October 4th, 2011

Reality Check of the Day

Timo Soini, leader of the True Finns party told the packed European Conservatives and Reformists Group fringe event earlier: “the Euro is our currency, but your problem”. The nail on the head.


257 Comments

  1. 1
    The Golden Turnip of Turnipstan says:

    Nell’s Delightful Authentic Turnip Turnover (serves 1 ready in 25 minutes)

    Take one Turnip
    Boil me in Water for 20 minutes.
    Spit upon the drained chunks of my flesh.
    Try and griff up a greenie to add better flavour.
    Sprinkle liberally with cat hair and skin mites.

    Enjoy!

    • 3
      D-Ann Abbbotttt says:

      Here m€ now ; .&, he iz a raceist n a fashist iNit

    • 13
      jgm2 says:

      Boil a turnip in 20 minutes? It’d still be as rock-hard as it was when you started. Turnips take fucking ages to cook. As any fule kno.

      • 20
        Stinkfinger says:

        I read it as,
        Take one turnip.
        Boil me(Nell) in water for twenty minutes…..
        Don’t know what the turnip had to do with it really.

        • 26
          jgm2 says:

          I’m no expert at boiling people but I’d have thought you’d need more than 20 minutes to cook a person through.

          My mum used to boil beef for fucking hours. Mind you, she boiled everything for fucking hours. It all came out white. Even the carrots.

          • Nell's Dinner Party Challenge says:

            Starter: Thinking about Turnips.
            Main Course: A par boiled Turnip in jus of Harpic.
            Desert: A Raw Turnip covered in chocolate sauce.

          • Stinkfinger says:

            Only one way to find out….NELL WHERE ARE YER?

          • Audemus Dicere says:

            “Main Course: A par boiled Turnip in jus of Harpic”

            Just the mention of Hatty’s “jus” has put me right off my dinner…

          • jgm2 says:

            Aye, I did think it sounded a bit vinegary.

          • David Cameron (Cheif Bullshitter says) says:

            Let me make it perfectly clear YOU WILL NEVER GET A REFERENDUM ON THE EU so fuck off. If you were stupid enough to believe my CAST IRON GARENTEE you are all as thick as shit. I will promise a referendum just before the next election just to get you idiots to vote for me like I did Last time but I will be telling lies again GET IT YOU TWATS!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • Come Dine with me says:

            East Anglia edition

            Starter : Turnip Salad
            Mains: Turnip Stew
            Sweet:Turnip ice cream

            And to finish the night off we have a talk on Global Warming from guest speaker from the university of East Anglia.

          • Jack Dromey (Ms) says:

            Yes, but WTF has that got to do with turnip cuisine? Stay on-topic, man, or fuck off.

          • Lady Thatcher says:

            “You turnip if you want to…”

          • Airey Belvoir says:

            An Irish cook was badly injured after reading a cooking instruction which said ‘stand in boiling water or ten minutes.’

    • 47
      B Aldrick says:

      Heavenly !

      • 211
        eddy boy says:

        so debbie abrahams MP has hired her daughter on a 42k salary as a parliamentary assistant – nepotism on a grand scale

    • 66
      nell says:

      Honestly you really are an illiterate cook! If that’s the expression I’m looking for.

      I think there should be a campaign for a ‘fair press for turnips and root vegetables’ . They are high in fibre, full of vitamins and good for you – so long as you don’t boil them to death.

      “Take a shallow dish. Place in it, small potatoes still in their jackets, parsnips each cut in four pieces, one or two quartered bell peppers, a handful of button mushrooms, a large onion cut into chuncks and a couple of whole garlic cloves. Sprinkle with olive oil, soya sauce and oregano and roast in oven for about 40 mins”

      • 72
        David Cameron (Cheif Bullshitter says) says:

        The best way to cook turnips is to peel them and place them in a casserole. Add 3/4 of a pint of red wine and three large shots of brandy. place in a warm oven for 20 mins. then spoon out the turnips and thow the fucking things away and drink thr gravy

        • 77
          nell says:

          ++++Laugh++++

          Very Funny! I might even try it out on the family one day for a joke!! Not sure about the brandy though – think I’d rather just drink that as it comes – though perhaps not 3 large shots in one go!!!

        • 84
          nell says:

          Thinking on that – you should add a pinch of cinnamon powder or cinnamon sticks and make it at Xmas – that way you can serve it as mulled wine for carollers at your door.

        • 85
          Engineer says:

          Peel turnip and cut into slivers about 1/4″ thick. Peel two or three medium-sized potatoes and cut into quarters. Place all in salted water and boil for 20-25 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Drain, then mash with a good nob of butter and half a teaspoon of grated nutmeg. Serve with haggis and onion gravy.

          • nell says:

            Now that does sound good! Not sure about the haggis – could one curry it?

          • Fanny Craddock says:

            Striped Bass in Horseradish Crust in Anchovy Broth with Parsnip Puree

            Delicious!

          • Engineer says:

            Could go nicely with cottage pie or a good, thick beef stew.

            Curried haggis, eh? Not sure about that…. Actually, haggis can be a bit variable. Marks and Sparks do a good one, or McSween’s if you can get one. Actually, I like it best if the leftover haggis is fried up the following morning with a rasher or two of bacon – sets you up for the day, does that.

