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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”

is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?




Yes the big problem the country is facing now is that people don’t realise we are one nation. What absolute tosh. Useless pleb.
Its as banal as Big Society.
I can’t see incompetent, useless, spendthrift, corrupt, cretinous, moronic, vicious, vindictive, lying, criminal Labour anywhere?
or self-serving gobchite
I know someone who knew someone who had heard of someone who went to Harvard.
Saying you “went to Harvard” is not necessarily the same as graduating from its university.
I will vote for anybody who can do sums.
It seems that this is no longer a prerequisite for people entering politics.
I don’t really care about personality. I have had enough of that type of person.
Can this young fellow do his sums?
B£iar, Brown and Sorry didn’t feature much either
Funnily enough, I was talking about Ed tyesterday and I used the phrase ‘utter tosser’ 46 times as well.
Spooky.
W.W.
Not too many mentions of “brother” either. In fact none.
THE WEST COAST RAIL FRANCHISE SAGA… in a nut shell…
Branson’s over confident bid too high so FirstGroup nips in with a cheeky lower offer..and wins it.
Branson throws major wobbly and calls in all favours, and among other things threatens withdrawal from all future bids plus a very lengthy and very expensive sunlight litigation.
Government shits itself…then looks for somebody to blame and sack, this achieved parachute in some blameless minister to hopefully explain away the 40 million plus cost to the taxpayer and to avoid government loss of face.
Branson gets the nod, he now knows how to bid, FirstGroup knows have been kippered but in compensation gets promised a “down the line” alternative juicy project which they “WILL” win.
Taxpayer the only loser…happy days.
An admirable summing up of the position if I may say so Taxfodder.
Admirable turn of phrase.
It might be if it were as simple as an eBay auction. You can’t blame Branson for trying to win a contract, but the tender process has clearly been run by a bunch of clowns.
Coco takes offence to that!
It was run by a bunch of Labour misrule hired lackeys.
Please do not insult me. I lost my job thanks to Tory cretins and this is all I can do to scratch a few bob to try and exist.
It’s nothing to do with favours, more like blackmail. Branson is not known as the ‘serial groper’ for nothing. A real question is how many government ministers he has compromised by his pimping.
Me guv? ….. cor blimey … I’m a clean as the riven snow . . . ask anyone . . . fancy a Special Golden Wings card? . . . . free chicken bites on any flight . . . knowotimeen?
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It’s “dr**ven” snow, no riven snow – which is the wrong sort of “snow” for both the railways and the wonderful national broadcasters
Ah! That’s better. Sorry Guids, I forgot about locomotion.
How do you know the bid evaluators weren’t given backhanders to evaluate in First Group’s favour? I’m always suspicious when a new bidder can underprice an already mobilised contractor. It’s the easiest thing in the world to manipulate the evaluation criteria.
It is very easy to undercut an existing franchiseholder when you already have several franchises over which to spread fixed costs (First Group) and the existing holder has to attribute all its fixed costs to the bid (Virgin). Very simple business economics.
Claps, well put, nutshells come to mind, as in , you have it in a nutshell, this crowd are scared to death of being seen to make decisions for the good of the taxpayers, just in case there’s a juicy job that they won’t get if they get it wrong .
Spot on, an accurate summary of yet another government shambles. Fifteen months and many millions later, this fiasco has already cost the poor sodding taxpayer many millions, with yet more to be wasted.
Any heads to roll at the department? Any consultants shown the door without payment? No, I thought not. Silly me.
Thank god they did not get involved in tenders for aircraft carriers…. left that to Labour’s experts
Good job that the state privatised the breweries.
Branson reminds me of my 2-year old: if he doesn’t get what he wants he tantrums, shrieks and stamps his feet until does. The government should send Branson to the adult equivalent of the naughty step, by which I mean just kick him in the nuts.
Like you, I am not impressed if you allow yourself to be bullied by a 2 year old throwing his toys out of the pram.
First Group credit could be Junk. How much will they have to borrow?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/leisure/9482875/FirstGroups-credit-rating-could-be-cut-to-junk-if-West-Coast-deal-increases-debt.html
Strange then that First Group shares fell on this news. If their bid was so overpriced you would have thought the market would have welcomed the news. Do not believe Branson Newspeak about First Group finances. They are sounder than Stagecoach (Virgins partner) and have a much better spread of business risk with the US Greyhound and Student Bus operations.
