Hague’s Vague Bahrain Foresight
As shots ring out over Bahrain, have a look at what a news agency out of Manama was reporting our switched on Foreign Secretary saying exactly a week ago:
“British Foreign Secretary William Hague paid tribute today to Bahrain’s tremendous democratic achievements brought about thanks to the wise leadership and reform project of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. He hailed the kingdom’s successful reforms expressing confidence Bahrain will build on them in the future.”
He went on to thank “Bahrain for its remarkable stances in the defence and security field adding that boosting consultation with the GCC countries regarding foreign policies is Britain’s top priority” Someone had their eye on the ball…
UPDATE: Given how much time Hague spent in Bahrain with his former SpAd, Chris Myers, you would have thought he would have clocked something was up.
According to his entry in the register of interests the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (c/o the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain, 30 Belgrave Square) donated the cost of hotel accommodation for two nights in Bahrain; £1,115.86 (9-11 January 2010) when he met the Foreign Minister of Bahrain. Perhaps he was distracted by something.
Leave William alone you nasty blogger.
Spadstic!
all you ragheads can fuck off and die! democracy? fuck off! i’ve got a race to run. how else is an old age pensioner to earn a crust and pay for his viagra and have his knob sucked off?
If Gaddafi falls can we have the Lockerbie bomber back?
No. The government don’t want to pay his compensation whe he would win his appeal.
I must admit Hague seems to take a totally different stance on Egypt where the UK has no interest than he does on Bahrain where the UK has lots of interests.
But isn’t that what he is supposed to do? Acts in Britain’s interests.
They don’t have excellent free education, schools and hospitals in Egypt, quite a difference.
Come into my hotel room and I’ll show you exactly how I act.
The UK has plenty of interest in Egypt. BP has a huge presence there, for example, but don’t let that spoil your trite post.
BP does not stand for British Petroleum now. Did you not read the news during the USA oil spill?
What USA oil spill?
Yes but you and I are NOT the UK!
The UK is and always has been very happy to support pretty much anything at all, especially if it makes a few bob!
The UK can afford to be anything it likes if it loses nothing by being so.
WE are NOT the UK!
Hi Chris. I recall that you and William spent two nights together in Bahrain on your way back from Afghanistan. Paid for by the Bahrain government.
It was a short honeymoon break for the lad and his benefactor, don’t be so mean. Gay lads like Chris, deserve to be wined and dined by their millionaire benefactors like everyone else in a similar position.
“Given how much time Hague spent in Bahrain with his former SpAd, Chris Myers, you would have thought he would have clocked something was up”
Oh, he did that alright, Mr. Fawkes…
“Perhaps he was distracted by something” , Chris Myers? I thought the arabs strung people for less!
A woman for a wife; a boy for pleasure
No no no no no no no you obvious kafr.
A wife for duty; a mistress for pleasure; but a boy for ecstasy!
A wife for duty; a mistress for pleasure; but a boy for ecstasy!
What about the goats and donkys?
Wassa a madda wif you people, Why this Boy, Goata , Donkey?
You sticka with da wife, and haveda Escort Girls for da rumpy pumpy
You people go ada Latin way
No no no and no…
A woman for children a boy for pleasure.
Manamana, doo doo d-doo-doo
Manama, doo d-doo doo
Is there any particular reason Hague is given such a punishing time on this blog? It seemed reasonable when I thought this was an independent blog, but with Neo-Guido on board it just seems.. bizarre. Unless it’s just because he’s committed a few whoopsies and we like gossiping? Which admittedly I do.
Ah Oil, the cause of, and solution to, all of mans problems.
1 room or 2?
PLEASE READ ABOVE. WHAT BASTARDS THE BBC ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is Qatar safe?
What’s up, Sepp? Cheque not cleared yet?
That cleared before thevote. Do you think Sepp would trust those corrupt Arabs?
oi vey! too true!
If your name is Tiger Woods then it depends where you spit… but if it’s anything like that other bodily fluid, I usually swallow!
It’ll be frightning if I remember Qatarmass’
Dunno… 24,860 miles is a hell of a long circumference to govern and guard!
Oy, you talking about me!
I can translate, he is just saying “its a great place for a military base”
Do you disagree with that?
Do you remember when you could fly there on Concorde? Those were the days.
Do you remember when you could actually fly on Concorde? Now those really were the days!
Naughty naughty. I know what you mean, ‘cos I used to be naughty too.
I remember when we enjoyed concorde…good crack that and bloody quick too
Either that or “here’s the order form for 50 fighter jets, 200 tanks and 100,000 tear gas canisters – just sign here, Your Excellency.”
We are offering cash back deal!
Did my hearing deceive me twice this morning… or did Willy Gayge really say on the BBC Radio 4 News that there was no proof that tear-gas had been used against the protesters?
No British tear gas, he said. A bit of “wilful blindness” there, probably: I suspect we haven’t actually asked, in case we get the “wrong” answer.
The twat’ll be blaming IG Farben for the tear gas next…
Your hearing is fine, P, I’m sad to confirm on this occasion…
Thank goodness for that… for a moment I was worried my eyesight problem, which my doctor tells me is caused by an overactive shaking right hand, had spread to my ears!
Or on some balls
It’s Sunni’s uprising against the ruling Shia’s. It is a religion thing rather than a democracy thing.
It’s a funny old world.
As it usually is in that region.
Dont worry Polly Toynbee will turn up next
But it’s the peaceful religion !
sad fact is they are all the same
but fucking hate each other and everybody else !
