
    If you do this in Britain, you’d be branded as a Right Winger.
    If you do this in Britain, you’d be branded as a Racist.

    Do you think this is a shame?

    • 409
      Yasbin Alibi Clown says:

      As it should be!

      • 415
        Inner London Diversity Facilitator says:

        The people of Cairo don’t seem that diverse do they?

        Where are the white Christians?

    • 429
      Heres Morebollocks retires to Shame a Sheik says:

      it would be very easy to reply rather candidly to you ‘just asking’ but given the options you describe in stereotypical terms…get a ryanair flight to Yemen enjoy round 2 of the middle east bunfight firsthand and let us know what they think of your teatowel outfit.

    • 446
      Annie says:

      It is shameful indeed

      The PC Fascists have destoyed real democratic debate in the UK…

    • 447
      Jack says:

      And the British people should rise up en masse like the Tunisians and Egyptians
      against an arrogant and discredited minority who dictate the terms of the debate
      using the disgracful state-controlled BBC as their mouthpiece

      • 453
        Eeu to me says:

        Don’t be daft,it’s too cold,it’s not summer,my benefits haven’t arrived,theres a good Coronation st episode on,Dancing on ice is on,can’t miss the Jeremy Kyle show,not interested I didn’t vote last May,bloody torys stirring it up,while they sit in their big houses,it’s awful all they ever do is put petrol,beer and fags up,good job I get housing benefits the price the council is charging and they don’t empty the bins properly,so rising early is just too much.

      • 455
        Eeu to me says:

        moderated as usual

  115. 413
  116. 425
    Sid Vicious says:

    whilst reviewing the local press I found this article, kinda highlights how MPs operate and what they really think of their constituents

    http://www.shoorayner.com/?p=4106

    Mark Harper has to have a police presence whenever he talks to his constituents in case they scare him. Obviously a career politician with little interest in the people who voted for him

    • 426
      Sid Vicious says:

      also, exactly how much did his police escort and getaway vehicle cost local people in a time of austerity? Come on Mark Harper , tell us what you think you are worth?

  117. 428
    The Daily has spoken;Parliament has voted and the Council of Europe says "So What!" says:

    A salutory lesson for anyone who thinks that UK Parliament is Sovereign and THAT vote counts as far as “Brussels” is concerned !!!!!!
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356037/We-expect-better-oldest-democracy-Brussels-bites-defiant-MPs-reject-votes-prisoners.html

    • 430
      DisgustedOfTunbridgeWells says:

      Another banana skin for Dave, he’s heading for trouble if he gives way over votes for prisoners.

  118. 431
    Tacitus says:

    Yes, after all, if you gave prisoners votes you’d have to accept you cared about their welfare. God forbid, you may have to use words like … rehabilitation!!!

    • 439
      You have a Richard for a Head says:

      What has the Vote got to do with a prisoner’s welfare?

      They are banged up for doing wrong, their vote is removed for doing wrong. Using your perverted logic you would release them from prison because it was better for their welfare.

    • 452
      Two sides says:

      Let’s tell you a story,let’s say my gran,82 living happily,active here there everywhere doing her own shopping,one day while in her house,on her own, two ,men claiming they were from the waterboard asked her they needed to test the water pressure,one distracted her while the other took her pension money,after that,she never went out again and got the family to get things for her,all amounts of persuasion, trips to wherever she wanted to go never budged her from her house,she lasted a year,to me those bastards murdered her,it’s alright being a bleeding liberal heart but their two sides to every vile piece of shit enjoying my taxes sitting on their arses in jail and the other side is the victim,but then they don’t matter to twits like you.

    • 459
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Nope , Prison is a punishment and rehadbiltion, We are not a Medievil state .

      But buy your logic we shouldnt bang em up because it is agaisnt they frredom of movment .

      • 468
        Eeu to me says:

        What a joke rehabilitaion it doesn’t work,it requires the animals to understand they have done wrong and realise it’s wrong,these animals don’t care and will promise anything to get out and carry on.

    • 495
      Spineless more like says:

      What a shameless insult to a great man who understood the meaning of the word punish (Tacitus)

  119. 432
    Anonymous says:

    Pound’s logic went like this:

    “State schools are shit and don’t educate people properly. Private schools educate pupils very well, but most ordinary people can’t afford them. The solution therefore is to close all the good (private) schools, take more money off the parents who had sent their kids to those private schools, and then give all that money to the people who are currently running the shit state schools (badly) but to continue to let the state schools run things badly and not to learn anything from how the private sector had produced good results in the first place.”