          • Jack Dromey (Ms) says:

            It’s properly punctuated thus;

            “Fanny” Cradock (1 D BTW — 2 Ds for officer class only)

          • Grumpy Old Man says:

            While rooting about, let us not forget the humble but flavoursome ceraliac. Just had meatballs swedish style with mashed ceraliac and potatos for supper. Most satisfactory.

          • nell says:

            I once had lightly steamed celery hearts served with butter – lovely ! Is that the same as celeriac?

          • Infuriated of West Mids says:

            While there are so many clearly talented home cooks on here, can I just quickly ask …

            Am I too late to get my Christmas sprouts on the boil? I have a microwave too, if it helps. It’s just I’m sure that my mum used to start them off on St Swithin’s day, and I don’t want them to be underdone. Am I cutting it a bit fine?

            Thanks.

          • nell says:

            Brussels now there’s a culinary subject!

            My lot hate them! But apparently there’s a recipe somewhere for steamed brussels served with knobs of salted butter and little bits of fried bacon.

          • I voted Tory what happened says:

            I like sprouts Its my fathers left over Turkey Carcas with Barley that I detest.

          • nell says:

            Barley! My old Mum used to do a great mutton stew with barley – full of fat and flavour!!

            Alas recipe’s long gone!.

          • you couldn't make it up says:

            Sprouts can be dangerous nell. I heard of someone a couple of years ago in our local hospital who choked to death on a brussel sprout on Xmas day. Funny thing is, you’d think a hospital would be the best place to be in these circumstances, but the old fella croaked it just the same. Probably couldn’t face another fucking Xmas.

          • The Paragnostic says:

            The only thing cooked in Brussels is the books.

            Marta Andreesen told me so.

          • Susie says:

            What about leeks? Steam until just soft and then put in dish with parmesan and cream and more parmesan on top. Bake for 20 minutes. Don’t pass them around eat them all yourself.

          • Luncheon Voucher says:

            Grumpy,
            If you want Swedish meatballs, any old IKEA cafe will serve you a plate for a bob or two with cranberry sauce and chips. It’s a regular and comparatively cheap lunch for my lot

      • 219
        Cynic says:

        Euro Turnips take longer to cook than British Turnips

        • 237
          Euroturnip Commission says:

          Mijn raap heeft ontbroken
          Mon navet a échoué
          Meine Rübe ist ausgefallen
          Η κράμβη μου έχει αποτύχει
          La mia rapa è venuto a mancare
          Meu nabo falhou
          Mi nabo ha fallado

        • 239
          larry says:

          i think we have turnips running the country

      • 251
        Anonymous says:

        Sod off.

  2. 2
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Yep, Now Dave, Balls in your court.

  3. 4
    True Finn says:

    Timo tietaa mita han sanoo. Keikka haista paskaa.

  4. 7
    BillyBob... says:

    About time they all got a f*cking grip…… !!

  5. 9
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Gurkha

  6. 11
    The wizz says:

    When the Euro came into being it was mooted that the new currency would give a level fiscal stage. Hence, one size fits all, however the diverse ways in which we deal with other nations is very different.
    Now we see the flaws that the so called European Commission missed and that the Countries who signed up are now pointing bthe finger at a bunch of illiterate misfits, namely the European Commission.

    • 246
      oddly helpful says:

      Innumerate, rather than illiterate, surely. Their great gamble was in attempting to institute a currency that could become the default when trading oil, without a plan on how this might become achieved (especially now that the age of European empires is passed into history).

  7. 14
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Guido

    I think you should start a camaign (Because of the platform you have) to get Dave and co to man up and allow the people of this country to have a vote reguarding our membership opf the EU, YOU done it on pilgrims.

    although the vote in the commons is non-binding, Dave would not be able to ignore it (Remember the Gurhk debate).

    To quote ( with admendments)

    “Help us Guido Fawkes you are our only hope”

    Unless CCHQ have bunged you enough?
    Reply

  8. 15
    Scruff says:

    Under Richard Nixon, the US Treasury secretary John Connally also famously told European finance ministers in Rome that the dollar was “our currency, but your problem”.

  9. 17
    Jimmy says:

    I may have missheard. Did someone say the Tory MEP group was Finnish?

  10. 18
    Stinkfinger says:

    Yep,the Euro does seem to have a problem for every solution.

  11. 21
    I don't need no doctor says:

    John Snow Channel 4 News asks Cameron if he had ever known hardship. It gets my fucking goat that the news journalists on a higher salary than our Prime Minister have the fucking nerve to ask such questions. Snow has got more ties than Amelda Marcos has shoes.
    Media hypocrites.

    • 22
      Jon Snow says:

      Have I ever seen hardship? Yeh a little…..on tv.

    • 23

      Has any of our politicos known any hardship?
      Fecking thieving offspring of unmarried parents have still got a fecking Rolex to tell ‘em the time when they get banged up!

    • 28
      genghiz the kahn says:

      Snow should at least know that hardship is between Fuck and Off in the OED.

      • 200
        Susie says:

        I thought that climatologist said Snow would become a thing of the past 10 years ago… so why’s he still on the box every night 5 days a week?

        Another fail for the warmists.

    • 35
      jgm2 says:

      The only people in the UK who have known hardship are the Poles who lived under communism and the immigrants from PKS*t*an, China and Africa who travelled half way around the world to experience UK ‘hardship’.