Back of the class I’m afraid. The rulers are Sunni , the other 70% of the population are Shia. Iran has been trying to stir it up for years and now it is going tits up though I am unsure how much credit Iran deserves as opposed to the 100% it will claim.
Teachers pet sat right at the front !
there are many different types/tribes of muslims
and they all hate each other !
It’s actually more tribal than anything else as is usually the case in Arab politics. When I lived in Oman many, many years ago the new Sultan who came to power banned “tribalism” in an attempt to bring unity to the nation. And that included the local Welsh choir and the Caledonian Society becuase they were “tribes” and he was correct. My how we English chaps larfed at the predicament of the expatriate Celts!!
I got caught humming the theme tune to the archers once. I was placed under house arrest for a week.
I’ve never heard it all the way through. My hand shoots out by reflex and switches the radio off as soon as it starts.
How does it go on from: dum dee dum dee dum dee dum?
It’s an Ahmadinejad thing… like Afghanistan is.
Or the other way round
What did you expect him to say Guido?
Are you the sort who arrives at a party and tells the host/hostess that the house stinks, the curtains don’t match the suite, the foods crap and that you stopped drinking Piat d’or when you left Uni?
Thought not.
You been to Bercow’s as well then?
+1 LOL
likewise hahahaha, brevity = the soul of wit.
The place was crap and the champagne warm and flat, but the hostess wore a nice smile and not much else which more than made up for having to spend time jawing with her husband.
At least with Archole you used to get shepherds pie and Krug…
I usually ask the host’s wife if the “carpet matches the curtains ?”
… and “the beef the gravy”?
Was “collar and cuffs” when I were a lad lol
You’ve all lost me . Have I led a sheltered life ?
Hey Parag. There are messages waiting at your gaff! Have you not seen them?
Curtains matching the suite (whatever that is)? How quaint.
I’m sick of Arabs cluttering up our news. Who paid for their flags I wonder. Its usually George Soros.
I’mp sick and tied of a silly little nation of 4 million people in the Middle East hogging the news every day…
Don’t forget that other millionaire rent-seeker, Maurice Strong.
Sort it out Hague, this is costing me money. Big Time!!
Why does a little prick control the Grand Prix?
The usual of not what but who you know!
If you give £I million to criminal Zanu Labour you can expect nothing from us you pint sized jerk…
Follow the money Guido
But start with Blair, the Powell brothers, Mandelson and Precott first..
I kid thee not
There are billions up for graps at this very moment…
Stop rioting or you aint getting the Grand Prix.
final solution!
i want my pension paid in chocolate coins
Me too.
Good man, Willy. Get in!
ila Al Leka’
All these Egyptians and Bahrainis are asking for is £40,000 a year each, Miele washing machines, gold plated taps and no requirement to work for them. Someone has promised them all their dreams will come true if only they rampage round the streets causing havoc for a few weeks – and the fools believed him.
You forgot the 70 virgins.
It’s only 40 during a recession.
I beg a thousand pardons your majesty.
And there is that little matter of having to be dead first…
We’re all dying, the destinations the same we just take different times to get there!
Well, in that case, what are we waiting for?
lol
OK, You’ve tempted me, PD77!!!
Why don’t we do as the man said and “bomb the bastards!”
(I was going to include that at the end of the original but fought with myself over it and resisted on the basis that it changed the effect completely. Thanks for a second bite at that cherry
)
72 White raisins is another transaltion of Mahameds p43dophile manual.
said the talmudist prick.
Both books full of lies and hatred – stick to the Gospels and you won’t go far wrong.
Ayup. What is wrong with a bit of non-theism, lad!
I thought you’d been quiet. Yellow Card hurting?
I think I’ll stick with Adam Smith (PBUH) and “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”.
Come to Britain all this is possible
Oh Hell, thank God Labour aren’t still in power. Brown would be at Heathrow to wave in the new arrivals – plane after plane after plane of them.
Many believed B’Liar and McBroon, and what is amazing there is a sizeable number STILL believe them! some people love to buy crap and cry when it all goes wrong.
Thats what you get on benefits in the UK
Bahrain now that’s one place I wouldn’t have thought would have kicked off especially now they are connected via causeway to Saudi,I think Brown may not have the monopoly of man nappies,I think da management in Saudi will be making sure their visa’s are in order as they may need to get out quickly to visit their money,oooh Britain and America must be burning some lights on this one.
The causeway has been there for decades.
1982,hell thats flown.
The Thursday afternoon rushhour is legend.
The only reason the Saudis built it is so that they could all get access to easy booze for the weekend freely available in Bahrain but strictly off limits in 6th Century Saudi Arabia. The Kuwaitis like it too – a quick whizz down the coast, turn left and off you go…
Interesting place the Gulf.
The Park Lane call girls are booked into Thai hospitals for their fanny tightening ops in anticipation… London will boom again with all the Saud family splashing the cash!
I’m slightly worried as I have a relative in Bahrain.
Are British subjects being given any advice on whether it’s safe to stay
or should they get the hell out?
Ask the Consular Dept at the FCO – or go to the British Embassy Manama website.
He wouldn’t have noticed what was going on
with his face buried in the pillow !
Lets stir up some shit in Qatar
then they wont have to hold the world cup in a feckin greenhouse !
Consensual sex between two adults? Disgusting! They should be like the catholic church, noncing children!
Yes, but the Catholic Church doesn’t do it at my expense.
Jailing child-abusers is expensive.
I’m voting Labour.
Guido
Please detach me from my Balls
What use will you be to me then?
Keep your head down, love.
You still have your own attached, I heard.
Wassa wrong with your balls?
