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Loving the Brookes cartoon of the Twitter bird crapping on Leveson’s bonce that illustrates Guido’s critique of the Leveson Report in this morning’s Sun. With only one page devoted to the internet out of 2000 pages it really shows that the judge knows he can’t regulate the world wide web…
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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.”
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
Leveson is just wrong, to even suggest that the politicians have a hand in writing the laws/underpinning regulating those that expose the same politicians is nuts, i mean what would happen if nutters got into government?
Tho Guido, If this Tory Mp has his way Bloggers will require a *Kitemark*
Fine, just as long as MPs have to have a ‘Huntmark’ on their foreheads.
Most of them just have “Skidmarks” on the duvet
I’ve just been asked – again – how come I’m such an unutterably useless tosser! I can only reaffirm – it comes naturally – enhanced by my totally useless time at Oxford and that PPE Degree – I think it stands for Plonkers, Pricks, and Execrable Nutters.
The interweb is where people like his chosen landers and others who slimily connive in the shadows get their dirt on people by tracking and hacking.
Not much point in closing down the very system that can individually record everyone’s political thoughts and intentions.
Ooh, lovely
“i mean what would happen if nutters got into government?
Hahahahahahahaha!!
To derive benefit from the incredible boost the Olympics has brought and to improve the health of the nations future generation of politicians, the colleges have officially modified the subject of PPE to be: Politics and PE
‘Most of them just have “Skidmarks” on the duvet’
Yes! It’s called a Shitemark
Oh come on! Even those that use the web, that design bits of the web, don’t get and understand the web as well. Takes a well qualified trick cyclist after fifty years of study to understand and explain it, but by that time we have of course moved on to other warped social things.
Anyway, it is only used to sort out your next shag after all, isn’t it, ey Lord?
PPE – stands for Poofters, Pillheads and Elitists.
Might as well call the degree a ‘C’ in honour of Geoff Hoon
And no doubt this “kite mark” would have to be managed by a huge multi-tiered bureaucracy paid for by my taxes and in order to get the kite mark I would be subjected to the usual hefty book calling itself a form and full of questions intended to pigeon hole me according to lefty identity group politics and then to paying a “licence fee” (more tax) for the privilege of being monitored by another huge bureaucracy of left wing meddlers also paid for by my taxes.
No thank you. Hands off our freedom to express.
freedom of expression. when that goes…..freedom goes.
the greatest freedom is with the e.lite.
should they have any freedoms outside their duty?
The system is massively rigged and manipulated. It will all normalise as long as we up our expectations of authority and lower expectations of ourselves.
“the power of voice is the key to the World”?
Put me i/c Bluto! – end of!
I don’t aspireyo fuck all you twat
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/red-cross-aids-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-1-4544472
If anyone knows who is blowing the whistle on my immigration policy in Portsmouth, please let me know. I, my boys and a few council officers are making lots of money with this immigration scam and we don’t want it to stop for obvious reasons. I have been blogging under the pseudonym ‘Parallel University Playground’ to try and divert the damaging information, but it does not seem to be working. Oh woe is me this internet is killing me! Boaz.
If Parallel University Playground really is Handycock, which it seems it probably is, he must be the thickest MP ever to sit in Parliament. God help the poor people of Portsmouth.
http://www.sundayexpress.co.uk/posts/view/361917/-Russian-lover-MP-Mike-Hancock-in-new-row-over-sordid-sex-texts
Looks like I am going to have to get the Grand Master to bail me out again. The City Solicitor will keep delaying until the Grand Master has fixed things, after all he is also a member, that is why I brought him on to the Council at triple his former salary. Looks to me like either a big payout or a quiet word from the boys will help the Grand Master along. Boaz.
Robert Mugabe and Goodluck Johnathan. Don’t worry Handy the Grand Master and City Soilicitor will get you out of another scrape, have no fear. Jahbulon.
Jahbulon Handy.
Mahabon Handy.
Given that the report’s author is of the semitic persuasion , surely it should be a KIKEmark?
Can’t be arsed to post this in the right place,. but just to note that the hacked-off petition is bollocks. I’ve just signed it about 8 times using email addresses along the lines of: jstalin@kremlin.gov.sov, rmugabe@zimbabwe.gov, edmilliband@labour.net etc. etc.
BBC trying to say that 100k have signed it – yeah right.
Well we’ve had a war criminal, a closet gay and a pair of clowns as our last three PMs.
So perhaps a nutter would be an improvement?
Closet gay? Whatever else the last three PMs might have been, I can’t see that one.
It means you piss in the wardrobe – stupid!
1+1+2 =3 ? You are Ed Balls and I claim my 1000 nectar points.
One PM can be a closet gay, a clown and a war criminal all at the same time. He can also use his influence to suppress a story about his activities at a certain set of public bogs. Multitasking, innit?
And the Sand Dunes? – Cape Cod my boy – you have so very much to learn!
It wasn’t me!
Nor me
santa, saturn, satan.
the false promiser of goodies for us kids.
do your duty.
gain the rewards that satan offers.
multitasking.
Hello Ludwig, remember me at the Linz Hofschule, we were in the same class 1901 I think or thereabouts- I still have a class photo of us all taken in the yard –
thats right you and I are in the top right
happy days — it got a bit vertical after that !!!!!
Even more nutters
What would happen if nutters owned all the newspapers?
All gone bust by Friday.
People wouldn’t buy them and others would appear that they would buy!
Wish that applied to the bankster destructed banks!
You can thank regulation for that…
It’s normally loved by big business as it hampers new entrants to markets.
check out funding circle and zopa.
peer to peer lending should be the future.
We had 13 years of nutters in government. The results are there for all to see.
It’s 15 years and counting.
That (amongst other things) is what makes me laugh about Hugh, Steve, JK, Sienna etc all of the reporting of unsavoury behaviour etc, hppened on their mates Tony and Gordons watch, and there was never a mention of an enquiry in to the press, but Milliband jumps on the Dowler bandwagon and so do the celebs ! now they are bleating again when the PM doesnt immediately over react to the report, i wonder how many of them have read all 2,000 pages !
I always say that Hugh was just a dish to have had.
Rowling really gets on my tits. Jumped up champagne socialist with chips the size of Blackpool tower on both shoulders. It seems this writer of childrens’ stories reminiscent of the plots of novels and tales from better writers thinks what she says really matters to us. She has an ego bigger than her many prejudices and perceived grievances. She’s also obsessed with secrecy and apparently demands confidentiality agreements from anyone who does business with her. No wonder she wants to control what the press write about her as she seems to have put more effort into being more creative about her background than the plots of her poorly written literary efforts.
As for the other so called celebs and ‘victims’ -
The McCanns – Courted the press for all they were worth, even employing a press agent. Get piqued when British press print information that the incompetent Portugese police give them about finding blood in the rear of their car and the consequent suspicions. Of course their daughter wouldn’t have been kidnapped had they not left her and her siblings alone while they went out on the razz with their friends. I’ve lost all sympathy for them in their efforts to transfer their own guilt to the press.
Grant, Coogan, Church – Lived dissolute lifestyles, behaving no better than the low-life scum drunkenly parading around our city centres at weekends. Coogan especially is really a self centred shit – so much so that even that old slapper Courtney Love strenuously denied having “relations” with him. Alan Partridge is not a nice person in real life.
Max Moseley – Caught out frequenting S & M establishments and using the services of prostitutes and then blames the press for rumbling him and upsetting his family. Nothing to do with his own actions, then. That his father was creator of the British Union of Fascists and his mother was one of the Hitler worshipping Mitford sisters probably has nothing to do with his desire to muzzle the press.
The Dowler Family – used as dupes by the Hacked Off campaign and shyster lawyer Mark Lewis. It wasn’t the Press who revealed Mr. Dowler’s penchant for pornography. They just reported what was revelled in court during the trialof Millie’s killer,Levi Bellfield. They lost my sympathy when they pocketed £2,000,000 from Rupert Murdoch when the Guardian lied about the hacking of Millie’s phone. Even one of the coppers giving evidence at Leveson’s kangaroo enquiry admitted they couldn’t prove Millie’s phone was hacked.
Let’s face it, all the so called victims have something to hide. They try to create public images that are totally at odds with their true characters and hate the press for revealing their true selves.
They all just want to muzzle the press in order to hide their sordid, disgusting lifestyles. If Cameron does nothing else as Prime Minister, he would earn the thanks of all those who lost their lives in two world wars fighting for freedom of thought and expression, if he prevents the state regulation of the Press.
Typo – should have said ” what was revealed in court” in paragraph five.
Harsh but fair you cynical old man.
You’re only saying what lots of British people are thinking.
when ppl go for endless public sympathy.
something is wrong. very wrong.
It was the McCanns wot did it
Spot on.
Don’t care what you say, Rowling can jump on my bones anytime she wants. Something about her stirs me. Ok, she’s a wife and mother, but so? I have more imagination than here hubby, would wish to swop spit with me, underneath any light, at the edge of a cliff, looking back at the life of fools behind us, as we laugh. Ey Jo? Song for you Jo, just for you (honest!) : )
Well said C.O.M.
These so called ‘celebs’ are either over the hill and are doing this to try & breathe life into their failing careers, or, as you say, don’t like the truth when confronted by it.
As for the M,c,a,n.s., I still have my doubts about them.
just like the press there is no need to have government regulated offshore media as criminal law still applies.
That is why you did not publish the names on Schofields’ piece of paper, do not hack phones or bribe coppers, as they are all illegal acts if committed in the UK whether you publish them offshore or not.
This is what I do not understand about the Leveson report. Right at the start he said if the police had done their job properly then there would have been no inquiry, yet he concludes that the police were not at fault. An alternative report of just half a page could have been produced saying that there was no need for State regulation of the press and only a need for the plod to police illegal activities of the press.
A very succinct summation of 2000 pages of taxpayers money.
Worth every penny! Rebbbeeekkkaaahhh’s horse says so!
Yeah
Squelch
To be honest the press did cross the line many times yet I can not see how each time they crossed the line it was not a criminal offence that the police, the justice system and the government at the time could not handle if they were not so incompetent or corrupt. For instance in the McCann case when they virtually accused a local bloke of being the abductor plus stealing Kate Mccann’s diary and publishing the inevitable ambiguous statements without her consent. Also virtually accusing Jeffries of murder was libellous as was the recent accusations against Lord McAlpine. All these could and should have been dealt with by the current laws along with hacking phones. The fact the state was incompetent/corrupt is hardly a good reason to give them even more powers.
In the Jefferies case the police were leaking to the press. They believed him guilty and hoped that by making this known off the record to the press the ensuing publicity would encourage others to come foreward with evidence. it’s an old tactic and often works but in this case the man with the blue rinse was actually innocent.
And currently enjoying a comfortable retirement. As too are the Dowlers. In no way is it an excuse for people to be treated like that but they’ve got more compo than a soldier who stands on a landmine. A bit of perspective is needed methinks
The Dowlers had their daughter murdered which is as bad if not worse than a soldier and land mine scenario. I think its you who needs perspective. You are well named.
NOTW closed down. reason…dowlers. when will corrupt institutions of state be closed down?
The paper didn’t murder their fucking daughter did it, you gimp?
My over-riding memory of the Jefferies case is watching him being chased down the road by a camera crew.
Not the press- the broadcast media…..
blue rinse did it
So Levi Bellfield caused this report
“With only one page devoted to the internet out of 2000 pages it really shows that the judge knows he can’t regulate the world wide web…” true, that has not stopped various governments around the world disconnecting from the world web, therefore there is no reason to belieive it won’t happen in the UK. Everything is logged by ISPs, GCHQ, even maybe even Guido and WordPress, it would pay governments to keep the web free so they can keep their beady little eyes on you, if you encript anything they can force you to to give the key to the encription. The governments that loudly shout “freedom” really mean freedom for those on message, you only have to look at the US.
Don’t forget Dave has already been tempted down that route. He was going to switch social media off during the riots until wiser council persuaded him otherwise.
Make no mistake. As western societies become more fragile and balkanised, the authorities will attempt to curtail internet freedom at some point.
