Red Ed Dived Into Bed
With rumours flying of a massive “data dump” from CCHQ and No. 10 later today, in regard to all of Dave’s meetings with media types since he became leader, Ed Miliband has rushed out his schmoozing list so far. You can read the whole thing here, but it did tickle Guido that having patted the Mirror on the head as soon as he had won, Ed’s diary was dominated with creeping up to the Times, News of the World and the Sun. In fact he’s had so many discussions with the News International stable, that anyone would think that he really, really wanted them to like him. When was Baldwin first suggested?
UPDATE: 11 out of 32 meetings admitted to were with Murdoch’s employees, however Ed has conveniently forgotten to list all his meetings during the leadership race. This was the actual period when he was sucking up the most.
Politcons are whores.
Thith litht of proprietorth, editorth and senior media ekthecutiveth ith embarrathing to me perthonally.
Boring. Now the Queen has decided to dump on Dave, no one will be interested in Ed’s meeting list.
Have I missed something HRH takes poo on PM – that should surely trump the Murdoch headlines
Why, has Mandy done a Mark Oatan?
Do you seriously think that HMQ said any of this about hiring Coulson ? At most it’s probably some Labour supporting petty official in Buck House. mouthing off over drinks to Bryant who has conflated it all through the prism of Labour self-interest..HMQ is scrupulous in saying nothing regarding political matters and has done so for almost 60 years whatever her personal views on the matter
Exactly right.
Strange the BBC never mention Bryant has an outstanding complaint against NI and is therefore not impartial.
Palace spokesman says their were no discussions with David Camerons office about appointment of Coulson – Chris Bryant has lost all credibility
My god, the liebour tools know the shit is about to hit the unions fans and are trying to take evryone down with them….even the queen!
No wonder her maj hates fucking liebour, like that twat bliar!
LIEBOUR ARE FINISHED
That doesn’t matter! It is more shit for the BBC to throw at Cameron and the Murdochs, so it is by necessity a true and factual account worthy being reported by the impartial state Broadcaster.
Indeed, have labour already paid back News International’s fee for hosting that reception at the labour conference?
Ha!
Yes indeed, but most whores aren’t outrageous hypocrites as well.
Sky reporting that Number 10 is at WAR with Buckingham Palace
The miltary’s loyalty is to the Monarch,not the politicons.
Correct. They are HM forces not HMG forces.
Par for the course to pass off Chris Bryants filthy pillowtalk as news.
Senior royal staff were ” fucking well gobsmacked” over the appointment of the former News Of The World (NOTW) editor Andy Coulson by David Cameron, Sky sources have said
Yeah, and tomorrow’s revelation will be that the Pontiff himself warned Cameron against hiring Coulson…..
So it begs the question, why were Royal Staff so well informed about Andy Coulson? Did he work there as a butler once?
Useless Sucker….
When heard they had tits on page 3 he thought he could be one.
If you threw him into a barrell of tits, he would come out sucking his thumb…TWAT!!!
Thith is outrageouth! I have never met with Newth International!
FFS, don’t tell the bbc, it would completely fuck up their narrative.
Thats ok. They will only rewrite history as they have been doing all along.
Its all Cameron’s fault. NI never supported New Labour for 13 years, Blair and Brown never met Rupert, Rebekah, Elizabeth etc
No the BBC will give this scant coverage, if any. The labour party sucking up to Murdoch is not newsworthy and if anything, it is a scurrilous distraction from the much more serious, potentially government toppling, scandal which Cameron is embroiled in.
Let’s examine the heinous and disgusting behaviour of Cameron so far…
Cameron should stand down because he employed someone Who did his job admirably, but, who in a previous unrelated job was in charge of lots of people, some of whom did something wrong and this person might have known about it and lied?
