March 3rd, 2011

Guardianistas’ Politically Correct Concern for Gaddafi

Christopher Elliot, the preposterously named “Guardian Readers’ Editor”, has been pontificating this morning. This email went out to all the editorial staff about how to address the clearly top-of-his-game Mad Dog of the Middle East:

To: editorial.gnm
11:03

Dear Colleagues,

We are receiving a steady stream of emails from doctors and mental health campaigners complaining of the constant and often casual references to Col Gadaffi’s mental state in print and online. Even Col Gadaffi gets the benefit of the Guardian’s editorial code and the campaigners are right, we are breaching our guidelines on the way we use mental health terms in relation to him so please be aware in news, comment and features to avoid inappropriate language.

Chris

You couldn’t make it up…


450 Comments

  1. 1
    Socialists = Sociopaths says:

    We’re tragic.

    • 10
      Tax Payer says:

      “We are receiving a steady stream of emails from bloggers and transparency campaigners complaining of the constant, hypocritical, and often casual references to organisations which take advantage of tax havens, in print and online.” ?

      • 17
        misterned says:

        Nah, they don’t matter. Truth doesn’t matter, only strict adherence to politically correct rule-sets, even to the exclusion of accepting reality, is to be permitted.

        No wonder they are defending Gadaffi’s state of mind, for it is one that the Guardian editorial team clearly share with the mad dictator!

        • 43

          What a load of fucking spastics! (Is that OK with the code?)

          • Spot the Dog says:

            yop

          • Save your time don’t read this crap above

            Why would anyone bother to read this – I am sure it’s all very interesting but will be completely out of context and manipulated to concur with your own point of view.

          • Bill’s sockpuppet has been exceptionally subtle here. His IQ runs into double figures. Your blog is not doing very well, TaT. Page unobtainable.

          • misterned says:

            9/11 was an inside job!

          • Misterned says:

            Take your tinfoil hat off and PROVE it, you credulous brain dead name stealing twat! I ( the real and original misterned) have repeatedly posted that I have not seen any proof as to who actually was behind the 911 attacks. I do not know who did them and have not seen convincing proof of any of the various conspiracies.

            Anyone who pushes any version of those attacks without backing that up with proof is a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist, and that does include the official commission report as that has been disowned by its own commission members.

            So if you are going to keep stealing my name to post misleading shit, try backing that up with proof!

        • 276
          Save your time don't read this crap above! says:

          Why would anyone bother to read this – I am sure it’s all very interesting but will be completely out of context and manipulated to concur with your own point of view.

      • 22
        Peter Piper Picked...etc says:

        The old expressions are the most suitable and eloquent.. “Nutter” or”Pucking Nutter ” are perfect to describe The Libyan leader. Also works well when describing Blair, Brown, Harperson etc…

        • 96
          Maximus says:

          This bedwetting faux concern for g’Daffy is plain nincompoopery.

        • 397
          Kimpatsu says:

          If so, what term do you reserve for people with genuine mental health problems?
          You know, like those who vote Tory?

          • Peter Piper Picked...etc says:

            Idiot savants know the coalition is right about cutting debt… Idiots vote Lab, Ukip, etc etc..

      • 182
        FuckingMadLooney says:

        As a fucking mad looney, I do not wish to be associated with killer gaddafi

    • 11
      Joss Taskin says:

      ‘a steady stream of emails from doctors and mental health campaigners complaining’

      A steady stream of four ??? I thought they were all hard pressed health professionals working 120 hours a week ?

      • 21
        Tax Payer says:

        The BBC had a piece the other day on the mental state of dictators. Gadaffi is certified insane – megolamania, etc, etc.

        OK – use the rght words, but to suggest he isn’t ‘mental’ is just wrong.

      • 345
        Al Megrahis Doctor says:

        I, for one, have expressed my concern!!!!

    • 18
      Call a spade a spade says:

      If the Colonel is Stark raving bonkers then it should be said.

      But personally I don’t think he is. His behavior is no odder today than when he took over as Libyan leader.

      Now Gordon on the other hand he just got odder by the day. He even thinks he saved the world and left the coalition with a golden financial inheritance. That is an example of a genuine mad mad mad man.

      • 37
        lola says:

        True. True. Gaddafi has always been a psychopathic nutter, whereas Gordon Brown was a……psychopathic nutter.

      • 39
        Usually correct says:

        Christopher Elliot is Al Quaeda and on drugs.

    • 112
      BillyBob.....beware, the jungle drums, Labia is revolting!! says:

      Silly bunts, what I object to is the referring to Cameron and Thatcher, whilst fawning over Gordon Brown and Tony Blair !!

      Beeb are the same……… !!

    • 156
      Mr Goebbels says:

      We are the thought polizei

      Respect us

    • 433
      Anonymous says:

      The real tragedy would be if he eventually stood trial and got off because of “insanity”.

    • 450
      Andrew says:

      What is tragic is that the Guardian has only had it in for Colonel G since he repositioned himself as a somewhat unlikely friend of the West. Before then they fawned on him.

      “The idiot who praises in enthusiastic tone
      Every century but this and every country but his own!”

  2. 2
    I says:

    All without a spelling mistake!

  3. 3
    a shrink says:

    Elliot is a fucking imbecile. Thought I’d share that with you. Hope it’s not ‘inappropriate’.

  4. 4
    Polly Toynbee, John Simpson, Alan Bennett, Stella Creasey, Oona King says:

    This site wants a final solution for Gaddafi that’s like waterboarding and child abuse and makes it look like it’s being run by the KKK.

    • 9
      Engineer says:

      Ah, good old British understatement….

    • 158
      Jack says:

      That sounds like New Labour practices to me

    • 160
      Jack says:

      BTW You know that John Simpson lives in Paris

      On the BBC

      And is always late on any international hotspot as we have noted

      He seems to be non dom as well…

      • 211
        Bled White Taxpayer says:

        He’s been trading on his reputation for a long while now: his current reports are nowhere near as good as some of his earlier ones. Time to pension off the old war-reporting horse.

        Oddly, I am beginning to get him and David Attenborough confused – they have both grown to physically resemble each other to a disturbing degree. Perhaps they are each others’ body doubles, and the Beeb is saving half of a two £1M salaries by only employing one of them? Perhaps the other died a few years ago, and we are none the wiser? Has anyone ever seen both of them on the same programme?

        Also, the job title: “World Affairs Editor”. Seems a bit OTT to me. His job is to report the news, not edit it to fit some agenda. And he certainly can’t be reporting the news from all around the world, all at once. Unless he’s got a body double.

        • 303

          Why would anyone bother to read this – I am sure it’s all very interesting but will be completely out of context and manipulated to concur with your own point of view

          • Haven’t they given you any more scripts, TaT?

          • Bled White Taxpayer says:

            You’re right, Two Dogs. I was Harry Shiters when I wrote it (office decamped to the pub early), now that I’m hungover and awake and it’s 0145 in the morning I can recognise that I have failed to make sense, or even just acknowledge the all-consuming majesty of the Beeb. But I have had a kebab.

  5. 5
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Wo is more bonkers, Mad Dog gaddaffi or Gordon Brown?

  6. 6
    purpleline madder than mad says:

    This is because Gaddafi and all tyrants happen to be ‘Guardian types’ therefore as socialists together they fear being branded MAD which they undoubtedly are.

    • 107
      PD77 says:

      Socialists are more Cuckoo than all the clocks in Switzerland!

      • 162
        Bob the Builder (I've taken Squeaker's ladder away) says:

        That’s why any self-respecting Socialist leavfes Hampstead and pisses off to Switzerland when he has heisted a few million uin the UK…

  7. 7
    Ed But Look Balls says:

    A bit late now but this directive should have been sent out 13 years ago when referencing Gordoom McCavity!!

  8. 16
    Muammar Gaddafi says:

    I am Gordon Brown! I saved the world!

  9. 23
    The money the Guardian makes from it's dodgy investments is used to write the BBC's Editorial Policy says:

    Dear Chris,

    Here’s some inappropriate language which also breaches your guidelines: You’re a Cuﬨt.

    Yours Most Sincerely,

    Me

    • 55
      Tachybaptus says:

      That wins the prize for the most inventive use of alternative scripts when writing ‘сunt’ — Hebrew tav for the n.

    • 166
      Arsehole Chris Eliott says:

      Dear Colleagues

      I am wrting to you today to say that you must never speak about how we all live off hedge funds and speculation and tax avoidance through the Cayman Islands. It is of course contrary to all that we believe in.

