Fox Trotting: A Meeting In Every Port
London, Israel, Bahrain, Switzerland, Hong Kong, DC, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Qatar, Spain and Florida.
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
UKIP Official Policy Dept says:
Bloody foreigners, coming over here taking all our twitter followers
Fox has to go.
And i hope you accept my apology Guido?
Tedious.
Time for Foxy to Foxtrot Oscar – in what world does his relationship with Werritty even begin to look proper and above board?
Even Fox is entitled to have a sex life!
I’d like to defend him but this just looks like a continuation of New Liebour sleaze.
New broom and all that, ‘pour encourager les autres’ he needs to walk the plank.
Now Huhne, he should have walked the bloody plank months ago with an anvil round his scrawny neck but that’s for the Fib Dems I suppose.
Not at our expense.
Sack him, sack him now.
W.W.
How many more Adam Werrittys are there?
Is this the tip of the iceberg?
Whole lot of shredding going on.
Did Foxy take his WIFE? He must spend most of his life traveling a way from home. Cant be much of a marriage that eh? I know my Wife would have at least wanted to meet up on one of the Trips for a bit of you know what, DID HIS or is she not that interested?
From WIKI:
Fox was quoted as saying “I’m actually quite liberal when it comes to sexual matters. I just don’t want the gays flaunting it in front of me, which is what they would do.”
I hope that this statement clears up questions of his sexual disposition.
My Liam is not a fudge packer, though he does like pillows, marmite, gardening in a hilly environment and musicals.
I advise Fox to leave now.
Does this give me the right to print “Advisor to Rt. Hon. Dr. Liam Fox MP” on my business card.
I would like to know, because this could be a very nice little earner.
Do not give him oxygen
at least i am happy within my own skin.
Hiding your Sex preference and playing the hetrosexual card to garner support from the voters leaves the individual vunerable to Black mail and cohersion, from any quarter. Foreign intelligence agencies could use this to Control our foreign policy. Are They already?
oxygen of publicity or just oxygen?
DO you never Sleep?
Have to say that I wanted Fox to justify himself and prove his critics wrong. But he did not. He threw them even more meat.
It seems to be throwing his meat around that’s got the gentleman into this pickle.
Not that I’m suggesting Eric’s involved, you understand.
Yep. Treason, off with his head
This kind of taxpayer-funded ass-banditry must stop!!!
Time for Fox to resign
And so perish all Eurosceptics. Muahaha!
Fox is about as EUrosceptic as my dog. Sure he moans a bit about it, but he actually does nothing. Here boy, eurosceptic boy, ‘woof’! Good boy.
I agree – Fox should definitely go, and take his “flat mate” with him, but this time at his own expense!
However, it has to still be said that Twatson, Milibollocks and Balls are complete wankers and I’d rather have Dr Fox in power than any of them!
You are making the same mistake that all supporters of political parties make, Mark Jones, namely that we politicians are for the Party first and will criticise wrongdoing by anyone from any other Party even though we might be in a coalition. The reality is that we are for ourselves first, regardless of political Party and even more so if the criticised politician is a member of the Brotherhood. Additionally in my case, Katya’s trial starts this week. and if she is deported for spying, the media will start looking at me again, and, although I know, that as a member of the Brotherhood, I am safe within the system, if the press start investigating me and accusing me of being a Russian spy, I am going to need the support of Minister’s like Liam Fox. Boaz.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-hampshire/portsmouth_mp_backs_under_fire_defence_secretary_1_3136863?commentspage=0
Well said Handy. Here in Portsmouth we enjoy the gossip and look forward to the next instalment of the Katya saga. Funny thing that Liam Fox should have a friend called Werrity – he sounds like someone from a Dickens story – and we can appreciate that down here in Charles Dickens’ birthplace.
How come Fox has a flat mate ?
Surely a man in his position can afford a new bicycle pump.
Is he a manservant?
Like Jeeves and Wooster?
So his feet were under the table soon after the green hornet took power, well I never, one would think we would have some serious security issues on this deal.