    No wonder Kelvin got annoyed; the attitude that Pound has defies all logic/reason. Pound was being an odious fuckwit as usual; totally devoid of all common sense, logic, and reason. A typical lefty twat who doesn’t give a flying fuck about reality, he just wants to tick his left boxes on his “guidelines” sheet. Councils up and down the country, even tory ones, are 100% full of fucking stupid box-ticking twats like Pound.

    • 438

      Exactly. And he grandstands. Victim of his own ego which dwarfs his miniscule (at best) abilities.

    • 458
      Aesop o'Sardis says:

      Your case is sound but seriously understated!

    • 465
      Anonymous says:

      Councils’ anger at government publicity ban:
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12436797

      Asked why local politicians might need private consultants to communicate with other politicians, she said: “I don’t think individual councillors know the complexities.”

      …..

      Councils are basically therefore saying “our councillors and other council workers are totally negligent; unaware of anything that’s going on, unable to do their jobs due to their own mind-blowing total stupidity. The solution is therefore not to try to get councillors/workers who aren’t negligent, the solution is to keep negligent councillors and council workers and use tax payers’ money to employ someone from the private sector to do what the councillors should already know/do.”

      No councils have yet published their spending items (at least not in a format that’s of any use, “£1000 project costs paid to generic contractor x” is no fucking use to anyone). Until councils publish the details of what they spend, I have absolutely no sympathy for any council that moans about government cuts.

      Councils are simply withdrawing front line services rather than looking at how they manage things, and then blaming the government.

      Eric Pickles needs to get them to publish their spending items properly, otherwise this blame-the-government-for-our-own-negligence culture will continue and just get worse.

      Our council wasted millions fucking up junctions and roundabouts that worked pefectly well just so that they technically did everything their “guidelines” said. They ignored all practicalities and common sense, turned the whole road system to a dangerous heap of shit with our money, and they only did it because “EU Guidelines” came out. They used “guidelines” as a new legal edict for specifics, instead of using them as guideliness. Guidelines are exactly that; just guidelines; you’re still supposed to use your own common sense and look at the practicalities.

      Pickles needs to attack these councils for not firing people like that who fuck up the whole system with our money; they should be fired, and then sued to recoup the money. But instead they keep their jobs, continue to fuck everything up using our money, and when questioned about it they just say “it was in the guidelines.”

      Pickles needs to keep a closer eye on these fuckwits, and fire and sue the shit out of them.

      • 485
        Mornington Crescent says:

        I worked for one for a short while a few years back; I still have my £80k-a-year boss’ words ringing in my ears “you’ve got to spend your budget, you’ve got to spend your budget…”

        Yep, even if I’d done everything asked of me that year, I had to piss away any money left, in order to balance the books and avoid a budget cut the following year. ‘Coming in under budget’ was positively frowned upon, nay sniggered at.

        Until that bonkers mentality is turned on its head, nothing will really change.

        Oh, and if Our Eric wants to really force transparency, he can make councils publish a full organogram of their operations, including total remuneration (ie salary plus the usual pensions, bonuses, goodies etc) and any outside business interests for every single fucking post – ditto for arm’s length council-funded bodies.

      • 546
        Anonymous says:

        Our council spent a fortune on “newsletters”, basically a full blown newspaper sent out to every single house in the whole fucking county which was about 20 pages with nothing but this in it:
        “the evil central government have cut our budget. we’re running everything perfectly, we do nothing wrong, so we’re having to cut frontline services. blame the tories”
        all paid for with council tax money.
        (no mention of the countless millions they’ve pissed up the wall due to their own mind-blowing negligence though, and no publication of what they’re actually spending their money on)

        • 553
          Anonymous says:

          the ironic thing is that it’s a tory council, blaming central government tories.
          what choice is there though?
          If I vote libdem or labour then they’ll be even worse.
          You need to have central government keeping an eye on councils, and when they see blatent waste and negligence, then the central government needs to step in, and fire+sue the relevant people.
          I’ve never understood how people at the top of the council don’t get sued when they act with gross negligence. Can we, as members of the public, ask the government to sue them?
          If we see our council wasting a million quid because they never bothered to read a contract properly, then surely we can start a process not just to kick them out, but to sue them to get the money back? Don’t they have professional liability/indemnity insurance to get money back that they piss up the wall?
          If they did this in the private sector, they’d be fired, hauled up in court and ruined. But because they work for the council, somehow they get to keep their jobs and continue wasting our money and turning the local services to shit.

  120. 436
    Herman, Herman, Herman, OUT! OUT! OUT! says:

    Never mind freedom for Egypt. What about freedom for Britain from the European dictatorship.

