For Huhne the Bell Tolls
“Energy secretary Chris Huhne is launching the first new grid connection to Europe for 25 years today” which must be exciting. A government source just confirmed to Guido that they are keeping Huhne on a very low profile for the next couple of days. That would explain why today he was sent to that known bastion of political action, Rochester. Why?
Guido now has it triple sourced that two Sunday papers are going to put the bullet provided for them by Mrs Huhne straight through the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change’s head. Speeding points and the rest…
Guido has been digging on this one all week and the it’s a total mess. One Downing Street source gave him a 10% survival rate past Sunday…
UPDATE:
Spotted at the Bleeding Heart Restaurant on Tuesday. Vicky Pryce aka Mrs Chris Huhne. Irony.—
Eye Spy MP (@eyespymp) May 12, 2011
There’s a thin line between sorrow and rage.
Hunt next then Piggin wiggin.
What’s “..and the rest….” ?
Speeding points and the rest…
…Ideally something involving simon hughes & vince cable , performing with one of mark oatens’ speciasl friends. And so well documented that even the limp dims will treat them like pariahs.
This ivilification is so grossly unfair and anti gay ! Just because he is a Lib Dem, you perceive him to be a pillow munching, abba loving Judy Garland fan and demonise him for perceived sexual deviancy.For the record, Huhne is NOT gay, he is as straight as any other lib dem card / handbag carrying member of the party ,ok ?
This from 4 Aug last year:
“Will [Huhne] still be in office for the second Annual Statement ?”
No, he’ll be well into rehearsals for strictly , prior to flying out to The Oz outback to work with Ant and Dec.
But, but, but…
…who will save us from the evil horrors of Tory-made climate change?
I thought Gordon had saved the world? Well thats what Labour were saying…
Oh Dear. First it was windmills spoiling the landscape now it’s going to be Pylons.
The Huhne is about to launch a Pylon competition. Or he was going to launch a Pylon competition if Guido is correct.
http://www.powergenworldwide.com/index/display/articledisplay/1505256842/articles/powergenworldwide/t-and-d/t-and-d-infrastructure/2011/06/uk-launches_pylon.html
Cross hairs! – couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke, now lets get building nuclear plant before the country has a blackout.
+1 x ∞
Going down perhaps?? That would be nice…..another millionaire bites the dust !!
Why aren’t there checks in our Hospitals and Doctors surguries to ensure entitlement to our Health Services? It wouldn’t happen free anywhere else in the world. Why should we accept this here? Might get some illegals to return home.
Time to let the housing bubble burst
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/time-to-let-the-housing-bubble-burst/
I do support you freedom to speak but what about doing some work. You say you are working in the “private sector”, don’t they expect you to work?
Thought Tories aren’t afraid of an election but it looks like they are doing every thing possible to protect Clegg!
That shot will go through his nose.
A good, clean kill then.
So he would be transferred to the House of Lords? Lord Huhne of Scone?
…missing his brain by six feet.
‘Leave the gun, take the cannoli’.”
He’s not that tall.
Ah, a bogey at 12:00 o’clock!!
minister’s pension in the bag by now!
I, for one, am disappointed that such a talented and selfless politician with a great deal to offer to the country should be harassed in such a despicable manner.
I agree its a total shame
What are the odds? Is it worth a punt yet? Need to pay for my hols.
Glad that the eco-freak bastard is getting at least part of what he deserves.
Piss on all Green loons.
You forgot the /sarcasm tag at the end.
As Vince said, ‘ruthless’.
Something about ‘keeping your enemies closer’ springs to mind!
Well done Mrs Huhne !!
digging Clegg out of the hole he has found himself in.
“the it’s a total mess” ?
GF’s bad grammar only seems to be surpassed by his bad spelling.
Is that not syntax rather than grammar?
Its a handheld device in a smoky bar at lunchtime that’s wot it is.
Smoky bar? Which country is he in?
Aww, go easy on Guido, he’s a potato muncher and “er, loike, inglish don’t cum dat easy to me big fella,top of da mornin’ to ya ” – It would appear tha English isn’t Guido’s first langauge.
