June 23rd, 2012

George Osborne Sizzles with Danish Finance Minister

George Osborne gave the Danish Finance minister Margrethe Vestager a lingering embrace during a meeting between Europe’s finance ministers in Luxembourg today. Seems he is keener on European Union than he is trying to make out to Tory backbenchers…


231 Comments

  1. 1
    Gordon Brown MP says:

    He’s not a gayer like me then?

    • 15
      Gordon Brown says:

      on entering the Aberdeen brach of B&Q I became the biggest tool in the shop

      • 35
        Irate Natwest account holder says:

        Somebody should fucking sack Stephen Hester now!

        • 40
          Don outside London says:

          Who is Stephen Hester?

          • Can we all be in this together?

          • Sion Simon says:

            I wouldn’t mind banging the Berger bird again, oooh, the things she did with a strap-on

          • 8illy 8owden is the biggest C'unt ever says:

            I’m a gyaer

          • Synic says:

            Isn’t he the xxxker who got a £1m bonus for last year when his bank lost £2bn more for the 81% taxpayer owners?
            Now he’s apologising for a xxxked system upgrade that has pissed off all the banks customers.
            Perhaps we need the Txlxban to sort the bankers out. Wet Dave and boy George won’t do it.

          • Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

            You’ve got to have some sympathy for his problem though. Care in the community was introduced at just the time the demand for IT staff in the economy took off – resulting in a department in most companies that is staffed by socially inadequate retards. Now which idiot dreamed up care in the community?

          • Jack Dromey's butt plug says:

            I used to do software testing and the logistics of this fuck up are quite staggering and other than laughing through shadenfreude (sp) one is left with the conclusion that it’s outfuckingrageous that this happened. Hee hee.

          • Another Engineer says:

            Thе bаtch prоcеss thаt fаіlеd wаs оff-shоrеd rеcеntly.

            http://jоbsеаrch.nаukrі.cоm/jоb-lіstіngs-Bаtch-Anаlyst-RBS-Indіа-Dеvеlоpmеnt-Cеntrе-P-Ltd–Bеngаluru-Bаngаlоrе-5-tо-10-yеаrs-171111001196

            I wоndеr whо gоt thе jоb?

            I undеrstаnd thе lаst UK bаsеd pеоplе lеft аbоut 4 wееks аgо. Nоrmаlly іt tаkеs lоngеr fоr thе mаssіvе scrеw up.

            I hоpе sоmеоnе cаmе bаck аt а humоngоus hоurly rаtе tо fіx thіs.

            And Hеstеr shоuld gо. Thіs rеаlly іs а mоnstrоus cоck up.

          • Another Engineer says:

            Frоm thе Rеgіstеr:

            “I hаvе bееn spеаkіng tо а fеw еx-cоllеаguеs whо аrе stіll thеrе аnd cаn cоnfіrm thаt thеy sаy thе sаmе аs thе аbоvе pоstеr аs іn а CA7 upgrаdе wаs dоnе, wеnt hоrrіbly wrоng, аnd wаs thеn bаckеd оut (whіch wіll hаvе bееn dоnе іn typіcаl RBS stylе – 12 hоurs оf cоnfеrеncе cаlls bеfоrе lеttіng thе tеchіе dо whаt thеy suggеstеd аt thе vеry stаrt).

            My undеrstаndіng іs thаt mоst іf nоt аll оf thе bаtch tеаm wеrе lеt gо аnd rеplаcеd wіth pеоplе frоm Indіа аnd I dо rеmеmbеr thеm cоmplаіnіng thаt thеy wеrе hаvіng tо pаss 10-20+ yеаrs wоrth оf mаіnfrаmе knоwlеdgе оn tо pеоplе whо’d nеvеr hеаrd оf а mаіnfrаmе оutsіdе оf а musеum. Thе Indіаns wеrе kееn аnd wіllіng tо try аnd lеаrn, but wіth оut thе yеаrs оf prеvіоus еxpеrіеncе wіll nоw bе dееp іn thе smеlly stuff.”

