Guido won’t bother with the fashion round up this time, but devout nicotine addict Laurie Penny popped up on our television again this lunchtime, complete with a fake cigarette. Jackie Ashley had dropped out at the last minute from appearing on the Daily Politics, so our favourite flame-haired firebrand was called up to fill in. In the course of the interview she offered her services as chairman of RBS, declaring that she could do Hester’s job without the paycheck. Guido is sceptical…
Leaving aside the differences between turning around an enormous multinational financial institution and jetting around teenage trouble-spots with a smartphone, let’s just see what Penny’s comrades at the Occupy movement could teach us about running a bank:
“Following criticism of the way in which the camp’s financial affairs have been run, the finance group quit en masse. That included the person who has the key for the safe — with the result that no one could access the money. Coupled with the fact that donations are now lagging behind expenditure, there has been a serious shortage of money to pay for things such as food and power. Protester Leo Ashford, 20, …told reporters that despite generous donations by supporters, money had been squandered. ‘We’re protesting against bankers, and no one on our finance team knows how to use a ledger or a receipt,’ he said.‘In the second week we had public opinion on our side and enough donations to sustain ourselves. We all could have had brand-new tents and blow-up mattresses. Now no one knows where the money has gone. ‘I’m sad, but I knew a month ago that it would get to the point where we would collapse in on ourselves on essentially our own stupidity.’”
Watching the Penny, you better hope the pounds could look after themselves.
I wonder if the nursie parade should include some coffins to represent the hundreds and hundreds (and that’s quite a lot, apparently) of elderly who die each year in our hospitals from neglect, thirst and starvation?
Hey – nursie – that degree – would be a degree in let me guess, – bollocks and bullshit, – and letting some miserable but kindly half-wit (no dergree naturally) do all the real work?
Under this banker’s management, the amount of taxpayers money that is at risk has been reduced by billions and billions, despite very difficult economic conditions.
The people who are instead focusing on this banker’s bonus are utterly myopic.
These squawking idiots are the sort who, when choosing an investment product, are so financially illiterate they are swayed by a free pen.
Intelli . . . intel . . . . fock me I’ll give you that whatsitsname and me with no a levels stuffed up pop squeaks they can serve emslevs for all I care do this do that on board the boat did they think I was a waIter or somat solved the cod war me and all by meself on a heaving deck pier me just fer Pauline so she could admire me furry bits but as I say to all the birds you can bang yer fenders agin me uprights all yer like . . phwooar look at that! . . . oh bugger its gone out of sight . . anyone got a sandwich . . ? . . . pie . . ? . . patsy . . ?
It won’t be rperesentative because in my local experience in Hackney only 5% of Labour activists read blogs, and my wider guess is that people who support the leadership tend not to read LabourHome because it publishes crap like this.
The socialist bimbo epitomises one of the roots of this county’s problems. The complete financial illiteracy of the great unwashed, their gullibility when looking for scapegoats, and their ability to shoot themselves continually in the foot when presented with a rare banker who is actually trying, and probably able, to make things better for the taxpayer.
It makes me laugh, though, when people go on about the Government owning some banks. The real problem is that the other banks own the Governments, past and present.
Isn’t that what we do already ? Not gold leaf, of course, because we abandonned the gold standard long ago (and Gordon gave away all the gold to his rich ‘friends’). The stuff we get to use just withers away, and, come the spring, anything we do have left gets devalued as a new load of currency floods the system.
How does the New Statesman manage to produce any content to warrant its vast ABC figures, as its entire staff seem permanent fixtures across the BBC dawn to dusk, doubtless acting to ‘speak for the nation’ as our most trusted national broadcaster would like to, but needs at least one degree of separation (via ideological chums invited on) to cover with deniability.
Will fellow #Occupy stooge and PR pro-bono contributor Mr. Mason be Humberting a couple of times around the Newsnight studios later?
I’ve just speed viewed this on the I player, now we know why he’s called Brillosconi, only the string vest was missing. What a sad tart the girl is and for the duration of this program, Brillo as well.
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Not looneys, and not left: well paid businesswomen says:
Toynbee left? She’s a washed up liberal, paid to write endless variation of the same screed about how the Banker’s and Business Party (labour) would’ve thrown more crumbs to the less well off than the other Bankers and Business Party currently in office.
As for ‘Penny Red’…an opportunist ‘radical’ who will be writing Toynbee’s articles when she carks it.
i wonder if they believe what they write themselves. i mean there is an appetite for it. i enjoy reading the express when it has it’s once a month ‘blizzards about to shut down uk’ articles. i sort of suspend disbelief and enjoy the fun.
both polly and laurie are blue-bloods without any idea how poor people actually live but i suppose middle class people in expensive houses read their drivel nod and feel good about themselves. sort of buying indulgences but on the cheap (how much is the guardian these days?)
LP isn’t the daughter or god-daughter of anyone famous. She’s got very wealthy parents and had a 5-figure inheritance by the time she left oxford. despite constantly saying she was poor (always really mean with money, borrowing, scrounging, playing at one or 2 bar jobs) she then spent most of her inheritance on LASIK and could afford to start and dump a masters then do internships for ages.
she’s also changed how she speaks a lot – used to be far posher.
Why the fuck do these young people think they know fucking everything about anything? Who keeps letting these fucking young Hunts on TV and onto the political scene. They know absolutely fuck all.
I appealed to the young because I’m ‘hip’ and I gave them the self confidence to say ‘Hey – I can do anything’ – a bit like me really!
I appealed to the middle years, – because they recognised a fellow traveller who could sense their aspirations, – and I got them to believe ‘Hey, – I can do anything’.
And I appealed to the elderly, because they recognised I cared, and they gave me their support and votes, and hey, you know what? – I got them to believe ‘Hey, – I can do anything’.
And you know, I’m VERY wealthy, – and yes I can do anything!
They may be young, they may know very little, they may even have strange ideas about life. But they have opinions galore, and the lefties will pay handsomely to hear them.
She’s part of the marketing department of Socialist inc. ….recruit the naive and/or narcissitic young to keep the gravy train rolling for the party. ie She’s a useful idiot deployed to lure other useful idiots to keep the lefty show on the road.
To get 10% off at AnnSummers.com this weekend use the discount code JGOLD. Thanks for following me on Twitter!— Jacqueline Gold (@Jacqueline_Gold) January 27, 2012
A colleague said the day before “You really want to work at Ann Summers? you’ll be one of only about 5 blokes among 2,000 staff. hanging around all those 18-25 shop managers and staff. Working round stores looking at sexy women and examining sexy lingerie? It’ll be like a Carry On film. You’ll wank yourself to death in a week Q.”
So I never went to the interview.. Which pleased the wife. But sometimes one thinks back to missed opportunities…”
I took my wife into an Ann Summers the other day. I plonked her in front of the vibrators and told her to take a look and pick one out. After a couple of minutes she said she’d found one. I asked her to point it out…
“That one.” She said..and pointed
“Which one.” I said..
“That one. The tartan one with the white top”.
“That’s not a vibrator. Thats the guy who works here’s flask”….
No-one is mentioning Fred the Shred and what he is receiving for doing zilch and his past “success” and services to banking. At least Hester turns up for work and is demonstrably turning this failed business around. We might even be able to flog the thing eventually and get something back.