Well, damn”! Shut down all organisations NOW!!!, because EVERY employer may have a tenuous link to some wrongdoer via someone else that they have employed who previously and unrelatedly employed or worked with possible wrongdoers at some point in their pasts…
I mean this is serious. It is not like Cameron did something mild like selling the flagship health policy to Bernie Ecclestone for a million quid, or selling honours to donors, or selling our gold reserves for a pittance at the bottom of the market, losing hundreds of billions of pounds, or running up an annual deficit the size of a Black Wednesday happening every fucking week, or even lying his ass off to the country, the military and Parliament about the need to send our troops to war and have hundreds of our servicemen killed for NOTHING!!!
FFS, NO this is serious, he has a tenuous link to a wrongdoer via a former employee who had nothing to do with government at the fucking time!
What the fuck planet have I woken up on?
BBC News 24 gave about 20 minutes to Bryant’s unsubstantiated allegations this morning – the whole thing was choreographed by Kuensberg and Bryant for maximum effect, even though what he said had no basis in fact whatsoever – (Bryant: ‘I know someone, who knows someone, who knows. But I can’t tell you who they are.’
And the BBC are passing this off as news this morning.
They are just having a laugh now. They know we know and they couldn’t give a damn – they’re just going all out to smear Cameron. They know this is the last day and their last chance.
Well the whole country is incensed about Murdoch and NI, aren’t they Al-Beeba ! Toenails’s most disingenuous expression always starts his sentences “I know that…”
But I won’t tell you my source and maybe it’s not true but just toenailian conjecture! Just feck off you shiny knobhead skulldugger, you are a disgrace to any profession!!
Too right.
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We might need a quick, bloody civil war to sort this out. Bags I get to stamp on Jonnie Marbles’ already misshapen head first.
Don’t worry we won’t be mentioning it.
Gosh, I am surprised.
What about his daily contact with the BBC to discuss plans/tactics to undermine the coalition ?
He doesn’t need any daily contact, it’s all done for him on an ad hoc basis.
Not a word about this on the BBC website yet. I suppose it spoils their carefully crafted narrative.
Of the 32 events listed, 11 are NI.
Let’s see how the toffee nosed Tory boy does.
Hope he includes all the Downing St cups of tea with the Australian American Republican and his ‘I am only the boss, how would I know?” cronies.
Don’t be a demented windbag and get with the programme. Labour (aggressive news management and cronys are us) are about to be dipped in a whole new layer of shit. Much popcorn to be had.
You wish!!
Here’s a fact
Cameron hires criminals.
TOM BALDWIN
You fuck deluded fucking twat…..Gordon!
Substantiate that by telling me what court has sentenced any of Cameron’s employees and what criminal offence they were convicted in a court of law on?
Now compare with labour who have several of THEIR MPs in prison for criminality!
Fucking hypocrites.
You think Coulson is not a criminal?
How long have you been posting here, Dave?
“Do not like the idle rich”
What a fucking moron, just right for the new new new liebour party, you know the one kinnock has back.
Wanker.
Great title for this thread Guido. Were you also hinting at the acquaintance Ed Mili had in common with that BBC presenter whose wife works with The Guardian? Indeed, that acquaintance is also from the Murdoch stable.
Bryant, Watson and Labour are now becoming desperate that Labour are not getting much better poll ratings. They have started to tap into middle england housewives’ sympathy for the royal family and said that Buckingham palace warned Cameron not to hire Coulson. Ha, labour loathes the monarchy except when they think they can use them.
As Ed Mili said earlier: “desperate stuff”.
Can you imagine the outcry from Labour if they discovered the Tories were only appointing people to government positions with the express approval of The Palace.
Miliband attended NI’s summer party just 5 weeks ago.
Are the union brothers and the party socialists who are now calling for Murdoch’s blood aware of their leader having cosy drinks with the enemy?
Milliband met News International, 11 times in the last 9 months. Yup nothing to see here, you big fat hypocrite.
Among others:
Thurs 09 June 2011 Colin Myler (News of the World)
Thurs 16 June 2011 News International Summer Party
Tues 21 June 2011 Times CEO Summit
Thurs 14 July 2011 John Witherow (Sunday Times)
only a month ago, what were those meeting about, raising phone hacking…i think not.
