Labour’s Dugher Falsely Accuses Tories of Knighting Criminal
Michael Dugher fancies himself as Ed Miliband’s answer to Peter Mandelson. Guido thinks he is as slippery with his spin, but nowhere near as smart as the Dark Lord. Dugher has just emailed out a press release, Guido is ignoring the embargo because he wasn’t a recipient of this press release:
Date: 30 December 2011 17:13:57 GMT
Subject: EMBARGOED NEWS FROM LABOUR: David Cameron promised to clean up politics, but in office he has shown he is utterly out of touch with decent British people – Dugher
Responding to the New Year’s Honours List, Michael Dugher, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister said:
“David Cameron promised to clean up politics, but in office he has shown he is utterly out of touch with decent British people. He’s giving a knighthood to Paul Ruddock, who made millions from the collapse of Northern Rock and has given over half a million pounds to the Tories, and another to Gerald Ronson who was jailed for his part in a share-trading fraud.
“This tells you everything you need to know about the Tories’ priorities. At a time when millions of families are struggling to get by, it’s the Tories’ friends in the City who get the rewards.”
ENDS
A bit rich you might think coming from the party that knighted RBS’s Fred Goodwin. Paul Ruddock has a gallery in the British Museum named after him and is chairman of the board of the V & A. He has given tens of millions to charity and is a well know philanthropist. So no surprise that he gets a well deserved knighthood.
Truly shocking that the Tories would give a knighthood to a convicted fraudster. Except they haven’t. Dugher has screwed up again…
We never lie!
I want to become an Earl so that with my OBE I will then be an Earlobe.
Like most Westminster Village Inhabitants, Michael Dugher seems to think the electorate proles like me won’t remember that he served his No.10 spin apprenticeship under Damian McBride with other dark art students like Patrick Diamond, Justin Forsyth, John Woodcock, Michael Ellam, Simon Lewis, Balshan Izzet and Ian Bundred.
All of the above are the cancer at the heart of the Labour Party and should never be taken at their word when talking for the good of the people.
Call for Carter F*ck! – I feel a Libel case coming on!!
Ok- so its “only” a gong as opposed to a “K” but it seems somewhat strange that a government that is promoting a zero tolerance attitude to “fraud” (in the sense that a porter nicking a sandwich would be sacked) is also handing out public service awards to one of the most notorious fraudsters in British business history.
So- the guy actually has a point that you’ve totally ignored GuidoF
So its “only” a gong as opposed to a “K” but it seems somewhat strange that a government that is promoting a zero tolerance attitude to “fraud” (in the sense that a porter nicking a sandwich would be sacked) is also handing out public service awards to one of the most notorious fraudsters in British business history.
So- the guy actually has a point.
Never mind the quality, feel the height!
But socialists are nicer people and and more intelligent.
And less self sufficient?
Do you know what the OBE stands for? No, it stands for Other B*s****s Efforts.
In other news, Cameron nails his EU colours to the mast once again in new years honours list are these gems.
KCMG
Dr Michael Leigh, Formerly dir general, Enlargement, European Commission, Brussels. For serv the enlargement of the Europe*an Union.
CMG
Graham John Lloyd Avery, Formerly dir, Europe*an Commission, Brussels. For serv European affairs.
OBE
Paul Edward Adamson, Editor-in-ch and Publisher, E!Sharp, Brussels. For serv promoting the European Union.
Tamara Flanagan, dir of European and statutory funding, commty service volunteers, for serv voluntary and commty sector.
Dr Deirdre Hughes, lead consult, Quality Assurance and Evidence Base at European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network, for serv career guidance.
Tell that to an SAS mate if mine. He’s an OBE. Go on, I dare you……
Mendacity and hypocrisy – it’s in Liebour’s D-N-A.
Luckily, the staunchly un-biased BBC will not be leading most of their news bulletins with this anti-Conservative drivel, straight from the honest as the day is long Labour party.
Oh, er hang on…
Thick lefty twat
Tribal tosser!
Wot a Twat
Wot a tosser!
Wot a plonker.
I bet Guido is so pleased that people leave him off the embargo press releases.
I mean, if he was hon the list he would have to honor it. These are the rules.