So this ashtray thinks she has the skill and intellect to look after the nation’s investment without pissing it all up the wall like Sir Fred and his jock chums, McRuin and Darling? Her brain is clearly fried.
The BBC and Guardian are curiously quiet about the vanishingly small level of tax paid by enterprises run by ex-Minsters and ex-PMs. Bankers must pay!! Blink. Blink.
Had fun at work over this one today. Was telling some of the comrades in the office that is is good to have a “white” man running RBS so well instead of a Jock. They definitely turn a shade of not white after that one.
The occupy people will need Arctic expedition equipment very shortly. I doubt they’ll last long when it hits -10C and below towards the end of next week.
Not necessarily recursive, just any discrete model of a system with nonlinear feedback. Incrementally applied, but not recursive (or tail-recursive at least unless you have an infinite stack…)
I use recursion as a word describing the use of outputs becoming inputs. You use the term feedback instead.
Any emulation of nature with both errors in measurement and model will be subject to vast amounts of error. The only thing keeping this error from being far more apparent is the one thing AGW scammers deny, that the climate is not balanced on a knife-edge.
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Noone would ever have heard of this lady if she was not promoted by AIPAC (who purchase the leading Presidential candidates in the US)
Since they’ve apparently got SFA to do, why don’t they close Parliament for a month (permanently would be better..) and not claim wages and expenses. Turn off the lights and the heating. Shut the kitchens. Claim a reduction on the insurance.
In short, save us some money? Or aren’t we “all in this together” after all?
Straw is just pining for the “good old days” when the government shat out EU regulations by the bucket load. Perhaps that’s why Ed Miliband is so contorted about chocolate oranges and the desperate need to legislate against them, he’s like a bored teenager with nothing better to do.
Does anyone else think that The Labour Party constantly wheeling out this naive kid (Laurie Penny) to fight for them has the strong whiff of how the Third Reich eventually were forced to get the Hitler Youth to fight for them in 1945…. Desperate stuff…
You’re right. Well spotted. They’ve got another one called Something Jones who serves the same purpose when Penny isn’t available. They are both an insult to the majority of young people whose voices are never heard but who are mostly funny, loveable, affectionate, thoughtful, hard-working, intelligent, helpful, assets to the country and brilliant company.
Sadly some of the “youth” still kept fighting after the final whistle in May 1945. My late father recounted a story of a British sentry in Hamburg during the summer of ’45 who had to “deal” with a 14 year old bastard who tried to stab him “for the Fatherland”.
Regular searches of houses often revealed weapons being hoarded by the HJ.
SS and HJ were regularly shot by Allied troops. They wouldn’t surrender.
One soldier, badly wounded in Normandy, was being treated when he took off all the bandages and refused to be administered too by ‘Ami’ Doktors!
“you will die,” said the medic.
“better to die than to let American drugss infect me.”
One of the other wounded German Infantry said
“let the tosser die. He’s been banging on like this for months. Who do you think shot him in the first place. The annoying little prick.”
There are still a few around, even today. Ask them point blank and they will deny they were ever Nazis; ‘all the kids had to join’, their families got extra rations… Never any suggestion that they were brainwashed automata, programmed to defend the ‘Fatherland’ to their dying breath.
Thank you for your application to be head of the World bank.
Unfortunately a degree in Marxist-Lenninist-central control planning and ‘experience of the truth of the streets’ are not the qualifications that we recognise.
Although we understand that “A liberal viewpoint” and wanting “an end to global poverty” are admirable qualities, we were really seeking some experience of managing a FTSE100 company, relevant multi-national organisation with several hundred thousand employees or even involvement in a financial capacity as head of a large investment bank with turnovers in excess of $100,000,000 trillion.
Employing an intern to help your write daily column is, unfortunately, not sufficient.
If, in the future, you do happen to become head of a global charity, oil company, or financial institution, then please do not hesitate to reapply.
yours sincerely,
Someone with very many letters after their name that were for MA’s & Phd’s that actually mean something.
PS – if you can also forward this letter onto Gordon Brown, that would save us a stamp
Criticism of Laurie Penny is verboten on the BBC. They encourage her to give it out but the snivelling little coward has to be protected from all negative vibes.
Your being unfair on the Occupy crowd. They have no qualifications or experience in finance. It would be like putting someone who used to fold towels in Selfridges in charge of the economy.
Thing is J.
Occupy protesters know how to occupy a tent, but not how to run an international financial Institution with 50,000+ staff worldwide, and a turnover in the $trillions.
“They have no qualifications or experience in finance.”
Jimmy. Sweetheart. How many qualifications does one need, or experience in finance must one have, to balance the books, when all you’re doing is living in a tent?
These are the people who think they can run the country, if not the world. All they had to do was buy baked beans, matches, camping-gaz and (hopefully) soap. And they managed to bugger it up.
They know how to get other people to pay for them, that puts them on par with those in troughminster (i.e. one brain cell less than it takes to beat farmers with a modern military.)
Remember….. Labour think that the person who folds towels in Selfridges should be on the remuneration committee for the board of directors. The fact that they are only qualified to fold towels means nothing. Fairness! Social injustice. Equality….!
Why dont we have the Selfriges towel folder as Speaker of the House?
Am i right in thinking that Stephen Hester was appointed by LABOUR ?
and his pay and bonuses Agreed by LABOUR ?
So can somebody please tell Little Ed that His Party LABOUR
put him there and did nothing about his 2 Million pounds a year Bonus that his lot paid him
His wikipedia page says on top of his 1.2 Million salary he takes home 7.7 million in bonus and pension payouts , once again agreed by LABOUR !
Yes Stephen Hester was recruited by Gordon Brown and Darling to sort out the bank and protect the British tax payer.
He came from from a very successful PLC and was given a CONTRACT with, as is usual, the potential to earn a bonus linked to performance.
So the poor bugger does a good job and is in line to receive a share bonus – as per his contract.
I hate all this class warfare being vomited by the left – if they TRULY want to go after the non-performing rich; to expose the mega earners who profit directly from the working man how about taking aim at the premier league footballers? Or their lefty chums in the BBC?
Sky news are giving it lagre all fecking day about how wrong it is special programmes on it “What Price a Banker”funny thing is joe public as expected think it’s wrong but most of the professionals they get on fully support it
i on the other hand have no choice as all my fucking money was tied up in RBS shares So he has to turn it round for me LoL
You want to take aim at a business where the vast majority of turnover goes on the staff???
If you want to take aim look towards those who’ve profited from “helpful” changes in planning permission, that’s basically free money equivalent to a privately collected tax.
Not forgetting government ministers who are directors of companies that benifit from multi million government contracts !
absolutly no conflict of interest there then
Tedious Labour. They signed off on his pay deal, so have no reason to gripe now. The whole point, as I recall, was to give the man small basic pay and the rest in bonuses to give him some incentive to get off his rear and perform.
When they were in power, Labour said they were very comfortable about people becoming filthy rich. Cameron should repeát that week in week out at PMQs.
In fairness to the bbc, they always show post-watershed films uncut. It was in the 80s and 90s they regularly butchered films. ITV1 is still one of the worst culprits when it comes to cutting films. I’ve even seen films shown after midnight be censored to bits. Some of ITV’s edited versions have become legend. The best known one was when they showed a heavily sanitised Die Hard in which John McClane tells the bad guys “Yippi-kai-ai kemosabe”. And in Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson vows to “get those motherfunsters”.
