November 4th, 2011

Tom Watson Bills Taxpayer For PR Advisors

The latest tranche of expenses data published this week had £652.08 claimed by Tom Watson for “Professional Services (Staff.)” This is the fourth identical claim made by Watson since April, bringing the total bill to £2,639.40. These payments mirror the rise in Watson’s campaign against News International as well as a shake up in his personal image… 

Watson’s local paper the Wolverhampton Express and Star claim that the this money is being paid to Gordon & Badley Communications –a PR company with a track record of providing Labour MPs with consultants. Why are we paying for Tom Watson’s personal aggrandisement? 


405 Comments

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

    Hang Him!

    Have i really gotta chance with caption contest?

    • 2
      BillyBob... says:

      Pie eater and porky pies come to mind…

      • 22
        Die, Euro! Die! says:

        a shake up in his personal image!!!???

        Still looks like a greasy, fat c*nt!

        • 28
          Mirror, mirror on the wall says:

          The PR company is evidently not up to the job.
          Get our money back Tom.

          • Grumpy Old Man says:

            I don’t know – the PR company does a reasonable job of rolling turds in glitter.

          • East India Company Wallah says:

            Shut up Tom!

            invoice is in the post

          • Lord Bell, Chime Communications says:

            What a waste of money – glasses or no glasses, he’s still a fat ugly f*ck!

          • it's gordons fault says:

            tom – what awanker

          • MI6 says:

            The IMF are looking for money. Then look no further than the Swiss bank accounts of the Political Elite., Some 180 billion Let the IMF take that and stop TAXING THE PEOPLE THE STRANGLE HOLD IS KILLING US.

        • 99
          Anonymous says:

          Billy Bunter before and after a Gordonover.

          • Sir Dando Tweakeshafte says:

            I thought a hat-tip was some sort of cloakroom ticket, but apparently not.

            Nevertheless, Rupert Murdoch might wish to hat-tip Norma Desmond;

            “I am big. It’s the politicians that got small”

          • Dual Citizen says:

            Before – a fat Graham Taylor
            After – a fat Fabio Capello

            Still a fat bastard.

          • mike lewis says:

            This fat slob, with an over inlated sense of his own importance, is nowhere near as funny as Biily Bunter.

        • 117
          CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

          They aren’t doing too well are they? That photograph on the right looks like a police mug shot.

          • CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

            The photo on the left looks like a reject from a “Spot The Nonce” competition.

          • Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

            It also looks like he’s been drinking 4 or 5 pints of Sunny Delight a day for a year.

        • 129
          Barnehurst Bob says:

          Watson has been on the Prescot diet. You get to eat out in good restaurants on the tax payer. You then throw it all up in the toilet and you still look like Billy Bunter afterwards.

          Stand by for a book about what a hard life he’s had.

          • very angry but helpless citizen says:

            His mrs left him this year. Perhaps she went to specksavers too?

            He’s a troughing socialist hypocrite.

            And yes, a fat *.

        • 396
          Jock MacScrotum says:

          Looks normal English retard to me.

        • 404
          Anonymous says:

          He certainly does.

    • 6
      Anon says:

      Could you find rope strong enough to hold the fat fuck up?

    • 139
      Blimey says:

      Why are we funding this character’s obsession with News International? Isn’t this obsession now amounting to misuse of public office. Everyone should have a hobby, but in your own time and at your own expense Watson

    • 142
      Handycock No1 Trougher in Parliament says:

      This is nothing I had a full time PR who worked for Portsmouth City Council and paid for by the taxpayer, who’s sole job was to keep any detrimental statements about me out of the press, under threat of legal action. Legal fees of course, paid for by my boys in Portsmouth. Boaz.

      • 218
        Rupert says:

        She must have had to work bloody hard to keep your name out of the press Handycock, with all the rumours circulating around Europe, Westminster and Portsmouth about you for years. Just goes to show, in the end it will all come out and from what I hear, this is just the beginning.

        • 302
          Long Time Fratton Constituent says:

          Someone ought to do a survey of the many illegitimate children around, in his council constituency of Fratton, and investigate the paternity, and how many of the illegitimate males look like hobbitts, have beards and have been arrested for sexual molestation.

          • You Gov says:

            We are currently doing a survey in Fratton to see how many women have Houses of Parliament Teddy Bears. To date we have discovered over 100.

    • 178
      Repeating myself says:

      Billy, you cannot expect to win by stealing other peoples line and posting them as if they were your own. You are a fuckwit at the best of times, and surely it is time you took a full refund, fucked off and died.

    • 182
      Anonymous says:

      Come on Billy, what is wrong with you – so far you have only posted a few times, only one tweet from somebody else and none of your own tweets. Get on with it man – you fans demand more of you. I am not sure why you are stopping people from following you on twitter but you seem to be blocking everybody because virtually nobody is actually following you. I know you love Guido, but there is an army out here that love you.

    • 215
      Madness says:

      God he is a fat fucker. No amount of hairspray or lip gloss will make him look any different. At what point when he scoffs does he realise he doesn’t actually need the food he is eating?

    • 295
      Monkey Magic says:

      No.

    • 374
      Disliker of Bankers says:

      Is it just me or have our less than esteemed politicians still not realised what the MP’s expenses scandal meant. All politicians are seen (by me ayway) as useless potential fraudsters. I thought someone at Westminseter was supposed to be policing political expenses.

    • 405
      AS says:

      Dear twatson

      Can you tell us why Jack Dromey (who??, he who is married to Harriet Harman and managed to grab a seat in a women’s only short list in a city where he does not reside) manages to get paid by unions whilst being a so called MP representing his union cronies?

      Let us have some transparency in the expenditure and shady dealing of the unions and the labour party.

  2. 3
    Tom Twatson should fuck right off says:

    Did we also pay for his liposuction? The fat troughing c unt couldn’t have lost his quadruple chin from dieting.

  3. 4
    Josiah Bartlett says:

    £2639.40 to tell someone to stop eating pies, brush their hair and get some less embarrassing clothes and glasses? He wuz robbed!

    Hang on a minute – WE wuz robbed!

  4. 5
    Billy the Fish says:

    Why are we paying for the personal aggrandisement of any of them?

  5. 7
    Margaret Moran says:

    Please don’t imprison me for my dry rot expenses! Look at what you’ve done to me: http://www.maxfarquar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/margaret-moran-before-and-after.jpg

  6. 8
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    Is that an advert for a diet that makes you thin (well. less fat) but less happy?

