June 20th, 2012

Labour MEP: We Should Have Joined the €uro

Loony Labour MEP Mary Honeyball still wants Britain join the Euro. Writing for LabourList she blindly insists that we would have been better off in the single currency all along, suggesting: “Tony Blair’s instincts on the Euro were right, even in the light of the current crisis.” She goes on to warn:

“The UK has once again failed to join the European project at the right time… if a country is not there at the start they stand to miss out on crucial decisions. The Eurozone seems to be going in the direction of some kind of banking union. This will obviously have an effect on the City of London. Being outside whatever kind of union emerges may well prove problematic for our financial services industry. We in Britain should ask ourselves whether we really want a powerful neighbour with a unified banking system which will be able to challenge, not to say get the better of, our most important industry.”

Dangerous…


344 Comments

  1. 1
    lol says:

    Why two pictures of her?

    • 11

      Has Ed Balls commentated on whether joining the Euro is still a great idea

      Ed Balls was Jesus at the Treasury to Gordon Brown’s God and in 2002 was fully responsible for letting UK banks use credit insurance from AIG et al to lend more money than normal debt provisioning rules allowed, fuelling the lending boom and the credit crunch we now enjoy.

      Everything Labour touches turns to dust, except the wealth of its leaders

      • 14
        Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin ( Member in absentia ) says:

        Anything that went wrong during The Reign of Terror 1997-2010, which was precious little, started in America.

        • 32
          Life of Brian says:

          “We in Britain should ask ourselves whether we really want a powerful neighbour with a unified banking system which will be able to challenge, not to say get the better of, our most important industry.”

          LOL!!! – this batty cow is delusional!! Is she perhaps related to Gordon Brown?…

          • Gordon McMong says:

            I kept us OUT of the Euro.
            Me against the rest and I won.

            There would be a statue taller than Nelson’s in Trafalgar Square to me now if I hadn’t been so utterly wrong about every single other thing though.

          • Anonymous says:

            Yes Gordon, shame about selling our gold and buying Euros.

          • Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin ( Member in absentia ) says:

            You only did that to spite me, you headbanger.

          • UKIP.I.AM says:

            Why the long face?

            “Being outside whatever kind of union emerges may well prove problematic for our financial services industry. ”

            Yes being outside has certainly done a lot of damage to Norway and Switzerland, hasn’t it, you stupid bint?

            P.S. which picture is the one with the Labour MEP?

          • Even with negative interest rates and limited government guarantees, Swiss and Danish banks are still not lending to SME’s just like our banks.

            Negative interest rates from a safe haven status is never desirable

            The problem is the interbank markets are not functioning as banks don’t trust each other with good reason as the credit worthy don’t want to borrow and the people who desperately do need to borrow are not solvent enough.

            The government need to provide credit insurance to banks to lend to SME’s and promote growth

            That and shoot Robert Peston for making up shit about how bad it all is

          • AC1 says:

            Banks RARELY lend to small business anyway.

          • non-visitor says:

            As my gran, bless her little cotton socks, used to say: She must have been dropped on her head as a baby.

      • 86
        Expat Geordie says:

        That’s why he’s called “Midarse” – everything he touches turns to shite.

      • 132
        AC1 says:

        http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-uk-trail-mf-global-collapse-may-have-apocalyptic-consequences-eurozone-canadian-banks-jeffe

        As readers will recall, the actual office that blew up the world the first time around, was not even based in the US. It was a small office located on the top floor of 1 Curzon Street in London’s Mayfair district, run by one Joe Cassano: the head of AIG Financial Products. The reason why this office of US-based AIG was in London, is so that Cassano could sell CDS as far away from the eye of Federal regulators as possible. Which he did. In fact he sold an unprecedented $2.7 trillion worth of CDS just before the firm collapsed due to one small glitch in the system – the assumption that home prices could go down as well as up. Yet the real question is why he sold so much CDS? The answer is simple – in a world of limited real assets, the only way to generate a practically limitless cash flow annuity would be to sell synthetic insurance on a virtually infinite amount of synthetic underlying. Which he did. Only when it came time to pay the claims, AIG blew up, forcing the government to bail it out, and set off the chain of events where we find ourselves now, where every day could be the developed world’s last if not for the ongoing backstops, guarantees and bailouts of the central banking regime.

        • 174
          Durr... says:

          If we had been in the Euro Call me Dave would have had the ear of Mrs Merkel, then she couldn’t have treated him as an anoying meddling outsider.
          Oo Whopee Do!

          • Anonymous says:

            Jeez, you’re thick.

          • non-visitor says:

            You mean Murky would have had his balls in a vice-like grip. Looks like she still does, actually!

          • I Remember You Hoo says:

            Idiocy is a terminal condition in Durr’s case, he really doesn’t understand anything at all. Let’s hope he is a dustman or bus driver, rather than anyone in a position of power, or we really would be le fcuked.

          • MORE fucked than we are – Christ on a Boris Bike, he must be a LieBore shadow minister!

    • 12
      snog, marry, avoid says:

      Before and after?

    • 34
      Captn P says:

      Stupid and ugly .. a bad combination…

      • 42
        Lard Pressclott - Laughing Policeman in waiting says:

        It’s one of the criteria for being a lefty.

        • 116
          nellnewman says:

          Oh you bring back such memories of the seaside pier!1 When I was a kid the laughing policeman reduced us to childish giggles.

          And you’re right, prezza is a ringer for that laughing policeman in the glass case on the pier.

      • 185
        Handycock (Teen Fondler) says:

        I would give her one. Boaz.

      • 242
        Four ied says:

        I look better without glasses, EEEYYOOORRR

    • 43
      Stobrith says:

      “not to say get the better of, our most important industry.”