This is one of the reasons I don’t have a TV: the pissing license fee and the fact the BBC treat everyone like a child. After they’ve taken our fucking money.
Two reasons.
Anyway, you have just decided tonight’s viewing, as we have DH on DVD. (laptop->projector->wall).
“Lawyers can seek volunteers to help ‘locked-in’ man die: Lawyers for a man with “locked-in syndrome” have been given the approval to actively seek out volunteers to assist him to commit suicide.” – Telegraph online.
Please let it be Gordon Brown, please let it be Gordon Brown, please let it be.. DAMNIT!
Hello! We're running low on credit on our media phone; can anyone help us out? Number is 07415063231, T-mobile. Thanks!— UK Uncut (@UKuncut) January 27, 2012
We run massive Banks looking after and lending Billions – we employ and manage hundreds of thousands of staff ……….The profits we make go to the Inland revenue and to our shareholders who, by the way are YOU within YOUR pension funds.
So up yours you lefty scum bags.
You want a real target? go after the ‘manufactured’ pop stars, lefty movie stars, the highly paid BBC commies, the footballers all earning many millions and avoiding their tax by way of dodgy tax avoidance scams. ….Even the Guardian Newspaper is tax dodging ………..
To be fair to Laurie, in the clip I’ve seen, she did highlight the point that Labour had no policies. Which she seemed to think explained Ken not being 15 points ahead in London.
No Laurie. If Labour had any policies they’d be 15 points behind. It’s Labour having policies that got us into this mess. That mendacious jackass Straw was gobshiting today about how he’s got nothing to do. No legislation to pass.
Do you know that that sounds like to the rest of us?
Fucking magic.
No new rules. No new ‘you can’t do this’ or ‘you can’t do that’. No new tin-pot apparatchiks with clip-boards that we must employ in some council office, desperately trying to look busy, cluttering up our lives with pointless fucking SHITE.
Labour are only neck-and-neck in the polls, having lost a five-point lead nationally, precisely because they’ve been raising their profile and reminding everybody what an incompetent bunch of utter arseholes they are. Labour doesn’t need polices (which is kind of lucky because they don’t have any). Labour just needs to keep it’s fucking mouth shut and hope that in five years time enough people have forgotten what a bunch of incompetent fucking jackasses they are.
Who the hell would want to sponser her?
Brainless loony leftie – needs to do live a bit and read some history (at least a few decades back before she was born).
I love how “squander” always ends up appearing alongside any product of the left. It’s so fucking easy, a child could spot them for the intellectual wank-stains that they all are. Guardian readership: 239,652. That’s the sum-total of the gobshite minority we’re dealing with. And most of them work for the BBC.
To be fair to Laurie, in the clip, she did highlight the point that Labour had no policies. Which she seemed to think explained Ken not being 15 points ahead in London.
No Laurie. If Labour had any policies they’d be 15 points behind. It’s Labour having policies that got us into this mess. That mendacious jackass Straw was gobshiting today about how he’s got nothing to do. No legislation to pass.
Do you know that that sounds like to the rest of us?
Fucking magic.
No new rules. No new ‘you can’t do this’ or ‘you can’t do that’. No new tin-pot apparatchiks with clip-boards that we must employ in some council office, desperately trying to look busy, cluttering up our lives with pointless fucking SHITE.
Labour are only neck-and-neck in the polls, having lost a five-point lead nationally, precisely because they’ve been raising their profile and reminding everybody what an incompetent bunch of utter arseholes they are. Labour doesn’t need polices (which is kind of lucky because they don’t have any). Labour just needs to keep it’s fucking mouth shut and hope that in five years time enough people have forgotten what a bunch of incompetent fucking jackasses they are.
Me too, and I’ve never been near the place. What a shoddy set of questions, typical of the Guardian which is more concerned with making itself look clever than with what people actually think.
The significance of that being that @MrHarryCole and others clearly intended the post and inevitable comments to hurt, scare or threaten.— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) January 27, 2012
Not at all Laurie. They were merely bringing your belligerent idiocy to the attention of a different audience.
For what it’s worth I think you are a worthy successor to Polly when she finally realises that she’d better spend the money she’s accumulated being professionally concerned before some fucker takes it in death duty.
A seamless transition of trenchant fuckwittery is assured.
The truth is. a person making a fool of himself on Twitter is no different than a drunk making a fool of himself on the street. They both do it in public and they both get a public response.
@tomchapman16 @Joe_Armitage The most ignorant people are Tories. Just a shame the Brighton Bomb didn't have a happy ending— Nick Brown (@Brownieblade) January 27, 2012
Get Gordon to open hs wallet then (watch out for the mths). Your cash rich multi £million tax shelter could fund thousands of school cesspits in Pakistan.
Put your money where your mouth is or shut the f**k up.
Ah but do they have radioactive waste on their doorstep and do nothing about it, otherwise Sarah yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
A kid for boss of RBS?
Well, wouldn’t that be a fine mess!
Thank goodness that our Parliaments
Are scholars, sages, toffs and gents
Just fancy if an utter nutter
That couldn’t tell gold bars from butter
Were left in charge of our country
Can you imagine where we’d be?
Laurie Penny claims to be a female activist. After backing Ken Livingstone, whose pals accept rape, female genital mutilation and assault on women – not anymore.
If you play the video go to “Penny is a fuckwit” to see her fail to answer any question then when the Goldman guy is speaking she interrupts him to waffle on about something of interest to Emily Mathlis (Manolo Blahniks?) that she lets the intteruptiom go to show what a dreadful interviewer she is.
Penny is a spoilt middle class skool girl taking on causes in which she has no REAL personal experience in. She does not understand poverty, what it means to be working class, underclass or whatever. She is a middle class scrounger who scrounges off the poor and their causes in order to pay for middle class existence. She is worse than the deluded Victorian middle class bints who wanted to teach the working classes how to prepare cavier, salmond, venison in their cookery classes.
Run a bank? I doubt very much she knows how run a bath.
Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
“Following criticism of the way in which the camp’s financial affairs have been run, the finance group quit en masse. That included the person who has the key for the safe — with the result that no one could access the money. Coupled with the fact that donations are now lagging behind expenditure, there has been a serious shortage of money to pay for things such as food and power. Protester Leo Ashford, 20, …told reporters that despite generous donations by supporters, money had been squandered. ‘We’re protesting against bankers, and no one on our finance team knows how to use a ledger or a receipt,’ he said.‘In the second week we had public opinion on our side and enough donations to sustain ourselves. We all could have had brand-new tents and blow-up mattresses. Now no one knows where the money has gone. ‘I’m sad, but I knew a month ago that it would get to the point where we would collapse in on ourselves on essentially our own stupidity.’”
She , like Polly are great adverts for the looney left!
I wish the Penny would drop.
I wonder if the nursie parade should include some coffins to represent the hundreds and hundreds (and that’s quite a lot, apparently) of elderly who die each year in our hospitals from neglect, thirst and starvation?
Who is going to design the uniforms?
Synchronised stripping nurses on subscriptions might be the only way to get the London Olympics to break even, and to make some happy men very old.