      ‘Hardship’? In the UK? Horseshit. The fuckers don’t know they’re born. Like fucking children. All they see is what they don’t have. They don’t have a Blackberry so they’re suffering ‘hardship’. The can’t dine at Mossimans so they’re suffering ‘hardship’. They can’t afford a new car so they’re suffering ‘hardship’. They don’t get paid over 30K a year so they’re suffering ‘hardship’.

      The fuckers have no clue what hardship is and yet there it is, practically every day on their TV. Fuckers dying of starvation or for want of a 50p vaccine or machine-gunned by their own governments.

      Hardship? In the UK?

      Oh do fuck off.

      • 43
        The Sultan of Snot says:

        Well said

      • 50
        I don't need no doctor says:

        Best comment for ages. Country is full of me me me types. Makes me fucking sick when you hear politicians and media spewing out crap.

      • 55
        Engineer says:

        My late grandmother was brought up in Liverpool in the very early part of the last century. She described the conditions she witnessed on Scotland Road in the ’20s and ’30s. Children in rags, barefoot, with maybe only a jam butty for sustenance all day. Wartime rationing actually improved some peoples’ diets. I’m sure there was a similar story in all the major cities.

        THAT was hardship and poverty.

        • 117
          Jack Dromey (Ms) says:

          My late grandmother lived in a soap-box and ate cardboard.

          Now THAT was hardship and poverty. It were all right for the toffs, tho. In them days for 3d you could buy a packet of bootlaces, take two round-the-world cruises, and still have enough money left over to buy a Ferrari Testarossa with a personalized numberplate.

          • AC1 says:

            Don’t talk to me about Hardship.

            In my day…..

          • Engineer says:

            Mine was not a tongue-in-cheek comment.

            jgm2 is spot on. None but a few oldies and possibly some genuine asylum seekers know what real hardship is in this country.

          • Don Quixote De la Mancha says:

            But what about all those people paying 20% VAT on the price of a new Bentley? They are all so heard up we are told they are being chauffeur-driven abroad

        • 202
          Susie says:

          Quite. Kids in some cities were still barefoot right into the late 1950s and everything was second-hand and passed down even in middle class families. I was 13 the first time I got anything brand new bought for me (apart from shoes or school uniform) in a clothes shop.

      • 56
        Anonymous says:

        Hardship is having to listen to you or one of your sockpuppets

      • 78
        Old Git says:

        You should have been with me in 1941 when Hitler blew our house up in the east end

        • 147
          Yorkshireman #4 says:

          We couldn’t even afford to heat our gravel to eat tonight.

        • 217
          Another old(ish) git says:

          I was there pal. I used to ride shotgun on the rag and bone man’s cart. Great fun for a 12 year old and quite hard work lifting some of the junk on to it.

      • 201
        Susie says:

        What amused me were reporters describing 6 foot black rioters running amok with a scaffolding poles as ‘vulnerable’. They didn’t look vulnerable to me.

    • 109
      Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

      It’s Imelda Marcos

      • 121
        I don't need no doctor says:

        That’s as maybe but I’m on about Amelda who lives at No.40 just down the road from us. Ding dong.

    • 140
      Snow Joke says:

      Well as the public school educated son of a bishop (and grandson of a General), Snow jolly wells knows lots about hardship.

      • 203
        Susie says:

        He must have been such a disappointment to them.

      • 223
        genghiz the kahn says:

        The bastard wants to inflict hardship on the rest of us.

        The smug well connected hoon should know that few in the UK have experienced real hardship in their lifetime.

    • 240
      yeah, right.. says:

      Agreed. His answer should have been.. ‘no, no more than you have. And by the way, if you and your faux-leftie chums are so agin’ privilege, tell me just how your lad Dan did it all by himself and without access to your wealth and contacts’.

      One impertenence deserves another.

  12. 25
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

  13. 34
    gildedtumbril says:

    The bastards peddling the euro can stick it, with a few black tulips, up their godamned ponzis. Naturally under the protection of a south sea bubble.
    What is this rumour I hear, courtesy of Russia Today, that krautland is printing deutschmarks, or is it deutschmarx ? like there is no tomorrow.

  14. 41
    Foolish Sally says:
    • 42
      Recipe says:

      Err Sally. It is cheaper, much much cheaper to cook healthy food from scratch than it is to buy ready made fat ridden meals.

      • 46
        The State is ALL says:

        Forgot she is a socialist and like all good socialists she wants women to slave in factories and their children to be nursed by the state while their mothers work for the greater good. The notion that a mother could care for it’s own child rather than working for the collective is alien to her.

        Does she not realise that houses are so expensive in Britain is because mortgages are now based on joint earnings rather than single earnings?

        • 51
          Gordon Brown says:

          A woman’s place is in the Tractor factory, not in the home. The State will provide all that a child needs so that the woman is now free of a mother’s natural responsibility and is now able to work for the common good.

          • I don't need no doctor says:

            Does Sarah get the coal in?

          • nell says:

            I suspect she probably does. I can’t imagine gordon doing anything around the family home that is remotely useful, can you?

          • A marriage that was convenient. says:

            Of course she does. And she takes his pisspot down the stairs, into the garden to empty it…..When she is there.

            But now she has taken to going to London to escape him sucking the very lifeblood out of her, staring out of the window all day and visiting local cinemas to relieve the boredom things are rapidly coming to a head.

          • Burk Ough says:

            Does Sarah get the coal in?