Well technically they are. Unless you have signed an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) you could ignore an embargo but would never be sent advanced information again. However if you are not on the list in the first place…
“Well technically they are. Unless you have signed an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) you could ignore an embargo but would never be sent advanced information again. However if you are not on the list in the first place…”
What about all the newspapers etc that publicised Ronnie Corbett’s CBE yesterday? I presume they had all been given the Honours List with an embargo but someone leaked the CBE so they then used that as excuse to break the NDA on it.
lier
Lefties telling lies AGAIN?
No 2 just isn’t good enough, please send your t shirt back asap, after giving it a good dunk in industrial strength dettol. Thanks, order_order.com.
No. 2 = peace.
And I AM a number.
A survey of the bogs around Westminster found that Billy is not the only gay in the village.
Billy typing shit AGAIN!
Why do you hate Billy?
Fuck off with your hate crime shit.
No they are being MENdacious. If there were more wimmin present then this would not be happening.
We knighted Fred the Shred for services to banking.
We would have done just the same, if on our watch, to shut him up.
and if earole were arseoles you’d have shit running down your neck.
Is that you billy? Your spelling is atrocious!
Capital ‘B’ for Billy, please.
He doesn’t deserve it.
Cash for peerages round 2…
‘Liebore Nobody F*ucks Up Press Release’.
What would they do to the country I wonder? Oh, hold on a mo……
Dugher has some need to talk, he is just another labour liar and is totally useless as an MP.
Only thing I asked him to do approx three years ago, was to obtain for me, the running costs of Barnsley MBC district heating schemes, still waiting.
Asked Mayor of Doncaster for same info, received it fortnight later.
Labour leader of Barnsley MBC Steve Houghton won’t provide them even when the request is under the FOI Act. Another labour thief and liar.
Calm down dear! As your glorious leader would say. And he would never employ a dodgy geezer would he? Just ask Andy Coulson.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Please don’t remind me I will be facing a few trials next year!
Sorry Andy. Don’t mean to spoil your new year. They don’t really do that sort of thing in the showers. It’s a myth. Isn’t it?
Keep up the good work,
trollslads !Ooh, sorry, does this place only allow Tory tribal twats to comment?
Of course not.
Dumb socialist c*nts like yourself are essential to provide us with a little humour.
Open your eyes for once in your life.
Well, anonymous, in answer to your question Ooh, sorry, does this place only allow Tory tribal twats to comment?
The fact that your comment is here is proof that even Labour tribal twats like you are allowed to comment.
Ronson became known in the UK as one of the “Guinness Four” for his involvement in the Guinness share-trading fraud of the 1980s, along with Ernest Saunders and occasional business associates Jack Lyons and Anthony Parnes. He was convicted in August 1990 of one charge of conspiracy, two of false accounting, and one of theft, and was fined £5 million and given a one-year jail sentence, of which he served six months.
So is ronson getting a Knighthood/peerage?
In 2000 the Europe@n Court of Human Rights ruled that the 1990 trial had been unfair because there had been an improper collusion between the DTI inspectors and the prosecuting authorities.[4] A further app@al to the Court of Appe@l Criminal Division, that sought to have the Human Rights Act 1998 applied retrospectively, and claimed that the trial jury had been “nobbled”, failed in 2001.[5] A final appe@l to the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) failed in 2002.[6]
So is he getting an honour?
I think Guido’s point is that it’s only a CBE, so that’s alright then, and that getting this wrong is more embarrassing than giving a gong to a tealeaf
That is the point isn’t it?
So CBE = Criminal Bugger’s Efforts then?
Criminal/Conservative
You say potato…
+1
A bit lame for a tory lickspittle to be relying on the European Court of Human Rights to justify the honour to Ronson.
Was Ronson ever jailed and did Ruddick make millions out of Northern Rock? Guido doesn’t say.Giving millions away is easy when you have billions.What is the truth?
Ronson served only part of his sentence in pretty comfortable surroundings i.e. He didn’t have to look around too much whilst bending to pick up the soap.
Thanks for half the answer Billy.
Michael Dugher even LOOKS as stupid as Milliband.
I thought that he was trying to be Bruce Forsyth in the photo.
He looks like a right prick.
Guido’s point is that, as far as this story, the lad looks a WRONG prick.