      This girl needs serious counselling.
      It is the “industry” that we should get rid of as soon as possible.
      It is the “industry” that has caused this mess in the first place.
      It is the “industry” that will make most money out of this mess.
      It is the “industry” that will do it all again as soon as it gets chance.

      • 135
        Pickled Wizard says:

        ‘they stand to miss out on crucial decisions.’
        The only crucial decision o be made by Dave is ‘lets f*ck of out of it now!’

        All power to Doug Carswell

    • 65
      Lard Presclout says:
      • 80
        Cllr Mustaffa councilhouse (Respec party) says:

        I tried to cut a Hollande Pie.He said ‘Non’

      • 91
        UKIP.I.AM says:

        They will be making them in England if Hollande puts taxes up to 75%.

      • 259
        Ah! Monika says:

        It’s a well known fact in Holland Pie country, that you have to down at least 6 pints of Bitter to anesthesise yourself against the effect before biting into one.

    • 115
      Wayne says:
      • 181
        Sir Aston Martin says:

        It’s well known His Holiness talks in text-speak. Not so well known that he should have gone to Specsavers.

    • 157
      Anonymous says:

      applause!

    • 196
    • 344
      lojolondon says:

      Have you seen the link?? VERY hostile for the Labourlist!!

  2. 2
    T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

    My instincts on WMD in Iraq were right as well !

    • 120
      nellnewman says:

      Ha! Pity your instinct (and alycampbell’s) on lying was in abeyance.

      Even greater pity that your and aly’s sense of compassion and honesty had taken a holiday as the press was briefed to harass poor D r D a v i d Ke l l y!!!

    • 227
      Forkbender says:

      It looks very like the unmentionable one is putting feelers out via lesser beings, he still thinks that he is the greatest thing since sliced bread

      • 247
        Blowing Whistles says:

        Good point – the sadder thing is of the great remaining Labour unwhite-washed who still live the ‘living lie’ that is Blair and who still live in denial of his greater crimes against humanity. But having made their beds – they’re hardly likely to ever admit that he ‘fooled them too’.

        Entrapped – in their own bubble of fiction and still trying to sell on ‘his lies’ … Oh dear.

        • 309
          I Remember You Hoo says:

          Dave Cameron think’s St. Tone of Truth and Mayhem, is a visionary, worthy of respect and courtesy. Everyone else outside the Westminster bubble think’s he’s a mendacious, troughing, self aggrandising cnut.

    • 287
      m'Lard PrizeClot, NooLieBore Apologist, Illumination, Gourmet, TV star, - critiquing current affairs says:

      I’m a gonna be a toppe pleeecemun – and I’ll tell yer straight! – there’s gonna be no mercy fer them toffs wot drive abart in poncy jags and Lard it over us ornree folks wots got no A levels oim a pier oi m – an’ me wiv no breedin an’ no estates makes yer puke don’it!! Didn’t bovva Trace tho’ she said get it while yer can Jonno – hards don’t last long do they? Corblimme guv! I’m ‘ungry – neeone gotta sandwich . . . ? . . patsy . . ? . . .chips . . .?

  3. 3
    Jen The Blue says:

    Barking mad.

  4. 4
    Henry Brubaker says:

    As stupid as she is ugly.

    Labour through and through.

    • 8
      Where Eagles Scare says:

      How dare you !!

      • 70
        Henry Brubaker says:

        I dare quite easily I think you will find.

        • 85
          The Liebour Party says:

          Mock outrage – we do it so well, dontcha think ?

          • Darling says:

            How very dare you!

          • Posturing as one of the workers whilst living a life of privilege says:

            Shes another one who sends her kids to an exclusive fee paying private School. Its the hypocricy that sickens me.

          • Anonymous says:

            Is she the one who’s dad is a professor and her mum was a mayor.
            And she reckons she’s one of us?

          • Baldy says:

            You are correct, Anonymous.

            She is also one of Ed Milibland’s Climate Change nuts previously at DECC. As a barrister who specialised in human rights law she must be used to arguing that cold is warm, and black is white.

            No surprise then that as Shadow Attorney General she has been oddly quiet on the many years of ethnic-rape that went oddly unreported and ignored under NuLiebour misrule.

          • cunt by name, cunt by nature says:

            Only if “us” is made up of thick, ugly, fat munters

          • Sir Aston Martin says:

            Er .. she’s a Labour MP, so yes, “problem family” is the right label. Besides which, she’s pig ignorant and can barely speak English.

        • 139
          Pickled Wizard says:

          Doesn’t bob(£100k) crow live in a council ‘ahse?

          (Thats how very dare we!

          • Bob Crowe says:

            Yer i do what ov it? Its one ov the ones fatcher didnt stole an sell of to the specalaters. Up the wirkers.

  5. 5
    Hairy Moneyball says:

    Another lifetime lefty loonie who’s never done a real job in her life.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Honeyball

  6. 6
    that's all folks! says:

    Fucking hell

  7. 9
    carryingthecan says:

    We in Britain should ask ourselves whether we want the likes of Mary Honeyball as an MEP, or, indeed, whether we want any MEPs at all.

    • 313
      I Remember You Hoo says:

      The only legitimate position for a UK MEP, is one of a fifth columnist working towards the destruction of the enemy of this country, the EU.

  8. 10
    God's Holy Trousers says:

    Delusional twat.

  9. 13
    Anonymous says:

    Cleegg,Heseltine and Clarke still believe that.Surely the NHS could help?

  10. 17
    Red faced Ken says:

    Even I said the Euro wasn’t a god idea.
    Me! The dumbest,reddest,hypocritical,tosser of the looney left.
    Even I said it was a bad idea.

    How come this numbnuts hasn’t got the message?

    • 23

      I think you’ll find its a rally call for The Blair to put his name down for President of Europe .Probably all Blairite MEPs have had an email.