Muchos Coingonos.
Hey getta ridda da wifey Yvette, she not sexy bambino, more like a da dose of clap, not so nice and da stays around for beaucopu long time
Nothing wrong with mine, monsignore!
It is the boy Yvette’s pre-op state that I was referring to. Agree that she is like a dose of the clap. Not welcome at a decent bunga bunga event at all.
“The eastern world, it is exploding
Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’
You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’
But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.
It is exploding
Slience
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Have another line chum
And then fuck off
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Isn’t that a Hillman Minx body shell in the background.
No wonder the song was a so full of meaning.
I had a mate in the 70s who had a Hillman Minx – only he called it the Hillman Stinks as it was rather unreliable.
Isn’t that Jerry Lewis? You know, the bloke that the French believe is the funniest man in the history of the universe!
It will cost £300,000 to move civil servants dealing with Rupert Murdoch’s bid to take over BSkyB, after Vince Cable’s gaffe, the BBC has learned.
IT changes will cost an estimated £280,000 and moving staff and materials £20,000, an FOI request revealed.
The business secretary was stripped of his role overseeing media competition issues after being recorded saying he had “declared war” on Rupert Murdoch.
Oh God! , Just let Murdoch have full control make the BBC subscripotn and let the market decide. Lets stop wasting money.
We depend on the BBC.
Source ?
An FOI request.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12509829
Thank you
The incomptent and costly oaf Cable should resign
Did you see me on Strictly Come Dancing?
and I really shone on QT, despite sitting next to that intelligent woman who tried to diminish my many achievements.
4 out of 10 indeed – I almost went nuclear
Seriously for a moment, how the F can it cost 280k. to shift a few computers? No, really?
I can only guess it’s another of Gordon’s PFI deals signed with the likes of Crapita; you know, the kind of deals that result in hospitals being charged 150 Quid to change a light bulb.
FFS.
I saved the world.
Have you seen how expensive it is to hire a diversity consultant in a hurry to minimise the number of white males being hired (on full-time contracts) to move the computers?
Probably another EDS contract fixed at a grand a day for some monkey who has to look in the bleeding manual every 5 minutes – wankers!
Bring it on Guido
We have a more more to say
Can’t we just carpetbomb the entire raghead region while we can?
Who’d notice the difference? It’s all sandhills as it is.
Turn the Middle East sand into “Glow in the Dark” Glass?
Correct. The oil is underground and the cash is in Switzerland. Nothing to go for.
I meant we should carpetbomb them just for a laugh.
Mr Diplomat. We must remember that we have an economic crisis and, on grounds of cost, should carpet bomb only where strictly necessary.
OK. At least carpetbomb Luton and Yorkshire. It’s not like there are any non-muslims there anymore.
Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes:
A muslim gunman has gone on the rampage in Bradford, shooting every english person in sight. The death toll so far stands at two.
Luton OK. But my friend, Engineer, lives on the outskirts of Manchester and I think that jgm2 is just across the Pennines, directly in your proposed line of fire. Would not want either of these very sensible gentlemen, far more sensible than I, to be ‘Betjemened’.
Guido
You must not let the sordid nature of British politics corrupt you soul
Britain is a third world country as I said publicly.
Please have a wonderful evening and life with your family which everyone on this blog knows is at your very heart as it is with all creaeurs of God.
Fucking A !!!!!!
Mr Patten, a former chairman of the Conservative party, is understood to have got the nod from David Cameron to take over from Sir Michael Lyons.
The appointment comes at a highly sensitive time for the corporation and will mark a return of a Tory to the top of the BBC after successive chairmen who were deemed close to Labour.
Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, told the Prime Minister that Mr Patten was “head and shoulders” above the other candidates.
Mr Hunt believes that Mr Patten will be able to stand up to the BBC over controversial aspects of its running including senior salaries and expenses. He has experience of dealing with highly-charged political issues and has a reputation for being strong-willed, a senior Culture Department source said.
He beat Sir Richard Lambert, the former head of the CBI, and Dame Patricia Hodgson, a long time BBC trustee to the post.
Patten went native well before he put himself up for the bbc. he’s a dyed in the wool “we know best” social cohesion, soft-left metroliberal. Trebles all round!
If he can sort out the Chink he can deal with the Pink.
He’ll probably sell it to China – mind you, would we notice the difference?
He did not “sort the Chink”. They merely took back was was rightfully theirs anyway. He just happened to be the guy wearing the hat with the feathers on top on that rainy night in HK.
Absolutely correct, Patten is a senior figure in the Tory Reform Group, a more venal group of Fabian social democrats, you could only find within ZaNu itself. Shits to a man and not one of them Conservative. The BBC will love him and he they.
He’s a good lad Chris
Good choice Dave!
The Tory Reform Group.
* President: Ken Clarke MP
* Chairman: Timothy Crockford
* Deputy Chairman: Victoria Roberts
* Patrons:[3] Sir John Major, Nicholas Bourne AM, David Curry, Stephen Dorrell MP, Charles Hendry MP, Lord Heseltine, Lord Hunt, Lord Hurd, Michael Howard, Steven Norris, Lord Patten, Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP, Sir Timothy Sainsbury, Ian Taylor, Lord Trimble, Lady Verma, Sir George Young MP.
* Vice-Presidents:[3] Alistair Burt MP, Damian Green MP, Jonathan Evans MP.
As I said, a complete shower.
That’s a parcel of rogues in a nation if ever I saw one.
So we will have another old fart with a tomato face inbibed with al cohol and a tra itor to Maraget Thatcher who saved Britain after the IMF, as the Chairman of the BBC
What a change
Why not Ken Clarke after he has fallen over a mousetrap in Sally’s courtyard FFS ?