The thin controller,a.k.a Beardie, seems to use the tactic of throwing his teddy out of the pram everytime he doesn’t get his own way with frequent success. Just how much does he know about government ministers’ ‘little bits of naughty’, that the spoiled fucker can keep getting away with this kind of infantile behaviour repeatedly?
It sounded a bit what Queen Victoria would call a Dizzy speach, and old Mac the Knife would say they are pinching his words.
Do you think you could rerun an old post you did on the Ralph Miliband award being given to Gadaffi’s son. It’d be nice for the wider public to get a taste of the Miliband family’s “values”.
There’re also a few choice quotes from Miliband Sr. regarding British/English nationalism and how it might be a good thing for us to lose the war to see how things really are. Again a nice insight into Miliband family values towards the country that gave him refuge.They deserve a wider audience.
My favourite from the conference is Ed Balls asking – what does it take to be sacked
“Swear at a policeman and you’re defended to the hilt”
“Women are sacked, men get knighthoods”.
Hmm? 13 years of Labour inbicility … and who was Gordon’s right hand idiot?
GCSE questions are difficult – the maths one? And he’s the next chancellor?
Words fail me! I don’t think they’ve even been created yet to cover this, incompetence doesn’t even come close to the mark!
Does that ‘one nation’ of Labour include Northern Ireland?
They wont stand candidates in NI, and they’ve removed the St Patrick’s cross from the Union flag in their conference flag.
Anyone care to ask?
I’ve watched hours of footage on Youtube of the parades commemorating 100 years of the Ulster Covenant. We should have 30,000 (or far more) parading through the streets showing their patriotism. Might send a message to the muzzies.
In extension, there’s Scotland.
One nation … that’d be England then?
‘one deficit’ doesn’t sound right
One nation divided by a thousand cultures.
Yep right and RUN BY TOTAL TO55ERS
One trillion defecit.
OK it’s actually One trillion debt.
Jesus Christ, man! Hide! You’re not allowed to spot that! Even MPs, with Parliamentary Privilege, are not allowed to differentiate between debt and deficit. It’s why Cameron wants to spend nearly £2 billion in an effort to bug everybody’s emails and phone calls – to track down those who know too much.
“We are taking firm steps to reduce the deficit” = “We are going to keep spending your money – like the bunch of loonies we are – but not as much as we used to, and we dearly hope that by banging on about the deficit (aka “massive overspending”) you’ll all forget about the eye-watering soul-destroying obscene level of debt that we’ve run up in your name and which you’re going to have to pay off during the course of the rest of your life.”
Let’s be clear!
DEBT is Investment
DEFICIT is what the Banks owe us
SHEEPLE are the ones who pay
He didn’t mention “deficit” once…Probably steered clear of trying to pronounce it.
“Ath prime minithter I will thtill thpend more than we (meaning, “you”) earn, but I promith to be fithcally thenthible and make thtrenuouth effortth to reduthe the mathive difithit.”
Hmm. I see your point.
Cut the crap – just do what we want FFS!
Ja, ja, it started in Sudentenland.
‘One almighty f*** up’
Close… !
What deficit? – see forgotten already. Wasn’t my fault
So the Electro-Shock Therapy is working then?
Hope you get well soon!
I believe the technical term is revisionism…
I can see the words “Just Country People”
….. Ed has started to channel The Archers…….
Harriet Harman to play Linda Snell
And Ed as Eddy Grundy
Bully Boy Balls has cast himself as the Archangel Gabriel in the Christmas panto.
Yup, all this political manovering does resemble a pantomime, it is getting rather confusing more than a half dozen bad witch types, there is one clown but who is the goody two shoes
I’m assuming he didn’t use the word “surplus” either. Or the words “Balanced budget” …
Or Prudence. That was once a belter before being kicked into touch by McMental.
And his feckless golden rules. My God that man was a moron.
I have a golden rule, it involves taxpayer’s money, travel to eastern Europe and young girls. Boaz.
I heard nothing about the European Problem either.
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5803065/Ed_Miliband_2012_Labour_Conference_Word_Cloud
The deficit is going to be repaid by the taxation of the successful new industries to be created by Labour in the north of England.
LOL, Libor are destroyers of industry, they alone helped to move more jobs abroad.
And import foreign workers for the ones they allowed to continue.
The jobs would be wellcome but can you honestly think Call me Dave or any tory leader would want to create more jobs in the North, they haven’t a lot of seats in the north, liebore won’t, because they know will get in any way. Those in the North, West and Southwestare on a hiding for nothing. The wages are a lot lower than London and SE and they tend to get lower the further away from London they are, that has always been the case in recent history.