Stripping? FFS!
Whatever next? Emptying bedpans? Feeding horrid old people? Get a grip!
We have degrees, I’ll have you know
totty watch
Hey – nursie – that degree – would be a degree in let me guess, – bollocks and bullshit, – and letting some miserable but kindly half-wit (no dergree naturally) do all the real work?
Bollocks? Shit?
Pft! We don’t ‘av nothing to do wiv them dear
We have boxes to tick, don’t cha know…
Synchronised stripping by a team of Pilgrims? Mindbleach please.
I’ll be there. Anything for a freebie.
She’s going to be a fattie…………….and soon! I would though, just!
Under this banker’s management, the amount of taxpayers money that is at risk has been reduced by billions and billions, despite very difficult economic conditions.
The people who are instead focusing on this banker’s bonus are utterly myopic.
These squawking idiots are the sort who, when choosing an investment product, are so financially illiterate they are swayed by a free pen.
Politics of Envy and public-school educated Penny is at the forefront.
Sparking fags is a feeble attempt to look “of the streets”.
The silly cow with the fake cigarette is trying to look like one of crusty the clowns old talk show clips
“Squawking idiots”…? I do hope, Sir, that you are not referring to Parrots!
Is it just me but did the protest camps financial situation Something they learned from RBS
Was the protest camp formally running RBS
Keep trying, M, and you might eventually come up with an intelligible sentence.
Intelli . . . intel . . . . fock me I’ll give you that whatsitsname and me with no a levels stuffed up pop squeaks they can serve emslevs for all I care do this do that on board the boat did they think I was a waIter or somat solved the cod war me and all by meself on a heaving deck pier me just fer Pauline so she could admire me furry bits but as I say to all the birds you can bang yer fenders agin me uprights all yer like . . phwooar look at that! . . . oh bugger its gone out of sight . . anyone got a sandwich . . ? . . . pie . . ? . . patsy . . ?
Sounds like they learned it From Gordon Brown and Toxic Ned.
yeah it’s just you.
It’s just another Leftie enterprise that ran out of other people’s money. Fiscal incontinence is in Socialist’s DNA.
Expenditure ahead of donations
It should be the official slogan of the left
She could perhaps turn the bank into a “creative space” where everyone can have a damn good shout. That will sort out the finances.
It won’t be rperesentative because in my local experience in Hackney only 5% of Labour activists read blogs, and my wider guess is that people who support the leadership tend not to read LabourHome because it publishes crap like this.
What a silly, empty-headed socialist bimbo.
The socialist bimbo epitomises one of the roots of this county’s problems. The complete financial illiteracy of the great unwashed, their gullibility when looking for scapegoats, and their ability to shoot themselves continually in the foot when presented with a rare banker who is actually trying, and probably able, to make things better for the taxpayer.
It makes me laugh, though, when people go on about the Government owning some banks. The real problem is that the other banks own the Governments, past and present.
So what’s wrong with using the leaf as currency???
Isn’t that what we do already ? Not gold leaf, of course, because we abandonned the gold standard long ago (and Gordon gave away all the gold to his rich ‘friends’). The stuff we get to use just withers away, and, come the spring, anything we do have left gets devalued as a new load of currency floods the system.
Good idea.
No shortage of places to cash them in …. branches everywhere.
Oh goodness me. I have just twigged what you are all on about. It’s Labour barking up the wrong tree isn’t it? Isn’t it?
How does the New Statesman manage to produce any content to warrant its vast ABC figures, as its entire staff seem permanent fixtures across the BBC dawn to dusk, doubtless acting to ‘speak for the nation’ as our most trusted national broadcaster would like to, but needs at least one degree of separation (via ideological chums invited on) to cover with deniability.
Will fellow #Occupy stooge and PR pro-bono contributor Mr. Mason be Humberting a couple of times around the Newsnight studios later?
Humberting?
Penny has to be the worst Lolita ever!
That Englebert Humperting had a lovely voice, dear, didn’t he?
Don’t knock it. The more Looney Left there are on the telly the better.
Yep. Let her keep turning up like a bad…..
Penny for the Guy, Mr F?
Does Mrs F know?
I’ve seen the future, and I bloody well hope it isn’t orange.
No, but they will own the shares in it.
Is this the same journalist who didn’t want to pay an intern?
Journalist? Penny?
Are you sure that she ready to take the 11+? Maybe another year or two ….?
She’s in one of Julie Davies’ classes and is still awaiting tuition (since forever).
I’ve just speed viewed this on the I player, now we know why he’s called Brillosconi, only the string vest was missing. What a sad tart the girl is and for the duration of this program, Brillo as well.
Toynbee left? She’s a washed up liberal, paid to write endless variation of the same screed about how the Banker’s and Business Party (labour) would’ve thrown more crumbs to the less well off than the other Bankers and Business Party currently in office.
As for ‘Penny Red’…an opportunist ‘radical’ who will be writing Toynbee’s articles when she carks it.
i wonder if they believe what they write themselves. i mean there is an appetite for it. i enjoy reading the express when it has it’s once a month ‘blizzards about to shut down uk’ articles. i sort of suspend disbelief and enjoy the fun.
both polly and laurie are blue-bloods without any idea how poor people actually live but i suppose middle class people in expensive houses read their drivel nod and feel good about themselves. sort of buying indulgences but on the cheap (how much is the guardian these days?)
You are not Sir Humphrey, you fake! He writes proper grammatical English.
Excuse me!
There’s a queue!
That’s a posh looking jam-jar. Nothing too good for the girls fom Brighton College eh?
Wait a minute. She went to (private) school in East Sussex and Toynbee has a house in Lewes in East Sussex.
And now this talentless gobshite is popping up all over the Grauniad and BBC. Just whose daughter/god-daughter is she?
Where’s the ‘fix’?
Turn her upside down and she might make a good moneybox.
Or umbrella stand.
Oooh! You are so naughty!
Or Black Hole of Calcutta.
Double bike rack.
a money box is the funniest thing I’ve read during this superb bashing of lefty bullshit
one of Polly’s many houses is indeed in Lewes. I wonder why she didn’t get a house in somewhere less hideously white?
She lives in non-hideously white Clapham London….
In a secured area of course.
ironically she went to semi-aristocratic Brighton College private school whose motto is “let right prevail” (only written in ancient greek).
Our Motto is
“Never leave your buddies behind”
Beware of: Greeks, Barings, Gilts.
I thought the Greek motto was Συνεχίστε, δεν χάνουν μάρμαρα σας
“Never give a sucker an even break”
Bless ‘aint she sweet————’
Bless her heart, as an American in a southern state would say.
Bless her pointy little head, more like.
wi’ her knickers round her feet.
FAAARN!
LP isn’t the daughter or god-daughter of anyone famous. She’s got very wealthy parents and had a 5-figure inheritance by the time she left oxford. despite constantly saying she was poor (always really mean with money, borrowing, scrounging, playing at one or 2 bar jobs) she then spent most of her inheritance on LASIK and could afford to start and dump a masters then do internships for ages.
she’s also changed how she speaks a lot – used to be far posher.
Kind of a Ben Elton save for the LASIK.
I believe this because it is on the internet.
That looks awfully like a top of the range marmalade jar. It’s sure not a robinsons.
