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We are so near… and yet so far.
They all laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They’re not laughing now.
You want closet racists and xenophobes? Read the Guardian, especially Comment is Censored.
Gremlins at work this morning. See 2.
I had that too and thought it was my browser crashing…
Thank fuck English men are all either self-obsessed arse bandits or pussy-whipped ladyboys If there were any real men in England we’d all have been lynched by now. God I love England!
Have to agree with Butch, call an Englishman a racist and he’ll wet himself.
Oy, get your own material.
Like a badger with an afro throwing sparklers at the Pope.
lens of telescope vs. magnifying lens.
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to change the view get on the other side of the divide.
question: can the 2 extremes be unifed?
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beyond the updownupdown is the straight and the narrow.
there is the 3rd dimension.
the 3rd view.
the creative option.
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http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_127393
as the person it has been said who knows everything,
either you know everything.
or you don’t.
you have also said that you know nowt.
vague is vague and precise is precise. perhaps you would quantify how much you know about what?
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_127393
unclear why the crown is the owner of the coyright on this doh document.
I don’t agree with David Cameron too often but he was right when he dismissed this lot(UKIP) as closet racists and xenophobes. Deceptively dangerous.
Excuse me!
You have missed out fruitcakes and loonies.
I am most particular about being described not only correctly but fully.
Glad you’re honest. The core kippers are unpleasant, potty mouthed racists. The rest are just mid term protesting.
And what are you a posh gay boy?
Thatcherite?
You would not have lasted two seconds in her presence wet boy. Now get back to knitting your lace handkerchiefs bedwetter.
Go for a walk old man. Thatcher wasn’t a racist Powellite.
Powell wasn’t particularly racist, especially for his time. When he was asked in 1969 if any race was superior he replied “Yes, Indians.”
Make of that what you will, but it hardly makes him a member of the KKK.
Take out his racism, Powell was brilliant. That’s the same view as Thatcher had of him.
Fifty-some years ago, I helped lead the fight to decriminalise homosexuality, an accomplishment for which the Owen Joneses of the world give me no credit. The issue of gay marriage wouldn’t even be on the table today if not for my efforts as well as those of others,
But, see– you make just ONE “Bloody” speech, and– well, y’know…
If you think this is bad Cameron and the Tories are gonna get absolutely trashed in 2014 European Elections
How dare you English not welcome your ethnic replacement.
And i suppose the three main parties of thieving lying robbing cheating sexual deviants we have to choose from are just tickety boo in your tiny mind are they ?
Take the fucking blinkers off
Wait till the Elm B & B scandal time bomb explodes, and you’ll see just how utterly corrupt the liblabcon really are.
I’m not a closet racist. My closet is brown.
Yeah.. Immigration. It’s lovely. ‘Enriching’. Only a fruitcake would oppose it.
And where was Dave this week ?
Latvia , probably explaining the benefits of moving to Britain to it’s inhabitants
SO, will a certain ex-MP be swilling out before next weekend?
Responded below but my browser blew up in the middle…
I used to be an MP you know.
From current quote of the day >>>>>>>>>>>>>> over there:
Boris on the bankers’ bonus cap:
“possibly the most deluded measure to come from Europe since Diocletian tried to fix the price of groceries across the Roman Empire”
Does anybody in London think that that big blick pompous Jamaican harridan who kicked Boris of of the Assembly meeting a few days ago would have the first idea of what he was on about? Who the h*ll is she anyway?
It is interesting to note that Diocletian’s palace was at Split, now in Croatia, but, under Tito, part of Jugoslavia.
Tito controlled prices in a similar but almost 1700 years later. Indeed part of the factors contributing to the breakup of the ex-state can be traced to the attempts to reintroduce controls after having recognised m@rket forces in the mid 1960s.
Is it true that CCHQ will be decamping to Split shortly ?
No. But only on account that this practice ceased some years ago. What is puzzling is that this re-trial has already lasted a week and the prosecution was still presenting it’s case yesterday. Since this was supposed to be a quicker process because all the preliminaries were already dealt with that is rather puzzling unless they lost some time during the week.
It also depends whether this jury is above mong standard.
