Tom Watson Ate My Column
Guido has spoken to people in a position to know and it is clear that the Maurice Glasman writing a column for the Sun on Sunday story going round needs comprehensive debunking. Glasman was originally supposed to write a piece for The Sun, the article had been in the offing for a couple of weeks. Stewart Wood, the Shadow Minister without Portfolio who serves as consigliere to Ed Miliband, was aware that it was in the offing and merely asked Maurice to not be negative about Ed.
After this blog reported that Toby Young was going to be the Sun on Sunday’s political columnist the Sunday Mirror’s Vincent Moss tweeted
EXCL: hearing the extremely former "guru to Ed Miliband", Maurice Glasman, will be a columnist for the Sun on Sunday? Yawn—
Vincent Moss (@vincentmoss) February 22, 2012
This led to Tom Watson sending a menacing tweet
I've been told Lord Maurice Glasman is to be a columnist for the Sun on Sunday. If so, he should hang his head in shame.—
(@tom_watson) February 22, 2012
Which as Dan Hodges pointed out, meant
Maurice Glasman has the black spot of Watson upon him. He will be dead by the dawn…—
Dan Hodges (@DPJHodges) February 22, 2012
Lo and behold Stewart Wood then called Glasman and told him it would not go down well if the article appeared. Glasman then called The Sun and spiked his own article which by now was due to appear in the Sun on Sunday rather than the daily. Guido sources say the article was mildly critical of Ed’s direction but not that disloyal, certainly nowhere near as cutting as his infamous New Statesman article. Guido’s source says money was never discussed, it was always a one off article and not a regular column offer. Something tells Guido that the Sun on Sunday will cope without the author of “Managing Market Utopia” and the “Politics of Paradox”. It seems bizarrely self-defeating for Labour to block themselves from connecting with 7 million key swing voters.
So much for freedom of the press!
Tom Watson seems obsessed with his media agenda.
It’s completely free. Unless it’s anti Labour, then it’s not
The RED TOPS should have only ONE purpose. Wipe your ARSE. on them. We will need to as the economy collapses and we wont be able to afford toilet paper.
It won’t be the toilet paper that will be the problem. You can wipe your arse with grass.
We won’t be able to afford the water to flush it away with.
Perhaps that is Labour’s attachment to the scatalogical?
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Tom Watson seeks to control and impose his will on all aspects regarding his views, image, media placing to enhance his self worth.
Like other desperate Westminster Labour wannabees, his bullying, constant preening and puffing up his feathers is all shameless self promotion, which fails to serve his constituents, the electorate or the country in general.
Putting on a Nicky Clarke haircut, some DKNY glasses and an Autograph suit doesn’t alter the fact that TWATson lurks underneath in all his chippy, avaricious, outsized, attention seeking, OCD, Brummie glory.
I always agree with every post you make
I always agree with every post you make.
Sorry, it’s the Tourette’s.
Hang on a minute but aren’t Labour shooting themselves in the foot? It’s all very well having the Toynbee Guardianista Islington support but they need real white working class votes to get back into power, ie Sun readers’ votes.
Shhh… if you don’t tell them, they won’t notice.
What? Don’t they all have villas in Tuscany? Oh dear!
Tom Watson seem obsessed with burgers, pizza, cakes and larger looking at the size of the totally useless fuckin fat bastard……….
Should that be “lager”?
Kill a Story ans Win a Metro!
The Sun On Sunday is another case of Murdoch 1 Watson 0…
Got it wrong again mum! The Watson thug threatened me.
He had a nosh on my column once…or was it twice…
all the news that labour decides is fit to print
In his wholly opportunistic and deeply cynical jehad on NI, Watson has found his Stalingrad and, like Khrushchev, will eventually use his part to bid for power in the Labour Party. They will richly deserve each other.
A holy war that resulted in a rebranding of NI’s sunday tabloid. Its been a wonderful cost cutting exercise for them.
And I bet Hugh Grant gets a new film role as a result of the show.
Oh. and caption competition. My crystal balls are a tingling and I know exactly who its going to be,.
Tom Watson will be the next Eric Joyce. Mark my words, he is sailing too close to the wind for his own good.
So what you’re saying is it only needs somebody to goad him a little once he’s p155ed and take a couple of belts and he could be spending the night in the cells too.
Do you know which pub he frequents?
Well they’ll have a job on, I hear he spends most of his time on the Xbox eating buckets of monster munch.
^^^
Ah, but does he play Xbox online?
I’m sure Twatson could equally be goaded by “I’ve just shot you again, you really are useless at this, you fat git” type messages..
XBox? XBox? Is he a fucking kid or something?
Has he got an Action Man too? Does he play with that as well?
you are showing your age there. unless of course if you think “a kid” is someone younger than 45. in which case, you’re still showing your age.
Good clean fight. No knives. No glasses. No harm done.
No punches landed, either?
Oh I think there were a few punches landed but the fat lad knew when he was beaten and the other chap didn’t go too hard on him after that.
Bruised ego more than anything I’d have thought.
Better to find out you’re shit at fighting like that than find out the hard way.
If we are hoping the good stout Englishman will save us in the end then we are in big trouble. Useless fat knackers the pair of them.
jgm2 @ 12:02. Probably uses the bars in HoC;the booze is cheap ‘cos it’s subsidised by the taxpayers.
Ah, but are not Labour publicity ‘campaigns’ run by a coke head? Expect he has just had a bad trip along with Eric ‘the red’ Major Joyce.
What? You mean a sort of Labour Unplugged?