            Yes, she likes to have it dirty up the back passage.

            No need to thank me.

      • 49
        A teacher (at home sick, full of snot) says:

        Severe learning difficulties.

      • 134
        Anonymous says:

        Bollocks ! Just bought pizzas in Morrison for £1.50 each. No chance of making the equivalent from scratch for less.

        • 176
          p.s. water is cheap says:

          Bolloxs yourself, you want to check the price of flour and water.

        • 178
          AC1 says:

          Um there’s a reason for that….

          It’s all shit.

          Make your own pizzas is easy.

          Boil down and sieve some tinned tomatoes (33p a can) with a bit of oil.
          Make some bread (Flour is cheap 500g will do 6 pizzas).
          Black Pepper, Oregano and Basil.
          Get some value Mozzarella (99p will do 2 pizzas).
          Hottest oven and cooks in @8-12 minutes.

          and they’ll be good not shit like cheap pizza.

          • Stoned and baked says:

            Too true AC1. A Pizza is a piece of piss to make amd only costs a few pence. Mrs Bercow is talking out of her arse. (as usual)

          • Anonymous says:

            Time faffing around doing all that shit – priceless!

    • 45
      jgm2 says:

      No. Lots of people buy fatty food because they’re too fucking idle or too fucking stupid to buy vegetables (which are still dirt cheap) and cook the fucking things.

      I was in Tescos today and bought a 5kg bag of onions for two quid. Two quid. I can get a 25kg bag of spuds for six quid. 5kg of Basmati rice for a fiver. An entire fucking chicken for four quid.

      I bought an entire fucking lamb at the weekend, butchered to order and delivered to the door for 100 quid. And I was ripped off at that price.

      Food is cheap. There’s a reason we subsidise all those EU farmers Sally. It’s food security. Nobody should be shopping in Iceland or Farmfoods.

    • 48
      The Paragnostic says:

      Went to the “Farnham Food Festival” over the weekend – you’d have thought that in leafy Surrey, they’d have some decent grub on offer.

      What did I find?

      Two Thai stalls, two Indian stalls, one Caribbean stall that only did jerk chicken, sundry jam sellers, a pie stall and Domino’s fucking pizza.

      Domino’s fucking pizza? Shouldn’t be let anywhere near a ‘food festival’. And the lack of decent British food made me despair (plus nary a curry goat or oxtail in sight on the Caribbean stall…).

      There was a good cheese stall, though :-)

      • 63
        Doomed I tell yer! says:

        Billy is that you?

        • 105
          The Paragnostic says:

          No – Billy’s sane compared to me.

          • Jack Dromey (Ms) says:

            Herr Paragnostic, if it’s a nightmare you seek, next time venture a little further from Aldershot and try Alton market on a Tuesday afternoon. There are more obese women in Alton, per square yard, than anywhere else on the face of the planet. The town council has scrapped the benches in the High Street and replaced them with mooring masts.

          • chavtastic says:

            If you want to see real hillbilly’s and lard arsed, tattooed women, try Eastleigh on a Saturday.

          • The Paragnostic says:

            Alton?

            I’ve shopped in Rochdale, and not only is it infested with imams, the average Rochdale lass makes Diane Fatbutt look like an advert for Slimmers’ World.

            Besides, there’s a small danger of running into the Cooper-Balls clan in Alton…

    • 54
      I don't need no doctor says:

      Err Sally fuck off you twat bitch. I hope your arse heals up while John’s head is stuck up there.

    • 69
      nell says:

      OMG! Another useless cook!

      Gove needs to be re-introducing cookery lessons into schools methinks!!

    • 74
      Just saying says:

      What a terribly sad and pointless individual, or pair

    • 213
      Marmite says:

      That ‘woman’ (Bigcow) wants putting down for her own sake. What a stupid **!!!***

  15. 57
    David Cameron says:

    My brother Esau is an hairy man, but I am a smooooooooth man.

  16. 67
    Shit hit fan watch says:

    Oh dear as the LSE closed the Dow was putting in an intra day bounce unfortunately it was a dead cat bounce and like Theresa May it has been going downhill ever since. Carnage on the markets tomorrow.

    But what a mess we is in. The States has a socialist president. Europe has a socialist president and Osborne reckons communism is the answer.

    • 70
      nell says:

      OK stock market’s falling even further tomorrow .

      That means you need to buy.

      • 76
        The Facts says:

        Normally that would be correct but never before has America been governed by a socialist and Europe by just one unelected communist President.

        • 81
          nell says:

          Well – not to worry. the usa’s socialist presi is likely to be out his derriere in 2012.

          And if germany’s europhile merkel doesn’t get re-elected next year and some other german leader more anti eu gets voted in as seems likely the euro and then the eu is going to begin a slow unravelling.

          I remain hopeful that I shall see a dismantling of the eu in my lifetime.

          • Buy buy buy says:

            The Dow suddenly went Ballistic after selling off into the final hour. Has Obama walked under a bus or something?

          • George saves the day says:

            U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said European Union finance ministers had Tuesday made some progress in dealing with the euro-zone crisis and that currency bloc’s governments had acknowledged they had not done enough to manage the situation.

            “I’m not pretending that by the end of the day we had a solution to the euro-zone crisis, much to my frustration, but I think we did take some steps forward,”

          • Sid Waddell says:

            Closed up One Hundred

          • AC1 says:

            Plunge “Protection” Team action*

            *Taxpayers get the bill, Insiders get the profits.