The new fount of northern wealth will be Northern Wreck II under the chairmanship of McMental…
Like printing pressess printing P45′s
Interestingly…I don’t see Tory and I barely see Tories on the word cloud….
Why does the word “government” appear twice in the word cloud?
Coz Milimong, like all socialists, is double faced. One ‘government’ is for you and I, the other is for the direct beneficiaries of the next profligate spending Labour ‘government’ that you and I, as taxpayers, will be press ganged into paying for…
That clock is going to start ticking even louder when capitalism wants a big dose of Keynesianism to help it out of its doldrums. Watch out Cameron-Clegg-Osborne-Laws, your days are numbered.
We have already had doses of Keynesianism here, in Europe and in America. And it has failed in all of them because the nutters in charge can’t seem to grasp that (unlike in the 30s) debt is the problem so adding to it will only make it worse.
No mention of BBC Pedophile Ring in that word cloud.
Or PFI investment
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Comprehensively shit education because he failed the 11 plus
Deficit deniers have problems with admitting that they caused the problem in the first place, allaying blame to all but themselves. Plus as mentioned earlier he probably couldn’t pronounce it without sounding like he had two sets of false teeth in his mouth causing a large amount of spray to issue forth Roy Hattersley style.
His speech appears to have done it’s job, on BBC expected, on SKY mmm, it’s in the paper papers, the brain dead will believe it as Camorons PR has been a bag of nothing, it doesn’t change anything , 13 years of Libor has been whitewashed away and blame is on the usual, Camorons uconned us, where PR doesn’t exist and sadly make him lose in 2015 unless the uconned us become real Conservative but then unless they do something about it’s PR, 2015 or even the EUSSR dummy elections could see change.
” Will Mili still need me, will he still feed me when he’s ……….
How can you describe this multicultural cesspit shithole as “One Nation” ?
The muslims for one don’t want anything to do with the rest of us
and given the chance would rid this country of All us infidels
In the present spirit of “one upmanship” I will sue the phrase “legalise gay marriage” no less than 47 times in my speech to Conference.
sue or use ?
Don’t forget to promote windfarms
to keep you in your father in laws good books
.. and “proud to fund India’s space programme” at least two dozen times.
I will also cancel PMQs in Parliament to be replaced by a weekly grilling on ITVs “Loose Wimin” as I believe I have the measure of Denise Welsh.
It is clear from the foregoing that I am indeed a ‘PR’ expert! Only those in the know realise that PR is short for Per Rectum – or, – to us experts – shove it up the bum.
Ah, – being PM is a dream, – I have a free hand! – to do with as I please!
So go play with yourself, after all thats about all your good for……
Yes…. a free hand, its what you’re doing with the other hand to George Osborne and anyone else who’ll praise you that we’re concerned about.
No ‘dad’? Or ‘mum’? Or ‘David’.
Is it racist to call someone a “Turkish b*****d”?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2211962/Hardly-bog-standard–Ed-Milibands-days-Eton-lefties.html
Second last paragraph.
I have his name on file.
Being racist only started when the Libor tyranny started in 1997, before that people could settle arguments without having to have lawyers next to them.
I
have been toldwant to make Liebor the greenetht party of them all. I’ve tharted by rethycling meaningleth thound-biteth over and over ad nautheam. That thould do the trick.Were still paying for your last bosses bit of being green, in taxes, high prices, fkin unsightly windmills, selling British power companies to foreign companies, selling everything else to his mates, selling the people of the country down the river.
Harry Worth tribute photo on the BBC news homepage.
speech cloud = hot air
‘One Nation’ Probably not the best of phrases to adopt as party slogan given that it was hit hi tl ers favourite too.
With the sole exception of one recent interview by Ed Balls I remain totally unconvinced that the labour party has any real ability to drive this nation of ours forwards.
I wish it did for I do worry that while well intentioned our current governments policies are sliding us into darkness (chasing the pound, while being at first glance economicly efficient, it is in my opinion leading to all sorts of undesirable consequences for society) due to a seeming lack of understanding or caring about the social levers that make this country tick stabily.
So for me the Tories are hopefully unintentionally, leading this nation into social darkness, the LibDems have sold out but are thankfully finally appearing to be realising their errors, (lets just see if they have the backbone to do something about them) while Labour are floundering wondering what to do.
You couldn’t make it up.
I can only hope that the Tories can see the devastation caused by the unrelentless focus on profit motive before it is too late for this country. A valuable tool for efficiency that is for sure, but the addiction has real costs – highlighted most abruptly during the industrial revolution.