Could catch on. The BBC could do a series…
Its very encouraging that Labour wish to isolate themselves in their own holier-than -thou brand of ideological purity. Does anyone remember the News on Sunday ? It was a Sunday paper launched in Kinnock’s time with Labour support for a good left wing view of the world. It lasted a few months.
‘Menacing’? It’s not as if Watson threatened to head-butt Glasman.
’7 million key swing voters’? Now you are living in fucking dreamland, Guido!
Well it’s true they’re not going to change their minds overnight but a subtle drip-drip of positive spin for Labour can work wonders. As proved by Blair, BBC, Alistair Campbell and News International in 1997.
So being dogmatically hostile does kind of preclude a reprise of 1997.
Thank fuck.
Labour were falling over themselves to lick Murdoch’s ass before 1997 and during their reign.
The phone-hacking scandals happened during their tenure and Blair is godfather to one of Murdoch’s kids.
After Leveson, would NI ever support Labour again? I think not.
Spectacular own-goal by Labour manipulators.
NI will support whoever is best for it’s business interests.
Salmond is current flavour of the month in Scotland.
Don’t you know that these facts have been airbrushed out of the BBC version of recent British history?
+ 1
An anagram of Thomas Watson is ‘ Showman Stoat’ which seems quite apt, I feel.
Aren’t stoats on the slim side, though?
what about Grayling’s a c’unt
Watson has the whif of a stale turd in a truckstop sink
He looks like the sort of guy you could invite around for your grand-daughters 5th birthday party.
Doubtful
When is fatso watson going to be taken to book for his expense fiddles
Bi!!y Bunter’s celebrating…
Re: BBC 2 Daily Politics (on right now)
Has Brillo a bald patch at the back of his head?
Or is it strange camera angles from the Beeb?
Was he pissed last night or what?
Just his artificial reality connection.
BBC must insure mind controle at all times for their presenters.
Dunno about the bald patch but he must surely have a blind spot if he keeps including Smith(ex home sec) & Di Fatbot as occasional incumbents on the sofa.
Brillo was really bad today. The programme seems to be on a downward slide.
No:it’s that mixture of Brylcreem and Marmite which he uses, and doesn’t always ‘work’.
Just in, Watson seen going into Sun HQ strapped with bundles of dynamite to himself screaming ‘yippikaiaymotherf-’ like a wildman.
LOL!!!
labour really know how to shoot themselves in the foot don’t they?
Hope Twatson misses his foot and hits himself somewhere between his fat piggy little ears…………My god he is one ugly fat Hunt……….
Yes but I’m very glad that labour has him. Everytime I see his picture I am reminded of their bullying culture, their incompetence and their thuggery & thieving.
Watsons fall will be feffing delicious.
He may want to hang on to that guitar and get used to singing to drunks in public at turnout time.
“Bizarrely self-defeating” actually makes a fairly good strapline for Ed’s Labour.
Hasn’t the Tit and Bum used an old photo of Wato, I thought he was supposed to have lost a lot of weight, at least according to Guido a few weeks ago
I love Punch and Judy.
My mistake. I meant I love punching Judy. Or anyone else for that matter.
Watson is a thoroughly nasty individual.
I hope when he falls, it’s a bloody long way.
Watson should be hauled aboard a Japanese whaling ship and processed.
With a gut like that, he’ll bounce.
Socialists can’t help manipulating the press.
It worked for Hitler and Stalin.
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February 24, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Watson has the whiff of a stale turd in a truckstop sink
Watson is a stale turd in a truckstop sink.
’7 millions readers’? Really, Guido? That is what could be described as ‘hyperbole’; which is a word one would never see printed in that rag, as it has four, fucking syllables. Perhaps that walking-thumb impersonator Toby Young shall use that word in his ‘column’:once.
What the fuck has it got to do with Watson anyway? Watson was so stupid to do Brown’s bidding in attacking the Murdochs. Watson is an idiot who’s going to be made to pay.
How long before the left re-brand the Sun on Sunday, the SS.
They’ve already got copyright on that for the soon-to-be-launched Sunday Socialist. It will be launched into a landfill shortly afterwards.
Typical Westminster village commentary. Whatever its merits or lack of them, the wider electorate hasn’t a clue who Tom Watson, Maurice Glassman or Toby Young are.
Gossip is fine and occasionally very entertaining, but all of you politcal bloggers, whether independent or tied to MSM, have an entirely inflated idea of your own influence. The proportion of the internet-connected electorate that actually knows what a blog IS, is vanishly infinitesimal.
I’d say the number of pelts this blog alone has collected would warrant it’s influence being described as more than ‘vanishly infinitesimal’.
Oily fuckers like Huhne, Hain, Draper and McBride would still be in a (decent) job were it not for these illustrious pages.
I know lefties would LOVE to have an organ as effective as this one, but they’ll just have to suck it up.
+ 100
It looks as if we might be able to read about Jonny Spelman in the Sun on Sunday after all.
His mum must be well stacked to have blown the money she has on legal fees for an injunction she did not get.
It’s about time he got his come uppance, come on Guido you must have a lot on him!!!
Twatson was obviously too drunk on wine and ego from promoting his new book to Labour supporting sycophants at Birmingham Botanical Gardens Labour fundraising dinner last night!
Are we going to learn about deleted emails soon? I hope so.
It appears certain U.S government agencies are developing an interest in phone hacking and emails as well.
I can’t wait until the Sun on Sunday run pictures of him pants down and cock up a 12 year old boy.
tom watson blocked me on twitter because i accused him of “being up the guardian’s arse”
perfectly acceptable for him to accuse other media outlets of bias but when you accuse him of the same he chucks his teddys out of the cot
pathetic hypocrisy if you ask me…