Labour Backlash at Harman/Watson By-Election Stich-Up
Patrick Wintour’s article in the Guardian this morning has gone down very badly in Labour circles. The notion that Labour MPs could be banned from triggering by-elections in order stand as Mayors or Police Commissioners due to dire finances has been met with outrage throughout the party. Though Labour are indeed broke, insiders see this for what it is – a direct attack on Liam Byrne and his bid to run for Mayor of Birmingham. Central command and control is back.
One former SpAd said: “Such a naked stitch-up. It would be simpler if Tom Watson just said that no-one whose name wasn’t Siôn Simon was allowed to run. Mind you, Siôn would still find a way to cock it up.”
Another senior party staffer points out: “why is the by-election thing only a problem when it’s Liam? They were happy to do it when it suited them, ie to get Lucy Powell in. Precedent was set by Sir Peter Soulsby in Leicester South, Watson was desperate to get his best mate Jonathan Ashworth in. It’s only when they lose control of the fixing they want to change the rules. Harriet biggest hypocrite of all. She used by-elections to get her cronies in – Ashworth was her former political secretary. And Seema Malhotra in Feltham and Heston was her former adviser.”"
The article has fingerprints all over it, especially as it names Harman as the driving force behind the idea. Her husband Jack Dromey is likely to chair Siôn Simon’s Birmingham campaign. Guido understands that a deal was struck when Dromey replaced Simon in the All Female Selection for Birmingham Erdington in 2010. One source called this an “old school Labour/union stitch up of the worst kind.”
Good to see the strong and assured leadership from Ed Miliband shining through.
Yes, hiding away no doubt!
Why is it that these people are a separate race consisting of the most repellent, avaricious, unpleasant, grasping, talentless individuals, who become infatuated with their own imagined importance, which has been bloated by connections with ‘senior’ politicians, who all know very well that they are in fact absolutely useless at doing anything positive to getting the UK back on track for success.
They exist just for their own enrichment at the state’s expense.
Definition: Politician: See narcissistic socio-path.
Perhaps Labour politicians should all now adopt Hattie’s zebra look as their new uniform.
What happened to the Daily Mail web site front page last night about Labour and rendition?
Do you mean an old nag in pyjamas SW?
Some animals are more equal than others
Central control always works – trust us
Now popped up at telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9195112/MI6-to-offer-1-million-in-Libya-rendition-case.html
Jack Straw couldn’t have possibly known everything that was going on in his department.
However Murdoch must have known everything that was going on in his media empire.
Simples.
lol @ MI6
Jack Straw is a prime candidate for testing whether waterboarding is torture or not. Let’s see how long it takes him to confess to taking bribes from a texan gas company.
I don’t think they are that good.
Ouroboros!
Chtulhu, I think you’ll find.
No wonder that Mrs Dromie has that patronising smug look on her face as she slithers around the Palace of Worstminster
Harman epitomises the smug, arrogant, bitchy, hypocritical, oleaginous, unprinciples, me-first attitude that is Blair’s legacy.
hang the bastards
Harriet Harperson and her acholytes have learnt a lot from me in my putting placement in vital positions from when I was Secretary General of the Communist Party. Problem is their placements are loyal but incompetent.
How’s that Lefty, Progressive, Feely Thing going y’all???
Thank God the coalition has finally got round to dealing with the ridiculous socialist idea of bank holidays. Next on the list should be the union-inspired travesty of holidays with pay.
If you’re not working you shouldn’t be earning. Simple as that.
Socialism in the UK has destroyed competativeness … No holiday pay, sick pay or benefits in China. We need to remember that hard work pays and feckless sherkers should get diddly squat!
That’s what it was like when I was a little girl, dear! And we had things then that you don’t have now, like rickets, sky high infant mortality rates, young men sent off to die at the front on the whim of a Political elite…. oh, DO we still have that Matron? Oh dear.
Is it Brazil on Sky movies tonight?
