Bada Bingle, Bada Boom
On Thursday Bell Pottinger closed down their “Special Projects” division and sacked everyone involved. This division specialised in murky foreign projects – advising governments in lovely places like Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Yemen and Zimbabwe. Yes, Zimbabwe.
We’re expecting an official announcement at midday that the one and only Peter Bingle is going as well. Restaurant owners across Westminster may have to make further redundancies as a result…
All this is ahead of a management buy-back by Lord Bell himself of the firm he founded. The troubled outfit ironically has a reputation as being closest to the Tories..
UPDATE:
Top lobbyist Peter Bingle confirms my exclusive about him leaving Bell Pottinger: "I have decided to give up the best job in politics."—
David Singleton (@david_singleton) May 14, 2012
Northern Ireland is “foreign”? When did that happen?
And what’s wrong with South Africa?
Stock markets down! Living standards down! Tories, down!
Thank god my hairline is up!
Fuck off baldy! You useless parasite!
Here Wills, your parting is a bit skew, want to borrow my chamois?
Did they advise Salmond on the Border controls needed to stop cross border Alcohol smuggling, Splitting the Union so the USA can get their hands on North Sea Oil and Gas. No wonder Murdoch was behind Salmond support.
Surely the real story is why the special projects division was closed. A sudden attack of ethics? I doubt it.
Legal action.
Privatisation?
As is my prick !!
>what’s wrong with South Africa?
Rapidly becoming Mugabe style Apartheid nation .
Bollocks
Its a wonder that fat free state fucker Guido didnt write ‘North of Ireland’
Éirinn go brách.
As they all say in Harrow.
Harrow Weald, shurely.
As they certainly do say in Harrow Weald. Is de Irish/Somalian ghetto of Harrow didn’t you know.
More Irish pubs per square mile in Wealdstone than anywhere I know outside Kilburn and Neasden in their prime. Not many Tories in Sullivans Wine Barthough but plenty of Irish Thatcherites further to the East in the City Of London.
Erin Go Bragh!
Tuaisceart na hÉireann
ป๊อป กิตติพงศ์ ตันติชินานนท์
Dat’s Oirish for Ireland’s gone broke.
Oirland – surely?
Yes, it is foreign. Just because the most of the people there have the same citizenship as most of us in England, doesn’t make them the same nationality. The British state had no right to retain those six counties. They belong with the rest of Ireland.
In Europe – lucky, lucky b’stards.
Ring-a-ding-a-ling!
Huh?
Do they recive taxpayers money?
good question – just as – have they received anyone else’s
If they Gave Mugabe cancer whilst they were in Zim, then well done to them.
They just could not compete with my credibility. Losers
Funny most of these places are the ones I like to target with MY foreign aid package, what
i dont like Northern ireland being lumped in amongst tyrannies like Afganistan or Somalia or Zimbabwe…..
Did you mean ‘trannies’ ? – they all seem a little mixed up.
In terms of reciprocal v extortion funded sector, it’s more like communist East Germany.
Northern Ireland – that well known tyrannical tin pot dictatorship.
Why is Bradford not in the list?
Because its not possible to make any money there.
I beg to differ.
With that sort of record they ought to have been advising de Cameron
Would you rather the Septics did the paid work and gathered the tax?
Or perhaps more enlightened and ethically unencumbered countries like Cuba, Russia, China?
Or is it the whole Devil and long spoon thing?
What do the be-spooked ones get back as intel?
Have you thought through the possibility of the law of unintended consequences?
Or does dealing with questionable (NOT Northern Ireland!) government offend your Liberal sensitivities, and you’d rather someone else did it?
Just a few questions. Do carry on.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4313310/McMum-blast.html
Well spotted “Who ate”….
We need advice on what to eat from someone who doesn’t have a clue on how to divide and rule her own food portions.
Bit like the Catholic church, Dianne. A bunch of people who DON’T have sex telling people who do, what “Is acceptable” ?
Oh I think they get plenty of sex, just not with the right person.
Or, indeed, age!
Lol, she’ll be bringing out a keep fit with Diane DVD next, as the old joke goes… I must be suffering from anorexia because every time I see myself in the mirror I think what a fat cow.
Can you lot try and work a bit harder
Sam’s Flora and fauna needs a quick trim
Toodle Pip
I intend to refer Bell Pottinger to Leveson in due course.
Good Afternoon
Nearly midday
FTSE 100 -1.8pc
CAC -2.4pc
DAX -2.2pc
IBEX -2.9pc
MIB -3pc
Check the weather – when the sun comes out in London next – just out of interest – check what happens to shares. Then when it goes all “global warming” cold and grey again, check what it does then.
Weird stuff, the human psyche.