And sipping Champers on Rupert’s lawn a few weeks ago.
Is that even more than Cameron?
The fact is, he’s been bleating on about the great Satan News Int for a week and he’s happily sat down with them, has his own News Int puppy and only one word for it, HYPOCRISY.
O/T
As you all know i pop over a read some leftie blogs, But amogst all the drama yesterday i came across a piece that told me that a left wing think tank (writing policy for Labour) had uncovered that Murdochs “empire” had collopsed, and socailisim had a human face.
Can some one more educated than me define collapse? Is losing 1% of your total worldwide buisness and gaining 6% on shares a collpase?
Oh the site that published this is called “The Green Benches”, I am considering wethe ra looney left tag is deserved?
Tho it is un-modded….
and here is the link.
http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.com/2011/07/formal-announcement-labours-red-book-to.html
Billy, I’d be more interested in your cottaging escapades TBH.
Great, let the left think that they have a victory, perhaps they will piss off for a while!
Am awaiting appearance of Miliband and dazed Cameron on BBC. Cameron to read out halting statement that he personally hacked Milly Dowlers phone.
Is it the Tory boy position that the Leader of the Opposition should only speak to Labour sympathising press?
No it is the tory leaders position that ALL the politicians talked to all of the mainstream press and they are ALL in it together and it is grossly hypocritical for labour to pretend that they had nothing to do with this and all the hacking that happened in a labour supporting paper when former News International staff were employed by the labour government to run smear campaigns and spin operations, was all some-how, Cameron’s fault and that labour are whiter than white.
I repeat the undisputed facts. ALL this hacking and Blagging happened when a labour supporting Murdoch Media was very very close to the labour leadership and it all happened within a culture of government created by the labour party which politicised the formerly impartial civil service, the formerly impartial police and wherein blossomed a culture of incestuous corruption and cover-ups. At the top of that pile of shit was the labour government.
Now that Cameron is launching fully open, public, independent enquiries under oath, the loony lefties are having a fit of insane desperation and trying to throw as much shit at Cameron as possible before the courts land it all back where it belongs, on the labour party who created this whole corrupt stinking mess!
Apparently this is now Britain’s WATERGATE. Only thing is it would be like trying to force Jimmy Carter to resign over Watergate rather than Richard Nixon.
Too bloody right it is. That is how utterly corrupt the massive, media dominating BBC has become. The Labour party robs a bank, the tories are setting up an investigation to get to the bottom of it and the BBC want the tory led government to fall over it!
The BBC’s gross and blatant partisanship in the coverage of this massively over-hyped scandal warrants an official independent investigation over their fitness to hold any media broadcasting licence.
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Great analogy there
The fact of the matter is the Dead Milibandwagon, can’t resist jumping on any old bandwagon passing by. This keeps him very busy on urgent but unimportant events as he doesn’t have a clue when it comes to the real issues affecting the UK. The man is a completely useless!
Surprised that Milliband has been so hard on an decent old guy who had no idea that his executives were dragging the good name of his company through the mud. I am doubling my shareholding in News Corp as a sign of confidence in Mr Rupert Murdoch’s integrity and ability to run a company with 53,000 employees.
This will be the BBC/Labour/Guardian axis next phase of the plan. Appeal to the shareholders that Murdoch is not fit and proper etc. The pathetic Turnbull said as much on BBC Breakfast this morning. Just note how many times you hear it and from whom from now on.
‘And who suggested Baldwin?’….might be a pertinent question.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh
It becomes clearer with everyday that Red Ed’s real task- as he is such a twat – has been driving this attempt at destabilisation and diversion.
I really hope that he is going to get lamped today.
The Blank personality might have to return to his blank piece of paper soon.
I’ll do it
I get so excited when I think about Ruperts revenge on Labour that when I do think of it a little bit of wee comes out.
The NI file on current Labour cockwombles is a yard thick.
Popcorn overload….