  7. 11
    AC1 says:

    Turd polishing seems to pay well.

  8. 12
    Moussa Koussa says:

    Regarding your Oh Mann Thread

    This is just absolutely f**ki*ng pathetic Guido.

    Some floppy haired, bow tied Tory type bloke was allowed to travel with the UK defence secretary, under false pretences , party to sensitive info , almost certainly benefited financially ( slightly more than 46 quid me thinks ). Dodgy, dubious, corrupt versus drinking a bottle of bubbly, paid for by someone else….get a grip.

    Your arguments are getting weaker and weaker as each day passes.

    Errrrrrr Me Moussa quaffs champagne every day…at UK tax payers expense !!!!!!!!

    • 18
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Its the hypocracy.

      Its like all the labour Mps moaning about Murdoch and then going home and watching Sky Tv.

    • 120
      CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

      Still hanging around this thread, Moussa? You’ve a hide as thick as rhino. Your rants remind me of one of those sad nutters who stand by the side of the road shouting and shaking his fists at the traffic.

    • 376
      Disliker of Bankers says:

      Our Liam still thinks he will get another chance Cabinet Job. Hope springs eternal.

  9. 13
    The greatest music video of all time says:

    Have tissues ready.

  10. 15
    Another stinking journo.. says:

    “Man arrested over alleged police payments named as Sun journalist.”

    God you must be disappointed he wasn’t from the Mirror Guido.

    But been with N.I. since 1987..

    Good old Tom – root out the rot…….

  11. 16
    Moussa Koussa says:

    errrrrrr “”"”"Tom Watson’s personal aggrandisement”"”"”

    I take it then, that Guido official postion is that hacking is Ok then !!!!!

  12. 17
    SpAd says:

    Was his PR’s advice to “look more like Phill Jupitus”?

  13. 19
    Moussa Koussa says:

    “”"These payments mirror the rise in Watson’s campaign against News International as well as a shake up in his personal image…”"”

    errrrrr …… Watson has been campagning against News International for over 4 years

  14. 21
    Tom Watson says:

    I used to have a care-free life like any other Labour MP in government. Surrounded by sycophants, I bathed in my own self-importance.

    But then we lost the general election, and I quickly realised I would have to shape up and actually knuckle-down and do some work. And that’s when I discovered the Worry ™ Diet. Yes, lots of worry caused me to lose weight, gain a haggard, worried expression and generally force me to smarten my appearance. Look! It’s done wonders!

    Of course, when we win the next election, I’ll probably let meself go again, and revert to being useless fat cunt.

  15. 25
    McChannaman says:

    Watson, you prat.

  16. 26
    Sue says:

    He needs to book himself into a gym. Fat mong.

    • 35
      Moussa Koussa says:

      hmmmmmmmm I wonder, shall I report Sue to the police for her use of such language. IP address please Guido, it can be got. New world order of Tory Briton, Social Networkers being arrested every day….You all must be sooooo proud

      • 39
        retardEd Milimong's Parasite Party says:

        We regret to inform you that the Thought Police have been temporarily suspended.

        Please feel free to say what you think.

        Normal thought-repression will resume when Labour return to government.

      • 56
        The Jackal says:

        Do one Moussa, you backward tw*t. Don’t you get sick of sounding like a ‘tard? I want your IP address so I can come round to your pig-pen and put you out of your misery.

    • 40
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      One of my pet hates. The idea that the only possible way of doing exercise is to go to a gym.

    • 51
      nell says:

      He doesn’t need to book himself into a gym. Those flash new offices that mp’s built for themselves in labour’s time has a gym, sauna, steam room, meditation suite and an indoor pool so I believe. All for them to use for free!

  17. 27
    Lord Vader of Nevill Holt says:

    It’s true. You cannot polish a turd.

  18. 29
    Displaced Brummie says:

    Because Tom is part way through a make-over to look like this
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hXv0e_ByoDs/SnWlByErniI/AAAAAAAAByM/jiAjiiI5M6Y/s400/thunderbirds+222.jpg

  19. 30
    nell says:

    Pity he did away with that black and white striped suit – it always made me smile and think of mint humbugs or bah humbug which is probably closer to the truth with the odious twatson.

    He is one of the few people that one can say without any doubt that he is neither use nor ornament.

  20. 34
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:
    • 43
      nell says:

      And he’s another one that’s neither use nor ornament.

      The labour party does have more than it’s fair share of dead wood.

    • 58
      simon r says:

      How many more times can we have Labour Governments that leave the country in total disarray ?

      Hopefully never again

      • 74
        The lights are going out all over Europe.. says:

        Howzabout 5 May 2015 ? The way “Dave” & co are going that’s not actually as daft as it at first appears to be………

      • 80
        David Cameron says:

        But, hang on! I’m working flat-out to ensure Miliband is our next PM, with his party enjoying a massive majority.

        Isn’t this what you all want? Have I misjudged the mood of the British people, again?

        • 231
          nell says:

          Well you’re on to a bit of a loser there.

          militwit couldn’t win an election if he was the only one standing.

    • 93
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      ….and your point is, Ed?

      Kettle, pot, black. Ring any bells?

    • 125
      CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

      Balls’ tweets are really self regarding,aren’t they. He really thinks ordinary people ( other than simple minded Labour trolls) are interested in what he has to say. Deluded pillock.

      • 161
        Let's be honest says:

        This is a good point, and something that (for all his alleged intelligence) he’s too thick to notice:

        He only preaches to the converted.

        He’ll never increase his fanbase by only talking to mongs who already listen, and accusing those who don’t listen of being “tory scum”. Stuck in a rut, his career has flatlined. The otherwise useless wet fart Chukka Umunna will push him aside.

        • 380
          Disliker of Bankers says:

          Who is that may be attaracted to a carreer in politics (of any party). The net affect is that thre is no one of any ability to choose from as our great leader – tory, labour or lib dem.

  21. 36
    Gonk says:

    Good grief, piggy from Lord of the Flies.

  22. 37
    Sue says:

    How does he cope with being so ugly and minging

  23. 41
    What a plonker. says:

    News International will get even with this plonker one day .
    He is just trying to make himself look important .What a waste of
    space this twit is.

