At 11.15 LibDem Tim Farron tweeted one of his followers. Strangely though he was live on Sky News at the time, and though Guido couldn’t see his hands, he would be very surprised if Farron can type on a laptop without evening a glance down. The tweet was sent from the web:
Tim was on until Sky until 11.18 and Guido managed to get the screen-grab at 11.16. Busted…
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Lord Tebbit has his say on ‘aggressive homosexuals’:
“Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other? I quite fancy my brother!”
Google-eyed-Dave
There’s the possibility of lag in the server, though I guess that’s unlikely, however if Farron has some PR person doing his tweets it’s not really a big surprise or that interesting.
A lag wouldn’t make it arrive early?
Anyway, why do we need more evidence that he’s a fraud and a twat?
FFS fatboy, get a job!
rentboys can earn good money.
Delay at Sky’s end – read the context of the message.
Move along please……
spooky little twat at that
Where’s Billy?
Vaporised.
practising his blow jobs
Not only that he was spouting a load of shite about the 50p tax raising lots of revenue.
Surely, contrary to what Anonymous says, it is interesting if he is a fraud by having someone else do his tweets. People will be asking other folk to take their speeding points next!
You’ve discovered my new job! Is nothing sacred?
Last week I interviewed Marilyn Monroe and JFK for an investigative piece that I have edited from the web.
You get lag when watching sky snooze on a pc/laptop
Tim Farron has never had a proper job, he’s always ‘worked’ for the party, has been funded by the tax payer, yet he’s in a position to talk about jobs, tax etc.
Huh?
he’s what’s known in the trade as a cun*t
Simply untrue.
Off with his head!
Or put a brown paper bag over it, at least.
Even by the standards of the LimpDum fascists, he’s a f*ck-ugly tw@t.
I’d have thought that that blonde hair, blue eyes and rabbit in headlights look would have appealed to your motherly side, Tess.
This is such a load of old bollocks. Have you all got nothing else to do? I thought the country was heading over an economic cliff. Must be because all the workers are too busy tweeting and commenting to do a proper day’s work.
Roll on the end of the silly season.
Scraping the barrel for this story Guido!
“very surprised if Farron can type on a laptop without EVENING a glance down”
Evening all! Looks like Guido tried to do his typing without looking down as well.
Who gives a tom tit Guido? Slow day at Fawkes Towers, obv.
Twitter is for twats.
Twitter is for twits.
twitter is for twets
I feel defrauded that the Lib Dems have such a disproportional influence on Government policy
Agreed –
but (I hope that) there may be method in the Torys’ madness. When the real cuts start, the Lib Dims will be squarely in the frame, having paraded themselves in front of TV cameras as ‘ConDem partners’for a year. It’ll be much harder for them to blame the beby-eating Tories.
In any event, if the Eurozone implosion triggers a banking crisis, George Osborne may have to administer some harsher medicine – and Saint Vince will just have to lump it.
“In terms of rebuilding trust, I think this issue of when you make a promise, sticking to that promise, like the promise we have all made about having a referendum on the EU constitution, is as important as anything else,”
Rusty David Cameron June 2009.
Bare faced liar.
Cameron out.
It would be a little difficult to hold a referendum on ‘Lisbon Treaty’ (conveniently renamed) after the rotten corrupy lying labour party signed the UK up despite promising a referendum.
You really are labourlist and not too bright obviously.
A strong leader would have had a referendum anyway and taken the peoples’ mandate to Brussels to put some stick about.
That didn’t happen, however.
Cameron is supine to the EU.
cameron is supine, full stop.
it’s the product of 30 years of having anything and everything stuck up his flabby arse.
shame he’s now too old to be a rent boy – the only role he’s got any aptitude for.
No government can sign a treaty binding the next, so Camoron could throw the treaty in the bin. But he’s a pro-EU c*nt and anti-British, like all socialist scum, so he won’t. Even (or perhaps especially) if that means breaking a solemn promise.
Feck off.
I am an ex Conservvative Party member & donor – - now actively promoting UKIP.
You are obviously new here – you may feel safer back at ConservativeFoam with the rest of the high tax & spend pro EU Heathites.
Have you seen today’s story about Camoron’s new (and detested) planning rules? He says they’re “up for discussion” when it turns-out they’ve already been implemented.
The man’s a Huhne of the highest order but as he leads his party to another 13+ years of opposition, his party do.. nothing. Clots, all of them.
Indeed Tessa.
The bitter disapointment I & every other Tory I know feels for the party under that liberal Heathite is overwhelming.
When the country gets Red Ed as the next PM because the grassroot Tories have stayed at home remember what kept them away from the ballot – David Cameron.
Gutless parliamentary Tory party – too busy with their expense claims & new quango positions.
You mean actual people spend time energy and effort doing all that tweeting?
Surely not.
Farron is only doing what all time managed and efficient people do, get someone else to do it for you. Isn’t he?
Work delegation is perfectly reasonable and shows efficiency.
However, getting someone else to comment as oneself, especially before the event has even happened, is dishonest, lazy, and weird.
And incompetent + counter-productive.
Too many prets make a prat.