I’m not happy.
Go back to your taxi and your trechery you pipseak
To thiok that I will have to pay you r pension for life is obcsene…
Don’t forget that he was Mandelson’s plant
Birds of a feather
Why do think they always had pogroms FFS ?
Hey
You have just stolen my dad’s taxi..
Order order
I have given him a special pass to park it in Sally’s boudoir
Order order
Give it back or I will get the pooowlice onto you
Order disorder…
Patten is one smart cookie. As a smiling assassin he’ll sort the leftie bollocks an make no mistake.
Excellent choice. Things are on the up.
Patten is an amiable old buffer with many part-time jobs, who won’t be looking for any trouble. If they keep him well-supplied with Taylor’s ’97 LBV he won’t rock the BBC bateau.
“Sort the lefty bollocks out…” . Oh you wag, Patten’s a former EU commissioner who went native many moons ago. Expect the lefty bollocks to continue unabated with a nudge and a wink from Chris.
Patten, like Cameron, is not part of the solution, they are both part of the problem.
Here are some more ‘tories’ from the TRG who now amazingly are perfectly happy not being Conservative!
* Liberal Democrats: Emma Nicholson, Susan Bell,[4] Arthur Bell,[4] Hugh Dykes, John Lee, Paul Howell, Bill Newton Dunn, Peter Price, Keith Raffan, Anna McCurley
* Labour Party: Shaun Woodward, Alan Howarth, Peter Temple-Morris, Judith Symes[5]
* Pro-Euro Conservative Party: Sir Anthony Meyer, John Stevens, Brendan Donnelly, Ian Gilmour
* Social Democratic Party: Stuart Bayless; Tom Hayhoe[6].
[sarcasm on]The BBC are quaking in their boots alright.[sarcasm off]
another free loading wanker !
You think Fat Pang will be an improvement at the Beeb?
I will say this if you are now more interested in Chris Meyers bottom could you give me Ffions phone number ?
If theres a bit of spare “Front Bottom ” going there i’m interested !
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/10/article-1076370-02F79E0700000578-382_468x659.jpg
Ony a right tit could do this …
http://tinyurl.com/6ejll9u
What do you recon Moniker ? worth a wiggle ?
You are on for a bronze at the least!
plenty to go round, I’m on too
Sectarian violence could erupt between shias and sunnis in Bahrain. America, Britain, Saudis will be secretly wanting the existing regime to stay in place. Iran will give its hypocritical support for democracy in Bahrain as it plans to exert it influence over the shia population.
Why can’t they both lose?
I remember patten as a
guv’nor?
thing you use for knitting?
Me grannie?
Kind of slip-on clog that protects your shoes from the mud?
American general?
Silver plate used for the communion bread?
Sack of cut-price sawdust?
Father of two highly shaggable daughters?
Would you smash it?
Look Bahrain is a bloody hot country OK?
http://johnnyvoid.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hague-lleatherboy2.jpg
There would be something rather magnificent, though, in Hague and Myers, in a hotel in Manama, enjoying a couple of beers and some pork scratchings before settling down to an in-depth discussion of Uganda,
That comment Sir W is unworthy of you
totally unfounded and totally defatamory
Not your usual style Sir
defatamory? Never heard of that one before.
Pork Scratchings !,did they bring their own,diplomatic incident on the cards then.
They are made from camels’ arseholes out there and only called this euphemistically.
Can I have some euphemistically and chips please.
Brown sauce with that, ETM?
It’s usually served with dates or figs or olives in that part of the world.
Time to really worry if the Dominoes start to fall towards the House of Saud…….whatever happens though the price of crude is likely to increase especially given the present problems in Libya as well as Bahrain ………we’re no longer in the land of the Pharoahs this is “oil country” and is now endangering the western economy and is definitely not good news for the UK Economy. Meanwhile the BBC is not sounding so gung-ho for regime change as they were over Egypt….perhaps the penny has started to drop on the seriousness of the situation………………
I will be in Cairo tomorrow
As UN Middle East envoy
It is such wonderful cover..MI6 could not do better and I know them
But to pick up about $40 million in fees for a few days work
My chief of staff Powell will actually pick up the cash
But it is only the beginning
I will have rich pickings from the fall of all my dictator friends
I may become rich as the Rothschilds which is my wife Imelda’s wish…
Not back window lickers eh ?
And do you know
My mate Bill Clinton and and I called Banki Moonie (I always confuse him with one of the banks I work for) or whatever he is called..the UN Secretary General
Bill told him to fart
And do you know what ?
He actually….
Tony
Correction
He is actually Wankie Boonie
After one of the songs I wrote for you…
I’m thinking of writing a musical about Islam.
I’m going to call it “I got you Babe – Sunni and Shia”.
Tonight I’m going on a muslim pub crawl and I’m gonna get totally shiite faced.
I’m doing one about American gun nut bombers – but ‘Oklahoma!’ is already taken as a title…
Boom boom
Did you know Cher has a twin? Cher and Cher alike! Geddit!??!?
Remember me anyone?
Who are you ?.
The son of some semi-famous bod and the brother of some non-entity. Did nothing, got nowhere, state paid him quite a lot of money for this, of course.
Don’t you have a new branch of Aldi or Iceland to open?
Ot Shell have sold Stanlow refinery to an Indian company for £800 million.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Sounds like a euphemism for HoC.
So Shell are expecting oil use in the U.K. to fall.
This is probably not a good sign for the economy.
yes because most people can no longer afford it !