  24. 44
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Watson pay the money back you hypocrite. Now Tom speak quietly just like the labour front bench do now – shhh.
    BBC’s QT needs to renamed Labour Propaganda Time. Last night Ed Balls must have had more time than the rest of the panel put together. Balls level of hypocrisy and denial reached new heights.

  25. 46
    nell says:

    Are we suggesting that he’s paid out £2640 of taxpayers money to improve his appe@rance and jazz up his image?

    Because if we are it hasn’t worked and it’s been a scandalous waste of money.

  26. 47
    Billy Bowden, knobjockey in residence and regular pain in the arse says:

    The Billy Bunter look or a lezza from Cell Block H, not much of a fucking choice is it? Like most consultancies they were taking the piss and then ‘aving a laugh all the way to the bank.

  27. 48
    The Land of Oz says:

    The G20 is over with no solutions to anything. Luckily no financial transatiuoc tax agreed either.

    Why don’t they just have a video conference next time and save us all a packet?

    • 50
      I don't need no doctor says:

      Because the food is great.

    • 61
      AC1 says:

      Politician create problems that require state extortion.

      They DONT solve problems.

      Have you learned nothing?

    • 68
      David Cameron says:

      We don’t use low-CO2 emission videoconferencing because it’s vital that we lead the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions such as the CO2 from plane flights, which is causing tremendous damage to the environment and necessitates punitive green taxes.

      That, and we all like to stand side by side (especially near Obama) because it makes us look important.

      • 85
        Cynical-old-bag says:

        I saw them all jockeying for position next to Obama when the cameras came out.

        What a very sad lot they all are.

        • 94
          David Cameron says:

          The other leaders and I particularly like to pat his shoulder and laugh, like we’re his best friends.

        • 104
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          A bunch of never-have-beens cosying up to yesterday’s Man.

        • 133
          CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

          I saw these “statesmen and women” gathering for a group photo at the G20 Conference. What a bunch of inadequates, buffoons, liars, cheats, misfits and chancers. Rumpy-pumpy, Barroso, Gillard, Cameron, Merkel, Sarkozy, Zuma, Obama,Papandreau, et al. These are world leaders? We depend on them to make decisions that will affect us all?

          Jesus Christ! No wonder the world in such a shitty state.

    • 71
      The lights are going out all over Europe.. says:

      Good idea… and perhaps the Greek PM can be strapped to a chair with electrodes attached to his gonads so that Sarko and Klebs can administer electric shock treatment from the comfort of their office ….rather than having the bother of jettting in to 5 star luxury hotels to administer the “short sharp shock” in person ??

  28. 49
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Why oh effin why is my comment 4:52 awaiting moderation?

    • 57
      nell says:

      Oh well won’t get cleared now – it’s Friday – automod’s on and Guido’s staff have all cleared to the pub.

  29. 55
    Same repetitive crap over and over again says:

    Fat ugly minger.

  30. 59
    Legal Sue says:

    Another Brown turd.

  31. 66
    Infuriated of West Mids says:

    Guido certainly knows how to give us a treat on a Friday afternoon, with an open-goal, trash Tom Watson thread!

  32. 77
    Tony Bliar the champagne socialist says:

    I would want a refund…….He still looks a fat dumb C U N T…………..

    • 81
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      It takes one to know one.

    • 101
      Le Monde correspondent says:

      If he looks like a dum c u n t, walks like a dumb c u n t and talks like a dumb c u n t,

      He must be a drunken, Pavlovian, hypocritical and amoral error of nature

  33. 78
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    More than a coincidence – this lazy good-for-nothing oaf is so full of himself, he can’t even be bothered to (allegedly) fiddle his expenses any more – so much easier to put the same amount in every month, leaving much more time for troughing.

  34. 85
    Defrocked Mudslinger Watson says:

    I am an ace at busking

    But when it comes to doing anything of substance I need bent Spinners to see me through to my next piss up

    ROFL and fuck you Guido you know me too well of old

  35. 87
    Madoff Mandelson's hairdresser says:

    He seems to actually wash his hair nowadays

    A Great Leap Forward for this Native….

  36. 96
    Larry Summers, always wrong says:

    Off the record Guido

    I must tell you that I have told my student Balls to vote for the increase in IMF funding

    I have been wrong about everything for aboout 25 years (but have made a fortune doing so) but we need the IMF to save the world now

    Take that as God’s truth (The Chief Rabbi told me so)

    • 103
      Le Monde correspondent says:

      We know you Larry

      You change your vest like I take coffee during the day (but make money on the way – over $23 million at the last count)

      How come anyone takes you seriously ?

  37. 98
    Monging Moussa Koussa says:

    A Fat Monging Turd

  38. 102
    Jimmy says:

    Do you think any of the newspapers might run with this?

  39. 104
    labourunionsbbc we are one says:

    “Why are we paying for Tom Watson’s personal aggrandisement?”

    Bcause he’s a socialist, and socialists spend other peoples money.

    Socialists are, by definition, not capitalists, so they don’t make any of that evil money.

  40. 112
    nightwatch says:

    But surely, Tom’s a celeb now, isn’t he ?

    Diet and hair-do does’nt disguise his ugliness, however.

  41. 116
    rupe the droop says:

    Watson is chewing up the M*rdoch clan and now Guido is snapping at Watson’s heels like a little lapdog .. . no connection obviously.

    • 150
      nell says:

      Is that what twatson did when he went to america, at great expenses to we taxpayers, the other week and watched rupert murdoch get re-elected by shareholders as chairman?

      It’s most likely going to be the case of ‘he who laughs last’!!

  42. 121
    Moussa Koussa says:

    What a fat ugly mong and a hypocrite. Jog on loser.

  43. 122
    Kered Ybretsae says:

    Just another snout in the trough Dishonourable:

  44. 124

    I keep on thinking, “fat cυnt”, when I look at his pictures.

    Now, I can think that but, naturally, I can’t say that on here. Could anyone help we out with a suitable synonym?

  45. 126
    Archie Bishop-Williams says:

    He’s just another snot-gobbling pseudo-socialist – spending everone else’s money for his own ends. Surely not surprised to find another greedy-fecking snout-in-trough? Oh my word yes he is.

  46. 130
    BillyBob... says:

    A face only a mother could love… surely :)

  47. 132
    Non-socialist worker says:

    Waste of money-you can’t polish a turd.

  48. 136
    Anonymous says:

    Judging from the photos, the PR consultant’s advice can be summed up as: lose some weight, get a tan, buy some trendy glasses.