Maybe he’ll quit to form a splinter party.
Social Democratic Party 2.
Polly will be reporting him as the new ‘greatest progressive leader for a generation.’
Trouble is she has the Gordon touch.
Anyone she endorses is considered lucky if they get away with electoral oblivion.
I am the gweatest pwogwessive leader for a genewation !!!!!
Let’s all hope so…
.. that known bastion of political action, Mrs Rochester.
Is there any Mps in Parliament that are not crimnals?
There’s the perverts ?
The criminally insane?
650 of them insane? Could be on to something there…
No. Not one.
I say old chap. Steady on.
We’re not all criminals.
I heard a rumour there’s a Lib Dem who’s never even had a parking ticket.
yes, I know the one. the most boring sod in parliment.
Caroline Lucas…
…so squeaky clean even her farts don’t smell. Apparently.
And she keeps rescued greyhounds & circus bears in her kitchen – is there a more saintly woman in politics?
Shame that those of her ilk proscribe to global genocide as a policy to protect the earth. They wish to depopulate the planet by reducing the human population to between 100 and 500 thousand people.
The only thing about these “we must reduce the earth’s population to save the planet” fuckwits is that they stubbornly refuse to lead by example.
It shows a massive weakness in their commitment to their cause that they will not kill themselves for it.
She’s a vegetarian, her farts must reek
Top bird.
I too was a nature conservationist, depopulationist and a vegetarian.
You weren’t a vegetarian.
You must be joking – give her the chance and she’d have you in a gulag with electrodes on your bollox before you could say “face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle”.
Are you using jacketed parabellum, or Met Police hollowpoint ?
Dum-Dums are probably more appropriate for such a thicko.
Better than that, it’s a Grenade launcher!
Apart from the speeding points issue (that’s bad enough), does anyone have an idea what’s “the rest”? Drugs? Dead girls? Live boys? Back-handers?
Littering & non payment of a library fine…
…they’re right bastards, these Lib-dems. Living right on the edge, some of them.
Just when you think Tory councils couldn’t stoop any lower, they go and do something so completely senseless it almost defies belief. That a council would charge children to play (on a council play area) seems like a joke – the kind of thing a cartoonish “nasty party” Tory might dream up – but in one borough, it’s unfortunately true.
Tory Wandsworth council plan to charge children £2.50 to use Battersea Park adventure playground. If this pilot is successful the Director of Children’s Services will extend the charges.
And the leader of Wandsworth council? That would be Eddie Lister – Boris Johnson’s new right-wing deputy mayor.
I no – the stoopid fockers tried to charge me £10 to get into Alton Towers! I mean how do they hav the brass neck to mak peepul pay for stuf an fings
You haven’t already paid for Alton Towers many times over. If you had you would have a point.
I paid for the Dome but still had to buy a ticket to get in. Remind me who built that white elephant?
British airways?
No really.
Anyway – the building its self was made at a reasonable cost, it was the shite they put in it that was the silly bit.
Sorry, no – it cost us £1bn. For a piece of shit.
Its worth looking into how much BA gave.
According to the UK National Audit Office,[11] the total cost of The Dome at the liquidation of the New Millennium Experience Company in 2002 was £789 million
So not 1 billion, and not all on the actual building.
This kind of dumb shit is a creation of Dimwit Dave and his idiots.
Spending is still going up.
But lots of money must now be diverted to pay the interest on Brown’s loans
So, even tho’ there are no real cuts overall, local council parasites have been ordered to make cuts.
Instead of telling them what to cut Dumb Dave has left it up to the parasites themselves and has also totally failed to make it clear to the public that these cuts are caused by Brown’s antics. Indeed the Tories have tried to play up how much they are cutting to fool their own supporters.