  121. 441
    Reuters Correspondent says:

    Guido

    In this “spring of freedom”, there is a serious point currently that needs denunciation and exposure…

    Not only has Tony Blair resorted to the most shameful influence peddling
    thereby earning millions

    But he has well documented PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS with Col Gaddafi
    and Silvio Berlusconi among others (to be investigated)…

    Both these men should be the subject of popular uprisings also for gross
    and repeated abuse of power and anti-democratic conduct…

    How does Blair explain his “relationships” with these obscenities ?

  122. 442
    Jack says:

    In this spring of freedom

    When will Tony Blair’s well documented personal relationships with enemies of democracy like Gaddafi and Berlusconi be denounced ?

  123. 454
  124. 456
    Tom Baldwin says:

    Well said Baroness

    Tory Party chairman Baroness Warsi last night branded Mr Miliband a ‘Prime Minister in waiting, saying: ‘He’s supporting a rally which wants to see the deficit reduced over decades when the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Governor of the Bank of England and the CBI said the bulk of it needs to be dealt with in the current Parliament, and they are all wrong and Ed Miliband is 100% correct”

    ‘This shows that David Cameron and the conservative led coalition do not have one shred of economic credibility”

    • 463
      Has any party got economic credibilty though ? That's the truly depressing thing says:

      Trouble is though I’m not convinced that the “Two Eds” have any better plan than “Dave” and “Gideon” for dealing with the deficit…whoever is in power(and if the AV referendum is a resoundong yes and we change the system it’s likely that the LibDems will always be in coalition with either the Tories or Labour as no one party will ever win an overall majority ever again)will have difficulty getting the electorate to accept that …one there is a problem and two it requires cuts three they individually should be effected by it…the left media and the BBC may think it’s smart to rubbish the coalition’s plans but all they’re really doing is ensuring that no government be it Labour or Tory led will get the support of the public to actually do anything to tackle it ……………… now or in the future.Truly a future f**k*d for all !!!

      • 467
        IMF says:

        Er…….like most of the dimwit electorate you’ve forgotten that almost every Labour government has ended in near bankruptcy for the nation.

      • 469
        sam says:

        Er…….like most of the dimwit electorate you’ve forgotten that almost every Labour government has ended in near bankruptcy for the nation.

      • 475

        Dificult decisions make you unpopular at first but respected later.

        Not enough difficult decisions have been taken yet, except perhaps by Eric Pickles.

      • 494
        Anonymous says:

        AV will NOT lead to endless coalitions. More often than not Labour will win with a large majority.

        • 507
          Has any party got economic credibilty though ? That's the truly depressing thing says:

          Then we are truly f*c*ed

  125. 461
    John Ward says:

    McFatso is a twat who works for a twat, around whom the net of capture is slowly closing.
    But uncle Roop is not the only one who’s been at the phones, it seems: the Barclays and their new Mailists at the Torygraph are up there with the best of them….

    http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/hackgate-barclay-brothers-hunt-the-leak-leakers/

  126. 462
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    A good move by the goverment.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/11/dna-profiles-deleted-police-database

  127. 470
    julian says:

    One thing that’s clear from the video, is that Oxford and Cambridge are truly fucked thanks to that fucking idiot Cable.

  128. 472
    Postman Prat says:

    I know this one, its 459?

  129. 484
    Guido Tweet says:

    “That @EdBallsMP goes home in the early hours on a night bus could be a sign of prudence, or more likely he has overspent and is in debt.”

  130. 489
    Borg Drone Won says:

    500!

  131. 490
    Gordon Brown says:

    Today i will be a becon of hope.

  132. 491
    Notably Dim says:

    We should all be grateful for Tony Blair’s immaculate work in preventing a major war in the Middle East by enabling our dear friend Mubarek to leave office gracefully and retire to the wilderness with his looted millions intact. Surely Tony Blair, having solved the Kosovo crisis and the Iraq War problem should now at least be awarded a BAFTA – you know he’s worth it?

    • 509
      Gawd ..you'll be claiming next that the "Middle East Peace Envoy-in-Chief. even parted the Red Sea says:

      I wouldn’t cheer too soon..remember 1979…everyone cheered the downfall of “The Shah” and France even helpfully enabled that old religious Ayotollah who was “perfectly harmless” (according to the BBC anyway)to return to Tehran…the rest as they say is history………………………..

  133. 492

    Il papa sta vedendo Guido adesso!

  134. 498
    HappyUK says:

    Most people that have endured the state school system know that MacKenzie is spot on.

    Too many self-serving NUT wankers with absolutely no interest in the child’s education. A small minority were decent teachers, many of whom had done time in industry, the rest were a waste of space and undoubtedly in the wrong game.