    Gosh, that was well worth £2639…

  49. 137
    john in cheshire says:

    I don’t like Tom Watson.
    He’s quite fat, isn’t he? I wonder if his NHS doctor will refuse to treat him, should be become ill, unless he goes on a diet? And I wonder if he sticks to the prescribed number of alcohol units that the socialists have determined we, their pay-masters, should not exceed?
    I’m also waiting for Mr Murdoch’s payback for people like Mr Watson. It will be a joy to behold.

  50. 138
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Don’t get upset Tom by all of the comments. You will always be a fat twat to me.

  51. 140
    Engineer says:

    If Watson were to take a more rounded view of politics, he might be easier to accept. However, his blinkered tribalism makes him one of those politicians who’s career will be forgotten even before it is over. He does not act for the country’s common good, he acts for for the good of his own small part of his own tribe. He is among the worst sorts of parliamentarian, and deserves to be locked in a small, windowless room with Peter Hain, Tim Yeo and Mike Hancock. For a long time.

    May the fleas of a thousand badgers infest his crotch, and may his arms be too short to scratch.

  52. 144
    Dyke on your bike says:

    The Scottish Tories are on their way out. Ruth Davidson beat Murdo Fraser and is now new Conservative Leader in Scotland. She only been an MP for a few months. It is the end of Scottish Tories.

    • 148
      nell says:

      With due respect the tories in scotland were always non-starters.

      The scots only vote for people who will pay them endless benefits and not expect them to work.

      • 201
        Truth told to turnip heads says:

        With fuck all respect to you Nell just take your fuckwitted bigotry and stick it right up your arse.

      • 398
        Alex Salmond says:

        But that wouldn’t give them much with which to differentiate Labour and the SNP. In fact the main distinctions are cheap booze (the centrepiece of the Labour election campaign) and the willingness to lie. First Ministers Questions are stunning for the sheer unremitting mendacity of the government, which far outpaces their opponents rudimentary ‘spin’ operations. Thankfully enough Scottish voters don’t read newspapers and the SNP supporters have been trained to believe all news is ‘London propaganda’ and instead just pass salacious gossip to each other via blogs.

        I do think the Tories electing a Glaswegian lesbian is a shrewd move, regardless of how long she’s been in the chamber. I mean, how much experience do you need if the government just lies about its record anyway?

    • 152
      Mongwatch says:

      The Scottish are nothing but parasitic subhuman scum.

      Hardly the people to vote for a party of self-reliance.

    • 179
      stun says:

      A perfect choice: nobody at all will vote Tory up there; Libdems are fucked anyway; Scottish Labour is totally scandal-ridden. => SNP win. Gives us a chance to offload Scotland before we leave the EU (just dreamin’).

      • 194
        AC1 says:

        Maybe England could have a referendum on independence from the welfare states?

        • 202
          Inglish are knuckledraggers says:

          Maybe the inglish are to much pussies to have the bals to go it alone. They have been living off Scotlands brains and brawn for three centuries.

          • nell says:

            There is only one good thing about the scots and that is their Regiments!

            Finest in the World!!

          • Mel Gibson's "Brave Intestine" says:

            They weren’t so fine at Culloden. And another thing, haggis was created by the Inglish.

          • nell says:

            They were the finest of the fine in WW1 which was long after culloden.

            As for haggis well sounds very similar to goats brain or brawn or tripe or something – and once upon a time all of those things were very popular .

          • Duke of Cumberland says:

            Mel, I think you’ll find Culloden was a battle between Scottish regiments fighting for the democratically elected government and their appointed head of state and a bunch of Catholic absolutist monarchists from the highlands. The good guys won; fuck the Jacobites.

  53. 146
    Jasmin Alibi Cunt says:

    You can’t polish a turd

  54. 147
    Hang The Bastards says:

    The fat useless troughing fuckwit.

    This tosser portrays himself as a man of the people, but the only reason he is interested in the well being of the people is so that he can continue his blood sucking leeching activities from our wallets.

    Fucking Disgrace….. Set the Sunlight Team on the thieving bastard !

  55. 149
    duke of wellington says:

    I don’t know what effect this man will have on the enemy, but by God, he terrifies me

  56. 151
    nell says:

    Now look folks I know it’s Friday but let’s be honest – twatson from those photos has clearly lost weight – that is very commendable and it might be useful if he decided to donate his weightloss story to someone like the mirror so other obese people, like prezza, could follow his advice and slim down..

    Think how much money that could save the nhs and hence us taxpayers!!

    But please twatson if you really want to improve your image get rid of those heavy square framed specs . I haven’t seen anyone wearing anything like them since the 60′s and they weren’t attractive then.

  57. 154
    Voter says:

    He used to look like the comedian Peter Kay.

  58. 159
    SCZYYLLVYYO TALLYY says:

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    http://www.itv.com/news/asylum-seekers-lost54722/

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  59. 164
    Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

    Whatever he does or says he will still be a fat cnut.

    • 208

      Is fat cnutedness absolute or relative?

      Is there indeed a Platonic form of fat cnutedness? (I have not read Phaedo for years.)

      • 247
        The Paragnostic says:

        Do fat cnuts float when the tide comes in?

        Maybe it’s a survival stratagem…

        • 258

          You are suggesting we can conflate the cockney slang for face with the expression All the boats rise when the tide comes in?

          • The Paragnostic says:

            I was thinking more of Anglian monarchs…

          • Oh God! Are you going to send me off to hunt for one of my copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which are regrettably all still in boxes? All those Æthelreds, Ealdwulfs and Wuffas?

          • The Paragnostic says:

            Nah – just remember your primary school history and King Canute (Cnut) playing chicken with the North Sea.

          • Cnut (mercy that it escapes the mod), was King of Denmark, England, Sweden (in part) and Norway, acceding in that order. He was never considered as just an Anglian monarch, to my knowledge.

            I happen to be a great fan of his. The story of his attempting to hold back the tides is, unfortunately, almost universally misunderstood nowadays. He had his throne put on the beach to prove that he was not omnipotent.

            I have taken a leaf out of his book. Every so often, I make a deliberate mistake just to prove that I am not perfect…

          • Another Engineer says:

            The legend in this vicinity was that it was the Aegir tide at Gainsborough on the Trent he was playing with, and not the North Sea.

