Foxed
When even his friends are openly speculating about his successor you know Fox is in real trouble. Still a chance to back him at evens to be the next to go…
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Ken let the cat out of the bag about Ed on 10 o’Clock Live last night:
“He is genuinely a socialist. And that is why I am delighted we finally got one because we haven’t had one for some time leading the Labour Party.”
Private Eye says:
Exclusive: Guidogram going out shortly.
Hunted down by the chickens
Old speckled hen.
Such a shame…
I like Liam Fox, but his actions here are inexcusable for a man in his position and actually border on utter stupidity. When in public life, one should always keep one’s catamite at arms length.
So, what do we reckon – gone by next Friday?
Not sure about this one, maybe there’s more to this. Why would he take such a risk when he would have known the Labour attack dogs would be out. Sonn be time to announce Tom Watson’s dirty big secret!
From the stories going around it seems Fox and his wife have separate life. We should need to know whether his marriage is real?
Once he’s quit Parliament for being a liar, who really cares what sort of a family he spends more time with? I don’t.
I think it’s not just Labour’s attack dogs.
Any conservative minister in the Tory Party should be watching their back, the Fabians are well established now.
Fux got married to have a pop at Tory leadership
I think that is probably true after all Gordoon got married late on, so did William but neither were elected anyway, I think Grocer Ted was the only bachelor in fairly recent times to become PM.
Quite right Nemo. The suggestion I was a homosexual was also quite prevalent at the time – but in my day the rumours did not originate from inside the MoD. Hee! Hee! Hee!
We must be careful about jumping to conclusions. I understand that in conservative circles it is traditional for an older, married man to take a young impressionable and academically average Edinburgh University graduate under his wing and help him on his way. These arrangements are, of course, entirely innocent and you should be ashamed of yourselves for your filthy minds.
Why is Weritty the “go to guy” for doing procurement deals. Please explain Mr Foxy Fox.
All this talk makes me want to kick out.
Does Fox believe in sex in the marriage?
Do you realise what a cretin your posts here make you look? Didn’t think so.
Nowadays who gives a monkey’s if he is AC, DC or AC/DC as long as the partner/friend is not involved in government business
Does he bite the pillow though? Let’s just hope that no dogs die in vain over this, Rinka was surely enough.
Good riddance.
Hmm. Evens, you say?
When will they learn that ‘onesty is the best policy. One law for us and one for them…what about ONE LAW for all!!
Agreed. Total honesty will ultimately conquer all.
BTW- Is that your real name, Kered?
Is there a split infinitive in there?
Fuck knows.
He sure does!
>Is there a split infinitive in there?
You’ll have to ask Dr Fox’s little friend that one. Can be very painful and takes ages to heal, so I hear.
I understand it’s a little mole. One can never be too careful about them – nasty habit of turning cancerous.
The trick is to use lots of KY. Gay Gordon the Grim Gurner never did, he was too mean to buy any, hence poor little Edwina Millipede’s weird appearance. Anyone would look odd after a session of the clunking fist.
Forget it. Their own expenses system has them totally foxed despite umpteen revisions.
The only law in which they enjoy complete proficiency is Murphy’s.
That would not do for today’s politicians why do you think they have so many get out clauses in legislation, acts of parliament look like Swiss cheeses – full of holes
It is the lying that I find so disheartening, dear.
The underlying lack of integrity goes further than lying because he’s been caught.
In my long experience, I have found that the teller of untruths is fundamentally debased as a human being whether they are found out or not, dear.
On that basis, I have a little confession to make:
My moniker is somewhat outdated and I am now eighty three and three quarters.
That OK, Elsie, we all love you anyway.
Would you Adam & Leave it?
I think you’ll find it’s Adam & Steve.
I wonder which one gives it and which one takes it?
Time to accept that we have a Dead Fox on our hands.
It is much more fun speculating about his replacement…
Fun? You’re easily amused then.
Ahh, the baying mobs. Just typical in this media obsessed chavvy country that when somebody makes a mistake or misjudgement the mobs of self righteous twats will bay for punishment to lighten up their own sad little lives.
In the absence of our government actually practicing the democracy they pretended they were going to bring back in this country, what is left except laughing at the downfalls of each of these disingenuous cretins?
Sinn Fein’s Culture Minister (a convicted IRA terrorist) employs a convicted murderer as her advisor…on £90000 a year on the public purse.