          • Berne says:

            AC1 you are correct.

    • 92
      We’re doomed I tell yer! says:

  17. 75
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Hey sockpuppets, you are too easy to spot.

  18. 86
    Traditionalist says:

    O/T

    Young Voters’ Question Time, currently on BBC3, displaying the usual severe shortage of brain cells and QT leftie bias.

    • 96
      We’re all doomed I tell yer! says:

      Nothing new there then.

    • 247
      screwed for another thirty years says:

      Chilling to see members of the Junior Anti-Sex League* in action.

      *They’re the children who act as an adjunct to the secret police in Orwell’s 1984

  19. 87
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Just wait for the media circus when Amanda Foxy Knoxy gets back to Seattle and celebrates her sucessful escape from a perfectly sound murder conviction.

    She has made the Italian authorities look like complete chumps and openly mocks the sad Kercher family who still grieve their beautiful daughter whose throad was slit.

    Even Max Clifford said he wouldn’t want anything to do with her publicity, movie and book deals.

    • 88
      Mandy says:

      Who’d want the silly old twat anyway?

    • 93
      Engineer says:

      The Italian authorities are chumps. They managed to turn a tragic, but fairly routine murder investigation into a complete farce. Contaminated DNA evidence, piss-poor crime-scene management, you name it. Knox’s involvement or otherwise is still totally unclear.

      I feel deep sympathy for Meredith Kercher and her family. They’ve been given no justice at all by the Italian legal system.

      • 103
        nell says:

        Yes. +100

        • 114
          Sid Waddell says:

          Well called Nell. If you have put your money where your mouth was then you became extemely rich tonight.

          • nell says:

            Not sure anyone gets rich buying and selling shares but if you buy low and sell high it can make a nice little pension fund.

            At the moment I think the strategy is to buy modestly and sit on some of them for a year or two perhaps.

          • The Magick Turnip says:

            GET YOUR GODDAMNED HANDS OFF ME YOU FAT TROLLOPE!

    • 94
      nell says:

      Oh Bill. I’m not sure about that!

      Do we really think her italian prosecutor who was already convicted and appealing a 16month prison for illegal practices (mignoni), when he took up the prosecution of knox, is a sound character in whom we can believe?

      The italian justice system is a bit of a shambles you have to admit – just look at how berlusconi keeps escaping from prosecution for fraud and ‘other’ offences!!

    • 97
      nell says:

      Oh Bill. I’m not sure about that!

      Do we really think her it@ lian pro se cutor who was already convicted and app e @ling a 16month prison for illegal practices (mignoni), when he took up the prosecution of knox, is a sound character in whom we can believe?

      The italian justice system is a bit of a shambles you have to admit – just look at how
      ber lus coni keeps escaping from prosecution for fraud and ‘other’ offences!!

      • 107
        silvio for pm! says:

        nell, what a grim old tart you are.

        • 120
          nell says:

          Not as dark and grim as ber los coni!

          But talking of italian tarts here’s one worth trying!!
          1 1/2 cups flour
          1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
          1/4 teaspoon salt
          1 teaspoon cinnamon
          6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
          3/4 cup sugar
          2 eggs
          2 tablespoons whole milk
          1 pint strawberries, hulled and cut in half, plus additional whole strawberries for garnish (optional)
          fresh whipped cream (optional)
          print a shopping list for this recipe

          Preparation1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a spring-form pan.

          2. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl.

          3. In a separate bowl, beat the butter and the sugar. Add the eggs and milk. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and stir by hand until just moistened. Do not overmix.

          4. Spread the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Press strawberry halves deeply into the dough in a circular pattern of 2 or 3 rings. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm with whipped cream and strawberries, if desired.

          hattip!! http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Italian-Strawberry-Tart-106535#ixzz1ZqZNmWyr

      • 116
        Ted says:

        I completely agree that the Italian authorities have made themselves look like chumps however I am not at all convinced that justice has been done. I accept that much of the DNA evidence was possibly compromised and therefore either inadmissible or inconclusive. That said there was a horrible amount of circumstantial evidence stacked against Knox and her boyfriend. The continually changing story, the false accusation of a bar owner, the false allegation of police brutality. Their mobile phones being switched off on the night. No corroborating evidence of an alibi from their computers. The cleanup of the crime scene etc. I also cannot understand why all three defendants where not tried together. Having a fast track trial with a sentence discount for raping and slitting someone’s throat is a bit of a joke. This resulted in the main protagonist getting 16 years and the accessories getting 30 years.
        In my opinion Rudy Guede should have been for the drop and Knox and Sollecito should have got 25 years as accessories.

        • 170
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          There are many many cases of innocent people giving false confessions to the police. Stephan Kiszco (sp?) and the first guy locked up for killing Caroline Dickinson are the best examples.

          Mobile phones off. Really? wow!
          Computer off. Really? wow!

          Wasn’t the DNA evidence against knox that there might have been her DNA on a kitchen knife, which was pretty much proven to be not the murder weapon?

          • Ted says:

            The DNA evidence was not conclusive but there is a great deal of circumstantial evidence none of which on its own would mean that much but taken as a whole is quite damming.