      “hi guys! Look..Big up uncle Tone and it’ll totally be worth your while.
      I’ve got some great ideas for Europe..Bigger limos..Larger expenses..daily gift baskets included in the package..And a pension pot so large you could see it from space.
      So ..you know…Put on ‘I gotta feeling’ by Black Eyed P/eas to get you in the mood and start putting the word out..”

      hmmm..hmm…hum..I gotta feeling..tonight’s gonna be a good night..that tonight’s gonna be a good, good night..I gotta feeling..yeewho…

      • 130
        God's Holy Trousers says:

        After the financial Armageddon the EU will rise again like a phoenix under the glorious leadership of President Blair supported by his very beautiful wife.

        • 140
          Baldy says:

          Oh, is Bliar getting divorced?

        • 142
          Pickled Wizard says:

          Please dont say beautiful, otherwise like all the worker bees, we may be required to service her. Personally, I’d rather service Guido, and I do consider myself Mr Straight of Straight Town, on the day when hetrosexual is the only option!

        • 282
          Cherry says:

          He certainly picked my cherry!

          But I was worf it!

      • 252
        Blowing Whistles says:

        Did you mention Baskets? Is that a ref to basket cases … like mouchel’s share price?

  11. 18
    What do you expect from the left (BBC)... says:

    How is is that such a buffoon is able to be chosen as an MEP, or should it be asked, how do so many baffoons get chosen for the left and liberals? Just how deluded can anyone get?

    • 52
      Steve K. says:

      Britain uses “lists” rather than directly electing individuals.
      People vote for which party in European Parliament elections, and the parties send the top x names of their lists.

      It’s easier to load up pro-EU people on lists, than it is to get them elected individually :\

      Democr-what?

      • 304
        non-visitor says:

        So that explains why she was sent abroad. If she was a proper MP, every time she opened her mouth the Commons would fall about laughing and nothing would ever get done. She would be tough competition for the 2 Eds to match.

  12. 19
    MrAngry61 says:

    Cheer leading for the EU & the Euro – I’d expect nothing less from a Labour MEP.

    • 30
      Technomist says:

      She knows which side her bread is buttered

      • 191
        Sir Aston Martin says:

        I could never understand that saying. You’d have to be an utter moron not to know which side your bread’s buttered, which rather suggests, in fact, that she doesn’t.

    • 98
      UKIP.I.AM says:

      I doubt if she’ll do very well in the next MEP elections. Although there are enough stupid left wing tw@s who will still vote for her.

  13. 20
    Ivor Biggun says:

    She was elected. What kind of shit-brained moron votes for a cretin like this?

  14. 22
    Jeremy Clarkson says:

    I’m going to take her outside and shoot her in front of her family – then she’ll be talking some sense!

    • 35

      just seen that Rod Liddle quote opposite.

      You have to hand it Clarkson and Liddle and Gervais . They just don’t give a shit for PC mongery.

      • 37
        Anonymous says:

        Although hacking a phone doesn’t get you to the ‘live’ conversation, does it?

        Don’t know – he and I have never done it….

    • 36
      Anonymous says:

      Technically she wouldn’t be able to say anything, so you’re right Jezza.

  15. 38
    confused says:

    how do people find these websites ?

  16. 40
    Red Ken Lyingscum says:

    Off topic, but has anyone got the phone number of Jimmy Carr’s accountants ?

    • 257
      Blowing Whistles says:

      Try “The men from Mazars (MOS of some years ago). They apparently do very good cooking classes as well.

  17. 41
    Lone Voice From The Crapper says:

    Hiya, Fawkes ♥

    You do realise that, between your good self and the BBC, you are making the truth impossible to discern?

    Well done!

  18. 45
    Your Fat-Fuck Landlord says:

    It’s just another blog, E. Chill the fuck out, FFS.

  19. 48
    Anonymous says:

    Meanwhile, in the USA

  20. 50
    Emperor von rumpuy says:

    AS Mary correctly maintains on her website she represents the Labour Party.

    So it doesn’t matter what her constituents think. She doesn’t represent them.

    She is also doing an excellent job of upholding her commitment to the oath that all MEPs take to put loyalty to “ever closer union” above all other values and indeed above common sense. She is what my old mentor V I Lenin would class as a “useful idiot”. But Nick ‘n’ dave and Gideon are young and handsome so they’re my favourite little puppets today.

  21. 55
    Cllr Mustaffa councilhouse (Respec party) says:

    The best place to be when the tent is on fire is outside pissing in.

  22. 57
    South of the M4 says:

    London has nothing to fear from a combined European bank. It will not be efficient or attractive to world investors. It will squander more money on officials than London’s banking elite and will have the flexibility of the Queen Mary trying to turnaround on the high seas. It will be a lesson in how to finally kill off the Euro experiment whilst making all its members poorer. But not the MP’s, which I suspect is where she is coming from.

    • 75
      annette curton says:

      Who’s Mary Honeyball anyway?, not even her constituents have ever heard of her (just as well you might say), no, I want to hear from Kinnochio (£12 million quid and rising), seems to have gone very quite of late (just as well you might say). Should we join the Euro Neil, and what would be your solution to the present meltdown (ahem complete fuckup) the EU has given as a gift to the World?.
      Yakky Dar? (FFS).

      • 93
        Biased Broadcasting Corporation says:

        Crazy name, crazy woman.

        Wonder what Kinnochio’s tax arrangements are, btw.

        • 110
          nellnewman says:

          Wonder what the kinnochio’s pension fund looks like now? It was topping a £million or something a few years back. With all the additional troughing over the last few years and his Misses doing her worthless spell in the HoL for gordon, they’re raking it in!

          • Biased Broadcasting Corporation says:

            Worthless is the word, Nell. (Although according to the Brainwashing Dept at the BBC, he’s the ‘best prime minister we never had.’ That would be because Margaret Thatcher was better, then.)

