Rich & Mark’s Morning View
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Bill Quango MP says:
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Feel the love.
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/prime-minister-david-cameron-hugs-and-london-mayor-boris-news-photo/149814912
Get a room, FFS.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/aPy75gQVv3J/Olympics+Day+8+Athletics/ahi6TpABNWq/David+Cameron
The idea that Boris could become the Tory leader is laughable and only fit to be floated during silly season. Even the Tories are not stupid enough to pick another Eton, Bullingdonian, one with a mouthful of plums. Boris wants an amnesty for illegal immigrants and he is Pro-EU. He was also useless when he was a shadow Minister and he can’t keep his dick in his pants. Does anyone really think the public would pick another toff like that? Isn’t the current one disaster enough?
Get real.
The country is irretrievably fucked. Nothing will get it back to anything recognisably passable.
Better to have someone who transcends divides than creates them.
That is all.
But Boris will never transcend divides. Rather he will increase the gulf between north and south, upper class and working class. The honeymoon period would last as his first gaffe and Labour would have even more open goals than they have now. Mind you it would get many more of the electorate defecting from the Tories to UKIP, so I am not complaining.
The recovery will be driven forward by many things, including technological advance and exports, but the most fundamental of all the fundamentals will be a restoration of trust between strangers to enhance commerce. The leader most likely to improve the way people feel about their fellow countrymen is the one who will make the best leader.
Like he managed to get re-elected when the national polls showed a swing to Labour in double figures, yeah? Like he increased the gulf there, right?
You are a nice guy, but unhappy IMO. You need to decide whether you are glass half empty or glass half full because you display an unstable mixture of both…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19146805
A seat in Northants has conveniently become available… It’s a marginal though, so would Boris want it?
A PM in a marginal seat creates an undesirable hostage to fortune.
S.C., you cant have forgotten he was fighting against Ken Livingscum, the man who had just been outed as a hypocritical, tax dodger on a par with Jimmy Carr. Boris is a decent guy as a figurehead and mouthpiece for London but that doesn’t make him PM material any more than someone who can drive a car makes them a potential Lewis Hamilton or Jensen Button.
NF Simple answer is NO, as cat says marginal and Borus does NOT want uncertainty, he certainly would want a very safe seat like Richmond, a place that oozes money, HIS TYPE OF FOLKS
SC – you are forever ‘spinning you opinions’ as the last word. You have been ‘found out on a number of occasions recently’ – why don’t you just confine yourself to talking about your pitiful sexual frustrations and disgusting proclivities – Your’e only on this blog as a belldin troll and I dare say an establishment plant?
I want an amnesty for illegal immigrants especially for the ones in Portsmouth who will vote for me and I support the EU, I also cannot keep it in my pants; on the other hand, I am not an old Etonian, in fact I am completely uneducated, does that qualify me? Boaz.
Never underestimate the fickleness of the British electorate…after all they voted for Clegg in their thousands after one bullshitting session on prime time…in the PM Debates…they fell for his sincerity man of the people act after all so why not Boris doing the same ?
“Never underestimate the fickleness of the British electorate”
Too bloody true, they voted Labour in three times in a row. But then if your livelihood is based on the taxation of another persons work then its the right thing to do.
Serial and Parallel adulterer.
I think not.
Parallel is *much* more fun.
Can’t be doing with all this serial stuff.
BoJo gets 37% when he is irrelevant to government.
Be more like 7% were he ever to be let loose in Whitehall.
So make him PM as soon as you like, tossers.
And bandwagons for Socialists were there none!.
Replace “bojo” with “RedEd” and deduct about 7 from both percentages, and you have a very similar story.
PS: isn’t the cartoon crap?
Stop moaning, they are trying their best at least the characterisations are recognisable, surely that’s a plus
Jesus Fucking Christ
That is like every athlete getting a gold medal purely for attendance FFS!
CAT you have to admit sometimes it is a guessing game as to who the folks portrayed in some of the cartoons are
Thieves!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/article4473128.ece
Why is a blond-haired Tommy Cooper knocking Sir Roger Moore off a podium?
Short break to somewhere nice without TV could cure this all.