          • Jack Dromey's butt plug says:

            Well, they’re not saving money now. And wtf does ‘our customers won’t be out of pocket’ mean, considering there’s fuck all in their pockets.

          • Anonymous says:

            “Now which idiot dreamed up care in the community?”

            Virginia Bottomley.

            As for IT and banks, never personally had the ‘pleasure’ of working for a bank but all the programmers I ever met who had worked for any of them said the same thing: the programmes run by the banks are a fucking nightmare and it’s a miracle they ever work at all.

            Of course, that’s only to be expected in an ‘industry’ run by twats (often from private schools) who operate on the basis of looking after their friends and having no idea of what they are doing. That’s why promotion mostly goes to those with a degree in arse licking. The few who actually know what they are doing get ignored, and now it seems they have been sacked in favour of more fucking foreigners.

          • Rowan Williams says:

            Fawkes, you in on the push to convince the imbecilic spastic Brits that not all their elected officials are blackmailed, traitorous sodomites and peder asts?

            First, Cameron’s 16yr-old ‘girlfriend’, now bumboy Gideon’s kiss with a dyke.

            Come on, bogtrotter, any red-blooded male know they’re all raving homos.

          • Smug Wankers Must Die says:

            You really don’t like the ordinary working people of Britain, do you Tristram? They’re terribly weird, not like us smug middle-class sorts, so lets replace them with a whole new set of workers who’ll be grateful and tug their forelock when their master walks by.

            Oh dear, in this particular case they already have. It wasn’t John Smith from Croydon to blame, he was fired a couple of months back. Babu from Bangalore ballsed it up.

          • Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

            Nope. It may be that the initial technical problem which led to the collapse occurred in India but it is the failure of UK IT management to have a proper recovery procedure which is the scandal. IT risk management is a senior management function and responsibility for that will still be in the UK. I have worked in senior management in both banks and insurers and have never come across anything like this. In insurance the absence of such recovery capability would lead to two things; sanction and possibly penalties from the FSA (probably after about a year whilst they looked for a member of their own staff who could understand the issue) and secondly, a requirement for the insurer concerned to hold more capital to compensate for the identified risk. Thank god that the myriad cock ups of IT are usually smaller, most commonly a lazy tendency to hard code when they have been ordered to parameterise.

          • Another Engineer says:

            I dіdn’t blаmе thе Indіаns аs such – just thе dеcіsіоn tо оutsоurcе. Whіch clеаrly lіеs wіth thе UK mаnаgеmеnt.

            It wоrks wіth sоmе thіngs, but I wоuldn’t try іt wіth busіnеss crіtіcаl functіоns оn 20+ yеаr оld mаіnfrаmеs.

            I’m surе thеrе wаs а dіsаstеr rеcоvеry prоcеdurе – аnd I dоubt thіs іs thе fіrst tіmе thеіr bаtch prоcеss hаs fаіlеd. Wе mаy nеvеr knоw еxаctly whаt wеnt wrоng but I’d bеt thаt thе оld-tіmеrs thеy’vе just sаckеd wоuld hаvе knоw whаt tо dо tо fіx іt.

          • Another Engineer says:

            PS Anоthеr bаnk thаt mаy оr mаy nоt hаvе а hоrsе lіkе lоgо іs оffshоrіng іn thе sаmе wаy. Thеy run аn еvеn оldеr mаіnfrаmе.

    • 16
      Anonymous says:

      Good old George, I can almost go back to believing that there really are some people with balls in the Tory Party.

      • 74
        UKIP.I.AM says:

        She looks a little pasty.

      • 197
        Seymour says:

        A good looking politician and she voted with the UK against the FTT.

        Well worth kissing and caressing

        • 217
          Expat Geordie says:

          Not bad for an older bird – I wouldn’t say no. And as she is Danish she will spéák bloody good English.