This plays into the hands of the Left who have taken up their fav cry “Thatcher,Thatcher,Thatcher”. Leftist (and for that matter Tory) councils have kept their slimy £200,000 a year “CEO”s and all the meddlers and jobsworth and have made reductions in services to make the cuts appear worse. The Plastic-faced twat of Downing St is in a quandry. If he tries to combat the Left by pointing out that the cuts aren’t cuts at all and the money is having to be diverted to pay Brown’s debt, he will upset his own troops and on the other hand the more he peddles what a tough guy and axeman he is the more mileage the Left can get out of the “savage cuts” twaddle(no polit scum in this nation has the balls to make the truly vast cuts it would need to return us to economic health–those cuts will soon be imposed by reality however). The evil of Labour councils is matched by the cronyism and sheer stupidity of Tory ones–charging kids to use a playground instead of sacking senior council hacks for example.
The Labour party, with taxpayers’ £p – £750Million. At least that’s what Blair said.
BA built the London Eye that actually made money.
So blair didn’t mention about how much financial support BA gave to the dome project?
Wonder why.
Wandsworth Council has the lowest council tax in the country and is a five star council ie it is very efficient.As far as I am concerned they keep their council tax low and Wandsworth residents pay extra for additional services like removal of furniture. I used to live in the Communist Borough of Southwark where even 20 years ago my rates were higher than my council tax would now be in Wandsworth but collection of furniture was free.. If people want extra services like luxury swimming pools why should I pay for them???? The job of the local council is to keep the streets clean and lit.It shouldn’t be there to provide leisure facilities for chavs unless of course said chavs are willing to pay higher council tax. Many chavs in Wandsworth come from exotic parts of the world,they always seem to be able to afford air fares back to South America and the Indian Sub-Continent though,so they can sure as hell pay for use of Battersea playgrounds
Soon their council tax will be trumpeted as being £0 but residents will have to pay to go anywhere and do anything.
Fucking insane idiots.
Sounds a good plan
Sure it is, just be prepared to pay twice as much and get fleeced more than you are already.
But I don’t pay for stuff I don’t use, quid pro quo
Let’s have more of these councils.
Agreed. Only pay for what you use!
I have just looked at the council tax that they pay there. For a band A house, it is just £454.43.
I pay £1100 for my small, terraced band A property in a labour borough up North. Children’s play areas in my borough are not even used by children, but are frequented by teenagers drinking alcohol and causing trouble.
IF my council tax was only £454.43 pa, then I would not mind finding the occasional 2.50 to pay for the upkeep of a children’s play park, should one of my kids want to use it.
Tory Wandsworth council are doing the right thing.
Additionally, In my Northern labour authority, in the main central park in the town, there is a playground, which is free to use, but there is also a boating lake on which boat rental is possible, and a pitch and put, and bowling greens and tennis courts and a small petting zoo. All of which charge for use.
I think Wandsworth Council is right to charge separately if their council tax is kept low.
We can scrap the bbc tax while we’re at it.
Sounds like a good plan!
Stopping forcing people to pay for things they might not want and paying for things as they use them? It just might catch on….
Starting with some French-style autobahnen.
Which would of course be entirely free for londoners!
Like the M6 Toll you mean? Very useful, just wish that there wasn’t a speed limit on it!
If they weren’t charging you Council Tax as well I would agree completely. Can’t see any chance of council thieves giving that up though.
Wandworth council council tax rates per annum:
Band:
A £454.43
B £530.16
C £605.90
D £681.64
E £833.11
F £984.59
G £1136.06
H £1363.27
Less than HALF of what I have to pay!
The Kiddyinks have to pay to get into lego land. What’s the difference?
They have already paid their council for the council run playground.
I paid for my new local hospital but don’t own it, and will pay a private company 500% of it’s value to run it. Remind me who was so keen on PFI, again?
It sounds like a good idea to me.
Balls
But this is not a normal playground it is an expensive to run and maintain adventure playground. Just as I have to pay the council my boat moaring and dinghy park fees then the children’s parents should pay for their children to attend this Super playground.
We all have choices.
And what about people who don’t have kids? Should they pay through council tax when they can’t use the facilities, or should those who actually make use of them pay per visit?
Especially when they won’t let grownups play on the swings and roundabouts.
If I lived there I’d have paid for it and I have no kids.
so we all get free tickets to the Olympics? thought not.
Unless your real name is Mark Ferguson, that’s a direct cut & paste from Labour List. Do try to be original.