This was in response to ?/? at 7:38 am
I did jury service in a historic child abuse case a few years ago. One of the jury members was married to a policeman. As far as she was concerned the defendant was guilty regardless of the evidence presented because, and I quote pretty much verbatim, “my husband says that they wouldn’t bring it to court if he wasn’t guilty, so he must be guilty”.
Tell me how you are meant to get a fair trial when you have idiots like that doing jury service? Incidentally we found the bloke not guilty as on the evidence presented it was pretty obvious that the “victim” and his mates had made up the allegations because they didn’t like the bloke. Personally I’d have charged the lot of them with perjury.
That’s why you have twelve jurors, and unanimous / majority (10-2) directions, and the judge has the power to discharge individual jurors or all of them.
The system works.
8illy Kebab, I am pretty sure they would convict you of being a twat.
Got your number.
@Can’t Remember My Moniker
If you are going to troll me then at least try to do a good job. This is pathetic…
Give you a lot of faith in the system when people say things like that. On the evidence presented. One should think what would you would want were the roles reversed: blind prejudice or judgment?
Apologies for the delay in replying.
It scared me. We took an oath to try the case on the evidence presented, and in this case the evidence was so weak I wondered why they were wasting our time. I discussed it afterwards with a couple of security guards at work who had also done jury service. One did a fraud case where one of the jurors was illiterate and innumerate. The other did a robbery case where a juror said that the accused looked like her grandson, and as her grandson wouldn’t do anything like that she was voting not guilty.
No problems about the delay. I nearly always check back. My only experience of jury service has been favourable. Your experience must have been very unsettling for you especially, as from this and your earlier posts, you seem one of those people (who posts here) who cares. Guido thinks there are only 50 of us. If he is right then it does not say much for the UK now.
South African police have installed state of the art technology outside the bail address of Oscar Pistorius to ensure he doesn’t leave.
A cattle grid.
We all laughed when you said you were going to be a comedian. We’re not laughing now.
It’s called Karma and it’s pronounced “Haha fuck you!”
It’s been a funny week. Gladys Emmanuel’s got some new stockings. I see that Huhne fella’s still on the lamb
Dave says that anal sex is good because it works with all genders.
Somebody call? Boaz.
Why do brits have such a fixation with bumming?
What’s occuring?
The British have a strong analytical tradition?
Ooh! That’s very cheeky!!
Dear David Cameron, The NHS is not “a great business”. The purpose of the NHS is to protect the health of the nation not to make money.
..by killing off the frail and elderly, thus leaving a healthier nation of taxpayers.
And making the English pay for the prescription charges of Scotland , Wales and Ireland
“The purpose of the NHS is to protect the health of the nation”
It’s not been doing a very good job then, has it?
All unemployed spongers should be forced to receive their treatment at The North Staffordshire Hospital
Any M.P. or Minister needing hospital treatment should be compelled to have it at North Staffs Shithole, the Pride of our World Envied NHS
That will focus the minds of the troughers.
Sorry going into administration
At least the Clayheads in North Staffs have a better hospital than down the road in MID STAFFS
We did try to establish new trusts in Poland to cover this up, but history showed that the strategy does not work. So we tried Savile’s strategy.
Is Owen Jones a debt slave or does he find difficulty making ends meet?
Dave, “I mean UKIP. It’s just a sort of, you know, a bunch of err, a, they are just trying to make a bit of mischief as far as I can see.”
Ferrari, “‘As far as I can see’, they are just a bunch of what?”
Dave, “Well (Dave laughs), Fruitcakes and loonies and Closet racists, mostly. Errm…”
https://audioboo.fm/boos/1079562-david-cameron-ukip-a-bunch-of-fruitcakes-loonies-and-closet-racists#t=0m0s
So, they’re closet racists, eh, Mr C?
Well, they certainly extracted your pee
I wonder if what they did at Eastleigh
Had you flying to the W C?
As you rightly posit
None of us is in the closet!
Tory voters, along with Lib Dem and Labour voters, are a bunch of closet idiots extremely bad at disguising the fact.
What shall we waste today’s £400million deficit on Gideon? Shall we paint Nelson’s column pink and cover him in gold? That would be a really cool signal of our all inclusive gay credentials. What do you think?
I think you should come on the poop deck with me.