      But necessary

      Chris Goebbels

  10. 26
    Picky twat. says:

    Presuming Elliot is using the same ‘Gaddafi’ spelling that the rest of the UK media outlets are, he has spelt it wrong. Its spelt as in my comment (with a double ‘d’ and no double ‘f’).

  11. 28
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    On a serious note people like Mad dog and Brown give people with mental illness a bad name.

  12. 29
    streamfisher says:

    LoL… Imagine the Guardian being the voice of freedom circa 1945, Adolf has gone mental (oops!) in the bunker, never mind the 40 million + killed maybe his mother just didn’t love him.

    • 130
      Scurfy says:

      He wasn’t breast-fed. That’s the cause of WW2.

    • 169
      PollyTwaddle says:

      Stalin was quite normal of course

      • 255
        Bob Crow says:

        Of course, the Siberian salt mines were the backbone of the soviet economy

        • 342
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          Stalin was for a while a national socialist and wrote several pamphlets in support of the creed. A little later on he realised that international socialism gave him the chance to murder more people. The rest is a line of graves from Poland to Kamchatka….

  13. 31
    Just askin says:

    Will Gadfly’s mates Tony, Peter & Andy also be defended by The Guardian as being sane as well?
    Right, no excuse then, just crooks?

  14. 32
    marcus Aurelius says:

    ..and the late lamented Marshal Stalin is to be referred to as the man that saved the world before Gordon McRuin saved it all over again.
    Kim Il Sung is still the Guardian readers “Dear Leader” and Pol Pot is a playful scamp

  15. 33
    Socialists are pathetic nutjobs says:

    The man is delusional and evil. He is using the threat of AQ as an excuse to attack his own people. Disgusting!

  16. 34
    Chris says:

    Dear Colleagues,

    Please do not refer to John Hirst, Myra Hindley and Ian Huntley as killers, murderers or criminals. In future they are to be referred to as innocent victims of a cruel society, and Thatcher.

  17. 35
    Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin says:

    So why did the Guardian print Peter Mangledbum’s claim that I was ‘ mad, bad and dangerous’ ??

    http://bit.ly/9uvCUA

  18. 36
    smell the glove says:

    How very noble of The Guardian, to be so worried about this, while Lybians are being torn to shreds by this maddog -motherfucker. Talk about missing the point!

  19. 40
    Righty Right Wing (Mrs) says:

    “Even Col Gadaffi gets the benefit of the Guardian’s editorial code”

    But not Lady Thatcher & Presidents Reagan & George W. Bush?

    I see…..

  20. 41
    wtf says:

    Dear staff,
    Gaddafi is going nuts killing his own people but try to make him sound sane.

    Cheers.

  21. 44
    streamfisher says:

    And one flew over the cuckoos nest (last post disappeared into the ether), Will the Guardian ever recover from its lobotomy?.

  22. 45
    Anonymous says:

    Eh? Seems entirely reasonable to me. Bandying mental health terms around as general terms of abuse is not very clever. Anyone who has seen anyone go through a mental illness will agree.

    This is not about protecting “the leader”. He is a twat. It’s about respecting mental health as the serious business that it is that needs to be treated with great care.

    Mental health diagnosis is best left to the professionals and not hacks.

    • 49
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      You are Sarah Brown and i claim my £5.

      • 56
        Anonymous says:

        Read the Mark Hanson links that Guido has posted on the same day as this crap with no sense of irony. This is not a funny business.

        Seriously. Shame on the lot of you.

        • 66
          jgm2 says:

          Labour apologist dies?

          Hmmm. Nope. Not giving a shit. These c*unts have covered up while their party utterly raped the UK economy. Hundreds of folk will kill themselves due to job losses and repossessions not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and dead/maimed British soldiers and c*unts like him spend all their time planting ‘spin’ ie outright lies in the paper to try and hide the pure face of evil that is/was the Labour Imbecility.

          Fuck him. And fuck the rest of them too the evil c*unts. No wonder he was depressed telling lies for Labour. He should have told the truth then. He might have found some point to his life.

    • 59
      the last quango in paris says:

      I don’t think you would need a professional to diagnose gadaffi as being mental.

    • 62
      jgm2 says:

      Naah. He’s a paranoid nutter. Although I suppose he can claim that his paranoia wasn’t so insane after all. Turns out they really are all out to get him.

      To be fair to Gaddafi, compared to most of North Africa, Libya isn’t quite such a shithole as (say) Algeria.

      Plus while Gaddafi is bad you just know that you’re a short vote away from another Iran. More jihad loons burning US flags and making a nuisance of themselves on the public transport. As if we don’t have enough of the c*unts already.

    • 141
      Anonymous says:

      fuck off self righteous prick

    • 176
      Dr Spock says:

      Actually the problem with Gadaffi is not mental health

      It is that he has been spaced out for years on morphine

      Now that is a different kettle of fish

      He is just “out of it”

    • 227
      Fa Kin Su Pah says:

      I’ve seen someone suffering with mental
      health problems and I completely disagree.
      I would suggest that most well mannered people
      don’t need advice on when, where and how
      to express opinions in joke form or any form, on any subject at all.
      Least of all, mental health. Which can be hilarious.
      So fuck off you pompous self righteous censoring tit

    • 373
      Harsh but Fair says:

      What you have done is fail to realise the difference between using technical terms in a mental health context and using terms intended to insult a complete and utter homicidal cuﬨt who is killing hundreds or thousands of his own people.

      I’m afraid those who have rather unkindly called you self-righteous, are correct.

    • 393
      Anonymous says:

      Far to sensible a comment to belong here.

  23. 47
    streamfisher says:

    Sigh!, mod, its enough to drive a person mental.

  24. 51
    Pundit says:

    Those fuckers at the Guardian are absolutely fucking barking.

  25. 53
    The Guardian are ﺡunts☻ says:

    Need I say more?

  26. 57
    Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin says:

    The Guardian confirms that I am ‘mad, bad and dangerous’.

    http://bit.ly/9uvCUA

  27. 58
    Gordon Brown says:

    The people of Libya love me.

  28. 61
    9pm BBC3 tonight says:

    This timely series takes work-shy benefit scroungers and teams them with inspirational mentors who hope to show them the value of a good day’s work. First up is pampered, preening 20-year-old Kaycie who reacts to the degradations of menial work by flouncing out of her first placement, then launching a foulmouthed tirade at her second mentor. You’ll have to resist throwing a hefty book at the screen in frustration.

    • 63
      Benny Fitz-Clements says:

      Work ?? Why ?????

      • 70
        Labour canvasser says:

        Register 34,000 people at your address for postal votes at the next general election and we promise you a lifetime’s supply of benefits.

    • 69
      Dwayne says:

      Too fucking right mate. Who wants to shovel shit for peanuts when you get much more in benefits.

    • 150
      Southern Softy says:

      Remember when Lard Prescott interviewed that girl who said she wasn’t
      working class, because she didn’t work.
      Prescott was amused by that, especially as he has never worked either.

      • 376
        Harsh but Fair says:

        It took the wind out of Prescott’s sails, he was thinking he was going to get a bit of working class solidarity out of those girls he clearly thought he was superior to. I fucking loved it when she said she was middle-class and turned the situation on its head.

    • 161
      ITV says:

      Yeah and the mentors and the BBC have real jobs which aren’t publicly funded ponzi schemes in anyway and I say that with complete sarcasm.

    • 165
      ITV says:

      Yeah and the mentors and the BBC have real jobs which aren’t publicly funded ponzi schemes in any way and I say that with complete sarcasm.

  29. 65
    John Ward says:

    Guido

    Are you a Diggerphile or a Diggerphobe?

    Your ominous silence on the day when Britain finally went bunga-bunga down on Rupert is ominous, disturbing, flatulent, worrying, surprising, or predictable. I need your guidance as to which applies, Morphy.

    Good luck, good luck.

    http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/

    • 78
      British Broadcasting Cuпts says:

      Hahahahahahahahaha….in a few short years Fox News will be plastered all over our TV screens, so fuck you and fuck the BBC.

      • 334
        Phantom says:

        Were you always this retarded ? Fox News fans are famous for being thick as pigshit.

        Murdoch is losing power over Sky News so there is even less chance of him turning it into Fox now. And why hasn’t he done so for the past 22 years if it was that easy?

        Brits aren’t as stupid as septics and would laugh at a UK Fox News and Murdoch knows it.

        It isn’t going to happen , deal with it.