          • nellnewman says:

            Thank the Lord we never got kinnochio as PM!!!!

            gordon was chringeworthy. kinnochio would have been 10 times worse!

          • Anonymous says:

            I thought he was in charge of the accounts and sacked some woman who refused to sign them off, could be relevant in the circumstances

        • 147
          Pickled Wizard says:

          Kinnochio! so thats what the K in K2 stands for!

          • annette curton says:

            Mount Kinnochio (no smut… please).

          • nellnewman says:

            Mount kinnochio – that’ll be that mountain of money he’s building outside of his welsh palace won’t it?!

            All at our expense of course!!

          • Blowing Whistles says:

            Don’t mention the ‘Still unaudited accounts of the EU’ otherwise you’re on a diversity course like all local councillors who report themselves for the ‘reindoctrinationing’.

  23. 58
    Aunty Matter says:

    Over 200,000 REAL jobs created in the first 3 months of the year, not bad for a country supposedly in recession. Needless to say the BBC concentrated on reporting negative stories about it.

    Oh for the glory days of St Gordon of One eye hey BBC?

    • 62
      Anonymous says:

      Employment/Unemployment statistics are a joke and have been for years.

      ‘Nobody knows’ is the truth.

      • 90
        Aunty Matter says:

        But when Nu Liebore were in power the BBC happily recited unemployment like Soviet tractor production stats.

        There was never any question it was good news, now it’s not.

    • 261
      Hugh Mann says:

      Trouble is, all those jobs went to foreign nationals.

  24. 60
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    Fuck the BBC, Prick Robinson up to his usual tricks.

  25. 68
    Diane Fatbutt says:

    Stupid ugly woman, never had a proper job.

    Oh…

  26. 69
    Drop a Daisy cutter on the BBC says:

    BBC types clearly not happy that the rich tax scam has been outed. I really can’t wait to see how many BBC twats use it.

    • 76
      a dish served cold says:

      Give Murdoch the ball and see if he’ll run with it.

    • 97
      Biased Broadcasting Corporation says:

      They’ll do their best to make sure we don’t find out, that’s a fact (we’re just the scum who pay them.)

      • 109
        Aunty Matter says:

        The BBC always use that crappy defence of “commercial sensitivity” as if someone else is going to give that bunch of tossers a job.

  27. 71
    Cressida's Dick says:

    You’ve got to hand it to Liebour. They seem to have cornered the market when it comes to retards.

  28. 72
    Camilla Parker-Starney says:

    Deary me.

    She’s clearly gone native.

  29. 77
    Cllr Mustaffa councilhouse (Respec party) says:

    Fuck me a Labour Politician who appreciates Bankers.
    Does Ed know?

  30. 78
    Polythesis says:

    I saw a debate recently on France 24 between UKIP boss Farage and some muppet libdem MEP, needless to say the limp dick MEP proclaimed the Euro a stunning success that we should have joined. What goes on in the minds of these deluded nutters is beyond me but there are plenty of libdems and Tories like Clarke who truly believe the Euro to be a winner of a currency.

  31. 82
    Anonymous says:

    Silly bitch. Ought to be hanged.

  32. 84
    Gonk says:

    Ah bless. It takes real determination and a lot of hard work to be
    so blindly stupid.

  33. 87
    Aunty Matter says:

    ITV lead with lefty comedian avoiding tax, BBC make it story 8.

    • 105
      nellnewman says:

      I suspect that’s because most of the beeb’s senior folks are doing the same thing. best not draw attention to it!

      • 125
        Anonymous says:

        Be interesting to see how many of those who have jumped to Carr’s defence have the same tax arrangements.

        • 263
          Blowing Whistles says:

          Try the world of Football and its managers and agents. In fact try the world of legals!!!

    • 148
      Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

      B-b-b-but of course it is item #8 today, the BBC have so much more important news to tell you about .. like..

      Oh, look over there! Some clouds.

  34. 92
    Anonymous says:

    “The Eurozone seems to be going in the direction of some kind of banking union.” (Honeyball)

    Yes. It is called “bankruptcy”.

  35. 94
    ToonBob... says:

    FFS a pig in knockers is a pig in knickers…allegedly ! Absolutely on the gravy train bonkers !

  36. 95
    ToonBob... says:

    hahahahahaha knickers not knockers !! sorry a Borisism there….

  37. 103
    nellnewman says:

    Please keep her in the public eye.

    This woman is more loopy than gordon!

  38. 106
    Aunty Matter says:

    So lefty luvvies think the tax scam used by Take Twat is a really good idea as it supports new bands.

    Well good, so presumably if the Government shuts the loop hole that allows them to claim back twice as much tax relief as the money the put in, they’ll still do it as it’s a really good idea?

    I won’t be holding my breath.

    But expect to see the BBC, Guardian etc now try to smear the Tories and protect their lefty mates. Note the BBC won’t be interested in any rich donors to give to Liebore who are not paying their full tax whack.

    Oh and as for the Guardian, how much tax do they pay again? Square root of fuck all I think.

  39. 107

    Being outside whatever kind of union emerges may well prove problematic for our financial services industry.

    Why? The unified Eurozone banking regime will of necessity consist of a series of compromises and trade offs. However well Britain’s negotiators fare (and they generally don’t do so well when facing the assembled might of the mainland political establishment) the country will need to accept a load of conditions that do not really suit it’s domestic banking industry. Outside the structure Britain will be able to watch progress, adopt any measures that do suit its circumstances but reject those that don’t.

    To my mind that’s a far better situation than being stuck in yet another “one size fits none” Euro-solution.

    • 113
      Red Ed's non-predator union bosses says:

      All unions are good. Join one and pay our fat salaries.