“sky high infant mortality rates”
Sounds like an excellent solution to the chav-infestation Britain’s currently experiencing.
No dear – eugenics was a very naughty Aril Fools gag by that nice August Weismann, no one really believed in it, did they?
If you took it seriously, you’d have people executing/ euthanising disabled people and gay people because they were of no use to the state, and where would that lead?
What was that Matron? Did you say “It’s ill thought out ideas like that which deliver indescribable power of life and death into the very hands of the people who are least qualified to hold it?”
I’m sure it was just a joke dear!
Another reminder that all of the three main parties are anti-democratic.
I wouldn’t be heartbroken if they all went bust & voters elected candidates based on their personal manifestos rather than party allegiance.
It should be a criminal offence to be a member of a polilitical party.
They won’t go bust, they will simply do what politicians always do when desperate, steal from the people.
Bit difficult for them to fund themselves now they are not “in power” – this makes them fully in the pocket of their union “investors”.
Perhaps they hope to raid Birmingham’s £3.5 billion budget with Bryne and Dromey? then follow through with all mayoral appointments?
Press should be in for a wonderful time when their venal incompetence is revealed.
Even the BBC may wake up to their corruption, but do not hold your breath. They are now trying to “balance” the fact that they were lied to by Jack “man of” Straw, who has now gone into hiding.
Hiding is a great tradition in the Straw family.
Is there any history in the strawman family of cowerdice and dishonesty?
Certainly is a history of cowardice. Just ask Jack Straw what his dad during the second world war. The Straw family should have a coat of arms depicting a mass of white feathers.
Maybe Byrne can leave a note in Labour’s London HQ that says “sorry there’s no money left”.
That way the party members can get a taste of what Labour did to Britain.
+10
Why am I not surprised! SCUM
I won fair and square!
But I paid a high price!
Only because you wore match zebra patterned undergarments
Ms. FFS
I have to admit to a shocking taste in men.
How dare you! I’m not a hypocrite! I’m always consistent. I voted for the Iraq war, and I applauded when Ed Miliband said we were wrong to go to war. I support all-women shortlists and I ensured my husband got onto one. I have principles and I stand by them!
Harriet’s husband obviously also had a secret sex change to win an all women’s short list of MP candidates, was the name on the ballot paper Jackline?
These are my principles – if you don’t like them, I have others.
Perfect description of the nulab bastards who sold us down the river.
Oi! Whatever it is, I’m against it!
She hasn’t got mere standards, she’s got double standards.
Don’t forget how she sent her own child to private school, whilst expecting everyone else’s to rot in the sub-standard schools they created.
There’s nothing wrong in that.
I sent my son Che to a state school and he can’t spell like me.
Shut it your r*cist!
Forget about Labour being broke, so too is the UK that they led into economic destruction.
Millie Dowler?
Ashcroft?
Thatcher?
Eccleston, Blair, Mandelson, Brown
Balls.
I say – no need for that sort of talk!
I thought Katie’s response was quite good………
Jo Moore / Stephen Byers?
Phil Woolas?
Margaret Moran?
Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub?
Mornington Cresent.
MATRON! I NEED MY PILLS NOW!!!!
Lie down Gordon and get back to sleep.
What about brainless bint Dawn Primarolo?
I am in favour of one man, one vote, but only if I am the only man (or woman if on an all female shortlist) who’s vote counts.
…and, of course, postal votes are exempt from one man, one vote.
We live in political world where the protagonist believe many tactics are fair if it gets you the result. All parties have centralised command and control which they believe is best to get the outcome of their party in the ascendancy. I guess the only way to stop the centralised control is to show up hypocrisy when it happens, it looks like this is a classic case from Labour.
The ICO is not very good and should resign.
Hot air?. Not barely warm.
Diddums!
http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/13047.gif
Guido, you look like this bloke in the photo
I am slightly concerned that one of those ‘anonymised’ tax returns given to george might be a bit close to home.