Looking forward to gorging on popcorn over the coming years. Of course, whilst there is an ongoing criminal investigation and there are Government enquiries to happen before News International can really open up on labour. But when it happens…and although it may take some years yet, … It will be sooooooooo worth it.
Never mind since he became leader, the real dirt is what happened while he and gordo and the rest of that lying pack were still ensconced at number 10.
yeah i wanna see those meeting froms way back, that will be interesting.
I set out to destroy Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, and he’s now 6% up. . .
What gives?
Not only that Tom I gather the latest polls have Labour flatlining.
Perhaps the public are not as stupid as you think and actually remember who was in government when all this was going on and who was Home Secretary at the time of Mulcaire’s trial.
Maybe they also noticed that the then Met commissioner is now a Labour peer.
Perhaps there’s also some sympathy for an 80 year old man being assaulted by a Labour party activist, who was clearly aided by someone on the inside.
Just a wild stab in the dark Tom
The one good thing for “Dave” about this wall to wall coverage by BBC and other media is that the public is fast getting sick and tired of the whole thing and putting politicians,media and police in the same category of colluding together.. I would suggest that the majority of voters think that they should all be concentrating on more important matters…such as the terrorist threat, economy and the euro crisis in Europe
I am genuinely surprised that more is not being made of Commissioner Stephenson accepting 12 grands worth of “hospitality” with that stay at Champneys.
Does anyone thing that it is appropriate for any public servant to accept that kind of gift from let alone the country’s top policeman?
Usually when you give “hospitality” like that you expect something in return.
The ICM poll for the Guardian on Monday had labour falling behind the tories.
I guess the public realise that all this shit happened on labour’s watch in a then labour supporting News International with labour’s probable complicity and people are turned off by the nauseating, stomach churning stench of hypocrisy and fake compassion, fake sincerity and lies coming from labour, in spite of the BBC’s best efforts to spin this for all they are worth in labour’s favour.
It because instead of being a man you’re a TWatson!
It’s pretty obvious from watching yesterdays ‘Show Trial’, Watson was not interested in the answers to his questions. Rather than get the correct answer from James, he continued to badger Rupert. He was just Grandstanding. I believe I saw his mate Y Fronts Bryant sat behind the Murdochs ?
I did such a good job yesterday.
I’m watching you, son
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He speak shit. I hit him if he come near.
Now the royals are the latest to say they warned Cameron about Coulson. Any minute now we’ll be told the Go Compare guy also warned him.
Didn’t the Chipping Norton Mother & Toddler Group also warn him as well ?
…. and Churchill
I believe the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Cammo and gave him a warning about Coulson. The Pope says it’s true.
Professor Hindsight is always right.
You rule.
Nelson said, ‘England expects every man to do his duty’…..Not you Bryant, we’re talking men here!
You want to hope to fuck that Sarah Beeny didn’t give any warning
If the royals have given the ok for “sources” to comment on Coulson, then the writing may be on the wall for Cameron. I hope not but things are getting worse for him by the hour.
Did they mean the ‘Queen’ warned them? We all know who the biggest ‘Queen’ is in this bruhaha
Mandelson, no doubt.
That should be:
Mandelson. No doubt.
Well there doesn’t seem to be a public clamour for his head yet. Only in the Graun and on the BBC.
Besides Blair didn’t resign over taking “donations” from Bernie and Brown didn’t quit over the bunker smear operation.
If he goes its because his own party knife him for policy reasons not from Labour pressure. They wouldn’t want to give them the scalp else the next election becomes a lot more difficult.
It’s look bad. Tony And Gordon instigate a 5 year cover up. The cover is discovered after they leave office so the Tory Prime Minister, who was a newly elected opposition backbencher when Milly Dowler’s phone was ALLEGEDLY hacked must resign.
If Cameron has to go for having a very tenuous link to wrongdoers via an ex-employees previous employment, then the whole of the UK should shut down. What employer can possibly vouch for the former employees of other people’s companies?
This situation is sooooo fucking batshit crazy, it is insane!
