Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
Harold Macmillan says:
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
Who is it, and why is he standing at the back of the hall?
It is an utter disgrace that a person who votes Tory won at the BBC last night.
Wrong as ever, Ms Abbott.
Brilliant cartoon and it so true.
Bradley Wiggins could not have won anything on his own , without the aid of pacemakers and blockers etc
At least the other nominees won their events on their own merit
Sham !
Time trials?
End trails
Wiggins was described by R4 this morning (News Briefing) as a “hero”. Utter cobblers. True heroes were to be found, for instance, amongst the Bomber Command aircrews who had only a one in two chance of surviving 30 missions over enemy territory. A hero is someone who puts their life on the line for others, not some over-blown creep who can pedal a bloody bike quicker than anyone else.
Some sports persons are heroes. Novak Djokovic for example. His successes have certainly boosted morale in Serbia, a country that not all that long ago was considered a pariah nation.
Whatever else you could level against Rich and Mark, it could never include subtlety.
Or humour……
Or artistic ability!
… though I think ‘Monster Raving Liberal Party’ might just have legs …
Nigel Kennedy.
I am a pragmatist at heart.
Taxing the pensioners pensions to help 1st time buyers then there mansions–there 8% poll ratings will only be the prisoners they want to give the vote to
Again, please, in English.
Why would a whale know English?
Call me!
Is dat you massa?
Taxi for David Cameron !
He’s had enough of the Bunker.
I’ll pay for it !
Together with a handsome tip too! The sooner the smug and incompetent posh boy is sent on his way, the better. And he can take his exceedingly nasty party with him. Would yesterday be too soon?
its funny because its rubbish. Its true though…..
aka “tragicomedy”
Good effort……
Is that Nick Cameron or David Clegg? The policies are the same, they are social democrat left of centre fanatics after all. Tweedledum dumb and Tweedledee dumber interchangeable and identical in all but presentation in achieving the same ends.
Ditto for all three main parties, Banker Bum Bait and public cash troughers. No new ideas, no real commitment to popular democracy, no intention of changing the status quo. If what I’ve seen in the business sectors i work in the last quarter of the year (IT, printing industry and construction industry) then we’re in for a shit storm when the figures come out. You can kiss that AAA rating goodby for a start. HP for example are shitting themselves in the UK, every sector they are operating in is tanking and they don’t have a clue what to do about other than dump staff and start selling bits of the business. Same with a load of others, unemployment may be down but its low value jobs that can vanish in week.
I’VE GOT THEM RATTLED NOW.
We need a change of government, not a change of management.
We need a change of politcal system
We need a change of government, not a change of management.
What our Nigel says is stating the bleeding obvious, wonder it has not been said before. Should be a campaign slogan
‘and I’ll retain my seat after the next Election…’.
We’ll keep the House of Ermine Vermin
We’ll buy Trident with Chinese loans
We will keep one foot in Europe and one outside
We love Daddy-in Law’s windmills
We don’t understand the Alternative Vote
We hate the Euro but will lose our AAA
We are an omnishambolic clusterfuck
We are the alternative party with Buffoon Boris as alternative leader
PS And, oh, do we love gay “marriage”…
The monster raving liblabcon party, of one mind and one soul and holding on to the increasingly tiny differences to prove to the electorate they are different. Would Balls be any different from that sneering tw*t Gideon? If you think he would you are in for a shock. If your nation no longer controls its own economic policy then changing the puppet at the top makes no difference at all.
We just love the Quey Tree in the pantomime. Dame Merv keeps picking the fruit all year round, and the debt seeds inside are ever so fertile just like Jack in the Beanstalk.
wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaa wwwwwaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaa wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaa wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Incoming!
Sad but true. Our ‘leaders’ are selling us down the road and taking the piss as they do.
Fu.ck me, there ARE a lot of lying LieBore scum and jackbooted UKRAPpers in this morning – did you all have to get up early to sign on?
Never went to bed maaaann.
“Man without personality wins Sports Personality of the Year”
He’s got more personality in his sideburns than you’ll ever have!
Fucking pleb, go and fist yourself you sad fucking shut in.
I will say this for ” Sir Bradley Wiggins” , he is the only British sportsman I have ever seen and heard giving a TV interview here in France in erm French.
For some reason he is very popular with the French public which was never the case with Lance Armstrong .
Biens mots Jane, et je t’aime.
Is that because, without meaning to be indelicate – most French Mademoiselles prefer their men to be ON their tits, rather than off them, a l’Armstrong?
Je ne regrette rien, mate.
And Isay to myself what a wonderful world…Oh yeah.
