Exclusive: Ed Blocking Twigg’s PAd Choice
Guido’s eyes and ears in Norman Shaw South report that there is a bit of a ding-dong going on between newly appointment Education shadow Stephen Twigg and the leadership. Twigg, who has reversed Labour’s policy against free-schools, is trying to have fellow Blairite and Lambeth councillor Alex Bigham installed as his, short-money funded, “Senior” Political Advisor. Guido called Alex who confirmed he has not yet been appointed and he couldn’t get off the phone quick enough. Sources point to some comments made during the leadership campaign about Ed, as well as some unease about having another Blairite “right-winger” in the team. Guido would recommended Ed develops a thicker skin…
UPDATE: Bigham denies the rift and expects to be appointed soon. Sensible…
Ferrits in a sack?
Seems like a nice boy.
Cameron = Black Wednesday = Disaster
We had a Black Wednesday every week with that ‘kin idiot Gordon Brown.
and its become worse under idiot Osborne.
When the Euro crisis really comes to a head, it’ll get a lot worse. Osborne has very little he can do about it, because (to quote Liam Byrne) there’s no money left.
3 billion lost on Black Wednesday, 7 billion due to gold sale. I rest my case.
and 100 of billion on council house / flat sale.
Black wednesday cost sbout 4-5 billion.
Gordons gold sale eclipses that 3 times.
(Labour agreed with Tories on ERM)
How much discounts on Council House / Flat sale cost?
Not on the “Blame Thatcher” mode again?
A lot less than has been given away in ‘Housing Benefit’.
Housing Benefit on council houses goes back to the government. I also support the idea of stopping Housing Benefit after 10 years.
But giving 50% discount was a stupid waste, these houses / flats could have been sold in the open market and most of these people could have been moved to areas like Hull where the price of on house in Westminster could have been used to build the entire street.
The council house sales saved an enormous amount of public money because it meant that the owners of the houses looked after them at their own cost, rather than the Council skimping on maintenance and then running up huge repair bills (or, in practice, dumping the properties on to the private sector).
If would have made billions if sold on the open market and ex tenants were given houses in areas like Hull, government could have even given it for free in areas like Hull.
Anonymous, if you’ve been told once, you’ve been told a million times – don’t exaggerate.
Most ex-council houses sold at full market value in the ’80s (when most were sold) would fetch about £10,000 to £20,000 apiece at most. Let’s say a million were sold (almost certainly an exaggeration). So that’s £20 billion at most, certainly not the £100 billion you claim. Also, remember that the taxpayer did get a payment for those sold, so the ‘loss’ to the taxpayer is significantly less than that.
Why weren’t the receipts from council house sales used to build more council or housing association houses or flats. That way rents in the private sector wouldn’t have sky rocketed and house prices might have flatlined instead of constantly rising (in London at least).
Ex council flats in Westminster are changing hands for over one million even now. Just in Westminster 100 of billions were lost.
Engineer, please don’t try to cover up what happened.
Anonymous – In case you hadn’t noticed, most of the country isn’t in Westminster.
In 1985, a three-bed semi in a normal northern town – nice area, not council estate – cost about £25,000. The council houses and flats were worth a lot less than that.
3 bed council semi up north: I bet theres some pushing £200k these days.
But thats a pretty silly game to be playing. Presumably if they’d kept the houses for the past 25 years they wouldnt want to sell them now. And you could complain that they hadn’t sold them in 2005.
It would be strange to want the councils to keep the houses for decades just to be able to make more now.
Oh dear anonymong, it’s nice to see you’re on the ball as usual.
The Prime Minister’s Nepalese nanny would not have been able to work for him under the Government’s proposed changes to visa rules, it was claimed yesterday
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049925/PMs-nanny-wouldnt-able-work-new-visa-rules.html#ixzz1b3HKgLjF
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Heard that Twigg bloke on the TV the other day. Came across as a very sensible and reasonable chap. He agrees with a lot that Gove is doing, not at all like his boss who opposes everything just for opposing’s sake.
nice line in friends too – could he find a position for me?
Wanker falls out with wonker.
Your “eye and ears”
Gordon Brown?
Is there enough people left in the world who haven’t ‘said something’ about Milliband, to fill all the labour party (and outlaying regions) Jobs?
*giggles*
Just call me if he needs a good vetting.
Never mind this. What is Watson up to ??????
Leaf it out, you’re barking up the wrong tree.Twigg’s from a different branch.
