January 22nd, 2012

Huhne Charges Expected Within Weeks

Essex Police finally obtaining the emails from Vicky Pryce to Isabelle Oakeshott at The Sunday Times signals that the police now have a compelling mosaic of evidence that the CPS have little choice but to put before a jury.

Huhne is lashing out accusing Downing Street of dirty tricks, not something that is likely to endear him when it will be for the PM to decide he has to go if charged. It is unlikely that Clegg will go out on a limb to hold on to his sharp elbowed rival.

The Sunday Times also reports that Constance Briscoe, a barrister and part-time judge, a family friend, said she clearly remembered a conversation, during which she advised Pryce to tell Huhne to “go away and come clean”. Evidence that will carry weight…


401 Comments

  1. 1
    A Helpful Reader says:

    Justice at last!

    Yhe Huhnt is over.

    • 3
      labourunionsbbc we are one says:

      He will plead that he is too green to be guilty, of anything.

      • 10
        B.Bob, name changed to stop the modding. says:

        There may be trouble ahead…..and while there’s music and……

        The arrogant c*nt !

        • 128
          Iloathlefties says:

          So Clegg wants Laws (aka The £40K fiddler) back in Governement. Which bit of his fiddling did he admire? This from the lips of a man who wanted to “clean up politics”. P*ss off Keiser Clegg back to the corrupt EU!!

          • Tessa TIckles says:

            Isn’t Laws the one who got 7 days’ paid leave (at our expense) as punishment for his theft of £40,000 (of our money)?

            Why is this loathsome little thief still at liberty, let alone still an MP?

          • Hang The Bastards says:

            Hang The lying self-serving incompetent out-of-touch whoring adulterous backstabbing bullying useless BASTARD

        • 165
          CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

          Couldn’t happen to a better bloke! Huhne is the most devious and nastiest of political bastards.

          • I'll have a 'P' please Bob says:

            What ‘H’ is the German word for chicken?
            Answer please Chris.

          • I Hate Tesco AND the Pope says:

            Come on, come on, come on! He’s second to the one-eyed Scottish wanker. Give the man SOME credit!

        • 274
          The greater the talent the bigger the crook? says:

          .
          Why the fixation on laws?

          • Dimbo chick says:

            Don’t spe*k German, but I do know that the English word for chicken beginning with ‘h’ is hen. Can I have a sweetie now?

      • 42
        Mine are made of steel says:

        soon no coHuhnes will say that Cameron was driving his car, not his wife.

        • 58
          Cast-iron guarantee says:

          I have never driven Mr Huhne’s wife.

        • 59
          Cast-iron guarantee says:

          I have never drïven Mr Huhne’s wife.

          • Pundit Too says:

            Vicky Pryce is like a rash on BBC. Could it be the loony left wingers at the BBC are promoting her image to reduce the threat to her ex husband who they also promote?
            The rabid Toady Programme was in full vitriolic form without an ethical stance in defending Paddy Ashcroft and other limpdim lords and their own enemies the Anglican bishops, on fighting the 26k threshold (£35,000 in gross terms) to lazy crooked benefit spongers with large families.
            One has to listen to the phone-in on this subject this morning on BBC West Midlands local radio to hear the 90% that support this move.
            No wonder the BBC want to reduce local radio as listening to the public voice would spoil their grand schemes.

    • 15
      Barry Obama, painter and decorator says:

      Chris Huhne is a pompous arrogant arsehole. I look forward to his destruction.

      • 21
        Dick the Prick says:

        Those are his good points, however, whatever Huhne follows this risible dyke converter will still sell this country down the river on spurious ‘settled science’. Sure, happy that his career will be over as unlike Laws he has no friends, ability or knowledge but bigger picture – no difference.

        • 67
          East India Company wallah says:

          Maybe he can get the bull dyke to wear the tag for him – such a charmer!

      • 29
        Bulldog Drummond says:

        The man is toast or should be! What’s more he is a nasty back stabbing arsehole. A serious liability IMO with a hugely inflated opinion of himself. As in the words of the song: Go, Go Now.

      • 51
        Postal Vote says:

        If Obama were only able to paint or decorate. The only thing the guy can do is read the autocue.

      • 104
        Mike Lewis says:

        He is a lying pompous arrogant arsehole.
        He should be in jail.

        • 166
          CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

          Mike, which arsehole do you mean? Obama or Huhne? IMO they are equally lying, arrogant arseholes.

          • Another Day another bigott says:

            Can I just remind everyone that he is inglish as I am sure that had he been Scottish we wouldnt hear the end of it. Thank you.

      • 122
        Iloathlefties says:

        Does this mean an end to the claptrap around man made global warming/climate change religion? Stop all the green energy and flying taxes? Not a chance they are just stupid no nothing politicians!!

        • 125
          Iloathlefties says:

          I read today that the Head of the CPS (The socialist placeman) is going to make the decision. No prosecution then. Ba**ards. We’ll hear insufficient evidence/not in the public interest/didn’t meet the threshold test etc.

          • Atar says:

            About time there was an investigation into the CPS themselves.

            Why are they allowed to delay, sideline or reject cases on a whim?

            They’ve hardly got a rep as a stalwart guardian of the public, have they?

          • jrand says:

            About time they sacked the McBRuin stooge — as indeed all the red moles still in place. Should have happened in the first few minutes after Camrooney crept into office.

    • 41
      Well it's a thought says:

      When pigs stop flying around the HOC, then maybe.

    • 101
      Sir Barrington Minge says:

      This has been like nailing shit to a wall.

      At last, Taxi for Huhne!!

    • 150
      chriselee says:

      And he seems such a nice man!!!!

      • 183
        Fish says:

        ‘The Sunday Times’ article seems rather far-fetched. In it they quote friends of Huhne saying that, ‘you can’t have press secretaries trashing other members of the cabinet.’