          The Danes (and the Dutch) are just English people with funny accents and an unhealthy liking for pickled herring. To be honest I feel more at home there than I do in Scotland or some parts of England.

    • 31
      Just Passing by says:

      I love the smell of sizzling pork! – hey! – Ken! – how’s the Bacon of Izlum coming along?

    • 32
      Sub Gideon says:

      Is she a dominatrix then?

    • 126
      Sunny says:

      “The Institute of Economic Affairs are to the right of bloody Atilla the Hun. Beggars belief that a Libdem MP would associate with them.”

      • 137
        M says:

        The nearer to Brussels you are the nearer the cushy job for life , you are .
        Not going to let your personal brand of deception , some times known as
        “your polotics” get in the way .
        Now shut up & pay your taxes.

        • 176
          Disliker of Bankers says:

          Crap bankers, crap IT bank staff, crap politicians. Is this the end for us all?

      • 218
        Expat Geordie says:

        Where in the history books does it say that Attilla The Hun was right wing?

        I always thought that proper right wingers (Pinochet, and, and,…, and now I’m struggling because I can’t think of any more genuine right wing dictators) didn’t need to kill many people. Unlike left wing dictators such as Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot, Castro, Mugabe, Nasser, Gadaffi, Tito, Putin, etc.

  2. 2
    Mike Litorus says:

    Just as I had forgotten what vomit tasted like…

  3. 3
    Fabians are Evil says:

    Good on him!

  4. 4
    Aunty Matter says:

    Where were his hands I wonder?

  5. 5
    mv says:

    Is she a goer?

    • 22
      Natalie Rowe says:

      After a kiss from Gideon she probably couldn’t get out of the room quick enough. Does that qualify her as a ‘goer’?

      • 219
        Expat Geordie says:

        Probably prefered him to Gordon though. Can you imagine? No, on the other hand don’t, I’ve got the dinner on and I don’t want THAT image ruining my slow cooked New Zealand lamb.

    • 36
      One look says:

      tells me she’s dripping – and warm to the touch – finance?!! nah! – try the other ‘f’ word!

  6. 6
    Saltpetre says:

    Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.

  7. 7
    robbie says:

    Anyone for makin’ bacon?

  8. 8
    Fish says:

    Eyes closed. Mmm. Tongues not yet visible though.

  9. 9
    Tuscan Tony says:

    Is she that bird off Last of the Summer Wine, the one with the leggings?

  10. 10
  11. 11
    BaronPhaedrus says:

    You’d bum that

    • 12
      Fabians are Evil says:

      You, sir, are not made of the right stuff – I was clearly referring to the young filly -what what! toot toot!

      • 17
        Must get a pseudonym one day says:

        Looks to me like the sort of young filly who’d prefer to be doing they ‘jockeying’ – but that’s OK with me, saves wear & tear on the elbows.

  12. 14
    Blowing Whistles says:

    What was that old Rod Stewart song about george …. nothin more nothin less.

    Maybe he’s gay nothin more nothin less even a cokee – but when it comes to Finance ministers in …. Europe …. – haven’t they all been highly economical with the truth?

    Their collective – of Bacons are burnt, cooked and frazzled.

    I love a bacon sarnie.

  13. 18
    Random Twerp says:

    Would you believe it ?

    Germany’s Foreign Minister’s first name is “Guido” !!!!!!

  14. 23
    Gordon Brown says:

    my Father liked to tell sky pixie stories to frighten the locals into paying for our beef and pork dinners

    • 26
      Tachybaptus says:

      Is ‘beef and pork dinner’ a term for some unusual sexual practice?

    • 64
      Blowing Whistles says:

      Got anything to say about the Cullen report Gordon? Thought not.

    • 68
      Sir William Waad says:

      I thought your Dad was a minister?