Meanwhile Ed Miliband is STILL employing a dodgy former News International hack as his communications director, who did not have employees who mave have done wrong doing unknown to him, but who was allegedly directly involved in illegal criminal blagging of bank accounts himself, he is also known to take cocaine AND was the shit who informed on Dr Kelly, thus setting in play a chain of events leading to his suicide…… And the rest of the media see nothing wrong in this at all???
What Planet am I living on?
And they just denied it!
Red Ed is so fuicked!
Miliband is an obnoxious hypocritical bastard who is not fit to lead a scout troop ,never mind a political party . But still ,long may he reign as leader .He is without doubt David Camerons greatest asset.
This was, presumably, why Baldwin advised Ed to keep very, very quiet regarding News International. Oh, dear. Ed, owned by Ed.
I believe the sayings “Epic fail” and “PWND” would fit here for our good old Red Ed Milibland.
Exactly – that is why we have seen so little of Ed Balls during all of this.
Ed (Hair)Balls is doing his best to stay utterly silent on this whole sordid affair on the basis that he can then pop up and shaft Milliweak. Note that the ghastly Mrs Ball-Scooper has been the mouthpiece of the Balls household of late. Ed needs to be seen as whiter than white.
Poor misguided fool. I would rather vote for a turd than see Ed Balls in No 10.
I’ll be making a statement about this to my fingers at 11:09 today.
The public have been let down by both sides because the government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner. After today’s disruption I urge both sides to put aside the rhetoric, get round the negotiation table and stop it happening again.
RFLMAO….do you honestly THINK that as any chance of happening…??? It’s about a bigger myth as that one before the election where the BBC was peddaling the line that a balanced Parliament(Hung to you and me)would mean ALL three parties getting together in the national interest……!!!
You clearly missed the reference in the OP’s post. Google “Miliband strike robotic repetition”.
A week ago it looked like it was going to happen and then up stepped Gordon Brown to tribalise it all again
Dear me, I must try to keep up.
The references on here to “Blue Labour” I had thought described Cameron’s Counterfeit Conservatives but that link up there on the right “Blue Labour is Dead” asserts otherwise.
I think it applied to both parties.
Can anyone tell me what happened after the 1997 election, Did the Tories go after Murdoch or did they take it on the chin?
I think Labour have cut there cut there legs of to spite a in growing toenail on there left little toe.
It’s their not there and you had an echo in there as well Billy, D-
The tories were too busy licking their wounds and wondering what the fuck had happened to even think about attacking Murdoch.
The current labour party are too arrogant to even realise that they got a million fewer votes than the tories did in 1997, were rejected even more categorically than Major was, and still carry on as if they have a divine right to rule, and the BBC humours them none stop on that.
Mellor calls on Kinnock to get back in his box. Even Mellor can be right for once in his life.
And this is not it!
If I was in CCHQ I’d love to see Kinnock keep talking. Just to remind the public what a lucky escape they had.
They were apparently.
Presumably the Met employ PR people to answer journalists questions so police officers can concentrate on their day job.
How else would you do it, Andrew?
Watch Brillos place get raided now on a tip off.
Brillo, labour politicised the civil service and the police and in-so doing implemented within them the same culture of ‘spin’ and PR that they themselves had used (with the BBC’s help) to win elections.
This also created the same incestuous, culture of corruption which allowed the hacking and blagging to take place. They were all in it together.
Thankfully Cameron is (belatedly) beginning to separate those powers again and uncover the corruption and do something about putting it right. Something labour had plenty of time to do during the 2000s, but failed to do and indeed it seems likely that labour were themselves involved in some of it.
Now the BBC is trying to bury Cameron for trying to clean up what happened on labour’s watch, in a labour supporting newspaper. It is so blatantly partisan it is open overt corruption of the state broadcaster.
There needs to be an investigation into whether the BBC is now fit and proper to hold a broadcast licence.
I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that this country needs something like Hong Kong’s Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC). Have a look at its website for its history.
