January 27th, 2012

Classy Timing for Guardian Attack

A confused co-conspirator whispers to Guido that the Guardian have been working on the story they ran this morning about Michael Gove giving public funds to a group they don’t like for at least two weeks. The latest installment of their campaign against the  education secretary claims that he personally made the decision to give taxpayers’ money to the Community Security Trust despite being, along with fifty others, an advisor to their board. A fair point perhaps, but given that the CST “advise the Jewish community on matters of security and antisemitism”, why did they wait until Holocaust Memorial Day to run the story? Odd, at best…

UPDATE: A source to Gove gets in touch to say said: “It is unbelievable to attack any politician for funding the protection of Jewish children. It is even more extraordinary and frankly offensive to do it on Holocaust Memorial Day.”

UPDATE II: The CST aren’t happy either. They note that the Guardian did not even bother to contact them before running the story and have let rip on their own blog.


115 Comments

  1. 1
    Only me ! says:

    should not be surprised

    • 2
      Only me ! says:

      why oh why

      • 3
        Had to be done. says:

        it had to be done :)

        • 41
          Andy Murray is a chip on the shoulder jock says:

          Why is the whole of England so happy when he loses

          • jgm2 says:

            We’re simply returning the complement. He’s a Little Scotlander. Fine. Be a Little Scotlander.

          • His bird's nice says:

            Bit of a bollocks if he wins Wimbledon the year if Scotland fucks off on its own … still no British winner

          • Iran:Iraq, Wimbledon, Israel:Arabs says:

            Who Cares Who Wins.

          • Wife of Bath says:

            Sorry chaps.

            Its a day like any day.

            I thought that Holocaust Memorial Day commemorates all peoples who have had Holocausts.

            That includes Armenians, Rwandans, Cambodians, Ugandans, Icenians – to name a few.

          • Fiscal Gerrymandering says:

            Why is everyone getting so upset

            No one reads the Guardian and the only way they can drive traffic is cheap publicity shots that get them blog space, air time and column inches in other readworthy organs.

            Stop pointing out to everybody what is printed in the Guardian and they will eventually disappear to their Tuscan villas on their tax exempt offshore shareholder trust funded pensions like all good socialist animals that are more equal than others.

    • 37
      Anonymous says:

      They are all Jew-Haters at the Guardian. Julie Birchill put it well when she described the institutional anti-semitism there.

    • 81
      Fight the Regressive Left says:

      The BBC-Guardian-Observer Axis of Evil is judeophobic. End of. They have played a disturbing role in bigging up Islam and in demonising Jews & Christians. Letf-wing antisemitic “chic” is on the rise and these numpties think it’s cool to perpetuate it. So no surprise there.

  2. 4
    Had to be done. says:

    because they are anti isreal.

    • 10
      President Ahmedinejad says:

      Is not is real. Is fake. Fake country. Nuke! Nuke! Kill! Crush! Destroy!

      Islam is religion of peace and tolerance, by the way. KILL KILL!

      • 49
        jgm2 says:

        Bit of local difficulty for the religion of pe*ac*e…

        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16754827

        PKSt*an*is and Ir an ians killing each other?

        What’s not to like?

        • 75
          Fake Blood says:

          Brilliant!

          • Mad Dog Admandinejad says:

            We noble Iranians refuse to attend the Olympics in that running dog revisionist UK where the Olympic sign represents a secret Zionist symbol of repression to our Shia Muslim brothers…….blah blah Chavez….Livingstone…..Jewish conspiracy…..Christian Crusaders…….Caliphate…….do the okey cokey….dribble

        • 77
          Ali Baba al Salahfi says:

          The amount of high octane hatred between the lovers and haters of the bint Aischa is the defining characterteristic of the religion of peace. This hatred is not, of course, quite as utterly, totally all-consuming as their common hatred of a little Mediterranean country of 7 million.

        • 84
          8 Ace - £1.49 says:

          Bolockistan? Now they’re just making stuff up…

    • 13
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      What have the CST got to do with ‘isreal’, as you so touchingly put it?

  3. 5
    Trinny says:

    Why are public funds given to any body like this (anti or pro anything)?

    • 53
      Linford's lunch box says:

      Why is the opening Olympic Ceremony cosying £27million? The whole fisaCoe is now running at £81million. Jeez.