      • 118
        Tay King-dePisse says:

        So was Gordon, “minister” of a different kind perhaps, but the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree; Gordon believed in the vow of poverty (not personal poverty, you understand) apparently every bit as much as his father did, and this showed through during his tenure as Chancellor and later as PM, as he impoverished the nation. And Gordon asked all to take on faith that boom-and-bust was a thing of the past. And of course, Gordon is our lord and saviour!

  15. 34
    The Sun on Sunday says:

    Chancellor brings home the Bacon.

  16. 37
    Erogenous Zone says:

    Looks like a European Union to me.

  17. 47
    Tay King-dePisse says:

    Imagine her disappointment when she found out he wasn’t related to Ozzy Osbourne, just some poxy Hibernian not-even-a-proper-Lord. I’m sure his Papa’s money would cover a multitude of sins, though.

  18. 49
    Hattie Harperson says:

    It’s all men think about. Lucky I’ve got Jack.

  19. 51
    Mums Net says:

    Does she know he likes a good spanking and a line of coke?

    • 52
      Natalie Rowe says:

      It’s probably the quality of his gear along with some slap ‘n’ tickle that attracted her

    • 69
      Blowing Whistles says:

      Watch out for Lord Justice Coleridge – he’s got 100+ MP’s backing up behind him in order to try and promote the SS & Family Court system as being … honest!

      Colerdige’s Card HAS BEEN MARKED. He knows it the lesser suborned below him KNOW IT

    • 105
      dick emery-board says:

      Ooh you are awful but I like you!

  20. 53
    Bill the philosopher from Fort William says:

    Pork Belly meets Hamlette.

  21. 54
    Rash Hare says:

    Freaky & Bacon.

  22. 55
    confused says:

    In my limited experience Danish women have a innate femininity, intelligently seductive with assertive independence.

  23. 58
    Harold Hill says:

    They make a lovely couple.

  24. 62
    Annie Lennox says:

    The EU rhythmics are alive and well.

  25. 65
    PC clitoris says:

    He’s actually got his hand down the front of her pants but is thinking What the fcuk do I do now Davie? we are all in this together do I commit to going forward?

  26. 70
    Sir William Waad says:

    It’s the secret sign of the Not-in-the-Euro Club.

  27. 71
    Blue on Blue. says:

    Tory Blue snogs Danish Blue.

  28. 75
    Saffron says:

    Gideon and his ilk need to concentrate on sorting out our economy which the so called New Liebour left in shite state.
    Am not interested in who the asshole has a kiss with,am more interested in us lot telling these EUSSR COMMISSARS TO FECK OFF.
    The EUSSR dream is finished and they know it,the markets are already on course to do this.
    Hausfrau Merkelli already knows this from her own krauts and she is singing from the hymn sheet to get re-elected.
    The EUSSR is a busted flush as was Russia which has been proved,Barrosovitch and his sidekicks Rumpy and Ashton and many more are being seen as economical idiots,who are frankly in it for their own troughing reasons,end off.
    The UK does not need this EUSSR nightmare to have any say whatsoever in how we conduct our affairs.
    Tell the whole lot of this pile of PONZI tw–s to feck off and start working for a living.

    • 86
      Blowing Whistles says:

      And how about the circus of political pundits / commietators and the generally duped journo’s ‘across the so called press divide – who’ve been selling this utter tripe and ‘fairy’ land drivel to the people for decades?

      Are the MSM now clearly shown to have been a bunch of koweREDed and craven – lickspittals? The Public can DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES – and they are – faster than a pressman can head up a story for the next days papiers – fit for fish ‘n chips the day after.

    • 108
      Nigel Farage says:

      I’ll second that!

  29. 77
    Blowing Whistles says:

    What is Andrew Neil reticent to admit – that was published while he was the Editor of “The Business” along with Watson (sub-ed)?

    What 2 sided document did ‘Andrew’ accept into his greasy hand on 14th November 2003? James and Rupee also accepted the same document – it was all filmed by the worlds media in real time at the QEII conference Centre. Even the BBC ‘filmed it’ – but they don’t want to admit that either … why’s that?