Stuff like the muslim grooming and r@pe scandals, the noncing and thieving activities of the elites are stuff they did not want coming out in any circumstances.
e.lite.
put a light under them.
they want darkness.
we want light. forget austerity. enjoy…be austere towards the e.lite. keep on reminding them what is THEIR duty. they are very fast at using us. only then we have space.
how can we enjoy without the space.
healthy.
enjoyment.
Re the Dowlers, their daughter was murdered by Levi Bellfield, not by the press. It even turns out the press didnt delete he messages but that this was done automatically by her phone company. I fail therefore to see why they keep being mentioned as victims, they received £3,000,000 from news int.Re comparing soldiers and land mines V murder you do know what a land mine does, i take it ?
the pain of endless suffering…the Dowlers look tortured.
do they still feel it and if so what is the reason. why do we assume it is anything to do with the freedom of the press.
I always felt the way they were cross examined in court was worse than the alleged phone business.
+ 100
Maybe because the pain of what happened is being dragged up continuously in this and they are dealing with the final indignity of seeing their memories being turned into cheap fodder to achieve a rather shoddy political end. The celebs who don’t really have any credible case themselves always start and end with their case.
spot on anon .. celebs play a media game they have created for themselves and can look after themselves when it comes to it…
publicity in any form is their lifeblood.
the Macanns and the Dowlers were badly let down and unfortunately won’t be the last examples of it happening…such is life sad to say.
BBC are banging on about a Hacked Off petition with a few thousand votes wanting new laws passed. How about someone setting up a Free Press petition to counter it. See which gets most signatories and if BBC cover it
The whole Hacked off campaign wouldnt be in existence if a labour government was in power, lets be honest. The luvvies, Hugh, Sienna, Steve,charlotte, jk etc etc are all labour supporters and are not so much concerned with privacy as causing problems for the Government.I think its despicable, personally and i hope people remember when the next 3rd rate film or overhyped book comes out.
Hugh is obviously a bit stressed by this whole situation.
He should go and get himself blown off by some cheap whore to re-set his mental state.
Well!!! I am shocked and appalled that JK Rowling has been allowed to produce and distribute to an unsuspecting public millions of books (and get handsomely rewarded into the bargain) for filling the heads of our poor innocent children with blatantly untrue tales of fantasy, flying broomsticks and witches. This behaviour will have a deleterious effect on their minds which will thus remain forever tainted.
What is the Prime Minister going to do about this chicanery? I demand a petition.
Let’s start a counter petition to the Hacked Off one. “That we believe the press in this country should NEVER be subjected to the control of politicians and corrupt celebrities and agenda driven organisations.”
Sound good?
The law is 19th-century technology. Leveson is a steampunk in an electronic world.
We need to upgrade to a cyberpunk Leveson
I always preferred junkpunk myself. Try one of these candied centipede segments – they’re the greatest!
You are not wrong there Bill.All our love.
Is there a petition to counteract the so called”Hacked off”petition. What exactly do these people want. There are prosecutions going ahead for inappropriate behaviour and they have all received generous payouts making some of them very rich.Let them give the money back first in order to show their morality and their principles.
I never understood why the Dowlers should benefit to the tune of £3,000,000 it all seemed very odd to me. Plus you have to say it hasnt exactly bought their silence either !
How are they able to spend such money knowing that the reason they have it is because of their daughter. I would not want it- the money is tainted.
He wasn’t asked to. You stupid Hunt.
To see you scumbag hypocrites trying to use the argument of defending freedom in order to maintain your obscene pursuit of personal gain through corruption and bribery is joyous. As it will be to see public opinion force through a proper, legally backed system of control.
agreed. just started a petition on govt e petition website calling on the govt to resist calls for full implementation. It will be up in a bit.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-01/guest-post-mark-carnage
The greater story behind Mark Carney’s appointment to the Bank of England may be the completion of Goldman Sachs’ multi-tentacled takeover of the European regulatory and central banking system.
But let’s take a moment to look at the mess he is leaving behind in Canada, the home of moose, maple syrup, Jean Poutine and now colossal housing bubbles.
George Osborne (who as I noted last month wants more big banks in Britain) might have recruited Carney on the basis of his “success” in Canada. But in reality he is just another Greenspan — a bubble-maker and reinflationist happy to pump the banking sector full of loose money and call it “prosperity” before the irrational exuberance runs dry, and the bubble inevitably bursts.
I have nothing but sympathy for those who have lost loved ones in tragic circumstances and for those genuinely upset by unwarranted press intrusion. But state control of the free press won’t bring their loved ones back.
For every hacking victim there are thousands who have benefitted from fantastic investigative journalism over hundreds of years. The thalidomide expose is a case in point.
Hacking victims have been financially recompensed,the NoTW closed down.
I have absolutely no interest in the drug- fuelled sexual exploits of minor celebrities. But I don’t see why their experience should mean myself or my kids will no longer have free access to news that Brits have enjoyed for hundreds of years.
Countries like Russia,China and North Korea control their newspapers. Not mine.
I didn’t get to where I am today by only having 3 staff and low overheads !!!
Nice picture of a Great Tit what !
Leveson Junior likely does get the internet but only has jurisdiction on the small island north of France. Myself and colleagues at the ITU are sorting out the future international regulation of the global internet behind some fairly heavy closed doors in New York in full collaboration with the UN.
So long as Leveson Junior doesn’t interrupt our important work, which will likely be directly managed from the USA – by for instance designating the UK internet as a press in some irrelevant domestic legal sense, or attempting any half cock local regulation which could conflict with our soon to be proposed superior international law, then he will remain on our XMas list.
We would prefer if the traditional press did stop speculating our motives and asking for releases. As we have repeatedly told the the Spectator, the press is more than welcome to attend our meetings if they qualify for a press pass, for which they may apply if they are ITU approved and meet certain unpublished criteria and application can be made through UN approved channels.
We urge concerned citizens that this consultative administrative process is fully transparent, and that there is indeed nothing to see here or be unduly concerned about.
It is not true that the UN is attempting to take control of global internet regulation and urge people to disregard the content of wcitleaks.org or any other reports which suggest otherwise as being conspiracy paranoia.
Conspiracy paranoia?
There should be laws to stamp that out. Along with laws to control climate deniers.
The UN is a joke and could not manage a piss up in a brewery or a sandwich in a brothel.
sandwich in a brothel ?
Exactly.
Gay men sound so feminine.
Not me though, I’m straight for life honey.
You’re just in denial.
I will soon be in the Nile.
If you think global Internet regulation isn’t in the process of being implemented you’re going to be very surprised when it arrives.
I think TPTB will be equally surprised when it doesn’t work.
I do hope the press who gurns like Grant, Rowling and Church want gagged, ignore them in the future. Absolutely no coverage or publicity whatsoever.
Let their celebrity star fall fown a hole.
Godd thinking Batman.
* Good. Fat fingers today
And the McCanns with their paid media consultants too please.
Anyone notice how the TV coverage went from: We want the Leveson implementation to satisfy ‘the Dowlers and the McCanns’, to ‘the Mccanns and the Dowlers’, to ‘the Mccanns’ Anyone notice who took over the prime speakership for Hacked Off? Even the ubiquitous self-publicist Hugh Grant was sidelined. Mr Gerry swept across my PC screen-corner Sky TV News like Batman, his cape-like mac swinging, and he gave his ‘statement’ slagging off the PM who has just spent £3 million plus of tax payers money on a Scotland Yard paper shuffling exercise ostensibly to find out what happened to his semi abandoned daughter! Poor Chris Jeffries, whose voice should have been heard instead, merely tagged along like Robin. Is there no end to the self delusion and bombast of the McCann man? Anyone besides me think he was presenting himself as a possible choice of parliamentary candidate as soon as the next really safe Labour seat comes round? Watch out in the not too distant future, Ed Milliband, your job may be on the line.
It’s McCann’s grating, whining Scouse voice that should bar him from any TV or radio.
Scots NOTScouse you wally, of Irish extraction
Their isnt such a thing as a Scots accent as you will discover should you ever compare accents from Edinburgh with Glasgow with Inverness with Orkney etc etc. Stop your stupid facile stereotyping .
Its the wifes voice that is the whiny scouse one, he is from somewhere in scotland with a very abrasive accent.
how can someone be holier than thou.
there is no such thing.
ppl like gerry mccann should show humility,
Somebody on the Guardian site yesterday,(all very vague) said Dr Gerry was involved with some financial deals? involving the Government, before his daughter was abducted, and that was why they had so much help. I must say it was odd the way the “family”committee etc all swung in to action so quickly.Does anybody know anything ?
it was odd.
that slick media machine.
Emily Bell of Media Guardian knows lots of secrets which she is desperately trying to hide.
As a fellow Scot, I had to visit them personally and offer unlimited government support.
In that case cameroid should not have jumped at Mccann,s orders/request,What about the Needham lad? Cameroid did not do anything about his case.He was just ordinary working class.If anyone is guilty of delusion and bombast look no further than cameroid.
You can always have a good laugh at the hypocrisy of so called celebs and publicity seekers especially the self proclaimed versions, or those with a god mode agenda.
There they are in a never ending dash to get their mugs on the telly or names in the paper to support and promote their silliness, but the second somebody…anybody, points out their failures, indiscretions or greed they are up in arms to have it swept under the carpet by fair means or foul.
Seems its just fine and dandy to profit from positive press but somehow wrong when it gets negative and the world finds out you are not so perfect after all.
How unfair is that!
empty vessels…….
Is McCann the bloke who went out for a meal while on holiday while leaving his three kids alone in their apartment?
I promise not to lecture him on childcare attangements if he promises not to lecture me on press freedom.
And I don’t want any lectures on spelling either…
wee woodnent du that thicco
down.
You have fat fingers too? Must be catching.
David Cameron promoting awareness of HIV. Shame he forgot to mention he’s killing off the institution that is supposed to treat sufferers.
Prison?
Gays are killing themselves off, get over it.
IFF nature wanted kweers it would have bred them – otherwise it’s perverting the natural order – so . . . .
Not just the gayers but bi and hetro rising numbers spreading it about, many not realising it until it is too late
x100
http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/what-do-the-taliban-and-the-bbc-have-in-common/
Save Our Fire Stations – e-petitions http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41043
Remind us all again about those ‘massive’ cuts to the Fire Service budget.
Come on, what percent cut is it, you scaremongering prick.
scramongering is the key word.
after blair’s 45minutes,
is someone going to talk about the 3 minute warning?
Do they all still manage to have other jobs on the side, and sleep all night when on call ?
Of course we must save them, a senior source in the union said………….. well what if the lutfwaffe came back……………………
If they did I would expect you and your kind to support them.
The luftwaffe that is.
the pressure group for press reform have already collected 40,000 signatures
looks like your on your own on this one Dave ha ha ha
Andy and Rebekah will be a trifle cross with you what !
When the other 61,960,000 sign up, maybe we will agree with them.
I wonder how many of those signing Hacked Off petition have read a page of the report let alone all 2,000. Would BBC give counter petition the same coverage?
The classic mindset of minority bullies. To think that a few thousand signatures from zealots who ought to have better things to think about should carry weight over a silent majority of millions just demonstrates how arrogant they are.
0.64% is not really much of a basis to impose on 99.36%.
Back in your box.
1.8 million people signed the e-petition against the proposal by Bliar’s Government to introduce road tolls…that is the sort of number you need BEFORE anyone will take notice otherwise it’s just a self-interest group trying to gag the press for their own ends
Not according to us. Here in the BBC we will constantly publicize this and any other news that attacks this government and meets our Labour led agenda.
Signatures of the petition are now at ?????????????????????????? etc
Yes, even on the world service last night they were saying “pressure is mounting on the PM to implement Levason “!
Ah good old Tony We all miss him don’t we ?
You might say that, but I could not possibly comment.
Frankly, Tony Benn was a much better politician that that other one – whatever his name was – you know the President of Europe or something equally silly.
We won’t miss him with the second shot.
