Labour Wonks Awarded £50,000 Coalition Contract
In rare moment of unsoundness Mad Frankie Maude has announced that Labour wonk-shop IPPR is to be given a “groundbreaking” policy formation role at the heart of the Coalition government. Guido supposes Frankie could hardly have chosen IPPR’s reality-based rivals Policy Exchange given he founded them with Minister Nick Boles and that Michael Gove is a former chairman. Instead the EU and union-funded IPPR will be given £50,000 of taxpayers’ money to research civil service reforms around the world.
UPDATE: PX get in touch to point out that they do not take public money and therefore would not have entered this government commissioning project.
Oh great!
Still the coalition dont care as it is not THEIR money!
Made it – call me the 1000 man
Well done 81lly – hears to another 1000
You dirty so and so.
Why do you keep a count of all your male conquests ?
Just in case the STD clinic suggest he informs them?
Hopefully this arbitrary, pointless, tedious and highly irritating ‘achievement’ marks the transition into a new golden age for you of engagement with the real world.
Be sure to update your CV with this milestone.
Good job for you there ain’t no thumbs ‘cos we’d probably break them showing you what we really think of your floccinaucinihilipilificastic achievement.
Put on the telly to watch PMQs only to find out that the fuckers after only two fucking weeks of work have fucked off for another three fucking weeks of fucking at their fucking annual fucking party jolly.
Fucking Twats.
And your point is?
THEY’RE ALL LYING TWO FACED LAZY PARASITIC BASTARDS!
You say that as if it’s a BAD thing.
Politicians not being in Parliament has to be one of the best things for this country. At least when these f*ckers are strutting around in Brighton or wherever it is, they’re only causing a few local traffic jams, rather than guffing about in the HoC, doing their utmost to b*gger Britain and the British people.
I think Party Conferences should be like the DFS Sale; starting on Jan 1st and continuing until the 31st December.
Thanks to devolution, Wastemonster has little power over Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, it’s mainly England alone that’s fucked by Wastemonster’s laws. Still, the ruling classes want us in England to believe that the entire kingdom is affected by the British parliament.
More like ‘infected’, Norm.
That’s no bad thing.
Encouraging MP’s to work harder, is rather like encouraging thieves to steal even more. Best leave them alone and skiving around, than damaging the country from westminster.
Good point!
Who the fcuk wants to know about civil service reforms around the world anyway? How bloody boring is that then?
Why didn’t they just give them a cheque for £50,000 and tell them to fcuk off to Novaya Zemlya?
(I bet the bastards wuld not know where that is.)
Its only £50,000.00 whats the problem? Look on the brightside its £50,000.00 that can’t be claimed on expenses…
Apart from all the civil servants claiming expenses to go on fact finding missions for IPPR surveys all around the world.
Reading this blog one gets the impression that there are no more than three so-called think tanks in the entire country. WTF can’t somebody else have a go occasionally?
We’ll look after you in opposition if you look after us when we are?
Who said that???
Schrödinger’s cat did
I admit to nothing!
Too late – you are out of the box and you ARE both dead and alive.
That must be a quantum of solace.
Never mind the policy wonks.
Look at the wives if you want to know about the liblabcons looking after each other.
Pathetic! All in it together.
Maude conservative facade is just a thin veneer.
He is the guy who signed the Maastricht Agreement, has given civil servant training contracts to Common Purpose, the marxist ‘charity’ and now slipping taxpayer dosh to the far left IPPR to advise Dave’s fabian coalition.
It is a given that anyone associated with Dave is not a Conservative.
This is more evidence that the Conservative Party is dead.
Don’t forget to add “Vote UKIP” in case we miss the point of the self evident propaganda, Sandra.
Or even “pay your fines/ taxes on your Jersey educational trust (If that’s what it is) etc….
No need for this, just sack the weakest of civil servants 10% every year.
Yeah sounds great! We can award the contract for assessing their weaknesses to Atos.
They’ve done a great job reducing the weak from society, getting rid of 32 per week at the moment (Permanently)
Or Crapita – they’re just peachy at delivering on time, on budget.
What is a “wonk shop”?
Is there any connection to masturbation ?
A bin man went with his son on a camping trip to celebrate his son completing his PhD.
They set up their tent and fell asleep.
Some hours later, the father wakes his son and asks: “Look up to the sky and tell me what you see?”
Son: “I see hundreds of stars.”
Father: “And what does that tell you?”
Son: “Given what I can see, I can extrapolate that there must be millions of galaxies, planets and stars in the universe.”
Father sighs and says: “You idiot. Someone has stolen our tent.”
Only in your case.
I love a good wonk.
If you take the Autobahn south from Villach and turn off at the last exit before entering Italy, you are greeted with this popular establishment:
http://bit.ly/QmyRUa
The Austrian lake district is a wonderful part of the world. But it’s many years since was there, on a continental driving hol with my parents when I was still at school. i wonder whether it’s changed. Must have, no ‘autobahn’ in the 1960s…
Villach, Klagenfurt and Spittal have all developed some sprawl but otherwise it is just as I first remembered it some forty years ago.
We used to stay at Millstat, then go on down over the Grossglockner to Italy. Absolutely wonderful. European countries can be great, when they aren’t bogged down in unaccountable supra-national bureaucracies.
It is still perfectly possible to motor happily around Europe without getting anywhere near a motorway/autobahn/autostrada etc.
Well, well, well…. he hasn’t taken any lessons from Yeo, has he.
With any luck the IPPR will furck it up a treat…………
Great, I always love winter in the Bahamas
Yet vulnerable people are forced to suffer.
We have examined these vulnerable people as you put it and we find them fit for work.
We claim our £100,000,000.00
Retards!
such largesse.