    • 130
      A Broadhint says:

      It is no good blowing whistles if the rest of us have no idea what you are talking about.

      • 180
        Durr... says:

        I purposefully missed Neil this morning due to B£liar being listed as a “guest”. Did I hear right about his former shit spad dropping him in it as a lieing bastard? Oo goodie!

  30. 78
    dogg says:

    she looks like Mourinho ffs

  31. 79
    KEEP BAILING PIKE says:

    The Dutch finance minister is obviously a post opp Bricklayer

  32. 82
    UKIP.I.AM says:

    Georgie Porgie, Pasty and Pie,
    Kissed the girls and made them cry,
    When the boys came out to play
    Georgie Porgie taxed the shite out of them.

  33. 83
    Gaston Glock says:

    Thinking. Thinking. Thinking…….

    Padded push-up? Or Real Sponge Bags?

  34. 85
    Saffron says:

    Cammoron in my opinion needs to grow a pair and quickly,you can be a serious politician or you can be window dressing.
    So far Cammoron is the latter,and the country is crying out for a leader,why in gods name is he not seeing this.
    Cleggite and his ilk are calling the shots,why does Cammoron not face these assholes down,well folks he is too keen to hold onto power at any cost and in fact he is betraying the British people in doing this.

  35. 87
    The Stig says:

    Denmark may well be a crap EU state but it’s Island Greenland is a lot bigger than any Island that Britain owns.

    Some say Greenland is a continent.

    • 99
      Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

      Some say Scotland is a country – there are nutters everywhere.

    • 226
      Expat Geordie says:

      Greenland no longer belongs to Denmark. That’s why it was able to leave the EEC in 1985.

      • 231
        Haribo Halfwit says:

        Thanks for pointing that out: there IS a precedent – and a painless one, at that.

  36. 88
    confused says:

    she knew it wasn’t meant to be but why should she deny herself this night of passion.

  37. 93
    KEEP BAILING PIKE says:

    God she must be fuckin desperate !

  38. 96
    UKIP.I.AM says:

    “Greek Finance Minister Vassilis Rapanos in hospital

    Greece’s new Finance Minister Vassilis Rapanos has been rushed to hospital, reportedly after fainting.

    Mr Rapanos, who is chairman of Greece’s national bank, was due to be sworn in to the new post in the debt-laden country later on Friday.”

    He must have seen the real size of the national debt.

  39. 98
    Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

    Calm down everyone. George is just trying to borrow her suspenders and stockings.

  40. 101
    UKIP.I.AM says:

    “Top of the agenda today was a plan to tax financial transactions and use the proceeds to fund future bank bailouts

    The proposal quickly ran aground, when just 10 out of 27 countries agreed to support it.

    Mr Osborne was one of the objectors, complaining it would drive away business.

    He told the council, chaired by Ms Vestager: ‘I would have thought we want to be attracting business rather than the other way around.’

    He was backed by Ms Vestager – Denmark were among the countries who voted against the proposal.”

    Looks to me like his dalliance paid off handsomely.

  41. 103
    tottenham chutzpah says:

    would u hug ms mensch?

    • 110
      David Laws LibDem fiddler says:

      Only if she had a strap-on dildo.

      I’ll be back…

    • 139
      Anonymous says:

      First I’d like to tie her up and give her a good whipping.

      Then I’d see how I was feeling.

  42. 107
    Michael Jackson says:

    I’m forever blowing Bubbles.

  43. 111
    Pentangelis says:

    Good Boy! I wholeheartedly approve. Is this what’s called bringing home the bacon?

  44. 113
    A Bloke Of A Certain Age says:

    Guido, you are s 1990s . So fuck everything else.

  45. 116
    Coffe Table says:

    So the Danish finance minister is a Cock Sucker.

  46. 119
    Alyingstare Campbell says:

    Some big boys made us do it then they ran away.

