Rupert Murdoch Won By Bigger Margin Than Tom Watson
The News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch was up for re-election by shareholders last week. Tom Watson MP led a campaign, backed by commercial rivals The Guardian, to unseat him from the board. Tom travelled to Los Angeles (courtesy of union subs) to vote union pension fund proxy votes. Watson’s attempt failed with Rupert Murdoch getting 86% of the shareholder vote, which compares favourably to Watson’s mere 46% of the vote in his West Bromwich East constituency at his re-election (his share of the vote sank 9.2% at the general election). To add insult to injury, News Corp shares have rocketed up 16% this month alone. Hold on to those shares comrades, no one went poor betting on Murdoch…
My one night off in LA is officially dedicated to Morrison and Lebowski. #tequila+venicebeach (should be white Russian)—
(@tom_watson) October 22, 2011
@tom_watson is the coolest, funniest, nicest MP i've ever sung "come on eileen" with. by a wide margin—
Brian & Maria (@brian_and_maria) October 22, 2011
Never mind, in consolation he got a night out partying on tequila and singing “Come on Eileen” in La La Land…
Did Tom put this on expenses?
Does a duck swim?
FFS Gayboy, still sucking Murdoch cock. Must be like trying to give a blowjob to a leper.
projecting
He was on a 3-line whip? Strictly speaking, he should have come back. Or not gone in the first place.
Previous Labour M.P.’s have come from hospital to vote for their party. Watson stays away drinking. Says it all.
Gordon put his Sky TV subscription on expenses.
He seems to have an expensive hobby, obsessing about Murdoch? Do his constituents mind.? I do as a tax payer.
Given Pizzaface Watson’s constituency, I doubt that you’ll be troubled by too many taxpayers there.
The fat oik has it in for anyone who’s successful outside pecking off the livings of others.
Should Watson have gone to the meeting and voted when he is on the select committee ? that is hardly neutral behaviour !
Give them a clue Billy the electorate in West Bromwich ain’t too bright!
Mr Watson also featured in the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal disclosures.
Mr Watson, the minister for digital engagement, spent the maximum of £4,800 in a single year on food, and had his expenses cut after buying a set of dining room chairs that exceeded the limit set by the fees office.
He was forced to defend the appearance of a receipt for a “pizza wheel” on a Marks & Spencer receipt he submitted, saying it was given as a free gift after he went on a £150 spending spree at the store.
He also used his parliamentary allowances, along with fellow Labour minister Iain Wright, to lavish more than £100,000 on a shared central London crash pad since the last general election.
‘..by a wide margin..’
Was that a gentle dig at Big Tom’s immense girth?
Tom having a jolly, making suckers of working peoples money
No change there then
This is the same Tam Wartson who want’s to be Labour’s Scottish Region boss from his safe seat in Engerlund …
His pal ‘Razor’ Davidson who is bidding for the Labour Scottish Region number two post is pondering his future after telling a fellow MP he was “goin’ tae gie her a doin’”, unfortunately it was during a closed session of the Scottish Affairs Committee and the clerk to said committee reported ‘Razor’s’ intemperate remarks to the Chief Clerk.
‘Razor’s defence is the comments were not meant in a ‘sexual nature’.
Well, Tom doesn’t control most of the votes in his constituency – so this has to be one of the most pointless ‘stories’ you’ve ever run – up your game Guido
Well said. Ridiculous comparison.
The Murdocher family control 47% pf the voting shares only needs another 4% needed voila got that with that arab chap, easy peasy nice and squeezy job done
Tha takes thi time t’old lad
Unlike what we have at the bbc, those news corp people have no way of changing their executive, that’s capitalism for you,
The bbc elections are so democratic, why if Oy Vay and Anymong don’t like who runs the bbc they can vote in the annual bbc elections, that’s socialism for you.
But Murdoch controls about 40 percent of the Class B voting shares. If you don’t count his stake, 67 percent of Class B shareholders voted against James and 64 percent against Lachlan.
Tom Watson, by contrast, controls only one vote, his.
So you’re not comparing like with like.
Watson (and Labour) have their payroll vote – public sector workers and welfare recipients…
Wow? That’s your defence?
Incredibly poor
Yes we are all incredibly poor – after paying for all these suckers of the public teat.
Guido old chap public sector workers include MPs and members of the cabinet, I do hope that they will only get the lower increase in pay (inflation rate) and their expenses are capped or turned into allowances then they would be taxed on them.
Fond imaginings!
I voted many, many times for Tom Fatson.
Stupid boy
Nepotal votes in an extended family. They expand faster than the universe.
Pretty dodgy comparison Guido. Tom Watson’s ballot was “one man one vote” – more than can be said for the ballot involving Murdoch.
If its good enough for the Labour party.
(Didnt Harret Harman have 7 votes for the leadership election?)
Very true, but Guido is a fan of all things Murdoch
thankyou guido
Oi, Guido!
Your scale-less graphs willfully misrepresent the figures, and you know it full well – Tom Watson’s *much* fatter than that!
Ah! At last an objection that is valid! Well done sir!