Can I be your Cabin Boy?
“I was very glad to hear the Defence Minister say today that we must spend more money on bombs and less on poor people,” said Guido Fawkes
Me too
We should load the feckless scrounging bastards on to planes and drop them on our enemies
it would be a slow frustrating death as they started to breed and bleed the country dry
If you can’t afford children then don’t have any. What’s more don’t expect other taxpayers to bail out your lifestyle choices. That really isn’t fair, is it?
Totally agree 245. I am sick & tired of working hard so that these benny scroungers can, at times, have a better standard of living than me.
Thanks Labour, thanks you very much you barstewards!
Ah *wipes tear from eye* The Cons are adopting more New Labour policies. *sniffs*. My Legacy lives on!
I have based all my premiership on your wonderful example Tone
Yes let’s spend more on poor people.
It’s an absolute disgrace that unmarried, unwaged, unwanted, university fodder mums are only given two homes, free schooling, free healthcare, social services and unlimited funds to raise their seventeen sprogs with seventeen different sires. The state is a disgrace.
Well you have to be able to call up expendable cannon fodder when you enter into totally unwinable wars, the masses to wave the flag, and turn out to wellcomce you home from yourlovely foreign travel, boy I will mis all those free junkets
Fuel poverty fuel poverty
I’m a man who wants to become a legal lesbian and marry another lezza. It’s a fucking disgrace how Cameron suppresses minorities in this country.
Owen. Get up. There’s someone called Lord Manglebum on the phone asking if you will give one of your fantastic motivational blasts at the Anti UKIP Fashists Gay Pride Training Gig next Saturday
Off to be wined and dined at somebody else’s expense. Again.
Good Morning
Wined, dined, and 69`d
The Tories have done nothing but wine since Thursday
Fancy, the Tories being third-raters
They’d better call out the instigators
Though it ain’t what the E U wants to hear
That the revolution might just be here
“The Tories have done nothing but wine since Thursday”, all they think of is getting a skin full, just like those they look down on, is should that be whine?
I rather like the Arctic Monkeys.
Yes, just like B’Liar, so 1990′s
It was me actually
Thought you preferred the Artic Monkeys (being a bender, an’ all).
We did ok for a thousand years before the EU and we will do ok a thousand years after it. When all you have is fear and lies, you are finished.
PS: Give me £20 billion every year and don’t you fucking dare complain how I waste it.
PS: Give me £20 billion every year and don’t you fucking dare question how I waste it.
But we do not want your Europe Rumpy Pumpy
Our strength is money laundering interst rate fiddling selling toxic bonds by the billion
And generallsed corruption and criminality
Please do not stop us in our chosen waya
Perhaps the City could make some money by giving the ECB some lessons?
Europe isn’t the problem, the EU is.
And it’s far more corrupt than anything we could manage, no accountant will go near EU Mafialands fraudulent books, that’s why they haven’t been signed off for 18 years.
Oh bugger, silly me! Try again.
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March 2, 2013 at 10:41 am
Hey Rumpy, If our voice is so small perhaps we should adjust our annual financial contributions accordingly. How about, say, 25 quid a year? That should be about right and I think wee Georgie should be able to scr**pe that up from somewhere.
That’s better. This m0dDyb0tTy is more lo0nee than the bloke who came last on THursday.
Hey Rumpy, If our voice is so small perhaps we should adjust our annual financial contributions accordingly. How about, say, 25 quid a year? That should be about right and I think wee Georgie should be able to scrape that up from somewhere.
Oh do please fuck off. But give all the money you have stolen from us back first.
EU is beginning to realize that unemployment across the zone is big problem:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/27/eu-labour-idUSL6N0BRFFZ20130227
Germany has been running programs encouraging the destitute but reasonably skilled of places like Spa!n and Greece to relocate there, as Germany has plenty of unfilled apprenticeship / real work positions available.
Not sure completely believe the German claims.
Another fact about Germany, they do not have a minimum wage there, the wage is set by collective negotiation with unions / workers.
So, what would be the effect of importing a lot of young no-hopers from across the EZ ? And these folk of course need to learn German to get the kinds of jobs / apprenticeships being spoken about…
EU Fail.