There were 100,000 for an EU referendum. Look where that got them !
exactly
Hacked Off have categorically stated that most British people want state regulation of the press.
That is a total lie and they have no evidence to back it up.y
Rowling’s scribblings were also about fantasy.
If you think Internet regulation is difficult or won’t be coming to you soon then think on this:
Anyone signed up to a provider has already furnished their identity.
All that needs to be done to regulate the Internet is to require people to logon to it, and I don’t mean with some Gmail account you created five minutes earlier.
As for being offshore I’m pretty sure they’ve got that one covered. You’ll be subject to the Law where you are resident.
And you don’t believe in the NWO.
Every country has an on/off switch for all communications, normally the key is the military but here it will be the uncivil servant power grabbers.
It takes very little to disrupt the internet.
As in Syria which was purely in government control it only takes damage to vital junction points. Read Tubes by Andrew Blum to find out.
And like a telephone, with the right regulations in place at the right level, enforcement of a taxation of sorts for access can follow.
Of course – with somewhat trustable governments like China, Russia, Iran and others who value highly things like freedom of the press and light touch regulation of telecommunications behind the UN on this, those regulations on content and access which may emerge will likely be somewhat draconian and arbitrary.
Ironic as if passed, there will probably be intense pressure from said governments to enforce then international obligations, where as at present said governments are completely derelict in enforcing existing international copyright treaty obligations amongst others.
Quid pro quo ?
Oh God! Another Internet ‘expert’ who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
The Internet is stateless (does not maintain state). You can’t ‘log on’ to it FFS. It just doesn’t work like that. It’s a packet routing system, not a banking application.
It’s people like you spouting bollox that lead politicans to think regulating the Internet (the www actually).
Via your access provider numbnuts or don’t you need a password to connect to your provider.
Sadly it’s not stateless, each and every link into each and every country comes under International and National agreements also agreements the companies who own the links have made with the countries goverment they are in and operate from, now tell me where all our International links are in relation to where the actual link comes in , why London and where in London mostly from one building, why would that be done, most business done in London?, the business model says it is?, nah, for easy shutting down in a national emergency, a national emergency can be when the crap in the uncivil service thinks of a good one.
Biffo – the above are true – definitely read up on this – but your remark demonstrates the remarkable distortion of the truth which people do believe.
The taxation element will likely be the carrot used to coerce governments to comply with the less than savory liberty impinging aspects.
Note: Even at a page level there is not much stateless on the internet anymore.
There’s an exponential rise in the demand for Food Banks. Why does no-one ask why?
So people can spend more money on booze and fags?
How many million have come to this country to recieve a ‘free’ lifestyle of ‘free’ benefits, ‘free’ housing, ‘free’ education and ‘free’ healthcare, that they would never get in the shitholes they emerged from? And who pays for it all?
ME !!!!!
Yanks used to come over needing medical attention on the NHS when they had been treated for accident emergency etc they had conviently disappeared
I dont think anybody asks for any documentation saying you have the right to NHS treatment in A&E for example, they just presume you are kosher. If the patient doesnt volounteer the info they get away with it.
Why do we do it ? we must be mad. People are accessing these benefits from day 1, without having contributed.
The price of Burberry jackets, lager, fags and take-away pizzas has risen and someone’s got to feed the kids.
Have you tried to live on a single person’s “hand out” as you would call it, I would certainly not like to
It is less than you spend on a night out excluding tarts
Fair enough, its not good for single people but those with familes do ok. There was a prog on R4 this week and a man and his wife, plus 4 kids were getting £1,750 per month How much would you have to earn to be left with that much, after tax ?
More food banks with better access.
We’re adjusting our profits margins and prices to facil ….. fasillytat …… do that.
We’re not.
Food banks and pay day loan companies started up under Labour, considering they were throwing my tax money around like drunken sailors in a whore house, why did we need them then?
As others point out every time I see some family that says they need a food bank, they seem to have a nice TV and computer in their home and the women always have a fag hanging out of their mouth.
The failure of this government is in failing to cut spending and taxes.
In a previous existence I dealt with debt rescheduling for those with debts that they were unable to repay. When you broke down their budget it was amazing what percentage of their income they spent on booze and fags and the majority had large 42 inch TVs with the top end Sky Package etc but reckoned that they couldn’t afford to feed their kids or repay their debts…this was hapening NOT under the present government but under Labour during the time they were in power between 1997 – 2010. So take no lectures from Labour shite peddlars in Parliament or in the media
With my benefits and pensions coming in I don’t need food banks or pay day loans thank goodness.
And I can easily afford my fags. Don’t drink much these days though.
Those on benefits should stop receiving cash.
1) Food to collect (delivered for non walkers) with recipes plus a off peak bus pass.
2) Debt license, like a drivers license but allows you to borrow, after you prove you understand the maths of compound interest.
Don’t forget all the tramp stamps that both men and women appear to be covered in (58 Crossbow).
Because charities are spending all their money on expensive properties, executive salaries and political campaigns, rather than the causes people have donated their hard- earned cash to?
The irony may well be that within 5 years, printed media will no longer exist with our news delivered primarily by online publishers. That is the element which statutory control could be stretched to catch bloggers et al by way of simple extension. Beware all…
10 years ago I logged onto the website of Corriere della Sera to get the name of someone in the Royal Household that the British papers daren’t mention.
Long live internet freedom!
Bona Sarah? Surely not!
Can someone remind me what the Tories are protesting about today? Has the price of biscotti risen beyond inflation, or something?
Your existence?
Labour MP in Rotherham has been in the job for 2 days. So why is the place still a shit-hole?
Nothing changes.
Middlesborough is the same, ghastly place, so bad in fact that I never visited the dump and lived in Paris. The local morons still vote Labour though, they’ve been well brainwashed.
Like Stoke……..they have had a Labour Council for decades and the place still looks like a post WW2 bomb site….but they still re-elect Labour year after year…..they had a Garden Festival in 1986 to re-generate the place but it obviously failed if you look at the area around Festival Park . It’s the only place that £50,000 will buy you a row of terraces
There are no bad places, just places with bad people.
Stoke is indeed an utter shite hole, where the English language is disappearing, as are white faces.
Stokies are truly as thick as pig shite and deserve all they get.
just visiting corby is depressing…dump
I remember driving round Corby, gasping for a pint, looking for a pub that did not look like a stepping stone to casualty.
Then I drove home. Still gasping for a pint.
Known only for the trouser press and Louise (for a while). Thanks for the tip.
Why was he allowed to live in Paris ?did anybody do surgeries in the constituency ?
Wqssup Ed, no handy bandwagon to jump onto today?
The price of Grapes in Iceland has gone up by 50p.
It won’t be long before you are blogging from a rotting hulk anchored outside the 3 mile limit Guido.
Is that old gun platform still in operation out in the Thames estuary, didn’t it get country status?.
Yup – we’re here. For the right price your guns, military and family are welcome, and we are doing a special package deal on peerages. Come to Sealand.
The sea forts are still available. Need a lick of paint and some modernization, but could be operational fairly quickly.
The impressive young woman at Tescos on SkyNews should ask herself why we need Food Banks. It’s a sympton of a dysfunctional society started by the Conservative led coalition’s half baked plan for our economy.
Balls. It was a prudent fully baked policy put in place under MY government with the full backing of MY government. What do you f’ing mean half baked ? I wouldn’t trust you to boil an egg – get out of my kitchen.
And don’t forget my splendid policy of subsidising wind turbines so the poor would see their energy bills rocket. And now I can blame it all on the coalition and those greedy energy companies.
Aren’t I clever?
no you’re still a c’unt birdhshit boy
Strange 13 years of Liebore hypocrisy and inept finance and pissing taxpayers money away on grandiose IT projects and unaffordable Olympic games and unaffordable EU payments, no can’t be that must be the Conservative baby eaters and Thatcher after all they have been in 2years or more.
Food banks are so that liebour liberals can feel good about themselves and compete to be the best shampain carer at their suburban dinner parties. If they hadn’t fucked up the economy, food banks wouldn’t be needed.
Mashed potato.
Yeah!
Hiya Billy!
The fact is that the UK Economy had structural problems during the Labour Government and was caused by Brown’s inept management of the economy in the time he was at the Treasury. He may not have caused the crash but he certainly encouraged unsustainable levels of personal debt to finance his grandiose spending schemes which despite the billions spent resulted in very little other than increasing the national debt.
When the crash happened and the housing market collapsed it revealed how banks encouraged by Brown had over lent to the personal market and how people had unsustainable levels of debt and that each month they were just rolling over their overdraft without actually ever getting into credit before the next pay cheque. That was alright in the good times but when everything went tits up a lot of people effectively found that they were insolvent(they had always been insolvent of course but in the boom years under Brown it was masked by the easy availability of credit)
What does “insolvent” mean? These money things are ever so hard to understand.
Up until 2008 I used to feel as though we were living in a new Edwardian Age.
And look how that ended.
Come 2015, there will be a new Edwardian Age!
Do you recall the fate of Edward Longshanks? We have the precedent already in place for you.
Something to do with nail polish ? Or maybe what I snort before I tweet. Get over it. lol xxx {I must die}
When the inevitable PPI, or debt rescheduling, or payday loan cold calls come (average two a day) I choose between colourful swearing; blowing an acme thunderer football whistle down the line; or I say ‘darlink I em rich es Croesus, I do not NEED to borrow money, only thick leettle people like you, who kennot wok out how to leeve within dere means and who buys red leather four-sitter sofas every six months… you borrow money!’
>He may not have caused the crash
Actually, he did.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-uk-trail-mf-global-collapse-may-have-apocalyptic-consequences-eurozone-canadian-banks-jeffe
As readers will recall, the actual office that blew up the world the first time around, was not even based in the US. It was a small office located on the top floor of 1 Curzon Street in London’s Mayfair district, run by one Joe Cassano: the head of AIG Financial Products. The reason why this office of US-based AIG was in London, is so that Cassano could sell CDS as far away from the eye of Federal regulators as possible. Which he did. In fact he sold an unprecedented $2.7 trillion worth of CDS
Re-hypothecation to infinity is likely not going to help us get out of this mess, but is was quite useful getting us in to it.
The assets aren’t real, but the trick is to make the interest payments real, and stick the taxpayers with it.
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved
Ludwig von Mises
interesting though now over a year old article
Nobody in this country needs a foodbank. If you can tell me where to get free food I’ll join in and take it. Don’t need it though ,but I’m just a greedy b–t–d
VIDEO: JK Rowling slams PM over Leveson http://bbc.in/SBbm9p
I probably would but I wouldn’t tell my mates about it
Has nobody yet noticed that she has been away with the fairies for years already? She is simply proving it by her rantings. Silly moo.
Prominent Labour supporting celeb and writer of fairy tales attacks Tories. Unelected, who the Hell is she to think her opinion should carry weight over anyone else’s?
+1000
Personally, I think its crucially important to hear what celebs think. I am awaiting Eddie Izzard’s contribution.
In French preferably because he’s so intelligent like
Mais, j’adore monsieur Izzard. Il politique est tres important pour France. Poutain.
Maybe she can conjure up a magic money tree that Labour have always relied on.
Is that Mervyn’s QE Money Tree?
She is a former single mother!
Married 2001 after Goblet of fire, and before Order of the Phoenix.
Single mum status nothing compared to impinging civil liberties by issuing injunctions to prevent people reading her work before publication, or as it is known: Expecto Profitonum.
Yes, signing on and sipping latte in coffee shops whilst rifling through better authors works to crib all their ideas
Hope she can come up with a follow-up book next time that doesn’t involve council estate Labour voting dogshit.
… the licensed press approves only of the term “”lone mother “” or, preferably, “lone parent” … please be more careful or judicial activism will kick in .
Because she’s a billionaire or almost one!
what a writer but airbrain politically
Just because Rowling got lucky with a pastiche of various threads from a host of “magic” stories she now thinks she’s somehow empowered to preach, to the country at large, as to press censorship – of course now she’s copped for the dosh she can discount the fact that without all the press publicity she might now be just working in McDonalds.
