Helmer’s Unresignation:
Tory MEP’s Leader ‘Asked Him to Hold On’
Co-conspirators who were following the blog over the Christmas break will know that Roger Helmer has withdrawn his resignation pending problems with the succession. Helmer wants a guarantee that Rupert Matthews, the next candidate on the East Midlands party list, succeeds him. Tory party chairman Sayeeda Warsi is apparently insisting on someone other than Matthews, namely “a less-geeky woman”. This has not gone down well with the local party.
Guido is now told by people in a position to know that it was Martin Callanan, leader of the Tory MEPs, who asked Helmer to stay on until at least 20 January, so that he could “participate in some crucial votes in the European Parliament”. So the delay was entirely at Martin’s request and had nothing to do with Rupert Matthews position. Given that Helmer’s single vote is unlikely to be crucial at the talking shop that is the European Parliament and in any event Matthews is of a like mind to Helmer, this line isn’t completely convincing. Nevertheless this is what they now want to have us believe…
UPDATE, January 5: Roger himself insists “I was asked by our delegation leader, Martin Callanan, to stay through January, for some key votes in the Jan Straz session.”
This is worse than a Gordon dither.
Joan Ruddock? Yes, an estimable woman and quite unique amongst the Greenham common women, she was able to find a husband, you know.
Actually Helmer’s vote could prove critical within the EP because posts are distributed in accordance with the size of the groupings and the ECR is about joint fourth in the pecking order with the Greens/EFA. Given the precise formulas in use a single MEP can make the difference not only in who gets how much but also who gets to pick which particular prize. I forget when precisely the next distribution of posts comes but it’s usually around the half-way mark.
Of course if you don’t give a toss about achieving anything in the EP – and no, being offensive for the sake of it is not an achievement – then this doesn’t matter so I’m not sure if Helmer is really concerned about ensuring one of his colleagues gets to beam with pride about some title they hold that is absolutely meaningless to even 99% of political obsessives.
How frightfully dull, comrade.
+1 Reading that comment made death seem like an attractive option.
Michael Foot saying “frightfully dull”. Give over!
It was however frightfully dull.
Close the door on your way out!
I can see the sea from here.
Pity you can’t spell your name correctly – check tombstone for clues.
What tombstone ? Are you perhaps confusing me with Sir Jimmy Savile? Not only is his name spelt differently from mine but he’s dead.
And not only from the neck upwards apparently.
Jimmy – I really liked Bronski Beat. Smallboy Town in particular
So can I
Would you mind awfully not barging past me to get a view of the sea?
F*ck you Lucan i
“Co-conspirators who were following the blog over the Christmas break…..”
lol
+1 – I spent the Christmas holiday staring at Old Holborn’s blog.
Helmer @ So last year
Now for the real news.
Daily Mail
1 Bites from dangerous dogs put 6,000 victims a year in hospital as number of those injured doubles in a decade
2 There are 345 stray dogs found every day… so why is it so hard to give a dog a loving home?
Dogs shit: dogs stink: dogs need walkies:dogs slobber – enough?
“The talking shop that is the European Parliament”, you say? Might that be because its name comes from the Old French verb meaning “to speak”.
It’s easy to get through an all-woman shortlist. What’s the problem ?
OOh, you are awful, but I like you!
Now that’s a rough handful!
If that’s John Terry, I’m Louise Mensch
I’m Louise Mensch and so’s my wife…
H-e-e-e-y-y-y, A-b-b-o-o-o-o-t-t-t!
This will never end, some serious appeals will be lodged, another pay day for the legal profession !!
Appeals, compensation, it is an industry…..
What justice for the families of servicemen murdered ?
Torturous ? Yes, it’s been murder.
Hoon-ga Hoon-ga Hoon-ga Chuka.
No mention for the majority of racist attackes in the UK Sarah?
Of course, white people who are victims of the insane & suicidal immigration policies dont count do they?
Why do the white working class vote for Labour?
+1
They don’t. Labour is the party of the white non-working class and the chattering class. Immigrants may apply if they are prepared to be patronised
What lessons?
F*ck all to do with me……
Perhaps I should feel shame and guilt for all the pain and suffering caused by slavery in the 1800′s ??
Yes you should. Give me another government grant to help me get over it.
No mention of Gordon’s guilt – IRAQ war – ruining the uk, stupidly saying he had ended boom and bust. When is Gordon going to stand trial. Sarah your denial goes on and on.
IIRR Lawrence was also a gang member.
The only difference between a trident case and this trial was that the assailants were hideously white.
