September 8th, 2011

Son of Brown Appoints Another Brownite to the Team

Miliband has appointed Tim Horton, the Research Director of the Fabian Society, to be his new senior policy advisor. It seems that the Son of Brown just can’t kick his addiction to his old master. Guess where Horton used to work? He was a policy analyst in the Treasury. Under Gordon...

Horton was so keen to defend the then Prime Minister he even took to Iranian State Television in 2008 to spin away. His output for the Fabians matches Ed’s big state, big spend mantra. It seems former Brown advisers like to keep it in the family…


92 Comments

  1. 1
    BBC Controller says:

    Fabians! Sound Chaps.

    • 14
      Chris Hunney says:

      I still find it funny the pasting Horton got from press tv! He could not even answer the questions and just started waffling on about in equality at the top! Perhaps we should get the newsreader at the BBC.

      • 30
        Lord Wayne of Trombone says:

        Shirley this is some no hoper cumt never done a fucking days work in a real job?

        Labour are welcome

        TIME TO CUT THE 50% THEFT RATE

        • 88
          David Laws Lib Dem fiddler says:

          You do not need another waster to advise more tax, more welfare, more immigration, more EU jobs for the boys and girls at Westminster- boosts their pension, we’ll decide if we want to change our renumeration from RPI to CPI at a later date. Call Stuart in Paris and tell him to start spinning about expenses. Same old same old. Milipede had the job of an adviser a short while ago, can’t he remember what his advice was????,

      • 38
        Fiscal Gerrymandering says:

        Why is Ed surrounding himself with these delusional characters. In Horton’s 13th June 2001 Guardian article he says “in office, Labour was good at tackling poverty among children and pensioners” What fucking planet has he been living on.

        The Labour Party needs to listen to Alistair Darling and Luke Bozier that its current leadership is so tainted by past miscreants that they are completely unelectable except to the beneficiaries of their largesse.

        The appointment of Horton strengthens everything that is wrong with the Labour Party and is a benefit to the Tories, rather than progress to electoral credibility.

        The disgusted grass roots of Labour need to be bold at the Party Conference and reclaim the course of fair social justice from the architects of the horrors that have been committed in their name.

        • 49
          Iloathlefties says:

          Policy advisor?? Who gives a rats ass what they come up with. They always resort to tax, spend, borrow and waste. Same old, same old Labour scroats!!

          • BBC Controller says:

            Tax and spend are such unhelpful terms. Think of it as investment in a future fair for all.

            Now please continue to pay your £3.4b Telly Tax investment opportunity

          • M says:

            Horton Reckons most conservative voters are in favour of tax & spend . The state telling everyone how to live

    • 15
      Anonymous says:

      Does this matter? I don’t care who is in the government or what they do, I don’t even care if they steal. All I care about is more employment and better standard of living.

      As for the idiots who are ruling over us, its is bonkers. I don’t care bring back Mrs T or even Brown or any one else as long as they can get us out of this mess.

      • 78
        Geoff, England says:

        Erm, Brown was the one who got us into this mess in the first place, so there would be no chance that he can solve the problems. I wouldn’t trust him to mind a bairn’s piggy bank, let alone an entire economy.

    • 18
      jgm2 says:

      It’s when you look at 12-year-old c*unts like this who haven’t a single iota of life beyond school/uni/the parteh with policies such as these fucking imbeciles that you realise why the UK is so fucked. How old was this c*unt when he was ‘advising’ Brown?

      Was he another one of these little fuckers crouching on his knees to hold the door open when Brown arrived for a press conference so that he’d be out of photo-shot?
      What could this jumped-up little fucker possibly advise anybody about? If he was in the private sector under the Brown idiocy he’d have been sitting behind a screen in a bank trying to persuade you to increase your mortgage and spend it on a holiday or a new c*a*r.

      No wonder anybody with any real cash keeps it well offshore and well away from these jackasses.

    • 27
      Gordon, - see that weird thing I do with my jaw? that means I'm lying - Brhoon says:

      I created an advanced economy!

      An nuthn’s ma fult ye un’stn!

    • 67
      M says:

      I must have missed the policy that he’s supposed to advise on
      What is it ?