  40. 111
    Bernard Trump says:

    Given that everybody here contributes enormously to the growing economy of the british elites, it makes sense for this mad woman to want to join the euro – after all, the alternative is to join the dollar as the yanks control most of the world – legally or illegally – anyway

  41. 112
    Cressida's Dick says:

    There’s a bloke on Jeff Randall who’s from

    ‘The Economist intelligence unit’

    Have those 2 words ever appeared in the same sentence before? And before some smartarse says it I don’t mean The & Unit!!!!!

  42. 114
    Mary Huneyball says:

    Las Malvinas son Argentinas

    • 134
      Aunty Matter says:

      What’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war, Argentina, Argentina, what’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war.

      What’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war, Argentina, Argentina, what’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war.

      What’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war, Argentina, Argentina, what’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war.

      What’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war, Argentina, Argentina, what’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war.

      What’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war, Argentina, Argentina, what’s it like to lose a war, what’s it like to lose a war.

      • 229
        UKIP.I.AM says:

        “Don’t cry for them Argentina
        The truth is you never had them
        All through your wild days
        Your mad existence
        We make a promise
        Just keep your distance”

  43. 118
    Dipstick Dave the Dimwit of Drowning St says:

    Oh I say chaps!! I think she’s jolly spot on!!!

    I’ve had such super talks with Angela and I don’t want them to end! And there’s no doubt in my mind that she’s right – everyone is right to support the euro!! and Angela asked if I could help open the Danzig corridor – and of course I said ‘yes’ – and then she asked how I felt about her coming and living in Drowning St for a while – while she put certain arrangements in place – and of course I said ‘yes’! What!! Wattage? Windage? aha hhahhhh aaaaa! jolly boating weather what??

    • 121
      nellnewman says:

      Dear mr sion simon I think you need to be a little bit less obvious about who you are.

      Pity your vocabulary is so limited but that, of course sadly, is what has happened to folks educated under the last labour government. Thanks to edballs and his ‘every child matters’ failed policy!!!

  44. 122
    Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin ( Member in absentia ) says:

    This man is a fool: it started in America.

    • 143
      annette curton says:

      Refreshing to listen to a voice of reason for once and I would add to Brown, Obama spins, especially Brown spins, it was never about ‘the Global’ unless you grasp of geography is woefully weak, 3/4 of the worlds population including some rather large continents: Indian, China, S. America, Australasia, Africa, never signed up for the Ponzi scheme, so can we nail that lie once and for all.

    • 228
      Lemony Of The State says:

  45. 126
    nellnewman says:

    Just a thought – how much does this woman earn ie troughs off us taxpayers?

    How much does she claim off us for unjustified expenses?

    How many hours does she ‘work’? – is she in brussels on a Friday or is she one of those hundreds of MEP’s who sign off thursday night, claim fridays expenses and clear off home early on 1st class airtravel which we also pay for?

    And how much pension pot fund for her non-contribution to real work are we going to have to find when she gives up her non-job and retires early?

  46. 128
    Hey! That's my money says:

    Children of lesbian couple fathered by sperm donor are to get £70,000 payout from NHS after doctors failed to spot the blood clot that killed him.

    Mail

  47. 131
    Aunty Matter says:

    Has Owen Jones spouted his dislike of Jimmy Carr’s tax dodging yet?

    Funny that the left are trying to spin this about nasty capitalist companies now.

    Yes but the fact is Carr was on TV attacking companies for the very thing he was doing himself, that is what the BBC, Channel4 etc seem to be ignoring.

    Just as c u n t s like Bongo from U2 wanks on about how the west (he means you and me not him) need to give more money to the poor Africans (whilsy he coins it in pumping CO2 into the atmosphere with his shitty exec airline)

    • 136
      Hey! That's my brother says:

      Researchers have come up with a way to glimpse the Universe in its infancy, thanks to a quirk of light.

      They say this can be achieved by capturing the specific radio wavelength of 21cm from the heavens.

      The trick is to tell the difference between 21cm waves from our galaxy and those from distant, ancient sources.

      The fact that “dark matter” moved faster than normal matter in the early Universe should help amplify the distant signal, they report in Nature.

      • 149
        annette curton says:

        Thanks for that explanation of why all our money has disappeared down a black hole.

        • 151
          Brian Cox-Pippin says:

          It’s not lost, it’s in a parallel universe.

          • annette curton says:

            Yeah, I thought of adding that, revise my previously stated theory of relativity, the little peoples money has…ended up with Jimmy Carr, it’s the only explanation, comedian? he’s not funny in this dimension.

          • Fr. Ted says:

            It was just resting in my account.

      • 164
        confused says:

        isn’t that interpreting findings with our present understanding which in all probability is wrong innit ?

        • 171
          Brian Cox-Pippin says:

          It’s amazing how a comprehensive education can destroy innate intelligence.

          • confused says:

            is this the Brian who considers people who don’t sign up to the current accepted theory of everything imbeciles ?

          • Potkettle says:

            But you used to be lead singer of that Labour backing band D;Ream so your veiwpoint doesnt count for anything

            Altogether now ” things can only get better”

    • 206
      AC1 says:

      I think that great green Bono flew his hat first class across the Atlantic after forgetting it.

  48. 146
    Engineer says:

    “We should have joined the Euro.”

    Blimey. What next?

    “Gordon Brown was quite right to run up a huge deficit.”

    “MEPs are underpaid, and their expenses don’t really cover the costs.”

    “Greece isn’t really indebted at all.”

    “The BBC have a right-wing bias.”

    “The Guardian is Britain’s most popular newspaper.”

    “There’s no elephant in this room, and the Emperor is fully clothed.”

    • 152
    • 176
      BBC Spokesman says:

      All true

    • 205
      AC1 says:

      We we’re right to sell the gold and announce the sale beforehand.

    • 299
      D L George says:

      Point 4
      “The BBC have a right-wing bias.”

      They already believe that.