(Pursuant to “Can’t remember my moniker’s” request of 29/12/2011, no 325 of Mandelson thread, no rimshots; apparently they trouble him. HE seems a right fellow, and so I shall oblige him, till he says something foolish.)
*(Crickets chirping)*
Another lying commie Hunt
you’ve got to admit … from the top man to the scummiest spinner – labours 100% screw up rate is awesome. You have to admire a failure rate that consistent.
It’s good but the coalition are snapping at their heels on the economy
if you were macro-economically literate you’d know labour ran the country into the ground … so feel free to frak off labour troll
When are Cameron’s real cuts going to start then?
After the Mad Hatter’s tea party is over probably.
Give it time and Cameron will be doling out the ‘honours’ to all the wankers, spivs, fuckers and chancers he can.
You think the Cons are immune to this shite?
Dream on fat boy.
When will Dave get around to honouring the man who put him where he is today – Gordon Brown.
Give him time!
it would be one way to get the cunt out of his bunker.
I am really unfunny, whoever gave me the BBC nod is a great mate!
Honouring fraudsters? Never happened in my day. As i said to Lord Gannex, your raincoats may be sh*t, sir, but my goodness those pockets are deep!!
Gannex, wasn’t that Harold Wilson’s Franchise? (showing my age again).
Thought it was mine for a moment.
You are indeed right, comrade. I pushed for Lord Gannex to be honoured whilst i was Lord seal of the privy, holding the paper whilst Harold sh*t on the country.
You are also an ugly great lump of amorphous adipose tissue.
‘Truly shocking that the Tories would give a knighthood to a convicted fraudster. Except they haven’t.’
Erm, that wasn’t what it said at all. Put your reading glasses and thinking cap on Guido, you need them.
Afraid Dugher is claiming that the Tories have given a knighthood to Gerald Ronson.
Mike put on your reading glasses and thinking cap you thick c’unt
Dibble.
Can’t see what all the fuss is about. It’s only a fucking lighter.
Felix ?
So what’s the going rate for the libel settlement on something like this
can’t see parliamentary privilege applying
Tories have always given honours for cash or accepted cash for honours. That Labour should do the same is the tragedy. Cameron is merely reverting to Conservative type. In my lifetime Tories from Profumo through Archer to Andy Coulson have been criminals.
The man who brazenly started selling honours was ……………………………….
David Lloyd George, who was a LIBERAL!
I really would check on the records of Wilson, Callaghan and Blair if I were you. The Eccleston case immediately springs to mind, as cash for laws really is the ultimate in corruption. The whiter-than-white party dealt with corruption in a socialist way. They nationalised it.
Profumo not a criminal – bit silly – then did the decent thing for the rest of his life.
Well, you would say that, wouldn’t you?
Despicable & hateful Tories!
Why do they give peerages to thives? Labour would never do this.
Profumo devoted the rest of his life to charity, how does that make him a criminal?
Profumo gave the rest of his life to charities and spent most of his wealth on such.
In today’s world he was not a criminal only a sex starved man who made a stupid mistake. Superman should try living up to his name.
The House of Lords is full of Labour incompetents. Give me certain types of criminal any day to incompetents – at least they have learning skills.
This Michael Dugher fellow is a professional twat; for not only IS he a twat he actually practices his twatishness, and the art of twatery, every single day to ensure that he remains one of the biggest twats around.
He truly is a dedicated TWAT!
– Perhaps there is an honour for this? Perhaps the Royal order of the voters boot?
He gets an OBE– “Offering Bullshit Exclusively”
or maybe a DFC – Definitely Fukkin Clueless.
If you change your mind
I’m the first in line
Honey I’m still free
Take a chance on me
SKROO U.
Bitch! That’s my line for tomorrow night in the clubs.
How could we ever refuse?
We feel like we win when we lose…
Altzeimers.
Nah! Jetlag from all that flying to Tuscany and back.
For the benefit of your health we would advise you step away from your keyboard.
Polly is back spouting her usual diatribe to her followers. The question that is never asked is what would the opposition do !!!. Is a bit like the 10 minute hate for left wingers, and another article absolving individulas from the riots especially if black, you could not make it up
The government are acting in a reckleth and irrethponthible manner. In a reckleth and irrethponthible manner, the government are acting.
Too far, too fatht. Too far, too fatht.
Mama! Ma-ma!