        Friends? What are they talking about? Huhne aint got any friends – they all drifted away some time ago.

        • 383
          Broadsword calling Danny Boy says:

          If press secretaries aren’t trashing other members of the cabinet wouldn’t it mean that they are not up to the job. Have I spotted another saving? Kerrrr–ching.

    • 297
      AC1 says:

      Tonight Rich and Mark will do another shite cartoon…

      Hope they just copy this one instead.

      http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/01/Discordia.png

    • 310
      AC1 says:

      That “kinetic military operation” in Egypt bears it’s fruit…

      http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article566463.ece

      Egypt’s Islamists secure 75 percent of parliament

  2. 2
    Calamity Clegg says:

    Goodbye, Chris, and good riddance.

  3. 4
    Tessa Tickles says:

    “it will be for the PM to decide he has to go if charged.”

    Doesn’t Huhne stand accused of perjury? If I’m not mistaken, that can land you in the Grey Bar Hotel for up to 7 years.

    I’d like to see Dave try and save Huhne’s scrawny neck if he’s charged.

    • 79
      McGarratt says:

      What’s it got to do with Cameron?

      There should be no political interfering in the delivery of justice.

      • 88

        But equally it is not for the judiciary to decide whether Cameron should keep him in the cabinet.

        Ending up in court accused of perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice (both possible charges) strike me as sufficient grounds for sacking someone.

        • 114
          Victoria Meldrew says:

          Disagree. He will then claim compensation for loss of office. That’s yours and my money.

          • Bald old git says:

            Can’t claim anything of the sort. Cabinet ministers are not employees but officeholders, who serve ‘at pleasure’.

            Which is why, conveniently, the equal opps, unfair dismissal legislation etc visited on the rest of us doesn’t apply to them.

      • 127
        The attorney general... says:

        .
        I am appointed by the PM.

  4. 6
    filipinomonkey says:

    He accuses No10 of ‘dirty tricks’?? Pot kettle and black come to mind…

  5. 7
    • 11
      in the vernacular says:

      That of course means that he’s already dead and buried.

    • 184
      Fish says:

      PM’s usually say ‘full confidence’ when they wish to hang on to a minister under pressure

    • 393
      nemo says:

      Does not look good for him, when Cammers says I have EVERY confidence in …….
      they go down the line, his rating is only gets Cammers confidence, that means he goes from A rating down to a B rating meaning stormy weather, will he manage to weather the storm, if his credit credit rating sinks lower still I see big trouble ahead.

  6. 8
    Beastlie Eastleigh says:

    On yer bike Mr Spleen, and take yer fucking spastic windmills with ya!

  7. 9
    tony m says:

    Fucking brill. come on cps, give us something to smile about on monday.

    ps guido, why no celebrations about hari the liar being sacked by the indy?

    • 53
      Geoff, England (not Britain or 'United' KIngdom) says:

      It’s odds-on that Hari will land on his feet and find another cushy gig. Does he have anything on Rusbridger? I’m sure he’d feel at home at Grauniad Towers.

    • 89

      He wasn’t sacked he resigned. The Indie sent him on golfing leave to the US for a few months and them offered him his job back. Hari, having enjoyed his sojourn in the Land of Uncle Sam (doubtless earning his way at some sympathetic outlet) turned this offer down saying he wants to write a book and needs the time to do his research.

      • 96
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        Needs time to do his research? That’ll be a new experience for him then.

      • 203
        Major Eyeswater says:

        http://johannhari.com/2012/01/20/a-short-update/

        “I’ve started working on a book on a subject I believe is important and requires urgent action. To be done properly it needs international travel and the kind of in depth focus that’s not possible when you are writing a heavily researched column at the same time.”

        Has he had an irony bypass? Ooo just you wait I’ll write about some really nasty social injustice or other you’ll be moved to tears and I’ll be redeemed as a free-thinking hero of the international gay left – integrity? nah that’s for tories besides my work is so important it doesn’t matter if I’m a spiteful lying hypocrite etc etc

        • 263
          will says:

          Deeply researched what a pillock more like making it up as he goes along and changing other peoples wiki entries

        • 265
          Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

          Heavily researched?

          Why has nobody looked more closely at the column Hari churned out just before the 2010 election in which he trashed Hammersmith and Fulham conservative council with a whole raft of pitch perfect ‘quotes’ from pitch perfect ‘victims’.

          He basically stopped Shaun Bailey getting the seat by running one long lie.

        • 388
          Bald old git says:

          ‘requires urgent action’

          Sounds like something a journalist should write an article about …

  8. 12
    Lou Scannon says:

    It’s high time the word ‘huhnery’ was officially made part of the English language.

  9. 13
    Chris Hoon says:

    BASTARD, FAWKES !!


  10. 16
    pissed off voter says:

    I dearly hope you are correct, but I’ll believe it when it happens. The CPS have a long history of avoiding prosecution of political transgressors.

  11. 17
    Ian E says:

    2012 is unlikely to bring much good news – but this might be one such item. Oh, to be on the jury!

  12. 18
    hang him says:

    I reckon the happiness index will go through the roof the day the slimeball is charged

  13. 19
    JAJones says:

    Huhnnery, huhnnery- I can’t help it!!

  14. 22
    Anonymous says:

    What a real Tory gal that Anna Soubry is! Big mouth, tiny brain, saggy tits, and face like a horse.

    No wonder tory males are sexual deviants.

  15. 24
    JAJones says:

    Have you noticed Cleggies twitch lately?

  16. 25
    retro virus says:

    Chris Huhne is a cuпt.

  17. 28
    nellnewman says:

    Ho Hum. Maybe there is justice after all then. But I’ll only believe it when I see him charged.