    • 121
      not a machine says:

      If only it was just Iraq or indeed if only it was just Tony Blair and not the whole wonk tour de force since 1997 , of flawed ideaology that is Labour /EUSSR

  47. 120
    not a machine says:

    IMF courtisan managed £40bn , I had hoped he wouldnt have fallen for same routine …….

  48. 122
    Jimmy says:

    Denmark eh? Fancy something rotten in you?

  49. 125
    Giddy the Oz says:

    How about it, luv?

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    The Serpent stings says:

    I’d count her assets!

  52. 142
    london man says:

    Poor mrs osbourne will she file for divrce. Poor georgie will be out of pocket with this settlement.

  53. 143
    Jimmy Giblet says:

    When was the last time Gordon Brown sizzled with anyone (or anything)?

  54. 145

    Hardly bunga bunga stuff, is it?

    Perhaps that is what this government needs to loosen up a bit?

  55. 146
    smoggie says:

    As long as no money chaged hands, what’s the problem?

  56. 147
    Nom Dom Nom says:

    Spit or swallow?

  57. 149
    Hollow Men says:

    Dave needs to realise that governing a country amounts to more than a 5 year PR exercise. If you make promises on welfare reform, carry them out – don’t just use them as a smokescreen to distract attention from your tax-fiddling millionaire mates. If you promise a crackdown on mass immigration, do it. The point of being in government for 5 years is to change things for the better, not just to be in government for 5 years.

    • 159
      UKIP.I.AM says:

      That’s the trouble with coalitions. Mind you even if they had an overall majority there is no saying they would try to keep their promises any better.

  58. 152
    Fish says:

    Anyone watch last night’s Sky newspaper review last night?

    There was a Guardian leader writing, I’m intelligent and much more worthy than you, out of touch, metropolitan lefty on there.

    Much to the anxiety of my TV screen she spouted 30 miutes of lefty crap, dominating the conversation, patronising and condescending with an accent posher than greasy Vaz.

    Commenting on Richard Starkey’s bust up with Penny Red, she barely drew back from calling him a racist but described him as ‘dangerous’. Perhaps she doesn’t realise that she is dangerous with her abilty to say so much and know so little.

    Nesrine Malik, that was her name, is little more than a characature of the modern day lefty activist and a gift to Armando Iannucci.

    Expect to see her on the BBC anytime soon.

    • 155
      Legal Crook says:

      Yes I agree, but Sky seems to find a never ending number of these Guardian reporters. Just how many have the Guardian got?

      • 156
        UKIP.I.AM says:

        Not forgetting the ever present tw@ Kevin McGuire from The Mirror.

      • 163
        lala land says:

        As many as the subsidies they get will allow.

        BTW, after 13 years of exam grade inflation and saying how marvelous our students are doing, but then to be caught out by how badly we are doing internationally, that’s what I call being fucking dangerous.

    • 157
      a visit to lala land says:
      • 168
        Francis Gilbert says:

        Fascist states educate their children so much better than us! Fact.

      • 170
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    • 161
      Taxfodder says:

      The problem is the windbag right chitters out hilarious cods wallop too, not much is believable or creditable let alone workable…which is not all that surprising I suppose as most of their information stream is hearsay and wishful thinking rather than fact or real life experience.

      All you need to remember its that these low rent turds and their glorious leaders have got the UK in the mess its in today…wholly and collectively!

      This compelling evidence points to the fact that most of them would drown running a bath!

  59. 158
    UKIP.I.AM says:

    I see all the racist, anti-American lefty dickheads have gone a bit quiet over the last few days over Assange and their bollocks that America wanted to extradite him. Apparently the Americans don’t want him at all.

    http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/no-us-hint-of-extraditing-assange-carr-20120624-20w0x.html

    • 210
      Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

      Don’t be silly. American extradition and prosecution policy is just as likely to arise from local elected DAs with elections coming up as from central wishes. Remember that British girl who shook a baby and got charged with 1st degree instead of the obvious 2nd degree murder simply because the DA saw a few cheap votes?