Bet you have some put by for Ffffffffffffffffion!!!!
yes indeed sir
i have a sack full of lubric*nt for Ffion
Front bottoms are my thing
unlike Willybum who prefers mens tradesmans entrances
allegedly
No Billy Bowden……… has he taken a hit ??????
He’s taking a shit (again)
If you missed it last night, these are the highlights of Farage and Heseltine demolishing Yvette Testicles, and Farage tearing into the EU.
The most enjoyable parts are where Farage attacks Brown and Heseltine goes on the attack against Eva over Byrne’s note.
Excellent stuff.
I will be voting for UKIP from now on !
OK they are un tested
but we have seen what the others are
and i for one am sick to fuckin death of crooks running this country !
We can safely say the Cons and Liebour have been tested to death and found to be, well, utter shit. The LibDims, when they got near the wheels of power, were found to be as insane as everyone guessed they would be.
UKIP is a very good choice. The only other option is the party headed by a guy who shot himself in the face.
I vote English Democrat – like UKIP but for an English Parliament too.
Don’t assume that the Balding Nobheads are the only other choice…
4.09 = Typical inbred labour supporter look at those fucking teeth! Fucking hell thought it was a Predator from the movies for a second.
That’s called having good teeth where she lives.
Fuck me. We have a winner.
Simpsons reference. I like it.
Good teeth and a cock !
Top marks to Nige! No wonder Balls blinks so much. Cuts down on his exposure to Yvette! As for Tarze………………and Cable. What a plonker!
Shadow business secretary John Denham said: “£300,000 of public money is being spent for no other reason than to media manage the fact that Vince Cable is incapable of running his own department.”
Vince is a tit, we all know that. His own know that. But let us put that in context, shall we?
John Denham’s lot ran up a debt equivalent to over 4 million times that figure. Large pot – tiny kettle – both black.
Not only that but also http://order-order.com/2011/02/18/hagues-vague-foresight/#comment-876536
Vince is something of an economic flibbertygibbet, but if he manages to make life a little easier for business startups and existing SMEs, he’ll do us all a service. Two thousand small businesses employing an average of five people each is better than one flagship inward investment project employing 2000 people, and as someone pointed out on QT last night, every new job creates increased spend, which stimulates the wider economy, thus generating more employment.
Napoleon sneered at us for being a nation of shopkeekers, but it’s a strength. It suits the independent spirit of the average Brit to work in a smaller team, and it confers great flexibility to the economy. Niche markets that the big boys wouldn’t touch can be successfully and profitably exploited by sole traders and small businesses. There’s also the very real prospect that some SMEs will grow to be the big boys of tomorrow.
Vince is a know-nothing windsock. But if he manages to reduce the state punishment of employers then things might be better for the economy.
AC1 (who runs a small niche business consisting of about 5 people).
Thanks. Good watch
Any question 2 nite. R4 20.00
GEORGE MONBIOT – Mad as a hatter
DOUG RICHARD – Dragon’s Den fame
SUSAN GREENFIELD – Lord’s cross bencher
KELVIN MACKENZIE – Needs no introduction.
Put my post in thw wrong place. Was meant as a thank you for the QT Highlights.
Link to Any Questions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_fourfm
test
a certain person who appeared in a bed sheet recently has just got herself banned from the BBC as she is too political
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/14283/
William’s dilemma:
Hahahahaha
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/14283/
But they still have Polly on? Did she say something “Backstage” thats about to be leaked?
I do hope so. Its the beeb as well FFS!
More to come out of this than meets the eye.
Who, apart from the most fervent of windowlickers reads politicshome?
Dream on gay boy.
Brilliant Damien
Why is Britain suspending certain exports such as tear gas to Bahrain and Libya?
Would Britain expect Libya to suspend oil exports to the UK because the oil might fuel war planes to drop bombs on arabs?
What’s so wrong with tear gas anyway, surely it’s a lot better than cluster bombs.
I’d love to see you being tear gassed.
I have been.
And I can tell the tale. If I had been cluster bombed I suspect I would not be making this post.
Obviously you weren’t tear gassed enough.
And you are obviously a Nutroot. Get back to Labour list where you belong.
Suspend arms exports to different countries,the one of the only industries we have that works and employs thousands,if a politico did that it would be the end of them living and eating from the trough,very foolish,if we don’t do it ,China ,France and Germany even Italy would fill the void.
So what did they think it would be used against, the local mosquito population?, any other Country would be cranking the production lines up, Alan Sugar must be livid.
FFS Tear gas is used for crowd control. It is not used to kill the crowd.
Taser inc. of America have no qualms about flogging 10,000′s of their units to British plod, 50,000 volt Bluebottle zapper.
Tell me about it.
Don’t Tase me, bro!
Tasers are a great little torture tool
An Englishman an Irishman and a Scotsman walked into a pub and the Barman said…..welcome lads at least you are not fucking Welsh!
Fuck Hague and all who sail in him. A luvvy traitor cut from the same cloth as Lord Mandy.
Fuck him, the conning Conservative Party and all those who think they are the real deal. They are not.
If the British government had wished to oppose the government of Bahrain the time to do so was when they were NOT under attack.
Then one could have said “well your family has ruled for two centuries and has long been good friends of Britain – but you are Sunni and most of the population is Shia, so we think you should hand over power”.
But to praise people when they are powerful – and then to attack them when they are under threat…..
This is just so LOW that I can not find the right words to describe it.
The BBC has reverted to form after last night’s QT. Tonight’s Any Questions audience is populated by the Rabid left.
Are you a masochist?