        • 368
          Northern Convert says:

          He didn,t get the Email. Tut tut!

        • 380
          Harsh but Fair says:

          True English love a laugh so a bit of Fox would go down well. Better than all that lefty authoritarian shit those kkunnts at the bbc put out.
          You fucking deal with it trotsky.

    • 98
      Phantom says:

      I’m sure Guide Dogs for the Blind would donate some more tinfoil for that hat you are making John.

      You sure you’re not related to the Gadaffi’s you loon?

      • 127
        Arsehole Alert!! says:

        That’s not John Ward, but the link is registered ( and redundant ) under PC Harman. Is Harman Pride attempting a comeback masquerading as someone else who posts here? Why of course.

    • 104
      Engineer says:

      Odd, really.

      For about 15 years, Murdoch broadly supported the Labour party. The lefties didn’t seem to mind much. Then he changes allegiance (a shrewd businessman seeing which way the wind is blowing) and the lefties suddenly decide that Murdoch is evil personified.

      I can’t get excited about this. If you don’t want to read what the Murdoch-owned press publishes, don’t buy it. If you want as near as you will get to a balanced view, read all of ‘em, Murdoch-owned and not.

      • 154
        Anonymous says:

        if you don’t want to watch it then don’t. why the fuck should the government control the media – where is the plurality in that?

        • 185
          Angry Taxpayer says:

          Exactly

          With the BBC’s 44% dominant market share

          Break the abusive and biased Leviahthan up…

          The BBc is the real problem

          • Southern Softy says:

            ITV News channel went to the wall as it was not cost effective.
            Sky News, we are told, is not profit making.
            That leaves just the good old BBC News.
            24 hours, and huge teams all around the world, ready to bring you a “balanced view” at a moments notice, with the “best” correspondents (your) money can buy.
            My local news magazine at 6pm has lead with The Cuts almost every day since the election. It is now unwatchable.

  30. 67
    Labour activist says:

    Today I have mostly been counting postal votes from the 967 million muslim constituents of Barnsley.

  31. 73
    gildedtumbril says:

    Apparently when asked what she thought of Hollywood liberals, commies etc., the late and great Jane russell said,” I think they are not well”.
    Ghadafi is quite sane and should not be villified. He says,”All my people love me”
    If they don’t he shoots them. What the hell is mad about that? It is merely par for the course in your average floating on oil sandpit.
    Ghadafi is a great statesman and he knows how to pick nurses.

  32. 75
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    I once knew this guy who was a huge tractor fan, he collected them, and spent most of his time with them, he met a girl he really liked, and they got to know each other quite well and started talking a fair bit.

    After a few months she had had enough, and said he had to decide between her or the tractors. He decided to sell all his tractors and commit to what he thought was the love of his life. With all the money he bought her a wedding ring and took her out to a meal to propose to her, just before he could propose to her the restaurant started to fill with smoke. The smoke was so thick that everyone inside was in danger of inhaling the smoke and dying. The man sucked up all the smoke, and blew it out the window, saving everyone.

    The owner on the restaurant thanked him, and asked him how he did it. He replied ‘ it was easy, i’m an ex-tractor fan.’

  33. 76

    Elsewhere:

    Pope admits to Catholicism.

  34. 79
    The Colonel says:

    The secret blend of spices is in my Green Book.

  35. 83
    Catflap says:

    When the PC Paradox reaches it’s critical mass,will Socialists start to disappear up their own arse?

  36. 84
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Did anyone else have a problem trying to post a comment?

  37. 85
    ??? says:

    What on earth was on Jeremy Hunt’s head in the HoC today? Wait for when he leans down and you’ll see what I mean.

  38. 86
    MI5 says:

    Guido

    As you say, you could not make it up…..But we all know that the tax avoiding, hedge fund financed, loss making Guardian is not exactly a paradigm ofvirtue

    But I would like to say 2 things in addition…

    Some time ago, when you were leading your magnificent and winning fight against the Madman Brown and all Labour’s corruption, I did say on this blog that this corruption was far wider than even you could imagine

    We have since been proven correct

    BUT, even though this all represents a sad backdrop, for freedom lovers like you and all the co-conspirators, there is tremendous heart to be taken from what is happening in Arab lands. It will not all end happily or perfectly. That is the nature of human kind.

    BUT is does prove, yet again and beyond doubt, that ALL human beings have a SOUL which, even incoherently seeks freedom from oppression.

    It is amazing how God works in works in such a mysterious way and all those clever intellectuals of the world are now dumbfounded by what is happening…

    Watch this space

    • 88
      Libyan Freedom Fighter in Tripoli says:

      Think of us from time to time..We are being taken away from our houses at night and killed..no graves…
      We want to win our freedom by ourselves with our own blood like you did in Europe

      We have received overwhelming international support and we thank you for that

      We will die for our freedom

      • 91
        Jack says:

        While the Guardian defends the mental health of the mass murderer Gaddafi

        And his acolytes Blair and Co

        What a national disgrace

    • 100
      Labourunionsbbc we are one says:

      Why didn’t that particular go d sort it out in the begining? would have saved a lot of pain and misery to say the least.

    • 174
      Anonymous says:

      MI5 @ 5:49p.m. The fight may have been magnificent but the result is not;too many of the corrupt have got away without punishment.

    • 246
      Turn the middle east to glass says:

      MI5, you dumb fuck……..there is no such thing as God.

      • 269
        Scurfy says:

        How do you know? Such certainty is either impressive or a sign of arrogance.

        • 427
          Turn the middle east to glass says:

          It’s a safe bet. Unless someone proves otherwise……it’s all a load of bollocks. Insisting on the other is just as impressive / arrogant. Agnostics are pussies.

  39. 89
    Carey in a wheelchair. says:

    Socialist are idiots. Delusional arsewipes who despise freedom & individuality.

  40. 92
    Get ya own Moniker!!!! says:

    David Cameron out,Ed Miliband in

    DAVID Cameron suffered a “wobbly Wednesday” yesterday with a gaffe-strewn performance at Prime Minister’s ­questions.

    The under-fire PM wrongly claimed the West Coast Main Line went to South Wales, was found guilty of misleading MPs by using dodgy statistics and then dried up when grilled about the cuts.

    Downing Street was even forced to clarify Mr Cameron’s remarks after he appeared to wrongly accuse Lord Mandelson of having business links with Libya.

    He was left floundering as Labour’s Ed Balls and Douglas Alexander mocked him when he said the West Coast Main Line went to Cardiff. And he faltered when quizzed by Labour leader Ed Miliband over a promise not to close Sure Start children’s centres.

  41. 94
    capt apollo says:

    mad, bad and dangerous to know, gaddafi or the grauniad take your pick

  42. 97
    Phantom says:

    For the left, this is another set of revolution akin to the failure of communism in Eastern Europe.

    Libya, Egypt, Tunisia… all ran by socialist dictators….

    Socialism fails yet again as Hayek wrote eloquently in The Road to Serfdom as requiring levels of coercion that cause death and destruction to the populace.

    That’s why the Guardian are in full on mitigation mode.

    SOCIALISM FAILS AGAIN.

    • 108

      No..No ..No.
      its just that a few rotten apples spoiled it for the rest. Its a fantastic creed and if it was given a fair chance everyone would benefit.
      Sure, its been a bit of a failure in some countries like
      * Soviet Union
      * Albania
      * Bulgaria
      * Czechoslovakia
      * East Germany
      * Hungary
      * Poland
      * Romania
      * Vietnam
      * Cambodia

      and China has only got rich since they dumped the mad bits.
      But there are plenty of world leading countries that are socialist paradises.

      Cuba
      Belarus
      North Korea
      Laos
      Syria

      Erm…
      Venezuela? They’re pretty nice right? And ..erm..
      Afghanistan?

      • 140

        Maoist Nipple? Bugger, my backspace not working, Nepal?

      • 143
        Anonymous says:

        Scotland and Wales?.

        • 186
          South of the M4 says:

          Referendum in Wales today as to whether the Welsh Assembly should have more powers independent of Westminster. If ‘ yes ‘ then Wales could go the route of Scotland robbing its people of taxes to pay for failed social engineering projects. I have voted………

          • Fa Kin Su Pah says:

            If yes our sacred leader can style himself
            as Prime Minister, President or
            even the ‘Dear one’ in charge
            of lots and lots of Committees.
            I have voted…….

          • Turn the middle east to glass says:

            A fellow Welshman was recently trying to persuade me that the English and the Welsh are subsidising each other. Unbelievable.

