Manoeuvres
Look out for @DMiliband's fingerprints all over @andrewrawnsley's Sunday column. He was briefing him in Cafe Nero yesterday afternoon.—
Eye Spy MP (@eyespymp) December 15, 2011
No doubt they had a lot to talk about after PMQs…
If Dave Were President He’d Have Resigned By Now | Alex Wickham
Loongate: What Happened in the Blue Boar Bar | Simon Walters
Feldman’s Tennis Days With Dave | Telegraph
How Geoffrey Howe Has Lost the Debate | Robin Shepherd
Dave Has Lost Control on Europe | Geoffrey Howe
Lib Dems Should Support EU Referendum | LibDemVoice
Feldman’s Denial | Fraser Nelson
Obama’s Presidency is Imploding | Nile Gardiner
Miliband Could Be a Great PM | Thomas Pascoe
What Are You Really Paying in Income Tax? | TPA
Galloway’s Mad Month | The Commentator
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
Focus group time. says:
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
Revenge is sweet eh Ed?
For what? He would still only be leader of the opposition.
D Miliband can’t be leader after his brother. The same jokes would continue. Plus they can then be accused of nepotism, keeping it in the family, etc
Quite – aside from the accusations of nepotism, the fact that Milimajor would have plotted to overthrow Miliminor would make the ridicule directed towards them even worse…
Balls!
Balls..!!
No, Mr Balls is tainted by his Brown years, and is unsuitable anyway.
Most likely to be Mrs Balls methinks
!!..Balls..!!
Harriet Halfman ?
Batty Hattie.
I have no ambitions for high office, but if asked by my colleagues to serve…
I’ll do it & if nobody does as I want we can all go on strike
Agreed it would be another suicidal move by Labour – but remember, nepotism is only kin deep.
The Comrades Milliband Socialism in One Family. Let’s hope it fucking stays there useless pair of clowns. The Brother D can brief Rawnsley all he wants he’s just as unelectable.
Dromey (Miss J.)
lets face it Labour is bankrupt, financially, morally , ideologically.
I could never do anything like that to my brother. Really is this the sort of clown we want as PM?
I have already reprimanded both the Miliband poodles and instructed them to behave. The Karachi Ed Miliband’s performance yesterday was tragic but so is the EU so he will fit in well.
Wish I could afford Cafe Nero. Regular socialist hangout?
Unfortunately, you WERE paying, if Miliband claims it back.
If?
I couldn’t possibly comment.
It’s not as though you’re brothers, or anything.
Ahhh that most useful of idiot cu’nts, tirelessly working for his benefits scrounging constituents by briefing a lefty cu’nt mouthpiece….D Milliband
Why are so many leftist politicians such worthless, self important vermin?
I am a highly valuable member of me community.
I work tirelessly to attack Tory media, but turn a blind eye to the lies & distortions of the Labour supoorting media
Got any good jokes, Tom?
if he had he would have used them on “Have i got news for you” instead of appearing as the most unfunny guest ever (including the tub of lard).
He came over as just what he is a fat faced, greedy, lying c_nt with no sense of humour. Did he really think he’d look good? Total knob.
Herr Moggie, may I interpolate here and ask you not to go on repeating that story about Jacob B and the hair, etc? It’s doing me no good at all with my peers.
Thanx.
That was last night , Asty , love x .
I don’t know about interpolating . I am tying to elope …
Stop me if you’ve heard this one, yeah? OK– there was this expurgated version of Campbell’s statement on the Guido Fawkes blog, that, when I downloaded it from Guido, suddenly became the full text!
Well, perhaps you had to be there..
Shift-f10.
Amazing.
Mummy Miliband must be very proud.
Edward, her youngest boy, has been a big disappointment. Apart from winning the Nasal Gargling competition at the age of three he has achieved little else.
And the other one has allowed a Cuckoo to lay its eggs in his nest.
I’m not religious, but maybe him being a Jaffa is a sign that the big fella has had enough of that particular line.
W.W.
didn’t they downgrade fingerprints from forensic science to opinion yesterday?
roll on the same with dna. six thousand million million can be wrong.
What’s all this Milliband is proposing a vote for a referendum on In or Out.
Anybody got any more on it?
where did you hear that? Or see?
One of the posters in the David Davis article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8956748/Europe-Voters-liked-the-veto-now-they-want-more.html
Had a quick look on google, couldnt find anything?
Get your fingers off my column Billy.