+1
White victims of racist crime never get the same support from the left.
The left hate the indigenous Brirish.
Wasn’t it Jack Straw who said we did not deserve to survive as a race?
I dont know if these guys were guilty or not – I do kno0w that they have not got a fair trial.
No doubt there will be an army of human rights lawyers and protest groups rallying against this?
+2 Neither do I but from what I heard a lot of it was just circumstantial. No doubt there will be an appeal..good money in this for this lawyers
Those two convicted today are scumbags of the first order born into criminal families. So why a do I feel very uneasy about their convictions?
This has all the hallmarks of an establishment stitch-up and show trial. The Lawrence case was a left wing cause celebre and has received disproportionate publicity over the past seventeen years so that the details have become mythologised to a great extent.With all the past publicity, there was no way that they could get a fair trial in this country. To say their case was prejudiced by years of adverse publicity is an understatement.
The way the law has been changed to enable this conviction should be of concern to all of us. Anyone of us could be embroiled in the next left wing “cause celebre” where politicians of all parties jump on the bandwagon and create enough stink to prejudice any court case. Cameron should have kept his nose out of the case instead of crowing about the convictions. Where will cases like this lead in future?
Expect appeals to be made against conviction over the fairness of the trial.
The way this particular case has been pushed over the years shows there is no equality under current British Law.
+1
Perhaps they will move onto the next cause, I think they might be a little disappointed that the main high profile murder last week was detected so quickly.
The CID were, limited the overtime payments.
Can you provide a link to the Jack Straw comment? I can’t find one.
First Suarez, then psycho and now this. It’s been a pretty bad week for the right all round. My commiserations.
Keeps the Left happy
Blind Jimmy.
White people are the biggest demographic to suffer from racism in the UK.
No wonder the white working class are leaving the centre left Labour Party for the far left B_N_P.
Wrong Jimmy, it was a right thinking paper that went out on a limb to get them banged up,
http://twitpic.com/82odgk
I must admit that was fairly puzzling until Nick Davies explained it.
They’ve more than made up for it before and since.
Oh I don’t know. Hugo Chavez has got cancer.
Good
Teenagers (as they were then), living on council estates in south east London? Racist? Probably. Right wing? Unlikely. More like your typical Labour voter.
Talk about a tough room. They stab a black kid to death and they’re still not right wing enough for you? What do they need to do? Invade Poland?
Logic doesn’t seem to be your strong point. Stabbing someone to death, doesn’t necessarily make them right wing. It makes them a criminal.
Well not just anyone obviously.
It was a new labour show-trial pure and simple,these two probably are guilty but i do not like to see constitutional law changed (twice) cos Tone promised to nail them-new labour used this case as a battering ram to de-stabilise the police-on average 15 youths are killed each year in london alone
Are you under the impression that the tories voted against the change? Or that only lack of parliamentary time has prevented its repeal?
And I get called partisan
Are you under the impression that the tories voted against the change? Or that only lack of parliamentary time has prevented its repe@l?
And I get called partisan
Labour MP jumps on opportunist bandwagon. More of the same from labour in 2012.
No change there then…… history channel has some good progs on the next few days
It’s o.k. to watch but I find it behind the times.
Which bandwagon ?? Where ?? Wait for me !!!
Another nig*er more or less don’t matter.
Keep Britain White.
And you, Anonymous, must be a Labour troll posing (?) as a racist. To post something as disgusting as that shows the left have no morals or conscience.
Does that mean everyone posting here is Labour?
Think we would all have been a lot better off just sticking with the Monarchy with all this talk about succession, TB handed the crown to GB without even the semblance of any divine right (a b*stard son).
Lady Warsi could have benefited from a Catholic-school education. She would have learned in English class that one should not be ambiguous in one’s wording so as to create an unfortunate image in the reader’s mind. I am sure she meant to say that Helmer should be replaced by perhaps a woman, and in any event someone less geeky than Matthews. As it reads, one would be pardoned if one inferred that Matthews was a geeky woman.
I taught DCI Brian Lane (ret) when he was a child. He may have picked up obsessive pedantry from me.
We bless the powers that be for the terminally unelectable Baroness Warsi.
Here in UKIP North West Leicestershire we want unelcetable Baroness Warsi to dig her heels in & insist on parachuting in a female candidate from outside the county.
Roger Helmer is a fine MEP – I voted for him at every opportunity when a UKIP member was not standing. He is also a good chap who fully understands why Conservatives are leaving the party for UKIP.