“Man who’s never achieved anything much runs down one who has.”
Fuck off, I been first thousands of times, how many times has that homo Wiggo?
agree absolute shite choice
On yer bike. It’s the green way to get to work.
Don’t worry folks, I’ll be Leader soon when the charges get dropped.
I’ll be helping all the way.
Well you know where I am when you need me plebians.
Good concept, shit execution. A Merry Christmas and some gainful employment in the New Year to R&M
A site! Are you going to post stuff there?
Arrest the pleb f****g copper
Got the fucking bastard. I hope he gets fucking fucked and has to take his bike the long way round. Fucking pleb.
Perhaps the two of you might share a cell together one day.
So you want to shoot the essenger, Mitchell. If PC 49 hadn’t blurted, you’d have got away with it. We’re not having that.
Yet another candidate for the Bent Copper of the Year award. So many now, we will have to fix the vote as usual.
Labour placemen have been in the police for years.
The Labour layabouts learnt a lot from myself – pity the military were not so forthcoming, but we got lots of government department moles, local councils, NGO’s, and “charities” in place.
Did the Arctic monkeys win last night?
No, but that Scotch tennis player, who supports any team who plays England, came third!
Who’s he then?
Guess, here’s a clue ..
Ahhm no British, Ahmmm Scootisch.
Perhaps if he’s upset at losing (something he’s well used) he might remember saying the above words to Radio 4. What comes around …
Do you mean Jock O’Vitch?
Can I suggest getting hold of some 12 year old graffiti sprayers and asking them to come up with a cartoon. It couldn’t be much worse.
Graffitti sprayers hey. They can sign one of my partitions.
There is absolutely no earthly reason for the libdems to exist.
They have very little in common with the majority of the populace,
and,because of their wish to seem influential and camerons appeasment,
they have held the country back.To quote Cromwell, “In the name of God,go.!!!!
Obviously they have some deluded followers,but,unless they change,they are
history.
(Just my opinion)
Couldn’t agree more. I’d say there’s more chance in the next 50 years of a DNA match being made from a fart than of these twisted bastards getting anywhere near government again.
Too late.
Everyone knows the Lib Dems are the enablers of all the evil of this Coalition. They had the chance to stop what happened over the NHS, Welfare Reform, legal aid and tuition fees. They flunked i
If the LDs has a glimmering of human decency left they would scupper the welfare cuts in the bill that George Osborne is tabling specifically so he can accuse Labour of being the scrounger’s party?
But they will troop into the government lobby as they’ve done for every Tory policy that savages the poor and will continue to oppose only the constitutional and civil liberties and EU measures that no-one outside of the London media bubble cares a fuck about.
A 1% increase is not a cut. Those who work cannot be sure of any increase.
When both food and energy have risen about 10% in the last year, and these make up 100% of most claimants expenditure. This means their inflation is 10% not 5%, so a small rise is a cut, and what with the ‘council tax adjustments’ coming soon. Their’s is not a happy lot. So say what you mean – you would be happy to see them starve or die of hypothermia. Not all of them choose a life of indolence.
Nobody even said that their NI contributions would be stolen for other ‘more deserving causes’.
They’re preferable to the Nasty Party.
You mean us of course
The Libdums don’t exist. They are just an horrible fucking nightmare.
There is a really good reason they exist They get the same money as other MP’s in the full knowledge that they will never have to assume any responsibility as hell will freeze over before we ever elect them to govern
You only had to look at Vince Cables face at the election , he looked physically ill at the prospect that after years of telling everybody how it should be done from the sidelines he would now actually have to do some work
free loading sponging fucker all
The Lib Dem party doesn’t exist, it’s just a conspiracy to seize power.
There is absolutely no earthly reason for the libdems to exist. Just one little sentance says it all
Dear Mrs Wilson
As I said yesterday afternoon Bradley Wiggins won Sports Personality of the Year 2012. I don’t know how you thought that young Irish golfer had any chance of winning.
I am putting this letter in the public domain.
Yours faithfully
Rob (your husband)
Northern Irish.
A wicket! Trott departs for 143 off 310. A series deciding innings 302-4
Why does Barry Obama pause so long between his sentences?
He does “caring” so much better than Dave, who remembers the dead soldier’s name for three whole milliseconds during PMQs
Oratory trick.
Adds gravitas, but pauses are boring and intriguing. They disable the conscious critical mind (boring), and attract attention of the subconscious (intrigue). The boring part can also be regarded as having a hypnotic quality. Once relaxed it is easy for the real message to be implanted directly.