I am a Harry Potter virgin and I intend to remain one. Life’s too short to go JK Rowling.
Except as a qualified Teacher of English I suspect not.
In case it passed you by, the so-called teachers of English are the ones who have so obviously failed in their duties in respect of the younger members of society over the past 50 years or so. Next time you meet one, ask for a definition of “parsing” or an adverbial clause. If fortune smiles on you, you will meet the one in five hundred who has ever heard of them.
Only a few English kids left to teach.
Exspecto crapola!
Hi J.K can we all have our ideas back please?
what if Operation Ore showed that the celebs are the one,s we should be nosy about.
If they want to meddle in public affairs, they should focus on child protection and NOT self protection. They have power, and hence duty.
The Celebrity Industrial Complex has interests which must be protected … via super injunctions, judicial activism or if necessary Clegg’s statute. Devine Brown (victim) might not agree …
Dave — you came fifth in Rotherham — worse than the BeeN P — and your idiot coalition buddies did even worse. A truly appalling result.
What are you doing on the news today — Caring about the HIV Aids problem.
Why isn’t the Health Minister doing that — it’s his job.
You are supposed to be Prime Minister. Why do you keep focussing on gay issues?
He’s wearing the red ribbon you all mocked Miliband for wearing.
We mock everyone here, shame you haven’t noticed. But then, you are a thick as shite socialist, so that explains a lot.
Poots is in a hole on abortion, and Dave wants to save the gay vote.
If Dave donned a mankini and stopped closing down hospices he may be able to save the latter.
Why waste time and energy? Gays, by the very nature of their differentness, are unsavable. As always dim lefties don’t get it.
If it can vote, they’re fair game.
Rotherham didn’t bother ‘im.
HIV does, apparently.
Anyone would think he is actively going after one of our major voting blocks seeing as UKIP gutted the rest. That is really unfair.
Gays are 2% of the population, Greens probably don’t even register as a single percentage point. Yet Dave courts both, as if their vote actually mattered. Is anyone awake at Tory HQ?
Just look at the proportion of gays and closet gayers in the Cabinet. The ponces are grossly over-represented
There is nothing wrong with gay people.
MP’s however they are another fucking story
But gayers are so cool as established by so many Hollywood films and TV s(h)it-coms.
Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzzz {mumble.popularity.mumble} Zzzzzzz
The trouble is that they look out of their window in London and see, what? Gays, blácks, múslíms and some white people. So they, and organisations like the BBC judging by their output, obviously think that the rest of the country is like that. They then can’t understand why the rest of the country gets upset about this and resort to using words ending in “ism” and “phobic” to describe the people outside their little bubble.
With legislation on the statute book Brown, Blair and Campbell would have moved on the media for sure.
However, the press cannot be allowed to smear ordinary innocent people, they need to have some protection under the law, the rich can usually get their day in court.
Brown, Bliar and Campbell were too busy sucking media cock to do anything. Were you asleep or something?
@114 if the media had gone against Nu Labour they would have moved against them
Whatever happened to Lawyers4u?
So… basically the BBC and the Guardian are going to spend the next month quoting each other quoting ‘sources’ obsessing about the equivalent of a collection of multi-hundred-k Prescottian stewards rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic whilst focussing on but one iceberg, and ignoring the polar-bear-topped Mcalpine/false hacking allegation ones they are sitting upon, and the entire online shelf-calving every second… to which they are holding up a Nelsonian telescope?
Unique.
All’s Quiet On the Wild Western New Media Front?
And all these cretins care about is crushing competitive or ideologically different butterflies on their uniquely, over-funded wheels?
No wonder this country is sinking.
Spank you very much.
What’s this about Rolfie????
UKIP ‘is third party’ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4675727/UKIP-are-third-force-in-British-politics-says-leader.html …
Can anyone see if there’s a link between those who live off the back of taxpayers, and the labour share of the vote?
Joined at the hip mate.
section 5 Public order act 1985 states that a person is guilty of the offence if he engages in disorderly behaviour or displaying any sign or written material or conduct likely to cause harassment alarm or distress in a public place.
Well that’s just plain offensive and unnecessary.
I bloody hate self-important spouses of politicians who think anyone should give a monkey’s about what THEY hate.
Has the cheque to Lord McAlpine cleared yet, Mrs Berk Cow?
I’m thinking of making wanking off pikeys a criminal offence
that will sort her out What !
Careful now. Using that M word will get you into trouble with Chelski fans.
god almighty, this is the wife of The Speaker. Standards have reached a new low.
Social services should be monitoring this woman and her children. lives in a house full thieves and cheats, then goes off with the gypsies for weeks at a time leaving her children in that house of ill repute, swears with a foul mouth on public social media, has political affiliations and is a member of the labour party and poses naked in magazines.
Our department is monitoring this situation, and once our file is complete shall be taking due action.
Think global, act local.
… perhaps that should read “”wife”" of the “”Speaker”" . ?
Goodness me! What a horrible woman.
Some thoughts are best left unarticulated you silly Bercow, especially after a few early morning drinks.
She clearly has deep seated psychological problems, and most likely, a number of dependencies.
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.(Herbert)
Every one hath a fool in his sleeve.
It is sad and very unbecoming of “The Speakers Spouse”
Moo.
Potty mouth or the standard vocabulary for the BigCow household.
ignore the crass slag
I thought she’d stopped broadcasting her boring tweets.
Complete lack of any self control.
Leveson had one page about the web.
There are millions of pages on the web with content relating to Leveson. About 5,830,000 results (0.15 seconds)
I bet he is the only person who has never Googled (an electronic method of searching for information M’Lud ) his own name.
The Leveson Report Is today’s chip wrapper!
The Google counts lie – but there will be more than one pages out there.
There must be an awful lot of tiny little clerks scurrying around in ones computer to retrieve all that information so quickly. One wonders when they ever get time for a tea break! I hope they’re better paid than those little men in the radio who sing to me.
“Fax it up, M’lud?”.
“Yes, it does rather, doesn’t it”.
Not true to say 1 page only. Pages 175 to 190 of Volume 1 are entirely devoted to internet etc with some interesting and sensible observations including quotations from the evidence of one Paul Staines. Time to get yourself an updated version of Adobe Acrobat? Try Shift + Ctl + F and input “social media” and you’ll find there are 51 references sprinkled through the 2000 pages.
The terms of reference of the leveson inquiry answer your question Guido, he was not tasked to look a t’ internet. so he has written one page too many on that subject.
Interestingly though he was instructed to:
“To make recommendations:
a. for a new more effective policy and regulatory regime which supports the integrity and freedom of the press, the plurality of the media, and its independence, including from Government, while encouraging the highest ethical and professional standards”
http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/about/terms-of-reference/
you read it?
is the Maudsley open on saturdays?
I’m going to attend Guido’s christmas drunks and bum him mercilessly.
just remember – all adults must be accompanied by a child
Now then now then, who needs some accompanying?
We can just start another smear campaign by telling everyone that the internet is owned by Offshore Millionaire Tory Toffs.
The Internet is a public service and too precious to be in the hands of capitalist Tory scum.
Brothers! Let’s nationalise the Internet now!
I think the internet is less under threat from Tories than from socialist control freaks who can’t bear the idea that people might be saying, writing, doing or even thinking things that they disapprove of.
nearer the mark B ..
I taught Labour and their luvvie supporters everything they know.
And didn’t you just copy Lenin and all his Commie Friends?
Thanx 4 all luvly tweets of support! *blushing face* It’s gr8 2 b bak! *excited* I proms not 2 misbehave! *innocent face* Now, lets hav fun! *opens legs*
who’s this Cleverson anyway?
Leave my John alone. He’s totes the best hubby! He doesn’t care that I come home covered in other men’s spunk, cos he’s grateful at least someone married him. He knows no one else will, so he keeps his mouth shut when I want to have fun. It’s a totes amazeballs situation! *excited face* Now, who’s up for getting some deep throat? *cum face*
Sally
Your little John loves “creampie” that,s why he married you
Did he buy that tiny Range Rover because he cant,t climb in to the real thing?
No, I have a greasy pole to climb up.
Oi! Don’t start bangin’ ON about greasy Poles, or they’ll bang you UP! Ha ha, made a funny there…
Mr Brown, I want a rise. My contract is coming up for renewal and if you want me to keep attending public events with you once or twice a year, you’ll have to increase my salary. And for the hundredth time, tell Campbell he can’t come to Canterbury to watch me and Gil 69.
the last time gordon’s rose he was dreaming amid the spires with his mates mandy and tony
I once drove through Rotheram( very quickly) it was full of men in leather chaps sporting moustaches and peaked hats
Odd the the LibDems and the HiV jacket party didnt get more votes
This week’s most read: 3: Respect implicated in aggressive and slanderous Rotherham campaign leaflet: http://bit.ly/RYYI3Z
Well it got her 1,700 votes. Contrary to what people on this blog say the electorate are not as stupid as they think. Remember Bermondsey (Thatchell), Greenwich (Dreadful Deirdre) etc.
You forgot Blackburn.
Crime increasing, fuel increasing, food prices increasing, poverty increasing, privatisation of NHS, student fees, welcome to Tories Britain
Crime’s actually falling. Fuel and food prices are rising globally. ‘Poverty’? That’ll be someone who can’t afford a third 32″ plasma TV. Student fees were introduced by Labour.
Privatisation of the NHS? If only.
+1
Extortion funded treatment rationing is the worst treatment funded in the most harmful way.
realistically cleggie you’ve brought nothing to the coalition .. you’re heading for a wipeout
I have the Starbucks advent calendar. You open a new tax loophole every day.
If only we’d had a Labour government at some point in the last 15 years (perhaps a Labour government that had been in power for, say, 13 years), those loopholes would have be closed.
Surely?
Yep, they’d just have the “National Coffee Service” instead where you could buy an awful cup of lukewarm brown liquid and sit on a plastic seat holding the plastic container above the dirty table.
Politicians etc would all say the coffee was the “Envy of the world”, however when you travel abroad you find the coffee shops are all cleaner quicker to serve you and the coffee tastes better.
I wonder who’s lurking behind the doors of the BBC advent calendar
Now then, now then, what’s all this then ? A little christmas prezzie for your uncle Jimmy. {Jingle jangle, jingle jangle}
Put laws in place to control the press and you give the PC brigade and Common Purpose what they want to control the population. Labour and Limp/Dems want press control just as much as they want Britain in and controlled by the Unelected bureaucrats in Europe.
Notice it is mostly the second generation immigrants – Millibands, Clegg etc who want to change Great Britain, those whose parents came here for a better way of life or to escape persecution.
Marriage ( man and woman) – Christianity values etc are all targets for these anti-British elements in our society.
Did you mean to put a capital ‘L’ in ‘laws’?
Sorry Pleb – I only went to secondary modern school and started work at 15 so I didn’t have the benefit of a modern education or a Law Degree.
Milliwatt’s old man wanted us the loose the war!
He was an illegal immigrant and a 100 x 25 mm
A 4″ x 1″ ? What’s that then?
Don’t you mean, to be exactly a 10.16 x 5.08 ?
If we had lost the war (it’s ‘lose’ btw), I wonder if he would be saying the same thing as the Nazis rounded him up and kicked his fucking arse into a rail boxcar, no return ticket required. What a family.
Every organism, down to the simplest cell, has a self-destruct mechanism built in. Societies definitely do, which is why wonky faced Gramscian fuckpigs like Ed Miliband have a shot at running the country.
Well, just maybe, in say 2020, he will be shot FOR running the country?
The next 50years in this country, I think, is gonna be a zinga and not pretty, a lot of population is going to be at each others throats and politicians could end up a stars in a replay of the French revolution, the winners will turn it into a 3rd world shithole but then I don’t think that’s too far away, so they will just make it a deeper s/hole , the braindead population will miss it all as the will be to busy watching tv and phoning for Pizzas and getting their benefits put directly into their bank accounts, with any luck with all the windmills they maybe able to move England to warmer climes.
I’d love to pay you to turn this into a novel. Unfortunately the plot is, almost word for word, identical to ‘Bletherington Abbey’ by Broomhilde, the other forgotten Bronte sister.
