The Committee to Re-Elect de Pfeffle
A secret six strong team of the London Tory players, under Hammersmith and Fulham council’s Stephen Greenhalgh, has been tasked with warming up the fight to keep Boris in City Hall. Officially it doesn’t exist and it’s business as usual, but it’s limbering into gear. With fourteen months to go, the Committee to Re-Elect de Pfeffle have launched an attack site on their old friend Ken:
Guido’s ear on the committee seems confident that despite the anti-Tory and cuts rhetoric their boy is going to be fine. Though they are expecting a surge of support for Ken from “the haters”, traditional Tory support for Boris in 2008 wasn’t overwhelming due to the suspicion he was a mere TV clown. Though it hasn’t been the most glittering mayoralty, they are adamant that he has proved that bunch wrong. It seems the tactic is to get that lot on board and quickly. Get ready to hear a lot about “Bikes, Bikes and Strikes”…
BoJo going to get another term easy….. Ken is so last century.
I can’t wait to team up with the Great Leader Red Ed and his union boss Red Len.
Today I will be mostly pondering whether I should run for the Job…
My Capital city and my people need me and my prudent fiscal management
Ken reduced public transport prices and kept them low, especially buses. Boris didn’t.
Ken sped up public transport with Oysters. Boris didn’t.
According to Stephen Norris, Ken won the Olympics for London. Boris just embarrassed us.
There were less strikes under Ken than Boris.
We had the Sultan’s Elephant under Ken. Nothing like it from Boris.
Political allegiance be damned, I’ll be voting Ken. He’s the pragmatic choice.
Not if I have anything to do with it, Billy.
Higher interest rates,higher taxes,higher unemployment.
You know that the Tories are stark,raving bonkers.
FOR FUCKS SAKE. WHO GIVES A SHIT WHO THE MAYOR OF london IS?
And why are National taxation and National Lottery mobies being stolen to fund the LONDON olympic games?
Boris stole my moby! BOO HOO!
There is life oiutside London…..but not as we know it.
outside
I would like to see a list of Boris’ achievements. Much as I enjoy his DT writing, for the life of me I can’t remember anything constructive that he has done as Mayor.
think not of what he’s done but what he hasn’t, no meetings with dictators, extremist clerics, defending terrorists as freedom fighters and the list can go on and on and on and on……………
True ….. but …
Extremists ? Terrorists ?? He doesn’t speak to me either.
Bikes?
Air pollution?
Getting rid, too slowly, of those dangerous bendy buses
Gives Londoners a hearty laugh at least once a month?
Wanking off the wierd londonian obsession with bendy busses you mean?
I’ve seen them in all sorts of cities with narrow streets and lots of bikes (not belgium you understand), and they don’t have this neurosis about the things.
Theyre shit. Good Riddance.
They’re ok as far as buzzes go.
I bet you aren’t a fan of any bus.
A bus that doesn’t work:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8366472/Londons-new-Routemaster-bus-goes-on-show.html
Very retro. Where I lived in the 80s the bus companies decided what bus they were going to use.
Stopped drinking on the tube.
Boris bikes.
Lots of shagging
he’s shagged lots of other people’s missus’ – gets my vote
A sign of someone doing a good job that you hardly know he’s there or nor what he does. The absence of problems is the key.
what is it bout ken that makes him think he has the divine right to govern London?
His newts told him so
isn’t there a old saying involving newts? might explain much
There’s no newts like old newts?
He needs frogmarching!
I ask myself a similar question about Cameron and his seemingly divine right to ignore the wishes of the UK with respect to the extent and scope of the UK’s involvement in the European superstate.
There was an article about him in Private Eye yonks ago in which he was reputed to have bought some special pills on one of his junkets which make semen taste of strawberry flavour, if you please! This was before he re-invented himself as a heterosexual, of course.
Wimbledon fortnight was never the same after reading that.
Just fuck the hell off Ken
London is no place for an Old Etonian to be mayor.
Bugger off Boris you clown !
It’s the taxpayers money being pissed up against the wall again comrades
Nationalised lender Northern Rock said today it was paying staff £13.1 million in bonuses for 2010 despite posting a multimillion-pound loss for the year.