            That gains him even more respect, because either he was a cool dude surfer, or got very wet very quickly as the bore wave is more than 4ft high at springs.

          • The Paragnostic says:

            Never knew Cnut did all those jobs – I wonder what his expenses were like?

            I only dimly remember learning about him at primary school – I neglected to learn any history thereafter, as it wasn’t compulsory.

            I’d always imagined him on the beach at Skeggie…

  60. 166
    Voice of Reason says:

    Rendered down he’d keep a soap factory going for a year.

  61. 183
    gildedtumbril says:

    None of the thieving bastards should be spending any of our money on anything.

  62. 188

    Guido are you sure you didn’t get your Steven Purcell mugshots mixed up with Fatty Watsons’?

  63. 193
    Salad Bar says:

    Well that is money wasted. He looks unhappy and hostile. Maybe a petition is needed for the taxpayer to decide what can or cannot be claimed on expenses. For instance it is ok to spend taxpayers cash for travel, meals within reason, and all the basics. Expenses for gambling, pr consultants and other non essential should come out of the MP’s salary.

    • 197
      Well it's a thought says:

      Why?, HMRC already has rules on expenses for us trash, why not just apply them to MPs and Lords , after all we are all in it together.

      • 263
        Call Me Dave says:

        Indeed we are, “Well it’s a thought”. May I call you “Well it’s a thought”. I share your concerns about the expenses culture in Westminster and that’s why I am going to take another look at the whole issue. But what people need to understand is that we mustn’t be distracted from the real problems in the eurozone.

        From milkmen to coalmen, from postmen to hedgefund managers, Britain is coming together in a spirit of can-do optimism, facing the future squarely, overcoming our rising challenges, we are saying, look, we don’t have to go on like this anymore, there is a better way forward.

        • 282
          nell says:

          ++++Laugh++++

          OMG! You really do sound like cameron the wet lettuce!

        • 307
          Well it's a thought says:

          Well Dave my nickname is trash, for the last 18 months after helping to get you in , you have treated all of us as trash, how are those rusticles coming along hope you can make this PM job last for the 5 year tenure because that’s all you have, that’s unless you take over reddy eddy’s job.

  64. 195
    Totty Watch says:

    Bored witless with the whole Greek farce until I saw this interview on Sky today.

    http://news.sky.com/home/video/16103435

    Now why cant we elect MP’s like that?

    Does politics really have to be showbusiness for the ugly?

  65. 198
    Whats worse says:

    A fat schoolboy or a fat manbag metrosexual?

  66. 203
    Jelly Wellhard says:

    Hey Tom you fat cnut.

    You can buy me as much champagne as I can drink on the Terrace Bar and follow me around Soho with your tongue hanging out but you are still not getting even a sniff.

    Do you hear me – not a sniff.

    I’d rather give Geoff Hoon a bj.

  67. 207
    Anonymous says:

    So that’s where the guy who played Roland in Grange Hill ended up.

  68. 209

    Must be something good on tele. Nobody’ posting.

    • 223
      nell says:

      Fireworks night – folks are out burning figurative guy fawkes and enjoying their hot punch and bbq’d sausages whist thinking what a sad mess our politicians have become.

      • 232
        Infuriated of West Mids says:

        And I’m watching the Greek PM’s speech on News 24…

        I feel sad now! I want a BBQ’d sausage!

      • 233

        Thought that was the fifth, nell. But as it’s a Friday, they’ll be starting early, no doubt.

        Nothing I have ever been to beats Lewes. They burn everyone in effigy there including the Pope. No one ever dare oppose it on the grounds of political correctness. They even manufacture their own fireworks.

        • 235
          nell says:

          Sounds good to me – ours has been cancelled this year by some councillors who said it wasn’t good for our carbon footprint!!

          There’s been such a fuss there’s talk of a u turn next year and some folks are saying they’ll be making effigies to burn of certain idiots!!

          • Were they LibDampers, LabourLightOut or GreenSapBurnsBadlyBrigade?

          • nell says:

            I hate to say it but one of them particularly was a tory talking about how geese are shot out of the sky with these evil fireworks and how she’s glad they’ve banned them!!

            Being a meat eater it’s sound to me like a good way to hunt food – not that I’ve ever seen a goose fall out of the sky in 30 years of watching this particular fireworks display!!

            Politicians are not what they used to be!!

          • She is obviously mentally unstable.

            All politicians are bad unless proved otherwise.

          • nell says:

            Unfortunately Cat – even these worthless local councillors, these days, are paid a fortune by us the taxpayer.

        • 244
          Let's be honest says:

          Lewes seemed like a nice place, shame about the traffic wardens. One tried to put a ticket on my car whilst I was 30′ away, getting a parking ticket from a machine. When I called out, he looked rather sheepish. The cunt had been hiding, waiting..

          So far as I’m concerned, Lewes and its population can be nuked. I’m never going back. That’d be a fireworks display worth watching.

          • Foreign plates are such a benefit.

            I use the congestion zone whenever I am back. You can get along so much quicker without the traffic.

          • The Paragnostic says:

            I recall one occasion driving from Ashbourne back to Macclesfield (a road infested with stupidly low speed limits and fund raising cameras), following a chap with Belgian plates who gleefully set off every single camera.

            I almost envied him, but then remembered the Belgian plates…

          • I got done earlier this year in Germany whilst driving on Austrian plates. They now have a sharing arrangement and the fine duly arrived. It was €10. That was it – no points or having to inform the insurer resulting in a certain increase in renewal costs. I can cope with that…

  69. 210
    joescotus says:

    he’s got one of those faces that you would never tire of kicking to a fucking pulp (the overweight blob of shite)

    • 216
      Fabians are Evil. says:

      A Snake oil salesman dealing in smoke and mirrors to further the socialist cause and his own personal enrichment = scum total scum

      • 222
        nell says:

        True but that could apply to any one of the labour front benches and a fair few of their back benchers.

        And whilst I would not yet go so far as to apply that description to any of the tory ministers – some of them are getting quite close to it aren’t they?

        • 229
          Infuriated of West Mids says:

          +1

          (I’ve been writing posts that are too long lately, so I’ll just quietly agree!)

  70. 219
    nell says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057660/G20-Summit-Tory-revolt-Cameron-pledges-increase-UKs-IMF-contribution.html

    another tory revolt on the way over cameron’s plan to give the imf more of our £billions to bailout greece and possibly italy.

    and labour are being coy now and not saying whether they will or won’t vote with cameron to give europe more money. So much for the word of wouldbechancellor ed’can’t live within my means’ balls who said earlier that they would veto any more money.