  18. 32
    Hunker Down says:

    “Huhne charges expected within weeks”

    There’s 52 weeks in a year, it could be a long wait.

    • 140
      Handycock (Sexual Tourist on Taxpayer's Money) says:

      I would be most surprised if he is charged at all, with the Grand Master controlling things. Fear not Chris, all will be well. Boaz.

  19. 36
    Postal Vote says:

    Huhne gets very favourable treatment from Guardian and beeb because he deliberately conveys he wants to build bridges to labour and Miliband. Of course that is good for guardianbeebistas because a labour-led coalitiion will grow the public sector and advertise all the jobs in the Guardian while it will also be more likely to increase the license fee for the beeb.

    Ha Huhne complaining Dowining Street is tackling him; who leaked various documents to Guardian, incl the Gove letter re royal boat?

    PS Do you know why beeb and Guardian are critical of government’s attempts to make public sector pensions less generous? Because beeb had final salary scheme and many guardianistas aspire to work for the beeb – siple!

    • 38
      Postal Vote says:

      beeb haS final salary scheme, not had

    • 43
      The Paragnostic says:

      Don’t forget that both the BBC and the Grauniad have lots of “credibility” invested in the AGW scam, and Huhne is practically the only Coalition minister still taking that bollocks seriously.

      A replacement Energy Secretary might declare the whole thing a Ponzi scheme and endorse a sensible energy policy, leaving the BBC and Grauniad high and dry when they expected to be paddling in the cesspool of climate change politics for years to come.

      • 55
        Anonymous says:

        Every politician of whatever hue I’ve heard on BBC’s Radio 4 recently, have all implicitly believed in AGW, so to say that Huhne is the only one is a gross exaggeration. In fact, I’ve not heard one politician be sceptical about it. As you were, they’re all still as thick as shit, or in on the scam.

      • 76
        Pigs will fly says:

        “A replacement Energy Secretary might declare the whole thing a Ponzi scheme”

        You are naively optimistic , not like you at all. Is your medication having side effects ?

      • 99
        biased impartiality says:

        Some time in the not too distant future they’ll be a BBC documentary hidden away on BBC4, exploring why so many people were mislead into believing AGW. Of course, the BBC’s role in disseminating this bollocks will not be mentioned ‘cos this is how these skunks operate.

        • 225
          BBC pension actuary says:

          I have pissed the entire £8.2 Billion pension fund away on the green bollocks. When the green bubble bursts, all Beeboids will have lose their pension – so we need pro-AGW lefties to keep the bubble going, and to tax youi bastards for the extra cash needed!!

        • 374
          Dimbo chick says:

          You are seriously misled if you believe that misled is spelt mislead when it really should be spelt misled.

  20. 40
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Huhne is arrogant and pompous beyond his position in life. But to be fair to him, he was accused by the Telegraph of leaking the “Yacht email” to the Guradian. In Saturday’s Telegraph their was an apology, albeit on page 2, stating that Huhne did not leak the email.

    • 107
      Lou Scannon says:

      I’m not entirely sure that’s what the Telegraph said. It struck me as more of a non-apology.

  21. 44
    I don't need no doctor says:

    Comment at 11.05 am moderated. FUCKWIT MODERATOR.

  22. 48
    All politicians are CUNTS says:

    Old news.

  23. 49
    Ah! Monika says:

    Sunday Morning prayer for Huhne

    “…and forgive me my trespasses as I forgive those who trespass against me…”

    If there is a God then down he goes.

  24. 52
    Well it's a thought says:

    Justice! , what’s that, everybody knows where the law is concerned MP’s are the untouchables.

  25. 54
    Stu says:

    Forgive me but have I missed something? How can Cameron or Downing St have anything to do with this lieing, conniving, untrustworthy useless scum bag being charged for an offence he has clearly committed. This tosser needs treating like anyone else who has consistently lied to the police. It’s perjury and he should go down for it.

    • 82
      Legal 101 says:

      Errr perjury is the crime of lying under oath not of lying to the Police, that would be attempting to defeat/pervert the course of justice.

      • 169
        CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

        Legal 101, of course you are correct, but if he has given the police a witness statement which contains these lies, then he can be prosecuted for making a false statement. On every police statement form there is a declaration which has to be signed by the witness which states that the contents are true and that he/she may be prosecuted if the witness has stated anything he “knows to be untrue”.

        • 200
          Legal 101 says:

          Thats what Im saying any false statement is treated as attempting to pervert NOT perjury which is reserved for false evidence given in Court or other legal hearing given under oath.

  26. 56
    Words Fail Me says:

    Ex-deputy prime minister refuses to rule himself out as a possible candidate in election for police commissioner

    • 62
      Displaced Brummie says:

      Constance Briscoe, a barrister and part-time judge, a family friend, said she clearly remembered a conversation, during which she advised Pryce to tell Huhne to “go away and come clean”

      Oh. You mean a barrister and part-time judge who was aware that there was evidence of several crimes, including one that was potentially a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and who kept quiet about it and did not bring it to the attention of the legal authorities?

      Soon to be former part-time judge, I am thinking…

      • 159
        Ivor Tapeworm says:

        It would probably be priviliged information, so the barristerette would not have to disclose it. But then, if so, why did she then spill the beans to the ST?

      • 239
        Puzzled and Perplexed says:

        I saw her on Question Time and she seemed to be very honest and straight talking, so I am at a loss to think how she managed to get mixed up with the Huhnes.

        It certainly calls her judgement into question.
        Never mind, as the old saying goes, “Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement”.

    • 116
      • 205
        Oh FFS ! says:

        Oh FFS! We really have dissapeared down the rabbit hole if this comes to pass. Its as if the country is under some kind of madness and it cant help itself going from one ridiculous event to another. Jesus wept !