Jim Murphy is full of synthetic outrage about breaking the Ministerial Code, but I thought that Labour were themselves quite relaxed about that sort of thing? Prescott, for example, was Deputy PM and shagged a junior Civil Servant in the office, in office hours – an extreme abuse of his office, ‘Ministerial Code’ blown out of the window, yet kept his title, salary, grace and favour home, and was elevated to the Lords. Murphy should wind his neck in.
He also played Croquet which in Labour circles is a far worse crime than shagging your (female)Diary Secretary
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown Fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick white Fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick white Fox jumps over the Labour dog.
Damn! I’ll start again….
Post lost in post, Have the union took over Order-Order?
Ok, So if he had shagged lots of woman at every port you would all be calling him a stud.
The homophobia and smears and lies (Aides) bring sadness to me.
Guido, Have a think and explain those cartoon comments please.
What was that line again? “Feel free to take a full refund etc etc…”
He didn’t shag lots of men he allegedly shagged one. This isn’t about homophobia dipstick this is about abuse of his position.
Doesn’t being married fairly recently and cheating on your wife by having lots of bum-fun with your strapping young boy-chum seem untrustworthy? What about using your influence – in contradiction of MoD and ministerial guidelines – to benefit your boyfriend financially? Not make you unfit for office?
He married me for love, or was it to help him win the tory leadership?
Billy. Its Not about being Gay, Its about living a lie. That Lie can be used to Blackmail any Minister. If you hold power unfortunately you cant have things that you dont want in the public domain as this gives leverage to those who would want to control you.
That is why Cabinets are full of people living a lie as the STATE uses it to muzzle them.
Israel, Bahrain, Switzerland, Hong Kong, DC, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Qatar, Spain and Florida.
Classic Mcguire and Peirce
One line today quoted the PM as saying “he wanted to bazooka the EU financial problem” he perhaps was refering to the fire power needed to fend of the contagion , but just in case hes adopted a more agressive approach to the whole dam thing , I will volunter to carry a flame thrower , to help cut those beurocratic expenses .
Funny isnt it no one has suggested ,how a 50% cut in the EU budget may bring about instantanious growth to all EU contries and save the world , come on Van romphoy wadda yer say !
“Bazooka the EU financial problem” probably just means he’s going patch up the gaping holes in EU fiscal policy with bubblegum.
EU fiscal policy = transfer of bank debt to taxpayers.
Why did none of the MPs think to ask him WHY he is such a close friend of Adam Werritty?
Would they understand the reply? None of them know what real friendship is.
It is a lonely life. I for instance miss my Billy. Oh the times we had!
Aye, reckon you’re right there lad, there is something odd about a married man living with another man, while still married to a lavender lady. Of course sharing holidays, hotel rooms is and putting young male friends on the public payroll, is all above board ‘appen.
Hi there Willy, how is Ffion these days, she was always in the news a few years ago when you first got married, still she does deserve her privacy.
ffion who?
Theres two obvious answers.
Heres a different one:
Werrity’s companies were pretty damn lucrative-to pay out for all those air fares- weren’t they?
What valuable information does Werritty have on Fox, I wonder?
Look, he made a mistake, and deserves a second chance.
(Copyright: D. Cameron)
How many second chances does he deserve, Mr Camewrong ?
Well all the Tories seem quite happy with his explanation, they did not feel that it was right to dig further, most gave their unqualified backing to Reynard, besides Dave gave him his backing.
That was before the increased number of “accompanied trips” was revealed by Dr Liam’s Civil Servants at MoD……..
Christ, I take my hat off to Foxy! Even I wouldn’t have had the balls to have my bum boys around on so much company time!
Especially in an Islamic country?
Who paid the fares and hotels you should be asking me thinks!
Money is clearly behind this.
Never mind Brer Fox, Brother Dave has bigger fish to fry.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047650/David-Cameron-Women-jobs.html
‘nearly half of the most successful companies still do not have a single woman on their boards.’
I don’t know but could it possibly be that that is why they are the most successful companies ?