1,566,147 dole seekers so far.
Oh! 1,566,302 now.
Given up telling Polly. She is in her cups at this time…
I found a LOCOG document the other day, which put the Olympic cost at £2billion for “the games”, plus £9.2billion for “the cost of hosting the games” (interesting distinction), which obviously puts the official bill at £11.2billion, or £700million per day, which is rather a lot, even if we do get to watch Jessica Ennis run around in a bikini.
So, cost so far: £6,639,100,335.65, which is 1,950,789 dole-seekers.
For about five euros for the day, I go down to my local FKK site and see a number of Jessicas running around in nothing at all.
But I am a simple man with simple pleasures, I suppose.
€5? We used to watch it for free in the Englischer Garten.
Jawohl?
Oben und unten?
Yep, both. The full monty. And in a park, with beergardens! … (drools).
*cries bitte tears*
I have wasted all this money.
Still, I did get some nice diving in…
Boris would make a ideal Foreign secretory.
Plus he is pro EU.
As long as he has his minders with him (minders in as much that someone people are there so he does not do a major gaff, and plunge the UK into another unwinnable war – we’ve had enough of those already)
I’ve appointed Benny from Crossroads as my official biographer.
He might even give you his Benny Hat
I’ve stretched my anus wide apart with a speculum and taken a photo for my dating profile.
You are Goatse I we collect our £1m compensation
We still mangle our language at the thought of it.
For once in a very long time I recognised Boris.
Nothing to do with the wire, the 2 flags and the numbers 3 and 7 plus the %age sign. Nothing to do with that at all.
These pricks cannot draw.
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”
R + M may never achieve gold medals for cartoon excellence but you have to admire them for trying.
In medieval times you had to win, if you were a big nob (king or noble) or knight you were held for ransome, unless it was a civil war then the king was beheaded, if you were a pleb you were just slaughtered if the winners caught you.
Usually peasants were just disarmed, robbed of anything valuable and told to make their own way home.
Only the Christians, Dearie, only the Christians.
Look at Jerusalem during the Crusades (1099), or Acre (by Richard I) or Beziers, or Crecy or Agincourt, or even Melun when the English hanged 700 Scots for being allied with the French.
Compare this to the Muzzies, whose capture of Jerusalem (1187) or Constantinople (1453) were noted by Christians who were able to co-exist in peace.
The slaughter of the inhabitants of Constantinople lasted three days and nights. Younger women and children were taken as slaves. After three days the triumphant sultan announced an amnesty for the few non-Moslems who had escaped detection.
It’s not recorded what the Turks did to the Benders but Islamic law offers some imaginative suggestions.
Or see, for instance, the Wikipedia article on the Armenian city of Ani. Don’t fall for myths; brutality in war was always normal, whoever was doing the fighting.
These pricks are not funny.
What is the F stand for Juliet?
Frankie is very curious but is, of course, far too shy to ask
Is it me?
I don’t want gold. I sell it.
“Sell” as in “practically give it away.”
Our Olympians will soon have won enough gold to replace what was sold under Labour.
Bearing in mind that a,”gold” medal contains about the same % of gold as seawater, Our Brave Boys and Girls have got some winning to do.
Stoop Press!
Mayor of London host by his own personal petard.
“hoist”
“retard”
Why waste precious cartoon time/space on 2 Old Etonians ?
What about some coal miners to even the score ?
Or London bus and train drivers mugging the public because they can?
What a wonderfully spirited attitude the Olympic games volunteers have shown. Instead of the usual trade union attitude of demanding more for doing nothing more, these volunteers have been giving so much without whinging all the time while being paid nothing.
I don’t need Kapersky internet protection money fraud, I use free Linux!
There once was a fellow called Lenus
Who was into chips and Venus
His career was sworn
Towards internet porn
Which gave him a twitch in his bell-end.
*Still working on this so to perfect it so please regard as work in progress*
Poet Laureate is yours for the taking.
I’m only here for the hogshead!
It just gets better and better.
You mean you haven’t altered the routing table to send all advertising requests to the loopback adapter? Or even just configured your browser to get rid of all the adverts?