Never happen the old EU hating Tankies long got their marching orders from Comrade Kinnock when he embraced all things EU funded. They might make some noises but Ed will never take an anti EU stance Labour use the EU to justify their piss poor version of socialism so can’t back out of it. Still always remember more union members vote Tory than Labour so stuff like this only hurt Labour more. Winner
only decent leader i see for Labour is Kate Hoey
She has principles and as such is automatically ruled out of any senior Labour position. As is Frank Field.
She is a socialist and must be banished to the Planet Listerine.
The only possible reason I can think of for someone like Kate Hoey being a Labour MP is the lack of an offer of a safe seat from elsewhere. I suppose we all have to make a living.
Would Mr Rwansley have notced that quite a few countries including Sweden, Hungary and Czech republic have now distanced themselves from laset weekend’s euro/eu negotiations? I guess so, but would he write about it? No, because Ed will increase the nr of public sector jobs again and all of thm will get advertised in Guardian/Observer and on their website. Labour government has been bankrolling Guardian to an unbelievable degree.
PS Observer is nothing more than an instruction manual for beeb editors and reporters for the sunday, exlpaining how to spin pro labour, anti conservatives and only in favour of libdems when it simultaneously weakens conservatives and strengthens labour.
I don’t think I have ever read the Guardian or the Observer. Well, maybe 20+ years ago, if there was nothing else in the JCR.
Things like that give me a headache.
No worries, you are excused. Just keep paying. Ha Ha Ha.
According to the press gazette les and less are reading the guardian
The Guardian, which increased its cover price to £1.20 on 18 September, was down 16.3 per cent year on year to an average daily sale of 226,473.
The Daily Telegraph 594,644 ; -8.90 ; -1.53
The Guardian 226,473 ; -16.30 ; -1.76
The Times 413,233 ; -11.38 ; -0.95
as for the observer (it should be renamed the declining readers)
Independent on Sunday 133,108 ; -11.81 ; 1.65
The Observer 266,744 ; -15.40 ; -0.60
The Sunday Telegraph 465,389 ; -7.19 ; -1.38
The Sunday Times 967,615 ; -8.06 ; -0.04
So they will be losing even more money despite raising the cover price, as the lefties do not want to pay for it instead browse online instead
Not “less & less” ; fewer & fewer”.
Grammar
Just “fewer”; “Fewer and fewer” is a tautology.
Biggest drop for the Naurgiad. Ha.
Eat it, yoghurt knitters. Your belief that your opinions are so much more goddamn worthy than those of everyone else sickens me to the core.
The Observer used to be a really good paper until the Guardian bought it.
World service news continuing to drip poison: proclaiming something about Cameron desperately looking for allies in the eu and Sweden saying he shouldn’t get his hopes up as far as they’re concerned as despite their vacillation, a spokesman affirmed they’d be more likely to vote with the treaty than not. So there!
Ha! Ha! Guido’s driving the news narrative about the Labour Party……….. I wonder how the BBC will try and defend against this???
driving under the influence of alcohol carries a stiff sentence
Comeback kid???
I’d much rather he didn’t.
Jacques Chirac guilty of embezzling public funds to illegally finance the party.
Goes on every day in the UK, under the full protection of law, with Pilgrims.
Likewise the union modernisation fund. How many hundreds of millions of pounds and how many years, does it take to ‘modernise’ a union?
Even the French would not dare to introduce such a blatent money laundering operation under cover of law.
The Banana photograph destroys any respect the voting public have for D Militwit, in their subconscious he is a buffoon. According to the experts the only way to negate this would be for him to release another photograph with something with sufficient impact to replace the image of the banana. Apparently only the image of a huge penis replacing the banana would do it.
Or a clip of the scumbag signing the Lisbon Tre*aty on continuous loop with the word ‘traitor’ flashing above.
Agreed, except for the subconscious bit. Everyone knows he is a craven pillock. He had an open goal with his “challenge” to jgm2′s friend, the Maximum Imbecile, and funked it.
I can’t stand the woman but Hillary Clinton bitch slapped him neatly over his invite to stay at his country house.
In his case, already peeled.
I’m ready to step in as leader.
Do!
Step in wearing lederhosen, more like.
Jawohl, mein Kommandant!!!
You’ve done this before haven’t you?
You would never believe where I live…
The funny thing is, you would have been the Eurocrats Technocrat of choice if only you had agreed to us joinign the Euro. Another failure to add to the list of things that keep you awake at night, Gordo.
Glad to see Ed Milliband is so concerned about Public Sector Jobs that he sacks his own speechwriter before Christmas LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
One of the versions of what has happened states she was made redundant. This probably means she has received a generous redundancy payment from you and me and then immediately gets re employed by Harriet Hatemen on a generous salary again paid for by you and me – a win win situation for everyone (except you and me ).