      • 65
        Stick that in your pipe, China says:

        I demand to see Diversity do one of their jaw dropping dance routines. To see the wee one with the fuzzy hair do a tumble over the other ones is worth £50million at least.

        • 69
          jgm2 says:

          I think Britain will do what it does best. I reckon Bob Crow will put in a last minute demand for 20K each for his tube dr*iv*ers to work that week otherwise they’ll all take a holiday.

          Health and safety you see. It ain’t safe but 25K – did I say 20K earlier? No, your mistake, it was definitely 30K which will make it all safe again. For 40K.

  4. 6
    Diane Abbott says:

    Don’t be tryin to play divide and rule, honky! Brrrrap!

  5. 7
    nellnewman says:

    For as long as the graudian employs the likes of pollytwaddle they cannot expect thinking people to take them seriously.

    • 21
      Plus Lots says:

      Plus one hundred and ninety twenty million

      • 79
        Here for the lulz says:

        Oh yes, crowd-pleasing nell hits it every time. A phenomenal mind, always on the look out for that new angle. She’s the main reason I visit these parts.

        • 91
          joescotus says:

          maybe th e indy’s circ. will increase now they’ve got rid of that plagiarising pornogropher whassisname again?……

  6. 8
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Here’s the interesting bit of the story:

    ‘After he gained office, he held a meeting with the trust to “discuss the allocation of the funding”.

    ‘The department has refused a freedom of information request to make public documents relating to the meeting in July 2010, arguing that it was not in the public interest to do so.’

  7. 9
    Princess Po-face Polytwaddle, handwringing, whining down at people from her ivory tower says:

    I am always right!

    I am never wrong!

    Classy indeed!

    That’s what the Grouniad is! That’s why I write for it. And that’s why they pay me so much!

    A classy paper isn’t for little people.

    It’s for people like me what went to a High Class School, and a High Class University.

    Now go, and leave me in peace . . . . Fabio . . . I’m ready!!!!

  8. 11
    LabourBot says:

    Ashcroft,Murdoch,Coulson,Thatcher,Ashcroft,Murdoch,Coulson,Thatcher,
    Ashcroft,Murdoch,Coulson,Thatcher,Ashcroft,Murdoch,Coulson,Thatcher.

    • 28
      Not forgetting says:

      Too far, too fast. Too far, too fast. Too far, too fast. Too far, too fast. Too far, too fast.

      • 54
        Gordy says:

        dum di dum di dum di dum di dum nursey dum di dum di dum di dum di nursey dum di dum di dum di dum di dum nursey dum di dum di dum di dum di nursey dum di dum di dum di dum di dum nursey dum di dum di dum di dum di nursey
        p
        l
        o
        p
        nursey nurse

  9. 14
    Sophie says:

    Yet The Guardian had no problem with New Labour funnelling taxpayers cash to every Islamist nutter in Londonistan for 13 years?

    I think it is about time that the racism of The Guardian regarding Jews was bought into the cleansing sunlight.

  10. 15
    yeah, right.. says:

    Why does Gove keep shooting himself in the foot like this?

    He’s winning the argument for his education reforms, something even Stephen Twigg has acknowledged.

    But the megalomanicacal bible stunt and now this being free with public money gives his ideological enemies (inc the Grauniad) ammunition to attack him.

    Shame really. He comes across as that rarest of things, a conviction politician who wants to improve the lamentable education provision given to so many children in this country. One gets the feeling that the NUT, and it’s trade journal The Guardian, would rather have Balls back at education, and to hell with the children.

  11. 16
    Judas says:

    I know one group they won’t be giving money to:

    ‘Protect The English Community’

    • 27
      A Guardianista's malignant self hatred says:

      There is no such thing as the ‘English community’.

      This Island was a hideously white, nascent cultural void prior to mass immigration.

      Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah for mass immigration.

  12. 19
    JH says:

    Isn’t it strange how certain religions are completely exempt from the righteous indignation of the Guardianistas, while certain other religions just can’t do anything right.

    Very strange, that. It’s almost as if their self-hatred manifests itself into tacitly supporting any religion that is an existential threat to what they themselves regard as cornerstones of Western civilisation, such as wimmins rights, exaltation for poofters etc.

    No wonder their faces always look a bit twisted and strange. Imagine having to carry the burden of those inner contradictions.