        • 189
          Engineer says:

          Ah, but who pays….now there’s the rub.

      • 164
        Anonymous says:

        hey bill afghanistan is actually pretty free market dominated – government does fuck all and there is a decent small business sector (hard to accept i know)

  43. 99
    concrete pump says:

    As Prime Minister’s Questions resumes after its half-term break, Guido Fawkes finds Ed Miliband letting David Cameron off the hook…again.

  44. 101
    Labour want to reform the BBC says:

    Ivan Lewis, the shadow culture secretary, today accused Jeremy Hunt of bias over News Corporation’s planned takeover of BSkyB and called for the immediate publication of Ofcom’s report into the matter.

    Lewis, speaking at the Oxford Media Convention, also said that Labour intends to launch a policy review investigating whether the BBC could be turned into a mutual organisation with the public having a say over policy and the election of BBC Trust members.

  45. 103
    Observer says:

    The Guardianistas are furious about Libya’s freedom protestors distressing Gadaffi through damaging his bullets by putting their bodies in front of them.

  46. 109
    'Ave it says:

    Guido Fawkes walks into a bar.

    You know the rest.

  47. 110
    Fabians are Evil says:

    The Guardian protected that fucking nutcase Gordon Brown, it Employs Pollytwaddle and now it is saying that their staff should not be rude about Gadaffi – The bloody paper should be shut down or renamed the Beano

    • 115
      BillyBob.....beware, the jungle drums, Labia is revolting!! says:

      They are so silly these bunts, what I object to is the referring to Cameron and Thatcher, whilst fawning over Gordon Brown and Tony Blair !!

      Beeb are the same……… !!

      Grubiad do not represent the working classes………

  48. 111
    Tacitus says:

    I guess it depends on your definition of mental illness. Some of us would argue that voting for and supporting Citizen Dave, the people’s toff is pretty crazy behaviour, but there you go.

  49. 114
    peter mandleson's love child says:

    Q. Who is the most bonkers Gadaffi or Gordon Brown.
    A. Ed Balls.

  50. 116
    Cassandrina says:

    I notice that the BBCC are also changing their narrative to being much kinder to Gaddafi than before – orders from Labour, Guardian, and / or the International Socialist movement?
    John Simpson gave a rambling incoherent and disjointed diatribe about the fact that the “rebels” have “pushed out” Gaddafi forces and have 3 tanks etc of which one is in the town and two at roadblocks. Even Eddie Mair was incredulous at Simpson’s dialogue – perhaps Simpson is too close to Gaddafi, or on drugs etc. This was soon edited out and a new gung ho Simpson was on in the evening.
    Seems the BBBBCC (choose your own adjectives) have not learnt the lessons of the Falklands. If Gaddafi’s sons listen to radio 4 they will learn of who and what forces are defending the towns that these idiots (Simpson and Bowen) visit in the east of Libya.

    • 120
      BillyBob.....beware, the jungle drums, Labia is revolting!! says:

      WTF are we doing getting involved with these fricking idiots……………….. they could not lie straight in bed !!

    • 139
      Axe The Telly Tax says:

      If the rebels have got any sense they will treat beeboid reporters as Gaddafi spies and shoot on sight :-)

      • 187
        Angry Taxpayer says:

        Don’t speak too soon

        the Beeboids are so arrogant they dont’ think the Mad Dog can touch them

        Watch this space

    • 179
      Reporting from the battlefield and undermining battles says:

      Time old 4X2 tactic from the dawn of time that one.

    • 193
      Anonymous says:

      You need help. You seriously need help. I feel so so sorry for you.

    • 399
      cheche says:

      There must ne a bbc link to gadfly

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  52. 124
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Find me a place where socailisim has worked?

  53. 128
    8 Minute Eddie says:

    I think Guido is lying about knowing about my 8 minute problem.

  54. 135
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    I think socailists should be wiped off the map!!!!

  55. 137
    Voice of Treason says:

    I agree, let’s not call him mad or mental – just call him what he really is, a horrible, disgusting murdering war criminal with delusions of grandeur equal to that of Attila the Hun. A child killing bastard of the worst kind.

  56. 147
    Ratsniffer says:

    Said it once and will say I again. The Guardian is not worth hanging in an outside shithouse to wipe your stinky arse on. It is easily the world’s worst newspaper.

    • 167
      Southern Softy says:

      Oh come on. It’s not that good.

    • 175
      Engineer says:

      Be fair – it’s marginally better than the Morning Star. Slightly higher circulation, as well, though nowhere near The Sun, The Express, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Telegraph, etc. etc.

      • 218

        The refuge of the confused, the educated ignorante and the leechers of the public purse.

        • 245
          ichabod says:

          At least with all the library closures about to be effected , the sales of the Guardian will diminish substantially–I know of quite a few libraries where the Guardian is the only paper they take. Visiting my parents last week, I wondered into their local library and found that it was the Times and the Guardian ; this in …Chipping Norton !! ( Labour supporters counted on the fingers of the two local village idiots).

  57. 148
    Fabians are Evil says:

    Modded for drawing attention to the left’s dirty dark secret!

    http://mises.org/daily/1937

  58. 170
    jack says:

    I think you have driven the Guardian mad Guido

    They have lost it…

  59. 171
    Empty Ted Milli-Mossad says:

    Hitler ws quite normal as well

  60. 173
    Guardian Headlines Tommorow says:

    There is no revolution in Libya, we have never been at war with Eurasia, the revolution marches on, tractor production rates up 1000% percent.

    • 191
      Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin says:

      I have eradicated Boom and Bust and thus have saved the World.

    • 209
      peter mandleson's love child says:

      Send them straight to eastern europe. That will save them being stolen in the uk and then shipped over there. Green thinking!

  61. 180
    Empty Ted (with emcumbering Balls) says:

    I really object to that ass Mandeleson criticising me

    He of all people. His dad was sales manager of the Jsso’ish Chronicle when my dad was a professor of Marxism

    But it is true that I am a blanck sheet of paper

    • 194
      Tom Badwind says:

      He’s trying to de-toxify the Liebour ‘brand’.

      Twenty five years in the political wilderness might get him half the way there.

      • 199
        nell says:

        ++++Laugh++++

        mandy,the consummate liar, the original mac the knife, trying to detoxify the labour brand?!

        That’ll be why he was offering to spin for saif a few days ago then?

    • 242
      Fa Kin Su Pah says:

      And part time chimp

  62. 183
    nell says:

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Libya-Brega-Gaddafis-Son-Saif-Al-Islam-Tells-Sky-News-Forces-Have-Not-Bombed-Civilians-In-Brega/Article/201103115945048?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Page_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15945048_Libya%2C_Brega%3A_Gaddafis_Son_Saif_Al-Islam_Tells_Sky_News_Forces_Have_Not_Bombed_Civilians_In_Brega

    saif al islam said they did not bomb civilians in Brega.

    Oh Dear the nasty little squirt really does need mandy to spin for him. He doesn’t lie at all convincingly.

    Of course it doesn’t help that the bombing raid he’s talking about, which he says didn’t happen, was witnessed and photographed at great length by a Daily Mail reporter and photographer who found themselves being bombed from the air.

    So far there don’t appear to be any graudian reporters anywhere near the frontline, but then no doubt they’ll be taking all their news leads direct from saif or perhaps from a ‘sympathetic source in london’ receiving his information direct from saif in tri poli.

  63. 192
    Anonymous says:

    I don’t think Christopher Elliot is a preposterous name.

  64. 195
    nell says:

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-23928468-city-spy-more-red-faces-at-lse-over-gaddafi.do

    So saif hired boston based Mon it or to research and interview 40 heads of ngo’s and other government institutions for his phd. In other words they virtually wrote it for him!

    No other student at any other uni would have been allowed to do that even if they could afford it.

    It seems the lse (that london school of useful idiots, as they have now been dubbed) knew what was going on and turned a blind eye because they wanted his money and the power and influence that he wielded with new labour – namely bliar and mandy. The upper echelons of the lse deliberately ignored the principles of fairness and honesty in order to feather their own nests.

    So this was the view of british democratic society that saif was shown? How he must have laughed at us.

  65. 196

    I’m just a blank sheet of paper
    This fool’s about to write you a letter
    To tell you that he’s sorry
    For the way he did you wrong
    To ask for your forgiveness
    For leavin you alone

    Tim McGraw

  66. 197
    Call me Dave says:

    US defence secretary Robert Gates has slammed my ‘loose talk’ about no-fly zones.