The telescreen can be turned off. Or even junked.
Any Questions is on Radio 4.
Quite. The left just shout for shouting’s sake.
Gordon Brown is a hero.
The OP said “QT”. I assumed that meant “Question Time” with Dimbleby.
Apologies.
No one bothers listening to Any Questions any more.
Just like Question Time, it’s had it’s day.
The BBC is mostly shite.
Scrap the licence fee.
The audience cheered when it was said that the NHS should not be reformed.
Having recently had both elderly parents (now dead) basically neglected, rejected and subjected to what could be considered torture by the NHS I would say reform of the NHS should be made the highest priority.
Why do people want to maintain the sub standard stus quo?
For one simple reason – they don’t know any different. It’s all they’ve ever known.
If they were to experience service of that quality from their supermarket or car dealership, they’d change suppliers PDQ. With most health provision, most of us can’t afford the only available alternative. Because the nhs is a monopoly supplier, it has no incentive to improve.
Good luck to Andrew Lansley – he’ll need all the resolve he can muster, but he’s right to start reforming it.
I can not say it strongly enough. Keep your elderly relatives away from an NHS hospital, let them die in peace.
Nurses no longer nurse, Beds are no longer made, patients are no longer fed, bowel pain for want of a shit or piss is no longer treated seriously or timely, dehydration is common, there is NO continuity of doctors.
IT is ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. IT IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE and why do the Left love this?
Far from perfect but a move in the right direction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/18/lord-patten-bbc-trust-chairman
When is the AQ audience NOT full of rabid Trots?
Our new chairman should be someone with extensive experience of sucking on the public teat. We believe we have found such a person.
The copper shot by Moaty is now suing his force for a million quid.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358345/Police-officer-blinded-murderer-Raoul-Moat-blasted-shotgun-sue-police-force-1m.html
ROME (Reuters) – A European Union pledge to help Tunisia’s transition with 258 million euros is “ridiculous” and shows Brussels is not up to the task of dealing with the crisis in North Africa, a Tunisian minister said on Thursday, 17 January.
“The figures put forward by the European Union are ridiculous and show that it has not understood the scale of the historical events in the southern Mediterranean,” Industry Minister Mohamed Afif Chelbi told a conference in Rome.
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said on a visit to Tunisia this week that the EU would disburse 258 million euros ($350 million) in aid to the country by 2013 and immediately unblock 17 million euros.
“When Ashton said 17 million, our minister thought he had misunderstood and asked: ‘Millions or billions?’ Once again, the European Union has not been up to the task of dealing with the region.”
Can someone please put 10 of these into Gordon Brown’s evening stew?
Its previous claim to fame was as the birthplace of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But now the market town of Grantham in Lincolnshire has produced an even fierier export after a local producer grew the world’s hottest chilli. Measuring 1.17 million on the Scoville Scale – an official measure of spicy heat – the Infinity chilli is so hot that it carries a health warning.
Grown by Nick Woods, 39, the chilli – which was grown in a greenhouse – made it to the Guinness Book of Records after out-spicing the previous title holder, the Bhut Jolokia, from India. Mr Woods, who runs his own business Fire Foods from his home in Grantham, said he grew the record breaking chilli by accident. He explained: “I didn’t set out to grow it, it’s really easy for chillies to crossbreed in a greenhouse, one day I just saw this new chilli plant growing.
“When I tried it tasted nice at first, like an odd fruity taste, the effect is delayed. Then it hit me. All of a sudden I felt it burning in the back of my throat, so hot that I couldn’t speak. “I began to shake uncontrollably, I had to sit down, I felt physically sick. I really wouldn’t recommend anybody eat it raw like that.”
Former RAF worker Mr Woods started his chilli business five years ago after being given a plant by a friend. He said: “We do feel quite honoured to get it because everyone in the world has heard of the Guinness Book of World Records. “Even if someone else comes along and beats it, they can never take it away from us that we once held the world record.”
Yes
The link you yourself provided proves that it was shown on prime time terrestrial tv and in addition it was covered by all the major UK papers.
That’s your version of not being covered by the MSM?
twat.
Allahu shatbar!
Yes I suck Muslim cock everyday and love it!
I’m tat! I’m a mong! yap yap yap yap! Wheeeeeeeeee!
Hehehehehehehe !
I’m tat! I’m a mong! yap yap yap yap! Wheeeeeeeeee!
But surely the EU says we mustn’t slap children, so how can this be going on.
For reasons of equality.
Some communities are more equal than others.
Yes!
The chingrinning mong faced c unt has risen from his toilet to talk more shit. And believe it or not, the evil bastard actually resorts to the “it’s all Thatcher” line!!!!
From the marxist daily record:
Gordon Brown yesterday accused the Con-Dem government of consigning young Scots to a lifetime on the dole. The former PM blasted David Cameron and Nick Clegg as new figures showed that youth unemployment was at its highest levels since records began. He said they stood guilty of condemning “a whole generation to nothing more than the vacuum and waste of unemployment”.
Writing exclusively in today’s Daily Record, the former PM launches his strongest attack yet on the Coalition. Brown called for urgent action and a re-ordering of priorities at Westminster and Holyrood to tackle the scourge of youth unemployment .
He said: “We are preparing instead to hand over tomorrow to an army of young people who have been denied the training, skills and life chances that older people once took for granted.” He added: “We know from the 1980s and 1990s that the Tories do not believe in creating life chances for our young people. “We still talk of Thatcher’s children – a whole generation whose lives were blighted by years on the dole.
Brown and his Socialist Scum have stolen the futures of generations to come through their corrupt borrow and spend policies.