So the Bronte sister had television, most things are just reinventions these days.
No, sorry, what you just said is an exact quotation from ‘Shigglebury Manor’ by Gertrude Bronte (page 847)
“Frederick Pinglebury, a tosser with literary inclinations, entered the drawing room shortly before noon. ‘So, the Bronte sister had television’, he mused. ‘Most things are just reinventions these days’.”
When you use the same alphabet to get your message across, your bound to have duplications. I propose we invent a new language and writings with at least 100,000 characters, it may help us to slow down the duplication a little bit.
>population is going to be at each others throats
They are already it’s just been via a proxy called the state.
I just worry how many can escape with their lives before the looters and moochers starve.
suppose the last 50 have really been about the same
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/phone-hakas.html
My blog’s hosted in California – they can fuck off.
I’ve got a blog up my botty wotty
Good luck with that attitude when the ISPs are forced to block access to it. It’s idiots like you that think you can get round the rules just by hosting something elsewhere that make me laugh the most. Your blog will still be up, maybe, but nobody will be able to see it!
Time to move on and wake up. Blogs are just places where losers write stuff and other losers read it. The sooner they get flushed down the toilet the better.
At least it will give something for retards like you to complain about though. And that’s always funny to watch.
https://www.torproject.org/
Is that you Andy? How’s the wife?
If that comment had been made at me – [as many have] – I would be flattered by the pitiful twat who wrote it and laughing my bollox off at its inverted rhetoric.
So, Girs, can you please explain exactly why you are here? Us losers like a good laugh. Helps lift the gloom, you know.
Dickwad, i wrote the fucking book on national-level blocking – I was writing about cleanfeed and invisible censorship nearly ten fucking years ago, so kindly piss off.
Touch a nerve, did I?
Looks like I did. Now fuck off back to dork land while the rest of us enjoy the real world.
If you are heading to Dover or the Channel Tunnel, the M20 is blocked by an accident coastbound at J7 (Maidstone).
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=wq_lhlIn1e0
Guido. Not true to say 1 page only. Pages 175 to 190 of Volume 1 are entirely devoted to internet etc with some interesting and sensible observations including quotations from the evidence of one Paul Staines. Time to get yourself an updated version of Adobe Acrobat? Try Shift + Ctl + F and input “social media” and you’ll find there are 51 references sprinkled through the 2000 pages.
Economy worst since the 1930′s, 12 Banks downgraded, highest unemployment in 17 years, you can trust the Tories with the Economy Hear Hear.
where were you between 1997 and 2010? Did you not see Labour destroy the economy and leave behind the worst pile shit in history for the coalition to clean up!
Oh! sorry, that’s right it all happened since June 2010!
Silly me!
Too late to blame Labour now. Tories are making it much worse.
If you have over-spent on Your credit card and can only keep paying a small amount and the interest, it will take you years to clear the Debt.
This exactly what the Government is doing with LABOUR’S Credit card.
Excuse me — we ConLibLabs have Quantitatively Eased a total of £375bn — that’s approx. 2 years Deficit. — and we’re still running a Deficit of circa £8bn per month.
We’re not paying off Liebour’s credit card, we’re fucking increasing it every month.
Moussa – Utter nonsense – it will take decades to clear up the mess left by labour. 2 years is no time at all.
It took labour 13 years to inflict their damage on the UK, yet you seem to think that it can all be reversed in 2 years.
Weird or just delusional?
You forget… the world didn’t really get into austerity until Cameron, Osbourne & Co foisted it upon us. Prior, Brown was leading the world towards stimulating economies rather than slowing them down.
Not saying which is right or wrong, just saying the IMF were supportive of both approaches. I think once upon a time it was called Kick Starting the economy, or maybe Pump Priming.
These idiots are expecting the machine to run without petrol.
“You forget… the world didn’t really get into austerity until Cameron, Osbourne & Co foisted it upon us.”
So you just carry on spending and end up paying higher interest rates for what you are borrowing? Is this the way you run your personal finances twatty? Thought so.
Hello Mousey so it’s Cameron’s fault the world is in trouble, you missed out mrs Thatcher, are you sure, Brown had 11 years to fck the country up, what with his bank friends and gold and not paying for uni places , 110% mortgages, his million or more zivil servants, Liebour the best whitewash merchants in the world, the whitewash will cover and last for more than 10 years, of corruption, ineptness , blindness, stupidity, spinning, blaming others and anything else that you lot can think of.
Hey Mousey, you missed the bit about where the IMF warned Brown several times that his financial and social policies were quite lunatic and it would all end very badly for the UK.
However, the all-seeing one-eyed tit chose to ignore them (and then had the cheek to think about being asked to be the IMF president!).
Must be something in the water (or on the beach) where he lives.
Alzheimers seems to be hitting the left very badly.
Are you suggesting that they have frittered away Labour’s golden legacy?
Brown did that.
My ISP is outside the UK .
Whenever I try to open an account anywhere in the UK or try to do anything in the UK blind panic sets in and I am told to get lost;
If I want to open up a website outside the UK and deal with the UK then my advice to the UK Government is that they can get lost too .
use a vpn
Guido sounds much younger, and thinner, on the radio!
He looks nicer on the radio too!
Tory blushes deepen over activities of Conservative Friends of Russia
Group finds itself unravelling amid concerns over its ‘political direction’ and claims it is uncritically cheerleading for the Kremlin
Funny english with crazy underpants yes
Privately, we wish they’d all go home, they really are lowering the tone of the place.
they’ve fucked up the prices of property everywhere they roost post breakup
It’s easy to regulate the web you moron. Just regulate the providers. Simple.
Your traffic, and money, will soon evaporate if the government decides to force ISPs to block access to sites that don’t play by the rules. Twitter, Facebook and all you silly little bloggers that aren’t good enough to be journalists will just be shouting into thin air.
It happened with the torrent sites and it will happen to you.
And before you say “ah yes, but you can find another torrent site or use a proxy” that won’t apply to Joe Public, only to the nerds and dorks that crawl around the internet trying to get around the rules – not exactly the kind of reader you want, Staines, is it? No, because your advertising will soon go belly up when your audience is nothing but a bunch of dorky bloggers who think they are sticking it to the man.
Regulation is coming whether you like it or not. Just look at how many people have been defamed recently on twitter. The wild west of the internet is coming to an end. And not a moment too soon.
I hope Gerry Mcann knows more about press regulation than he does about childcare.
Would you trust this man?:
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8372521.ece/ALTERNATES/w380h170/mcc.sus.jpg
No.
Isnt he a celebrity now, with tickets for the posh seats at big sporting events?
A not so crazy in this fucked up country prediction for the future.
Gerry Mcann gets nominated for a gong/knighthood by the next labour government.
And Charlotte Church becomes the Princess of Wales.
McCann case,
protection of children is topical. why should our sympathy be with the parents, it should be with the child. when children get abused…abducted, where are the parents?
It’s rather ironic that it was the portugese law and practice which allowed the Police to keep the press completely in the dark about the MCCann investigation which led to the media frenzy of speculation and unsubstantiated allegation which did more to hinder the enquiry and taint public perceptions than anything else .
It is standard practice in this country that subject to operational and evidential considerations the Police do regularly communicate and update the media.
Spot on. It was because there were no police briefings given (difference between UK and Portuguese law: theirs requires the investigation process to be kept under wraps) the British tabloids felt forced to merely repeat what the Portuguese tabloids, several, but not all of them, scurrilous rags, were printing. This is how the McCanns came to be unfairly pilloried. Later, because they were arraigned as ‘arguidos’ rather than as witnesses, as would have been much better, they were advised by their lawyers to answer no questions… so they didn’t… and thenceforth they became saintly and untouchable: their word became gospel, and the key sequence of events on the fateful evening of Madeleine’s disappearance was never fully investigated. The current £3 million Scotland Yard ‘review’ is merely a paper shuffling exercise. You can well see how this happened. Very sad. Too late now, I think.
the whole thing was handled terribly ..the McCanns were thrown to the wolves
Maybe their baby was taken by wolves? Like that Ozzie lady whose baby was taken by dingoes a few years ago! Do they have dingoes in Portugal?
very drole
I love the way the Guardian is both attacking Cameron and quietly supporting him at the same time over statutory regulation.
That’s a piece of piss once you master the art of attacking tax evaders whilst practicing tax efficiency yourself.
Tell me about it!
And doesn’t Maggie Oppenheimer know all about “rewards for failure”?
What is the situation re Sally Bercow and McAlpine, anyone know if they have settled yet, and how much?
Keeping my head down on this Leveson thing just in case it’s me I’m talking about needing to be regulated.*moo face*
Funny how Guido spends his time trying to trash Leveson
And nothing about the thousands of lives trashed by the criminal Murdoch organisation
Oh I forgot…
Guido is an ex employee of Murdoch and is currently being paid by him to trash Leveson
No conflict of interest there of course
You lost, get over it.
Ex-employee of Rupert, don’t recall that? I’ve done a bit of work for him now and then over the years on a freelance basis I suppose.
Yeah, me too.
Coogan writing alongside pollytwat in Fridays Gruniad – A pair of twats on the same page – two for the price of one!
full accounts please
Er, so the tax payer is now funding News International? New one on me.
whoops – wrong moniker
Trojan Horse anybody – A former subsidiary of NI – NDS now run the whole encryption of HMRC – so its all protected and ‘no one’ (?) other than HMRC (?) has full access to every details of every tax-paying individual in the UK. Did I say Trojan Horse?
There is no conflict of interest when you’re defending hard won freedoms you tosser.
This “criminal Murdoch organisation” wouldn’t be the same “criminal Murdoch organisation” that supported the Labour Party would it? And were the crimes committed by the Labour-supporting “criminal Murdoch organisation” committed whilst there was a Labour government? Yes on both counts.
And would Tony Blair, the mass-murdering leader of the warmongering Labour Party, who was Prime Minister whilst the Labour-supporting “criminal Murdoch organisation” was committing its crimes, happen to be the godfather of one of Rupert Murdoch’s children? Yes, again.
So, why didn’t the Labour Party stop the “criminal Murdoch organisation”?
And why doesn’t Cameron drive this fact home again and again ? Why the fuck has he been wrong footed on this from the get go ?
Quite agree
Both right and left were wrong to play footsie (and more) with the criminal Murdoch organisation
I also agree that Socialism is a mental illness..perfectly illuystrated by the Maximum Madman…
Murdoch too nosy. eavesdropping into other’s conversations is being nosy.
Notw shut down. However…if government is not doing their duty when it witholds information that concerns everyone….childprotection and royal interference in the laws of this country, then it is only a nosy person who can help.
The crime was withdrawing their support for the one eyed scottish idiot.
I can not stand Gordon Brown for what he did to this country but I feel quite alarmed at the fact you are attacking him for having one eye.I worked for 43 years till I had a car accident I was a strong person physically but now I am in a wheelchair. By your comment I worry you might be one of these people who have been physically and verbally attacking disabled people just because they are different.I hope Iam wrong but sadly I might not be.
It was a Jeremy Claksonism (PBUH)
Pity his one eye only allowed him to see the ‘spend’ side of the ledger.
labour never does anything without hindsight
Tee Hee @182
Meanwhile, the BBC is hideously whiter than white.
More like shit and puke, the good ole’ GWR colours
Sam, Sam,
Everyone’s saying I’m a weak financially incontinent little shit.
It’s not true, is it Dahling?
Toodle pip.
grow some toodle pip
To divert attention away from my stance on Levison
Today i’m going around telling people that i have a cure for HIV/ AIDS
It only takes a small prick , funny really thats all it takes to get it !
Toodle Pip !
Alarm bells ring as Ponzi scheme is exposed
I did warn of this some time back.
Please stop posting on such irrelevant and boring subjects as the economic crisis and keep to the rather more engaging subject of celebrity phone hacking.
Labour dun a briliyuant job. Innit.
Yeahbutnobutyeahbutnobutyeahbut, innit ?