            You need to read the original sentencing judges report which goes into this at great length to get a full understanding. Had the phones been on and the computer used as given in the alibi it would have cleared them both immediately. Why was Knox buying bleach the first thing the morning after the murder? Why did an Italian flatmate state Knox had an injury on her neck. Get the facts sockpuppet, read the report.

            The Italian authorities did manage to make a complete mess of the case.

          • dogsled says:

            Silly little rich girl with ‘Daddie’ issues & liking for ‘Bad Boys’ goes to Italy thinking she knows about rough sex because she’s watched Basic Instinct a couple of times. Sets herself up with two wrong ‘uns (“Look at me Daddy, Look at me, pay attention to what I’m doing!”), gets pissed & high, ropes in her innocent flatmate and things get seriously out of hand. Doesn’t realise how much pooh she is in until she comes down & realises that the stories she spun while out of her gourd make no sense & just being American won’t get her out of this one. Gets banged up and her parents & Yank media play up the “Shes a good christian girl but was alone & confused in a foreign land/The Italian police know jack about procedure and forensics. Haven’t they watched CSI? + they are corrupt,”angles. Make sure she is seen doing good works in prison. Repentance for the trouble she has caused. Not Guilty.

            If she is guilty or not, I hope she has learned her lesson. I doubt very much that Daddy will come riding to her rescue again if she blows all her book/film deal money on a selection of dumbass boyfriends & ends up in a Meth House blowing on a pipe belonging to some guy who owns twin dobermans, has gang tattoos and answers to the name of Bubba.

            And all the time, Merediths parents will never have an answer…

          • Uptight English Turnips. says:

            I like you. We should hang out.

    • 122
      I don't need no doctor says:

      How can you be so sure Billy?

  20. 101
    screw the lot of them says:

    See above.

  21. 104
    We’re all doomed I tell yer! says:

    I think its time to raid Tesco for tinned foods & bottled water.

    • 119
      The End Is Nigh says:

      Will you please fuck off, that’s my patch.

    • 126
      nell says:

      Have you heard about all those micro bugs in bottled water?

      I think you’re better off with tap water – and it’s cheaper.

      • 186
        The Piss Soaked Tramp Formally Known As TAT! says:

        There is too much flouride and other shit in tap water.

    • 137
      Gentleman Rioter says:

      TESCO!
      Eww, I’ll only raid M&S and only if they have Perrier glass bottled mineral water and a large selection of the finest cheeses know to man.

  22. 106
    Call me Dave - windy miller, eco loon and trougher says:

    Vote for me!

  23. 118
    True Finn says:

    I vant evrywon to hold hans and say I am moominpappa so lets drink beer and piss on Silly Berkow

  24. 123
    slip one in silvio says:

    Just give me a nibble of those crust old baps.

  25. 124
    The voice of a sane person in a mad world says:
    • 127
      nell says:

      I do hope nigel is going to get elected as an mp in 2015 – he’s a very worthwhile human being and far more worthy of a place in the hoc than that Green Party person!!

    • 142
      Anonymous says:

      UKIP need to start making the argument of why we won’t be worse off if we leave the EU. Constantly hear that anywhere between 40 and 50 % of our overseas trade is with EU countries (is this actually true?) but never hear anyone say that we run a trade deficit with the EU, so they’re unlikely to stop trading wiith us, or that over 80 % of our GDP is due to domestic dermand anyway and leaving the Eu would allow us to expand our markets without being subject to restrictive EU rules.

      Just wish someone from the right would man the fuck up and be more robust in defence of their positions. Cameron and co are such fucking pussies!!

      • 146
        WVM says:

        ++CLAPS++
        +10

      • 149
        FACTS says:

        Put it this way. India, China, USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Pakistan, all the Arab states, all of Africa, Russia, Japan, Switzerland and the majority of the world are not part of the EU and the EU does NOT refuse to trade with them. Why would Britain be any different?

      • 150
        Hear Hear says:

        The reasons given not to be in a political Union with Europe are NEVER ever properly addressed by our political class. The rest of the world manages perfectly OK or better.

      • 158
        ruination, it's what marxixsts do says:

        Er, it’s a political union innit? Nothing to do with reason, logic or fiscal common sense.

        • 248
          oddly helpful says:

          There’s a well-known quotation from the Sherlock Holmes novels which proves your point.

  26. 129
    The Billy & Nell Show says:

    Love Us!

    • 143
      nell says:

      Well now there’s a thought.

      It beats gordon and damian or mandy and bliar or whelan and crow or militwit and balls or hattyharpic and mrsdromey or ……………………………

  27. 141
    A reasonable question. says:
    • 145
      nell says:

      Is this man on theresa’s list for deporting once she gets that human right’s act rewritten?

      I’ve no idea where he came from but I think the somalian desert might be a useful place to send him .

      • 151
        Founding Father says:

        You may be right but Obama exterminating so called enemies of America with unmanned drones and no chance to defend themselves in a court of law does not sit easy.

        • 153
          nell says:

          You must excuse me sweetie but I find it difficult to consider awlaki and his fellow terrorists as enemies of anyone except all of the human race.

          As such, we have to be grateful that they’re gone. Some people are just that evil!

          • Grand Master says:

            And if the Taliban flew drones over the UK exterminating their enemies you would also think that OK?

          • AC1 says:

            They flew two plane into 2 buildings killing 3,000 civilians…

            Or do you so easily forget?

            Law don’t work the same on the battlefield numpty.

          • Tally Ho Ban says:

            Not remotely piloted though.