Don’t fuck blame them, as soon as you employ one they go get up the fucking duff and fuck off while costing you an arm and a fucking a leg for the trouble.
*ing
Ruth Kelly.
Four brats in ten years, much of it as a ‘minister’
with all the associated maternity leave paid by the taxpayers.
Nice.
And where will Dave get those talented women from, do you reckon?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047685/Three-quarters-bosses-say-graduates-fit-work.html
Boardrooms don’t take people straight out of university.
Unlike politics.
“could it possibly be that that is why they are the most successful companies”
yes
The last Tory politician to resign on a matter of principle was, I believe, Lord Carrington – and his resignation occurred around a quarter of a century ago.
No Tory politician these days is concerned about matters of principle, and indeed one has to wonder whether they are even dimly aware of the meaning of the phrase. The Shadow Defence Secretary was perfectly correct in describing Fox’s conduct as ‘driving a coach and horses through the ministerial code.’ For that reason alone any decent Minister would resign, and no decent Tory backbencher would do anything but agree with the necessity for such a resignation.
The conduct of Fox and the Tory backbenches, and indeed Cameron himself, is just appalling in the face of Fox’s utterly untenable position. The Tories can’t see it, but the public can – and the public can also see the immense damage this matter is doing to a party which has evidently forgotten nothing and learned nothing from the Westminster corruption scandals.
Hear, hear !!
“The last Tory politician to resign on a matter of principle was, I believe, Lord Carrington”
Carrington actually resigned because effectively either he had to or Thatcher had to.
For some reason he felt that the person who had warned of the danger and was not responsible for the consequence should resign, and the ignorant, thick as pig shit cυnt who created the mess should not.
Jonathan Aitken resigned on a matter of principle in 1995.
The fact he was prepared to commit perjury to back up this principle is unfortunate.
And you are a vile misogynist who is clearly frightened to death of clever, powerful women.
Twatson’s resigned a few times, but not on matter of principle though, on pure self-serving fatty unionised motives!
Then again, he did land Liebour with Brown, and hell as it was to get though 2007-2010 it’s meant Liebour are in the dustbin now!
Good riddance
The neverending saga of the Conservative’s Neverending Family values.
With regard to WerrittyGate, I assume Fox is not pushing back anymore…….
Of course not
I am behind him
it is about time that we had a law to increase the representation of heterosexuals in the cabinet. They must be a minority by now. A bit of positive discrimination is in order please.
Oh, you dirty Huhne!
Don’t tell me that Toenails was “spluttering” !
After frequenting al these bums for 20 years…(and saying nothing)
Or perhaps it’s because the truth is coming out despite the Lobby coverups for 25 years…!
He does’t fox trop like I do with my Duchesses
Liked Jeff Randall’s comment(last night on Sky)when that MOD had released details of Fox’s 70 plus meetings with Mr W in exotic places…..” Seventy Times !!!! I haven’t spoken to my wife THAT many times and I’m MARRIED ! What CAN he mean ??
This is getting to be like a Carry on Film……..
Good old Jeff! He’s brilliant at what he does, same as Brillo. Says what he thinks.
He’s a beard!
Sorry, I meant his wife. She’s the beard.
Has anyone else noticed the good Dr’s odd gait, as if he’s walking tentatively on ice ??
It’s a kind of Fox’s glacial mince.
And come to think of it ….Iain Dale has been very supportive of Fox …
they go back a long way
It’s funny how my civil servants never noticed, isn’t it?
Until he started making them redundant…..
It’s suprising what skeletons jump out of the cupboards when your thinking of making uncivil servants redundant.
How can they be so stupid as to think that no-one is ever going to stop, question, and eventually realise that something is not right? Does the power go to their heads, and they think that because they are ministers, no-one will dare question them as to what is going on?
It looks like Fox is being stalked by this guy.
The Wikipedia article on Liam Fox is worth reading and does throw a a little light on himself, worth reading, I know people can alter the entries as Guido knows and everything written is not necessarily true, but does throw light on the matter. Must say good of him to rise from relatively humble beginnings to becoming a doctor as for MP, it’s the votes that do it.