My 2 minute hate for left wingesr has certainly gone past the 10 minute stage, lifelong I am fairly confident.
Tomorrow’s Guardian – something no-one will read.
Polly Toynbee’s opinion – something no-one cares about.
The BBC seem to care about it quite a lot judging by the amount of BBC and R4 airtime the raddled old sow gets. Best of all we must pay to listen to her pearls of shit.
‘Dugher has just emailed out a press release…
Truly shocking that the Tories would give a knighthood to a convicted fraudster. Except they haven’t.’
‘THE BBC HAS LEARNED…
Or, maybe, just maybe, will go very quiet (after ditching or stealth editting what it had ready or up)
They will be letting fraudsters in the House of Lords next!
The BBC seem to care about it quite a lot judging by the amount of BBC and R4 airtime the raddled old sow gets. Best of all we must pay to listen to her pe@rls of shit.
Polly Tonybee ran for the SDP in Lewisham West (I think, Colin Moynihan won it) in 1983. A friend of mine canvassed for her and was convinced she was going to win. Lost by a country mile so no one cared about her opinion then either. 1983 – those were the good old days.
SDP = Silly Dim People
Guido. Let’s get this straight. Ronson is a convicted fraudster. Are you certain that Ronson is not in the NY Honours list?
+1
Thats what i am trying to find out.
You f’ucking twat
I can guarantee that Ronson is not on the New York Honors List.
Liebour – spinning faster than the large Hadron Collider.
Too far, to fatht! Too far, too fatht!
The government are acting in a reckleth and irresponthible manner.
Mama! Ma-ma!
Too far, to fatht! Too far, too fatht!
Mama! Ma-ma!
Doesn’t that put Dugher in the way of a Libel Suit?
Come over here and give momma some sugar x x x
You mean Guido actually doesn’t know and he complains about spinning
What Guido knows is that Ruddock is being ennobled and that Ruddock is not a convicted fraudster. So on that account Dugher is on the naughty step. What is not clear is whether Cameron has been impolitic enough to honour Ronson, in which case Dugher can wriggle free of getting Labour hauled through the libel courts. This sort of lack of attention to detail sometimes happens. I suspect neo-Guido.
not Neo, i think this is a guido story (hence why Guido replied up thread to someone)
What the fuck is a “Neo” ffs?
Do pay attention.
Check back to 25th December blogging output and in full colour you will see G and Neo G , please note the picture is XXXX rated, so a sick bag is required before you look
“Check back”?
For all that is holy, why?
Subject: EMBARGOED NEWS
Oh fuck, I think I have cum a little.
If you hadn’t put this headline up,I wouldn’t have known this guy existed or really cared what he shoved out as the “truth” , I really still don’t care, but you have given him what he required PR, foolish or a good idea ?, time will tell.
The host probably got a bung, political arseholes like it that way!
Brown knighted Sir Fred!
Brown Lorded Mandelson.
And now I like to lord it over him.
I will be similarly rewarding those in my extended family who lick my ring piece – as does my best mate Nick. I tend to agree with Nick.
I love P EAS
You love PE AS
We all love PEES
Except Guido, who will not tolerate the mention of small, round, green legumes
or the letters P E A in sequence in whatever context
What it his nickname at school or something? Was he terribly bullied?
I humbly suggest he was a c’unt at school and both deserved and continues to deserve opprobrium for that.
You must be new. “P” is banned, as is a certain grain commonly consumed in Asia, because too many people thought it was funny to claim that MP Diane Abbott reached a certain amount of avoirdupois having consumed only those food stuffs. As we all know, there was a certain amount of Red Stripe involved as well. (And while we are at it, do not make reference to the operation of a motorised vehicle with a certain five letter word beginning with “d”. As well, do not combine this word with a five letter word synonymous with “to consume a liquid.”)
Glad we could be of help!
Of no help to me at all. The host appears to be suffering from an inferiority complex.
Well fair enough, but the way the automod rules are coded (i.e. stupidly and simplisticly) means that you cannot use perfectly innocuous words like: -
spe@ch, appe@r, pe@ce etc. etc. without rousing the ire of the mod bot.
Why can’t it look for the complete word ‘pe@’ delimited by whitespace?
Does Guido not have access to a coding person of sufficient skill to do this, one that understands how to employ Regular Expressions maybe?