Don’t worry, Tony. I made sure everything was shredded as per your instructions. And all computer records deleted too. No one will ever find out about the millions you and Cherie claimed in expenses over ten years. And they’ll never find out about the clever way you’ve avoided paying millions in tax.
Or how effective it is to have a wife hiding behind legal privilege when someone asks what it was she was actually paid for.
Many might prefer she hid behind a burkha.
She has the intellectual capacity of Phil Woolas or Bob Ainsworth.
More likely the intellectual capacity of a wooly bobble hat, dear.
Granddad used to say that he wouldn’t poke her with a shitty stick, because it might get dirty.
He was a wag, you know!
Nurse, can I have the screens for a minute, I think I need a Harman.
I would be mortified if there was internecine conflict within the Labour Party.
Hey boyo! Would you prefer it if I was Labour leader again? Well alright!
Stitch… stitch… not stich. Unless of course you were referring to the tennis player?
Hi Guido,
Are you able to do a further, new breakdown of the Labour party finances ?
Doesn’t it show the depth of talent in Scotland and Wales that they are prepared to lend us the likes of Kinnock(s), Broon etc. How do they manage without them?
But England produces more looney left Trotskyist trade union barons. Glasgow is way behind Liverpool, though to be fair, Mark Serwotka has a South Walian lilt.
Tell that nice Mr. Serwotka that Matron has some cream for that, dear – it’ll clear up a treat.
Why does someone support a political party called Respect, when the first word – Limited – has been removed?
My brain is hurting again Nurse – can I be Queen of the May?
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS.
Hundreds of school strike chiefs planning mass walk-outs are on council payrolls and cost us £13million a year
360 officials providing no public service are on the council payroll
Officials paid for by the state are co-ordinating strikes and distributing union literature.
Sack them all.
Just make them all redundant. Their ‘jobs’ obviously don’t exist.
Then summarily dismiss the bastards that let this situation develop and have effectively supported it for gross misconduct and see them all off the premises.
Don’t hold your breath…
We could get them to hold theirs.
Bet we pay for their useless shite political bed-wetting meetings too.
Fraid so. Yet another one of those Quango thingys that Dave failed to throw on the bonfire. Why does it feel a need to provide french Spanish and Welsh versions for a nation that speaks English?
tosser my first language is Welsh
Labour teachers? Why not just say ‘teachers’, they’re all lefty fucks anyway.
Am I right in saying 50% of Labour’s membership are teachers?
It’s fucking disgusting what we do to our kids.
I feel a school lockout coming on followed by some much more ‘enlightened’ changes to teacher’s working hours.
School is terribly overrated. Personally, I think we can do without end of year assessments and Ofsted inspections altogether. Simply make the teacher pass an exam every year: those who fail are fired.
I got the USA record with 75 days without school and look where I am today.
Looking forward to the NUT complaining about British madrassas being exempt from the rules, regulations and curriculum stipulations governing schools, in the same way they object to Academies.
Christ, look at Sion Simon. Pundits will be asking whether being a weapons-grade fuck-up with a ‘hall of mirrors’ face holds him back at all in this exciting mayoral race.
Didn’t stop Luciana Berger giving out I suppose, but Birmingham voters might be a bit more ‘fussy’, shall we say.
So Dave wants a law that says you can not replace your broken down boiler unless you buy loft lagging?
What the fook is wrong with this eco loon? Is he now going to jail people who are freezing and buy a new boiler without putting more lagging in the loft?
Letter in the Mail highlights the stupidity of having to insulate an open-front workshop / garage before you can fit a new boiler.
Only toffs are allowed garages
I’ve converted mine to a petrol storage facility.
Now I’ve finished I’m just off for a smoke
Boom-boom
Like many big retailers on retail parks, all of our vast sheds have zero insulation and are heated with huge inefficient burners. Happily, this in no way compromises our efforts to sell you, th epunter plenty of green energy and insulation. Why does the ECO police not do something about these planet killers?