Most of the bank’s 4,500 staff, who on average earn £25,000 a year, will receive a payout of around 10% of their salary. Executive chairman Ron Sandler, who is paid £250,000 a year, is not eligible for a 2010 bonus.
A Tory led scandal.
You are Billy’s adopted half-brother
Zeus who does strange things to horses
and is a member of the Labour party
They made a loss = no corporation tax into UK. They pay bonuses = income tax revenue into UK. Result, UK plc better off.
How about paying back the bail -out money back to UK plc??
Eh !
You think you’re a smart arse don’t you ?
Who negotiated the terms of the bail out together with bonus and repayment structures with Northern Crock? Step forward ZaNu morons.
What utter bollox.
We own a loss making bank that pays bonuses to failures.
What do you not understand about the idiocy of that situation?
you say that as if you know what you are talking about.
“pays bonuses to failures” … have you been through the individual staff members and worked out how effective they have been?
They collectively made a loss for taxpayers = No bonus for any staff. Bonuses should be paid out of profits.
How effective they have been?
I know how effective they have been:
THEY MADE A LOSS!
FFS – what are you failing to grasp here?
AC1: thats not how bonuses work. If a staff does good work, but the owner is a tosser, or tossing about with their book-keeping, its in the nature of many peoples’ conditions of employment to get the cash.
Mrs Wings:
Its perfectly possible for a profitable company to have a crap employee too you know. Very easy to understand that a company can have employees and departments that are fully effective, even if on the whole they aren’t profitable. FFS yourself.
This is absolutely appalling!
Brown should have let the sodding place go to the wall when they couldn’t manage their finances.
They do not seserve any bonuses when it was the taxpayer who saved them.
F*cking parasites!
Perhaps they shouldn’t have any salary at all, with that nonsense logic.
The only way they are going to return to private ownership, and payback the taxpayer with interest, is to become profitable and that can only be done with with motivated staff.
No no no. people who comment on blogs should be allowed to micro-manage salary decisions.
Hat-trick !!
“David Cameron has lost his mojo“.
Mojo is Spanish for “sauce”.
I’d vote for Boris (again) if he ran on an Independence for the M25 area ticket. Screw the rest of the UK!
Only if they build a 20 ft wall around the inside of the road and entry/exit permits are mandatory
50 ft high wall, made up of masonry from inside the wall. Nobody to go in or out, ever. No food or water allowed in.
You mean dam the Thames. And am I supposed to go to fucking Gatwick to get a flight?
“Bikes, Bikes and Strikes”…
Has Bojo been shagging about again?
I’m not a Tory troll! Promise
Can I be mayor?
You were a Night mayor for 13 years.
Could this be the same part-Turkish blond gentlemen accused of beating people up for Puppy Guppy?
The same bonker with a penchant for upmarket bikes?
And is this the same portly bikeist whose two-wheeler lark has been an unmitigated disaster?
I think we should be told…..
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/what-is-it-with-conservatives-and-bikes/
Oh for fu*ks sake, stop whoring for traffic to your pitiful drivel.
The problem is that disastrous as Ken was (and it pains me to admit it as a previous Boris supporter) Boris is proving little better. A report by Citroen shows that the time spent by motorists in traffic jams in London has nearly doubled in the last 5 years from 19 mins to 34 mins PER DAY. Most of this during Boris’s watch.
As a motorcyclist this has little effect on me personally but I watch in horror as the road network is diminished and congestion deliberately manufactured. I have no idea how much this is costing the average commuter in extra petrol costs or London in general in terms of wasted time. Then there is the consequential extra CO2 that TFL seems to want to generate, despite claiming to be committed to reducing it.
I’m afraid Boris just isn’t up to the job – I think he should drop any further ambitions politically, I fear his failings outweigh his successes. Perhaps he should go back to being a TV personality, he’s good at that.
CO2 is an irrelevant, harmless, red herring. Air quality however is not and the culprit in chief for this is TFL, who have for decades pursued a deliberate policy of traffic strangulation and congestion, to ‘justify’ the need for congestion and air quality taxes.
I totally agree. My emphasis on CO2 is there purely because that is the “measure” TFL seem to target.
Could it be that there are many more cars on the road this year, which in turn has led to many more taffic jams?
You can’t bame BoJo for that.
No it couldn’t as the number of cars entering London has been falling in recent years.