Looking at the speech, the message appears to be one of a collectivist and community message, suggesting that the people need him for their security, and further suggesting that the needs of children should be placed above all others. One would suggest a sly way to encourage the people to demand forfeiture of some of their constitutional rights and view the government as their only saviour. A bad message.
He was also using NLP techniques again – particularly anchoring. (Note the hands, and odd variation in emphasis of certain words in the actual address)
They have gone all out on this one. Before he arrived in Newtown yesterday, there was a bomb hoax phoned in which prompted swat teams etc. to descend on the church.
One suspects part of this is distraction from the fact that nearly all of the major domestic gun massacres over the past 30 years have occurred whilst the democrats have been in power. This is significant and not a fact widely projected.
I also have to pause to collect my thoughts on where I am, what day of the week it is, and what series of heartfelt mantras I have to give this time around.
Last week this Government pissed off over £2m of my money on a Libyan .
Yesterday I learned that HMRC have pissed off another £24m of my money by having failed to recover VAT and PAYE from Comet before it closed down.
Today I learn that the Government not content with this is pissing off another £26 m of my money by giving it to the ex employees of Comet as some sort of redundancy fund.
This morning I feel really pissed off .
It’s pretend Q.E. money, so it doesn’t matter. would you like me to forge some more?
There are about 6,000 employees with Comet .
This means that on average the Government is giving them each £4,000 when they have all after all contributed to a company which has failed spectacularly.
Contrast this with how your Government treats successful companies and their employees . They are abused and humiliated in public and told that they are “immoral”.
Define successful…Mr Merchant Banker?
I’m a predator.
Don’t forget the £250m to the Northern Rock customers who weren’t correctly advised over their loan statements!
Not bad for just one weeks announcements.
Don’t fret too much though…once the hyperinflation kicks-in and de-bases the currency, it will all be just be funny money in the end.
I remember in Manchester a few years back when that No win no fee ambulance chasing company went bust and the employees received dismissal notices on their mobile phones that shortly after HMRC started writing to people telling them that their NI contributions had not been paid and they should send money.
I do not know what happened after the letters were sent but today it would be a bit of interesting investigative journalism for someone to undertake .
The Barclay brothers want £1bn VAT back – something to do with when they bought Littlewoods.
Haven’t they got enough money as it is?
I bet the accountants get more than £26m.
Not to mention the tens of millions our institutions have to spend on interpreters every year ! so the police can tell johnny foreigner why he has been arrested or why he should buy a sticking plaster instead of calling an ambulance
Ask Ed Miliband why 2 million quid was given to the Libyan bloke.
Or even Jack “White feather” Straw
Check who was “in power” at the time of these happenings.
It’s a shame that some good LibDem MPs will be replaced by LabCon dross merely because they bear a label of thevwrong colour.
Name one ?
Mike Handycock?
Boaz
Jessa Thorpe? (Irrational hatred of dogs, though, as I recall)
UKIP= Anti Coalition party
UKIP = useful
Coo ee
Happy Winterval lovers
Mwhah
Will you be exchanging engagement cock rings to celebrate then my little luvvies?
No just bodily fluids.
Mwah
Christmas? Bumhug!
I see Mitchell has struck back , a police office from the Royal Protection squad has been arrested and bailed for leaking information about what Mitchell said
If i lose my job , I’ll make dam sure you lose yours !
Wanker !
So Mitchell now controls the police, just how do you work that one out?
It’s easy if you’re a swivel eyed, foaming at the mouth leftie nutter.
Ever heard of Freemasonry?
Word on the street is that Mitchell is a 4th Dan, brown noser.
Really? I’d heard that he is a twelfth dan in Origami, is the Outings and Catering director for the Illuminati and has Elvis’s secret hideaway on speed dial on his Iphone 7!
Wiggo, the only Mod that should appear on this site!
Third !
Hello righties. Tell me, is there any tragedy you’re not willing to joke about or make capital out of? Just wondered, given the many posts over the weekend revelling in the murder of 20 children because it makes “anti gun bedwetters” upset and because you’d “laugh if it turns out the mother of the shooter was a registered Democrat”. Next time someone makes a tasteless joke about wishing for Thatcher’s death, you demented types who use the murder of 6 year olds for point scoring might want to check if you’re really best placed to get on your high horse and call others nasty.
I suppose I should go easy on you. After all, the blog is run by a drunk mick with 2 DUI convictions who thought it hilarious to post a cartoon mocking the attempted suicide of a Tory MP at a rail station.
Yawn
In engineering there is a concept call a “noisy-channel”. This is with respect to being able to still use the channel for communications despite the “contamination”.
