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…















He’s not a gayer like me then?
on entering the Aberdeen brach of B&Q I became the biggest tool in the shop
Somebody should fucking sack Stephen Hester now!
Who is Stephen Hester?
Can we all be in this together?
I wouldn’t mind banging the Berger bird again, oooh, the things she did with a strap-on
I’m a gyaer
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.”
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good old George, I can almost go back to believing that there really are some people with balls in the Tory Party.
She looks a little pasty.
Danish pasty?
So would you if you were being molested by George.
I wonder how many more millions snogging a Danish pastry is going to cost us.
A good looking politician and she voted with the UK against the FTT.
Well worth kissing and caressing
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.
I love the smell of sizzling pork! – hey! – Ken! – how’s the Bacon of Izlum coming along?
It’s Halaltastic!
Is she a dominatrix then?
No, Gideon will snog any bird, there have been a few photos ciculating of Gideon snogging, was he well oiled as well
He’s pulled up to my bumper baby!
That piccie puts me off my bacon & eggs (both her and him). Yeuch.
“The Institute of Economic Affairs are to the right of bloody Atilla the Hun. Beggars belief that a Libdem MP would associate with them.”
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.
Crap bankers, crap IT bank staff, crap politicians. Is this the end for us all?
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.
Just as I had forgotten what vomit tasted like…
Don’t let someone vomit into your mouth then?
Good on him!
But he’s a Fabian though!
I am writing from my sickbed as I am so incensed by the immoral behaviour of the Chancellor, he should be ashamed of himself, a married man.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/portsmouth-south-mp-mike-hancock-set-for-heart-surgery-1-3976187
By the way there will be an announcement tomorrow that Portsmouth Supporters Trust will be bidding for Portsmouth Football Club. Who will be funding this bid? My boys. Boaz.
Where were his hands I wonder?
One on his cock and the other up his arse probably.
Is she a goer?
After a kiss from Gideon she probably couldn’t get out of the room quick enough. Does that qualify her as a ‘goer’?
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.
tells me she’s dripping – and warm to the touch – finance?!! nah! – try the other ‘f’ word!
Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.
I wonder if they have exchanged bodily fluids?
Well I assume George will have pissed on her since he has on the rest of humanity.
Anyone for makin’ bacon?
Eyes closed. Mmm. Tongues not yet visible though.
The giveaway with George will be a sight of a forked one.
Is she that bird off Last of the Summer Wine, the one with the leggings?
No Tony, you can put your todger back now.
Back? Now, if she was that troublemaker from Argentina…
Mmmmm, Kirchner, we’ll always have Stanley….
“That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into, Stanley”
Graffiti seen on a Port Stanley wall, June 1982.
I, most certainly, would – toot toot
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=aaplw&va=Margrethe+Vestager
Yes, I did a similar search and came… to a similar conclusion. She’s not ageing well for 44, though.
Maybe not where she comes from. In Liverpool she would be mistaken for a teenager.
she’s pregnant and has tattoos?
vg (:
Exactly. She was probably worth doing 25 years ago. Still, on a foreign holday…
Bit too old for me
It’s her aryan blue eyes that get me going!
Or a bit of Danish, Gideon
Try these for size. I’d be prepared to overlook their nationality.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163539/French-foreign-ministers-va-va-voom-politics.html
Take a gander at Italy’s equal opportunities minister.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8388602/Worlds-sexiest-politician-had-affair-with-Italian-rebel-MP.html
http://www.repubblica.it/2006/08/gallerie/gente/mara-carfagna/1.html
And all we got was the bloody Eagle sisters. There is no justice in the world.
And all we get is the bloody Eagle sisters. There is no justice in the world.
You can kiss that goodbye now that Sarkozy’s gone. Bloody socialists/communists – they can’t stand good looking women.
not unlike the bird from ” Spiral”.
The only European cop show I watch on TV now, that isn’t full of subiliminal marxist bullshit. On the BBC iplayer. Well I must get some value out of ‘em even though I don’t pay the license fee.
Its in the kiddies programmes as well, cue the biggest tellytubby with his handbag.
You’d bum that
You, sir, are not made of the right stuff – I was clearly referring to the young filly -what what! toot toot!
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.
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.
I like the odd pork sausage.
Crackling?
A bit of crackling?
two bites! sorry, bloody software again
It’s late September and I really should be back at school
Oh Margie I couldn’t have tried
Any mo-o-ore
Would you believe it ?
Germany’s Foreign Minister’s first name is “Guido” !!!!!!
Guid-out-of-here!
Fawke me!
Bloody hell; is Guido making another attempt to establish non resident status for tax purposes?
This wouldn’t be a photo of him, would it? I mean, from what I’ve heard…
http://media-files.gather.com/images/d794/d777/d744/d224/d96/f3/full.jpg
my Father liked to tell sky pixie stories to frighten the locals into paying for our beef and pork dinners
Is ‘beef and pork dinner’ a term for some unusual sexual practice?
Only in the more enlightened suburbs of Tel Aviv.
Got anything to say about the Cullen report Gordon? Thought not.
I thought your Dad was a minister?
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!
Chancellor brings home the Bacon.
Looks like a European Union to me.
But back home thunder clouds are gathering for Gideon
At least it ‘could be’ a union between a man and a woman.
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.
It’s all men think about. Lucky I’ve got Jack.
word missed there – shit
Does she know he likes a good spanking and a line of coke?
It’s probably the quality of his gear along with some slap ‘n’ tickle that attracted her
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
Ooh you are awful but I like you!
Pork Belly meets Hamlette.
Freaky & Bacon.