  13. 20
    One for Bi11y says:

    There are currently around 5,000 professional footballers in Britain, but none are openly gay. Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin Fashanu, asks why no gay player has followed in her uncle’s boots in nearly 25 years.

  14. 22
    jgm2 says:

    Imagine having to carry the burden of those inner contradictions.

    The soothing balm of other people’s money, lots and lots of other people’s money helps them shoulder the load.

    • 35
      The Guardian says:

      Remember last year when you all shrieked about 6ft of snow? Bellowed that that proved there was no global warming. And we said “That’s because its weather, not climate, dickfaces!” Remember that?

      Well, since its been really, really mild for 9 months .. its climate change again.
      OK?

  15. 23
    Diane Abbot says:

    Now listen Fatty Fawkes , stop telling porkies about me.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/abortion-counselling-consultation

    Hear me loud ya baby eating Tory boy!

    • 33
      jgm2 says:

      Hahaha. The bed-wetters all on board with Abbott spitting the dummy out and being in no position to influence the debate.

      Of course when Cameron walks away from the Euro negotiations he’s an arrogant bastard for upsetting everybody and failing to engage and influene the debate.

      The really don’t do joined-up thinking these bedwetters.

  16. 25
    Is Laam says:

    I think there can be no doubt that Gove should have distanced himself from this.

    But why is the education department paying for something that the police should do? If there is a real security threat to Jewish schools then the proper authorities should take action. What the hell is going wrong in our country when school children are now the targets of terrorism?

    • 87
      Sir Aston Martin says:

      Have you tried calling the police lately? The standard script reads something like this:

      “Well, what do you want us to do about it? Here’s your crime number for the insurance.”

  17. 29
    Pilgrim's progress says:
    • 36
      jgm2 says:

      Those 2200 should be paying for your upkeep then you free-loading fucker. Not me.

    • 40
      jgm2 says:

      The finger-pointing has started. Typical socialists – denouncing each other.

      Is there anybody else you would like to denounce Julie?

    • 44
      yeah, right.. says:

      The sense of entitlement is staggering. Gove should be taking this head on instead of dicking about sending schools signed fairy stories.

    • 50
      JH says:

      So let’s stop paying both of you then sweetheart.

      You are saying that because you are notionally ‘busy’ at finding ways to rip off the taxpayer, the taxpayer should pay you more.

      Reality? Have you met Julie? No? You two are going to get on soooo well.

    • 57
      It's not right says:

      Sounds as if Julie’s jealous.
      It’s an ugly trait Julie.
      So are you I have to admit.

      • 67
        jgm2 says:

        The politics of envy is all the likes of Julie have to offer.

        You could take every single Labour policy, stick it in a big fucking test-tube and boil it down and evaporate away all the dense socialist texts and verbiage and you’d be left with three words.

        The childish whine: ‘IT’S NOT FAIR’.

    • 64
      I 'heart' Julie mwwahhhhhhhh says:

      I expect that this Headteacher is actually on the Staff list of the school though Julie, not like you, being nowhere to be seen on the Northumberland Park Community School (Haringey) Staff list.

      http://www.northumberlandpark.haringey.sch.uk/documents/Staff%20List%20-%202011-12.pdf

      With your caseload of 2200 cases, would I be correct in thinking that you’re just not up to it honey? Or are you hoping somebody somewhere will be impressed by your tweet?

      • 68
        jgm2 says:

        The problem is that she really is that stupid. She’s highlighting that, in theory, there are 2200 union members who should be able to call upon her ‘services’ but for some reason those members don’t pay for this ‘service’.

        We do.

  18. 30
    Vote for says:

    Newt Livingstone.

  19. 38
    Opinion personal says:

    FFS Julie, change the Photo, but go to Specsavers beforehand.

  20. 43
    Gordon Brown says:

    I’ve just done a jobbie. Nurse!

  21. 45
    Andy Burnham says:

    Seven inches.

  22. 47
    How Europe@n are you? says:

    How Europe@n are you. Over at the guardian there are only 11% Eurosceptics, see if you can increase the the figure.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/jan/27/how-european-are-you-quiz

    • 55
      How Europe@n are you? says:

      Look Guido I couldn’t take the pe@ word out of the link because if I did it would no longer link. How’s about cutting a bit of slack on this? If someone wants to link Abbott to ρeas and rιce they can easily get round your mod bot with the greek alphabet.