Spotted. Bit dim aren’t they.
Bloody cheek !
I used to play on the adventure playground in Battersea.
Mind you that was around 1977. Amazed that it’s still there.
Can we use it to hang Huhne and Laws from the rope slide ?
I’d pay 2.50 to see that
Even better would be charging all the people who (are mostly unemployed yet inexplicably) live just south of Battersea Park commercial equivalent rent…
Be unemployed somewhere cheaper. Let people who want to work work (and have a shorter commute).
Rochester? What’s he doing here? We don’t want him.
Once upon a time I thought Huhne had real potential, but he has turned out to be a complete disappointment on several levels.
He needs to go (as do Cable and Hughes) if the coalition is to have a more productive and beneficial (to the nation) second year onwards than it has this first year.
Launching a European super grid so that we can import leccy to make up for the leccy that our windfarms won’t be making.
Kerchiiiing!!!!! Paying through the nose for windfarms that deliver bugger all, whilst simultaneously having to pay the French and Dutch for real energy too!! What could possibly go wrong? Pay up saps.
I thought there may be a link to good Dickens but apparently his new partner is not a meat-and-two-veg fan and prefers the Canterbury rug scene.
I think I’d prefer the cross hairs to be centered on Huhne’s eye……. …. that would also provide a more pleasing symmetry with the way Bin Laden was topped.
Insufferable two-faced bastard.
A very rich one !
Hell hath no fury and all that.
But why didn’t Senora Fawkes take the rap for you Guido?
Love and fidelity……..
2 things I lack.
I’ll only cast judgment when I’ve heard what Jane Pilgrim has to say.
Now that he is aware that two Sunday papers are about to dish the dirt, is he about to run off to the courts for an injunction I wonder?? Recently he threatened to sue the government – of which he is (unbelievably) a member – so I suppose this empty-headed egotistical incompetent is quite capable of doing so.
It is a pity really, that it is serial infidelity and fundamental dishonesty that is going to cost him his political career and not the real problem, which is that he is utterly incompetent as Energy Secretary, not having a clue about Britains energy needs or the best way of meeting them in years to come.
I don’t care what finishes him.He is overdue to be defenestrated
My Lord, it’s me Jim, Count Jim Moriarty.
The did Al Capone for Tax avoidance…
It doesn’t really matter how you get rid of a rent-seeker.
Oh just Hang the fucker!
Good Ho. I’ve got seven days compulsory leave to take and then I’m available to fill his boots,
Anyone but Huhne.
So, I guess you’re in.
YEE-HAH! The cross-hairs!
As far as the UK-Netherlands interconnector’s concerned, it was started several years ago, so Hulne shouldn’t try to take any credit for it. And the other connectors are also being constructed to take advantage of the higher electricity prices in the UK than in Europe.
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If Laws is making an apology at 1, why are they having a debate right now?
They’re having a moan at following expense rules they introduced. That takes priority, of course.
They want to ‘just get on with the job’.
I don’t see why collecting reciepts and keeping accurate records should prevent that?
Oh, and they also don’t like their claims being published. Apparently we all assume they are fiddling. As if!!
He was on for a couple of minutes at about 12:50. Said what everyone expected him to say, didn’t offer to resign as an MP, left the chamber as soon as he stopped speaking.
It couldn’t happen to a nastier, more opportunistic and more hypocritical political turd.
Hooray! Brother and Sisters.
The unite union, after a three year long struggle against the capitalist oppression of an evil airline that only pays us double what other airlines pay their staff, has won a great victory.
After all our protests and days on strike,we have achieved exactly what we had before we went on strike! Only a bit less.
Hooray…and keep paying your subs. You know we’re worth it.
This has to be candidate for quote of the day. Labour MP – can’t recall his name – just stood up in chamber to complain that the new rules on expenses is making it difficult for him to do his job! Guido, if you want to get the video, he spoke at 13.03.
They’re giving each other jos now. How cosy.
*jobs
Hahaha comparing us to other country’s parliaments now, saying they don’t have so strict rules.
Maybe they don’t have so many thieving, lying, cheating politicians?