      Peter ‘Kiora’ Haines said last year after Aunty Beeb reported something or other…
      “and the BBC sides with the tories, quell suprise”!!!

      Un-be-lievable.

      • 318
        I remember Hain says:

        Hain was the guy found to have ‘forgotten’ £103,156 in ‘donations’ to get him elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Partywhich he avvordingly failed to declare. On 3 July 2008, the Metropolitan Police announced that they had referred Peter Hain’s case to the Crown Prosecution Service, but on 5 December 2008 the CPS announced that Hain would not be charged “because Hain did not control Hain4Labour that funded his campaign”.

        A large part of those funds had been channeled through a non-operating think tank, the Progressive Policies Forum. On 12 January 2009, Peter Hain released a statement saying that, being busy with his government jobs, it was simply ‘forgotten’.

  49. 150
    Dr. Yes says:

    Egypt’s Mubarak ‘health worsens’ .

    It will improve when he dies.

    • 155
      nellnewman says:

      W all live and then we die.

      Most of us hope that we live to best of our ability and that when we die we meet our God at the Pearly Gates with a clear conscience.

      This political lot including loony brown and saint bliar can hardly square their conscience with that vision so I wonder where they think they are going?

      • 161
        Ah! Monika says:

        Do you really think Blair believes in an after-life?

        • 167
          annette curton says:

          Avidly, why do think he keeps hedging his bets.

        • 172
          nellnewman says:

          Yep I think he and the letterbox one believe like the Egyptian Pharoahs that they can take their wealth and influence with them.

          Why else are they troughing mega-time to make as much money as possible, by any means possible, whilst doing absolutely nothing worthwhile for mankind, up to the time they die!

          • Ah! Monika says:

            Nell, if I could fathom the mind of Blair, I wouldn’t be posting on here. Maybe in The Vatican.

      • 166
        God botherers need to be dealt with - painfully says:

        Amen

    • 177
      South of the M4 says:

      Hey if he dies – his condition will not get any worse. Look on the bright side.

    • 204
      AC1 says:

      It’s like when that corrupt old bastard Arafat died.

      It was described as his condition was stable When he was dead! The cronies were fighting to get control of all the loot.

  50. 154
    Carr Crash says:

    Surely it would be far easier to make companies paying fees rather than PAYE deduct tax automatically at the top rate of 45%. If the punter felt that they had overpaid tax then there should be a reclaim procedure in which they had to prove to HMRC that they were entitled to a refund.

  51. 162
    Jane Birkin from Paris says:

    She ain’t making a particularly fashionable point and perhaps is not doing it particularly well.

    If you just think for a moment what would happen if Eurozone pulled together and out of this mess?

    Well you would have a population mass bigger than the US with a single currency and economy to dwarf the greenback

    No doubt if this comes to pass Cameron will claim credit for urging action from the sidelines.

    Obama and the Chinese are happy to stay on the sidelines and not help too much.

    • 175
      South of the M4 says:

      The US is federal because it had no history. Asia is not federal because it has. Ditto Europe. A united states of Europe may well be the evolution – but not now. Perhaps not for 50 to 100 hundred years. Barossa is barking up the wrong tree.

      • 182
        Fumbles says:

        ”All pull together”.

        Lend the banks money at 0.5 pct
        Borrow money from the banks at 5.0 pct.
        Give borrowed money to grease to pay the loans they have taken out from the same banks at 8 pct
        and never pay anything back.
        instead – print money.

        ”to get out of this mess”

    • 203
      AC1 says:

      and what if we found a real magic money tree looked after by a skittle shitting unicorn…

  52. 169
    Biased Broadcasting Corporation says:

    Typical BBC.

    Unemployment down, inflation down.

    Neither fact shown in headlines.

    BBC Headline: ‘PM denies Britain in 30′s-style Slump.’

    I kid you not.

    Did they get a reporter to ask this question specifically so that they could put this headline up instead of the inconvenient truth?

    • 212
      grobdj says:

      Growth in the 1930s (after the Wall Street Crash) recovered more quickly than after the 2007 event

      So the current recovery(?) is spectacularly weak.

      But for the first time it seems private sector job creation is soaking up public sector job losses. Just think, each public sector pension saved is equivalent to 18 pensions in the private sector. It’s all good.

      • 340
        Biased Broadcasting Corporation says:

        Anything that reduces the obscene and iniquitous public sector pensions is fine by me.

    • 213
      BBC = Labours Mouthpiece says:

      No surprise, just look at what Labour are saying and within minutes the BBC are saying the same thing.

  53. 170
    confused says:

    It’s got such a nice ring to it I thought I might try to make some falafel

    • 179
      Is that less confusing says:

      Suus got talis a nice anulum ad eam ego ego experiri ad aliquid falafel

  54. 183
    Kenneth Morton says:

    Loony Left says it all. This was the woman who blogged on her web site that a million men would be working on the Olympic building site. A million men!!!!

    What a way to solve the unemployment problem, employ a million men to do the job of at most ten thousand at any one time.

    A responsible politician. Never! A loony politician with no idea about economics still causing havoc. Never trust Labour with the economy.

    • 187
      Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin ( Member in absentia ) says:

      British jobs for British workers !

  55. 186
    Ed Balls - Shallow Chancer says:

    It started in Kirkcaldy…

    ‘ That full quote from Ben Bernanke on Europe in full:
    I do think that the European situation is slowing US economic growth. First of all, Europe is not in a recession in every country, certainly many countries are in recession and that affects our trade with Europe and the demand for our products. More broadly, the effects of European concerns on financial markets have added to volatility, have brought down stock prices, have increased credit spreads and generally have been a negative for economic growth.’

  56. 187
    Jimmy (fuck you all I'm loaded) Carr says:

  57. 197
    Aunty Matter says:

    Norman Smith is at it again. On the BBC just now he claimed that the Government had “named one person”.