As a past member of both the Adam Smith Institute and the Conservative party it hurts me to say this but I have found it to be true.
Over the cliff-edge and into freefall involves some measure of forwards.
We need something we are never going to get – a party that understands private enterprise and uses the public sector to help establish a regenerated private sector.
I’ve mentioned it several times previously – it’s the ‘New Economic Model’ and gaining adherents in governments around the world. Most comprehensive study for government was done by Canada.
“With the sole exception of one recent interview by Ed Balls I remain totally unconvinced that the labour party has any real ability to drive this nation of ours forwards.”
Without doubt, this is certainly the finest understatement that has ever adorned the millions of fine pages of Order Order. Congratulations! You have just one first prize of dinner for one with Miliprat (second prize being two dinners….).
Given he doesn’t know the difference between wealth and earnings, he won’t know the difference between debt and deficit so probably best he stays off that difficult stuff
Somebody give Lakelander a nudge.
Would like a photoshop of Miliband ; ‘one nation under a groove.’
http://tinyurl.com/8ub3bx6
One nation socialism at its finest.
From the Indy Movie Iron Sky.
Coming to a T shirt near you
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No longer available in 50 shades of Brown.
Ref the top rate of tax debate. Does the following pass the FAIRNESS test Mr Miliband. 40p top rate of tax under Labour and the debacle of the 75p rise for pensioners and the scrapping of the 10p tax rate. Is that fair Mr Miliband. Another gold medal for hypocrisy !
Miliwank was interviewed on bbc breakfast this morning and wouldn’t answer one question directly. Despite what many say about bbc bias, the presenter did press him several times on what he’d do on oil prices if he was PM and Militwat just kept robotically that the government need to “look at this issue”. The presenter said “I’m sorry but you haven’t answered the question. You mentioned this in your speech. So if oil prices go up and you’re prime minister, what do you do?” And good old Ed just said “What I say is that the government need to look at this issue closely”.
Much as I’d like to say this fluffy headed loon could never be prime minister, our track record as a ‘one-nation’ on picking winners for high office is not good.
Wilson
Heath
Major
Blair
and the biggest stinker of the lot :- Brown
Although did we actually vote for that last one?
Yes, I won by a landslide.
You should be under a landslide you To55er
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Let me guess.
A map of Red Ed’s alien chromosones?
They are a ‘Many towns majority Asian’ party.
Then they scratch their heads when said towns become shitty, dysfunctional, poor, backward hellholes just like the places of origin of the residents.
Funny, that.
If the common idiots had elected Neil all those years ago, and kept me as an MP I could be PM by now – and none of this would of happened.
“One nation Conservatism.” Benjamin Disraeli.
“Ein volk.” Adolf Hitler.
“One nation Tory.” Boris Johnson.
Admirer of Disraeli’s one nation Conservatism. David Cameron.
“One nation.” Ed Miliband.
Depressing shallow political rhetoric.
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The War on the Wealthy starts today !
“One nation” Labour….is Ed ‘avin’ a laff ?
And as for Labour using the Union Jack as a backdrop they really ARE taking the piss now
Maybe not, they are hoping to go into coalition with the B N P.
The growing party for young P45 owners
You can just see where Ed Miliband intends to go. Tax the rich and private industry, increase the public sector, and increase public sector pensions.
He would take this country to the left, do the unions bidding, and ruin this country once and for all.
All his talk about not following his father’s communist ideals is just a pack of lies.
How many references were there to Plebs in that speech ?
How many times did the word Pleb come out of Nick Clegg’s mouth last week ?
How many references will the Prime Minister make to Plebs next week ?
Has there been an enormous cock up in the Department of Transport ?
Why has Mitchell not been arrested ?
Why has Vaz not been arrested ?
These are the questions which should be answered today.
Plus – where’s huhne n vicky?
We will never be one nation while one half has to work to pay for the other half, and we will never be one nation when 5 million of us consider the rest to be pigs and dogs.
We will never be one nation while we are ruled from Brussels and we will never be one nation when foreigners can come and go as they please.
Just as well the word leader isn’t in the word cloud.
One Leader, One Country, One Britain, One Nation.
Any Leader has to dispel the Public perception of Politics being another word for Legalised Crime
Yvette had some fun today with Cameron/Mitchell/Police/Pleb. “One rule for them and one rule for the rest of us” she cried. When Harriet Harman was stopped for speeding a few years ago didn’t she say to the police “do you know who I am?” Yes, one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us !