  60. 160
    Oli from Politics says:

    Why didn’t they just shake hands? This EU tradition of swapping spit with strangers is bad for public health.

    • 167
      UKIP.I.AM says:

      Isn’t it still Lib Dem tradition to swap semen at their meetings?

      • 211
        Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

        I believe it was, but fresh supplies have been hard to obtain since Goves started objecting to having a truncheon shoved up his rear end.

  61. 162
    Not U Turn Dave's voter says:

    The Danish Finance Minister looks like a bloke with the Lesbian style hairdo.

  62. 164
    UKIP.I.AM says:

    Even an article in the Guardian shows what complete plonkers these people have been.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/nick-cohen-julian-assange-paranoia?newsfeed=true

    Well worth a read apart from the obligatory anti-right bollocks at the beginning.

    “Assange is the first asylum seeker to claim persecution at three removes. He wants to renounce his Australian citizenship and become an Ecuadorean because (and you may have to bear with me) the Australian government failed to help him fight an attempt by the British government to extradite to him to Sweden, whose government may, at some undefined point, extradite him to the United States – or maybe not, because there is no extradition request.

    More pertinently, Greenwald and the rest of Assange’s supporters do not tell us how the Americans could prosecute the incontinent leaker. American democracy is guilty of many crimes and corruptions. But the First Amendment to the US constitution is the finest defence of freedom of speech yet written. The American Civil Liberties Union thinks it would be unconstitutional for a judge to punish Assange.

    The authorities can threaten the wretched Bradley Manning and hold him in solitary confinement because he was a serving soldier when he passed information to Assange. But WikiLeaks was in effect a newspaper. From the 1970s, when the New York Times printed the Pentagon Papers, to today’s accounts of secret prisons and the bugging of US citizens, the American courts “have made clear that the First Amendment protects independent third parties who publish classified information”. Maybe the authorities could prosecute Assange for alleged links with hackers. I don’t know – unlike Assange, I cannot see the future. But why would they bother to imprison him when he is making such a good job of discrediting himself?”

    • 185
      Durr... says:

      Just to cheer up the whingers on here, I bought a Grauniad yesterday and was much impressed at the content. I recommend you take a look. It’s much better then the Times and the Telegraph.

      • 193
        The Entire Population of Great Britain barring about 200,000 brainwashed Marxists says:

        No thanks.

    • 198
      The American Justice System says:

      Plead guilty to something we know you didn’t do or we’ll charge you with even more things we know you didn’t do.

    • 212
      Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

      Complete idiot. First amendment protection can only be asserted once the accused is in the custody of the USA. At that point the charge will be something which by passes the cover. I suggest you also read the opinion of Justice Scalia (in 2007 I think) where he effectively argued the importance of habeas corpus, but asserted that it only applied to US citizens. I am sure that if being a non citizen can deprive you of a right which stretches back to Magna Carta then it will be no problem to similarly limit more recent rights.

  63. 171
    anonymous says:

    watching andrew neil with fanny alexander – why doesn’t neil just punch him?

    • 172
      Calamity Clegg says:

      His constituents will be punching his lights out for him in 2015.

    • 181
      Lord Tebbit of Semtex says:

      It’s just not gentlemanly to hit someone who is mentally retarded.

      “Mr Alexander is a tender 38; before he became an MP in 2005, he worked as a press officer, largely in politics or on its fringes, but most recently at the Cairngorms National Park Authority. “Another God-damned public-relations man” was the verdict of Lord Tebbit, a Thatcherite headbanger. Mr Laws, by contrast, is a conspicuously numerate former banker.

      Thus the appointment exemplifies some familiar syndromes of government:
      the need, sometimes, to rely on untried youth; the need to barter ministerial posts for the support of rival internal constituencies. But such considerations tend to become acute after a government has been in power for years. And, usually, the equilibrium of only one party has to be maintained. In the coalition, with its need for balance within two parties as well as between them, these problems will be perpetual and tricky.

