A remarkably well turned out figure has been conspicuously absent from TV screens recently. Sad news today that Peter Spencer, the flamboyant and eccentric Westminster correspondent for Sky News at weekends, has retired. Guido has fond memories of waiting to go on air and being entertained with a tune on the guitar off camera. Millbank won’t be the same without the bright pink BMW parked outside the studios. A loss!
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
Bloody foreigners, coming over here taking all our twitter followers
Yes, sad news. A class act.
What is point of turning comments off on Brisco thread – we can just be libelous/contempt of court in the thread above or below
I can comment without committing libel, but presumably there is someone who thinks otherwise. Probably a lawyer. Lawyers think they own the law.
Like Harriet thinking she owns the wimminhood.
Poor deluded woman.
“remarkably well-turned-out figure”
“flamboyant”
“bright pink BMW”
Are you trying to tell us something?
I guess the BBC lawyers think its OK to say stuff that Guido hasn’t done yet. notably stating what she’s getting done for.
lawyers….are an officer of the court. the court upholds the law.. court is Appointed by the judciary. the judiciary is owned by the monarch.
has the info about huhne’s ex shaggin vince cable come out yet?
“Millbank won’t be the same without the bright pink BMW parked outside the studios.” Bright pink not another media lovey, my mate wouldn’t even wear a pink tie or shirt but a pink car that makes a statement, I bet he had a lot of limp waves when he drove past
I Liked Peter Spencer. He made boring news sound interesting!
One of the Old School – not many left, sadly.
Have a good retirement Peter, unless you come back and take over from David Attenborough!
Never mind fucking Spencer.
What’s the latest shit on Vikki?
Have they got 12 more dense Muslims then
dense Muslims
A relative term, surely.
The density of Muslims is normally around 1.0 g/cm^3.
She’s in the witness box already. Are they rushing through the trial to get a verdict by Thursday?
No, they are rushing. If anything seem to be presenting things more carefully just to make sure the jury is not confused.
Hello Jury – that’s you lot there.
I am the judge. I’m here to see fair play. What is meant by ‘fair play’?
New Jury please.
I’d love a quote from Michael Mansell.
‘BDOH BDOW EUCH JINGS BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP, VICKY RRRRRRSSSSSSPPPPA BDOH THICK FUCKIN JURY’
They are currently teaching the jury the English language.
Give it another 3 years. LOL
Couldnt they just wheel Dave Vanian on to replace him?
Who’d know the difference?
Or Denise Van Outen?
I think we’ve got a very clear message, a loud and clear message that Britain cannot let up in dealing with its debts, dealing with its problems, cannot let up in making sure that Britain can pay its way in the world.
In other words George, you’ve totally fucked it up.
as long as you’ve paid ff your coke dealer then we are all happy, eh Gideon?
Never heard of him. But then I rarely watch Sky News.
Me neither – twice.
“flamboyant and eccentric”?
Pink shirt, tie, and car?
“Pink shirt, tie, and car”.
All the nice boys love a bumbandit.
Geedo liked him with a quick strum on his guitar
With backing from a friend playing the blue vein piccolo…?
A decent hack who knew his stuff.
Unlike any at the BBC.
He was always FAR too earnest about what he was waffling on about – which took my attention away from whatever that might have been.
I always found that mac draped round his shoulders distracting.
It was to hide the hump.
Repeat:
I always found that mac dr*ped around his shoulders distracting.
Thought he was superman, did he wear his underpants over his trousers
He also seemed to like having a big ring on his finger…
Repeat: I keep telling you – it was to hide the hump.
You blind old coot.
I like Sophy Ridge
So do I mmmmm
Yes, will be good once she learns to stop waffling on endlessly repetitive like a stuck record and sticks to the basic story.
Best enjoyed with the sound off.
Peter Spencer – A Winner is You!
Millbank won’t be the same …?
A very practical colour for a car. No one would steal it.
Shella’s Wheels might…
Dead right there cock, you would get too many sly smiles and blown kisses
Vote Tory,you know it makes sense !
A “complete lack of common sense” in the Department for Transport’s handling of the West Coast Main Line franchise deal will cost taxpayers “£50m at the very least”, MPs have said.
The cost might be “very much larger”, the Public Accounts Committee warned.
The committee accused the department of making “fundamental errors” and failing to learn from “previous disasters”.
anyone paying for this cock-up with their job?
That’s a bloody silly question, indeed
Why don’t you, please, try to get up to speed
The N H S bumped off legions of folks
Arrests or sackings? Only in sick jokes
Yes, but probably not anyone who works as a civil servant
This is the Common Purpose trained civil service we are talking about. Like the Mid-Staff’s management they will likely be promoted, to manage even bigger disasters.
It could be Dave’s dynamic staffers, you know the ones that have displaced career civil servants you the on message ones
But what is so difficult about asking likely bidders a simple question” Would you like to run the railway and if so how much are you prepared to pay us for the privilege?”
Nah! Just a few more peerages.
Sophie Ridge says to Peter Spencer – “all your base are belong to us!”
I’d love to assault Sophie’s Ridge. Woof woof
Oh, just call me a poofter and have done with it. You’ve as much as done already.
He was a biased lefty effete tosser! Good riddance! The new regeneration played by Sophy Ridge is much better!
Oh yessss.
You can now enjoy a good ham shank when the delectable Sophie is on.
Agreed.
WTF! The thread above now has “comments off”!
Who needs Leveson?
I’m innocent and if you say I’m not you are a racist/sexist oppressor of my people and our struggle.
Br!scoe would not say that.
You are confusing her with Abb0t.
I’ve changed recently. So fucking do one ya racist.