    • 236
      War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Labour is Competence says:

      Presumably, Balls is awaiting his instructions from Brendan Barber.

    • 248
      Actions speak louder than words says:

      “another tory revolt”.

      Come on, that’s like Winston Smith thinking there was “an underground movement.” There was no underground movement, there’s no Tory revolt. All Tories are utter filthy slime, pro-EU traitors. No exceptions.

      If there were exceptions, they’d have moved against Cameron by now.

  71. 226
    Sasha Grey's best bits says:

    Why are we paying for Tom Watson’s personal aggrandisement?

    That should be obvious.

    Because he’s a (insert degenative expletive of choice).

  72. 228
    Anoneumouse says:

    How to lose lbs and still look ugly, join weight watchers.

    How to lose kilo’s, join the euro, eat italian food and still look ugly.

    How to lose friends, lose weight and still be Tom Watson.

  73. 230
    Infuriated of West Mids says:

    God. Have the BBC got a work experience chap translating the Greek PM’s speech in Athens? It’s impossible to follow.

    • 238
      It's worked for me for 10+ years. says:

      Just don’t bother watching the BBC.

      • 241
        nell says:

        Sky has quite a reasonable translator – not that I listened to much of it. But the parliament was clapping him in places so I presume he’s going to win his confidence vote. then again………

        • 252
          Let's be honest says:

          Greece is sunk. Italy is sunk. Spain is sunk. Portugal is sunk. France is sunk. The EU is sunk.

          The only unknown is: every day until the EU sinks, Cameron’s going to give them £50million; so, how many fifty millions is Cameron going to give until he stops wasting our money?

          • The Paragnostic says:

            From what I read today, Berlusconi’s coalition is about to fall apart, too.

            Hope it does – time the Northern League got a crack at sorting the southern Italian benefits claimants and mafia appointees out…

          • nell says:

            True Paragnostic , but I shall miss the Berlusconni clown when he’s gone , and that’ll not be long now.

            You have to admit he’s been good for a chuckle and a laugh for a long time now .

            Of course he’s made the italians the laughing stock of europe moreso than gordon made us the laughing stock of the international circuit, so no doubt they’ll be glad to be shut of him when he goes.

          • I will say this of the Bunga Bunga king. At school in the early 60s, I remember the history teacher talking about the Italian government which changes every five minutes. As I grew older, I realised just how true his words were. Il Cavaliere was the first prime minister to serve for any decent length of time. He changed the game there. Even Prodi got a longer spell than normal because he followed Berlusconi.

          • Mike L Faraday says:

            Greece, Italy, Spain ….. all sunk ? Watson must have gone for a dip in the Med.

    • 239

      It’s probably impossible to follow with a perfect translation.

  74. 234
    Andrew K says:

    Twattledum and Twattledee?

  75. 240
    nell says:

    One has to give twatson credit for his weightloss programme.

    It is shocking however that he’s prepared to use several thousands of taxpayers money to try and re-cast his permanently tainted image.

    The truth is, like gordon, balls, mcbride, dolly, militwit the teaboy – these people are permanently cemented into the popuar history of the UK as backstabbers, smearers and liars .

    And of course anyone associated closely with gordon’s no.10 circle is rightly condemned for all time as being supporters of economic incompetence and gross overspend and catastrophic, not to mention chaotic, administration.

    • 266
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      We probably paid for his new wardrobe – Savile Row, no doubt.

      • 275
        nell says:

        It is a rather snazzy suit – about £2/3000 I’d have thought from some fancy london tailor.

        I have no doubt he’s put it on expenses just as bercow put his wedding suit on expenses.

        other people’s money = bottomless pit to them

  76. 243
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Watson a C-unt.

    hats all :-)

  77. 245

    Watson has a face that is made for radio.

  78. 250
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:
    • 255
      nell says:

      I’d have to talk to young nell, young mr nell and mr nell about that Bill.

      cricket’s a religion in our household – I wouldn’t dare sign without asking what they thought first !!

    • 270
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Fuck off you arsewipe

      • 273
        nell says:

        y’know twatson that language is very unbecoming.

        If you’re really serious about your makeover then you must also moderate your expressions.

      • 274
        Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

        No bang for you tonight, i guess you are pissed of about.

        Ps i earned more tonight than you will earn in week (tax free) .

        Who is the arsewipe now?

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  80. 254
    The Paragnostic says:

    Pies: £400 / month.
    PR / image consultancy: £652.08 / month.

    Getting loads of publicity despite being a useless fat cnut – Priceless.

  81. 257
    The Paragnostic says:

    Pies: £400 / month.
    PR / image consultancy: £652.08 / month.

    Getting loads of publicity despite being a useless fat cnut – Priceless.

  82. 268
    In case it's not been said says:

    Yarooh!

  83. 269
    nell says:

    Good Lord the greeks have made prezza their finance minister – he’s spe@king in their parliament now!!

    As for twatson and his makeover I suspect he’s been taken in hand by hain the tangoed one.

    I wonder how much those spray tanning sessions cost – and how much of you do they spray?

  84. 271
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    I luv it here, and i love Guido

  85. 283
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    Fat c u n t

  86. 285
    nell says:

    Phisog. That’s the word I’ve been looking for.

    twatson has a phisog that will never change regardless of facelifts or spray tans.

    You’d recognise him anywhere, anytime!!

    • 289
      stun says:

      Evening Nell. For some strange reason I always thought it was fizzog. Yet physiogomy is the proper word for face sciency stuff, so phisog is a lot closer. You learn something new every day (and I’ll be 50 next year). I take it that it wasn’t mrnelljnr with the laptop then..

      • 296
        nell says:

        Hmmm – showed that photo to young mr nell and even he wasn’t sure that he wasn’t him!!

        He was in london that day on business and wore a grey hoodie on his way home through waterloo and kings cross and said he sat on the floor at some point with his laptop, around teatime waiting for a train !!!!

        50 next year eh?! Congrats. Half a Century . Wow!

        I alas am even older . I like to think that each year is an accumulation of wisdom!

  87. 286
    P a u l S t a i n e s says:

    I love you too, Billy. It’s a shame your brain was never allowed to fully develop.
    You’re still cheap at the price, I suppose. Have you paid the advertisers for October?