My word. A politician that hasn’t got a degree in bollocks. Although they must have been on the syllabus.
When does the mass deportation of immigrants commence?
When we have a blue moon, when pigs are seen flying around parliament, we know pigs trough there, but none have been seen flying .
RFLMAO…….about the same time as that EU Rewferendum mate !!!
I have no fear. I will still be here when this government falls. And so will my 6 wives and 27 children.
Another politician hanging on by his fingernails!
How long is this one going to draw out the misery before belatedly finding his honour and integrity and resigning?
I had hoped we were done with all this sort of self-serving sleaze when labour slunk off into the hinterland in 2010!
well nell, you know what thought did …….
yes he thought his feet were hanging out of bed, so got out to take a look.
Look at this and be cynical. If Fox had resigned yesterday, colleagues would have said that “he did the honourable thing”, and “he still has a future”, etc. Cameron did not give his “full support”, but encouraged Fox to continue – for now. By the time this has dragged on for another couple of weeks, with more revelations, Fox will have as much of a political future as Neil Hamilton.
So, Cameron encourages a political rival to destroy himself completely, but then claims credit for not “rushing to judgement”.
Last week was dominated by one political cat story. This week another one: “Dr Fox gives his cat a mite too much cream.” ;-D
Fox needs to go!
I don’t dislike him or find his political views particularly objectionable, but this is a gross failure on his part, as a holder of public office. Is he in a relationship with Mr Werritty? I don’t really care! Some people may care: his wife, and the gay rights lobby, given Fox’s voting record, but this is not an issue. What is an issue is Mr Werritty’s backdoor key to the Ministry of Defence, which wouldn’t be an issue if Werritty was a payroll adviser….his unfettered and unofficial access at all levels is doubly unacceptable, when compounded with his history of commercial interests, including the promotion of US industry.
Fox presided over the SDSR, Strategic Defence and Security Review, which saw the scrapping of two key British capabilities: ASTOR/Sentinel (delivered under cost!) and Nimrod MRA4, the latter of which was delivered by the British aerospace industry. This will create two capability gaps …. will Britain gap-fill by buying or leasing from the United States as for the C-17? Will Werritty line his pockets by brokering such a deal? Highly unlikely … but these are the sort of questions that would be asked of such a relationship, and a ministerial appointment cannot survive this questioning.
Liam Fox is the new Profumo. Dave should bite the bullet and sack him now, rather than leave it to the media to milk the story to its last drop over the weeks and months to come.
I think Ive found a great picture for the caption competition!
courtesy of the guardian no less.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/10/liam-fox-ministry-of-defence-adam-werritty
My caption is … Werritty says…. “come on stop being a tease, either swallow or spit it out.”
Fox is surely a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZmfCQh0mS4
Classic case of a smart man shitting in his own nest. As Mr Thompson once said…
In the good old days of politics a minister acting in a similar manner to Fox would have resigned but these days there is no honour. Dave just cannot see the harm this issue is doing to the Torys and his leadership.
Of course he can see. He has no moral principles, no political philosophy, and no judgement. But he does KNOW!
Makes you embarrassed to have voted Tory, but I would say that, wouldn’t I?
We should not single out Fox from the quagmire of the Tory Party – he is better than most of his colleagues, both morally and politically. Cameron has helped to cover up far worse cases than this, and his approach seems to be whether the culprit is a Cameroon or not.
If Fox goes, 80% of the Cabinet should go.
Keep Fox! As they are all corrupt and immoral, what doe it matter.
On the scale of badness, Fox is at the top of the mild end, so he should be one of the last to go. The bottom end, including Cameron, should go first.
It’s not just expenses and dodgy business deals, the worst thing about limp-wristed bottom feeders like Fox is the way he stands up in parliament and vehemently attacks gay rights legislation.
Hypocrisy is the crime.
As for that other bottom feeder Werrity, he should get a fucking job and stop sponging off the Tory party and the tax payer.
Just as well Fox isn’t married to Huhne’s ex. She’d know how to dob in a gay love rat.