Rind, stoned, cow, boy.
In my limited experience Danish women have a innate femininity, intelligently seductive with assertive independence.
an dammit
An precedes a vowel in the Engerlish
In my limited experience Danish women have an innate femininity, are intelligently seductive with an assertive independence.
How very sweet of you.
Sick bag, please.
And like Dutch women tend to be fucking gorgeous.
Unlike many of our own fat slappers.
They make a lovely couple.
If one half of any coupling is George Osborne, the result will not be lovely. But at least it won’t last long.. 2015 at the latest.
ha ha ha
saw what you did there
Every dustbin’s got it’s lid.
The EU rhythmics are alive and well.
Dance of the dying swans anyone?
The rhythm method always results in unwanted babies.
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?
It’s the secret sign of the Not-in-the-Euro Club.
Tory Blue snogs Danish Blue.
Electric Blue?
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.
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.
I’ll second that!
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?
It is no good blowing whistles if the rest of us have no idea what you are talking about.
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!
she looks like Mourinho ffs
The Dutch finance minister is obviously a post opp Bricklayer
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.
Thinking. Thinking. Thinking…….
Padded push-up? Or Real Sponge Bags?
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.
You think we just noticed this?
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.
Some say Scotland is a country – there are nutters everywhere.
Greenland no longer belongs to Denmark. That’s why it was able to leave the EEC in 1985.
Thanks for pointing that out: there IS a precedent – and a painless one, at that.
she knew it wasn’t meant to be but why should she deny herself this night of passion.
God she must be fuckin desperate !
Just because she got grabbed by him doesn’t mean she is f*cking him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163418/Judge-62-goosed-woman-court-clerk-lewd-comment.html
“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.
Calm down everyone. George is just trying to borrow her suspenders and stockings.
“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.
would u hug ms mensch?
Only if she had a strap-on dildo.
I’ll be back…
First I’d like to tie her up and give her a good whipping.
Then I’d see how I was feeling.
I’m forever blowing Bubbles.
But I’m not dead!
I’ve not even reached my 30th birthday yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_and_Bubbles
I can sympathise Buubles, I’m not dead yet either…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9349291/Clive-James-Im-not-dead-yet.html
Good Boy! I wholeheartedly approve. Is this what’s called bringing home the bacon?
Guido, you are s 1990s . So fuck everything else.
So the Danish finance minister is a Cock Sucker.
Hopefully. At least she isn’t an arse-reamer!
Some big boys made us do it then they ran away.
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
Can B£liar be charged with a crime now? Can I help hang the little bastard?
IMF courtisan managed £40bn , I had hoped he wouldnt have fallen for same routine …….
Denmark eh? Fancy something rotten in you?
Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Out, damned Trot! (good joke though)
Please don’t patronise Jimmy, he’s a fucking plonker. Thank you.
How about it, luv?
That’s two lots of pussy George has got this week:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163796/Chancellor-George-Osborne-reunited-fat-cat-Freya-disappeared-years-ago.html
Yet another fat fucker at the downing street trough !
I’d count her assets!
Poor mrs osbourne will she file for divrce. Poor georgie will be out of pocket with this settlement.
When was the last time Gordon Brown sizzled with anyone (or anything)?
He’s got it coming.
Hardly bunga bunga stuff, is it?
Perhaps that is what this government needs to loosen up a bit?
Loosen up? Have you any idea of the bowel-loosening effect of Gobby Goves walking into the room?
No one is obliged to kiss him, Tristram, yourself included.
As long as no money chaged hands, what’s the problem?
Spit or swallow?
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.
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.
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.
Yes I agree, but Sky seems to find a never ending number of these Guardian reporters. Just how many have the Guardian got?
Not forgetting the ever present tw@ Kevin McGuire from The Mirror.
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.
Fascist states educate their children so much better than us! Fact.
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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!
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
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?
Why didn’t they just shake hands? This EU tradition of swapping spit with strangers is bad for public health.
Isn’t it still Lib Dem tradition to swap semen at their meetings?
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.
The Danish Finance Minister looks like a bloke with the Lesbian style hairdo.
Not like you to state the obvious.
looks like the bloke I’m now shacked up with.
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?”
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.
No thanks.
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.
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.
watching andrew neil with fanny alexander – why doesn’t neil just punch him?
His constituents will be punching his lights out for him in 2015.
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
Two obvious answers. Neil cannot stretch his fists round his gut and he is worried that his rug may fall off in the fracas.
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.
Looks more like she made a fool of him.
But I’m not a tory fuckwit.
You’re a lefty fuckwit.
There’s a difference?
The clip is best viewed in the context of this:
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/06/the-phoney-outrage-of-emily-thornberry-slime-factories-on-overtime.html
Islington’s finest.
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?
Don’t forget the bottle of whiskey!
I think we should know which scum at the BBC keep giving this man employment.
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.
I also dream, no, remember being locked in a man hug with Mr. President Ohmaha.
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.
“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
As a National Socialist what do you suggest, swap him for Len McClus, err, Ed Floopyface?
Well the Tories could swap him for David Davis.
I’m all for that, but I wouldn’t have thought he was the first choice of a socialist, national or otherwise.
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)
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.
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.
No tongues George, cos someone will leak this to Guido.
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.
Oh dear george Put Her Down! Isn’t that kinnochio junior’s wife?
I thought for one nasty moment she was. But no, that’s the Danish PM:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Helle+Thorning-Schmidt&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=CTjnT87yL8im8QPbjPmeCg&ved=0CGAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=685
British jobs for
BritishEastern European workers !‘Remember Bilderberg, George ?’
‘How could I ever forget Bildeberg, Margrethe’.