We’ve proved our green credentials and are entitled to lecture the country even though we built a huge new media centre in Salford, when there was perfectly adequate premises already in London, and we now pay to transport staff daily by plane, train and automobile.
Pathetic!
Woke up this morning. Manoeuvred head into position. Stuck it up my own arsehole. Farted. A big leeky one. “Thats me for the day,” I thought to myself. Went back to sleep. Lovalee.
It was the grotesque chaos of a Kinnock fart, a Kinnock fart, first thing in the morning. You can’t play flatulence with people’s jobs.
Neil, before you drop off to sleep again why not ring the bank and remind yourself how much other-people’s-money you and your little circle of nepotism have accumulated while selling this country out to your Euro-cabal.
Ker-ching. Weerrrooorlright!
Well, what do you expect from a bunch of serial losers…
Status: Red Alert!
Britain can extradite Abu Hamza to US, European court rules.
Get him on a plane…..TODAY!!
Nah, make him swim.
Agreed.
Get him out NOW.
Give him a half way ticket, as the Argies did in those halcyon days when they had a free hand with the lefties………..
Britain can extradite Abu Hamza to US, Europe@n court rules.
Get him on a plane…..TODAY!!
Take him half way and cast him adrift in a rowing boat
Which UK MSM will be the first to break the Motorman story?
Political Betting should open a book.
There’s a piece in one of the Red rags saying that Gove is the most hated of all education ministers. This from teachers a profession that has failed this country to such an extent that industry and the taxpayer will suffer for generations. Gove might be the man to get them off their gold plated backsides and make them do some work!
Gove is the only coalition minister that I’ve got any time for. The one and only diamond in a sack of shit.
The fact that our widely inept state-school ‘teachers’ hate him is all the proof we need that Gove’s doing a very good job.
Gove is a godsend compared to Charles Clarke, Ruth Kelly, Alan Johnson and Balls.
Teachers are knobs. the lkind of goody two shoes teachers liked were the kinds of kids who needed a good bog-wash. The time that any teacher says they like the minster is the time for a government reshuffle.
“The blogger Guido Fawkes, AKA Paul Sta1nes, had been toying with publishing the full Operation Motorman files over the Easter weekend, heading off to Ireland to evade any legal complications that may have arisen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2012/apr/08/media-monkey-diary?newsfeed=true
We, the guilty, have the right to remain silent. We do however, wish to take your money, so get a look at the norks on that.
Command and Control, just like the Good Ole Days with the Praesidium.
Marvellous days those, dissenters? dissidents? they knew their place, six foot under, with a rather large hole in the cranium if they so much as squeaked.
Nice to see LieBour bringing back those ole nostalgic days………(deep sigh)
What we really need now are people to detail how best to avoid being snooped on, be it VPN connections, encryption the whole lot.
Fuck them, fuck them all.
“Guido understands that a deal was struck when Dromey replaced Simon in the All Female Selection for Birmingham Erdington in 2010.”
BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Still fucking funny.
…..and Dromey got his seat because Harman supported Brown. Harman is labour corruption personified.
” Guido understands that a deal was struck when Croney replaced Simon in the All Female Selection for Birmingham Erdington in 2010. One source called this an “old school Labour/union stitch up of the worst kind.”
The explanation is that with a name like Sion Simon I did not know if my opponent was a man or a woman ( having never looked beyond the overgarments). Thus I covered all the options by having a gender reassignment procedure which went wrong –resulting in my becoming a hermaphrodite .
Ergo : I can run under candidature of either gender . Hope this clarifies .
P.S Haven’t told Harry ( ET ) — yet so keep ” entre nous” .
Ah…. Siôn Simon! This is the time to listen again to his car-crash interview in 2009.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7952000/7952174.stm
The notion of this cretin standing again for public office is quite laughable.