Wasn’t Tom Watson that skinny guy with glasses that was on that boring soap East Enders about 25years ago, what happened?
Was the song ‘Come on I lean’?
Should have been Slim Whitman’s No1 “Goodnight Eileen”
Of course Tom doesn’t get to cast 40% of the votes in his constituency, but otherwise another brilliant analogy there.
Incidentally the idiot sons only got a third amongst voters not called Murdoch.
Tom’s mates among the subcontinentals in West Brom probably manage to control a large bloc of postal votes, though – much like Murdoch owning a bloc of voting shares.
Darkies eh? Why won’t they vote for you? Must be rigged.
“Of course Tom doesn’t get to cast 40% of the votes in his constituency, but otherwise another brilliant analogy there.”
Staines never is one to let the facts get in the way of his political viewpoint. Many personalities could get 88% approval in a rigged election were you own half the votes
Watson? Cool? La Ka land indeed. Barry v a Mormon. Despair!
‘Rupert Murdoch getting 86% of the shareholder vote, which compares favourably to Watson’s mere 46% of the vote in his West Bromwich East constituency…’
One of the stupidest comments I’ve ever seen on here (and Yes, that does include mine). Why so desperate to keep the Guido tongue right up the arse of the Murdochs? It’s not as if they’re going to offer you a job, is it? Though they’ve probably had their boys listening in to your conversations.
“It’s not as if they’re going to offer you a job, is it?”
Must you shatter his dream?
He won fatty liar Watson lost boo hoo sorry but your love for the failed MP fatso must not get you down cat stuffed constipator
Murdoch gets attacked by lefties.
Watson is a leftie.
Therefore: exterminate! exterminate! exterminate!
Incitement to murder now isn’t that a convictable offence
Tell that to Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot etc, etc, etc, the list of socialist mass murderers, is very, very long.
He’s probably hoping to be set on by the Murdochs.
The fat prick reminds me of The Fast Shows office bore.
Looks a bit like Pickles but not quite as fat
Most pointless article EVER
Not seen the Rich and Mark ” cartoons” then?
I see that you have put cartoon in qoutation marks Billy
A Tequila Trotskyite eh?
Is that a bit like a Champagne Socialist but cheap as chips?
We Bollinger Bolsheviks are much more classy.
A Mescal Marxist?
Would explain his delusions of adequacy…
Butt wiser, with a side order of fried banana sandwiches. Where is the powder room?
Is Guido doing colonial politics now?
Is there money in it?
He’s spot on with the Major politics, so why not do Colonel ones?
Not quite.
The Murdoch family owns 38.4% of the shares.
Only 20% of voting shareholders wanted James Murdoch to stay.
Tom Watson may be a fat tosspot but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s still around whilst James Murdoch is a distant News Corp memory.
We’re looking after TWatson.
Who gives a fuck?
I do!
Like it or not we the taxpayer are picking up some of the tab for that fancy trip. He should have been in the HoC last night voting – not that he’d have understood the argument about democracy and the rights of the electorate!!
But even worse he’s in the USA purporting to be representative of the English people . He is lacking in intelligence, he is well above a bmi that is healthy for him, he has an unattractive personnae, he has excessive habits in drinking and eating.
Do you really want the americans thinking he is typical of the rest of us?
I’d say Watson is pretty typical of a British MP.
He is paid to represent the interests of the electors in his constituency, but spends most of his days concealing his idleness and lack of intellect with a bit of ineffectual showboating before heading off to a flashy restaurant to get pissed on expenses.
there are many reasons why socialists make me want to vomit the ideals are utopia and ….my dinner is ready …..watson ! keep eating the pies you fat repugnant carpetbagging bastard
Predator v Alien but nobody knows which is which, least of all Ed Milliband,
Ed does know how to make rich people extremely rich and poor people extremely poor. I suppose when you are a millionaire marxist, the little people are only opportunities to make ‘concerned’ soundbites about.
Just don’t piss on the rug, Tom.
Tom needn’t worry. Thanks to Guido’s best efforts, and his chums on the Tory backbenches, Labour are likely to be in power after the next election. He’ll be able to outlaw NewsCorp with no difficulty.
Meantime, Guido and the Tory right headbangers can content themselves that they are leading the charge for a referendum on the EU. It’ll be frm the opposition benches, but hey ho, at least they are patriots.
Dont discount the Taxpayers.
The taxpayers don’t give a tinker’s cuss about the EU.
They do however dislike parties that are obssessed and split by it, to the exclusion of dealing with the things they care about.
You talk for all taxpayers?
All taxpayers i know (some who own thier own buisness) say the EU and UK Goverment are the problem.
No, unlike you, I don’t rely on anecdote. I go by polling, which shows less than 5% of people care about this issue. Bloody electorate, eh?
Still, forward to opposition, comrades!
No wonder you lefties dont get “Growth” or “Small Buisness”.
Of course your client votes are secure. But not enough.
When directives come from the EU they 1/2inch thick when they come out of the civil service they are 1 inch thick
I like the idea of government by directive, of unelected Kommissars, of unremovable apparatchiks, of forced compliance officers in every organisation, just like the commies and nazis used to have to ensure complete obedience. Of thousands of rules and regulations that make ordinary behaviour criminal. Really what kind of society could be better?