It seems that the rest of the world stopped at about 2.30pm today as far as Sky News and BBC 24 are concerned…
Someone who symbolises All thats wrong with British Policing currently making a Statement on SKY News.
Is it John Alderton flogging sun blinds?
Will it ever end?
I hope you are not talking about me and Common Purpose.
Go on. We need a better conspiracy than this to start the year with! How about Guido trying to blow the top off the Clock Tower but not using enough gunpowder? If he were to move with the times he could have used one of those newer substances. Having the historical reference is OK but when it fails to deliver it rather spoils things.
How about a battlefield nuke?
If Vince Cable had pursued a career in the police, would he have been known as copper cable
Let’s all go to India to apologise
Economy of course.
Or knacker of the shunting shed.
Given the bitter and vitriolic anti-T*ry-leadership nature of Roger’s Twitter feed and Facebook comments it’s clear to me he plans Rupert’s coronation as some sort of revenge against the machine.
Twitter ye not.
Slow today Guido
Waiting for Godot?
Its an old joke about a brothel
The word “cobblers” springs quickly to mind.
Team Cameron is looking more and more like Team Bliar was by the day.
+1
But Blair won 3 elections out right.
just sayin
“Gary Dobson, meet your cellmate, Leroy. David Norris, meet your cellmate, Denzil. Enjoy your time inside.”
Violent racist thug wishes violent gang rape on violent racist thugs?
Leftists are weird.
No, lefties are insane.
Steady On! You’re implying that Lefties have minds to lose.
Correct – socialism is a mental illness so by the time you become a lefty your mind has already gone by definition
Troughers all
Has a feeling Guido will re-launch his “Restore vengence” campiagn.
Billy, it’s catching. You’re posting in the third person
Clever Billy, that’s two people removed.
I think nurse needs to increase your medication.
So black and ethnic minorities all good, all white people bad.
Righto, got it.
Thank goodness there are no actual recorded racist crimes against white poeople in our rainbow multi culti utopia.
Actually that’s the definition of post-modernist AKA marxist definition of racism.
i.e. the Marxist definition of racism is racist!
Can somebody aht there tell me woy Tube fares will go up by an average of 5.9% in 2012 ?? http://bbc.in/uKWmsn
It’s ahtrayjeyus.
You just would not understand Bob. Just eat your jellied eels and put your feet up in your subsidised council house. By the way how do you make ends meet on £100,000 + a year?
Difficult. At least I get free travel on London Undergraaahhnd.
When it’s not on strike.
Well at least there’s no need to listen to the news even PM ill be wall to wall wicked white men.
Judge refuses to accept mitigation claiming there was no intention to kill Stephen.
How can you shout ” I’m not guilty” and ask for mitigation/
It was an esto plea?
And yet, every time there’s a crime committed in London by bl*cks, many of you rush to post the fact of their race on here as though it’s true of all of them. Happened just last week with the Foot Locker stabbing. When a white person commits a crime, many of you complain about all the crimes committed against whites, as though charging a white person with an offence is somehow nullifying any and all crimes committed against whites. That’s not so much cognitive dissonance as psychosis.
Political Correctness is insanity.
I think the fact that
a) one of the oldest parts of British Law was dangerously altered to persue them after their initial not-guilty verdicts.
b) the massive media publicity
c) the cover up around Lawrence.
tells most of us that the establishment are using the racist/marxist definition of racism, not the one most people use.
Lawrence made the foolish mistake of dealing a little dope. Easy toi think no one will notice. But unfortunately all the turf belongs to someone. Usually someone very nasty. There’s no “fair trade” ganja (even in Islington. Everyone pays off the dons and if they don’t they end up like Lawrence.
Guardianistas like to enjoy a spliff after dinner parties to display the sophistication they picked up at “Uni.” But they have blood on their hands. And it’s the hypocracy of the liberal middle clases in London, not the alleged waycism of the evil lower orders that is the real story here.
Don’t hold your breathe waiting for the BBC to cover it though.
nice try Brian; smearing Mr Lawrence as a drug dealer isn’t going to cut it anywhere except maybe here and stormfront; smearing the dead is pretty low, even for this place
Mr Dobson is a genuine convicted drug dealer and now genuine convicted murderer, maybe you should direct some of your bile at him…… or not as the case may be, maybe you find him him in some way admirable?