Kerching !
It’s happening to Bbbc staff as well.
Nice and public in Cafe Nero… A passing cynic might wonder if he is trying very hard to undermine his brother.
would have been even more public in Caffe Nero
You’d best pm EyeSpyMP with that gem of pedantry. I am sure they will appreciate it.
The word is cafe, for sure, pronounced cayf, none of this EU bollocks for us. That’s what I like about English. It’s a huge vacuum cleaner. Ingests allcomers and then spits them out again, properly modified, so that sensible people can pronounce them.
Caffe indeed. How are you supposed to say that? Bloody foreigners.
Where I come from ‘cafe’ is pronounced ‘caff’. Always has been, always will be. So there…
Caff.
see – you can spell things properly when you try.
Go tell that to Billy.
I can also capitalise my sentences.
Anyway, back to the point. They could have had a phone chat, or met in a more private place… but no. Right there for everyone to see. I imagine they both get something from such parading.
This power struggle between brothers for the throne seems to belong more to the Wars of the Roses than a modern parliamentary democracy.I don’t think we’ve ever seen it in this country. Austen and Neville Chaamberlain both led the Tory party at different times but they were half brothers (sort of- same famous father and their mothers were sisters) but the peaks of their careers were years apart.
We deserve better than a Hampstead marxist family vendetta.
So the Chamberlain brothers were also first cousins as well? Sounds like one of my “You Know You’re a Redneck, If…” comedy bits!
Well, that’s politics. This battle is so bitter because there is so little at stake.
It is unethical and unwise to have David Miliband as Labour leader. New Labour are in a mess. With Ed Labour moved to the left, if Milibliar becomes leader then its back to style over substance, spin and dishonest, self-serving, nasty politics. Disgraceful.
It’ll be Yvette Cooper. Personally I can’t think of a single thing she has to offer the country, except perhaps a cold sore.
Crabs?
I told you so.
I’m fed up with courgettes too luv.
Goldfish? Courgettes? In her bath? Woohoo!
She looks nice and study, ready for some punishment.
Perhaps Cameron ought to reconsider.
now hes looking for policy ideas on facebook:
Ed Miliband asked: What would you most like to see the Government do this Christmas?
100 000 jobs for young people, funded by a £2 billion tax on bank bonuses
Bring forward long-term investment projects like schools, roads and transport
Reverse the VAT rise now for a temporary period
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How about
‘Save the lives of all the immigrants in the UK by sending them home. Soon’?
Nah – they’re too unstable!
I can’t see why Blunkett can’t be leader. With Blears as deputy. A dream ticket.
My dream ticket is Blunketts dog and Larry the cat, but how long until the fur starts to fly.
Did HMRC ever cash that cheque that Haze waved in front of the cameras? …you know, the one that she was shamed into handing over following her flipping tax avoidance scam. (That’s the same scam employed by the Balls’s although, Yvette (she who knows everything…she who thinks TM should provide parliament, at the drop of a hat, with the full names and dates of birth of every illegal entrant to the UK) can’t remember what she declared as her main residence, and have therefore never paid their dues to the best of my knowledge)
I only ask because having spent the morning on the phone to the self same HMRC, I find it improbable that they would be able to respond to such an ad-hoc payment – or anything that was outside their stupid effin’ procedures.
Oh tiny red-headed one, please do tell.
Lobby for D Milli as much as you like Greedo. He’s still a tory cυnt who should never have been allowed in the Labour Party so don’t waste your money betting on him. Actually, do. Lots of it.
We don’t want any of Ralph’s spawn, geddit?
Progressive, investment, in tune with young people,
too fast too soon, borrow more, repay more, do what
everyone wants plus VAT, He just doesn’t get it..yawn
Fuck me sideways, Greeks are on their way, anyone else heard ?
Somebody just posted that on Facebook, but deleted – what have you heard?
Phone call simply saying Greeks Euro exit and on their own again.
Suggest Thursday afternoon froth and static.
Welcome to the show. Today we examine Brotherly backstabbing. These men are brothers and both have stabbed each other in the back in order to be leader of an unpopular Party. So Ed stabs David in the back first to become leader and then David stabs Ed in the back to remove him from power so he can take his place. You both should be ashamed of yourselves. If you can stab each other in the back. What makes you think the electorate will trust any of you not to stab them in the back? You both should be ashamed of yourselves. Get off my show. I do want see your faces again. Put down the blades and get of my stage. Ed you go left and David you go right. Now go! *audience* Boos
The best quip I’ve ever seen on this blog………… Bless you !