      • 375
        Dimbo chick says:

        But as one who (allegedly of course) cheated on his expenses, is he not already a commissioner of crime?

  27. 60
    nellnewman says:

    Interesting conundrum for cameron. When huhne has gone who will he replace him with? Laws?!

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  30. 70
    Gordon's wife says:
    • 161
      Ivor Tapeworm says:

      Evidently, your perfect man is a jowly, one-eyed, snot-eating, unprincipled, surly, brooding, arrogant, narcissistic, sociopathic fantasist.

      (Also a c u n t, but I couldn’t work out how to fit it in with the other adjectives).

  31. 72
    McGarratt says:

    Jeffery Archer got put away for lying about shagging a whore, but at least he didn’t put the public at risk.

    Huhne not only perjured himself, but he put the public at risk through his actions, so his sentence should be substantially more than Archer’s.

  32. 73
    Dcky Brid si hte 2nd graetset upmire evr ! says:

    I love this blog, and all who visit it.

    • 111
      I can't be arsed to think up a new pseudonym says:

      You are a shite-hawk, Sir – not a Bird!

      • 131
        Anonymous says:

        Thanks to this site i have now found out what a bunch of lieing thieving deceitful bastards these MPs/BBC/Unions are and which corrupt people people are running this once great country into the gutter.
        Long may this site continue on its path to bring all these bastards to the front.

        • 279
          Cut foreign aid...get the young to do humanitArian work... says:

          .
          Why should ppl have an authority over us when no-one votes for ‘em.

          • Dimbo chick says:

            You will also find that in most elections far more people vote against the one who is declared the winner. We are ruled by a minority for whom most people did not vote.

  33. 74
    Ah! Monika says:

    There is a chance of course that he will plead guilty, thus denying us all of the fun of a trial.

  34. 75
    They're all the same says:

    The new call from the great unwashed to politicians.
    GO AWAY AND COME CLEAN

  35. 80
    Bogeyman says:

    Talking of lying bastards, may I recommend Guido’s “Seen elsewhere” link, “Mayor Ken attacked workshy Londoners”.

    The duplicitous little shit is attacking Boris for claiming that some Londoners are too lazy to go looking for work (which is of course perfectly true). Yet several years ago Leninscum said exactly the same thing – in even more robust language.

    Warfarin sees off rats, I believe.

  36. 86
    Sticky Rice says:

    The headlines are about Huhne, but the story about the witch will linger longer. 100+ emails to the Sunday Times – taping his phone calls – directing the police to the son’s text messages from his father – what a bunny boiler. Emails sent to Isabell Oakeshott, daughter of Lord Oakeshott, Liberal Peer and friend of Pryce. Pryce’s success in impressing old men and teenage scribblers has convinced her that she controls the media. She might be able to persuade junior journalists that she is some sort of economics guru, but the adults know that she is a total mediocrity. Get the dunking stool….

    • 160
      Innocent Bystander says:

      There is no such thing as an economics guru. If anyone on the planet really understood how it all works and had successfully articulated how it all works and what needed to be done, we might not now be in the manure.

      The real problem is that all the Finance Ministers know how to get out of the shit, but haven’t a clue as to how they get themselves and their parties re-elected afterwards. It’s nothing to do with good fiscal governance it’s just politics and we all know what politicians are there for.

      That bastard Brown stole a big chunk of my pension. I hope he rots in hell and that it starts soon.

      • 222
        Fuck the 99%, Make Your Money And Leave says:

        Alot of us do tell it like it us, but the public doesn’t want the fantasy to end.

    • 333
      Must get a pseudonym one day says:

      Vicky Pryce is an economist from Greece. Go figure !

  37. 87
    8i11y says:

    wibble

  38. 91
    Anonymous says:

    What consequences are ther for Briscoe’s silence – having had knowledge of a crime?

  39. 92
    fucking legal scum says:

    Shouldn’t part-time judge Briscoe have reported him to the Police?

  40. 97
    Brillo vs Chuka says:

    Chuka’s on Brillo’s Sunday Politics in a moment! This should be fun.

    • 106
      nellnewman says:

      Ahh Mr chuckourmoney! And how much did the suit that he is wearing this morning cost him?

      Because that’s the only financial issue about him and that only of miniscule interest.

    • 162
      Innocent Bystander says:

      I saw it in the pub. What a wazzuck. Chuky whateverhis name is doesn’t listen, second guesses the questions and just gives the party line in response. Andrew would do well to give him a miss in future.

    • 399
      Tra Li says:

      Hey! I’m Chucky: Wanna Pay?

  41. 98
    Anonymous says:

    What’s Chris Huhne going to have in common with Frank Bruno and Freddie Mercury in a short space of time?

    They will all have been battered around the ring!!!!

    Remember Chris not to pick the soap up in the shower or you might get Butt Fucked!

    • 178
      Sceptic Meg says:

      I understand Mr Mercury was of the ‘active’ homosexual persuasion i.e. he was the one doing the battering.

      • 229
        Basil Brush says:

        What do Freddy Mercury and Ayrton Senna have in common?
        Both died with skid marks on their helmet!!

        Boom Boom!

  42. 102
    Brillo vs Chuka says:

    Chuka’s already shambolic.

    • 110
      I can't be arsed to think up a new pseudonym says:

      Ckukka is not British, so what is he doing in the HOC?

      • 119
        Ah! Monika says:

        No problem

        I suggest ” I can’t be arsed to think up a new pseudonym ” Simps

      • 164
        Innocent Bystander says:

        Enough Labour Trolls voted for him. They would vote for a cow pat if they were told to. Sad, or what?

  43. 105
    Brillo vs Chuka says:

    “Polls are polls” says Chuka when presented with a poll that shows more trust the govt with the economy than Labour.

  44. 108
    Brillo vs Chuka says:

    Chuka’s very slippery. He’s already lied and dodged so many questions.