This site is noisy and has sources of conflicting messages seeping in with little filtering. The destination must filter the whole stream to extract the messages that fit within the destination receivers requirements.
So the messages you seem to “lock on to” are for others just random noise. It is similar to standing at a bar and talking. But no one goes into a bar and shouts out: “You drinkers are all talk crap and the landlord is a useless”. Mainly because activity like that categorises all those people into one fictitious stereotype and so actually condemn the speaker into being their own cartoon lefty stereotype.
Except when the majority of the comments are of that ilk.
And the majority of the comments are of that ilk,hardly random noises,not a big percentage of conflicting comments, I love it myself but the last thing Iexpect on this site is impartiality.
That’s just unnecessarily rude, offensive and racist.
A glass of Guiness barman, Slainte.
And a hundred thousand welcomes to you paddy.
You dribbling wingnuts are hilarious. You spend every day ranting about the bbc and then when its Sports Personality show gives awards to two Tories, you still make inane jokes about how it was a major “mistake” which goes against your conspiracy theory that they rig everything. In which case, why didn’t they rig the public vote to go to Farah? It’s ok, I’m sure you’ll come up with something. And why choose to give a special recognition award to Sebastian Coe? Let me see. “Because, um, because he’s not really a Tory. He’s actually Diane Abbott in disguise”. No more insane than your usual theories.
Yawn
Because Seb Coe is one of the chosen ones…i.e. a cosmopolitan.
And don’t they just prizes and and award ceremonies…
Who was the other Tory?
Our Bradley Hardacre
Whoops!…we mean Wiggins.
And the immortal lines: I didn’t have a nanny until I was 40.
She was yours….
Erm….. it was voted for by the public, not by a BBC “panel” and Wiggo got 50% of all public votes cast. If you don’t like the result, tough shit. That’s democracy for you.
It is fuel bills that are worrying me the most at the moment. I read on the web that there is a technology that can extract shale gas without “fracking”. This technology goes beyond proven it has been working in the US for over 20 years. Shale gas is making the US competitive again. Yet I then go on to read that even if the fuel is in itself cheap the EU taxes supported by the likes of the Liberal Democrats mean my bills will be just as high if not higher. Apparently all to do with a tax on carbon per ton. Quietly I am hopeful that this doesn’t transpire. That the market wins out. That the myth of Global Warming takes it place alongside other madnesses like speculating on tulip bulbs. That the Lib Dems are sinking and UKIP are rising gives me some hope. Hope is all I have. One wished Mr Clegg, with his faux English heritage, would disappear off to the Continent he so beloves. If he does that though it won’t be back to the chaos of ancestral homeland but to the orange groves of Spain. The sooner he goes and his party disintegrates the better.
I wish someone would frack the millitwat and blinky
I try not to think of such thoughts.
The LibDems may be a joke, but if they prevent the revised and fairer constituency boundaries from being enacted before the next election, then Labour will win, and will be in power forever.
Not quite so funny.
Not if Smoked Salmon and all his pisshead countrymen fuck off into oblivion as we hope, together with all their Liebour M.P.s
If we had a Conservative as a leader of the Conservative Party then they would the next election. Referendum on Europe, no tax increases on shale gas, and red diesel for hauliers is all that is needed.
Almost everyone on this blog seems to have watched this sports programme. I am proud to say I didn’t.
Honestly, if you all hate the BBC so much, why do you watch it. Are you incapable of picking up the remote.
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I watch Sky News. I only watch the BBC for weather, The Sky At Night, and the occasional rugby match. But I still have to pay telly tax. If I watch a BBC news bulletin I can predict what they will say about most issues. And what they will be saying will be Left wing or Liebore propaganda. If I watch any BBC drama programme because I said I pay for it I can count on women being the leads, white men being the untrustworthy or sexist or nasty or idiots, other minority interests given a positive spin and the air of ubiquity. All in all I pay for something that doesn’t reflect me and apart from one programme, that now will probably be dumbed down now Sir Patrick has left us, and it isn’t fair.
Do not watch relly anymore, just download from kickass or pirate bay
I meant telly sorry
Watch amalgamators on the net (there are plenty).
See what you want
See it when you want
Not real-time
So no bloody telly tax
Yippee – it works well for me, are you watching anything better than ‘Father Ted’ I wonder.
Guido,
Have you ever thought of running a topical and funny cartoon on the site every Monday morning?
Why do you inflict these unfunny talentless efforts on us they ain’t at all amusing
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-coalition-tightrope.html
Today’s announcement is priceless. Foot……. shoot….. own……