    Fuck it, I really am all mouth and no trousers.

    David Cameron appears to be flying solo as senior Washington man shoots down prime minister’s Libya proposal.

  67. 198
    Jack says:

    Blinky and Ted playing football together

  68. 200
    Bob says:

    Modding getting difficult

    Guido must be at the boozer

  69. 201
    Engineer says:

    Perceptive piece in The Telegraph – if we didn’t buy their oil, we could walk away from the Middle East and let them get on with it.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/praveenswami/100078511/we-don%E2%80%99t-need-to-worry-about-the-middle-east-if-we-give-up-its-oil/

    True enough, but given than 95% of our energy use is oil or gas (domestic and industrial heating, transport fuels, electricity generation) how do we make up the shortfall if we do walk away? There are plenty of theorists with pie-in-the-sky answers (windmills, biofuels, you name it), but not many practical solutions as yet (nuclear power will help a bit, but won’t solve all the problems).

    Ticklish one – looks like we’re shackled to the Middle East for the forseeable future, warts and all.

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        Engineer says:

        Well – there’s Russia and Venezuela, but they’re even more geopolitically fraught than the Middle East. There’s prospecting going on nearer the poles, and the Falklands of course, and smaller deposits in all sorts of places (including the Canadian tar sands and Alaska).

        We might have other alternatives to energy supply. There’s still plenty of coal in the UK, and we could do a lot more on measures to be less profligate with energy. From time to time you hear about bioengineering fuels by various methods involving bugs and bacteria. Who knows?

        • 252

          The Alberta oil sands represent some 85% of the world’s bitumen. With hydroprocessing they have already become the USA’s biggest supplier of oil. We could kiss goodbye to the middle-east, if this were handled rather better, and put them back to the nineteenth century. Serve them right too.

          • Engineer says:

            I may be wrong here, so don’t quote me, but I thought there was a cost problem with processing tar sands, and being heavy oil, it’s short on the lighter fractions used for gasoline, aviation spirit and the like. It’s currently cheaper to import lighter crudes to manufacture those products.

            Pity jgm2 isn’t around – suspect he’d be rather more au fait than me on this subject.

          • Engineer, you are quite right but, with the current price of oil, it is hardly a problem and compares well with the marginally costed sources out at sea, so I understand.

          • Response held up in sinbin.

          • Moderater (chief) says:

            Deal with it.

          • Save your time don’t read this crap above.

            Why would anyone bother to read this – I am sure it’s all very interesting but will be completely out of context and manipulated to concur with your own point of view.

          • Anonymous says:

            Zzzzzz. Get your own name.

    • 219
      Ratsniffer says:

      If you believe the wet lib dims we should plant a few more windmills and give up nuclear power. Yes, that should do it.

      • 247
        Fa Kin Su Pah says:

        Or go around on those funny
        trikes like wot that Peter Gabriel
        had. Transport sorted

    • 270
      Kevin T says:

      I agree with this. Nothing would give me more pleasure than for Toyota or someone to unveil a car that runs on water tomorrow. Of course they’d then start taxing water but at least we wouldn’t have to buy it from Arabs. We could then have the RAF fly over every city in the Middle East and write “STARVE YOU CAMEL FUCKERS” in the sky with their jet trails.

    • 271
      Kevin T says:

      I agree with this. Nothing would give me more pleasure than for Toyota or someone to unveil a car that runs on water tomorrow. Of course they’d just start taxing water but at least we wouldn’t have to buy it from Arabs. We could then have the RAF fly over every city in the Middle East and write “STARVE YOU CAMEL FUCKERS” in the sky with their jet trails.

  70. 202
    peter mandleson's love child says:

    Anyone know how much money Mandleson has had from Gadaffi. He won’t tell me, I’m always the last to know.

    • 208
      nell says:

      And how much has bliar had?

      The bigger question with bliar is how much has he made by shamelessly using his contacts in the middle east from his role as peace envoy?

      When are they going to sack him?!

      And talking of sacking. When is the govt going to stop using airmiles andy as a trade envoy. How much more disgusting does his behaviour have to get before they drop him? He’s a disgrace to Britain.

  71. 204
    Gordon Brown says:

    Tonight I will be kicking owls.

    • 212
      peter mandleson's love child says:

      I thought you was going to tell hilarious jokes.

      • 248
        An owl says:

        Remind me which eye is the wooden one. Wouldn’t want to hurt my beak trying to take it out.

  72. 206
    vapourised says:

    Can’t get me head around your blog guido when so many reasonable posts just disappear.

  73. 207
    Polly Wolly Doodle says:
  74. 216
    QWERTY says:

    ALL Guardian readers are mongs and wankers.

  75. 217
    QWERTY says:

    Anyone hear Richard Bacon give Mandelson a blow job live on air today? His interview with the pillow biter was a joke.

    Then he also interviewed Sarah Brown, boy is she fucking bonkers.

    • 221
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      What do you expcet , Being contracted to the most bonkers bloke on the planet.

  76. 220
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    if you could waterboard one “writer” at the guardian , who would you pick?

  77. 222
    RIP OFF BRITAIN says:

    Who the fuck gave Call me El Dave the right to pay for Egyptions to be flown home
    We as a country are in the worst financial mess in our history
    services being slashed to fuck ,trying to save a few quid
    and theres Ca-Moron chucking our money around as if we are flush
    what the fuck are you playing at you out of touch tit ?
    why are the Egyptions not doing it ?

    • 317
      Christy says:

      Just what do you expect from Camoron,and before anybody accuses me of being LIEBOUR,let me tell you I am most definately NOT NOT.
      Camoron is trying to score points his politics are shallow and the politics of a snake oil salesman.
      Camoron address the question of what exactly are we doing in the EUSSR which is an attempt to go back to the USSR,which we all know failed and failed miserably.
      Why in the name of everything that is sensible are you intent on pursuing this dream of EUSSR utopia.
      Think about it man,Barrosso a communist,Rumpy another commie,Ashton does’nt know her arse from her elbow and never been elected to anything in her life.
      Her objective was to achieve via CND that Russia will never attack us.
      What a plonker,back in them days we were afraid that we might be attacked so we prepared for that thankfully.
      Getting back to the point we should consider that we as a country should try to make it easier for other countries to do what are christian values in our terms as regards human life.

  78. 223
    nell says:

    With mandy, bliar, gordon, new labour and the new labour’s LSE tied in so closely, as syncophants, to the gaddafi regime, not to mention saif gad afi’s close connection to the ralph miliband (father of ed) lectures, labour’s got a big image problem, especially if the gad afi regime falls.

    Doesn’t help that the International Criminal Court is now investigating saif and his brothers and his loopy father for human rights abuses does it?

    • 241
      Steve Miliband says:

      Mandy was on Bacon earlier – managed to trot out the WMD angle for being chums with Gadaffi. However he made the schoolboy error of neglecting the Nuclear arms threat

      • 289
        nell says:

        Unfortunately new labour’s wmd defence for befriending lib ya is not holding up as gad afi’s own security chief, now defected to the other side says he still has all of it and is planning to use it!!

        Like I said. saif watched the lse folks lie through their teeth to allow him his phd that he didn’t even write because he had bought them, and then he was schooled by mandy in how to spin untruths to we peasants!

        Telling lies to bliar and mandy about wmd after that was easy!!

        Bit like he tried today to say gad afi troops didn’t bomb bre ga. bliar and mandy and the lse gullible dupes believed him.

        Unfortunately the dail y ma il reporter who was in bre ga and found himself being bomb ed by gad afi’s plane s was able to tell the truth.

        We peasants too aren’t so easily duped!!

        • 292
          nell says:

          Modded again!

          C’mon Guido are you also acting as an apolgost for gad afi and stopping us posting factual accounts about what he and his foul son are doing in lib ya just like the graudian?!

          Why?!!!

          • Moderater (chief) says:

            See other reply.

          • Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

            I don’t even live in Britain but I spend all day on here posting about Gordon Brown.

            I’m the saddest most pathetic and lonely twat in the world.

          • The crooked finger of doom says:

            Owsat??????????

          • nell says:

            Not the real billy bowden of course, hanging on by his fingernails in his constituency, just the sad edballs!!

  79. 224
    Captain Panick says:

    Somewhat off topic, but I see that another MP fails to declare an interest.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12635625

    My interest was in discovering that there is another outburst of nepotism in Labour MP’s, sucking on the public teat. Following Balls/Cooper and Harriet Harman/ Jackey Dromy, we are now treated to Alison Seabeck/Nick Rainsford.