‘got some in the credenza,along with Phil s Tupperware tubs,
smokers (no issue) get an ‘e’cig or a bespoke cigar version.
Give yourself a pat on the back, madam.
Oh dear. Look at me go.
Can’t be Robinson’s there’s not a Gollywog in sight.
OMFG !!!
Jaws 2 on ITV at the mo !!!
V scary
E x .
Well done! And so elegantly, too
Whoud’a thunk it?
Oh right Penny that’s a jam jar is it? OK let me adjust this and pop a lens in there…….now lets try the left eye shall we……..how’s that?
Whats the ring?
It indicates that the wearer is needing a lobotomy.
Illuminati ?
“We could all have had brand new tents and blow-up mattresses”, I could not possibly attempt to unravel the ramifications of that comment.
In the course of the interview she offered her services as chairman of RBS, declaring that she could do Hester’s job without the paycheck.
And the TUC’s view on Penny offering to be a scab/blackleg is what, exactly?
That’s it, get technical!
Agree. The words are pay cheque.
Its more than we got from Bliar.
i knew fuck all at her age but i knew a damn site more than her.
I knew fuck all at her age too, but at least I had enough sense not to go on TV and demonstrate it to the world.
Why the fuck do these young people think they know fucking everything about anything? Who keeps letting these fucking young Hunts on TV and onto the political scene. They know absolutely fuck all.
nailed it in one.
Hi!
I appealed to the young because I’m ‘hip’ and I gave them the self confidence to say ‘Hey – I can do anything’ – a bit like me really!
I appealed to the middle years, – because they recognised a fellow traveller who could sense their aspirations, – and I got them to believe ‘Hey, – I can do anything’.
And I appealed to the elderly, because they recognised I cared, and they gave me their support and votes, and hey, you know what? – I got them to believe ‘Hey, – I can do anything’.
And you know, I’m VERY wealthy, – and yes I can do anything!
My Mum (pboh) never voted for you. She said you had shifty eyes.
They may be young, they may know very little, they may even have strange ideas about life. But they have opinions galore, and the lefties will pay handsomely to hear them.
“But they have opinions galore, and the lefties will pay handsomely to hear them.”
Mugs. I just hang around here and read opinions for free.
Just sick of it. She looks like she is in her mid-20s. Her arrogance knows no bounds. Just sick to the back teeth of their hypocrisy and idiocy.
What happened to life experience? What has vast knowledge she must have accumulated during her 25 years on this planet.
But they have had those opinions handed to them on a plate.
Too many late nights reading Noam Chomsky…. and believing every sodding word!
Who’s done fuck all of any use at all.
She’s part of the marketing department of Socialist inc. ….recruit the naive and/or narcissitic young to keep the gravy train rolling for the party. ie She’s a useful idiot deployed to lure other useful idiots to keep the lefty show on the road.
Not all young people are that stupid.
I wasn’t stupid when I was young!
And look where I am now!
Ah yew tawken abehwt me, lahk?
Why didn’t I go to the Interview when they asked!
A colleague said the day before “You really want to work at Ann Summers? you’ll be one of only about 5 blokes among 2,000 staff. hanging around all those 18-25 shop managers and staff. Working round stores looking at sexy women and examining sexy lingerie? It’ll be like a Carry On film. You’ll wank yourself to death in a week Q.”
So I never went to the interview.. Which pleased the wife. But sometimes one thinks back to missed opportunities…”
“The worst thing in life is a missed opportunity.” – Woody Allen.
That and perhaps getting a brain tumour.
I took my wife into an Ann Summers the other day. I plonked her in front of the vibrators and told her to take a look and pick one out. After a couple of minutes she said she’d found one. I asked her to point it out…
“That one.” She said..and pointed
“Which one.” I said..
“That one. The tartan one with the white top”.
“That’s not a vibrator. Thats the guy who works here’s flask”….
Where are Brillo’s wrinkles?
He’s orange as well.
Ear-to-ear Axminster?
Anyone ever seen him and Hain in the same room?
No-one is mentioning Fred the Shred and what he is receiving for doing zilch and his past “success” and services to banking. At least Hester turns up for work and is demonstrably turning this failed business around. We might even be able to flog the thing eventually and get something back.
So this ashtray thinks she has the skill and intellect to look after the nation’s investment without pissing it all up the wall like Sir Fred and his jock chums, McRuin and Darling? Her brain is clearly fried.
The BBC and Guardian are curiously quiet about the vanishingly small level of tax paid by enterprises run by ex-Minsters and ex-PMs. Bankers must pay!! Blink. Blink.
Socialists always run out of other people’s money in the end
Had fun at work over this one today. Was telling some of the comrades in the office that is is good to have a “white” man running RBS so well instead of a Jock. They definitely turn a shade of not white after that one.
Whenever I get a woman’s name wrong I always excuse myself with ‘All you white women look the same to me’.
That’s generally good for a laugh.
I will bet serious money that Penny Dreadful does not know the difference between an account in debit or credit
She must have studied under The Great Balls of
FireFife then.‘… turning around an enormous multinational financial institution…’
You’re having a laugh surely.
Would that be Penny Dreadful?
If she tried really really hard she could be more ridiculous. I do mean really hard though.
Really really really hard.
Really really…….. well you get the point!
Where are Brillo’s wrinkles?
The occupy people will need Arctic expedition equipment very shortly. I doubt they’ll last long when it hits -10C and below towards the end of next week.
The end is nigh.
Why don’t they occupy the olimpic site, that represents a lot of bonus’s, and all for a two week nightmare.
The grauniad have said it might be the warmest winter evar!
Maybe they’re the only ones who can afford to have the heating on?
Quite likely. I’m sure they’ve got plenty of left-over copies to feed into their biomass boiler.
I’m relying on current numerical model output, mind, but it does look like there’s an east wind coming…and a bitter one too.
Oh come now, these “experts” have got around the impossible mathematical problem of exponential error in recursive computer models…
What are we mortals to doubt their amazing foresight??
Not necessarily recursive, just any discrete model of a system with nonlinear feedback. Incrementally applied, but not recursive (or tail-recursive at least unless you have an infinite stack…)
But yeah.
I use recursion as a word describing the use of outputs becoming inputs. You use the term feedback instead.
Any emulation of nature with both errors in measurement and model will be subject to vast amounts of error. The only thing keeping this error from being far more apparent is the one thing AGW scammers deny, that the climate is not balanced on a knife-edge.
I could do Andy Murray’s job and lose a tennis match. Pay me in Scotch eggs.
But my PR was so much better than his!
Guido
I see you are supporting the agenda of AIPAC by promoting articles by Simone D. Hartmann
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Near East Report: What is STOP THE BOMB?
Simone Dinah Hartmann: STOP THE BOMB is a coalition of diverse individuals who believe that the Iranian nuclear program poses a threat to Israel and the whole world. It was founded in Austria last autumn. Among us are intellectuals and artists, students and retirees, human rights activists and Iranian dissidents from very different political backgrounds.
Noone would ever have heard of this lady if she was not promoted by AIPAC (who purchase the leading Presidential candidates in the US)
Are you promoting war with Iran ?
“The Commentator” needs to make money somehow
Thanks for the support, useful infidel
Rewind 70 years and you were cheering the P.M. waving a bit of paper weren’t you?