It’s piss poor and amateurish really for a blog of this stature.
What– you thought the Guidos were professionals?
How can anyone take this man seriously ? He’s a trades unionist and has a surname which is pronounced ‘Ducky’. ‘Nuff said.
Whre the fuck is my Sirship?
Wait until things quieten down a bit and it’s in the post m8!
Go for a Lordship Tone, it comes with full expenses. You of all people will appreciate that.
Is there anybody in Labour who isn’t a complete c unt?
My cυnt is not complete.
The same question can reasonably be asked of the Cons or indeed any other fucking wanker in Westminster.
The whole lot deserve to be shot.
Rowenna Davis just repeated this on Sky News – or at least I think she did, she had a rather fetching blue top on.
CBE
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=gerald%20ronson%20new%20years%20honours&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDkQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thisismoney.co.uk%2Fmoney%2Fnews%2Farticle-2080483%2FNew-Year-Honours-high-flyers-Helena-Morrissey-Rona-Fairhead.html&ei=6ED-TqDZIpOg8gO_1tmrCg&usg=AFQjCNEueqWvPoMI2sMQfD4R3BzYEFxlGA&cad=rja
Maybe they got the same press release and assumed it must be true.
Guidos headline has changed from “hounering a convict” to ” knighting a convict”
I have to admit this is a weak and non-story.
Honuring/knighting?
same thing
Guido’s headline has changed? Surely not!
At least the dead tree press ‘sticks’ to their stories the next day…
“Controversial property entrepreneur Gerald Ronson is among the other City figures singled out for his services to charity. Ronson, who receives a CBE, was jailed as one of the ‘Guinness Four’ in the 1980s.”
Prison rehabilitated him!
It works!
To be charitable, what Dugher meant to say was that two gentlemen who, in his humble opinion, are dodgy, are receiving Honours; Ruddock gets a “Sir,” and Ronson gets an Honour too. Except that’s not the way it’s written, and he screwed up his own press release, if indeed he had anything to do with it personally. My suspicion is that it was some unpaid intern writing the copy, a product of the British educational system, who cannot get the syntax of a sentence correct. That, or (s)he is steamed about having to stay in London and work through the Christmas New Year’s week, and…”OOPS, did I say that?”
Good Grief!
Are the BBC or the Liebor Party (same thing really) sending in apologies for Dugher under a Charity banner?
Oh dear some rich tories friends of Guido get done over by the Daily Mail, must be all Labour’s fault, Michael Dugher, Ed Milliband, Gordon Brown, Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair its all their fault. Couldnt happen to nicer people
Watch out, nellwillbeontoyousoon!
Politicians, SpAds, ChAvs, spinners, other assorted undesirables and their followers deserve everything they fucking get come crunch time!
Well you managed to get one possessive apostrophe correct. That’s something, I suppose.
Ah, I see you are playing the displacement activity card!
Fail!
Dugher is officially a “Shadow Minister without Portfolio” (which itself seems like an “honour,” if you will, in the sense that there’s no actual Ministry he has to devote his attention to), and can devote his full attention to whispering in the ear of the Shadow Premier what a wonderful job he thinks Ed is doing, and to keep it up, as they have the Tories on the run.
In other words, he’s as useful as teats on a bull.
“teats on a bull”…. urm, reminds me of Cameron.
I love Rιce and Pεas when the Prιce is right.
Why say “enemy” when you can say “critic”?
http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.com/2011/12/ed-milibands-top-10-enemies-within.html
Most of the people who get a knighthood from any government of any colour are crooks.
How very dare you !
Here’s a laugh:
‘We will shortly begin to compile our list of people whose names might be put forward to 10 Downing Street as possible recipients of a national honour in the New Year 2012 Honours list. I am seeking fresh citations from the heads of all HEFCE-funded higher education institutions for this purpose.
‘Recognising the contribution of people working in higher education is extremely important. We would therefore like you to put forward recommendations for your colleagues, undoubtedly among the best in their field, from all areas of the sector including research, scholarship, and teaching.
‘The Secretary of State is keen to promote more grass-roots candidates so we would like to encourage nominations at all levels within institutions, particularly administrative staff in manual, clerical or other support roles, who have made an outstanding contribution and had a positive impact on both students and colleagues.