    • 85
      The one percent club says:

      Just got myself into the Top 1%. The Euro Trash elite. The Eurosceptics are now at 12%. Onwards and upwards

    • 90
      Steve Lloyd says:

      Did the test and got this,

      Like 12% of respondents, you’ve been rated:

      Euro-septic

      For you, the European idea is poisonous, even if you did once have a pretty good holiday in Alicante

      Happy days.

  23. 51
    Geoff Hoon says:

    I really am, you know.

  24. 52

    This Week: Alan, former chancellor/Postman Johnson says Romney pays the same amount of tax as his cleaner.

    His cleaner paid $6.2 million ?

    Brillo puts him right. Tax rate is not tax paid. – Biffo!

  25. 63
    A Jungian Shadow Cabinet says:

    There are no funds for the natives. England must have its own parliament.

  26. 74
    How Europe@n are you? says:

    How Europe@n are you? Currently over at the Guardian only 11% are eurosceptics. Take the short test to see if you can boost the numbers. I’ve had to use a Tinyurl because of Guido’s mod bot and I doubt anyone on the order order team will be around on a Friday afternoon to unmod it.

    http://tinyurl.com/7xxyrb6

    • 82
      Tessa Tickles says:

      Fucking crap. I had to “temporarily enable all scripts” to do the quiz, I did the quiz and then where it said “See your results” I clicked and it took me to a page on which a new script had to be enabled to see the result. When I enabled the script for that page, it took me back to the frigging start.

      I bet that website’s designed by stinky Europeans.

    • 93
      Lou Scannon says:

      Done. It strikes me as a deliberate attempt to hide everything that’s wrong with the EU and generally muddy the waters. Europe and the EU are two completely different things. What the hell have holidays and travel got to do with the EU ?

    • 95
      HhrisCuhne is a twot says:

      I a one of the 1% “Eurotrash – time to re-arm and settle some old scores !”

      Bit like a paedo, its nice knowing there are others out there !

  27. 76
    Fake Blood says:

    Easy. It’s because they are closet anti-semites, secretly desperate to see the Jews murdered again.

    • 104
      Displaced Brummie says:

      They’d be anti-black, too, but, to be frank, they are a bit nervous of Diane Abbott.

  28. 80
    Drop a daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    The Guardian Jew haters? What next, the BBC Jew haters a well?

  29. 103
    Displaced Brummie says:

    FFS! What ARE Mr Rushbastard and his chums doing? Trying to get the Oswald Mosley Anti-Semite Award?

    At this rate they’ll not have long to wait.

  30. 106
    Les Abbey says:

    Mind you Guido your mate Gove has a bit form doesn’t he? I mean he’s pretty good at handing out the dosh. Who was it that he gave a mil or two to? I remember it was ex-bag carrier Rachel Wolf wasn’t it?

    Funny how you always spring to Gove’s defense. Who needs guard dogs when Guido’s on your side?

  31. 111
    Anonymous says:

    Guido’s Israel obsession rears its head again.

  32. 112
    bill hague's bitch says:

    Guido you’re a fucking hypocrite. You (rightly) campaigned against public money going to pay unions, but just because it’s your corrupt buddy Gove handing out our money to his own personal, political charities (no money for charities who protect muslim children i note – far more likely to be attacked in the UK), it’s the Guardian’s fault for reporting it.
    I think you might have become a bit too cosy in the westminster bubble…your blogs starting to read like a defense for the Parliamentary Conservative Party, rather than an attack of them, and all other parties.

    Hypocrite.

  33. 113
    Desperate Dan says:

    Why do some children need more protection than others?

  34. 115
    chris smith says:

    I think the problem with all of this including Gove’s support of government faith schools allowing discrimination by religion as a basis of entry .. is that it fundamentally increases racial discrimination in our society.

    Organisations such as this which are for the benefit of ONE religous group to the exclusion of all others SHOULD NOT receive government support financial or otherwise.

    Gove you are a priviliged little incompetant that is not fit to handle either public money or policy. I suggest you concentrate a little more effort on getting our schools right rather than sucking up to the queen and anti secular jewish lobby becuase sadly you have as little knowledge about the zionist fundamentalism destroying secular israel as getting our scools right !



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