All of which was spent on themselves, their cronies and their socialist schemes for waste and corruption.
How can he have the temerity to lecture us the evil bastard.
Can we not finally cast off that awful place called Jockland
And the equally awfgul and criminal Scottish labour with it
Begone with you scroungers, wreckers, whiners and thieves
Take your independence and fuck off
We have subsidised you for too long…
We cannae last without youse! I just pretend to want independence, don’t ya ken? I really want youse to keep us going!
Hey youse fooking cnut, what aboot all that fooking oil yer nicked off eh?
Half of it was England’s, anyway.
Now, let’s talk about all your England-funded pensions, schools, hospitals, roads.. etc etc etc.
Fook off!
More like 80%
http://www.acorn-ps.com/web/page/oilgas/nsfields/nnsmap.htm
Yes and more than half of that belongs to Shetland, not Edinburgh, knobhead. We would support them for home rule and then you lot would be truly fucked.
You have cost us hundreds of billions to bail pout your Ponzi banks as well
you whining scroungers
Ooooooo such chippy Englanders
“the former PM launches his strongest attack yet .. Brown called for urgent action and a re-ordering of priorities at Westminster and Holyrood to tackle the scourge of youth unemployment.”
There has been a re-ordering of priorities. That’s why Brown’s no longer PM.
“We are preparing instead to hand over tomorrow to an army of young people who have been denied the training, skills and life chances that older people once took for granted.”
They’ll have been educated under Labour. And they’ll be the ones cleaning up Labour’s mess.
He added: “We know from the 1980s and 1990s that the Tories do not believe in creating life chances for our young people.“
Brown was a product of the 80s and 90s, and yet – unfortunately for Britain – he became Chancellor and then PM.
Have they abruptly changed Gordon’s medication ????
We tried to disguise his medication by putting it in his fizzy orange but it seems all the fizz diluted the medicine’s potency. We’ll just have to administer it directly up his botty.
billy adopts a similar approach, but it’s a different sort of medication
Shame the bastard didn’t sort things out when he was second in command and then the manager ,if 13 years wasn’t long enough for him to sort out things,then how the feck does he expect 9 months to be long enough,he’s a slimey hypocritical piece of lieing trash,fancy calling a core voter a bigot,jeez h crumpet.
It must be the job of the Scotchist parliament to sort out that shit, not Westminster.
Or do they want England to take them over again, like we had to last time when they bankrupted themselves?
Was that the time we put a scot on the English throne, you mean that takeover?
I call on all my friends with megayachts and private planes to assemble urgently in Corfu
The Gaddafi clan (there are hundreds of them) are approaching us here
Mandy is doing it his knickers as usual…Tony has buggered off to the next trouble spot to collect his fee..The Russians have disowned me…
I am all alone…Friends and billionaires..surely you know it is the right thing to do…
Help me…
My 3-step Big Solution.
1. Pre-announce a speech in which I say we will stand by you.
2. Say something about not letting you lot into Britain. Quotas, you see.
3. Let you all into Britain.
From the invisible FT:
Balls warns King on Bank credibility
Ed Balls, shadow chancellor, has criticised Mervyn King, Bank of England governor, saying he should step out of the political arena and stop tying his credibility to the coalition’s “extreme” deficit-reduction plans.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Balls drew comparisons between Mr King’s stance and the backing lent by the Bank of England to the Treasury’s fiscal hawks during the Great Depression.
Where does one start? There is so much wrong with this. Leaving aside the anal approach of the soft pink organ in question, WTF is extreme about what the coalition is doing? If only they were!!! Balls the architect of our over-borrowed position is talking as if he had nothing to do with it. The fucking corpse is already dead, you prick. Stop shooting.
It worries me that people like Ed Balls get elected.
It is not just the Yanks that have an electoral system to give one the frights.
Is Dave’s Big society akin to Major’s Back to Basics?
I think it is.
“I think it is.”
Nobody else cares.
Die tomorrow.
read quickly
All these unemployed Muzas is rioting cos they aimnt got the living standards of the west. Been to Burnley lately
Yep! and I thought I was in Bradford!!
I just wanted to say that Billy Bowden will live on in our hearts.
He will be back. In another form.
Reincarnated as The Batsman’s Willie perhaps ?
You are awake this morning!
“Why is it OK for me to rip the head off a mammal in Downing Street but against the law for a cannine friend of mine to rip the head of a fox in the countryside? After all aren’t all vermin equal in this country?”
Is that what they mean by politics?
If Downing street is part of the Palace of Westminster then all the 3000 laws Liebour made don’t apply,they were very good at making sure of that for some reason,maybe that was Bliar get out clause for all the wrong and damage he did .
I saw that, If only we had independent press, state funding always has a means.The group in question leader has spoken of eugenics.
Gavin and Stacey = the beard marriage !
Seriously! Hague is as vague as Bliar and the British Embassies in regard to what goes on in the Gulf and Middle East!
As soon as someone coughs the Embassies close down! I thought when things got tough they would be there for their people in those countries?
Just a thought!!
By the way there were not TENS OF THOUSANDS on the streets of Sanaa yesterday as reported by the useless lying press and TV! I drove through Sanaa at 130pm and it was closed! Not a demo in sight!
So there
What? Last in, first out, that fucking lot.
Dimbleby is a digrace and should be sacked!
Mrs Balls knows SFA……………..HE SHOULD HAVE MADE HER ANSWER!
You need to get on the streets like us and sort these liars out!