  2. 2
    Is Will Hutton a knob? says:

    Maybe Ed should rename his team “The Re-cycled Generation” ?

    • 21
      Tell it like it really is says:

      Balls was on bbc this morning being cheered on by McNaughtie and I listened carefully. I do believe Balls is mentally disturbed, even with the help of non questioning by McN he was totally incapable of any shred of cogent argument as to what plan to resucitate the economy Labour has.

      • 37
        MrAngry61 says:

        Like Brown, like Barry Omaha – sell the concept, anyone asking for details is a Tory/Racist/Little Englander.

        Since NONE of the MSM holds politicians to account, they’ll keep on treating the electorate like stupid shits until the final borrowed billion has gone.

      • 66
        Fiscal Gerrymandering says:

        Have a look at this profile of a Sociopath on http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

        Does any of it sound like Balls, Brown, Campbell, Whelan, Draper or McBride?

        • 89
          M says:

          Sounds like the prerequisite for joining the labour movement .
          For further reading check out bowel movement ( a closely related policy think tank )

        • 91
          Tell it like it really is says:

          I would say the whole cabal of Brownite Labour will score 10 out of 10 on that checklist, thank you Fiscal Gerrymandering.

    • 84
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Are you trying to pass yourself off as me

  3. 3
    Joanne says:

    Still better than Cameron’s catastrophic decision to hire Andy Coulson against the advice of nearly everyone around him…

    • 5
      smoggie says:

      Meanwhile, Cameron’s still PM while Mr Millibean is a second-rate Brown. The only thing he’s missing is the sedatives.

    • 6
      Great British Public says:

      Agreed. That was really shocking. I mean, forget about the biggest deficit since World War II left behind by Liebour and Britain’s Broken Society. They’re nothing in comparison

      • 11
        smoggie says:

        Not to mention two illegal wars and the greatest mass immigration since the Saxons.

        Terribly, terribly inappropriate behaviour by Cameron.

      • 69
        EdButLookBalls says:

        According to Bollox this morning on Toady, it’s all down to the bankers. Funny I thought the ratio was Liebour:Bankers= £700B:£7B. Feck off balls you imbecile!!

    • 22
      Anonymous says:

      If acting against advice is so wrong, what are your thoughts on Labour acting against advice from the Conservatives and using their then majority to elect Bercow as Speaker? Labour knew in advance what an idiot the bloke was, since no one who remotely knew him had a good word to say about him, yet despite this they went ahead and elected the twat anyway.

    • 47
      Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

      AND do you think the British public actually cares about this ??? I suggest you go out into the High Street and conduct a “straw poll”. I predict that phone hacking will come way down the list(if it features at all) after the economy,the eurozone crisis,unemployment and rising cost of living ….

    • 86
      Fish says:

      ‘…nearly everyone around him…’

      Who exactly? I don’t consider Fatty Prescott (who allegedly wrote to Cameron) to be someone who I would consider to be ‘around him’. In fact if Fatty warned me off, I would go out of my way to hire him.

      Just what was it that Labour were REALLY frightened of by the hiring of Coulson?

      Could it be that he was someone to fear because of his abilities?….or was it that Coulson knew about the true relationship Labour had with the Murdochs and knew where the bodies were buried?

  4. 4
    Penfold says:

    How nice of Millband to seek to widen his advisory base and ensure that he takes on board a broad range of options and ideas.
    Don’t the Fabians have some ideas that are a little…. shall we say….extreme…if not fascistic?

    Anyway nice to see Labour sticking to the same old script.

  5. 7
  6. 8
    I've really stopped caring says:

    Change, don’t be daft, this is politics keep saying the right things and people will come to kiss your arse, doesn’t matter what you tell them so long as you you are seen to do it on tv.

  7. 9
    English Liberation Front. says:

    The British population is largely politically illiterate. I saw a quiz programme on the TV last night where one contestant incorrectly identified John Major as the former PM with a constituency in Sedgefield and another, risibly, identified Gordon Brown as a Conservative.