You sound like George W Bush !
Thank-you for the compliment. But much to my shame I haven’t got a degree from Harvard or ever flew military jets.
But you’ve been pissed a few times haven’t you? One out of 3 is not bad.
Never enough to think about stopping.
To my credit I’ve never played Golf (something that was a MSM problem for the president until he “got a tan”….)
Very few things in life are sacred Mr AC1 but golf is certainly 1 of them.
Oh dear. It couldn’t be said that she’s a penny short of a pound by any chance, could it?
She’s a penny short of a ha’p'ney.
Laurie Penny would be out of her depth in an empty bath…
or a tear drop.
OT Jackass Straw desperate for more opportunities to fuck more things up…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16756292
Jack Straw has said there is so little government legislation for MPs to consider at the moment that ministers are having to “manufacture activity”.
Is that like Blair, Straw and the other cronies manufactured the Iraq WMDs. Straw is a shyster of the highest order.
Jack “white flight” Straw should live in the squalor of his constituency like his constituents have to
Since they’ve apparently got SFA to do, why don’t they close Parliament for a month (permanently would be better..) and not claim wages and expenses. Turn off the lights and the heating. Shut the kitchens. Claim a reduction on the insurance.
In short, save us some money? Or aren’t we “all in this together” after all?
Sort out the subsidence in the car park?
Enter Millitwit.
Makes a nice change from the labour years when they introduced over 3,000 new pieces of legislation.
Straw is just pining for the “good old days” when the government shat out EU regulations by the bucket load. Perhaps that’s why Ed Miliband is so contorted about chocolate oranges and the desperate need to legislate against them, he’s like a bored teenager with nothing better to do.
Odd….I watched the video clip with the sound off. I thought they were discussing a new, slimline vibrator????
Yet again Guido nicks my comments. I’ve been commenting since Penny was on the DP show. Behind the curve!
First time I’ve seen her on TV. Thought she was quite fit.
Should have gone to Specsavers.
Does anyone else think that The Labour Party constantly wheeling out this naive kid (Laurie Penny) to fight for them has the strong whiff of how the Third Reich eventually were forced to get the Hitler Youth to fight for them in 1945…. Desperate stuff…
You’re right. Well spotted. They’ve got another one called Something Jones who serves the same purpose when Penny isn’t available. They are both an insult to the majority of young people whose voices are never heard but who are mostly funny, loveable, affectionate, thoughtful, hard-working, intelligent, helpful, assets to the country and brilliant company.
Mmm, “Something” Jones…has a ring to it; “Nelly-boy” Jones just isn’t cutting it.
‘Basketball’ Jones?
That’s her career up in smoke.
Dire Jones?
It’s spelt ‘Jones’, it’s pronounced ‘Hunt’.
Sadly some of the “youth” still kept fighting after the final whistle in May 1945. My late father recounted a story of a British sentry in Hamburg during the summer of ’45 who had to “deal” with a 14 year old bastard who tried to stab him “for the Fatherland”.
Regular searches of houses often revealed weapons being hoarded by the HJ.
The silly sods didn’t know when they were beaten.
they won though didn’t they. germany is a rich place for germans, england is a shit-hole full of foreigners
SS and HJ were regularly shot by Allied troops. They wouldn’t surrender.
One soldier, badly wounded in Normandy, was being treated when he took off all the bandages and refused to be administered too by ‘Ami’ Doktors!
“you will die,” said the medic.
“better to die than to let American drugss infect me.”
One of the other wounded German Infantry said
“let the tosser die. He’s been banging on like this for months. Who do you think shot him in the first place. The annoying little prick.”
Grandpa beast had a similar experience
He watched a wood being btf by artillery for a week
They (HJ) wouldnt surrender so they had to go in and fight close up
A horrible thing
HJ = Hitler Jugend = Hitler Youth.
There are still a few around, even today. Ask them point blank and they will deny they were ever Nazis; ‘all the kids had to join’, their families got extra rations… Never any suggestion that they were brainwashed automata, programmed to defend the ‘Fatherland’ to their dying breath.
I couldn’t possibly comment.
But what else would she do?
Thank you for your application to be head of the World bank.
Unfortunately a degree in Marxist-Lenninist-central control planning and ‘experience of the truth of the streets’ are not the qualifications that we recognise.
Although we understand that “A liberal viewpoint” and wanting “an end to global poverty” are admirable qualities, we were really seeking some experience of managing a FTSE100 company, relevant multi-national organisation with several hundred thousand employees or even involvement in a financial capacity as head of a large investment bank with turnovers in excess of $100,000,000 trillion.
Employing an intern to help your write daily column is, unfortunately, not sufficient.
If, in the future, you do happen to become head of a global charity, oil company, or financial institution, then please do not hesitate to reapply.
yours sincerely,
Someone with very many letters after their name that were for MA’s & Phd’s that actually mean something.
PS – if you can also forward this letter onto Gordon Brown, that would save us a stamp
+10
Penny on the 88mm ?
Criticism of Laurie Penny is verboten on the BBC. They encourage her to give it out but the snivelling little coward has to be protected from all negative vibes.
It’s the same on here!
I had my post deleted for suggesting the the blessed Laurie could afford to lose a few kilos.
Be careful, most people think any vehicle that’s painted dark green and looks vaguely military and butch is a “tank”. It might not be what you think.
Tank? *Yawns*
You dithered.
Breaking Tank. Obviously bought by our incompetent MoD.
One of those new doughnut-shaped tanks, I reckon.
How do you deploy “a” tank “around” a city?
See 82
Your being unfair on the Occupy crowd. They have no qualifications or experience in finance. It would be like putting someone who used to fold towels in Selfridges in charge of the economy.
Thing is J.
Occupy protesters know how to occupy a tent, but not how to run an international financial Institution with 50,000+ staff worldwide, and a turnover in the $trillions.
Whereas Mr Hester knows how to do both.
They should try occupying a fucking vacancy in the job market.
“They have no qualifications or experience in finance.”
Jimmy. Sweetheart. How many qualifications does one need, or experience in finance must one have, to balance the books, when all you’re doing is living in a tent?
These are the people who think they can run the country, if not the world. All they had to do was buy baked beans, matches, camping-gaz and (hopefully) soap. And they managed to bugger it up.
Just for once Jimmy, you’re right…they know fuck all.
They know how to get other people to pay for them, that puts them on par with those in troughminster (i.e. one brain cell less than it takes to beat farmers with a modern military.)
+1
hehehh
Or polishing Norman Lamonts toecaps with your tongue
Remember….. Labour think that the person who folds towels in Selfridges should be on the remuneration committee for the board of directors. The fact that they are only qualified to fold towels means nothing. Fairness! Social injustice. Equality….!
Why dont we have the Selfriges towel folder as Speaker of the House?
Oh hang on…. we have.
http://www.hark.com/clips/dlvxhnstwz-the-trouble-with-our-liberal-friends
Such snobbery. Demeaning shop workers like that.
The true face of Labour.
Penny Who? Let me tell you that I am the only 100% genuine opportunistic snivelling little shit around here.
You are now that Ewa and B*lly have been banned.
I really, really hate you.
Guido…..you fancy her it’s so blatantly obvious.
And yes, so would I…..first.