Rumpy Pumpy you Belgian nonentity, how loud has Belgium’s voice been heard in the last fifty years? Nobody would have heard your voice if you hadn’t been propelled, as a compromise choice, to lead the corrupt and anti-democratic organisation called the European Union. You are, indeed, the original “Man Who Wasn’t There”.
Second choice, third rater!
With all this scrutiny of ‘beef’ at the mo, how long before they find human DNA in the food chain? Now that would be a scandal..
‘They leave rubbish mountains taller than I am’: Left-wing German mayor’s rant at Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants who he says have sent town’s crime soaring ( Mail).
Spiffing!
Ah but its alright for the Germans to sound racist. I mean who is going to dare criticise them? Has anyone ever heard of Little Deutchlanders?
A badly off message leftie. Sure to be invited to a special course where he can
be instructed in the new language. i.e. Rubbish mountains are future time team
programme subject matter and soaring crime is opportunity to test new cctv
public broadcasting.(and data storage)
Make the most of this opportunity Gonkface.
When our take-over of the media is complete (including sites like this), our commissars led by Comrade’s Leveson, Bryant, Grant, Bacon and Harman will see you removed from society for re-education.
This site belongs to Rupert and the ZioLoons, so fuck off.
Send them to Eastleigh Herr Bürgermeister. Let those voting liblabcon experience the consequences of their actions first hand.
Why so bitter?
I believe I can lie
I believe I can touch your thigh
I lie about it every night and day
Spread your legs and grope away
Enough of us still voted for the LibDum cnut at Eastleigh though.
… apart from (or including) those who had their postal votes “organised” by somebody else.
For the avoidance of doubt,my political beliefs are to the right of Margaret Thatcher.
Surely it must be obvious that this country cannot afford such generous welfare benefits and public sector pension provision. Benefits should be capped at no more than the single minimum wage – even this is generous. Public sector pensions should be capped at £20000 per annum. Combined with a state pension this is enough to support a very comfortable lifestyle. The tens of billions saved should be used for tax cuts and job creation.
“The tens of billions saved should be used for tax cuts and job creation.”
Oh good gracious me, no! The tens of billions saved should be spent on foreign aid! That’s where all</i? saving should be spent. I know how proud this makes you all!
And don't forget, I've agreed to increase our EU membership fee by half a billion pounds every year (I'm a spiffingly good negotiator, what what?), and that money's got to come from somewhere, too. What what what.
You all think I'm out of touch, but far from it – I sense your pride. Really, I do.
Tally ho!
temps lost, are you a professional footballer? You sound like one with your lefty proposals to break every contract in the book – and then some.
In the absence of “A Conservative Party”,which no longer exists, I am
“Coming Out”,and declare,”I am a fruitcake,closet racist,xenophobe and loony,.
Not the description i would have chosen,but one that seems to be understood…
A sad,but inevitable decision,given the sorry,confused states of the other parties,.Nothing to lose anymore,and, “I am revolting”,or,should that be,”rebelling”,40years too late really,as untold damage has been done to our
country during that time…Never thought i would say it,as i was a fan,but,
CAMERON OUT!!!!!
Son of Blair equates to Form without Substance.
And Boris IN
At least we will laugh while go down the tubes
Me too , Conned by the “Cast iron Liar” Cameron and his party
i will Never vote Tory again
So apart from privatising the NHS, dismantling the welfare state and putting millions on short-time working, what else would you like the Tory Party to do, not including getting us out of Europe, which they will never do, and would probably be impossible anyway?
I’d like them to borrow loads more and waste it on everything from Welfare to the NHS to Job Creations Schemes to huge salaries for the Quango Queen’s, that way we can have grofe. It’s the way to go.
When Brown was PM it was perfectly obvious that he was a homicidal lunatic deranged spendthrift. A tangible enemy, recognisable and beatable.
Cameron is a confidence trickster and fraud. More difficult to shift because of his apparent plausibility. However, the mangy fucking cat is now and truly well out of the bag, so bye bye chubby.
Some newspapers reporting this morning that the knives are out for Camoron
while they are at it can they sharpen one for Osborne , Gove and Hunt ?
Don’t forget the completely and utterly useless imbecile that is Theresa May.
And Tim Yeo.
Her real name is Theresa April, of course.