    No it was the Times that named Jimmy Carr.

    Funny as the BBC didn’t have a problem when the Times went after the Tory Treasurer did they?

    • 200
      The BBC are cunts says:

      Fill in a complaint form and we’ll shred it deal with it.

    • 201
      A law unto themselves says:

      Typical of the biased BBC but why will no one take them to task?

    • 207
      BBC = Labours Mouthpiece says:

      The BBC are in breach of the Royal Charter by taking money from the EU, they’re blatantly biased toward the Labour party and the whole Europ*an project. If they can’t or won’t be impartial and continue not to represent the people of this country then let them go to a subscription service and lets see who is willing to pay for their bullshit.

    • 210
      annette curton says:

      Jimmy Carr
      Jonathan Ross
      Jo Brand
      Graham Norton
      A least a dozen celebrity chefs,
      and a further list much longer than I can be bothered to recall.
      What have they all got in common?, tax avoidance and a VIP seat on the BBC luvvy couch.

      • 226
        Jimmy Carr says:

        Ha, Ha!

        Tax is for suckers!

        • 235
          UK Uncut says:

          But what about all those poor kiddies that died of cancer because there was no NHS funding Jimmy?

          Think of the kids Jimmy FFS!

          • Jimmy Carr says:

            I did think of them UK, as my mum died of cancer.

            I thought at least she paid her fair share of fucking taxes for her treatment!

    • 334
      jimmy's gone quiet says:

      our jimmy’s gone quiet…….i wonder….it couldn’t be

  58. 202
    Raving Loon says:

    Mary Honeyball would get more respect if she recommended running into a building while it was burning down.

    • 278
      Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

      Which reminds me of the comment that Kate Winslet would have been more of a heroine if she had picked up Richard Branson rather than his mother and carried him back into the building.

  59. 216
    Spot the Difference says:

    • 218
      Spot the Difference says:

      • 230
        BBC NEWS Editor says:

        Yes..I see it.

        Sky are hopelessly biased. They need shutting down.

        • 233
          Gordon Loony Broooon says:

          I agree, it’s disgusting!

        • 238
          Comment Is Free... except when it isn't. says:

          We need another Leveson enquiry in to this!

          Heads must roll.

          Where’s Tubby Twatson when you need him?

          • Aunty Matter says:

            LOL at BBC “it’s a surprise”

            Sky “It’s not a surprise”

            Fuck the BBC, mind you I could give Charlotte Hawkins a good seeing to, she’s got legs that go on forever.

          • Spot the Difference says:

            Well done, at lease some one got it.

            Guido, give this man a cigar!

          • Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

            Only problem is that it was a surprise to all the investment houses I know. Clever ploy though. Put Crass Graything forward and noone will remember their own name after 10 seconds.

  60. 219
    • 231
      Going out on a high says:

      I just hope the old feller hit the vinegar stroke before the mud slide.

  61. 224
    Incredulous says:

    WHAT A STUPID B1TCH!

    • 275
      Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

      Could you be more specific. You have just described half the female MPs and a large number of elderly queens on both sides of the house.

  62. 225
    g says:

    Dangerous. No. Bonkers. Yes.

  63. 236
  64. 237
    Britain the ruined country says:

    Crystal vclear to see what RED Milliband does re tax avoidance as he stutters and tombstones his way through mumbling that he really can’t condemn tax evasion – c”"t.

  65. 241
    Saffron says:

    Who the hell is this Honeywoman bint?,never heard of her so she is not breaking much ice.
    However now she has opened her gob before getting her brain in gear she has proved once again amongst Liebour ranks that idiot thinking prevails.
    This EUSSR non democratic bunch of comissars,Barrosovitch/Rumpyvitch have only one goal as we know.
    The house of cards is collapsing and the banksters will make sure of that as they are doing right now.
    Finally we see this woman trougher who it seems has shite for brains wanting us who are paying for this ponzi scheme to agree with her that the EUSSR would have been the right course for us.
    What a tosser!.

    • 316
      Emperor von rumpuy says:

      I think you’ll find Hairy Moneyball wasn’t actually elected – she was just the next on the Labour list when one of its London MEPs Pauline Green-something was asked to step down for robbing the taxpayer too obviously. As i recall she had her Mercedes sent by train to Brussels or Strasbourg every week by train

  66. 243
    Ah! Monika says:

    Newsnight Photo

    ” drug’s say no ” painted on end terrace wall

    No shortage of apostrophes in ‘Derry.

  67. 246
    Aunty Matter says:

    Hmm, I’m still waiting for Newsnight to mention lefty tax dodgers. Let’s be honest if Jimmy Carr and been a right winger and the story had come from the Guardian, the BBC would be all over it.

    The’yd be trying to find a link to Cameron

  68. 249
    Aunty Matter says:

    Allegra Stratton just admitted that the BBC will be looking at Camerons family and Tory MP’s as ‘fair game’ over tax now.

    Cameron didn’t name anyone, it was the fucking Times you BBC bell ends.

  69. 250
    Zoro says:

    Emily Mateless is acting a little weird on NN, hiding under a foot of makeup she seems to be a little drunk and wobbly. Is she worried that the off-shore tax dodge net is tightening.

    • 262
      Aunty Matter says:

      Beeboids are clearly in a panic, it’s obviously a well used scam, the BBC should be told by the Government that ALL their staff should be PAYE. Either you work for the BBC or you don’t.

      • 270
        Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

        Nothing will happen and we all know it. If Dave took action Lord Cashbox would have him offed by some of those nice gentlemen he does business with.

  70. 255
    JadedJean says:

    Is that Jacob Rees-Mogg for real?

    Shurely he’s puttin it on?

    No real person looks or talks like that…do they.

    Is he J-e-w-i-s-h?

  71. 256
    JadedJean says:

    Oh dear!