AND… they have just downgraded the Leveson report to D-
THE LEVESON REPORT
On Alistair Campbell
‘‘Mr Campbell’s role was certainly one that trod new ground in the history of relations between politicians in Government and the press.’ (P.1156 para 5.5)
Tell me about it.
I’ll tell you….We’re 45 minutes from doom.
Boo hoo. I would tell my parents, but you killed them. If only I had hands to wipe the tears from whats left of my face. Thanks for the liberation.
{dies of some complication due to shrapnel and exposure to various banned toxins}
That Blair and Campbell misled Parliament is “beyond doubt”.
Wasn’t me ‘n’ Tone. It was that nasty News International that published the story
Another bottle to hide the lies and the guilt?
if you’ve got any decent latour or haut brion I’ll join you
SQUEEEEETCH!!! (stagger) (crest) OOWYEWLOOKIN’AT! (stare)
you lookin’ at me, fack orf
its christmas ..you better grab mr squeaker’s chest expanders … times is ‘ard on the vans
I want all internet blogs banned.
Especially the ones that attack me.
Everyone should be forced to buy a copy of my book beyond authority.
We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
is it just me or does she really have a face like the back end of a bus?
“And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain”
Kindly desist from insulting my lovely new Routemasters.
I have read over the past few days figures put forward in the free press as to the cost of Leveson – so far figures produced have stated £5 million, £7 million and more.
So much for the press getting facts right then!
Anyone got any other quotes of the purported figures?
Just been reminded of some other legal fee-for-all (legals).
Earlier this year a £30 Million pound trial ‘collapsed’ at Swansea Crown Court …
The trial was against 8 ex-South Wales Coppers – who had actively fitted up several ‘innocents’ over the Lynette White Murder. The DPP (Kier Starmer) is supposed to be ‘looking’ at th collapse of the trial …
If he looks to deep – he just might find the real truth – and of course the real truth hurts those who abused their power of office for decades. It just wouldn’t do to expose how the 4 pillars of the Estate conspired to fit up several innocents – now would it?
Are we likely to see the ‘Free Press’ – get to the root and heart of the matter [In the Public Interest] of why the trial collapsed or who has really benefitted from that collapse? [Not bloody well likely - which goes shows exactly how 'not free' those who claim it to be so - the so called free press is]
Did you get your whistle from a car boot or is it ex stock?
I acquired it by standing up to numerous wigged wonders.
I acquired it for scandalising the judiciary too many times.
I have been a major success. The MSM are all parked / encamped outside Rolf’s house, but are too afraid to say why.
AND>>> Why didn’t somebody tell me Murdoch had newspaper interests in Australia which may just be interested in reporting on Australian celebrities
living in England
Do we really want to risk losing quality journalism of this calibre?
Your contribution ? It’s just rodomontade.
“rodomontade”? Is that to do with rats?
Rodomontade \rod-uh-muhn-TADE; roh-duh-muhn-TAHD\ is a mass noun meaning boastful talk or behavior. The term is a reference to Rodomonte, a character in Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato and its sequel Orlando furioso.
- Wiki is your friend.
Mass noun referring to boastful talk or behavior. References character in Italian renaissance Rodomonte in the epic Orlando innamorato / furioso poems.
Does sound like a fizzy rat though.
No. That would be “Ratatouille.”
We’d lose your tour-de-force example of Dunning Kruger.
There is no way we are going to regulate the internet
i mean really !
How else could my frightfully rich friends transfer their millions into tax havens at the touch of a button ?
Toodle pip must fly
promised Sam’s Dad i’d give him a lift to build a new wind farm
If they can’t decrypt a 70year old message , then what chance have the goverment got decrypting the latest encryption methods that is used on the internet, maybe they are just pulling our chain and know what the message is about, it’s Presclott ordering fish and chips, not fission ships.
If it was encoded using a one time pad, and the pad is lost, then it will be impossible to decipher.
If you flew somewhere with a set of “one time pad” on a memory stick you could communicate for years.
Book code, who would suspect someone carrying books from place to place.
Ha Ha
Err. NO!
Give it to monkeys on typewriters and infinite time etc etc
That is the dead tree press, neatly summed up.
Could give it to hacked off to work on…
Good ideas, but how would we know when the monkeys had finally got the right message out of the millions possible using one time pads?
oooooer really… shame we haven’t got anything worth hiding to bother
SQUIRRRRK!!! (totter) OOZETHEDADDY!! (ping)
Guido Fawkes warns of a “Scrooge Christmas” if no deal is struck on “Leveson”, but P.M. David Cameron says talks are going “nowhere”
He was talking about the limited budget set aside for the upcoming drinnkpoos.
“promised Sam’s Dad i’d give him a lift to build a new wind farm”
Must admire your gall old bean!
Just found out that if we, the taxpayer cannot use all the Leckie that you are generating with your midas windmills, we get fined, yet another tax for the little man.
Sorry, that should have been a reply to Shameus 255
I think this kneejerk reaction to the press is just that, it looks as if it’s been known about by this gang of shills for years, the MPs have suddenly realised that they are just little Councillors from a jumped up little town somewhere in the middle of shitholeshire, they have suddenly found out that they are not required as real power has been passed to better villains in EUland .
It is a tale told by Idiots, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I run this country and I will rename it soon Airstrip One.
Julie baby, you forgot the ‘i’ in the second word. Such incompetence will no longer be tolerated. Kapisch?
I see there are 54000 signatures on the petition already. I’d like to read them but it doesnt seem that the names are public. Shame, I wanted to humour myself by reading where I’d signed it as bigpileofsteaminghotshite, cummface and some other assorted puerile names
H.P. Sauce.
Devine Brown
Lee Perrin.
Someone call me ?
Josef Goebbels
It would seem that 56,000 is an alternative consensus…
Upped to ‘over’ 65k Now… Just over 0.1% (?)
a landslide…well nearly a bit of one
The London riots e-Petition of 2011 recorded just over 240k ‘signatures’.
With more than 100k ‘signatures’, an MP can suggest to the backbench business committee that a full debate can take place. They control about 35 days a year of parliamentary time.
Backbench Business Committee?? Not another bloody BBC! We have enough already.
Look over here Leveson.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/australian-star-gutted-by-sex-claims-friends-say/story-e6frf7jo-1226528150895
I can’t see who it is yet?!?
Its the fucking police who need hauled over the coals. They’ve no business dropping hints about who they have taken in for questioning.
Would you still feel like that if it was Blair?
What we need is a police state. ( with waterboards)
As long as we get the press regulated, the public need not know about that, which is what we are campaigning for.
How many 80+ year old Australian entertainers can you think of ?
You might guess Dame Edna, but he’s only in his late 70′s, hard as that may be to believe, as he’s been around so long, he knew Jeremiah even before he was a bullfrog.
The original Seekers? Judy was a real looker with a great voice.
Richie Benaud?
“A Jooish man in his 60′s, a lawyer by profession, is coming under scrutiny for having recently released a Report very critical of a particular industry in the UK. As he has not yet formally been charged with any crime, names and details, beyond those just recounted, will not be forthcoming. We take our responsibility as journalists seriously and do not wish to prejudice in any way this gentleman’s rights in this matter.”
Dragging in irrelevant ethnicity is in breach of NUJ guidelines
N-a-a-a-h-h, you can say anything you want about persons of the Hebrew persuasion. It’s done all the time in the Leftie press: “Those evil Izzies! How dare they act like the proverbial French ‘wicked dog,’ who has the unbridled nerve to bite when it is attacked! And of course, anyone who defends them is either a scoundrel, or a Joo!”
I presume you know only white people can be racist.
Fuck you honkeys, I had some major bling lined up for when I was an MP for life innit.
When the Mail Online is published online, is it a newsPAPER?
I think your question should be – should it be regarded as a ‘press’.
Loo paper’s going to get bloody expensive when the Gruinard goes online-only.
Popcorntastic
Former Coronation Street actor Andrew Lancel has been charged with historic child sex offences, police have said. The 42-year-old, charged yesterday under his real name Andrew Watkinson, will appear in court later this month to face five counts of indecent assault on a child under 16, Merseyside Police said. The actor, from Gateacre in Liverpool, is best known for his appearance as Frank Foster in the ITV soap Coronation Street.
I find this wiki entry rather appropriate
“In Summer 2010 he played a prison officer in a short film called Inside Run, directed by …
On 23 November 2010 Lancel was cast in the long running ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street as Frank Foster, a business associate of Carla Connor.[3] The role ended 5 March 2012 when the character was found murdered.”
Prescient?
I was assassinated, I tell you.
So was I– right, Hillary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Foster
maybe but were you over a grassy knoll ?
labour voter to the core
The five counts might only refer to one or two alleged offences. The law changed in 2003 (I think) so if they are unsure as to when it happened he will be charged twice, once for pre 2003, and once for 2003 and later. Then the charges will be dropped in court as it is established when it happened.
I’m going to bugger Guido when I meet him, to show what a big fan of his I am.
Too late.
A far better example of the vicious and despicable workings of the press [National & International] seems to have been overlooked of the Leveson Report what with the Judge now having flitted away down under.
Down Under – aaahh!!! – who remembers the salacious,and sensationalised by all of the press profiteering to sell copy – murder of Peter Falconio or his then girlfriend Joanne Lees?
The UK’s press behaved (as one) in a most deplorable and despicable manner throughout the Falconio Murder and eventual trial – spinning for as long as they could any sensational piece of fantasy – while in effect they must have known the whole truth all along – must have – because with such assembled investigative hard men – how come it took so long for the truth to come out? Didn’t The press hounds just play it all out and maximise profit?
Guido prefers the Vile
Please expand you little comment with a bit more content.
you can see why i’m needed
now – about my bill
So leveson is in favour of mp’s , the same one’s who troughed and defraud their way through £millions of our money, to take control of the press.
and everyone who has had their gross dishonesty exposed by the press is in favour of doing just that.
What a surprise!!!
Whatever happened to our hero who rode so valiantly astride the Duke of C a m br i dge?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/23/naked-man-in-whitehall-straddles-prince-george-statue_n_2177243.html
The daughter of the air hostess is looking after him…
The gentleman was arrested on a public disorder charge, and found to be in possession of a secret weapon.
Move along nothing to see here !
D press Notice given rumour has it – he was frankly nuts, the establishment claim…. Thought he made the most sense that day of news, myself, but that is me.
Apparently the chappy was from Ukraine. D-Notice likely issued to quash the Werther effect, rather than help UKIPs case on immigration.
Not worthy of many column inches?.
I agree with a previous poster in that Levenson and his expensive 2000 page report is a load of waffle.
As the previous poster said,if the plod did their duty as they should do based on the statute law already exsisting,then virtually half an a4 would have sufficed to remind of this.
Did the celebs and others get paid out under exsisting laws,yes they did.
Cammoron who I detest is quite right to not jump the gun and agree put the press under statute law.
This would be the thin edge of the wedge down the path to totalitarian government aka what we saw in the ussr,and currently in many other countries.
Land of hope and glory MOTHER OF THE FREE,these words bear thinking about rather than taking notice of a bunch of freeloaders.
Doesn’t get the web, or knows he can’t do anything about it? Those are 2 different things G – you were right on the second one but not the first, that’s why he doesn’t devote 100′s of pages to “Why I can’t do anything about the web”.
My kids would like to meet their dad. I said I don’t know his identity. That was one of the conditions of getting anonyspunk from the cum bank to provide Mr Brown with two election accessories.
The DNA bank is extensive these days, so just tell your kids to give a sample and they might be lucky, and BINGO!, “hello daddy – how many years have you got left to serve again Dad?”.
DNA should be taken for parking tickets I say, oh yes!
SLOWLY SLOWLY
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/times_ceo_still_under_cloud_9Qgw06n0ebZTJeRivzeD4M
…catchy monkey
When the US public connect Thompson’s actions with those of Jerry Sandusky (not that he did that, but the public will understand it easier that way) then he will be out. The corporate culture in the US doesn’t really handle scandal very well – especially of this nature – and now the Bloom are zipping this around the advertisers may be asking some questions. The meter has been running for a while, likely will be dealt with after Christmas.
thompson’s move was timely … several months earlier more sensible
suspiciously timely, if you ask me
Why is it that those in authority in the UK seem to have a pendulous bottom lip, a large nose and eyes close together ?