‘We would especially welcome nominations for female candidates, particularly those at senior level, and for ethnic minority candidates as these groups are generally under-represented in the nominations received.’
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/circlets/2011/cl01_11/
Who cares what those lying Huhnes say, it’s all total bollocks and they deserve nothing but contempt from every hard working Englishman that works his socks off to keep his family going.
Brown, Blair, B*lls – fuck the lot off and give me my country back, the one my grandpa fought and died for. You complete bunch of twats, my children deserve better than the shite you have lumbered us with.
THE SPINNERS – IT’S A SHAME
“This tells you everything you need to know about the Tories’ priorities. At a time when millions of families are struggling to get by, it’s the Tories’ friends in the City who get the rewards.”
He’s not wrong!
Billy! Did you watch ITV2′s #TwatsOfTheYear?
Were you or your hero on it?
Ever been done for cyber bullying 140? I’d be very careful if I were you.
I’ll keep saying it until I’m blue in the face, any fucker who still believes or votes for the status quo is either rich and thick or poor and brain-dead.
Makes no odds, unless we English buck up our ideas and grow a fucking pair to stop this fine country doing to the dogs, we only have ourselves to blame.
The UK public have believed in and voted for us for nigh onto 50 years.
It’s already too late. Thank fuck I have no dependents / kids / other. It’s going to be nasty.
Well lucky you, some of us care more about our country’s future with or without ‘dependents’, you fucking twat. It’s mongs like you that could not care less that are the problem and the sooner you descend into oblivion then so much the better.
Good Lord! Gigondas does it again..
You’re right! I couldn’t care less, I prefer not to be responsible for bringing some poor soul(s) in to this screwed up world.
Oblivion? Westminster has assured everyone of that – including you! Be honest now, you couldn’t change a thing even if you wanted to.
Enjoy.
Well if you couldn’t care less then why are you arguing about it? Just fuck off, very simple.
Jumped over any puddles recently?
I am not arguing, just stating a position.
Why so defensive?
‘Gypsy
Freedom means the freedom to choose, not everyone chooses the same way.
Unless the Socialists get it right THIS time?
Where’s my honour for services to my political party ?
Look, I said wait, OK!!
Fear is where the left want people to go.
This is true.
Oooooooooooh, thanks Billy! I would never have known where to read up about it if it wasn’t for you!
You are my hero!
I’ll be honouring my, soon to be called to the witness box, mate Andy Coulson too before long!
Ronnie Corbett got a CBE
The short arsed t wa t
And an MBE for Umesh Valjee, the England Deaf cricket captain!
Howzat?
OUT!!
I said…..
OUT!!!!!!
NOT OUT
Are you blind as well as effing deaf?
Pardon
I am shocked!
So we, I mean, The Labour Party have fucked up again.
We will report it as the truth anyway – he gave money to the Tories so we will tell everyone that he is a baby-eating bastard.
She offered her honour,
He honoured her offer,
And all night long it was honour and offer.
Boom, Boom!
Time this crappy system of knighthoods was scrapped. They are pointless and over politicised.
The Maldives government has ordered all spas in resorts to be closed after protests by an Islamist party which claimed they were being used as a front for prostitution.
The tourism ministry told all resort hotels across the islands to shut their spas and health centres with immediate effect.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/maldives/8984914/Maldives-orders-ban-of-all-spas-after-Islamist-prostitution-claim.html
Why don’t they just tell the fucking towel-headed cunts to FUCK OFF.
Labour say “Crime doesn’t pay” Cameron proves it does !
ask Andy Coulson !
Unfortunately, Guido’s lack of explanation concerning WHY he’s wrong leaves a lot to be desired. If it’s simply a case of getting the extent of the award wrong, rather than the fact that an award is being given in the first place, then Guido’s arguments are nothing more than pedantic and pretty much irrelevant.
I hope this is not the case, but it seems that Guido is trying to make a point rather than produce a genuine real life cock up. If it is the case then he trivialises his whole raison d’etre. I hope this is not so….in which case further elaboration seems necessary
“I hope this is not the case,”
That’s so sweet.
Ah, the knighting of Fred-the-Shred. Labour were absolutely clueless in matters financial, as they have often been.