ENTIRELY CORRECT
That theory doesn’t cut it here either. Its nonsense supported by no evidence at all. Why can’t people just accept that a murder occurred. They do. They are not at all uncommon in fcat. Whether the motive was racism or not is also a matter of fact. It should not be covered up or distracted from by tenuous theories based on nothing. When convicted, those guilty of murder should be punished. I am happy with that, provided the conviction was based on sound evidence.
Moreover, even if this smear had an ounce of basis for it, Libertarians who believe in the freedom to buy and sell drugs should presumably beleive in the freedom to buy and sell drugs without being killed for it.
Actually the Law don’t know who did the killing. Having the blood on his jacket only means that he was present or up until the plod cleared the area. They claim innocence and they could well be as they won’t shop their mates.
That’s why the Yanks have the 5th Amendment, which enshrines into WRITTEN Constitutional Law (which cannot be changed merely by a simple-majority up/down vote) the concept of “double jeopardy.” They get around it, of course, in cases like this, which involve racial issues, if there is any way they can get the Federal Government to bring a count of “deprivation of civil rights and liberties” by the defendants against the “victim,” but that will usually involve some sort of official misconduct; the Rodney King coppers were convicted in the Federal Court after acquittal in the State courts in California. By contrast, O.J. Simpson, in the same city, skated on a murder charge and could not be retried since there was no Federal charge available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
You appear to misunderstand.
The reason people “rush to post the fact of their race” is because the BBC don’t usually bother telling us when it’s black on black crime – or black on white crime for that matter (eg what’s being going on in many cities with young vulnerable white girls?).
As soon as you get an allegedly racist murder like Psycho v Indian then it’s all over the media, with cops declaring it a hate crime because there’s a perception in the community that it is (WTF?) and dashing off to the subcontinent to apologise.
See the difference?
No. It’s an incoherent and badly thought out protest against the rank injustices wrought by Labour’s Discrimination Acts. Someone deserves to be punished for the murder of Steven Lawrence, and not least the initial investigating police team.
Guilty or not, today’s verdict will not survive appeal and guilty or not, the accused will go free and benefit from a tax-free grant courtesy of tax-payers of every colour.
Splooot on me, Dobson and Norris!
Anders Britvik is my hero!
“Dobson and Norris guilty of racist murder”.
I bet Stephen Lawrence’s parents will be surprised to find out that their son was a racist
2012 has seen no improvement, has it Billy?
Fake Billy!
Easy get out that. Do you work in one of London’s theatres?
Work? When would Billy have time for that?
Yeah!!!
Wetherspoon introduces ‘Veto Ale’ to celebrate Cameron’s patriotic act
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/01/wetherspoons-introduce-veto-ale-to-celebrate-camerons-patriotic-act-.html
The alternative for leftie’s is ‘Traitorous Brown bitter’
Tony Blair’s – Liars Ale
Wonder how long Veto Ale will be on sale.
I guess it’ll be withdrawn about March as Cast Iron Dave turns to jelly.
Let me know when they bring out Watney’s Red Ed Ale. A weak, bland version of nondescript gnat’s. Will be phased out due to lack of popularity.
I bet you like a couple of Ball Bangers every night. Folloowed by a good Stout.
The extra o was for free.
You appear to misunderstand.
The reason people “rush to post the fact of their race” is because the BBC don’t usually bother telling us when it’s black on black crime – or black on white crime for that matter (eg what’s being going on in many cities with young vulnerable white girls?).
As soon as you get an allegedly racist murder like Psycho v Indian then it’s all over the media, with cops declaring it a hate crime because there’s a perception in the community that it is (WTF?) and dashing off to the subcontinent to apologise.
See the difference?
Bollocks, that should be a reply to #88 at 5:13pm
Second verse, same as the first. (Good point, in all seriousness.)
ME ? white Anglo male, nuff said ??
Bad people are bad. Colour, race, call it what you will, do not come into it.
Haven’t read anything here (waste of cerebral matter),
WHAT WAS THE SO OBVIOUS PUNCHLINE FROM:
Harry Secombe ??.
Too many co-ons in this country.
I have a cyst on my knob.
Join the Aryan Nation (GB Branch)
God fuck all bl&cks – please
Trevor Phillips is one sanctimonious twat
I’ll join Guido streaking round smith square in nothing but a toga if the UK actually witholds any cash from supporting our European “partners”,
And as for cast iron Dave, when will he discover democracy?
The majority of his party loathes his ludicrous minority token chairperson.
If he put clear blue water between his policies and everyone else’s, if he had the courage of his convictions he would need to go grovelling to “minorities”.
But courage and conviction are “c” words Dave aren’t they? Like “cast iron”.