Guess it happens to us all with age.
Inbreeding among the Public School set, old boy.
Not as much inbreeding as elsewhere though
http://farenheit211.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/i-wonder-how-much-islamic-cousin-cousin-marriage-is-costing-the-uk-and-the-uk-health-and-social-care-services/
… you could be ejected from Harvard for writing such stuff …
Another BBC favourite.
I’m jake the peg, deedle eedle eedle um,
With my extra leg, deedle eedle eedle um.
I prefer two little boys !
“Two little boys”, “Tie me kangaroo down”, “Donald, where’s your trousers”, “Mary’s boy child”, “My word, you do look queer”……………………………….do I detect a pattern here?
C’Mon Guido. Can’t you launch an anti leveson petition?
Someone should for christ’s sake
It perhaps may be better not to. If such a petition did get raised, and then publicised and subsequently accrued less votes, it could be seen to add political weight to the one currently running. It certainly would add more publicity the one which is already running. Maybe best for it to go, allow the hacked off momentum to slow, allow the Backbench Business Committee to do what they want with it and keep pressure on the industry to sort itself out. In particular the malcontents at the Gruaniad and the BBC.
… doubtless this petition will reach its target but it’s exponents should recognise the dangers legislation could hold for the freedoms of expression we all value most.
It is that aspect which confuses the most. Read explanation from one blogger saying that ‘you should sign to fight against the corrupt political and Murdoch junta which controls media’.
So you do this by passing law to hand the media to direct control of the corrupt political junta, without changing the ownership issues so leaving Murdoch in place.
This simply does not make sense.
It’s the usual moronic, socialist, demonising hysteria that they all rush to join. Brain dead. “Burn the Witch!”
80,000 Labour supporters answer the dog whistle and condemn Cameron – what is the big deal?
Yeah we desperately need this right now.
The pro Leveson ‘Give us a Police State’ petition has already garnered 60,000 + signatures, doubtless from the usual Socialshites, as it’s their sort of thing.
Identify them and then shoot them.
After we have the police state with the correct government in place.
They realise not that their demonstration of social activism and willingness to hand over identification have told us who the trouble makers who are most likely to pose a threat to social order are, and precisely who should be cleansed first.
Still applies, in deepest countryside – get orf moi lahnd, blwdy hikers!
MOOOO!
Anyway, the bull was only looking at them as he does his farmer – hoping for cattle feed. So a tip cityite and towneyite hikers that do venture into the proper countryside, have a bag of cattle feed pellets in your rucksack, and any bull will then love you, hopefully not in that way, of course… but you never know, those inclined, and let you pass.
That’s just about the least scary bull I’ve ever seen.
Nice video of grass growing.
Well done, Guy .
Its laughable : A KITE MARK ??!! as approved by MPs ? Poor old England … the children are in thrall to toxic judicial activism now.
439th
go on… I give up
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/9716261/Banks-must-be-honest-about-their-toxic-losses.html
Time for the bankers to sort themselves out for the benefit of the economy.
keep dreaming…
…furthermore, capitalism has had it’s day – THAT is the elephant in the room…
remix? here goes,
Hmm. Britain’s banking rules used to work fine. In fact, Britain’s banking rules worked fine for a couple of hundred years.
Then along came two morons who fucked it all up.
Who were those morons?
Step forward, Gordon Brown and Ed Balls.
oh fuck right orf – step forward George dubious Bush you mean, and that other republican tart before him, a decade or two before, Ronald non-McDonald quarter ponder with cheese “my lonely brain cell” Reagan! Check Ronnie “where’s Nancy?” here, puffing his chesterfields ciggies here, the sell out to the human race he was,
Nope it was gordo brown.
Have a look near the top of the thread or search for AIG.
Do you want to live forever. Hawkmen… DIIIIIIVVE!
re-hypothecation … can you get tablets for it ?
chingrinner presided over it’s use and abuse.
So, let me conclude – the Great Gord broke Lehmans Bank then did he? Well done Gord, if so, but I do not think so somehow. Thick fanny and mae thick shitearse pillock!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-uk-trail-mf-global-collapse-may-have-apocalyptic-consequences-eurozone-canadian-banks-jeffe
Just for the Lazy moronic lefty (tautology)
So from what you said earlier am I to understand you consider Clarkson,s utterings worth repeating? If so I owe you an apology.Iwas judgeing you by normal standards instead of making allowances for your state of mind.Get well soon.
Reagan was a GOOD POTUS, actually. George W. Bush wasn’t too bad either.
Bush was a total braindead rednecked gurning moron and that was on a good day and tory b.liar was his willing little sidekick.wmd lying bastards.
Bush was a “moron” who got a Harvard business degree
Obama is a “genius”, who wont say what he did at college.
Eyesore gets all his “news” from the MSM.
ISPs can control your internet.
As an example, TalkTalk will not let a user access The Pirate Bay.
There are ways round it, before everyone jumps in to tell me!
Agreed – Gary McKinnon did an absolutely fantastic job at embarrassing the F out of them plonkers across the pond. Their problem was the OVER REACTION to him. And what of assange, me thinks they showed their hand with their mouthy initial reactions – being so OTT explains lots?
I phoned up India and told talktalk I want my searches open to anything, and I will take the consequences, even if I go blind – they have it recorded. But I am good buddies with symantes too, so have a regular update automatically every hour, to be safe.
JEZZUZ CHROST GUIDO! have you seen this? copy search copy search – ACH, maybe not….
All I want to know is: does the government know if I am looking at porn online and does it matter?
Yes – and only if it is the kind of materiel you would not discuss openly even here. The records are held by the ISP’s for a year – so depending on the mood of the government, they could crack down at any time and maybe you on the register. The legal view on acceptable porn is much broader now since the sounding saga. Just be careful out there.
Blowing chunks
Worth a read, re Leveson, nothing on telly
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/
I’m voting for the boy band on X Factor.
Apparently 25,000 British men don’t know they have AIDS.
Why not tell them?
And Cameron appears to know as he’s publicly stated it too …
btw what with ‘tweeters’ being legally bound and legal action being able to be taken against them [Sally Berk] – what about the Cameron tweets to ginger that his le….gals said were not of interest – odd innit?
All those making jokes and innuendo about a certain Australian artist should bear in mind the same presumptions were made about Lord McAlpine and he was proved innocent.
Bone of contention there – McAlpine has only taken out ‘civil actions’ – how come he doesn’t want to go down the Criminal route – which would entail him having to give evidence in court under oath – now that would prove true innocence wouldn’t it – but somehow legal fog has appeared everywhere?
Good point.
It all stinks a bit fishy.
Yep.
Not proved innocent – just proved litigious!
CRIKEY !!!
https://twitter.com/rorymeakin/status/27497677540098048
DOUBLE CRIKEY….
Is this why Cleggy wants the Press muzzled ??
Cleggover is a prat, always known it, always will know it, he is Billy the orange the turd reinvented.
whoops, awaiting. Clegg is a prat then? try that…
What about this lot?
http://www.conservativeintelligence.com/
“Ukip rank & file telling ours at count last night that they were ordered not to criticise Muslims but to blow racist dog whistle v Poles. ..”
@nickgriffinmep, reacting to the theft of his party’s vote with characteristic generosity.
his statement at the end of para 2 says it all and its already been repeated ad nauseum.
quote…’a statutory regulator – we will see, as sure as night follows day, freedom of speech gradually ratcheted away, for a journalist with the threat of prison hanging over him is less likely to be ‘robust’ in the acquisition of information in pursuit of the truth.’
the reality is that legislation however framed if it restricts freedoms of speech or the press is untenable and unacceptable.
I’m bad
No your not – my favorite track of yours when I was, ahem!, young,
WHOOPSIE! something went wrong there Michael, this one I meant, sorry,
and your disco one, when I was, AHEM part two!, sixteen and sweet and lush, the fourteen year old ladies kept telling me, : )
you couldn’t have picked 2 more boring songs ..
says a lot about me then – a sweetie – think of the ladies bud – tip from me part 9999, to get into their knickers…. : )
You’re such a patronising little git taffy. Only whores high on crack actually respond to this drivel, which explains a lot about you.
Only crack whores listen to this shite, which DOES say a lot about you taffy.
you post mostly crap videos
JEALOUS TORY ALERT! – why are the tory ladies lining up at my front door then buddies, trying to get inside my boxers? Answer me that? I can’t….
Just to reiforce my view from here, tory friends, Tom the taffy getting republican US ladies getting their knickers in a twist, circs 1979 – there must be a message there friends,
And with his mates, Carlton Banks, and Will Smith too, I suppose…
Mississippi Blues bro.
OMG!!! Michael Jackson used to be coloured?
you humm it Sally and I’ll sing it for you. One for you Sally, just, for, YOU, smwhee (kiss in other letters…) : )
God help us, it looks like we’ve got a taffy version of 8illy on our hands, except it took 8illy about 3 years to work out how to post a video.
try again since awaiting,
A non meets a poet,
didn’t knew his name.
Told me a good telling off,
that was so very lame.
And dead, now f’uck off for good
Slightly off topic.
The DT reports today on MP’s and their buying and selling of houses and how some of them are ripping off the taxpayer big time.
Should we gag the press under statutory law,absolutely NOT.
Do we want state control of our diminishing freedoms,NO WE FECKIN WELL DO NOT.
Wake up SHEEPLE and smell the coffee lest we sleepwalk into a totalitarian society like the late discredited USSR,which the EUSSR are so keen to promote assisted by other assholes who want to see this country to become part of a Euro Commie bloc.
Gordon Brown appears more wrong every day
I wonder when he will startto question his own judgement?
never … but I’m working on it
Old Chinese saying he say…”In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king !”
The DT as part of a free press published what the MP’s were up to at our expense.
This led to upheavels and in some cases resignations and jail for the culprits,was this worthwhile reporting in the public interest,absolutely in my opinion.
Now we have feckin assholes who want govern the press by by extra statute law,who are these assholes.
As far as I can see they are so called celebs and people who want to be noticed via their money grasping lawyers,these people have already been paid out under exsisting laws,exactly what is now their purpose.
I like the sting in the tail of that comment. + 12,000,000
Perhaps every UK paper should give up printing and then write exactly what they want when they want. As for the Guardian’s opnion poll perhaps we should bring in hanging, not adopt new laws on gay marriage. I am liberal and perhaps the elite of this country need to get a grip. Britain is always will be a free country and let’s write on this blog and express what we feel, we don’t need to agree but let’s be open and straight.
One little thought, mps will be k illng the golden goose that pays them well for writing the garbage they spout, you don’t think that the newspaper proprietors won’t get their own back on this shower of evil hypocritical trash.
I do not think the regulation will affect the commercial aspect of the ‘press’ too much either way. This is part of the problem.
The kick backs etc. will continue, but other than the public no longer being able to rely on what they read as being quite the full story out there, if a politician double crosses a proprietor then it will be harder for the proprietor to seek redress, if the drift is caught.
Given the way the press has been run since Murdo showed on the scene though, it does feel very much like since Murdo has left (and sort of double crossed) the government, they need to fill the vacuum. In the absence of a suitable commercial candidate they are opting for direct state control.
To get that they require public opinion to be fully behind them.
You mean like they conned us into the E U
Swearing black was white? And we believed it, too
More often, though, what the public might opine
Counts for bugger all with the LibLabCon swine
If they can twist it to fit, they’ll be for it
Otherwise – if they can’t – they just ignore it
Live on a Flood Plain?
Difficulty selling your house?
Thought of re-naming it?
Try Hilltop
Huh, there’s is street in Leeds called Nice View:
http://goo.gl/maps/DQebm
It doesn’t fool anybody.
Right come on you lot lights out ! turn them computers of and no looking at videos of men doing those manly things !