Seems “beta” Bullish to me
Outperforming the Euro-wreck stock-markets rather spectacularly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_%28finance%29
…. the guarantee of funding from the licence fee left BBC staff with “an innocent belief that everything in life should be ‘free”‘.
“No wonder – and I spéąk as one who has just fought a campaign in which I sometimes felt that my chief opponent was the local BBC news – the prevailing view of Beeb newsrooms is, with honourable exceptions, statist, corporatist, deféątist, anti-business, Europhile and, above all, overwhelmingly biased to the Left.”
…. the next director general, replacing Mark Thompson who is stepping down later this year, should be someone who is “free-market, pro-business and understands the depths of the problems this country faces. We need someone who knows about the work ethic, and cutting costs. We need a Tory, and no mucking around”
(ack. D. Tel.)
no, it should be a subscription channel, like any other. Let labour pay for their own fucking propaganda !
Well said but can’t we just break the BBC up and sell it off to the highest bidder, god know we need the money right now.
Why not just sell the back catalogue to the highest bidder, and turn the BBC into a mutual society owned by subscribers?
And sadly won’t get one. Bit like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.
Is Tebbit looking for a well paying part time job?
Wot ? Like shaving Drunken Smith’s head every day ??
Bloody hell, Guido! Slow news day, or what? I’ve been reading this item all morning – are you hung over, bored or just taunting us to be creative with minimalism??
Yes, Guido – there’s plenty of news buzzing out there:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sex-toys-worth-11000-stolen-832323
Get your finger out boy, or it’ll be lines and detention!
So somebody’s not a happy bunny, but on the other hand, lots of other people are.
hey man – feel the vibes zzzzz
They don’t like it up…. oh, sorry Mr Mainwaring, it turns out they do, sir.”
In my humble view lobbyists should be burnt at the stake, and the ashes dissolved in Sulphuric Acid and then dumped.
Those guilty of association with the devils spawn, should be sent to Siberia for re-education and made to stand on the naughty step for 20 years.
At Stalingrad, the Red Army used to make captured German soldiers strip naked and stand in the snow. The Russians would then pour water over the Germans’ feet, freezing them to the spot, where they would be left to die.
Next time Camoron’s man-made global warming causes another snow-storm, we should use it as an opportunity to “get Soviet” with the lobbyists, and the MPs they lobby.
Sadly, Uncle Joe then went on to starve to death and murder 23,000,000 Russians and Ukrainians – so not perhaps the best tactics to suggest to get rid of people who just use words to influence.
Better JAW,,JAW, than…
Oh I don’t know – no death could be too grizzly for our scumbag MPs.
I certainly don’t want to see them in a tugging contest.
I’m represented by Bell Potty Chair.
What’s the latest on that slimy crooked twat Ali Dizaei? Is he due for release? Is he going to launch another appéal at taxpayers expense? Let’s just stick a shisha pipe up his arse and deport the fucker back to raghead land.
What, Bradford?
Tower Hamlets?
Or Luton or Manchester or Tower Hamlets.
Is there an echo in here?
here?
here?
Al1sta1r Campb3ll is at Leveson today, yet the BBC haven’t mentioned it.
Unbelievable!
We remember what he did to us the last time.
Well I never!
Thank you for resisting the “Bell Ends” headline.
Fuck off bellend!
I would have liked the “bell end” headline.
Scotland is a lot further away from Calais.
Isn’t Scotland still part of the UK? Or does Fatbutt know something we don’t?
She’s not the brightest darky in Hackney by a long way.
No it doesn’t you fat bitch, how about a minimum calorie price on food eh?
Didn’t think so, now get back on that banana boat and fuck off home.
Minimum calorie price on all take away food!
How about a minimum calori℮ pric℮ on all take away food you fat bitch!
Peter Hain quits shadow cabinet to spend more time in the local Tanning Booth
hehehe… I put some broken glass in it too, shhhhh.
I hope it was soaked in week-old dog’s p*ss.
Infectionalicious!
I am a firm believer in “British jobs for British workers” That is why after wasting 250 millions of your quids i’ve opted to buy the F35 from the Americans
Toodle pip !
Did you make sure you bought the under-performing one? You know, the short-range jumpjet that can’t actually jump? The one that can’t carry much weapons or fuel? You know, the really awful F35 that only a clown would buy? That one?
Yes How did you know ? That’s Classified information
The Americans gave us a great deal on it
They took our Harriers in part ex !
Toodle Pip
‘Murky Foreign Projects’? Sounds like another one for Handycock. Come on Handy – tell us what you got up to with Bell Pottinger.
Bingo!
Bingo!
Bell Pottinger? Pathetic!
Ha ha ha!
Grrr!
Oh dear!