Stultification – that’s the name of the game
Every week on QT they play it the same
When you see Dimbleby lolling there, dumbly scowling
Just shut your eyes and empathise
Years of that would leave a hot rock howling
It doesn’t get any better
“To educate, inform and entertain.” How things used to be …
Sack the fuckin old duffer !
he’s an ignorant twat
all ways shouts down the likes of N Griffin and Nigel Farage
As for the Tranny Cooper’s Balls she sums up the Labour party to a “T”
not a fucking clue about the size of the debt that they left us
infact not a fucking clue that there was a debt in the first place
It was all the Tories fault from the 80′s and 90′s
then you had Alan Johnson shadow chancellor who new fuck all about N I rates
and “Maths was never my strong point” I’ll have to brush up !
FFS he needs to brush up on what his wife is up to
then you have Ed Milliband who looks like he would struggle to tie his own shoe laces
The voters like them because they are failures, Frankie. Good morning to you! Late today?
Get a grip sir/madam/ms/whatever,QT come under the heading of entertainment,you have the possibility of changing channels or turning the tv off,whichever way you go you still pay,the law needs changing if even if it’s just to get rid of having to pay the bbc tax just for watching other channels,theirs no reason now with tv being computerised that they can’t block BBC channels if you don’t pay up.
Quite right, Eeu to me, that the ‘Licence Fee’ should be removed. Living in southern Europe, the BBC put all sorts of obstacles in our way so we cannot see things like PMQs. “You cannot watch this in your country”, they say. Fools.
Of course, we find ways around this, multiple ways – when we can be arsed.
Reading somewhere that there’s at least 6 million British passport holders living and working abroad,now tapping into that with internet tv streaming,but hey £3billon ripped out of the hands the masses because they want to watch ITV,who gives a monkeys about the expat market.
The ability to broadcast is a power. We all know what power does. I don’t give a monkeys the expat market myself, even though I am part of it. But I do vote and I am mystified why al-Beebja does not want to try and ensure that I vote for their beloved party (as if!) The only reason that comes to mind is that they are run by blockheads to which the ability to say, “you can – but you can’t”, appeals to their statist approach to life. As you say, with streaming, all their precious and heroic efforts assume the proportions of a gnat’s wank.
Where is concrete pump nowadays? Not seen since mid January. Hope he is sunning himself on a nice beach somewhere so that he can return recharged and treat us to more of his pearls.
OK you guys. Nothing’s going to happen for a while. I’m going to do some work, “for a change”, I can dimly hear from downstairs.
lipsmacking thirstquenching
acetasting motivating
goodbuzzing cooltalking
highwalking fastliving
evergiving coolfizzing …
big societ-ehhhhh.
I am definately not in the UK. At least not more than 90 days in any one tax year.
Don’t pay taxes – it only encourages the bastards.
Heello Ronnie
back in Monte Carlo after the photo ops ?
Note to all staff
You must not speak to any members of the press about our Middle Eastern clients
Especially the Great Lleader and ur personal family friend Mr Gaddafi who has just killed 74 demonstrators and wounded hundreds
Not good for our image you undertand.
Mr Tony and Mrs Cherie QC
That will be £10,000 thank you.
“Only 74 killed and hundreds wounded” by the murderer Gadddafi
And who are his personal friends in the UK ?
Anyone who believes in money and wants his.
Give them cakes…
2011 will be a record year for my companies
Imelda will be pleased
You would think that with all your brass, you could get your boiler’s mouth fixed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1358511/Could-I-save-Gordon-In-major-newspaper-interview-Sarah-Brown-talks-candour-extraordinary-life-No-10.html
sarahbrown doing the rounds of the media promoting her upcoming book says of gordon ‘he’s still engaged in the international world making a real difference’
Lol. The deluded browns!!
Let’s face it Brown made a “real difference” to the UK so why should we begrudge him doing the same for other countries…spread the grief around that’s my motto….meanwhile Ed Balls speaks of his mentor .. Gordon Brown ? he was somebody once…er wasn’t he ??
“He also plunged the knife into his mentor, former prime minister Gordon Brown.
In a cruel dig, he said: ‘I have seen what it is like when people worry more about the job they want than the job they have got. That’s very destructive.’
Mr Balls explained that his mission now was ‘getting Ed Miliband into Downing Street’, saying that the public had hoped in 2007 that Labour would be able to break out of the old ‘Blair-Brown’ prism.
‘Gordon Brown never managed to do that,’ he said.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358300/Labours-Ed-Balls-hits-political-Bank-England-boss-supporting-hawks-Treasury.html#ixzz1EOgj3pks
I did once and do you know,picking my nose and scratching my balls did more for me than missing The Big Society,maybe it’s possible to buy a The Big Society ball scratcher,sad to say Iv’e not seen them in the shops,I haven’t even seen those people on tv that were hanging around that nice mr Cameron on tv with The Big Society begging cups, I think they’re called charities, shouting me me me.
From the inside of Hillary Clinton’s arse, it’s very difficult to see or hear anything.
But Ben Brogan thinks our Middle East diplomats are ‘the finest in the world’.
Still, some way to go yet to beat Cameron’s speech in Ankara licking Erdogun all over….three days before the Turkish PM declared himself to be ‘Iran’s greatest ally on Earth’.
Right on the money this one, Guido.
What this needs is Piers Morgan on the job….
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/piers-morgan-the-larry-king-verdict/
Yemen,Libya,Bahrain,let’s tell you about the world cup.FFS.
Doesn’t Balls bear an uncanny resemblance to an earlier well known Socialist, namely Herr Shicklegruber.
Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
The Big Society, Clunk Click, Makes you spit.