    Are there any others, and I include the other parties as well in this?? I remember the Conservatives had a couple up to May 2010, but I think they were persuaded never to stand again.

  80. 225
    QWERTY says:

    So why doesn’t the Guardian Media group buy Sky News, fill it up with drug addicts and bum bandits (a bit like the BBC) then they can spout all the left wing shit they like?

  81. 229
    RIP OFF BRITAIN says:

    Dig Deep People They are going to come in their tens of thousands
    Especially the Romany Gypo’s robbing thieving scum who would rather steal a living than work for it
    Yes the same murdering vermine that Italy deported last year !
    On their way to your town !

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8358500/New-Eastern-European-benefit-tourism-fears-after-migrant-safeguards-scrapped.html

  82. 239

    Liam Gallagher. Gordon Brown. Both look sociopathic – but Liam can at least sing.

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

      But Oasis made thier money from the market, Gordon made it from the taxpayer.

      • 259

        My point except that what did Gordon make at all? jgm2 was stating this well last night. What Brown has got out of it? £150k pa – maybe slightly more? For that we have had to endure a debt that runs into the trillions and which will take decades to deal with. Work out the percentages of that and they are extremely ugly.

        • 260
          Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

          150k PLUS expenses , free flat etc.

          Thats “Democracy” for ya.

          • Billy. Get a calculator. Put in any number between one and seven trillion (B). Now calculate say 200,000 (B) as a percentage of that sum.

            All of B had to be pissed down the toilet for him to get A.

            Expenses, free flat et al, pales into insignificance.

          • Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

            Hey i hate the C-unt , Just saying its the voters of some shithole in Scotland you need to convince :-)

          • Ignoring the fake immediately above, Billy, you did make the point about the expenses, flat etc. I was responding to that and felt you had missed the context of disproportionality that both jgm2 and I were highlighting. It is a given that we both hate, not only him, but all connected with him and everything that they stand for.

        • 309
          jgm2 says:

          Why would anyone bother to read this – I am sure it’s all very interesting but will be completely out of context and manipulated to concur with your own point of view!

  83. 240
    ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ says:

    If you suffer from insomnia. Then:

    Tonight’s QT
    IDS
    Margaret Beckett
    Malloch Brown
    David Starkey
    Liam Halligan

    Should have you asleep before the 1st question is done.

    • 291
      Tonight's QT in a nutshell says:

      Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya!

      Someone: Labour left us all this economic mess, what do you expect!
      Audience: Booooooooooo!

      Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya!

      Some lefty: Its the banks what did it!
      Audience: Yeeeeeeeeeah!

      Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya Libya!

      Some lefty: Nothing to do with Gordon or Tony, it was all Thatchers fault!
      Audience: Yeeeeeeeeeah!

      David Dimbleby: The first exit polls for Barnsley central show a Labour landslide
      Thank you and goodnight.

      • 298

        I agree with George Osborne who said

        “The near-collapse of the British banking system more than two years ago still generates today deep feelings of anger and cries for retribution. I understand that, for the link between risk and reward that underpins our free market was completely broken.”

      • 407
        Southern Softy says:

        The only good bit was when David Starkey said David Dimbo was a dwarf on a raised chair.
        I genuinely thought Dimbers was 9 foot tall.
        I should be in bed really.

  84. 243
    Defacto says:

    Gordon Brown is insane.

    FACT.

  85. 251
    Mr & Mrs S-ham Marriage says:

    This is actually a rather entertaining and insightful interview, for all the wrong reasons of course. To his credit, Richard Bacofoil keeps up the questioning about McDoom’s behaviour, bullying etc. He even plays the audio of the Bigot incident to her!

    What’s fascinating is what her answers really reveal.
    1) Note how her tone is completely emotionless whenever she mentions her Gordon.

    2) Note that whenever Bacon asks a question relating to Brown’s character, she only ever answers in generalities. A spouse would be able to describe specific, unique things about their other half but all she can muster are general descriptions of “warm” and “passionate”. Completely bland.

    3) When Bacon plays the Bigot audio, he asks her what her reaction was when she first heard it. Note how she completely avoids answering that and sidesteps to her Gordon calling her.

    4) Most interesting of all, when Bacon brings up the bullying allegations, she says Gordon was “passionate engaged” about his job, and when he tries again, she robotically repeats he was “passionate engaged”.

  86. 253
    A life of Darkness. says:

    Back from an outbuilding that I rarely visit.

    I fumbled for the light switch just inside the door.

    And suddenly there was light. It was instant and it was bright.

    I had forgotten how good incandescent light bulbs are.

    Now back in the main house with its dingy “energy saving” Euro enforced excuses for a source of light.

    • 261
      I'll have a P, please, Bob says:

      “Back from an outbuilding that I rarely visit.”

      Senokot works for me

    • 273
      I've ate balls says:

      I might be able to help. I sell ‘glass heating orbs’ of all wattages, starting from £1

    • 419
      getting used to this now says:

      Outbuildings with electric! Class.

  87. 254
    Christy says:

    I would suggest those misfits at the Gruniard watch what I have watched via Al Jazeera,they had on a facebook clip of innocent people including kids gunned down by Gadaft’s paid butchers.
    How in all that’s holy can the Gruniard even contemplate giving any support to this evil nutcase Gadafty,the man is a scheming loony if ever I saw one,probably living in the land of delusional fantasy in love with his ego.
    The Libyan ordinary people deserve better than this madman and his corrupt hencemen who have feathered their own nests to an extrodinary degree,and to me are now running shit scared of what in the fullness of time will be visited upon them.
    To all free Libyans who might read this blog,may your God go with you in dispensing you from your bonds of tyranny over the past 40 odd years.
    Finally can I say that I am ashamed that a British newsrag has seen fit to even attempt to publish anything that is supportive of this monsterous madman.
    Thank You.

    • 257
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Thats free speech for ya, Its that or censorship.

  88. 256
    Paddy McGinty's Goat says:

    Is there a link between:

    1. Some Libyan ex minister stating that Gaddafi was directly involved in the Pan Am bombing.

    2. Gaddafi & Co might be tried for War Crimes and could start spilling the beans on who knew what and when.

    3. Gaddafi & Co spin doctoring starts looking slick and polished compared to last week.

    4. The leftie leaning press & TV start giving a lot of air time and column space to the pro Gaddafi version of events.

    5. The impression the media are giving that Gaddafi & Co are firmly in charge.

    Seems to me that certain people want Gaddaffi & Co to stay exactly where they are.

    • 258
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Well the are Socailists just like Gadffey duck, Gotta look after thier own

    • 297
      nell says:

      Is there a link?

      Of course there is in the socialist press , ie the graiudian and the mirroor

      It’s called mandy, spinning like a dervish to save his bank balance!!

  89. 263
    ++BREAKING NEWS++ says:

    The director of the London School of Economics has resigned over its links to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.

    Sir Howard Davies said he recognised the university’s reputation had “suffered” and he had to quit.

    He said the decision to accept £300,000 for research from a foundation run by Col Gaddafi’s son, Saif, “backfired”.

    The LSE council has commissioned an independent inquiry into the university’s relationship with Libya and Saif Gaddafi.

    Sir Howard said he regretted visiting Libya to advise its regime about financial reforms, calling it a “personal error of judgement”.

    • 265
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Hang the fucker!!!!

      • 266
        Tony Blair says:

        £300,000? I got 10 times more from the Gaddafis.

        • 300
          nell says:

          mandy says

          ” I’,m spinning for them now and I’ll earn a fortune before this civil war is over .

          Who cares how many die as long as I earn loadsamoney from saif and his his dad!! “

    • 274

      How refreshing, in these days, to see someone take responsibility and walk. My opinion of him has gone up.

      • 286
        Labourunionsbbc we are one says:

        This is why he’s gone quick like, don’t want to jepordise all these and future lucrative placements. Socialists belive in sharing, only he wants as much as he can lay his hypocritical greedy hands on.

        Between 2002 and June 2010 he was a Trustee of the Tate and now serves as a Trustee of the Tate Foundation. He is a member of the governing body of the Royal Academy of Music; and in 2004 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Merton College. In 2004 he joined the board of Morgan Stanley as a non-executive director. From 2006 to 2010 he served on the Board of Paternoster as a non-executive director, and chaired the Man Booker Prize in 2007. In 2009 he became an advisor to the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore. In November 2010 he was appointed to the board of the Prudential as a non-executive director

    • 325
      Joss Ayinglike says:

      Chaired the spectacularly successful Financial Services Authority in 1997 and knighted by Liebour in 2000 Hmmmm,hmmmmm…..