Not that old chestnet again, a very wooden delivery. I pine for better jokes…
Well, wood you believe it. Could really do with someone competent at the ‘elm, not some willowy whippersnapper who hasn’t had their political cherry popped, ash it were…
It’s acorny line, delivered by some bark and I’m knot that bothered whether I get to the root of this comment.
Please whittle me into something electable.
I pine for the days of the decent pun!
A rampant terrapin?
Yew just get the feeling that Miliband’s team has more sawdust than stardust. He’s just not that poplar.
He’s a sapling. You can quote me on that.
*Waves at the adverts*
I sometimes listen to “sorry I havent got a clue”, just because they seem to be enjoying themselves so much.
I’d like to end up in a care home like that.
Red Ed got a good roughing up on the PM show when asked why he had done nothing on lobbying when he “was in office”. Mair had done his homework and hand wringing Ed had to admit he could have done more and better.
Of course in the follow up BBC news the soundbite was of Red Ed compaining of government inaction, not his admission to being an incapable pillock.
Not a SpAd which are exclusive to government but a PAD (political advisor). Not that it really matters much.
How about ‘minion’. Or ‘henchperson’. (Bet Hattie’s got some of those.)
Homunculus?
I would like to bet that Liam Fox fancies Alex as much as Stephen Twigg does.
Nope!
too pretty
Leanne likes big butch millitary types
He even volunteered to do millitary examinations*
Anybody here who has been stupid enough to take the queens shilling knows that you are examined by a middle aged GP(male) who gropes your balls
Leanne Fox likes his men to be butch and shaven headed
*When you are lucky you get a nurse(usualy a MILF)
So he takes it then. I always wondered.
Dave rides the tube.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049939/David-Cameron-poses-photo-tube-passenger-failed-recognise-him.html
I bet the front bottom had a good shower and burnt his clothes afterwards
I would also wager that frey bentos face and his entourage didnt cough up for the fare
If you need “advice” chances are you are not up to a spot of thinking
From the look of the twink methinks his only advice will be vaseline V’s KY
If you want a hint vaseline is best for anal (man on woman) play that or e 45 (doesnt rot condoms)
Q ueerze are probably different, they enjoy the risk of a good hard beaaar backing that may resilt in an arse injected death sentence..
and in other news, the bastard MPs have just given themselves 5 extra days off – because they were recalled during the summer
that makes a total of 87 days off in the next year
what is the point of these thieves????
The more holiday they have the less damage they can do.
And you can fuck off as well
Who invited you here?
Just what have you lot given us?????
A book of smutty wank cartoons and curry, and now we are- thanks to frey bentos dave-about to see the first pound shop on the moon
sorry
link : http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23999214-skiving-mps-want-another-holiday.do
look on the positive side, if we didnt have them you wouldnt come here and no fucker would click on a virgin ad for a trip to las vegas nor spunk your wealth away with nation wide
can they take another 360 days off? leaving us alone to get on with recovering the economy.
“Straight” Catholics are the largest purchaser-group of KY Jelly, the water-based lubricant of choice for anal pleasure-seekers.
This product is especially popular amongst the clergy. Bugger me if I know why.
Yeah its a dead give away in Boots
The whiff of incense, the rosary the furtive looks
Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.( under our breath)
12 pack of johnies and E45
Yes … but wait until the Second Coming.
“ding-dong going on between newly appointment”
Dear oh dear.
That Kate Marley (moving from being Cameron’s diary secretary to the Cabinet Office) looks quite fit:
http://tinyurl.com/6ad6vcy
Grey, grey, black and grey?
Oh lawks! You make it sound rather like the Foxtrot!
Good job we all have different tastes, another one coming from nowhere to stardom, has Camoron reached the bottom of the barrel or is just pandering to his bankers.
Are you fucking gay?
It looks like a skinny teenage boy
Fuck all tits, spindly legs looks to be of dubious ethinic origin, wears flat shoes probably smokes and has a stinky front bottom
Say one thing for Presscock he only ever pulled well padded council house dwelling fuck over the desk whilst checking Blackberry hoooo ers
He’s a wierdo. He fancies humans.
Does she have a mask on?
Twigg is going out on a limb?
Twigg snaps in slight breeze
Time for some root and branch reform of Labour education policy!
Take a bough for that one.
I cedar point of your joke…
“UPDATE: Bigham denies the rift and expects to be appointed soon. ”
Pheeww.