      The key point about Mr Alexander, however, is not that his background and trajectory are exceptional. It is that he is typical.”

      The Economist (2010)

      http://www.economist.com/node/16272211

    • 213
      Tristram Smallbore-ffipps says:

      Two obvious answers. Neil cannot stretch his fists round his gut and he is worried that his rug may fall off in the fracas.

  64. 174
    Mong Alert and Babe Alert says:

    Labour’s Emily Fatbelly on Sunday Politics now. Coming up is the political panel which has a very leggy blonde in a short skirt, don’t know her name.

    Last time Fatbelly was on TV, she made a fool of herself.

  65. 177
    Do one, cock says:

    Fucking Campbell on Sunday Politics. This twat is on the BBC so much, he probably has his own dressing room. He’s on to talk about his depression. Here’s a tip, Al. Why don’t you take a revolver and fucking top yourself, you nasty, lying, warmongering, evil c unt?

  66. 179
    Gordon Brown says:

    I went to embrace a foreign minister once and she retched on smelling my breath and threw up all over my beard, I mean Miss Macauley, I mean Susan, I mean Sally, I mean my beloved wife.

    • 189
      Gordon Brown says:

      I also dream, no, remember being locked in a man hug with Mr. President Ohmaha.

  67. 184
    Sunday Politics says:

    Who the fuck is Janan Ganesh and why is his opinion supposedly of value? He looks a fucking poser. They should just keep the camera on Isabel Oakeshott’s legs.

  68. 187
    National Socialist says:

    “Carrgate” is sadly just the latest in a long line monumental hypocrisy from a PM with zero judgement. The reason why Cameron is behaving this way is because he thinks he is right, he really believes he is infallible, he is a narcissist and a megalomaniac who is drunk on his own power and not only is this highly embarrassing internationally for this country; I truly believe the ordinary folk of this country, their livelihoods and their quality of life and their children’s and grand-children’s futures are being put at grave risk. I spotted this in this PM before he came to power and his symptoms are steadily worsening, those with balls in the Tory party (Lib Dems need not apply), if they truly do believe in our country, need to do something about Cameron and they need to do it pretty damned quick

    • 188
      Who /whats worst says:

      As a National Socialist what do you suggest, swap him for Len McClus, err, Ed Floopyface?

      • 195
        National Socialist says:

        Well the Tories could swap him for David Davis.

        • 200
          Who /whats worst says:

          I’m all for that, but I wouldn’t have thought he was the first choice of a socialist, national or otherwise.

      • 202
        albacore says:

        You couldn’t swap him for a busted conker
        Where on earth did the Tories find this plonker?
        (That’s “Tories” used in its loosest sense
        The real ones have long departed hence)

  69. 191
    More British servicemen to be sacrificed for fuck all says:

    How long until NATO are conveniently dragged in to this Syrian nonsense at the behest of the untrustworthy Turks?
    Cameron clearly hasnt the wit to steer well clear.

  70. 192
    Yvonne from the Colliers Arms Clydach says:

    If a married man starts messing about with a female opponent then it is only a matter of time before his work suffers and the customer ( or in this case the taxpayer) loses out.

    We should all be very grateful to Guido for bringing this improper association in public office to our attention.

  71. 196
    genghiz the kahn says:

    No tongues George, cos someone will leak this to Guido.

  72. 201
    wonderful news from Sky says:

    David Laws, LibDem benefit cheat and shirt lifter, to be brought back into government by Dave Cameron leader of The Official Nick Clegg Fan Club.

    National rejoicing cermonies are to be held.

  73. 204
    nellnewman says:

    Oh dear george Put Her Down! Isn’t that kinnochio junior’s wife?

  74. 205
    Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin ( Member in absentia ) says:

    British jobs for British Eastern European workers !

  75. 227
    Rightallalong says:

    ‘Remember Bilderberg, George ?’
    ‘How could I ever forget Bildeberg, Margrethe’.


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