  90. 268
    Engineer says:

    Just tell the Guardianistas that Qaddafi is espousing the Big Society in Libya.

    They’ll be queueing up to denounce him as the Devil’s spawn, then.

  91. 275
    Labourunionsbbc we are one says:

    There used to be a wrestler called ‘Mad Dog Vachone’. I supose if he wrestled today he’d have to be known as ‘Mental health issues Vachone’!

    Some of these ultra PC types wrestle with phantoms, I do belive.

  92. 279
    Looney School of Economics says:

    Gadaffi is a Genius. More Libyan dosh please. Kerrrchinnng.

  93. 280
    LOL says:

    This was my favourite comment of the day, referring to Sarah McDoom’s radio intervew.

    Fa Kin Su Pah says:
    March 3, 2011 at 2:59 pm
    Found it most unsettling listening to her.
    Horrible reminder of Loony Gordon.
    Something about the speech patterns I expect.
    Had to stop the car and buy some jelly babies

    • 316
      Student Woss fwom Winchester says:

      I study jouwnalism and think Gwenn Beck is bwiwiant!

      I’m a big boy now.

      • 322
        nell says:

        Thank the Lord you weren’t from the LSE you would have been even more of an idiot!!

      • 331
        LOL says:

        How you manage to infer someone must be a fan of Glenn Beck because he doesn’t like S Brown’s voice is beyond me. And probably beyond you and your coterie of magical green and yellow munchkins who form your friends too.

    • 333
      LOL says:

      How you manage to infer someone must be a fan oBeck because he doesn’t like S Brown’s voice is beyond me. And probably beyond you and your coterie of magical green and yellow munchkins who are your friends too.

  94. 285
    Puke says:

    Oh fuckity fuck. Margaret Beckett is on the QT panel tonight.

    • 290
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Cue loads of horse jokes :-)

      • 304
        nell says:

        Is she still claiming for hanging baskets on her caravan as well as the 60 hanging baskets she claimed for in her garden as well as a gardener to come in every day and water them.

        Useles, Useless , worthless new labour idiot!!

        • 338
          President Herman Van Rompuy says:

          And you’re paying for her, courtesy of the small society in the Big House.
          Who’s the c’unt?

      • 350
        Mr. Ed says:

        Willllbbuurrrrrrr!

        • 429
          Bert the stable lad says:

          When Beckett was presented to an Arab King he thought the queen had sent him a racehorse.

  95. 288
    misterned says:

  96. 293
    nell says:

    “whoever wins this election will be out of power for a whole generation because of how tough the fiscal austerity will have to be.” – Mervyn King Governor of the Bank of England

    +++laughs+++

    • 318
      nell says:

      Imposter person!

      And very old comment.

      Let’s ask instead what labour, bliar and mandy are doing about their bosom pals gad afi and saif and their assertions that they aren’t bombing their own people.

      Especially since the DailyM reporter and photographer was in br e ga a and not only actually filmed and photographed gad afi air force actually bomb ing the population but were also actually bombed by gad afi’s planes!!!

      We’re gonna really believe mandy’s spin after this aren’t we??!!

    • 328
      Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin says:

      My poisoned chalice is lethal.

      • 355
        PD77 says:

        So that proves beyond doubt you never consummated the marriage then!

        When’s the coming out party El Gordo?

  97. 306
    Political Correctness gone mad. says:

    Yes, Gadaffi is out of sorts at the moment which explains his odd behaviour towards his own people. Nothing to worry about, he just needs time to sort himself out. Heyho!

  98. 308
    Not nice to see you to see you nice says:

    Jim Davidson has launched a stinging attack on Bruce Forsyth, branding him a “miserable old bastard.”

    The controversial comedian said the BBC only keep Brucie on Strictly Come Dancing to avoid accusations of ageism.

    Jim, who succeeded Brucie as host of The Generation Game in 1995, said: “He’s hanging on. No one really wants Bruce on there, do they? Not really. But they have him there so they can say, ‘How dare you say we’re ageist? Moira Stuart is wrong!’.”

    He then urged the 83-year-old Strictly host to make room for younger talent. “Look at Bruce – he needs ironing before the show! There’s a bit in my new play where someone says, ‘You only watch Strictly Come Dancing to see if Bruce drops dead live on air’. Miserable old bastard!”

    The out-of-favour comic, while launching an attack on Brucie, did also say he himself was too old for TV. The 57-year-old told The Sun: “Who wants to see me? If you’re a controller of British TV on Saturday nights, you’ve got to go for the 18-30 audience.”

  99. 320
    jgm2's own words says:

    “and, worst of all, she’s a J*w.”

  100. 323
    Care in the International Community says:

    No worries. Big Mags our frontline international mental health officer is flying over Libya with her dart gun.

  101. 327
    QT bollocks says:

    It’ll be amusing to watch Beckett on QT try and defend her record as foreign secretary, and try and make Labour look squeaky clean over Libya.

  102. 335
    annon. says:

    Burnley by- election polls close 10.00 P.M. 3 March 2011

    Meanwhile…

    3 March 2011 Last updated at 22:06

    Appeal over Lancashire death driver deportation fails.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-12642303

  103. 337
    Lee says:

    So…

    “Guardian abides by its editorial code” is the story?

    Good on ‘em for being consistent, even if it is consistently stupid.

    This blog and most notably the quality of its comments are screaming downhill at speed as the correct response from opponents of what the Guardian stands by would respect them for their decision in this matter.

    • 377
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      The Guardian stands for paying as little UK tax as possible whilst hypocritically attacking rivals who do exactly the same. Those ethics you extol only apply to left-wing personages, the Guardian’s treatment of the Right merely highlights the Guardians complete lack of ethical standards. You are either a fool or a liar if you believe the Guardian.

  104. 343
    Bogeyman says:

    Guido, I wish you’d run a regular column on that fucking rag. It gets worse by the day.

    Classic example today: One of their scribes laid into the Tories for cutting subsidies to Sure Start centres (Polly’s favourite) in places like Hackney, while wealthier Richmond and Wokingham faced smaller cuts.

    The Guardianistas went into full cry: baby-munching tories sending them up the chimneys next etc etc. This went on to a screeching crescendo until a couple of sages (Tory trolls, as they call them) pointed out that Richmond and Wokingham got bugger all subsidies in the first place, so there wasn’t much to cut. Hackney takes cash by the lorryload and will continue to do so, albeit a little less.

    All went a bit quiet after that except for the morons who don’t understand basic maths.

  105. 344
    QT bollocks says:

    Starkey says the govt should be put in a carehome.

    • 347
      Vote for change you can believe in says:

      The people who need putting in a care home are the mongs that queue up to vote LibLabCon in the belief that their interests are the governments primary concern.

      • 349
        Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

        Yep, end up voteing for the lesser of two evils.

      • 351
        Labour, brought to you by the Hindujas, Mittals, Ecclestone, Lord Paul et al says:

        The people’s interests are our primary concern.

      • 353
        Labour, brought to you by the H*ndujas, M*ttals et al says:

        The people’s interests are our primary concern.

  106. 348
    Note how she's completely robotic and emotionless when talking about her hero says:

    • 352
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      She is just doing what she is “contracted” to do.

      • 354
        Note how she's completely robotic and emotionless when talking about her hero says:

        It’s worth a listen. Rather entertaining how utterly emotionless she is talking about her spouse. Richard Bacon even plays her the bigotgate audio!

    • 371
      Mr Wuv the Youtube mong is having another tantrum says:

      Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap

      • 378
        Winkie says:

        Copy and paste Cameron’s comments about climate change. I’m sure on this occasion it’ll bring down the government.

    • 385
      Tron says:

      She’s a liar just like Gordon.
      He may not have fucked her but he fucked us.

  107. 360
    Gordon Brown says:

    Tonight i will ride my rocking horse.

  108. 369
    I Squiggle says:

    Dear Guardian Reader

    Please do not refer to us as ‘Mental’, but rather as ‘Several grains short of a desert’.

    Yours Comradely
    Alan Rushbridgeher

  109. 381
    robbie says:

    Just hope all you guys are right and that no-one from Dave down through the FCO has to do the most amazing U-turning a*re licking job in history on the Mad Dog if he manages to hold on.

    Now that will really be embarressing, however good it might be for BP.