Its independent of police and politicians, has sweeping powers and keeps public and private sector very much on their toes.
It took riots on the street in HK demanding something was done about rampant corruption for it to be set up.
Would probably never happen here though as there are too many vested interests at stake.
The ICAC was originally staffed by outstandingly corrupt offiers on the basis of “set a thief to catch a thief”. Only later were “Mr Cleans” brought in from outside of the Colony.
Two problems for a UK ICAC.
1/. Where is one going to find non-corrupt policemen, civil servants, lawyers and judges?
2/. Who does it report to? A non-corrupt division of Parliament? Where’s that?
I didn’t say it would be easy.. In fact it will never happen here unfortunately.
There are some individuals who would be suitable. Elizabeth Filkin for example.
Set a thief to catch a thief often works and in the case of ICAC it worked very well. HK is probably the least corrupt place in Asia now. The majority of their cases now come from the private sector, around 65%
ED MILLIPEED for PM
Its on the cards if CCHQ doesnt move up a couple of gears and FAST!
Someone put the teeth back in the “NI baskerville” quick..
My cat’s breath smells of cat food.
That’s my line you nasty bully.
Er……what makes Buckingham Palace such experts on Coulson? They’re just a dating agency for gays FFS.
FFS Cameron. Grow yourself a pair and expose Millimong and his hypocritical cabal for the total wasters they are.
Will Call Me Clueless ever admit to knowing anything ?
he knew nothing and everybody that worked for him either knew nothing or decided not to tell him if they did know anything !
Time to fall on your sword ,You’re not a very convincing liar Dave
you should have taken lessons of new labour !
Look at all those Tories speaking up for those who pay to hack dead kids’ phones.
Let’s see who the Old Etonian has sucked up to.
This hacking story is going from piquant, through mildly interesting, then dull and boring to brain-achingly tedious. It’s almost as bad as the Olympics or the World Cup, but at least you know those events are going to end at some definite date. In fact, it’s as bad as one of those two-hour detective dramas where the clue is something Stacey said to Bill about Jessica’s hamster when they were in the antique shop in Middlebury about an hour ago…….
What’s on the other channel?
Oh, same thing.
Coulson going round to Chequers for tea any time soon?
Found it ironic that BBC drama The Hour showed a BBC reporter Bribing a Police Officer yesterday.
Was this based on fact?
Do BBC reporters Bribe police officers?
Tomorrow will end the decades of the space shuttle and the beginning of the new era of commercial space transport for the US. Where an entrepreneur that started Paypal will take over astronaut transport to space. For $800m he has built a company and a launch capability to rival most countries.
Back home in the UK the we are going to be locked in mortal combat with custard pies and the diaries of every meeting held by our leaders.
How sad is this country. Wake up and just start living.
(If you have missed the point, space is a society driver, it allows governments to subsidise industry and produce pockets of expertise that are beyond what is achieved by normal market forces. Something that UK has no ability to do. Been there, lived there, worked there. There is no comparison)
Is Coulson in receipt of a pension or pay off funded by the taxpayer?
Act I
Soothsayer :’Beware the Ides of March’
‘And don’t hire Andy Coulson’.
Act II
Cameron:’ Et tu your Majesty ?’
I wonder where Balls has gone? Has he got something to hide? If so, please God, let it come out soon.
Balls is laying as low as possible so none of the current shit-storm sticks to him. He has trotted out the ghastly Mrs Ball-Scooper as the stick to beat the tories.
Balls is waiting his chance to shaft Milliband and take the labour leadership.
Much good it will do him. Just remember who was advising Gordon during his 12 years of Labour misrule!!!
Funny to watch Cameron’s credibility rating improve on the SKY viewers poll whilst Miliband was asking his questions in the Commons.
COULSON….COULSON….COULSON!!!….that’s all you hear from the shit smearer’s…reminds me of the run up to the election, what was their buzz word back then?….ASHCROFT….ASHCROFT….ASHCROFT!!!!