Jesus, surely you know that twitter can be set to publish posts at specific times? Yesterday, born, were you?
It’s a reply to someone else though dipshit.
When was the tweet he replied to? It seems pretty unlikely it was scheduled.
Hey Guido, you can do much better than this poor non-story. I bet most of them have others inputting for them. Liebor have a whole team of different people doing it on numerous blog and twitter sites.
Satellite delay?
The tweet about his appearance appeared at 11:15. The appearance didn’t end until 11:18.
How does any delay explain that?
great scoop Guido
I’m off for a nap. Worn out.
This could only happen with David Cameron as Prime Minister !!!
Suffolk police have charged a woman with racially aggravated harassment following a complaint from her neighbour that she displayed a golliwog in her window.
A police spokesperson confirmed Jena Mason, 65, will appear before Lowestoft magistrates on Tuesday following the alleged incident in August.
According to reports, Mrs Mason, of College Lane, Worlingham, was arrested after her neighbours complained about the doll being displayed in her window.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, neighbour Stephen O’Donnell said he made a complaint to police after his wife Rosemarie, who is Jamaican, and their mixed race children, were offended by her actions.
Again, only non-whites can be offended.
Makes you want to puke.
Had a wee look at College Lane, Worlington on google maps.
Ooooh, it looks such a hot bed of racial agitation….ODonnell must have made a good effort to get into a position to be offended by the golly.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
If you read the story, it was actually a white man who reported it.
If you actually read the story, you’ll find that the complainant was actually white.
But don’t let the facts get in the way of a good moan.
Comradeth! I will be thuperb at pmq’th. Onwardth to victory!
Purple tie as usual Ed?
With Dave Cameron destroying the grassroot support for the Conservative Party by the day, you may well be the next PM.
Does he claim for a twit assistant on expenses ?
I think the point is being missed here. He started talking at 11:15 and at 11:16 there was a reply from his Twitter account thanking someone for congratulating him on his performance on Sky News. Someone formed an opinion, tweeted it and he (or a staffer) replied to the tweet all in 60 seconds? I think not!
The timing is possible. It’s just that it couldn’t have been Fallon tweeting as himself.
I don’t give a sh*t who tweeted it – but it’s sad that he feels the need to do this sort of thing.
Just as there’s nothing liberal or democratic about the LimpDims, there’s nothing honest about them, either.
A party of slippery, mendacious communist bastards.
Good point.
Except that the tweet he was replying to was re his performance on the BBC somewhat earlier in the day.
Don’t forget your tin-foil hat to stop them sending you messages…
Why is the word “Twitter” in this headline?
a team of advisor OFF camera telling him what to say next .. like PMQs
Guido – diappointed you don’t understand the benefits of checking the timelines, you will see Farron is responding to a tweet about a breakfast time appearance long before Sky News.
You miss the point. He was on air at the time.
1. Twitter server delays are commonplace and the “time” is approximate although the order is correct (your personal experience should tell you that).
2. If you use wi-fi, as opposed to 3g or GPRS, from a mobile it appears as “From the web”.
Any credible evidence?
Was he tweeting Simon Hughes?
another day, another absolute shart “story” from neo-guido…think guido needs to get back more involved in the day to day running of this blog, its falling down the hill at the moment.
true, but at least it’s giving work experience to the otherwise unemployable
More than possible that the ‘live’ TV appearance was time-delayed by a few minutes.
Here’s a question Guido. Were you actually watching, or have you just relied on media timers for your info?
While it looks suspicious, that the message/TV timings show such disparities, I note that there is quite a disconnection between TV Channel Timers.
That also applies to web timers. They can be quite significantly out of synch, purely and simply because few digital comms systems are, indeed, properly synchronised these days!
Contrary to ITU Recommendations, few on line systems are actually co-synchronised, so their timings can be out by as much as 15 minutes.
For clarification of timings: Theis morning, at 9.00 a.m., as defined by The Rugby Time Standard, the BBC TV timer was approximately 2.5 minutes behind.
Now, at 9.09 a.m., as defined by the Rugby Time Standard, I have checked ALL News channels on the SKY Satellite Systemand found they are ALL approximately 2.5 minutes behind.
Another turd story…surely you can do better
“without evening a glance down”. Lucky school has started again, Guido. Clearly the summer holiday’s have taken there toll!
Clearly the summer HOLIDAY’S have taken THERE toll!
Yup, you sure got that right. Back of the class and take your books with you, dumbkopf
I was being ironic, you fool.
Politicians need to be SO careful on Twitter. Saw this Tory councillor getting herself in trouble the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gvB24XQag&feature=player_embedded
I assume she’s quit by now. Terrible comments.
Jesus, what a crap story, who gives a monkeys! This blog used to at least always be amusing. I’ve been a loyal reader of the “real” Guido since 2004 but this site has really gone downhill since that “Neo-Guido” started working here.
he may be shit, but at least he’s cheap
Only about 10% (if that) of MPs actually use/control their twitter handles. I’m suprised how naive Guido is. Unless of course he’s not naive, then instead he is just creating yet another dull non story.
It is possible to delay a tweet using http://www.tweet-u-later.com/