    With such ignorance in the general populace, is it any wonder that Labour have a poll lead. Most people simply don’t understand that Gordon Brown was the worst Chancellor and Prime Minister in history and that his maladministration of the public finances has led directly to the mess we are currently in.

    They say a people get the Government they deserve, but why we ever deserved Labour is completely beyond me!

    • 13
      Tsk says:

      You answered your own question. Education, education, education. (As Lenin said before Blair.)

    • 52
      Archer Karcher says:

      Shock horror the political elite are indistingiushable to the British public! It might help the public if the elite actually had distinct differences. As it is, they really all do, offer the same shit sandwich.

  8. 10
    Voice of Reason says:

    Queens Lancashire Regiment: Not all ‘heroes’ are they! Sadly there are many in the miltary that are no better than uniformed scum thugs. I hope any charity I give never goes to these swines.

    • 19
      Loungelizard says:

      As long as their our ‘uniformed scum thugs’ I couldn’t give a flying f….. A Regiment of the Queens Own Lentil Eating Fabians wouldn’t do us a lot of good against wicked Johnny foreigner.

      • 28
        Voice of Reason says:

        You’ve proved my point Loungelizard. I just hope it’s one of your family that gets tortured next by these thugs. Nothing to do with being limp-wristed or lentil eating – just having the sort of high standards expected by a British miltary.

        • 36
          Voice of even more Reason says:

          You are all the reason we need, my feckless friend, to give you something to really worry about.

          • Fiscal Gerrymandering says:

            Torture has been used by every government in history and to think otherwise is is not the voice of reason.

            Of armies indulge in thuggish behaviour, that is what they are trained to do to our enemies.

            The best solution might be for a country that is £3.589 TRILLION in debt and has the 4th largest military budget in the world is to stop sending troops and cash aid overseas and start looking after our own people.

            That way we will not be in other peoples countries torturing their terrorists and criminals and laying ourselves open to be sued for billions.

            You can’t have it both ways

          • Voice of even more Reason says:

            With you there FG!

          • M says:

            Torture , gadaffi , labour .

      • 31
        anonymous says:

        fuck off

        • 40
          Loungelizard says:

          Anonymous made the point in no 15. High standards got a British soldier executed by his own side for killing a German soldier with his army issue jack knife. It’s a nasty world out there.

          • Voice of Reason says:

            Loungelizard: You’ve obviously not been in the forces and don’t understand what is meant by a disciplined force. However, it’s time for my lunch of lentil soup now so I won’t be commenting any further – my well educated time is wasted on poorly educated chavs such as yourself. Back in a few hours with more constructive comments. Bye….

        • 45
          Voice of Reason says:

          Profound statement probably from one of the scum thugs.

          • b34 says:

            You sleep soundly in your bed due to uniformed “scum thugs”

            Remember that

          • Marmite says:

            I honestly couldn’t give two flying fecks about torturing the Iraqis. I dislike their religion and all they stand for. A load of ret”ards the lot of them, but dangerous re”tards for all that.

    • 50
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      It’s always useful to receive the considered opinions of a seasoned veteran who has spent many years on combat operations and fully understands the pressures of asymetric warfare. A few soldiers have done evil things when subjected to great stress and they should face the consequences of their actions. I’m surprised you didn’t equate the QLI with the Tottenham looters – missed a trick there.
      Thanks largely to 13 years of Labour govt. defence cuts, the jails are full of combat veterans suffering from combat stress disorders which should have been treated in the military hospitals that Labour closed. The Coalition has done little to retrieve the situation, and the squaddie is still treated as collateral from any PM’s international dick-waving. Re-think your charitable giving little man.

  9. 12
    Tsk says:

    Hitler, wasn’t it? ‘Make the lie big enough, etc.’? Hey, Ed. Gorgon tested that one to destruction.

  10. 16
    Sir William Waad says:

    So it’s true: Labour MPs are much lazier than Tories:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2011/sep/08/reality-check-britain-s-laziest-mp

    and Gordon is one of the laziest. Front-benchers have an excuse.

    However, Guido should perhaps set his sights on the appalling Roger Godsiff, trougher, smearer and layabout.

    • 54
      MrAngry61 says:

      Kudos to the Graun for publishing the data.