German Politicans are being scalped by Joe Bloggs:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,762116,00.html
If you copy from one source, that’s plagiarism. If you copy from three, that’s research.
If Veronica Sass really did lift 40 pages of work word for word without attribution then she’s a plaigarist. However, in the stuffy world of German academe, 40 pages of reproduced text probably qualifies merely as an accurate quotation.
I wish Mr Balls would upset Mrs Balls
Hot off the press, Law’s apologises in the HOC
Can somebody remind these f’uckers that they introduced these rules, quicker than they were advised, so it’s a bit rich for them to complain about the ‘injustice’ now.
No reward for failure!
Resign now!
Paddy Pantsdown on Boulton defending Laws. Wants to see him back in cabinet. And so it will be.
So Cameron, Clegg and now Pantsdown can’t see that it is wrong to re-employ a crook even after he’s been caught, publicly disgraced and fired for fraud.
My how the list of imbeciles and charlatans in politics grows by the minute.
NuLiebore kept doing it with Mandelbum!
I also give him my blessing to return to front bench.
I think Ed Miliband was alluding to the problem for the Libdems yesterday when he kept using ‘Dumped on’
The old Lib Dem conference party trick of laying under the Glass (ceiling) Coffee table and allowing a LibDemer to shit on your face. What a lovely party.
You know, for such a small party, the Liberals have a disproportionate number of rogues and perverts
Think of it this way…
All MPs are rogues and perverts. The Lib dums are too stupid to hide it well.
Pass the port, shaaaaag.
My money’s on Greg Clark to replace him, now Laws is out of the picture…..
Have I been reading this correctly ??
One of David Cameron’s most senior health advisers told a conference of health executives that the NHS will be privatised, advising representatives from healthcare companies of an impending goldrush in the wake of Andrew Lansley’s health reforms.
Mark Britnell was NHS director general for commissioning and system management before joining the private sector as global head of health at KPMG. He was recently appointed to a new panel of senior health policy experts by David Cameron, attending their first meeting last week.
According to the public relations industry monitoring site Spinwatch Britnell did not mince his words on privatisation when addressing a seminar called “Reform Revolution” at a conference for healthcare corporations:
“In future, the NHS will be a state insurance provider not a state deliverer.”
Delegates had been told the conference, run by $20 billion private equity firm Apax Partners, would cover ”business opportunities post global healthcare reform.” Britnell delivered the good, offering this deliciously off-message sound bite:
“The NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years.”
Despite their focus on health reform, Cameron’s new panel of advisers will not contribute to the announced process in which stakeholders can suggest ”improvements” to Andrew Lansley’s proposals.
As though we needed any more evidence that this “listening exercise” is a sham.
“In future, the NHS will be a state insurance provider not a state deliverer.”
Sounds good to me – the sooner the better (and as long as it has to compete in an open market with private insurers). This is what happens in sensible countries with effective healthcare facilities provided by the private sector.
The first step and immediate step in dismantling the National Death Service should be to remove all GPs from the state teat and leave them to set up their own businesses (again, as is normal elsewhere and as is already normal with decent dentists in this country). The good GPs will thrive (as they deserve to do) and the quacks will go to the wall (as they deserve to do). Standards of primary health care will rise and costs will fall.
Enable insurance to cover a portion of the commercially appropriate cost of attending a GP and watch the waitng lists fall as the time wasters stop taking up space with common colds and general malingering. The guaranteed way to ensure distortion of service provision is the current system of “free at the point of use”.
Get rid of the NHS, it is not, nor ever has been, fit for purpose.
As an American comedian said about their recent healthcare reforms, “If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait ’till you see how much it costs when it’s free.”
Many a true word spoken in jest….
That was the former radical P.J O’Rourke; genuinely funny guy: unfortunately his comments on the Andrew Neil Daily Politics show one day last autumn concerning the announcement of the royal wedding were so sour, so aggressively in yer-face Oirish American, so dismissive that I (childishly perhaps) threw out the copies of the two books by him that I owned. Shove it Paddy licker !
Surely, even the “terribly-tory-but-in-a-coalition” can see that strapping rule or law breaking Lib-Dems MPs to their backs is not a survival strategy?
