November 2nd, 2011

Fiona MacTaggart Apologises to Chloe Smith for Bitchiness
Leaves Chris Bryant Looking Silly (Again)

We remarked on the unpleasant exchange in parliament yesterday between Fiona MacTaggart and young Chloe Smith which struck Guido as rougher than naked mud wrestling. Chris Bryant tried to play it down…

Yesterday:

Today:

Apparently, on reflection, Fiona MacTaggart agreed with Guido and Neo-Guido, rather than her full-of-spin colleague Chris Bryant. Fiona has made a rather gracious apology for what she herself admits were mean and patronising remarks about Chloe Smith being fresh out of primary school: “I didn’t think at all about how that must have felt to her at her first outing at the despatch box. That was mean and I am sorry.” We won’t hold our breath for a correction from Chris…


69 Comments

  1. 1
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    If only labour would say sorry for 13 years.

  2. 2
    Rampant says:

    Bit of history between them two “ladies”

  3. 3
    Gonk says:

    Not that gracious.

  4. 4
    Aaron D Highside says:

    A labour front bencher with some integrity. Gosh.

  5. 5
    Treat says:

    Typical, Bryant. Never one to let facts stand in the way of getting to the most convenient conclusion.

  6. 6
    fuck off already says:

    Miserable, puffy-faced wankers.

  7. 11
    Anonymous says:

    Bryant, another dodgy gay bastard who wants to shut down the press.

  8. 12
    Ed Miliband says:

    The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  9. 13
    alex taylor says:

    It was bitch Bryant backing bitch MacTaggart

    • 64
      J. Wellington Wimpy says:

      Chris Bryant is following a long-standing tradition of mine, which I used many times between Popeye the Sailor Man and Bluto, of saying, “Let’s you and him fight; I’ll hold your coats!” As you know, I would turn around and charge admission to any passersby who would stop to watch. Bryant, for all his faults, is an enterprising lad who sees his opportunities. Had RumTum McTugger stuck to her guns who knows what Bryant might have accomplished.

  10. 15
    Sir William Waad says:

    “The atrocious crime of being a young woman . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny”, as William Pitt nearly remarked.

  11. 16
    The lights are going out all over Europe.... says:

    All bollocks….Labour strategists(are there actually any these days ?)realised that they and Ms MacTaggart had scored a monumental home goal(especially with women voters)by her tone to a new Minister and the second youngest female in the House which had actually overshadow any relevant comment that Ms MacTaggart was making…it looked crass and churlish…if there had not been such a bad press on the remark do you think this apology would have seen the light of day ? Of course not…….

    • 36
      Rat's arse says:

      I e-mailed Maggot Taggart yesterday and told her that she was a rude arrogant b@tch and that all her money couldn’t buy good manners or breeding. Wonder if I’ll get a reply?

    • 56
      David Cameron says:

      Cam down dear

  12. 20
    Anonymous says:

    Come on Guido, get that piccie of Chris out again.

  13. 21
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    PMQs just sort of passed me by.

    Taps had a good luch as normal.

  14. 23
    nell says:

    Typical champagne socialist labour = privately educated, multimillionaire .

    She’s a scot to boot so, like her fellow scot gordon, so doesn’t have any social graces to fall back on.

    Not exactly a good advert for having your daughter educated at Cheltenham Ladies College is she?

    • 57
      Turniphead watch says:

      So Nell you are saying that all Scots lack any social graces. Now which part of that isnt bigoted , stereotypical and racist?

      • 65
        An Englishman says:

        Bigoted , stereotypical and racist? Who cares? Which part of it isn’t reasonable?

        Get all those anglophobic scots out of England’s Parliament and the country will be a lot healthier. They can all go back to bugger up their own.

        Just think how much better everything would be if that miserable vindictive anglophobic idiot Drongo Brown hadn’t been allowed to wreck our economy and society.

  15. 25
    Smig says:

    MacTaggart? Fucking jockomong name, isn’t it.

    What the fuck is she doing representing a constituency as far south as Slough?

    Conveniently closer to the Buckie Brewery for the gobby bitch?

  16. 32
    Chris Bycunt says:

    Chase me Guido… chase me..

  17. 33
    Gooey Blob says:

    Dull PMQs. Predictable line of attack from Miliband and even more tiresome planted questions from Tory backbenchers. Ed Balls continues to be an embarrassment to Labour’s front bench. Why oh why do they keep him there?

    • 35

      Because they know that they wouldn’t know what to do in these circumstances. (known unknown)

      • 47
        Anonymous says:

        Because the union paymasters put him there?

        • 52

          I have worked studiously on such abstract and arcane matters such as “the internal rate of return”, “The Phenomenology of Spirit” and quantum mechanics.

          Please do not ask me though to look into the minds of union leaders as that is way beyond my very best abilities.

          • In a nutshell says:

            Envy and greed should sum it up

          • I am sure that you have some of the constituents right here but something happens at the metamorphic level where they unexpectedly become beyond understanding, reason, or attraction.

          • An Englishman says:

            “Envy and greed should sum it up”

            And arrogance, ignorance, stupidity, dishonesty, hypocricy, bitterness and selfishness, perhaps?

    • 42
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      While the Tories are paying attention to Balls’ childish antics, they’re not excoriating RedEd. Bad tactics.

  18. 41
    VEE6 says:

    Nice to see there are some manners in politics after all.

  19. 50
    Homophobic Pride says:

    Numerous scientific investigations (probably carried out on mice, penguins and space monkeys) have proven that homophobia is genetic, and carried over from one generation to another to boot. Please come and support us on our first Homophobic Pride march up Bourneville Avenue, Brum this all saints eve. Ta.

  20. 51
    Stavros, subsidy king says:

    Chris Bryant is a liability for Labour.

  21. 60
    Crispy Brownpants says:

    Politicians are pathetic.

  22. 69
    Liberace says:

    That Chris Bryant makes us all look kinda silly.



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