      What a pattern! Worst voting record almost exclusively Labour, best almost exclusively Tory.

      Let’s hope that someone at the B-BBC links to it.

    • 64
      Iloathlefties says:

      So when are we getting our right to recall these lazy bas**rds?? Why are we paying Brown and Co? When is their pay, pension and working conditions being “reformed”?

    • 71
      Archer Karcher says:

      Could the reason be that substantively, Labour quietly agree with much of what the Libservative government are doing and see no reason to oppose it?
      Theatric’s and rhetoric aside, where does one side end and the other begin? For the life of me, I fail to see any difference at all between any of them.

  11. 17
    Steve Miliband says:

    Why does Ed meed a policy advisor when he has no policies

    • 29
      I don't need no doctor says:

      Excellent point.

    • 35
      Edwin, - his balls are always ready - Scrotal-Contents says:

      wE’RE WORKING ON IT

    • 41
      He knew he was(always) right says:

      Labour Leader-in-waiting Ed(there’s only one Ed in the Labour Party according to his supporters)Balls does have a policy….to oppose all government policies and deny that there is an economic crisis or a need for cuts at all….let’s face it….he of all people should know….. he was responsible along with Brown..(and “Little Ted” Miliband)for the present mess we’re in……….

  12. 20
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Ed Miliband popped out of Brown’s stomach – yes it’s alien Ed.

  13. 23
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Baha Mousa enquiry – If Blair had not lied over Iraq then Baha Mousa would still be alive.
    Does Blair have a conscience, I think not.

  14. 26
    Is Will Hutton a knob? says:

    Why do the left hate this country?

  15. 34
    screw them all says:

    Fucking policy wonk wanker.

  16. 43
    Polly Toynbee says:

    Leave Fabians alone! You want a final solution for them! Anyway, what’s the weather like in UK? It’s nice and sunny here in Tuscany.

    • 72
      Ignorant English slob, - not one of yer upper-class says:

      Picking your grapes yet Poll? or are they all pressed?

      Or do you get the local wops to do that for you?

      • 79
        Poly Tuscanby says:

        No way. I get the local Romanian travelers to pick the grapes. They’re much cheaper. And I feel I’m helping them with their lifechoice.

  17. 44
    Sophie says:

    We know why self loathing Fabians pursue cultural genocide against their own people, but what is rusty Daves excuse for morphing into Continuity Labour & following the Fabian doctrine?

  18. 46
    Displaced Brummie says:

    Gosh. Remind us why Ed is totally unsuited to be leader of anything, let alone a future prime minister?

  19. 62
  20. 65
    big brown jobby says:

    Would you let him anal-ize your policy?
    Exactly.

  21. 68
    Ex Bootneck says:

    Allow comrade Milliband and his red band of brother’s to continue on their chosen path; Recycled Labour will keep them out of power for the next three generations.

    Yours Aye.

  22. 75

    Where is Fabian solutions these days?

    He was so sure he had the right policies, poor old soul.
    It was like arguing with a die hard committed zealot.

    “Its true..because I believe its true”

    “Precious little evidence though.”

    “But the word is sacred. it can’t be judged. it must be worshiped.”

    “Really? Even though it was all made up a long time ago and is of no relevance to the modern age?”

    “That makes it holy! Praise be to Fabians!”

    “whatever”

  23. 77
    Anonymous says:

    Even before I found out that he was research director of the Fabian Society I could tell he was a twat just from the look on his face.

  24. 83
    Gordon (do you wanna to be in my gang?) says:

    I’m arranging to give blood now that the rules have changed. Better than those turkey baster donations I used to give the missus!

    • 87
      handypara says:

      Today’s BBC article has
      “Ministers have agreed to let men who have not had sex with another man in the past 12 months to (sic!) donate from November.”
      and
      “. . enforcing the one-year rule would be “based on trust” when men register to donate blood.

      (The article has now been PC-edited to remove the original statement that gay men still have a high incidence of HIV.)

      Are you happy with the risk?

  25. 92
    Another Doughnut! says:

    You want cream with that? Or are you just going to milk it?


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