Wonder if the fuckers ever have a twinge of conscience when they sign these wasteful contracts.
Conscience? Politicians?
You HAVE read the Hare test for psychopaths, haven’t you?
It’s the same for politicians, as the two terms are largely interchangeable.
Most politicians have lost or abandoned the habit of concealing their contempt for the electorate. They believe they are invulnerable.
Stockholm syndrome, the new Tory Party version.
The liblabcons are all in it together.
“The electorate outside looked from Left to Right, and from Blue to Red, and from Red to Blue again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Porkers, the lot of them. Rasher time.
Did you hear about the lass who sat on the meat slicer?
Disaster!
anyone else notice today the the Policy Exchange is ALWAYS referred to as “right-leaning” on the BBC, yet no mention of IPPR’s “left leaning”-
one for the new boss to be looking at, perhaps?
There is no such thing as left-leaning.
Left-leaning is the new centre right. Far left is now moderate centre – at least that is what they claim to be.
Anyone right of left-leaning or moderate centre is now a “far right extremist who inspired Breivik”.
The left have won. And in a generation or two I expect anyone holding right-wing views to be criminalised.
Another £50k of taxpayers money for the IPPR to say that the Tories have got it all wrong again.
Two Wonks don’t might anything right.
‘make’
If we had had warnings like this in the UK …….
Kate ?
Speed humps?
Cheeky
Great! At last that Middleton woman can get off her backside and do a proper day’s work!
there used to be a type of ground-breaking performed by guests of HM at Dartmoor prison
is this what the gov’t has in mind?
I think they should set the prison population to work on building a causeway from Scotland to Ulster
I was wondering, why they didn’t just leave the old one alone?
Well, the footings are in.
A contract to investigate Civil Service reform would suggest ” A night of the long knives” – considering strongarm tactics to cull the waste that abounds in all departments.
Seeing as the CS is predominantly full of Socialists, maybe a Labour wonk group could be the iron fist in a velvet glove approach. – Them versus them as against a political confrontation between the parties?
My favorite portrait
http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/1409354/81434672.jpg
Leveson should surely the character of said witness.
question
I’ll give you a prescription for sagaciter finger crepito. Rub it in three times a day and you’ll soon be up with Kebob.
NEXT!
Digbdy Jones, on today’s Daily Politics, showed little thought for current events, when he mimed the pin pulling and throwing of an hand grenade.
Anyone notice Ashley Cole spit when Rio Ferdinand walked past? How did Terry and Cole get away with blatant lying? What will the pathetic FA do?
Keep things in proportion. The deficit for today is circa £400 million (same as yesterday, same as tomorrow). £50,000 is only just over 0.01% of my daily overspend.
What next? Giving the Mafia £50k for researching ways to reform the criminal justice system?
Now that is a good idea. At least we would get rid permanently of much of the shit that pervades our town centres and sink estates.
I turned to politics only after being told I was too good to play professional football
Only 959 days to go until the next General Election.
A week is a long time in politics.
23,016 beautiful hours whoopee
I’m going to be leader of the nation.
I cannot believe it! You can’t either! Nor mum, nor David, nor Tony!
Cameron and Clegg can’t believe it.
Serwotka and Barber can’t believe it. Polly Toynbee says she can believe it, but I know even she can’t believe it.
I..Me..Ed Moribund..is actually going to PM.
Its just like that time Claudius became emperor when he was found dribbling and hiding behind a curtain.
I wonder what became of him ?
Some enterprising fellow with IT skills managed to provide us with a reducing clock which measured the time to the end of the Olympics.
Maybe he could be persuaded to institute one showing how much longer we have before we get rid of Cameron and his useless hangers-on?
Not a cheering thought. The march to serfdom if any branch of liblabcon has its way.
A “rare moment of unsoundness”? Bollocks, Fawkes.
This is the same Maude who has just hired the ex-MD of my County Council – Katherine Kerswell – on £142k a year to, er, reduce Whitehall spending.
Kerswell left the Council after only 18 miserable months in the job with a whopping £420k bung. Total cost of her sojourn here: £700k.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9542007/Council-chief-who-took-420000-pay-out-gets-new-six-figure-government-job.html
It can’t be because she was good in bed, cos, this lot are all gayers.
Looking at that munter for more than a few secs is enough to turn anyone gay.
She must have spent some time with Huhnes trout then.
Strangely I ended up in a discussion about eugenics today and a point came up we can’t seem to get an answer to.
Q. If a male mong has sex with a female mong and she gets pregnant will she have a baby mong?
I always thought mongs had zero fertility.
They certainly fucking don’t in Whitehall – breeding like rabbits as never before.
What about if a mong had sex with David Laws?
It’s never gonna happen, apparently David Laws finds sex with female mongs disgusting.
Oh well, yet again it seems you can take the boy out of Clapham …
It’s not true mongs have zero fertility.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01042/SNN1204NEWZ-682_1042131a.jpg
+1000
Gordon is advising us on wee-distribution
Carpet in the bathroom is a bad idea
Pre-distribution is that little farty sound you make as you declare bomb bay doors open.
What I want to know is why is it only the Grauniad of all places where there is a report of the new EU policy document on radical reform:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/18/eu-foreign-defence-policy-overhaul
We all knew they’d use the Euro crisis to force nation states together, there isn’t a democratic mandate for any of this in any European nation atm.
.. a point made forcibly to Rumipumpi a few days ago. When does the revolution start?
Just give me 10K for this piece of excellent advice.
Take the entire public service and fire 90% of them. You won’t notice anything.
North Korea is a great model for us to follow, you can’t increase spending too far or too fast.
You had me at ‘wonk-shop’.