Toodle Pip
so some people on here have been suggesting that pumping gas into metal containers that house the homeless would be a good thing.Whilst comments about mp,s have been removed just for slagging said mp,s.So much for democracy.
Why not put MPs in metal containers – pump in said gas – then dump at sea? – or would that contravene some EUSSR fishing reg? – if so – put Rumpy Pumpy in with them!
A waste of gas. One hole in the bottom, water in. One hole at the top, air out.
Chuck it in the sea and drown the thieving lying fuckers.
Please summarise the Leveson report in no more than 25 words. I can’t be arsed to read it and I’ve got to do an essay on free speech.
south east torys are corrupt.
OOPS – did you say within 25 letters or words?
…furthermore, 1938 and 1856 to concerntrate your essay on, and you will be onto a winner. Start with looking at these from such times, for free speech;
1936,
1956,
Any help friend? Concerntrate it on them two occuraces and you will certainly not go far wrong. Might even educate your lecturer, no doubt.
suppose I could post 1976 as well, and I suppose 2011 as well,
1976
2011
Any good, friend?
missed out the 1990 poll tax riots, since I might, ahwm!, imlicate myself. Oh fuck it, bugger it,
1990
When I was working in Croydon in 1990, this old goat boss asked me about it, since I was from Wales and not from that Hunting area – to say I was insulted was an understatement, the old twat. Fuck head playing games with provincials to give excuses for their own fucked up games. Affected me that did, a total insult, since I was a better man that he could possibly be. And no, I was in work that afternoon, not on Charing Cross fucking Road you twats!
Leveson, between his lines, concluded that the Met are a bunch of corrupt shites, not servents of the people as Peel stated must be. Tory Lohdon establishment puppets they are, and they should be thoroughly disgusted with themselves to get in such states.
Another one for Jo Rowling after above (somewhere) and from Melbourne same, but don’t worry Jo, I have not got a history of stalking, and have no plans of physically doing so soon, so don’t worry – I am just one of these creatures that admire from afar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q3xkypgQFk
Getting slowly parky ey Jo? Some say minus 20 deg cee in some parts around before or after new year, or both…
Watch out that your tiny cock doesn’t get frostbite outside those schools and in the park.
Many ladies have got the ruler out, and have measured it, on average, as L. Ok, not XL or XXL or eye popping out XXL, but those ladies have said it is a good compromise, withoy trips to A & E when things get too excited. But it does shrink very worryingly in the real cold, almost to a size of an acorn, but you would know that always, ey pal? : )
Let me top you up Father Jack…
oops, youtube corruption with their ads, try again,
that’s better, ey Jo?
YO CHEPSTOW!, but maybe not…
Be silent and eat your Hindenburg rock.
Sod orf. Can’t stand idiots in some plastic power, especially with pathetic online things. New toytown generals they are. Suck on.
Piss off and shove a leek up your arse sheepshagger.
You should try it englishman – I think it is the frilly bits on the end of the leek that get me there. And try sheepshagging sais, you don’t know what you are missing – want to borrow my wellies to try?
Hacked Off petition to silence the press in full
90,232 online signatures.
HM Gov e-petition website for the exact same thing
3,990 online signatures.
Anyone would think outside of celebs and lefty CP drones, Joe public isn’t too keen.
We lurvv Celebs!
Can we raise a petition demanding that statutory regulations are introduced demanding in future “celebrities” shut the fuck up, stop jumping on bandwagons and are banned from twitter ??
That’s a good idea. And how about a petition urging useless unfunny fat-f*ck Stephen Fry to remove his own fat ugly face with an oxy acetylene torch?
Stephen Fry, a stupid persons idea of a clever person.
what does he feel?
As much cock as he can lay his hands on so I’ve heard.
With regulation in place and the correct government, this would be very easy to achieve. No petition would be needed. Curious that the ‘celebs’ do not understand this, but then why should they.
I realise – through all my many failings and pretentious posturing – that I am a dark stain on the noble name of Clan Cameron! – and for that I am deeply ashamed! MGFM!
Sorry chaps. We’re not going to get the deficit down to zero by 2015 as we promised.
After all, as an example we’ve got the gold plated inflation proofed pensions for ourselves and all the social services and other public sector cnuts to consider. So it really doesn’t matter if we have to get the Colonial Carney to forge say a TRILLION pounds to follow on Merv’s little starter of £375 billion. Who needs wheelbarrows to carry cash around, we’ve all got plastic nowadays.
Dave and I both agree we are utter failures.
P.S.
Toodle pip.
Two useless posh boys
Soppsed they need to join the queue behind Bliar, Brown nut and Ballsup, they were the experts.
Somewhat O/T, but over at capitalists@work, we learn that Cam and Co have snuck out their seedy draft Energy Bill while nobody was looking.
How low can they go?
*Gulp*
That was tasty spunk. Now I best get home to Grumpy. *innocent face*
only bbc would want to highlight the single brain cell logic of the chukedabutty on Marr this morning….the slimey little creep is just a la yvette…vile little c’unt
very promptly followed by the token celeb spokesman Hugh C’unt himself…the non thinking man’s mouthpiece….. pathetic banal twat should stick to charming smile laden ladies
well its a triple whammy… balls up next …three c’unts in a row….bbc at it’s impartial best…makes you proud to have such an even handed national broadcaster.
Jobs and growth plan chit chat as usual… millionaires tax cuts la di da di da
What all these “luvvies” seem unable to grasp is that statutory regulation is the slippery slope to banning a free press and for banning them the very free speech that allows them to criticise the government….once on the statute books a less liberal government(if THEY think THIS government is right wing they are totally deluded)could shut down any titles that are critical of the government and lock up these self same luvvies…it couldn’t happen ? That’s what liberasl said in Germany in the early 30′s
Grant should stick to acting and shagging whores, it is certainly more his forte than politics.
I resent that.
That was Hugh Grant not you Grant. No need to reach for the libel lawyer.
Now who’s on my side?
Ms Chakrabarti, one of six assessors who worked on the Leveson Inquiry, said: “We were chosen as advisers because of our areas of expertise.
“Mine is human rights law and civil liberties. In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.
‘uman rights and all that jazz.
its time marr was dumped …the show is no longer fit for purpose…merely a mouthpiece for the opposition
BBC – Mouthpiece for the Government up until May 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20571526
A key adviser to Lord Justice Leveson says his proposal for compulsory press regulation would be illegal because it would breach the Human Rights Act.
The judge’s report recommended an independent self-regulatory body for the industry, backed up by legislation.
But Shami Chakrabarti, of civil rights group Liberty, told the Mail on Sunday she could not support such legislation.
She said the press was “being coerced in being held to higher standards than anyone else”.
Watch Labour and Lib Dems ride rough-shod over human rights when it suits them.
Blimey ‘Hacked off’ will be hacked off.
Only those who are stark raving bonkers would want greedy, crooked expense fiddling MPs telling the press what they can and can not print.
social good is a human right.
but are human rights as talked about for the social good.
we need to be objective. be an object. take the emotion out.
Good for her! I agree.
Down with celebrity bullying!
Uuurgh!
I feel really sorry for Osborne. Marr has made him sit in the seat just vacated by Balls. It would have been warm and covered in slime. Uuurgh!
PRESCOTT COPPED
Prescott threatens to gag business probe into his links with China
He has threatened an injuction against producers of Channel 4 programme
Labour peer has visited China on several occasions since stepping down as an MP
a labour lord shogun in the making or just prezza having hols on the cheap ?
Shogun is Japan not China! More like Chairman Prezza’s Little Red Book and Big Fat Wallet.
I knew I was close
It was only to get takeaways – spring rolls and stuff to fill up a crack here and there.
So he’s also ragingly in favour of freedom of the press then!
to gag is to suffocate.
when a punch on the face does not work.
Our politicians are strangely drawn to the totalitarian communist but embracing capitalism to make loads of money contradictory state of the “Peoples” Republic of China. The best of all worlds for them – absolute power, plenty of banning, taxing and criminalising, total control of the plebs but they get to keep the bespoke suits, holiday villas and multi-millionaire bank accounts.
Who is going to organise the petition for no state control of the press?
it doesn’t need one there are far more people that recognise the dangers of legislation than those wanting it…. the knee jerk condemnation of cameron is ridiculously ill judged but so atypical of a celeb led bandwagon
The BBC as usual making a fuss over how many have signed the petition, yet forget far more people signed one to make Jeremy Clarkson PM, the BBC didn’t report that story.
I signed the petition….I signed it Sk MyBalls
Now, why would the BBC be implicitly supporting full on Leveson?
One would expect this petition,with all the publicity from the BBC and the backing of many celebs,to be the biggest ever on any issue.
If it isn’t,then I think the anti popular press brigade have just set themselves up for a fall.
One a cross
Middle Leg, but not cricket
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/australian-star-gutted-by-sex-claims-friends-say/story-e6frf7jo-1226528150895
you’re not clever ..
Muslim Brotherhood “encouraging rape gangs” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241374/Muslim-Brotherhood-paying-gangs-rape-women-beat-men-protesting-Egypt-thousands-demonstrators-pour-streets.html … Surely not? After all, Obama says he can do business with them…
How does that despicable lying twisted cow remain in public life?
Workers in unionised workplaces earn on average earn 8% more. Join a union today.
Must be nice to have a unionised job that lasts until the next tax year then get made redundant again.
Not sure that this proves anything. The majority of union members are in the public sector, which we already know is paid more than the private sector who pay for them.
Get a Cobra meeting going, two flakes of snow have fallen.
Cobras very rarely attack people unprovoked, but when disturbed, they make full use of their deadly bite.
The king cobra is the world’s largest venomous snake, with an average length of 12 feet but known to grow up to 18.5 feet. While it preys chiefly on other snakes, the king cobra is highly aggressive, extremely fast and agile, and injects a larger amount of venom per bite (as much as 600 mg) than most snakes.
is the world full of snakes or sharks?
You know it makes sense to Vote Tory, Economy worst since the 1930′s, Unemployment at a 17 year High, and 12 Banks Downgraded to junk status.
I’ve got loads of chutzpah.
Not many chosen ones in UKIP I notice…coincidence?
I’ll get my neocons chums at Chatham House to sort it out.
harriet harman dancing on a pin for brillo … is ed backtracking ?…no but yes but no but … shes lost the plot
Please can someone help me?
I keep seeing on the telly that the petition in favour of adopting Leveson in its entirety has reached 100,000. Could someone tell me if there is a petition arguing to the contrary, if so I would gladly add my name and so would a great many of my friends and family.
Go away you nasty little person.
Don’t worry it’s not how many people who sign a petition that counts it’s the how many that won’t.
Tens of millions of us.
I grew it for movember
There should be a let’s NOT implement Leveson in full petition
Regulation of the press is clearly desirable for the greater good of society. It will make things so much easier when we come to power again.
Therefore I am totally in favour of the Leveson proposals. All National Socialist Party Members are hereby instructed to sign it.
Theres nothing i like more on a Sunday
Than a large helping of Guido’s Column
O-O
oh Vicar!
I would like to know whether that Chukachapati woman or whatever her name is has received any reward financial or otherwise for her contribution
in the Mail .
It would have been good if Leveson had stipulated all such articles should certify what if any benefits had been paid to third parties.
This was probably a little oversight which Cameron will now correct.
Levenson got it right, just on definition!
Twitter/Internet are anarchies, while Press Organisations ARE just that………. a world of difference!………… If course the Predatory Press would like us to think therwise…………
The fact is that recalcitrant Twits are cheaply brought to book and prosecuted. The Press Organisations maintain huge legal departments to make that very expensive!
I thought people were getting prosecuted, and convicted, for things they said on Facebook and Twitter? As these are democratic institutions, in that everyone has the same opportunity to register an account (although some people register as groups in addition to doing so as individuals), doesn’t this mean that they are as regulated as it’s possible to be?
So the olde Judge wants to stop the clock. Go back to pre-internet era, steady, there are millions of heads out there who only know the internet era. It is here to stay, to grow and grow and we must be free to read what and when we want to. Also we must be free to write what we want…..the only censorship is self-censorship.