Yeah that’s mainly due to the fact that you have to be stupid to pay to use a road that the VED pays for, why is it that no one has said stick Red Kens extra Road Tax up his ar*e I’ll never know?
Sorry missing something so you are saying I want Kenny he was better than Boris? which would mean you are totally insane or that or that you in the smoke lot should get some one else in and if so who? go one tell us ?
Oh and if yer a biker why the hell does congestion bother you ? sorry but if you don’t know how to filter then get off the road and let those who can get to work!.
If you actually read my first post you’d notice that I think Ken was a disaster, and that I said that as a biker the congestion affects me very little (since, yes I do know how to filter).
No I do not want Ken, I just don’t think Boris is much of an improvement and no I can’t suggest someone else. Londoners are just stuffed.
EXCLUSIVE
At todays PMQ’s William Hague will be offered up as a sacrificial lamb.
Thank you so much Guido and get your money on him to be the first Minister to quit!
already had the first minister to resign twat!
Yes,We all know about David Laws,ducky.
The next cabinet minister to resign then
Guess he didn’t read last years news yet?
“Dave” won’t sack Hague for the simple reason that Hague,Osborne and Gove are at the centre of the Tory leadership”.Hague is admittedly there on sufference but he represents the right wing of the party balancing the “Cameroon” ruling elite and “Dave” will lay himself open to even more dissent/attack after the expected debacle over his decison over the AV referendum when that delivers a yes vote and the end of Tory hopes to ever forming a majority goverenment in the future.
I expect “Dave” rather to endorse Hague not in so many words but to all intents and purposes.The bigger danger to “Dave” is if Hague decides to walk himself if he considers No10 has been briefing against him to give cover to “Dave” for his disastrous foreign policy initiatives over Libya
Hague right wing?
Thank’s for the laugh, the only thing ‘right’ about Hague is that he dresses to the right.
He is as phoney as Cameron and his hero Bliar.
If Ed is stupid enough to start an ad hom attack on Hague, he’ll leave himself wide open to retaliation through the Milliband families previous support of Gadaffi and Labour’s underhand dealings with the regime that supplied arms to the IRA. Not a good way to go.
squat city hall ! No surrender!
How cleverly Nixonian of you.
If Boris can keep it down to one “love child” per term he’ll be a shoo-in.
He hasn’t been that great – he lost my respect somewhere between advocating an amnesty for illegals and comparing the limiting of to housing benefit to £20,000 “ethic cleansing” – but the choice between him and Comrade Ken is a no-brainer.
I just wish one of them would have the decency to stand up and say, “Look, the mayor is obviously doing fuck all for the outer boroughs but taking their money, so if I am elected I will limit the mayor’s territory to Zones 1 – 3″. I might even vote for Livingstone if he did that.
It’s a choice between a social democrat and an unreformed communist. Neither are desirable, though one is repulsive.
Great.
Tweedle dumb in the red corner.
Tweedle dumb in the blue corner.
Super.
Not.
The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over again & expecting a different result.
Voting for either Labour or Conservative candidates is a sign of mental illness.
don’t voote for any of them. It only encourages them.
Vote for a real change, do not vote for the big three or their pet poodle, the Greens. Whoever else you choose does not matter, the establishment need a kick up the arse, big time.
Christ – it the Greens ever get in we can expect huge tax hikes under the guise of saving the world. That’s all we need at the mo.
Mr Bag will then have to have me committed.
your optimism that UKIP could do better is not a sign of mental illness.
Any optimism you might have that I can improve is a definite sign of mental illness.
Sockpuppet by name…..
no valid point then?
Hang em
Let me give you politically naive Tor*y Tro*lls a lesson in politics
“””A secret six strong team of the London Tory players”””
No names Guido, ie they either don’t exist, or if they do exist their anonymity help distance themselves from The Clown – which doesn’t say much about the campaign.
18 months before Mayoral election – Boris and his team are clearly worried.
Ok where’s the lesson then ? or is that it ?
‘i say this so it is true!’
great well that’s me taught !oh but then again
‘I say other so your wrong ‘
oh now what will become of me red Kenny sponsored education?
I am sentient.
Last night when you were making the pancakes, and Sarah called you a ‘complete tosser.’
Well..it wasn’t as complimentary as you thought.