Honour to you. Guido. Now the Huhne can’t resign in a blaze of heroic sepuku to ultimately further his political ambitions. If convicted, does he lose his pension rights? It’s wank-stains like him who are a cancer in all parties and the sooner they are excised from the body-politic the better. Please keep up the pressure on Wiggins.
A new grid connection with the rest of Europe is certainly more important than Mr Huhne’s driving habits and, in the long run, more exciting too. Since Huhne’s policy is to ensure that the UK cannot satisfy its own electricity needs, we will to import power from France and elsewhere.
In the short term, of course….
I thought the alternative was to pay french companies to run french nuclear power stations in the UK. So much better to just have the cable.
So much for “energy security” – total reliance on others is not a good move.
Huhne seems to rely on others to take the hit for his traffic infringements, so he is just extending his guiding principle to the nation’s energy supply.
EDF here I come
Can’t someone else resign for him?
So huhne looks as if he’s going. Well good riddance he’s been a rubbish energy secretary. But then his predecessor , militwit, was no better.
I do hope that it will be third time lucky , and that the coalition will be able to appoint someone who is not weird and incompetent like the previous two.
Someone in touch with reality would be nice.
That would be someone who’s not in either House or a member of any environmental group then. How about Bishop Hill?
Who is Edward Miliband?
Our plaything.
A new grid connection… I’d love to see that mendacious self-important fucker connect himself to the grid ‘by mistake’.
p.s. If the person in charge of the ceremonial lever is reading, please make it very much live. I’ll make it worth your time!
Friends of the earth are demanding the Huhnes resignation. Oh dear.
reading Labourlist.org Simon Buckley – Put the ball in the net
he states “Each and every day the Tory party, like Pacman, is ruthlessly eating everything up, and soon there will be nothing left”
Nothing left for who, you fucking prick?
(pacmans RED enemy is called Blinky)
So, did I hear that correctly, the Iraq Inquiry has released a letter stating that the instruction came to those preparing the dossier that it was to bespecifically written to make the case for war.
When do Campbell and Blair go to trial?
What!?
If true this is a blatant abuse of Parliament, Blair’s position as PM, democracy and an affront to common decency.
Criminal proceedings must surely follow.
Nah – cuff ‘em hand and foot, then throw them out of the back of a moving van in Sadr City with signs around their necks whilst news helicopters above relay the happy, vengeful locals doing what they do best to them.
Dump them in the same place as Bin Laden.
I dont like Chris Hunt and i hope he dies soon!
Better I think for him to resign in disgrace – and live out his days knowing he was a discredited fool. A puffed up ego like him would find that hard to take
+1. why make it easy for the likes of him?
I’m still collecting my salary as MP and not turning up for work.
Well you are a labour scrounger, what else would we expect of you?
Bigot! Where’s my Nokia?
I’m gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
We know David, we know.
Cut carbon emissions. Save the world. NOW!
Cut your job, now!
Don’t tell us, tell Danny Alexander.
Huhne may just get the part of a pantomine horse at christmas. Of course the Eagle sisters will have to share the rear end. Any sign of either of them washing their hair yet?
Washing hair is not a socialist core value.
Unless of course you are Harriett Harhatemenperson
I’ll be back.
So will Iris Robinson.
Mandleson is behind you.
Now that is really scary
I never went away.
Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Great Grimsby, is on BBC Parliament at the moment. He really is a prize idiot and completely nuts.
It’s all about “him” and not the debate. He’s a prize idiot.
Humble Pie???
Some suggestions for Chris the Huhne’s successor as Energy Secretary:
1) Sanction the Kingsnorth coal-fired station immediately, but forget the carbon-capture bits.
2) Make it clear that proposals to construct other modern coal-fired stations would be welcomed.
3) Encourage early starts on the authorised new nuclear stations.
4) Invite submissions for new gas-fired stations (these could probably be brought on-stream quite quickly, reducing the liklihood of electricity rationing post 2015 and the big shut-down of existing coal-fired stations.)
5) Allow windfarms to be built, but subject to the same subsidy levels as other forms of power generation. (Nuclear may need some support, but not as much as some suggest.)