          • nell says:

            The people that died that day were of all religions and many nationalities. Kids backpacking having breakfast in that highest restaurant in the world, muslims who were accountants, christians, mormons, just plain working joe’s , men,, women, wives, husbands, children, brothers, sisters, daughters and sons and on and on…..

            As you say AC1 – Truly Evil!!

          • Founding Father says:

            Evil Taliban, yes.

            But does that make Obama right to exterminate the suspects and supporters without trial? NO, absolutely NO.

            This is not what the New World was founded on.

          • The Paragnostic says:

            I’ll happily exterminate Choudary, and do the time for it.

            Now if you could just get Blair to stand behind him, as the .50 cal match round does its work?

          • AC1 says:

            > But does that make Obama right to exterminate the suspects and supporters without trial?

            Where there’s an enemy e,placement and the local government are unable or unwilling to arrest them, then YES IT’S TOTALLY OK.

      • 155
        Barnehurst Bob says:

        Nell, he comes from Welling in Kent. A nice little semi in the suburbs.

    • 197
      Hamspam Chowder says:

      You don’t honestly believe me, do you ???

  28. 144

    Hold on to your arse ‘cos its gonna be one hell of a ride :)

    • 148
      nell says:

      Fine! So why didn’t you say that when gordon was PM and spending all our money like it was going out of fashion – Hmm?!!

  29. 152
    Dr Moy says:

    The Euro was such a bad bad idea!

    • 154
      nell says:

      Who’s idea was the Euro?

    • 160
      Chris Huhne says:

      I thought it was a brilliant idea. I think state subsidised Windmills are a brilliant idea. I think the European project is a brilliant idea. I also betrayed my wife and children. That is why you all should do what I say and not as I do.

  30. 157
    LibLabConCunts says:

    The True Finns, a Nationalist party which polled strongly in Finnish Elections, have described immigrants to Finland as ‘parasites on tax payers’ money’ and have suggested that ethnically Finnish women should study less and spend more time having babies.

    The double standards revealed by the Tories who are quite happy to invite and listen to the leader of a foreign Nationalist party while shunning any member or representative of our own nation’s Nationalist parties. Parties that can relate these problems as they appear to the British people far better than any foreigner.
    Hypocrisy and massaging of the Tory right!

  31. 164
    Germany Reprinting the Deutschmark? says:

  32. 167
    Henry says:

    bbc – newsnight – paxman

    they are driving me up the fucking wall

    will no-one rid me of these turbulent arse-bandits?

  33. 171
    Theresa May says:

    The male dominated press is obsessed with Pussy.

    • 208
      Tory Gimp says:

      Oh you fucking dirty dirty bitch!
      I’ve just finished wanking furiously over your domineering kitten heals and now you state the obvious!
      Theresa I love you, please sit on my unworthy face!

  34. 173
    not a machine says:

    Of course we have the rightly concerned city folk , as stock markets try and evaluate the unknowns , the unknowns which gave the ruin his most wonderful line to the british public “I have ended boom and bust” , why oh why did he sneak in to sign Lisbon , clearly unable to tell if boom and bust had been ended , (by the same sort of finance and politics as he conducted in the UK) had ended in Greece ,Italy , Ireland , Spain and Portugal, I mean what sort of person sells your gold reserves and then legs you in with countries that do not even reliable accounts, collect taxes and whose governing body has not even been able to sign its own accounts off for 14yrs , I mean dear prudence , she proebely went along withe gold , into that great ponzi scheme , as window dressing and then the brothel .

    The numeric failure of course hides the big political failiure , the trust that the euro was about some bigger better world , has morphed into lobbyiest betrayal run by a nest of back slappers , and beurocrats ,that did nothing to ensure a vast contentients money was used properly and respectfully . Some may see it as a form of mania , and yet nothing can obscure the fact that national accountancey standards had been subverted , the rule of accurate ecnomic information by passed , the rigour of fiscal rules , forgotten about over five star luncheons . I was always told “too much will make you go blind” , and clearly it does , blind to the destruction of economies that , too much selfindulgence in fairy land , leads to .

    Todays conference had two very different tales , the excellent Mr Gove managed to coin an almost classic line in understanding the of importance of education “that the future ecnomic success of a nation lies in its education”, its not so much he has an open goal , more of a shameful one that for so long a undoing of the standards in education , had led to , a near continual coverup by labour ,that it was failing our children , oue parents and our economy . Of course he is developing his ideas , and it will take time for him to get to those schools where the culture has not understood why it has failed . there may well be some cross winds from exam results that were not as easy as before , lags and stubborn areas that can be foucused on , but he was right and more to the point the party knew he was right .
    Next up was Andrew Lansley , the complexities of the way Labour ran the NHS and the fight for releasing the tax payer from its budget , had made his department a bit of battle ground , he reeled off some the almost hidden statisics , today x number of people will have to use the NHS when they werent expecting to , un like schools health does not close or have term breaks . It is perhaps the most managerial of the offices of state, and yet today he found somthing so long forgotten about the NHS caught in the crossfire , he found that if it works , if it cares ,that it creates some civil value that cannot be accounted . His team including an experinced nurse MP went to some pains to point out , he/they were not for privatising the NHS , and that he was looking for quality and excellence , as ensuring the NHS survival .
    I have thought some things that are about choice , should be made to be paid for , certain cosmetic procedures for example , but if he is right and that it is matter of more lateral thinking and making the front line more effective , and the money can be gained , through reorganising , then he will have perhaps changed medicine not only for developed countries but undevelped ones as well , by enabling them to gain a better service .
    It was quite emotional to hear him try and explain he wanted to do good , but then so much now rests on getting it to work some years from now it will look quite different ,in part due to the new treatments . If the NHS cannot make its budget work then it will become unsustainable , it is as simple as that .