  45. 109
    Brillo vs Chuka says:

    Brillo is destroying Chuka!

  46. 112
    Ah! Monika says:

    And when he comes out the Eastern Europeans won’t allow him space to sell the Big Issue.

    It used to be for the ” Roof-less ” now it’s for the Ruthless.

  47. 117
    Brillo vs Chuka says:

    “You’re obsessed with polls, Andrew” says Chuka, member of a party that’s been more fixated on polls, focus groups and ratings than any other political party since the Nazis.

    • 121
      I don't need no doctor says:

      And what would Chuka have said if the poll figures had been revers? Hypocrisy, stupidity and denial from Chuka.

    • 179
      Sceptic Meg says:

      Did the Nazis have focus groups then?

      Would have liked to have been a fly on the wall there.

      • 215
        The Paragnostic says:

        And there was I thinking Focus was a Dutch group.

        Ah, well.

        BTW – why are Procul Harum fucking up Nigeria? I’m sure that’s how some insufferably smug git on the BBC pronounced it earlier – much like how Pakistan is now Parkistan. Still, at least the latter pronunciation explains the “No-Ball Games”…

        • 251
          President of the BBC says:

          Me people have a pwoblem getting their tongues around all these w o g names you see

      • 401
        SPaD U Like says:

        Facilitator: ok guys – what’s the metrics on ‘judenrein’?
        Himmler: jeez – we’ve been there already: the volk cant be assed. OK they don’t want their daughters to marry one but they aint gonna go to the wall on this. Best guess? we transport the MFs to Mozambique – trust me this’ll fly.
        Goering: are you nuts? The big guy just wont buy it. OK – he don’t say this, he don’t say that, but harry h Christ, we all read mein kampf. I say, let the Wansee boys have their way – if it goes public we’ve always got deniability – let those MFs take the rap for a change.
        Hess: G has a point – go for the triangulation: we come out smelling sweet every which way. Agreed?
        Himmler, Goering, Hess: jawohl!

  48. 123
    Appropriate music says:

    Will the BBC always play a bit of Jungle music before every introduction of spe@r Chukka?

    • 218
      The Paragnostic says:

      Upchuck’s never been further than the Jungles of Dulwich (or Forest Hill, as it really is).

      I wonder when he’s going to come clean about the tax avoidance on his family home? Before Ed does the same, or after?

  49. 130
    Fred in the shed says:

    Ashdown in favour of opposing benefits cap. It’s all unravelling for Dave & Co.

    • 143
      Paddy Pantsdown says:

      Paddy Ashdown is not an all. He is the LibDems’ Neil Kinnock.

    • 151
      Beware of the screwed taxpayers says:

      Ashdown and the Bishop are stupid cnts. It is outrageos that we low paid workers and pensioners are having to pay income tax to support benefits at these high levels for the lazy feckless bxstxrds. If the Bishops are so concerned why don’t they flog off some of the Anglican Church’s vast property and land assets and give it to these people that they consider to be “needy”.

  50. 132
    Apathy Rising says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089993/Taxpayers-face-1billion-stop-Commons-sinking-Thames-mud–MPs-sell-net-public-purse-500m-profit.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

    Waste of gunpowder eh ?

    It was always destined to find its rightful place in the Thames sludge. We must spend money only on sealing up the doors and exits to protect Londoners from the risk of escaping vermin.

    • 137
      Fred in the shed says:

      House of Commons – not fit for purpose.
      MPs- not fit for purpose.

      Do I need a degree to work it out?

    • 250
      Art Critic of the Listener says:

      Would anyone cry if the HoC slipped into the Thames ?

      On perhaps it will become like the leaning toweer of Pisa…

      Just listing, like the cruise boat

      Modern art I say

      And much admired by the glitterati…

    • 385
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      For centuries it was hygenic practice to bury one’s shit. This seems a fine example of that resurrected practice; Recycling at its best. Should make for some fine tomatoes.

  51. 133
    Gordon Brown says:

    I am ready to return.

  52. 138
    Kermit the frog says:

    It’s not easy being green…

  53. 146
    Follow the money says:

    The Times woman wot has Vicky’s emails just told Brillo that she was not rushing down the bookies to put money on the Huhne’s going.

    • 191
      Tessa Tickles says:

      Let’s face it, the government has spent the last 6 months or so trying to think up a really really really good reason why the CPS should say “no” to the case going to trial.

      I can’t wait to hear it. It’s going to be fantastic. “A dog ate all the emails” or “ghosts dissolved the discs with their ectoplasm.” That kind of thing. Whatever it is, it will be one huge calculated insult to the public. A big V-sign from the whole Cabinet.

  54. 147
    Ah! Monika says:

    Ah! Monika says:
    Your comment is awaiting moderation.
    January 22, 2012 at 12:21 pm
    And when he comes out the Ea stern Europ eans won’t allow him space to sell the Big Issue.

    It used to be for the ” Roof-less ” now it’s for the Ruthless.

  55. 153
    ED BALLS 'S ORDONNANZ says:

    Charges within weeks !
    How long does it take the average copper to read a fecking Email ?

  56. 167
    But I thought you have the perfect man says:
  57. 170
    annette curton says:

    The combined intellectual weight of all those experts who analyse the criminal mind; Sherlock Holmes, Rebus and Hercule Poirot are helpless at resolving the enigma of the three points, but I can exclusively reveal that Mr Plum was driving at the time.

  58. 172
    Anonymous says:

    What about Huhne`s semi-namesake, GEOFF HOON. When will justice be done here? I see his new company is picking up millions in `consultancy fees` from WESTLAND helicopters, the company run by his friend Graham Cole. Why i Geoff Hoon not being further investigated by the police?