Caption competition
Who does this guy remind you of
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16157826
I think we should be told
Ronnie O’Sullivan. Uncanny.
He didn’t look like Ed Miliband in the previous thread, either.
I knew it. That’s the real Ed and the guy in Westminster is an impostor.
I’m outta here. Play together nicely children.
I can solve a chocolate orange in 90 seconds.
Quite funny. I’ll slip an extra nugget into your pay-packet.
Not as quick as me
Am i right in thinking that Stephen Hester was appointed by LABOUR ?
and his pay and bonuses Agreed by LABOUR ?
So can somebody please tell Little Ed that His Party LABOUR
put him there and did nothing about his 2 Million pounds a year Bonus that his lot paid him
His wikipedia page says on top of his 1.2 Million salary he takes home 7.7 million in bonus and pension payouts , once again agreed by LABOUR !
Yes Stephen Hester was recruited by Gordon Brown and Darling to sort out the bank and protect the British tax payer.
He came from from a very successful PLC and was given a CONTRACT with, as is usual, the potential to earn a bonus linked to performance.
So the poor bugger does a good job and is in line to receive a share bonus – as per his contract.
I hate all this class warfare being vomited by the left – if they TRULY want to go after the non-performing rich; to expose the mega earners who profit directly from the working man how about taking aim at the premier league footballers? Or their lefty chums in the BBC?
“Bently dryvers r well stupid scum. we shood hang um. unless there Waine Roonee. Hes well gud he is. he urns his muhnee he dus. i luv im.
Y r footy tikkets so expensiv? its not rite. i blame fatchur.”
Sky news are giving it lagre all fecking day about how wrong it is special programmes on it “What Price a Banker”funny thing is joe public as expected think it’s wrong but most of the professionals they get on fully support it
i on the other hand have no choice as all my fucking money was tied up in RBS shares So he has to turn it round for me LoL
You want to take aim at a business where the vast majority of turnover goes on the staff???
If you want to take aim look towards those who’ve profited from “helpful” changes in planning permission, that’s basically free money equivalent to a privately collected tax.
Not forgetting government ministers who are directors of companies that benifit from multi million government contracts !
absolutly no conflict of interest there then
move along nothing to see here !
The words brewery, organise and pissup come to mind.
She’ll grow up and stop supporting Labour once she turns 23.
Either that or she’s doomed to endure a wasted life as Pollytwaddle II.
I notice you like action films. Starship Troopers on bbc1 tonight is a hoot.
I like both the book and the film. I think the book would make a good film too.
Great shower scene.
It is a very entertaining film, excellent comic-book stuff, although I suspect the BBC will edit the crap out of it.
I note from IMDB.com that there were sequels II and III (and, good lord, a series), but I’ve only seen the first film.
I wanted Heston, not Hester, to cook the books at RBS.
The occupy movement don’t seem to be any good at anything, they can’t even make a camp fire with setiting fire to all the tents
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9417218.Fire_at_Occupy_Brighton_camp/?ref=rss
A fire broke out at the Occupy Brighton camp tongiht.
A tent caught alight at the camp in Victoria Gardens at 5.50pm.
Firefighters from Preston Circus attended the blaze which a Sussex Police spokesman said was believed to have been caused accidentally.
He said: “It is believed they were burning pallets and it got out of hand.
The place will look like an former soviet republic after the council decides it’s time to cure their parasite infestation…
Burning pallets? That’ll be the environmental wing of the Occupy movement.
Oooh, burning pallets give off a fuck of a lot of heat.
Marvellous blaze.
Tedious Labour. They signed off on his pay deal, so have no reason to gripe now. The whole point, as I recall, was to give the man small basic pay and the rest in bonuses to give him some incentive to get off his rear and perform.
Can I have a red/air balloon?
Laurie Penny, one of the best, is not incompetent.
When they were in power, Labour said they were very comfortable about people becoming filthy rich. Cameron should repeát that week in week out at PMQs.
Labour are also, judging by Chukup Umunna’s recent shenanigans, pretty comfortable about tax avoidance, too.
And then there are his tailor-made suits from Rupert St. A couple of grand each.
“Vote for us. We can relate to the workers. Yeah.”
Redknapp told the court today he’s a giver, not a taker.
Anybody who could make Portsmouth play football can’t be all bad.
In fairness to the bbc, they always show post-watershed films uncut. It was in the 80s and 90s they regularly butchered films. ITV1 is still one of the worst culprits when it comes to cutting films. I’ve even seen films shown after midnight be censored to bits. Some of ITV’s edited versions have become legend. The best known one was when they showed a heavily sanitised Die Hard in which John McClane tells the bad guys “Yippi-kai-ai kemosabe”. And in Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson vows to “get those motherfunsters”.
Yes! I remember “yippee-ki-yay kemosabe”
This is one of the reasons I don’t have a TV: the pissing license fee and the fact the BBC treat everyone like a child. After they’ve taken our fucking money.
Two reasons.
Anyway, you have just decided tonight’s viewing, as we have DH on DVD. (laptop->projector->wall).
Ta!
(of course, the BBC don’t treat everyone like a child anymore. Apparently. Too late!)
I take it you’ve missed all the BBC news bulletins then?
“Lawyers can seek volunteers to help ‘locked-in’ man die: Lawyers for a man with “locked-in syndrome” have been given the approval to actively seek out volunteers to assist him to commit suicide.” – Telegraph online.
Please let it be Gordon Brown, please let it be Gordon Brown, please let it be.. DAMNIT!
Jimmy Carr writing the BBC headlines?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16760725
A man who is almost completely paralysed has won the first step
Phone ‘em up and take another 50p off their credit.
We run massive Banks looking after and lending Billions – we employ and manage hundreds of thousands of staff ……….The profits we make go to the Inland revenue and to our shareholders who, by the way are YOU within YOUR pension funds.
So up yours you lefty scum bags.
You want a real target? go after the ‘manufactured’ pop stars, lefty movie stars, the highly paid BBC commies, the footballers all earning many millions and avoiding their tax by way of dodgy tax avoidance scams. ….Even the Guardian Newspaper is tax dodging ………..
Can you say “cartel”?
You can say cartel but I couldn’t possibly comment.
UK Uncut will be cut off !
T-Mobile?
Couldn’t they have gone with Vodaphone, FFS?
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/great-new-movie-in-pre-production-red-kens-henchmen/
Laurie Penny’s wild, unsubstantiated claims did Ken Livingstone no favours but were totally in line with his campaign.
I don’t get Laurie. She claims to have ideals, but backs a candidate with the vilest of divisive views, and doesn’t turn a hair. What is that about?
Ken claims to be “reaching out” to extremist Iran. Read the link above to see how true that is.
To be fair to Laurie, in the clip I’ve seen, she did highlight the point that Labour had no policies. Which she seemed to think explained Ken not being 15 points ahead in London.
No Laurie. If Labour had any policies they’d be 15 points behind. It’s Labour having policies that got us into this mess. That mendacious jackass Straw was gobshiting today about how he’s got nothing to do. No legislation to pass.
Do you know that that sounds like to the rest of us?
Fucking magic.
No new rules. No new ‘you can’t do this’ or ‘you can’t do that’. No new tin-pot apparatchiks with clip-boards that we must employ in some council office, desperately trying to look busy, cluttering up our lives with pointless fucking SHITE.