Not a word said.
Not if you want to keep your kneecaps. They haven’t gone away you know.
Are you referring to the arseholes who are currently ruining the place, or the last lot of incompetent thieves? Either way they only deserve contempt, respect has to be earned.
The last lot were competent thieves, to the tune of billions.
So this means they are going to have to break into another six pack of mediocre politicians to replace him.
A terrible loss and other meaningless platitudes etc.
A total waste of fucking pixels and supremely boring, apart from the gay bashing jokes which always make me laugh
and if this is the standard for a Minister to resign then every minister over last 15 years should have resiigned.
Well you would say that, wouldn’t you, bitch?
Gays rather like p*e*e*d*o’s do tend to cover each others backs and sympathise with the self inflicted failings of fellow shitchute munching colleagues inordinately. Anyway Fox is a complete c*nt and hypocrite whichever way you look at the limp wristed member.
surely only the one on top can cover the others back??
Keep the faith Guido.
Huhney Tunes tweet did him no favours.
They do say too many tweets make a twat after all!
saying coincedence he happened to meet business people at dinning room same hotel—is a resigning issue right there
LIE thats to stupid to even think its possible
There was a gay tory called Fox,
Whose career was on course for the rocks.
The defence of the realm
With him at the helm,
Was less about weapons
Than cocks.
The bigger issue here surely is whether they can find anyone full of their own sense of self-importance to replace him.
Just about on-topic
The “New Seekers on Steroids” may well have saved their best till last. This was released at the height of the punk phenomenonem. Substitute the word “love” for “power” and you have the mantra of every modern day politician.
For anyone trawling back through the comments, enjoy this curio.
Interesting mini-thread. In the mid-seventies I was having the time of my life shagging some pug that went by the name of Janet.
Fortunately for me, at the moment of actuality, she either didn’t notice or didn’t care that I, invariably, shouted “Ooooh, Brian.”
She was probably thinking the same, for all I know. He did, eventually, succumb to the ravages of time and my huge obsession wilted.
Here’s a reminder of why my mind was elsewhere, Janet:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0OgTYlZeGU&w=420&h=315%5D
Superior version of the post at 1304, sir.
Ah, cant he come with us? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvLj72apGLI
Liam Fox is toast,trust me.
I have managed to stake an even £10,000 just now.
Get in there
Right wing, anti EU, state educated, Thatcherite, non PPE Tory, in trouble.
Oh how convenient. Another vacancy to be filled by one of Call Me Dave’s identikit Nottinghillbilly clones, or drones.
He has turned out to be unsuited for public office due to basic dishonesty. If he cared about any of the stuff you say he believes in, or even his own reputation, he would have gone about his life by being an honest man and thus denied his political enemies the opportunities they can now take.
Undoubtedly Dave will fill Fox’s position with an identikit SDP socialist-lite, tory poseur, that’s a given. However, claiming Fox is anything but a self regarding poseur and fraud is a bit of a stretch. Other than moan a little about our absorbtion into the fascist EU superstate, what has he actually done to prevent it? From where I see it, precious little.
Eton tick, Oxford tick, wet and socialist lite tick, wanky name like Roderick James Nugent Stewart tick, insult constituents tick. ‘Rory’ Fuckwit Stewart MP Penrith and Borders to be Min of Def. Any offers?
You called ?
To be honest, I think my outrage valve burst some time ago when it comes to the behaviour of our MPs and I just can’t be arsed to get in a flap about whatever it is Fox is supposed to have done.
Isn’t the economy in a bit of a mess ? Aren’t the Tories chucking out members for daring to agree with the EDL ? What shit have Ed Balls and rising twat Chukka come out with this week ? Chukka was on top knobber form on Radio 5 earlier this week.
Silly silly man. Labour should watch their own backs – they swim in the same fetid Westminster Bubble. There may be the smell of corruption around, but the stench of hypocrisy is far greater.
What a silly huhne fox is. One cannot help but wonder whether he belongs to the Butch 14 Pint Hague Society.
I am beginning to wonder if there is a single straight in parliament ? Or is every member blessed with a beard or in the case of horrendously white creatures such as harriet hormone, blessed with a eunuch?
And, lately, one suspects that all’straights’ at the bbc,(if you can find any) are really quite bent.