They really screwed things up with their lack of legislation and move from RPI to CPI. Their next leader needs to admit to their mistakes. He (or she) also needs to be unassociated with the previous geovernment.
The Honours “system” is not fit for purpose irrespective of party politics.
We have a dodgy CBE holder in my neck of the woods. All he has done is financially sponsor the hopeless Tory MP and the bent local Tory District Councillor.
The CBE holder lives 9 months pa in Cayman.
Enough said?
We*apons grade hypocrisy from Liebour yet again. They still don’t get it. Was it sensible for slimy Dave to honour Ronson & Ruddock? Of course not, stupid twat. But we’ve come to expect it from this blue socialist, ‘I’ll cle*an up politics’, ye*ah right Dave.
And you can shut it Millimong. Sir Fred Goodwin ring any bells?
Utter wankers the lot of you.
An honour bestowed by whichever component of the LibLabCon triad is fronting the scam for the time being?
Wouldn’t you be proud!
Gosh – hold the front page! 23 odd lefty twats (probably professional Pilgrims) write to the BBC to have a pop at Jeremy Clarkson – god the lefty twats that feign their PC outrage make me want to vomit.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8984362/Jeremy-Clarkson-offensive-to-Indians-in-Top-Gear-Christmas-special.html
Unfortunately the party that made a Tub of Lard a Lord, and ennobled or rewarded thieving and incompetent trash of every colour and sex (?) e.g. “Baroness” Uddin, is hardly in a position to throw stones in a greenhouse.
Guido is right that Gerald Ronson was not knighted and Dugher is wrong to say that he has been. However, Ronson has been made a CBE.
The Guardian online coverage of the New Year Honours confuses knights bachelor and KBEs several times.
Ruddock was and remains the ugliest centre half I have ever seen.
He made Jack Charlton look cultured.
I have always said being able to serve your fellow citizen is a unique honour and reward in itself.
Additional honours have no place in a true meritocracy. The honours system is a complete waste of time space and taxpayers money.
The next manifesto is going to have ‘No honours ‘ plastered all over it.
Trying to get hold of Pickles to stress the point but he is n/a probably out emptying a few bins I suspect.
When he gets back though he is going to have a bit of my mind. He should have been spending Chrimbo finding some real jobs for the 2.5m unemployed and finishing his paper about exiting ther Euro.
Instead he spends his time messing about with Honours Lists.
If it wasn’t so serious it would be funny.
To insinuate that Dave is only leading us to to a better economic future and greater social cohesion as a result of money supplied by a few rich men is wrong .
Dave should insist upon a full retraction and public apology (plus a contribution to the overseas aid budget).
If he does not get this within 24 hours he should be straight down to those Law Courts and get a Judge to grant an injunction.
Did you hear the one about the politician who told the truth?
Or the one about the politician who thought the term ‘Lying Bastard’ was a compliment. I remember Wilson well and his mac. It was said he was paid by the Russians. Where does this country find em. I ask you. Lies have become truth and truth has become lies.
Michael Dugher, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, was interviewed on Sky News this morning. He was utterly pathetic and was totally unable to give any reasonable justification as to why he had targeted one particular award and by implication most of the others. He must have repeated his ‘strap line’ at least 10 times. Boring, boring, boring.
My sympathy goes out to those represented by this twerp in the mother of all parliaments, even though some of them voted for him…
Not that boring, it’s the top story online.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste and this guy proves it.
As an avid Dutch spectator of the sport that is British politics, I loved the latest own goal by the amateur team masquerading as the official opposition.
I used to laugh that our former leader looked like Harry Potter once he had reached middle age, then I was introduced to this strange geeky looking person called Milliband who must be a dead ringer for Wallace from Wallace and Gromit fame!.
Anyway I digress, this politician called Dugher is an anagram for Her Red, which is clearly some sort of subliminal message that the labour party are trying to get across?
Due to the fact I am posting this from my local coffeshop, I apologise for what I guess is an inconherent post!
Only surprised that Jim Devine didn’t get Order of the Thistle
A bit rich you might think coming from the party that knighted RBS’s Fred Goodwin.
Cough cough
Neither Ronson nor Master Preddie should be given so much as the BEM 5th class. I don’t care if other convicted persons have been gonged before – it is just plain wrong.
Pot , kettle , black , I’ll leave the rest to others