    • 505
      Prof of History says:

      do you think that any government is that interested in schooling? Only so far as it doesn’t rebound on them and call them, the government, for gross hypocrisy and theiving eh?

      Most governments are satisfied with a degree of poverty, a degree of unemployment, a large degree of stupidity and plenty of room for being disengenious

  135. 501
    Shit hit fan says:

    The idea that Egypt will now become a democracy is hilarious. It’ll become another dictatorship, this time under the control of the muslim brotherhood. What few freedoms people had before will vanish and it’ll be like Iran under Khomeini.

  136. 503
    Chucky Yamumma says:

    I will give my opinion on this as soon as Ed tells me what it should be. And he will tell me as soon as Mr Whelan tells him what it should be.

  137. 504
    Does this mean Torybear is in charge while you're away? says:
  138. 510
    Steve Miliband says:

    Labour are gutless.
    They never make a tough decision. They either do nothing or throw someone else’s money at it.
    Healthcare, welfare, military spending, education; They spent the money but never make long term changes to improve things.
    At least the coalition has the guts to make the necessary changes so that long term the tax payer will get better value for money and better services.
    They will be unpopular in the short term. Even if they get voted out at least they tried.
    Not everything they do is right and because they are doing it at break neck speed they have huge presentational problems, but at least they are not just printing more money which is what GB would have done.

    • 518
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      All i want this goverment to do is run the nations purse responsabilty , Encourage Hard work in school and buisness , Lower taxes and less red tape from those arseholes in brussels .

    • 527
      Eeu to me says:

      The Coalition as composed with the nuConned us in charge are unpopular because they are rubbish at PR,they can’t explain what they are up too as the same people who did their PR before and during the May6th 2010 are still there,until their’s a clearout and have a PR team that can out lie, and out shout the Liebour and Unite PR team and explain in all the worlds languages to the people of this country that 2+2 has to equal 4 and not 34 then they will lose the next election.

      • 571
        It's the BBC innit says:

        Tell the BBC and all the gin-soaked and drug addicted newspaper hacks that!
        New Labour was built on media relations, in case you never noticed.
        The BBC will continue their 30+ year Tory-bashing orgy and Labour will keep feeding lazy hacks column inches.
        Until the BBC is tackled, the government will continue to get battered in communications. Broadcasting is the best way to do the shallow attack-based politics of Labour, and the BBC is the most influential news organisation in this country by a long way. The BBC can mount coordinated attacks like no other news organisation. Through 24 tv news, news bulletins on non-news channels. Radio attacks through national news radio stations and news-bulletins on non-news stations. Same with BBC local radio and augmented by their much visited website. These channels of communications have a far greater socio-demographic reach then any other organisation can possibly achieve (including News corp) and are particulary effective because they all sing form the same BBC hymnsheet,Tories evil and Labour good etc. Contrast that with News Corp oultets that have a different approach to news coverage, from Shouty popularism of Sun/NoTW to the Blairite bollocks of the Times and Sky News.

  139. 511
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Hang on ! where is the stat porn?

  140. 512
    Steve Miliband says:

    Murbarak won’t go.
    He’s in de Nile.

  141. 514
    At least they won't have to dodge any flying Nokias and flying printers says:
    • 515
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Thats Eygpt Fucked then!

      • 521
        Anonymous says:

        It was nice of her to give them a mention in my opinion Billy, she’s got plenty of problems of her own.

        • 522
          Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

          Hey i am all for freedom and P*aceful protest so i support the Eygptions, Just worried about the Jonah curse……..

        • 530
          Eeu to me says:

          Pray tell us as you seem to know her,what problems does she have,is it the problem her husband has taking loads of undeserved public money to the banks in a wheel barrow or his body guard don’t know how to fix his rocking horse.

  142. 525
    The fuckers who've gone down so far says:

    Tell me if I’ve missed any out.

    David Chaytor
    Phil Woolas
    Eric Illsley
    Jim Devine
    John Taylor

    Next pig in the frame…
    Elliot Morley

  143. 543
    Mohammed Al Fayed says:

    With Hosni’s billions Fulham will rule the world.

  144. 550
    Islamosocialism says:

  145. 555

    We don’t have a monopoly on stupid politicians, just more than our fair share. Meanwhile, across the pond …

    The Dumbest Thing Ever Said!…by Hillary Clinton, about the Drug War
    (acknowledgement to AC1 for introducing me to Instpundit.)

  146. 570
    QWERTY says:

    So why are most bummers lefties and why are most MP’s caught stealing also lefties?

    Do they have a defective gene?

  147. 573
    Anonymous says:

    What a complete twat.



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