Probably a contempt notice received, or someone woke up and realized that allowing commenting on active cases is a no no.
Which, to be fair, it often is, though as the jury is told not to go on line and look up what people are saying, I am not quite clear why. Maybe it is to stop witnesses knowing what someone else said the day before.
Which potential jurors in the Southwark area last week weren’t aware of the Pryce trial and what happened?
If it’s active, it ain’t arf going slow
Still, as it’s a judge, it’s mind how you go
Once the judiciary starts looking crooked
The whole state edifice is real up the creek without a paddle
Good, but that final line scans only if you are from up north (as they say).
What happened to the comments on my arrest story?
Things got “Ugly” real fast, one presumes.
Guido couldn’t possibly comment. No, I mean it literally (well, maybe not THAT literally)– he’s probably being “gagged by proxy,” i.e., WE are not being allowed to “fill in the blanks” that he will leave for us, as to what the details may be.
Have you got them in a size 10
I can nick you a pair from Foot Locker
Any news of Max Clifford ?
Kerry Katona is my agent now. You need to speak to her. True, you won’t understand a word that she says, but that’s how I like it at present.
James. the Roller please.
More questions about Maria Hutchings’s CV and companies she works for http://bit.ly/Xz9Ub9
You just can’t trust a Tory.
I like the story on the side: “What happens to people on death-row later found innocent?”
Experts: We could all do without them. What we need is experience.
Sadl to see him go he was succint and generally accurate and also entertaining.
Have a great retirement.
The same person? He waffled on saying very little in a long winded way.
Agreed, once again.
I have never heard as much claptrap in my life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21589128
So now I am going to be paid to use my credit card.
Is this Labour policy yet?
So you didn’t get to the end of the article.
I’m guessing you don’t actually have a credit card with an 0.5% APR, do you now?
I’ll ask my own daft question – what is the central bank rate for anyway?
Looks like a GF typo in the header for this report,as it should read
“Millbank will not be the same…. etc” ………..makes more sense IMHO…….
Sod it, let’s follow the Italians’ lead. Guido Fawkes and his mate with the unkempt hair to run the country. Two comedians who’d sort it all out
unkempt hair
Boris?
Boris is a bit of a dud. A pity really. He had a lot of promise. He has certainly made enough promises, even if he doesn’t keep them.
You spelt me name wrong, I’m gonna tell my Dad.
Owen put your sheets on a boil wash before you go out to play, otherwise they will stink the house out.
Why aren’t we allowed to make comments about Constants Brisket but we can about Pryce and Huhne?
Send him down.
Because we can’t be trusted to say the right things.
The correct decision
Will you all miss me when I’m retired?
Hung, Drawn & Quartered……….would be even better for most people of this
country you have defecated on over many years, along with your ZanuLielabor
ars*eholes who have ruined our country & now continued by Call Me DDD &
his blue labor bu*m boys ……..
the lot of you need to be brought to account…..sooner rather than later
It was only a tiny, tiny, tiny lie.
Honest it was.
Even tinier than my withered old todger?
diss tryl be well borringg. i want playy on me xboxx. who is dis mr pryce anyway? wot doz evidens meen? Can I has kfc 4 lunsh? I like kfc. Wot is risonable dowt?
Must be the Jury Chairman if he’s asking questions about the trial
Constants Brisket has spoken in the past of her admiration for Mrs Thatcher, and during an appearance on Question Time she condemned Labour and praised the Tories.
Some people will say anything to get out of a tight spot.
Some people will say anything to get in to a tight spot.
If she did what she is accused of then her judgement must seriously be questioned. Her race is irrelevent.
Is she perchance a protege of Baroness Scotchland?
Time perhaps to have a pool of responsible people able to sit as jurors, of course they would have to be indigenous and educated citizens, CRB checked
Pay ‘em for their time and expenses, no doubt there will be a few more shouts of “Guilty”
The system we have today did not foresee the change we have in society, courtesy of the EC, EEC, EU and Labour.
Quite right too, get them used to believing anything the Police say, incredulous to anything to the contrary and we’ll soon have a 99% conviction rate.
Let’s call them Magistrates
The concept of the jury is a sound one, but it is predicated on the assumption that there is an informed, aware and educated (the requirement needed is no more than let’s say a 1960s Secondary Modern School) body of citizens that have inculcated as part of their formative early life the basics concepts of right and wrong based on evidence that can be presented in an argument. This really is not about class in the sense it might appear, I have sworn in many juries made up of what was once called the working classes. Once the procedure of the court was explained they engaged fully with the case with pertinent questions and took their responsibility seriously. This is the difference with juries now society is far too fragmented and the rise of the cult of individual entitlement has further undermined it. When I left the profession 12 years ago the rot was well and truly set in. I fear our rulers would prefer juries to vanish and if they succeed then another part of democratic citizenship will go with it.
If I’m tried I want it to be by a jury of my peers.
My peers are white middle class educated people, not benefits scroungers or people who come from stone-age communities.
Is there an angle in this story for me to exploit?
I shall miss Mr Spencer.
Knew his Shakespeare. Gutted.
We are running out of Characters, sometimes he could brighten an otherwise, dull day and few can.
Some on this thread have slyly (or not so slyly) suggested that Peter is gay, but I believe he isn’t. He appeared in a C4 documentary a few years back about non-gay men who nonetheless embrace a ‘camp’ lifestyle. He was referred to in the documentary as ‘Pink Peter’, IIRC.
Very sad to see him go. Now all we’ve got is Boulton and Ridge. Not that I’m really complaining, though. Is John Craig still around? Feel like I haven’t seen him in a while.
Fun fact: Peter Spencer has a ponytail.