    • 300
      Anonymous says:

      Because its all big business and Hoon`s friends were desparate to get him a job following his parliamentary misdemeanours, which they did via Graham Cole, head of westland helicopters (see Sunday Times report on Hoon last Sunday). Hoon is apparntly trying to cover up for Graham Cole`s son, David Cole, who was sacked as Director of the Atlantic Council following strange financial goings on. Want to know more – ask why? Its another story of Labour Party rottenness which is being covered up.

    • 302
      Anonymous says:

      this needs ome investigation methinks

    • 304
      Anonymous says:

      why? whats this all about. geoff hoon would nevr do anything improper.

    • 357
      GEOFF HOOHNE says:

      Outrageous. We1ll sue the lot of you. I`m for hire and thats that!

    • 359
      Anonymous says:

      Well then, tell us exactly who is hiring you and why?

    • 363
      PEEPING TOM LOOKING THROUGH A VERY NARROW CRACK says:

      If the crack were widened I could see more and tell more. Is there anyone of upright moral stature who could help?

      • 366
        Anonymous says:

        They might be too nervous to help. The more is known and expoed the more will be known and exposed.

  59. 175
    ED BALLS 'S ORDONNANZ says:

    So the governments benefit reforms are on hold
    Why did we vote these feckers in
    just a bunch of headline grabbing public school tossers

    • 176
      frank field says:

      If it was good enough for Tony, it’s good enough for Dave.

    • 187
      Tessa Tickles says:

      From what I gather, although about 80% of LibLabCon voters are in favour of the welfare reforms, the unelected LibLab Lords (plus the God-fearing bishops in the HoL, who should have no say in the running of the country because they are, by definition, as thick as shit) are showing their usual ‘connection’ with the public by trying to shoot the legislation down.

      If the befuddled unelected bastards in the Lords stop the legislation, which seems likely, IDS should call a referendum on it.

      • 208
        annette curton says:

        A bit off topic but has anybody heard any pronouncements recently from this fine body of superannuated and unelected men and women that in former times would have been transported to the colonies for thievery, are the likes Glasgow Mick and Jeffrey Archer still holding this countries legislature proceedings to ransom, with a few knob head Archbishops thrown in for good measure?.

      • 248
        The Chief Muzzie says:

        The non-God fearing Druids you should say

        They only represent themselves nowadays

  60. 181
    twattering for twits says:

    Our Billу is on a mission to bag himself a teddy bear.

    Hair Bear won’t know what’s hit him when he eventually gets cornered by the horny little shit, he he.

  61. 189
    Fog says:

    Weeks? And weeks, and weeks, and weeks, and weeks, and weeks, and weeks, and weeks………

    • 192
      Tessa Tickles says:

      It’ll be over by Christmas.

      • 198
        Chris Hoon says:

        Which Christmas ?

        • 221
          nellnewman says:

          Actually it doesn’t really matter how long it takes or what the outcome legally is now – huhne is damaged goods and his political career is all but finished. No doubt he’ll hang on as long as he can to maximise his ministerial pension and stuff but that’s about his lot.

          Mind the political career of the libdem party as a whole seems all but finished as well after this coalition comes to end in 2015.

  62. 194
    NeverRed says:

    How long before Huhne is scrapped?
    How long before the Trade Union Modernisation Fund is scrapped?
    How long before the ‘Pilgrims’ are scrapped?
    How long before the human rights for criminals court is scrapped?
    How long before the euro is scrapped?
    How long before our membership of the EU is scrapped?

    Many Questions for Cameron to not only answer, but pull his finger out and bloody well get done.

    • 293
      Where are Tony Blair's Expenses says:

      Nothing nothing and more nothing that is all Cameron is good for. You can add to the list

      Capping of Benefits

      Making adoption easier

      Making squatting a criminal offence

      Controlling no win – no fee lawyers

      Controlling immigration

      Reducing public spending the list goes on and on

      he is nothing but a blowhard

  63. 197
    NHS water cooler says:

    Five surgeons are discussing who were the best patients to operate on.

    The first surgeon says, ‘I like to see Accountants on my operating
    table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.’

    The second responds, ‘Yeah, but you should try Electricians! Everything
    inside them is colour-coded.’

    The third surgeon says, ‘No, I really think Librarians are the best;
    everything inside them is in alphabetical order.’

    The fourth surgeon chimes in, ‘You know I like ConstructionWorkers.
    Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the
    end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would.’

    But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed, ‘You’re all
    Wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no
    heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine, and there are only two moving
    parts – the mouth and the arsehole – and they are interchangeable’

  64. 199
    dr. sipp says:

    new sunday politics show bbc

    must be the worst graphics ever–start of show

    someone tell me what there saying?

  65. 201
    nellnewman says:

    Just a thought . If he gets convicted and jailed does he not only lose his minister’s job but also get kicked out as an mp?

  66. 202
    polythesis says:

    So just one head of the corrupt Hydra gets cut off, there are many more and another insider regime stooge will step right in to continue the CAGW fraud. Scum like Huhne do not make policy they sell it, policy is decided in secret in places like the EU commission and common purpose meetings and the Bilderberg gang. The bent front men like Huhne/Cameron/Millibrain/Clagg and all the rest of them simply learn their script and sell the lies. Policies making and creation is now above and beyond their pay grade, well beyond.

  67. 206
    Rat Arsed says:

    Has Anyone Seen My Willy?

  68. 207
    I can't be arsed to think up a new pseudonym says:

    Cross-hairs at the ready!

  69. 216
    Whistleblower says:

    THERE IS NO JUSTICE:

    Why was this trial on 16th January not mentioned in the Courts List?

    Why were there two prosecutors, one from the Council and one from the UK Government?

    Why was the appeal rejected?

    Why was the defendants evidence not heard in Court?