+1
O/T but if you thought scrapping the RDAs actually meant reducing the public sector pay bill, think again. Here’s a good one for an ‘enabler’ to faff about with these LEPs. Ain’t life grand – 70 grand.
http://www.ipaworld.com/jobs.cfm?jobid=411&do=jobdetail
Remember that Ken Livingston had a distinct disadvantage in the last election.
Gordon Brown had just introduced the {delayed} 10p tax rate cut. Poorer voters were going mental. Labour MPs were in open rebellion. Especially London MPs.
His iron stance of ‘no U-Turns’ quickly crumbled when his sock puppet chancellor informed him if he didn’t back down the budget would be defeated and the government would probably fall.
The DWP had lost the data discs and the Mr bean line had been used by Vince Cable.
Brown’s honeymoon was well and truly over.
Boris won’t have that advantage to look forward to this time.
She is more of a man than Brynat will ever be.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
We wish !!
Red Ken is a Communist.
Boris is a Communist.
Neither want to scrap the wasteful position of mayor and save those that bother to pay council tax in London, £500 a year in extra tax just to have a mayor. And this does NOT include the money they steal from same sucker taxpayers for the Olympics… and in return those paying the £20bn will get…. absolutely noting, while McDonalds, Visa and the rest of the corporate whores (whoreporations) make a killing. It is also obscene that children are given free bus passes no matter how close they live to schools. At school chucking out time, they terrorise passengers on buses. Bus and train passengers – pay your own way, no subsidies from motorists!
The London mayor is one thing that should have been scrapped by Cameron, but as he’s a Ciommie as well, he won’t get rid of it.
Say what you like about Margaret thatcher, but at least she knew the GLC was a waste of money, much as the GLA is today. Different name, shiny HQ, and just a big a waste of money.
Didn’t Red Ken come from the GLC? Or is my memory fading?
London is a shit tip.
London is a foreign country, has been for the last twenty years.
+1
We gave you multiculturalism. Now get out there and celebrate its rich diversity.
I celebrate diversity every single day from my million pound little pad here in deepest Dorset.
my key does ot work
cu t
Labour have formally complained about BBC bias.
Ed Balls cannot stand the BBC using the word “Savings” which has positive connotations, instead of “Cuts” which is negative.
Savings wouldn’t be necessary if Balls hadn’t neglected his job as Chancellor.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8370470/Labour-complains-to-BBC-in-cuts-or-savings-row.html
We must be doing a good if both sides are complaining.
Ok then. Shall we start by describing Labour’s profligate SPENDING rather than their huge INVESTMENT in the public sector?
Truly Orwellian
deliberate misdirection to head-off complaints about BBCs left-wing/Labour bias. It’s so the BBC and their apologists can say “look! labour are complaining too so we must be balanced!”
A pile of shit of course. The reason that Liebour and BBC are pulling this, is because, one of the main accusations of bias that have been levelled at them is the use of the word “cuts” when the Tories are in power, but use of the word “savings” when it’s Labour. This is another example of Liebour spin machine and BBC in direct cahoots with each other.
If you had a choice of which blogger to waterbord out of, Guido,Iain dale or Will straw who would you vote for?
All of the above.
All three.
Utter piffle. Or do I mean Pfeffle?
Cigarettes ‘to be sold in plain packets’
Government to unveil plans to strip cigarette packaging of logos and branding.
Fucking hells bells. I thought with the end of Labour this nannying bullshit would die a death.
I bet the EU has demanded this to harmonise efforts to curtail free will.
Fuck off c u n t s and fuck off Call me Dave. FUCK OFF
p.s. It will be interesting to see whether other EU police forces take up any slack if local plod go on strike. An EU takeover by the back door is what gives Call me Dave and his EU poodles wet dreams.
Maybe Mps should be told to stand for election as a plain paket as they are all courpt and have no morals or belifs!
Well they better come over in more than snatch Land Rovers.
I didn’t think the police were allowed to strike. It used to be part of their Contract.
They work to rule, which, considering the extra hours they work (double time + TOIL), is much like a strike.
If Theresa May can fuck about with their contract then plod are morally entitled to do the same with their ‘Contract’.
I thought they had been on strke for the last 13 years!
De PfeffEL, fools. Really standards of spelling/education/kids of today/hell in a handcart ad naus. ……..
It’s a no-brainer