    • 413
      The moving circus of the World's Media says:

      The ol’ colonel obviously hasn’t read the script..he should have buckled by now under the combined assault of the World’s media and rhetoric.he’s being very tiresome as the BBC only pencilled in 12 days for lee-by-ah in its schedules and needs to move its 500+ journalists on to the next country and get ‘em back to UK to cover THAT wedding

      • 440
        South of the M4 says:

        I am surprised he did not resign when the UN said that they were nearly ready to form a committee to consider the possibility of issuing a statement about what they might do – pending of course, a full review and sub-committees agreement.

  110. 383
    I says:

    But lets be realistic…..You would need billions of aerosols to turn Lybia into a ” no fly ” zone

  111. 386
    Wow says:

    I was amazed when I read J Hunt is married. I would’ve bet my life he’s pink. His haircut is of that type for a start.

  112. 387

    Yeeaaaaaah, wats up!

    Check out me cut on me right index finger mon, Izz couldn’t get a ßlαck plaster for it from da boots chemist yer know!

    Me thinking it is like totally ґacḯalїṧṫḯc mon, and me is gonna be writing to me main man in da house Trevor Phillips tomorrow!

    ßooshaka!

  113. 389
    Good news says:

    BBC reporter on Brillo’s show just said UKIP may have come second in Barnsley.

    • 396
      Latest News says:

      The Labour postal votes are being flow in from Pakistan as we speak!

    • 435
      I hate Blue Labour says:

      And that is more significant to me than the expected lib dem kicking.

      Cameron just doesn’t get it, pull out of europe and all the ukip voters will come back. Simple.

  114. 390
    The Guardian needs sectioning. says:

    Gaddafi and his criminal accomplices are currently implementing a massive kidnapping campaign in Tripoli and its vicinities in order to ‘clean up’ key youth leaders before tomorrow’s Friday prayers.

    And the Guardian worries about what to call him.

    • 420
      London Non-Muslim says:

      How can anyone use the phrase “Friday prayers” in a non-ironic way? Is there any other religion in the modern world that sends its “worshippers” out of the ceremony baying for blood, burning effigies and flags, and demanding murder?

  115. 394
    Anonymous says:

    Clearly this is about concern for mentally ill people. I’d rather be ill than to stupid not to understand that.

  116. 398
    cheche says:

    How many times do I have to tell you all the trendy left is mixed up with this inicluding especailly the BBC – look at their coverage.

    Guido stop messing around with tittle tackle about who is the next westminster village spinner and get to the bottom of this

  117. 400
    Barnsley Mong says:

    We did it again!

    Labour! Labour! Labour!

    UKIP second though.

  118. 402
    Calamity Clegged! says:

    Limp Dims have come sixth!

    • 405
      Tron says:

      the BBCC used to LOVE the Liberals.
      Paddy, Charlie, Ming, Vince etc. got an even easier ride than Labour.

      • 414
        Down with Brown! says:

        Terrible result for the Limp Dems. I reckon their vote might collapse after this.

    • 418
      hmmm says:

      It is wrong to have an election with a winner and losers – just think of the future anguish and complexes it could give some of the candidates, and the messages it sends.

      Strangely that bastion of non competitive sports, the BeeBC, is wetting itself this morning over the result.

  119. 404
    The Mysteron says:

    My first is in GOON but not in HOON
    My second is in ONE EYED but not in PIE EYED
    My third is in RECKLESS but not in FECKLESS
    My fourth is in DORK but not in NORK
    My fifth is in MONG but not in MING
    My sixth is in NUTTER but not in BUTTER
    My seventh is in BONKERS but not in CONKERS
    My eighth is in RAVING but not in SAVING
    My ninth is in JOBBY and also in KNOBBY
    My tenth is in WANKER but not in BANKER
    My eleventh is in NUMPTY but not in HUMPTY

    Who am I?

  120. 408
    Thatcher reference in 0.05 seconds says:

    New Labour MP for Barnsley mentioned Thatcher in his victory speech. Surely that must be a record of some sort?

    • 410
      albacore says:

      One red trougher, sitting in a cell
      One red trougher, didn’t he do well?
      And if one red trougher should loot and take the fall
      Barnsley still loves Labour and doesn’t mind at all

    • 411
      Thatcher's Children says:

      She’s an icon ‘oop North. lad…t’angel of t’ North were modeled on ‘er

  121. 409
    Cameron Is A Cunt says:

    The Guardian – Wrong About Everything, All The Time.

  122. 412
    Down with Brown! says:

    UKIP way ahead of the Tories in Barnsley. Time now for Cameron to give us an in or out of th EUSSR referendum.

    • 417
      Apart from "Dave" nobody seems to agree with "Nick" says:

      AND do you honestly think that will happen anytime soon …???

      • 425
        RIP OFF BRITAIN says:

        Coalition about to start fragmenting !
        as the Glib’s realise that they could lose their place at the public tit !

        • 431
          Down with the heir to Blair says:

          Start fragmenting? Tories are pissed off with Dave’s weak stance on pretty much everything. If I was a betting person I’d see rumblings in the Tory party before the LimpDumbs.

          They’re all in it together!

    • 424
      smoggie says:

      ..or what? All the UKIP MPs will form a coalition with Labour?

      • 426
        Apart from "Dave" nobody seems to agree with "Nick" says:

        The General Election will be different ??…unless we get AV of course in which case UKIP is in with a very good chance of getting some MPs at long last and the Tories will be out of power FOREVER

        • 428
          Blue Labour out says:

          Call me Dave can fuck right off. Heir to Blair and nothing more. UKIP looking more like an alternative now. Good news.

  123. 430
    Nick Clegg says:

    Now look,the Barnsley by election result was not all bad for the LibDems.We could have ended up lower than sixth place !!

    The only way is up

  124. 432
    HTT Taleb says:

    Labour are better at inventing problems that match existing policies, rather than inventing policies to match existing problems

    • 439
      David Cameron - fra~ud says:

      Call me Dave is great at burying his head either in the sand or up Van Rompuy Pumpy’s arse.

  125. 434
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Congratulations Dan Jarvis:

    Barnsley Vote Shares: Lab 61% (+24%) UKIP 12% (+7%), Con 8% (-9%), BNP 6% (-3%), Ind 5% (+3%), Lib Dems 4% (-13%).

    Call a General Election now, Dave “Bottler” Cameron,if you dare !!!!!

  126. 436
    Martin Day says:

    A fall in support from 6,394 votes on 6 May 2010 to 1,102 last night represents a collapse in vote share of more than 75% for the Liberal Democrats, whose campaign team return to Cowley Street without their £500 deposit.

    I look forward with interest to Nick Clegg’s arrival at the Welsh Liberal Democrats’ annual conference later today.

    • 442
      FuckingMadLooney says:

      you really are a twat Martin

      does anybody here really believe this result will make any difference whatsoever to anything that the british establishment want to achieve at our expense?????

  127. 437
  128. 441
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    The worst pub I’ve ever been to was called The Fiddle.

    It really was a vile inn.

  129. 443
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    This is a huge triumph for the Liberal Democrats. The last time they were in 6th place in a parliamentary by-election, they got 3.3%. This time they got 4.2%. That’s an increase of 27%. It clearly shows that the Coalition is going to be re-elected in 2015.

    On 13th January 2011, Labour got 14,718 votes.
    On 3rd March 2011, Labour got 14,724 votes.

    If they can only increase their vote by 6 votes in 7 weeks, then by 2015 they will only be getting 14,910.

    If Labour can only get 14,910 votes each in their safe seats at the next general eledction, then it will be a disaster for them. It clearly shows that the Coalition is going to win in 2015 by a landslide.

  130. 445
    Taxfodder says:

    The fact remains if you want to find a regime that is provenly corrupt and more than happy to gag and or go th war to make a few bob and improve its interests you won’t have to travel much further than the UK.

    This is human nature, the aggrieved won’t thank you for doing it nicely with kind thoughts and consideration and maybe flowers

    Cor blimey everybody knows only outright hypocritical knobs agree with the bollocks the Guardian prints, its the same old story happy to live on the proceeds while turning a blind eye to the facts.

  131. 449
    Mr Plod says:

    1st I’m no apoligist for the madman but I wonder what would happen here is there was a uprising against this government would they employ the military to quash it accusing everyone taking part as being terrorist or would it be allowed to be a velvet revolution.

    & before you dismiss the notion I remind you that the Met is already using troops clandestinely on the streets of London



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