    FIGHT TO HELP THIS MAN.

    http://smokersjustice.co.uk/

  70. 217
    nellnewman says:

    The CPS have promised ‘there will be a speedy resolution to this case’!!

    Sorry but can’t help ++Laugh++

    The CPS’s idea of speedy seems to be at a pace slower than the discredited italian court system that takes years to even arrange preliminary hearings.

  71. 226
    Dolly Draper says:

    Hiya!

  72. 231
    nellnewman says:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-to-discuss-sale-of-parliament-6293033.html

    The Houses of Parliament are subsiding and may end up in the Thames largely because some idiot allowed the buildings to be undermined by installing underground car parking.

    • 234
      Lou Scannon says:

      ”No decisions are likely to be taken for several years…”
      Let’s hope the ground opens up and swallows the lot of them while they’re arguing over the best way to screw us for the cost of repairs.

      • 235
        nellnewman says:

        Apparently costs are estimated at about £1billion!

        • 282
          Tessa Tickles says:

          Couldn’t they just fill the underground carpark with concrete?

          This option should appeal to Camoron, because he loves covering things in concrete. On the other hand, he only likes covering things in concrete if it (a) costs the taxpayer many many billions that they can’t afford and (b) totally pisses-off English voters, so maybe it won’t appeal to him.

    • 244
      Gwido's sidecar says:

      Methinks It was Guy Fawkes who gave permission to build the underground carparks

    • 247
      I don't need no doctor says:

      Is the subsidence worse where Tom Watson sits?

    • 256
      Puzzled and Perplexed says:

      Surely a claim is in order against the insurance policy of the contractor who did the work?

  73. 236
    Anonymous says:

    Let us reflect on British Justice.
    Two soldiers are murdered.Suspect’s DNA found everywhere in getaway car. Verdict- Innocent
    Young black man murdered. Miniscule blood spot found on suspect’s clothing nineteen years later. Verdict-two men guilty.
    Both verdicts a travesty of justice.

  74. 237
  75. 242
    Empty Ed lashed to his infantile mast says:

    Gwido

    Thank you for all your support

    It is working

    As Jean Clair of the French Academy said (about “contemporary art”)

    “Je pisse donc je pense” (In Ed’s English, “I pith so I can think”)

    (and takeoff of Descartes famous saying

    Je pense donc je suis” (“I think so I exist”))

    • 281
      The Paragnostic says:

      Except that Descartes would not have lowered himself to the use of the vernacular, so said “Cogito ergo sum”.

      I prefer “Coito ergo sum”, myself.

  76. 255
    Damages Goods says:

    Let’s swap Huhne for Laws

    Same diff no?

  77. 259
    Fog says:

    Andy Bore’em – he never shuts up.

  78. 262
    jm says:

    As a political commentator I must say I have complete confidence in Huhne being able to survive this minor problem.

    I’m hoping that political commentators, like their sports counterparts, also possess the ability to curse…

  79. 266
    This will get the lefties foaming at the mouth. says:
    • 307
      Bystander #34 says:

      Ah ha! Ha ha ha

      • 308
        nellnewman says:

        Ho Hum Indeed!

        labour made these over generous welfare benefits available when they wanted to buy votes.

        Now the working electorate has sussed them out and their support is plummeting faster than a waterfall they have u turned and want them stopped.

        Pathetic!

  80. 267
    smoggie says:

    Rolll forward a couple of years…. prisoner Huhne has a Damascene moment and discovers Jesus … becomes a better person.

  81. 269
    Codswallop says:

    Huhne..don’t count your chickens. He’s a slippery little customer – ditto the CPS, Collectively known as the duck ands weave brigade.

    • 353
      The way things are.... says:

      The CPS will go hell for leather for working class criminals but will shy away from prosecuting upper middle class or political criminals as it could effect their career prospects.

  82. 270
    Dave says:

    Huhne is a Hunt.

  83. 272
    Pentangelis says:

    If Cameron has any qualms about the consequences of sacking the little turd, then I can help.
    Have a re-shuffle and re-instate his back-bench credentials.
    Simple, not rocket science.

  84. 273
    Chuka Urmunneyaround says:

    Let me know it you need any tax ‘planning’ advice.

  85. 275
    Fabians are Evil says:

    Yes we can get rid of this Huhne but the real problem is that the HOC, and in particular the Labour Party, is full of Huhnes.

    ‘ Honest and capable’ people find it very hard to progress within politics

  86. 280
    Alizee the beast of paris says:

    Funny how many of these green types like driving around in BMWs and Range Rovers between private jets

  87. 286
    Rose Cottage says:

    “There will be charges.” We’ve hear all this before haven’t we? CPS will decide insufficient evidence or not in the public interest.

  88. 289
    Southern Softy says:

    Find Danny Alexander a safe Conservative seat before the next election and ditch the rest of fucking Lib Dems

    • 292
      Freedom Fighter says:

      We will have to give him an English passport first

      Before we tell the Jocks to fuck off as well

      • 294
        Jack says:

        Ever since this blog came out in favour of Scottish indepepdence the opinion polls have gone the other way

        Do you think we have been smoked out ?

      • 355
        What the bigots forget is..... says:

        Give him a passport with the same nationality as Milliband, Harman, Balls, Huhne, straw, blunkett, Scargill, Crow, Prentis, Penny Red, Bevanite Ellie, Sally Bercow, Slotgob, Hari, Marcus Brigstocke, Billy Bragg, …you get the picture inglshman !

  89. 296
    Members of the electorate says:

    We’re not beastly in Eastleigh. We’re just apalled at Huhne.

    • 314
      Lou Scannon says:

      What is it about people in your area that makes them vote these clowns in ? I mean, look at Handycock – do the people in Portsmouth think they’re voting for DCI Frost ?

