Daily Star Sunday Column Now Online
Tories Using Olympics to Raise Party Cash
If you had picked up your Daily Star Sunday yesterday you would be in the know about talk of another reshuffle next year, the Sage of Twickenham downgrading his predictions and the failure of parliamentary reform.
Last Sunday we suggested the reshuffling of LibDems out of the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office could presage military action in Iran. Today, a week later, the Mail on Sunday catches up and says the same. Keep up!
Guido’s favourite story this week was how the Tories are blatantly fundraising on the back of the Olympic Games:
At a £1,000-a-head fundraising dinner on Thursday, an Olympic torch “signed by Seb Coe, David Cameron and will be signed by Boris” was auctioned for over £30,000. No wonder the Prime Minister called them “the Golden Games”.
Yesterday’s column is now online here
It was not one of the best columns .
Reckon he should ban you.
Loans not benefits.
Now there’s a good idea. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
Yes I’m sick of all my tax being wasted on spongers and parasites. If they had to pay it back they wouldn’t be so quick to claim it.
I guess you should know ducky.
A bit to high brow for me. Jahbulon.
Agent Dave is doing well.
Oh how simply lovely!
Where do I sign?
With the political elite setting & controlling the £39 billion pound budget for the Olympics are we really surprised that some of it has been skimmed into the coffers of the Lib / Lab / Con Party?
Knighthoods & Damehoods all round.
Oi vey to that!
I would have thought this is good management.
Play your hand whilst it is strong.
W.W.
- too busy wanking
Labour should retaliate by auctioning a torch signed by Danny Boyle, Ed Miliband and Ken Livingston.
They’d make…pennies.
No Wimmin? – Equality an all that rules – remember?
Go to the Naughty Step!
Comrade Boyle features heavily in our future communication plans.
As the weekend incorporated Battle of Britain Day, I’m surprised your column didn’t make mention of this historical event.
The summer of 1940: but for the bravery of those young pilots – some of them only teenagers – during aerial combat with the Luftwaffe in the skies above south east England, we might now be living in a German controlled alliance; dictated to by unelected politicians and bureaucrats from foreign nations, an alien flag fluttering over British institutions. What a horrific thought . . .
Agree entirely! +10k
And Wavey D is doing what exactly to build on that?
I think you’ll find that Keith was being sarcastic in the latter part of his post.
How many layers of irony is it possible to stack, one upon another?
Germany, as a nation, is actually riding these troubled economic times far better than the UK and she exports manufactured items all over the world.
Conveniently forgetting 1920 to 1923, where the savings of the middle classes were wiped out in Germany, we now print money FFS!
Oy vey! Will no one think of the poor circumcised bankers?!
I don’t think the Nat-Socialists would have liked the EU at all. Apart from all that stuff about human rights and respect for minorities (not quite their glass of schnapps) they succeeded in rebuilding the German economy in just four years without any gold reserves and, amazingly, without running up any debt. They would be contemptuous of the incompetent floundering and bank-worship that passes for an economic policy in Brussels.
Congratulations for winning the Comment of the Day a full three days after your worthy contribution.
Time moves in a mysterious way.
This accolade really is worth having. Letters to The Times are a doddle compared with CotD. With luck you’ll be up there for a few weeks
Amen.
PARLIAMENT’S plumbing is leaking, the electrics are ancient and they have found asbestos everywhere. Modernisation and repairs will cost hundreds of millions of pounds and builders say if the work is only done during MPs’ holidays it will take twice as long. – So the obvious answer is that MP’s take twice as many holidays saving the country millions.
Then they can take as long as they like
I have finished my jigsaw it took 5 weeks 2 days. Yvette says I am a clever boy becausevon the box itvsays 18 months to 3 years.
Nice one Ed,nice one.
We’ve been lured into this nonsense in the past (Poland 1939, Iraq more recently) and I fear it’s all happening again, with us (and most US citizens) naive foot-soldiers for I s r a el once again.
To be clear, Iran doesn’t need a nuclear bomb as it has very powerful friends on the UNSC who have plenty. Reports from the IAEA which monitors them is that it’s enriching uranium to reactor grade (3%) not weapons grade (90%), which Iran says is legally entitled to do under the NPT. What are relevant here are UN Security Council Resolutions 1696 and 1637 note, because the resolution is under Article 41 of Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, it cannot be enforced through the use of military means. Note how 1636 effectively tries to change the conditions of the NPT after the fact?
One has to ask why the IAEA is not inspecting I s r a e l, P a k i s tan or India – that’s because they unlike Iran they have not signed the NPT! This is why this is victimization of Iran is considered diplomatically unfair/unjust. The NPT is voluntary!
Why would other countries sign up to it after all this?
Which alternative universe did you say you were from?
+1!
“The failure of the talks is a personal blow to the authority of the IAEA director general, Yukiya Amano, who flew to Tehran to finalise an agreement and returned declaring the deal all but clinched.
At the heart of discussions was the IAEA inspectors’ wish to visit a military site at Parchin as a priority, in order to look into intelligence reports that a special metal chamber had been installed there in 2000 for testing high-explosive components of a nuclear warhead.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/iran-nuclear-talks-collapse
“43. In a letter to the Agency dated 29 August 2012, Iran stated that the allegation of nuclear activities at the Parchin site is “baseless” and that “the recent activities claimed to be conducted in the vicinity of the location of interest to the Agency, has nothing to do with specified location by the Agency”.”
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Board/2012/gov2012-37.pdf
We must sign you up for our next comedy camp.
Tin foil hats are in aisle 6 sir.
+1!
When will people believe there is no bought and blackmailed Izzy-Lobby in western govts.? Oy vey!
I believe the modern Labour Party are Fascists
Labour promote an authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Labour are committed to an organic national community where its individuals are united together as one people through national identity. This national identity not being a traditional Geographical identity, but a Labour identity.
I regard the last three Labour governments as the nearest state to fascism that we have ever experienced in the UK.
How are we managing to get by without those ‘voluntary’ compulsory ID cards.
How quickly people forget that, had the Imbecile been elected, we’d be having to show our ‘voluntary’ compulsory ID cards several times a day by now to complete the most trivial transaction. Voluntarily you understand.
We will still have our day.
Papers, show me your papers.
There is something ironic about the fact that the third Reich’s megalomaniac had, despite being characterised as evil, a high level of intelligence*.
Our version’s IQ was one point short of plankton.
*For the avoidance of doubt, I would add that AH was ghastly. But appropriately demonised, civilisation has thus “let off the hook” many others who were just as evil and still yet others who actually killed more people.
Personally I think they are a load of tossers but I bow to your superior knowledge .
Anyone want to buy a signed copy of the Hutton Report ?
The difference between a Nazi Government and a Socialist Government is very little
There has never been Capitalist Government
…and there has never been a real Communist Government either.
http://en.internationalism.org/ir/015_myth_collectives.html
Brazen!
“At a £1,000-a-head fundraising dinner on Thursday, an Olympic torch “signed by Seb Coe, David Cameron and will be signed by Boris” was auctioned for over £30,000. No wonder the Prime Minister called them “the Golden Games”.” Well it goes to show some people have money to burn, loads a money to waste down south.