  88. 287
    nell says:

    george papandreou wins his confidence vote then .

    Don’t think it’s going to stop the rot in the eu – but no doubt cameron will keep pandering to the german hausfrau and the poison french dwarf for a bit longer until he realises he’s on a hiding to nothing!!

  89. 288

    of them. I am off to bed as I think I am going to sleep.

    When I wake up in the morning, I hope that this is all a bad dream. Tony and Gordon never occurred. Cameron is a good democratic, right of centre prime minister with a full mandate, the Euro is going from strength to strength, racing with the pound and that Greek and Italy are models of financial probity.

    I shall be surrounded by a bevy of scantily-clad young beauties that will put Silvio’s harem to shame.

    The sound of pigs flapping in the sky …

  90. 291

    The stats will turn up at sometime.

  91. 304
    Anonymous says:

    I’ve never been on this website before tonight, but WOW. I haven’t got anything particularly against or for Tom Watson, but sitting around calling someone a fat c u n t like a bunch of keyboard warriors makes you all sound like really intelligent – not to mention super-tough – macho-men. Good work! I wonder how many of you are overweight? I’m guessing plenty. Even better – the post itsef didn’t actually have any evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever, just lurid insinuation! Unlike News International who most certainly were breaking the law I might add. How anyone can defend that lot even using the fallback of “we shouldn’t hurt business” is just unbelieveable.

    This thread of comments could be summed up as a string of predominantly (although not all) incoherent, sexist, bigoted, childish, moronic and occasionally racist (against the French, Germans, etc) insults. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned that if these G20 politicians were our leaders then no wonder we’re in trouble, but I’d add that if you lot are the great thinkers amongst us then we’re just as f*cked.

    Maybe some constructive ideas and debate rather than just slagging off everyone else for the world’s and your own problems would help get us somewhere instead of just calling people c u n t s on online forums all day long. I tend to find most people who go round calling people c u n ts probably shouldn’t do so because they generally end up being regarded as just that by everyone else.

    No doubt this will get moderated out as not being what the target audience want to hear, but that’s what you expect from people who don’t want to hear opposing views and would rather fester in their hate-orgy together rather than getting a life and working towards actually making things better in our society!

    PS I look forward to you all also calling me a c u n t for having the temerity to not 100% agree with your charming attitude towards other people and life in general!

    • 305
      Ed Balls, Shallow Chancer says:

      Goodnight, Harriet.

    • 309
      AC1 says:

      Take a full 100% refund and Foxtrot Oscar.

    • 311
      Tom Watson is still a fat bastard says:

      What a total and complete utter C’unt!

    • 315
      na says:

      Bollocks.

      You should have mentioned it earlier.

      You could try looking at the more constructive bits- there are some. But oh no, you’re going to have a go anyway. You’re not my ex, are you?

    • 318
      Duncan says:

      “Maybe some constructive ideas and debate”. Hmmmmm “I’ve never been on this website before tonight” and it shows. This isn’t ‘that kind’ of website. You go here to read stories which haven’t been reported in the major papers (yet) and to see what comments people are willing to make anonymously which they wouldn’t be willing to post on ConservativeHome.

    • 331
      Anonymous says:

      good post. the regular posters on this site though are clearly repellent. I wouldn’t expect much from them.

      • 339
        The Paragnostic says:

        I delight in being repellent, especially to holier-than-thou idiots like the person who spent ages typing that encomium to Twatsonnery above.

        I also indulge in anti-Scots bigotry (it’s fun when they bite).

        Sometimes I do put a coherent and reasoned argument together, which is usually greeted by some moron blaming Thatcher / bankers / etc.

        The use of invective, especially when referring to a waste of skin like Mr Watson, is an art form – presumably it offends, and indeed it would be rather a shame if it did not do so.

        Please feel free to be offended – after all, it’s probably the most fun you’ll have all weekend.

      • 389
        Up the Workers says:

        The regular posters on CiF are clearly repellent. I wouldn’t expect much from them.

        ‘Never been on this website before tonight.’ Really?

        It’s ironic that you criticise anonymous posters when your friend above has posted anonymously!

    • 390
      Up the Workers says:

      No dear, it’s when you try to post on CiF that the posts are moderated if they are not what the target audience wants to hear. Go back to the Guardian. Please.

      • 403
        West Bromwich Observer says:

        Well “Anonymous” – it is clear that Watson has got right into your musical keyboard hasn’t he?

        I fully expect you think he is wonderful for your Labour youth career advancement or whatever you aspire to (or whatever he aspires to do inside you more like!), but to my mind, Watson only ever has been about promoting himself and his long list of union cronies, whilst destroying a free press so it can’t report what he and his cronies do all day in their taxpayer funded lives.

        Watson represents everything bad about labour politics. Thanks to him, your once great labour party stagnates daily in opposition under the leadership of Militwat. Now I am happy to keep the Tories in till 2150 thankyou very much, as it keeps you socialist meddlers out from interfering in my hard worked for lifestyle.

        But FOR YOU – well, its fantastic that you think he’s such a great man. He keeps you socialist shits out of power. Happy times for me on that score. But, all I hope is that the west bromwich Tories seriously shake Watson out at some point as the local people would be better off for it and taxpayers would too!

        Then again, this is West Bromwich isn’t it I forgot. The great rotten borough of Sandwell. No doubt the locals love claiming all their highly inflated social cash taxpayer funded benefits that they haven’t earned either, so, actually, constituents and their MP are probably suited to each other rather well!

  92. 308
    joescotus says:

    i posted 2 hours ago what an ugly HuntTTTT peice of socialist excrement this fucker is
    2 hours later well plastered fuck all has changed
    sorry ………delete previous watson fat Hunt.fat bastard utter stinking lefty Hunt

  93. 310
    MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD says:

    No doubt it will transpire that this professional service
    was Bum Sex
    and the money was being paid to his boyfriend !
    Why do we put up with these corrupt bastards ?

  94. 317
    Duncan says:

    Healthy living initiative, one MP at a time?

  95. 321
    anon says:

    Guido. keep up the good work exposing the thieving bastards

  96. 322
    Simon says:

    WeightWatchers would have been cheaper !

  97. 324
    MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD says:

    I advise you to lose about 8 stone ASAP you fat twat !
    That will be £652.08 thank you !