    On NN tonight Tim Welloiled sad Assange was on RT (Russia Today) earlier today, “which is widely seen as a Kremlin mouthpiece”.

    LMFAO…it’s the only fucking news station we ever get any semblance of truth from!

  72. 265
    Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

    There is, of course, a perfectly respectable argument for joining the euro known as the German position. You join at a time when to do so effectively devalues your currency, making your economy super competitive and forcing all the other countries who end up with an overvalued currency to pick up the tab. Timing is everything……

  73. 268
    Jimmy (fuck you all I'm on the BBC Gravy Train) Carr says:

    Hahahahahahahahaha…

    FUCK YOU ALL!

  74. 279
    What Nick Griffin thinks will happen next says:

    • 294
      A Human says:

      He really is an annoying little shit. He can’t even do a tie up properly

      • 317
        Polythesis says:

        But you have no answers to the points he has made though do you? Most people wouldnt care if he wore his tie round his leg just as long as he talked sense. And yes to those with no answers he would be annoying.

  75. 281
    The Tit of Threadneedle Street says:

    We certainly need more QE – I’ll write an emergency treatise – trust me on this one!

  76. 283
    The Religion of Piss says:

    What happened to the Bacon that bloke was going to bring Londistan?

  77. 285
    Not U Turn Dave's voter says:

    Simples: Vote UKIP

  78. 293
    A man who lives in a taxpayer funded home near Chipping Norton. says:

    So why is Dave condemning peeps for obeying his tax laws?

    • 295
      annette curton says:

      Possibly because said peeps are a making huge wads of cash by pretending to be socialists, get caught crapping on your own doorstep comes to mind, Jimmy, Jimmy.

    • 296
      A Taxpayer says:

      Because they are immoral

    • 298
      not a machine says:

      It is perhaps difficult for many tories to accept , that the ruin made a paper paradise , that they did not see past early enough . The ruin was most adept at procuring troughs for the fallen to feed from . In some ways he created a sort of rich person pavlovion realtionship to poltics . In keeping the troughing machine well funded , he made a set of rich idiots who then went onto to make poor fools out everyone else . 1.2 mn manufacturing jobs were lost under the ruin , even in the good times …….

  79. 297
    Gordon Brown, Saviour Of The World says:

    Mary Honeyball gives me the wood.
    For that matter, Honey Badger gives me the wood.
    Gordon Brown don’t give a shit!

  80. 311
    Anonymous says:

    here we go

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-william/9345072/Duke-of-Cambridge-inherits-10m-on-his-30th-birthday-…-but-a-country-pile-will-have-to-wait.html

    there will always be those that HAVE – WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING FOR IT – WITH ALL THE GLAMOUR AND POWER THAT GOES WITH IT – UNELECTED – BORN INTO IT BY BIRTH

    and those with nothing

  81. 312
    Boris Johnson says:

    I will table a motion calling for the abolition of Michael Gove.

    • 324
      retardEd Miliband says:

      +1, Comrade.

      Michael Gove ith raithing thtandardth in our thchoolth, and that ith thimply unactheptable. Thchoolth mutht not produthe winnerth.

  82. 314
    Steve Winwood says:

    Bumped into Louise Mensch at Tom Petty’s gig last night at the Albert Hall. That lady sure gets around !

  83. 315
    Ammanita Phalloides says:

    Honeyball, Moneyball, Oddball – whatever.

  84. 320
    anonymous says:

    why doesn’t andrew lansley just go and stick his head in a bucket of boiling chip fat

  85. 325
    Zoro says:

    I think Dave’s jimmy Carr dodge is working well, in as much as it seems to have got the beeboids on their toes; this morning on toaday the scotchman was actually agreeing with the Torie minister about Dave’s intervention and, shock horra, implied that poopy-face milliduck was wrong!!!!!

  86. 327
    jgm2 says:

    In one respect she’s right.

    The Maximum Imbecile managed to destroy the UK currency and was reduced to printing money by 2008 just to pay the bills.

    The ECB hasn’t yet started printing money. They may yet throw out the UK-like economies of Greece, Spaine etc and maintain the integrity of their currency. By contrast the GBP has been reduced to the status of proto-Zim dollars.

    ‘Shall we print just another few more hundred billion Mr Mugabe….just this one last time….’

  87. 329
    Widescreen2010 says:

    Hmm. So there are two of us pro-Euro types now.

  88. 330
    The Swivel Eyed Sceptic says:

    The only question we in Britain should be asking is why the hell are we still involved in this over-priced, corrupt, anti-democratic Super State in the making when it is clear from the interim report of Juncker, Barroso, Van Rumpoy and Cathy that this is the clear and unambiguous direction of travel.

  89. 339
    Hellhound says:

    You have got to love Labour MEP’s! Only job in the world that you do not need to know ANYTHING about ANYTHING and still get paid a fortune for non-delivery (plus expenses of course).

    • 343
      Anonymous says:

      Oh no, you can just be an MP for that, and they are all receiving money for not doing a lot. That does include ALL THE PARTIES

  90. 341
    Four-eyed English Genius says:

    “The Eurozone seems to be going in the direction of some kind of banking union”

    Bit of a typo, maybe?

  91. 342
    Anonymous says:

    OK, let me get this right. The banks are at fault for first lending and now they are bad guys for not lending. How come not a single person says I borrowed too much and couldn’t afford the repayments!
    Get real people, I am not saying the banks or the other Euro countries are not to blame etc, but lets all take some of the blame too. The number of people I have met who blame the banks for giving them money or 150% mortgages! They did not do there sums right and borrowed too much!
    I know I will get slated on this, but I honestly believe in the long run, England or the UK would be better off in the Euro than out! How is Britain as amazing a county as it is be able to compete with the likes of the US or China? By joining forces with it’s closest allies! And not by being a little puppy to the US!


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