Linux users today. *tut*
Don’t think I can stand the biting satire of Rich and Mark for too long.
*goes and chews his elbows*
Replace one upper-class Tory twit with another one? Brilliant! How could that not work?
The answer to your question – If it was a ukip twit replacing another one.
A bad example of a bent graph. 34% is not as much lower than 37% as the graph pretends.
Sir William. I’ve been meaning to have a word recently but things have managed to get in the way rather. The concepts of mathematical graphical accuracy and artistic graphical accuracy have no place in the world of R&M. A Venn diagram would show no overlap whatsoever.
Mark Serwotka says a 3% difference is a resounding success.
My guess is Serwotka only uses the word “percentage” to make himself appear intelligent and knowledgeable to the average knuckle-dragging union member, and that in reality he doesn’t have a clue what it means.
“Sumfink Latin, innit?”
Maybe R&M are closet LibDems? It’s certainly one of the LD’s favourite graph types
Or climate scientists perhaps?
Very good,but incredibly stupid.
Why no coverage of the Pussy Riot trail already ?
Ineptocracy
(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Today,last year the riots kicked off in Tottenham.
Just Saying.
You mean thieving scum saw easy pickings.
They weren’t ‘rioterth’, comrade, they were opprethed Britith workerth rebelling againtht harsth and thsevere evil Tory cutsth.
The BBC is doing a commemorative to mark the event no doubt ???
All I know is that Boris Johnson has real balls unlike David Cameron.
And without real balls you get nowhere in life which has been the problem in the country for the last two years.
Pint of Buckminsterfullerene please love.
Mensch to stand down as MP.
If I were to create a new post, would she sit on it?
Mensch is a plant like Suzon Force it Moore (now dead) and as for SC – you’ve got your own problems with reality.
Cats are the most vacant of creatures.
She is emigrating to USrael.
You’re a mensch.
What is the problem with that Mensch woman now!
The people of Corby deserve a full explanation to say nothing of the good old taxpayer.
She was elected to serve a full term.
Let us hope she is on a reduced pension to reflect her early resignation.
If her seat is one of those to go I hope the taxpayer is not going to be troubled with the expense of a by-election and all the expenses which are invariably claimed thereafter.
” is stepping down from her role and will now move to New York with her three children to live with her husband, Metallica manager Peter Mensch who is based in the city”
Perhaps she really had been making that website she’s been promoting (and hence, not her job as an MP).
I would not get too worried about this news.
I am sure she will be on full salary and benefits for a good while yet.
After all when did Liam Fox vacate his taxpayer funded accommodation?
She is resigning of her own accord halfway through a fixed term five year contract with the taxpayer.
What is she proposing by way of compensation?
I see Louise Mensch is quitting her seat to move to America… Although she is a tory, she is a Blair babe that I am glad to see the back of.
She was a total Blairite in policy terms.
^^^^So you wouldn’t?
Farewell to a Class A Tory !
She’s been there, done that..
Can I have her Tee-shirt?
3rd try
Eton Mess.
Eton Dorney is no mess.
I refer back to the Cartoon Caption Competition where Cameron is screwing up his face whilst shaking hands with Boris. I think it’s called a ‘double entendre’..
Double entrails more like
Labour are at war with Murdoch. Labour have always been at war with Murdoch.
Thatcher was in power from 1979 to 2010, with Murdoch as her propaganda minister.
Prior to 197,9 there were a thousand years of Labour governments that brought peace and prosperity to Britain. But all of that was wrecked by Thatcher.
He’s a sex fiend.
The Times
‘Trade Secrets
Pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale
On how carpet adhesive has helped her rise in the sport’
Err. I was using reverse side of insulating tape ( not the shiny stuff ) when I competed in the European Schools Games in Louvain in 1958. ( bronze ). Some secret!
“Pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale On how carpet adhesive has helped her rise in the sport’”
Oh god. Thank f*ck it’s Only 6 days 12 hours 51 minutes until the Olympics are over! Yay!
Boris is a man of the people. He tells it like it is and to hell with the PC brigade.
Personally, I prefer him to Vince.