What’s curious about the print-out is that Werrity is mentioned in several places as NOT being present. Why would that be?
In view of the fact that the Liebour Party is well catered for in the gay scene; one has to ask why are they getting their knickers in an almighty twist over the peccadillos of Liam Fox? As the LP is well known for its habit of “burying” bad news, I was minded to search for the shit – it did not take long; on page two of today’s Daily Telegraph there is the reason “20 MPs to be named in the latest round of the Expenses scandal……..”
The tory party always promotes its bottom feeders and whey sippers far above their ability so as to pretend it’s not anti gay.
The labour party dislikes its gays even more, but there are so many of them in the party they have no choice.
The lib dem party is entirely made up of them .
The house of conmen consists of 650 shysters, charlatans, scumbags and scalliwags, all of whom appear to be scoundrels.
What is euphemistically referred to as ‘the upper house’ contains 792 identical scum. Notice I make no mention of deviancy or foreign origin.
They all, to a man, and beard or dyke need remedial treatment and/or re-education.
I recommend tarring, feathering, hanging, drawing and quartering then head on pike on Westminster bridge. Pour encourager etc.
I think everyone is missing the point including the press, especially the press in fact!
So journalists and Nick Robinson were totally unware of Liam Fox’s travel plans. They actually didnt realise he had travelled to all these places? Come on, either our press are idiots or they are not doing their job right.
Secondly to layer that thought in, they were not area that Liam Fox had his best freind in tow AND that his best freind attended , took part and in some cases arranged the meetings. Frankly if I were a Newspaper proprietor or a TV executive I would be hauling in my political editors and asking them what the fuck is going on. The biggest story in political terms with potential implications and it was left to a video being posted of Sri Lankan TV, I ask you, how do these editors justify their salaries??. Or has it,as is likely that they have grown lazy and just work from the politiocal party /government press breifings?
Thirdly, what I have not seen so far is the following
1. How does Adam Werritty earn money? simple question, he spends all the time arranging and accompanying Liam Fox and has cards printed to state he is Liam Fox’s advisor. So I presume he is getting paid
2. Who pays for the travel of Adam Werritty, does he pay for himself or Liam Fox privately or is it the taxpayer?, In addition, who paid for the stationery, that is the cards handed out by Adam Werritty, himself?, Liam Fox privately? or the Taxpayer?
3. If Adam Werritty pays for his own travel, accomadation and stationery, how does he recover these costs? Is it Liam Fox privately or the Taxpayer?
Finally why havn’t the press made the obvious connection with ‘The Atlantic Bridge’
the so called charity that Adam Werritty ran out of Liam Fox’s office that Liam Fox was a member as well as Malcolm Rifkind (who bounce up yesterday in the Hof C to support Liam Fox) and links to David Cameron and other Tory MP’s as well as Maggie Thatcher (or did the press think it was a concidence that Thatcher turned up at Fox’s 50th birthday bash)
Some required reading
http://www.brianmoylan.info/theatlanticbridge/
http://www.brianmoylan.info/blog.php?blogid=203
The Atlantic Bridge’s principal staff include Catherine Bray (US Executive Director), Adam Werritty (UK Executive Director) and Kara Watt (Operations Director).
The reason why Liam Fox hasnt been made to resign or be fires is he knows more and the risl to the Tories is to great, all roads lead to and through the Atlantic Bridge organisation
http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=2008_Annual_Meeting_Exhibitors
Interesting address for The Atlantic Bridge entry
Oh dear
The Atlantic Bride that was supposed to be a charity, by the charity commission revoked its charity status
http://www.w4mp.org/html/personnel/jobs/disp_job.asp?ref=20122
So where does the money come from?
Tories cant pretend not to be aware or know about Atlantic Bridge
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/catherine_bray/
tories are well aware of the Atlantic Bridge.Osborne,gove and Hague have all been on its advisory panel.Also one of its directors now works in no10 (kath fall) as an advisor whilst another one of Camerons staff,his press secretary, used to work for atlantic bridge! So the tentacles from this organisation are everywhere.