    In both speeches the age old problem of statecosts vs revenue has not been resolved , but it is a pointer that in future to allow state expendature to become so soviet style imbalanced is ,storing up a failiure . I noticed that somthing more about being in goverment had crept into the conference ,the politico mechanics had lost some ground to public service , it felt as though somthing a little more honest with the people had occured and perhaps with the party , somthing quite more sure about what good government is .The electorate perhaps have little reason to believe anything but all politicans are the same and in it for themselves only , after the last lot and some of the rash thirst by some of the new lot , but there was somthing there today that may have some hope . It would be wrong to say they had gone soft , far from it , they were just begining to understand that being in goverment is not the same as punching your clock card , or working just to be celebrity/famous , somthing coughed and spluttered about being in goverment , I think i saw the first whiffs off statemanship , if that translates as i hope then the PM might just restore both his parties and the countrys fortunes . If its just a posher version of crooks Rus and bugger britain , (as before) then politics will have failed , and one only needs to look at at lefty euro chums to see how that unfolds .

    I think conference has been quite a good effort in such dire circumstances ,2011 the conference that the conservatives knew what the palace of westminster meant , and heres a clue not what the vested interests want . I had to laugh Labours speech on the vested interests , bankrupting the country for massive vested interests of union funding , you could not make it up.

  35. 177
    Photo age says:

    Can’t understand BBC news. A massive pileup on the M6 killing many would get barely a mention but a chopper down in the Hudson with one death or a small Welsh mine collapse killing far far fewer takes over the News coverage of the day/week

    Could it be that the plod not allowing the news hounds to take shots of the M6 carnage has something to do with it?

  36. 180
    Legs Watch says:

    Who is that stunning blonde MILF in a micro skirt in the audience of Tory females on Newsnight right now??

  37. 181
    Legs Watch says:

    Clare Perry and Liz Truss in short skirts on Newsnight. They’ve got my vote.

  38. 185
    The Real story says:

    Guido, just what is the point of you blogging at party conferences?

    The MSM have produced both better phots and tales.

    You should have hung arround Westminster. When the rats are away the mice will play.

  39. 192
    A softening up. says:

    I have to say that Sarah Browns’ Tweets of late are announcing her separation from Gordon and who could blame her?

  40. 204
    Bye bye Euro. says:

    Here’s what I think. There is no way Divy is going to call for a referendum on Europe any time soon. It will affect market confidence and the Eurozone is so fragile, just about anything no matter how small can send it crashing. It could be the absolute end of the Euro, it will send the Global economy into a tailspin which will take over a decade to recover.
    Everyone is carefully tiptoeing around that heap of fiscal and political shit in Europe for their own self preservation.
    I think David Cameron will call for a referendum just before an election as they will be next to nowt sweeteners to bribe the voters and everyone knows being part of Europe is an expensive joke, every voter will want out of Europe. How can Tories refuse?

    • 206
      Trust in me says:

      I hope your right and that he’s playing the long game Mr Bye Bye Euro.

    • 212
      albacore says:

      Parliament’s got only a few weeks left to make good on the promise of a debate on a referendum.
      I wonder if Dave’s wondering whether he’s been set up as the fall guy while he’s spinning on that.

    • 221
      labourunionsbbc we are one says:

      It’s interesting to note how the socialists are begining to shift slightly anti euro, the B-bbc are alowing a few more dissenting voices, and didn’t one of the eagel ‘brothers’ speak out against it t’other day.

    • 236
      Anonymous says:

      Oh gd. Not the ” Dave’s a closet euroskeptic with a scret cunning plan ” crap again.

  41. 214
    Cameron is a Cunt says:

    so here we are

    having moved around the chairs on Brown’s Titanic we are beginning to move to the towards the exits before we all fal headlong into the cold dark ocean. there’s no way back from here for most of us as the tories are rapidly filling up the lifeboats

    this country is in deep deep shit and the tories don’t give a fuck. in my high street this week 3 more businesses are closing ….

    • 220
      marx is dead says:

      I can’t understand it! Thrteen years of social reconfiguration and economic ruin by the would be communists and the coalition can’t magic it good in a year!

      What the fukc are they doing.

      • 222
        The Piss Soaked Tramp Formally Known As TAT! says:

        The same hand is stuck up both parties arses controlling them.

        But then your conditioned to believe such a thing is just ‘conspiracy theories’ and both parties are so incompetent on purpose and not by design………

        • 225
          marx is dead says:

          I don’t believe in ‘conspiracy theories’ but do belive in irony.
          Clearly it’s the other way around for you.

  42. 218
    Lou Scannon says:

    Guido, you’re in our thoughts even when you’re not :
    http://www.xkcd.com/

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  44. 233
    Cameron is a Cunt says:

    “pay off credit cards for the sake of the economy, says David Cameron”

    we are and we’re paying off his as well – the man who doesn’t pay for anything, bastard

  45. 235



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