Labour are only neck-and-neck in the polls, having lost a five-point lead nationally, precisely because they’ve been raising their profile and reminding everybody what an incompetent bunch of utter arseholes they are. Labour doesn’t need polices (which is kind of lucky because they don’t have any). Labour just needs to keep it’s fucking mouth shut and hope that in five years time enough people have forgotten what a bunch of incompetent fucking jackasses they are.
You’re welcome.
Labour should just shut the fuck up and get on with building a Panoptikon in secret.
Who the hell would want to sponser her?
Brainless loony leftie – needs to do live a bit and read some history (at least a few decades back before she was born).
What’s reading ?
It’s that place west from Maidenhead. Oh, but you won’t remember that either, will you ?
I love how “squander” always ends up appearing alongside any product of the left. It’s so fucking easy, a child could spot them for the intellectual wank-stains that they all are. Guardian readership: 239,652. That’s the sum-total of the gobshite minority we’re dealing with. And most of them work for the BBC.
Marxism in 3 words… “Extort and Squander”
Nothing to do with politics
This guy mixed up his Badger and Beaver !
One hole he shouldn’t have entered !
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/gordon-ramsays-dwarf-porn-double-found-dead-in-a-badger-den-in-wales/story-e6frev20-1226137951576
I’m going on the Million Pound Drop with Davina !
The Eurotrash elite is now up to 2%.The Guardianistas will not be pleased.
Add to their misery here: http://tinyurl.com/7xxyrb6
“Talkin abo’ the Labour Par’y, no’ my cigare’ ”
Why can’t these fucking kids say their Ts?
It’s called a glottal stop. Or, if you prefer, a glo’awl stop.
wotyatorkinbout uh? udononuffin!
shurrup ‘n that!
innit!
To be fair to Laurie, in the clip, she did highlight the point that Labour had no policies. Which she seemed to think explained Ken not being 15 points ahead in London.
No Laurie. If Labour had any policies they’d be 15 points behind. It’s Labour having policies that got us into this mess. That mendacious jackass Straw was gobshiting today about how he’s got nothing to do. No legislation to pass.
Do you know that that sounds like to the rest of us?
Fucking magic.
No new rules. No new ‘you can’t do this’ or ‘you can’t do that’. No new tin-pot apparatchiks with clip-boards that we must employ in some council office, desperately trying to look busy, cluttering up our lives with pointless fucking SHITE.
Labour are only neck-and-neck in the polls, having lost a five-point lead nationally, precisely because they’ve been raising their profile and reminding everybody what an incompetent bunch of utter arseholes they are. Labour doesn’t need polices (which is kind of lucky because they don’t have any). Labour just needs to keep it’s fucking mouth shut and hope that in five years time enough people have forgotten what a bunch of incompetent fucking jackasses they are.
You’re welcome.
Fancy me being a Eurosceptic who once had a great holiday in Alicante, oh dear.
Me too, and I’ve never been near the place. What a shoddy set of questions, typical of the Guardian which is more concerned with making itself look clever than with what people actually think.
Oh but the Grouniad IS clever!
It’s the only reliable source of the printed word! The BBC does the pikchas.
And all of us patiently work and wait for the return of Gordon, who will Save us!
Simples!
Not at all Laurie. They were merely bringing your belligerent idiocy to the attention of a different audience.
For what it’s worth I think you are a worthy successor to Polly when she finally realises that she’d better spend the money she’s accumulated being professionally concerned before some fucker takes it in death duty.
A seamless transition of trenchant fuckwittery is assured.
*Major applause*
The truth is. a person making a fool of himself on Twitter is no different than a drunk making a fool of himself on the street. They both do it in public and they both get a public response.
Twitter is Neo-Polly’s Lamp-post?
Not that lamp post I saw her standing under one night near Kings X?
I saw the danger in time and crossed the road
No Dear we are highlighting the fact that you are DAFT ……..when you grow up you will, we hope, understand things better
I suppose you’ve never said anything intended to ‘hurt, scare or threaten’, have you love?
Apart from inevitable comments about evil Tories, who of course deserve it, etc. Yawn.
You are a willing participant in the decimation of political discourse in this country on a daily basis. Proud?
Laurie, go away dear, oh and yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Nick Brown
@Brownieblade Sheffield
33 year old, Sheffield United supporting, divorced father of one, reading, thinking, uneducated, uncouth, unreconstructed, socialist train driver
http://brownieblade.blogspot.com/
Ooooooooh thats not nice.
Socialists are more intelligent and caring.
I’ve added Dunning Kruger to my characterisation of Leftism as a mental illness.
Still no word on Huhne?
Come on CPS, either charge the lying fucker or make up some ridiculous reason why he can’t.
That’s okay. 100% of the schools have enough Korans. Which is all the dumb c*unts are interested in anyway.
Get Gordon to open hs wallet then (watch out for the mths). Your cash rich multi £million tax shelter could fund thousands of school cesspits in Pakistan.
Put your money where your mouth is or shut the f**k up.
Modbotted. But how does one detect the modbot’s dictionary?
You must learn not to spell that country in full. That might help.
If they don’t drink, they don’t piss, so what’s the problem again?
But maybe they eat and shit?
At least they have plenty of loo roll – see 246, above.
Ah but do they have radioactive waste on their doorstep and do nothing about it, otherwise Sarah yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
The British Empire has ended dudette.
I wonder why ed doesnt have anything to say on the Euro ??
Still awaiting the speeeking note from HQ
I so would Penny Red…
A kid for boss of RBS?
Well, wouldn’t that be a fine mess!
Thank goodness that our Parliaments
Are scholars, sages, toffs and gents
Just fancy if an utter nutter
That couldn’t tell gold bars from butter
Were left in charge of our country
Can you imagine where we’d be?
Scotland? Am I close?
How many people at Brighton College (£30k a year in fees alone) do you reckon had accents like that?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/27/120-convicted-census-forms-2011
Jesus Christ, she’s f**king unbearable.
Wow! No shit Sherlock. The Labour party writ small. No wonder the country is fucked.
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/laurie-pennys-reputation-as-a-feminist-is-shot-to-hell-unless-she-renounces-support-for-ken-livingstone/#comment-8162
Laurie Penny claims to be a female activist. After backing Ken Livingstone, whose pals accept rape, female genital mutilation and assault on women – not anymore.
If you play the video go to “Penny is a fuckwit” to see her fail to answer any question then when the Goldman guy is speaking she interrupts him to waffle on about something of interest to Emily Mathlis (Manolo Blahniks?) that she lets the intteruptiom go to show what a dreadful interviewer she is.
Laurie Penny?
I would and she swallows.
Penny is a spoilt middle class skool girl taking on causes in which she has no REAL personal experience in. She does not understand poverty, what it means to be working class, underclass or whatever. She is a middle class scrounger who scrounges off the poor and their causes in order to pay for middle class existence. She is worse than the deluded Victorian middle class bints who wanted to teach the working classes how to prepare cavier, salmond, venison in their cookery classes.
Run a bank? I doubt very much she knows how run a bath.
I don’t know the woman, but Brillo treated her abominably. Turning away from her to speak to someone else before she had stopped making her point.
He should treat his guests with respect after inviting them on the programme.
Brillo showed himself to be a prat of the highest order.