Quite understandably the Labour Party are milking this for all it is worth, but my feeling is that, party advantage aside, none of the politicians think this is a serious matter, since it is part of normal behaviour.
Not in respect of Fox, just consider as a generality.
MP has boyfriend/mistress/ nubile slavic spy who he allows to cash in on his influence and generally feather their nests at taxpayers expense, while setting up dodgy deals with wealthy unsavoury third parties to their, rather than the taxpayer’s advantage.
One metric [good, eh?] is the HWE.
The HME [Housing Worth Escalator] is the ratio of the worth of their present house compared to the hovel they had when they started up the greasy slope.
Accepted figures:
5. Total failure- cannon fodder- dick head too interested in constituents.
10. ‘Honest’ plodder not really up to the cut and thrust of troughing.
15. Shows promise but needs to ditch the remaining vestiges of decency.
200. Epic performance, reached only by a few.
This aspect of Cons disturbs me, when I vote for ‘em. They have this propensity to attract some VERY dodgy friends!…………. even dodgier than LibDims……..
But the LibDims are more into enhanced masturbation……….
I think they are both quite cute
I wonder who Wavey Davey has in mind for Fox’s job? Another one of his wet lettuce Bullingdon mates or a Cleggy no-mark? Either way it’ll be another overpromoted fucking amateur who’ll do what Cameron will tell him. No room for independent thinkers in Davey’s government.
I wish there was a backbencher with some backbone who could mount a leadership challenge to the Heir to Heath. I have a feeling that Dave might not be as popular within the party as he thinks he is.
Gweedo, where were you on this story the last few months?
Dead tree press were on this way before you, the guardian were on it back in August…. You only seem to touch on it when it became unavoidable, ‘gossip and tittle tattle’ on this subject has been rife for a good while
Btw is it a reflection on the quality of discourse on this site that the last comment of the day you deemed worthy of the title is now getting on for two weeks old?
Hmmmmm……., where were you on this story the last few months?
Dead tree press were on this way before you, the guardian were on it back in August…. You only seem to touch on it when it became unavoidable, ‘gossip and tittle tattle’ on this subject has been rife for a good while
Btw is it a reflection on the quality of discourse on this site that the last comment of the day you deemed worthy of the title is now getting on for two weeks old?
You have to be careful of the source of this story. There is very little evidence but a lot of malice from the reporters.
In this day and age only an Upper Class male can have a true male friend.
The evidence is Liam Fox is not Upper Class.
I’m not talking about whether he’s gay which has been discussed for getting on for 7 years in the papers , I’m talking about the readily available facts about his relationship with Mr Werrity – his being a health consultant whilst his friend Dr Fox was shadow health secretary, before becoming a defence ‘consultant’ at the time his friend Dr Fox became a Defence secretary, before he brokered a meeting in the middle east which dragged him into getting involved in a blackmail lawsuit.
btw you’re very much on the wrong site if you’re concerned about gay smears with little evidence
Fox off to the backbenches?
There’s something about a soldier I always say.
Top quality brown-nosing, and I should know.
We must also have a change in the titles and honorifics now being applied to the turds that float to the top of this sea of scum, which, since it is made up of Blue Tories, Red Labour and that other Yellow bunch, appears the colour of a sea of shit in Bombay.
Fox is never “Right” in any understood sense, and the application of “Honourable” to this particular sack of ordure makes mockery of the English language.
I note with amusement that the DM has changed the following article’s headline so the `You’re a Liar’ is now in quotes – lawyers working up their overtime bill.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046929/Liam-Fox-allegations-Defence-minister-pressure-Adam-Werrittys-job.html
Will Werritty follow Fox into obscurity, or will he try to cling on with a new round of influence peddling and fake charity scams?
I fear the worst. A £10 bet now wins £31. In this banana republic Fox will be forgiven and carry on.
So to sum up, they’re all crooks except the Blessed Ian?
An organised crime model can both explain and predict behaviour in Westminster.
Organised?
No “ifs” no “buts” – Fox and his wife should be evicted from their free flat, and denied the right to claim any kind of state benefit, social housing, or medical treatment for a minimum of three years – and longer if there is any actual evidence against them.
What with all of these gay rumours, it makes you wonder where it will all end:
http://funnypictures.co.uk/post/3338718230/david-cameron
Good to see a Tory Defence Minister being extravagant with the Werrity.