  98. 325
    MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD says:

    Head of uk boarder force suspended along with two other senior bosses after telling staff at passport control not to scan passports for forgeries !
    i bet he awarded himself a 48% pay rise for his latest little plan to cut immigration !

    • 327
      The UK border is safe with us....!!!!! says:

      Explains why THAT preacher on exclusion list miraculously turned up in London when May had supposedly put veto on him entering U|K….you couldn’t make it up,,,,”We’re having complaints from tourists about queues at Heathrow…shall we put on more staff ?” “Nah ! I tell you what let’s not just do the security checks instead that’ll speed things up !” The UK Border Force(LOL)are bloody lucky there wasn’t a terrorist incident as a result of their failing in their statutory duty. As well as being sacked the Head of the UK Border Force and his senior managers should face criminal charges….i.e. ” Gross Misconduct/ Negligence in Public Office….and a very public bollocking by the Home Afffairs Committee screened live

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  99. 326
    Barnehurst Bob says:

    Please put another post up. Everytime I come back here I think I’ve ended up on the Crimewatch site by mistake.

  100. 329
    scott walker says:

    i thought the right-wing cretins who lurk all the time on this site were libertarians? Didn’t know you were so happy with a newspaper group owning your government, owning the police and hacking murder victims. Tom Watson is worth a thousand of you losers.

    • 335
      tribes "r" us, we are the best says:

      The left didn’t do too badly being owned by the same newspaper group, but showed how hateful they could be when scorned by voters, get a grip and use your own brain and stop being part of the problem, your coming across as a hate filled tribal lefty.

    • 341
      The Paragnostic says:

      Scott Walker?

      Your Brel covers were shit, pal.

    • 347
      The stink of hypocrisy and opportunism says:

      I think the point being made is that the Labour Party are hypocrits over the matter not the fact that there is probably some force to their argument over the power of NI in UK politics which needs curbing or the fact that some of their journos engaged in illegal phone-hacking

    • 348
      Sarah says:

      Those were the days. The Pyjama parties, the charity events and the baby showers. How I miss my friends now that Gordon has alienated then all.

    • 360
      Don't bite the hand that feeds, chav. says:

      Without “losers” like us, your beloved Parasite Party wouldn’t have had any money to spray all over mindless little chavs such as yourself.

  101. 332
    Sheikh it all about says:

    What Twatson needs is a Fat Wah.

  102. 338
    Morning all says:

  103. 343
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Morning fellow window lickers :-)

  104. 351
    The Paragnostic says:

    There once was a trougher named Tom,
    Who wished to perform with aplomb
    His image consultant
    Declared the resultant
    A triumph, for a pig from West Brom.

    • 365
      David Cameron is the worst Prime Minister ever ! says:

      There was a PM named Davey,
      whose brain was made of gravy.
      He was thick, he was shit, he was a complete utter prick,
      and he scrapped our airforce and navy.

      • 369
        The Paragnostic says:

        At least try to make it scan, ffs!

        Cameron’s still not as bad as the Monocular Mentalist – he’s doing his best, but there’s a way to go yet before he’s as reviled as that cretinous Caledonian who sold the gold and spent your grandchildren’s taxes on bedwetters and immigrants.

        It wasn’t Cameron who signed us up for two aircraft carriers we couldn’t afford with contracts we can’t get out of, was it? Admittedly, we should be keeping the Harrier and Nimrod going for a bit longer, but when Labour were wasting billions mismanaging defence projects and billions more on Tony’s Iraq adventure, they ignored the 40 billion black hole they were leaving for the future.

        Please come back when you have developed an ear for the rhythms of English, and have a better criticism of Rusty than “he’s doing what he has to do because there’s no money left” – we all think he’s a prick too, but lefty whingeing won’t make it better.

  105. 352
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    For all the Billy fans out there, how does an umpire celebrate when his home country win the world cup and he is on the field? Lets ask Billy.

  106. 359
    annomymous says:

    “Bill Bunter”… cripes!

  107. 367
    Gordon F Brown says:

    Only 19 posts from Bowden’s greatest fan. He’s slipping…

  108. 370
    Monday, Monday says:

    Why are all the top Greek politicians called Papa-summatorother? Where are the Mamas? (Forget about Mama Cass, she ate one too many baklavas).

  109. 373
    b 34st says:

    Its a sex offender with a blow dry who is such a peasent that he doesnt own collar stiffeners

  110. 383
    Snipcock says:

    Turds do not polish,, as can be seen here.

  111. 384
    annomymous says:

    sick of all those jibes,? Fed up with being called Fat Kneck?,want,to get red of 10lbs of Ugly fat… Chop ye’r head off

  112. 385
    Xavier Onassis says:

    The man is an arsehole.

    And he’s ugly, too.

  113. 386
    The Dirty Rat. says:

    From a XXXL , spotty cu*t to a XL spotty Cu*t in one easy move.

  114. 388
    annomymous says:

    errrrrm is it a Motoring question, is it a * Frog Eyed Sprite*

  115. 391
    Brownsmental a says:

    What an odious little wank shaft. Typical left wing champagne piggy and a hypocrit. I have more respect for a winnet stuck to my arse cheek. Hunt face tom watson crawl back under your rock you fat useless ring piece.

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    Rob Atkins says:

    Hi Guido – seen the great campaigners FoI request re Downing Street flat on his blog ? Just sent him this supportive comment : wonder if he’ll allow it, in the spirit of openness and democratic debate that he espouses ?

    Dear Mr Watson – I applaud your unceasing struggle to ensure probity, transparency and moral scrupulousness by those in the public domain.
    In a similar spirit, could you please set out in full in this blog all parliamentary claims you have made that relate to improvements in any first or second home that you have had, that has been paid for from the public purse ? Would you further reveal how much of this public investment in such properties that you have repaid to date, from the proceeds of the sale of any such property ? Finally, how you intend to set about repaying the balance of this public investment in your private properties in the future ?
    I feel sure that your moral scrupulousness would not permit you to make a private profit out of the public purse, as some of your colleagues seem to believe is their entitlement.
    As a vociferous fighter on behalf of the downtrodden, you would know better than most that any public money invested to your personal benefit is at the expense of supporting the hard working families of Britain.
    I look forward to seeing your reply on your blog. You are a great campaigner against censorship, and for transparency, so will no doubt be delighted to respond to this message publicly through this page.



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