6) Continue R&D on mid- to large-scale rigs of tidal, wave and other renewables. They may become viable as fossil fuel prices rise over the next century, perhaps in fourty to fifty years or so.
7) Continue R&D on nuclear fusion. It probably won’t be commercially useful for about thirty years, but without ongoing development, it won’t be useful at all.
8) Enhance the nation’s LNG storage capacity to build a strategic reserve, say six month’s capacity.
9) Tell the AGW crowd to produce incontrovertible evidence or shut up.
10) Introduce a rolling programme of replacing old power stations, electricity grid infrastructure and gas storage and distribution infrastructure as it ages, and before it becomes uneconomic to maintain and use.
That’ll do for starters.
Nuclear fusion being the get out of jail free card for the future, I believe an international agreement should be struck to at lease double R&D in to this technology.
+1
Cynics always point out that controlled nuclear fission has been ‘about thirty years away’ for the last fifty years. By now, it may be sixty.
That complete tool James O’Brien loudly proclaimed on air today he’d just got an invite to tonight’s Question Time .
Very short notice.
Could it possibly have been a vacancy opened up by somebody who felt the only way to get to Wormwood Scrubs on time would be to risk being caught speeding?
He’s local, as well as fearing the result of Jon Gaunt’s case at the Court of Appeal that seeks to allow broadcasters to set the boundaries to which broadcasters can attack politicians during live political debates or interviews.
If Gaunty wins, the door is opened to broadcasters dropping the ‘balanced over time’ rule which pretends that left-liberal bias in the breakfast show can be countered by a right-liberal bias to the 3am overnight programme.
LBC might follow Nick Ferrari’s populist approach, on the basis that it wins audiences, advertisers and Sony awards: Labour-loving Jay Oh Bee would be an uncomfortable fit in this context. A job at BBC Five Live would be an ideal career move.
Rochester indeed, the Mrs in the attic has done for him at last.
Huhney, I shot the lights.
Lets hope he brazens it out.
Anyone who gets caught by a speed camera and then transfers the points to his wife gets my vote.
Normally I would have thought they would get Guido’s vote too.
You know I’m bad, I’m bad, you know it
Can I be head of MFI?
No, they’ve already gone bust. Do try to remember your CV – you’re expertise is in wrecking going concerns.
and mine is in spelling
Snot spelling; sgrammar
Ready ! Aim ! FIRE !!!
Just seen in the Telegraph – former Nazi Concentration Camp guard, John Demanjuk gets 5 years for his part in murdering 28,000.
At that rate, if we ganged up and sluaghtered the contents of the House of Commons I reckon we’d each get 42 days in chokey. Less time off for good behaviour.
Please get rid of that slimey creep Mike Hancock while you are about it.
I wish Huhne would resign. This blog is becoming a Huhne hate campaign and very little else.
How dare you claim that our world revolves around this worthless, detestable, egotistical little creep.
Hey, can we chip in a little hate too?
The fact that David Laws is a raving Mincer is not his fault, similarly that Mike Hancock is a pervert is also not his fault. They both had sad childhoods as did Mark Oaten. That is why they and I were welcomed into the Liberal Democrats
I’m sure most readers would agree that provided they only involve consenting adults, keep their filthy habits in private and don’t expect decent people to pay for them, LibDems can burgle turds, lick piles of poo and munch feotid lesbian minge as much as their sick little minds desire. That’s not the issue.
In the opinion of many here, David Laws is a fraudster who obtains money by deception and Chris Huhne is an incompetent, hypocritical tit. Mark Oaten let his depravity become public knowledge and Hancock is simply a nasty peice of work. That is why they are being vilified.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8503354/David-Cameron-was-unwise-to-hire-Andy-Coulson-says-Chris-Huhne.html
I’m impressed with how many blog titles you can come up with that use Chris Huhne’s name. I’m wondering what you’ll think of next.
That’s not all Huhne’s been up to, read
The Anti Chris
website dedicated to exposing Huhne.
http://the–anti–chris.blogspot.com/
You got Vicky’s number?