I can only assume that Anonymous lives on the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man (being as he so despises our country) and has a bank account in the Bahamas.
Oh No. Cuba surely – perhaps looking after the luxury holiday home and servants of bobcrow!!
I do hope that the Tories do what they usually do – sort out the mess we left behind and leave us plenty of money to piss up the wall again.
Sorry Eddy but all the money has gone BoE has effectively printed another £70Billion so where is it ( that money) going
Murdoch owns most of the voting shares in News corp. Don’t think Tom Watson owns any of his votes.
With postal votes, he does not have to. You must know that. You spend all your election time filling them in.
Watson has a little army of ‘new’ british gentlemen who do a marvelous job getting the postal vote in. Specially from those multi occupancy households where English is not the native language.
Twatson would have drained the Tequila dry, but balked at eating the worm – cannibalism is wrong!
But a self-replicating virus ….
Legend had it that chewing the worm would trip you out.
However, on top of a slither of acid, half a gramme of Pink Champagne and a few pipefuls of raw opium the effects of the maggot may have been lost on us.
LabourList and CiF must be shut judging by the number of leftie trolls indulging in mutual masturbation on this blog tonight. Must be the mention of MURDOCH that’s got them so excited.
So here we are infested again with Labour dross, can’t get a proper job, come out with pre-scripted rants that we have heard countless times before and evaluate everything in terms of homosexual acts.
What will they do when they leave school?
This behaviour is typical of Socialists because Socialism is a sickness.
Unable to manage simple functions or tasks, socialists jealously lash out at anyone more able to complete the same simple functions or tasks – like getting a job, reading etc.
This jealousy takes the form of homophobic abuse to disguise the fact that they are closet rent-boys who regularly take it up the Gary Glitter.
Bad point poorly made, Guido. If his shareholdings were Gerrymandered, Rupe would be joining Gaddafy Duck buried somewhere in the desert…
OMG! he took that guitar that he was playing at the labour conference , when he was worse for wear, didn’t he?
Now the yanks all think that he’s a typical englishman/person !!
How embarrassing for the rest of us!!
And don’t forget that was only 46.5% of the electorate that voted.
Calm down dear G, whats so surprising about the Murdoch family voting for themselves?
If your philosophy is what now passes for conservatism (though I doubt that) and you can even contemplate defending the ethics of Murdoch, no wonder the Tories are heading for trouble.
And if you’re going to do immeasurably stupid calculations of this kind, at least do them properly. You have to deduct the votes controlled by Murdoch and his friends and family, which amount to about 47% of the total. That leaves 39%, quite some way behind Tom Watson, who would only have had one vote for himself.
Bob,
Of course defending the ethics of the Labour party is much more wholesome…….. The numbers are irrelevant. The real issue is why is an MP trekking half way across the planet to pursue his personal agenda whilst being paid to do something else by the taxpayer? As others rightly say removing one Murdoch would only mean replacing him with another. Typical Labour though -gesture politics.
Nothing to do with gesture Sir Everard.
This is a typical labour trougher abandoning the responsibilities of his paid day job to do some high class travelling, that most of us could only dream of, at someone else’s expense, mostly ours!!
First class holiday in the US of A as a freebie. murdoch was a sideline , an excuse – no more!!
How long’s he planning to stay in the US of A then?
Perhaps he’s going to have talks with them union and mafia leaders there then to get a few tips for his mate militwit on how to get back in power.
The Newscorp share structure is dead in the water.The Murdoch clan may have 40 percent of the votes,but their economic interest in the equity is less than half of that.A couple of US lawsuits will liven things up,re BSKYB, and the outrageous sums taken from the company for all those worldwide homes ,jets,etc.The non voters will be enfranchised,the Clan’s economic interest will rise to 20 percent as a result,and their trusts and beneficiaries will relocate to somewhere else,and James and Lachlan et al will be rich and lonely.
The EU euro structure is dead in the water.The eu political elite may have 100 percent of the votes,but their economic control in the equity is less than half of that.
A couple of well placed referenda will liven things up and the outrageous sums taken from the taxpayers for all those luxury homes ,jets, 5star hotels, 1st class foreign travel , ridiculous pensions, by the eu marxist brotherhood, including the kinnochios, will soon be exposed. .The troughers will be disenfranchised. The likes of barroso, rumpypumpy catherine ashton and the kinnocios et al will be rich it is true but finally ostracised .
Brilliant statistical analysis there Guido. You’re just another thick fucking paddy, really, aren’t you?
If that’s not twatson it is most certainly one of his uneducated colleagues.
13 years of labour and they failed to teach even the rudiments of intelligent gentlemanly debate!!
Your numbers are rubbish.
Rupert owns 40% of his vote with Class B shares
So he’s having a night out on Venice Beach, is he? Only people out on the beach or boardwalk at night are homeless people, suicidal British tourists and junkies/muggers/murderers. Apart from which it’s freezing cold after dark!
‘the newscorp structure is dead in the water …’
Well at least it’s straightforward for them to get rid of a failing has-been leader.