*Stops moving stuff into the Anderson Shelter*
Daily Mail frontpage headlines
Monday: TORY MP EATS BABY ALIVE
Tuesday: DAVE CLEANS NO 10 WHEELIE BIN WITH CHAMPAGNE
Wednesday: TORY COST SAVING PLAN: BURY YOUR OWN DEAD
Thursday: ED MILIBAND MAKES PMQS DAVE CRY
Friday: TORIES SQUANDER BROWN LEGACY
Saturday: XFACTOR SHOW SHOCKER TONIGHT
Sunday: PETER ANDRE: HOW I NEARLY DIED
Sorry Daily Mirror Headlines
I should think so.
Who stole our utilities? Tory traitors.
Define “Tory”, if you can.
I’m one of your laugh-a-minute, nominal Tories. Use me as a reference point.
… Just have a shit, describe what you see and get The Telegraph to pay for it.
I thought the Torys died when Camoron took power, a bit like Bliar and Liebour.
I wish people would get the message Cameron is NOT Tory he is a LIBERAL Conservative…it’s like that deluded lad at the Labour Conference spouting on about this being the most vicious rright wing government ever…..Miliband really ought to cut out saying that it makes him look a bigger twat than he is
I sigh for the old days before privitisation, when the phones didn’t work, the tapwater was dirty and the trains ran when they felt like it.
Get yourself on the ferry to dieppe.
Tell me, city folk, are London Labour councils just holding pens for the next batch of MPs/rentboys?
Who had 13years to nationalise them but carried on getting rid of companies owned by the people.
Who cares you are all shit.
There’s a redundant ‘are’ in that sentence.
also missing a “?”.
why are MPs debating their pensions for a few hours this afternoon?
I thought IPSA was now responsible for pay and pensions of these hideous individuals so why are they using time to debate this – they could be arranging to get out of Libya or Afghanistan or providing the country with an EU referendum or sorting out the economy or ……
Why the fck do they put Huhne on tv spouting sh*te, he’s the biggest turn off that this lot have.
BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS !!!
Ed Dowler Walter Mitty Miliband still hasn’t twigged on.
Ed you really are a loser.
I resisted the D*wler reference hours ago because I know where to draw the line.
This politics, anything goes.
Also, if you live by the bandwagon, you die by the bandwagon.
When you’re a useless, wankstain cu’nt like Ed, it pays to have a thin skin
Oh Dear.
prone to fly into rages if people don’t agree with him, likes to surround himself with yes men and given to making grandiose announcements about transient issues, which achieve nothing.
He really is looking and behaving more and more like gordon brown junior everyday.
Watch out Nell you may well become Ed’s bigot!
Hallowe’en’s coming up. Somebody should get him an ED-209 costume.
Scratch that. They already have.
It is the same crap but in different packaging. Labour are style over substance. That’s all Bliar ever was. A nice little package with a crap product inside. Bliar is a c’unt.
That should buy him some night sight binoculars and a few hand grenades.
OT – Russell Grant predicting future on Steve Wright’s show NOW!
Yes it’s coming through now and I’m not even watching SW show.
The financial down turn will continue but things will get better in a few years. This winter will be cold. Tomorrow is Tuesday. Incredible, how does Grant do it.
So Twigg isn’t against Free schools. I should think so too. Labour failed with its edukashyon, educateshon, edushiton policy. Some of second &third world countries were in danger of overtaking the UK ed system in the international polls.
Who’s a pretty boy, then? Still, at least Twiggy is making his Werritty official.
I feel quite cheery tonight having had two facts confirmed that I long suspected by the splendid Radio 4
1) The European market is today just a minnow in global trade and to lock ourselves into it would be like chaining ourselves to a dead body.
2) By encouraging the Eurozone to set up a fiscal union, is basically Britain saying you are free to go your own way while we go ours.
For goodness sake Guido “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” has just spoilt that sense of elation. WHY moderate that post?
Naughty boy! You must not utilise the word that signifies a place where you buy things.
He works in PR and Communications, you say? He needs to work on his written presentation skills judging by the apostrophe shocker in his LinkedIn profile!
“Communications professional with ten year’s experience”
For an ordinary person like me, the idea that Twigg – or anyone – would want to identify with Blair and his most terrible crimes and deceits is beyond understanding.
Alex Bingham is a thoroughly unpleasant man – I speak as a former member of the Stockwell Labour Party and so had the misfortune to sit in meetings with him. He has absolutely no charm and cannot see the light side in anything. He is the identikit Blairite politican with no redeeming features or original thoughts. Twigg would do well to stay well away from him.