      • 327
        The Paragnostic says:

        Handycock reminds me more of Lonely out of Callan, but that probably just dates me.

        • 329
          Lou Scannon says:

          I was wondering what that nasty smell was down Portsmouth way.

          • Ippikin says:

            I grew up in the area before escaping to the hills. Strange people, strange values and strange accent.
            Remember the good citizens of Paulsgrove (just outside Portsmouth) driving a Paediatrician from her home because they thought she was a paedophile?
            That’s the level of moron and ignoramus you are up against down there, so don’t be surprised at their choices of MP’s.
            Don’t forget Mark Oaten the turd-eater is down that way too.

          • Dimbo chick says:

            Edward Woodwood would wooden ‘e?

          • Calamity Clegg says:

            All aboard the Deadwood Stage !
            Next stop : Oblivion.

  90. 298
    You lot should.... says:

    Really sign up for twitter, fucking class.

    • 315
      Tessa Tickles says:

      Twitter is for teenage twats.

      Despite all the hype, it’s only got 3% of the total ‘social media’ market. By comparison, Facebook, that other great spastic-oriented pile of bollocks aimed squarely at retards, has about 51%.

      • 316
        Anonymous says:

        A suitable home for our Willy Wowden then.

      • 320
        Anonymous says:

        140 characters, and that includes the punctuation marks and spaces ffs. In other words, ideal for dyslexics like Ontablets.

      • 323
        how twee is a twibbon? says:

        As if to prove your point about retards, Ontablets has 381 knuckle dragging followers. He does a good job for chariddy tho.

      • 325
        Anonymous says:

        The next revolution will not be televised.
        It will be tweeted by twats, fomented on Facebook
        Blazed by the Blackberry bolsheviks and the
        Incurable iPhone internationalists
        Documented in 720p by camera phone Cecil Bs
        With minimalist manifestos in 140 Cs.
        The next revolution will not be televised.

    • 318
      see below says:

      Twitter is for twats.

  91. 317
    Petrol to the fire says:

    State referendum commission: Croatia votes in favor of joining the EU – @AP

  92. 324
    Johan Hari says:

    Johan Hari I quit the Indy.

    Well I would not want to work on a paper that hired an unashamed plagiarist.

  93. 326
    Diane Fatbott says:

    Taxi ! Taxiiiiii !!! TAAAAXXXXIIIIIII !!!!!!!!!!

    • 337
      Screwed taxpayer. says:

      Walk — you fat cow. It will get some of your weight off, assuming you don’t put yet more taxpayer funded food down your gullet.

  94. 330
    The Paragnostic says:

    I see France is planning a Napoleonland theme park.

    Will there be a maximum height for going on the rides?

  95. 335
    You lot should.... says:

    http://www.rowforfreedom.com have completed thier journey across the ocean ( donations via website) :-)

    • 369
      Anonymous By Choice, Not Chance says:

      You are the gay cricket-loving Senior Security Officer at a Council Depot who tweets Neo all the time and I claim my 5 Pounds.

  96. 336

    A minister obsessed with power,
    Commissioning new windmills each hour,
    With a Gatso was shot
    Right up the bot!
    He should not drop his soap in the shower…

  97. 341
    Sir Barnabas Scudamore says:

    Was noticed at Oxford for hanging around know KGB “agents”.

    The sooner he goes the better – chain only as strong as it’s weakest link and all that.

    Bloody communist – God save Her Majesty the Queen !

    • 344
      albacore says:

      Bringing Parliament into disrepute?
      Well, I’ve heard some stuff but ain’t that a hoot?
      Parliament’s got no repute worth the name
      They should all be hanging their heads in shame

  98. 342
    Going mental says:

    Thank fuck Top Gear is back next Sunday, finally some fucking sanity.

  99. 345
    MB. says:

    Bit much for him to be accusing Downing Street of dirty tricks when after just about every leak from the government the finger seems to point at him.

  100. 347
    BBC Mong says:

    We at the BBC are against any of these Tory plans to cut benefits. A lot of this money goes to the cocaine dealers in London and we love those guys.

    So fuck off Tory scum

    • 350
      Gooey Blob says:

      Polling indicates that the public are overwhelmingly in favour of a cap. The BBC may take a position against them, but it will only alienate more of its audience and lose more licence payers if it does.

      • 360
        BBC Mong says:

        Like we give a fuck, we just want lots of good cheap coke.

        Now pay up and enjoy the repeats we serve up you fuckers.

  101. 352
    Just think says:

    The “Cartoon” is out in the morning.

  102. 354
  103. 356
    FUCK IT says:

    SOMEONE KILLED TWITTER!!!!!

  104. 365
    Red Ken ( pond life ) Livingscum says:

    VOTE FOR ME, I’LL CONVERT LONDON INTO THIS….


  105. 367
    Anonymous says:

    Anyone with a name like Hoouhne, however it is spelt, must be suspect!

  106. 368
    Isambard Brunel says:

    Fairies, begone, and be all ways away. –Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  107. 381
    albacore says:

    Now look out, Eu*r-o-pe! Here comes Dave!
    Just watch him make those beaks behave
    ‘Cos if they don’t he’ll take us out
    (Our Dave, he ain’t arf got some clout!)
    The Court and E U aren’t the same
    Which is a dirty, crying shame
    A referendum’s still no-go
    This shirley can’t be all for show?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090391/Cameron-tell-Europes-judges-stop-interfering-British-law.html

  108. 389
    Mr Grimsdale says:

    Norman, get that kettle on will yer lad, I’m gaspin’.

  109. 390
    Dianne Fatbott says:

    Hey guys, I’m on LBC right now.

    Do that booty shake!

  110. 400
    Mark Wouters says:

    Hello,
    In the USA there are two Loosers Running,NOWT GINGRICH and NIT ROMNEY ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????



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