There are a couple also who are implicated in Elm House who should just be outed and thrown under the bus. They are from the left side of the Conservative party so are part of the problem.
I’m history.
I will go down on history.
A new leader with a fresh new plan could call a snap election and win a majority. Time for the rebels to stop talking and start taking action. Cameron’s toast. Leadership challenge now.
Didn’t Camoron change the law so we now have fixed-term Parliaments (that is, the government cannot legally call an election until the fixed-term is up)?
Some straws just have to be clutched
Shirley that can be safely ignored (a la cast iron guarantee) if he loses a motion of confidence?
An election can be called if the sitting government loses a vote of confidence and no alternative government can be found or if two thirds of the house vote for an early general election or they do not divide on the motion
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/fixedtermparliaments.html
” so we now have fixed-term Parliaments (that is, the government cannot legally call an election until the fixed-term is up)?”
Yes the powers that be didn’t like getting their pants caught down with the last election.
Think not… the Fixed Term Parliaments Act doesn’t allow this any longer….the scenario in that case would be ..Cameron as no longer Tory leader BUT.the sitting PM would resign BUT the new Tory leader would NOT automatically become PM unless he/she could form a government…HMQ on advice might not accept a Tory leader who could only form a minority government and could not command the support of the House. She could be advised that as the Tory Party had failed and are effectively in disarray(what else could you call replacing their leader bu an effective “coup ” ?) that she should ask the leader of the opposition to try and form a government instead. The LibDems would be key…if they refused to support a more right wing Tory leader(which is likely) but support Miliband and Labour then Miliband could “kiss hands” and become PM pending a general election …either way the Tories are shafted…they keep Dave and probably lose in 2015 or they replace him and Labour will form the government immediately anyway
There are no rebels. They are all talk, but wouldn’t dare out country before party.
Grope-grope-grope- grope-grope-groping LibDem Style
Eastleigh was a stunning result for Pervs Я Us- we only lost 46% of our support.
Go back to your constituencies and prepare to take the whole world in your grope.
And remember – post your vote early, post your vote often.
I have a feeling that Phillip Hammond might just be lining himself up as a Stalking horse
Feeling the mood of the voters on military and public service cuts while Lazy arsed benefit breeders milk the system dry
Go for it !
Call John Redwood he can usually get the ball rolling
Only need 46 to write to Brady….if Cameron’s Tories bomb in May then THAT is a distinct possibility…if the party can get rid of a succesful PM who won 3 elections they can sure as hell get rid of loser Dave
You mean sell in May and go away?
Why not just dump the tosser today?
Cast Iron’s bonds are broke and plain busted
Even Tory baa-lambs get disgusted
Crap new wireless keyboard + fat fingers = sorry, pardon.
That description of Dave as a loser is SO true. Unable to win an outright majority against the most unpopular Prime Minister in living memory. Not only unable to beat a LibDem party mired in sleaze and scandal but coming THIRD in a bye-election.
It proves Cameron is no winner.I doubt Cameron could win an election if his was the only party standing.
When are his spineless backbenchers going to give Wavey Davy and Gideon the Coup-de-Gras and put in place someone who knows what they are doing?
Did he go to Eaten? LoL
Morning sir. I do trust you are in fine form on this wonderful morning here?
Rubbish – he’s just kite flying. Raising the prospect of further deep cuts to the MOD safe in the knowledge that it’s not going to happen but will paint the Tories in a favourable light with their grass roots when smaller cuts have to be made, “Ooh look, god old Hammond, he saved the military from much larger cuts, maybe the loss of a couple of historic regiments isn’t that bad.”. It also fits in with the plans to reduce our capability to such an extent that UK defence is subsumed into an EU wide army.
There’s £10 B floating around in international aid – start cutting that with extreme prejudice.
TIM MONTGOMERY on BBC Breakfast.
What a useless Tory mouthpiece he is. Spouting the line that UKIP was a protest vote.
WRONG. get your head out of the sand Tim. The UKIP vote was a vote for get out of EU, stop the Gypos coming, etc. This is what the public are wanting.
The Tories have forgotten the electorate and what they want. People vote for what they want.
You are behind the curve. carry on thinking about UKIP as a protest and all you are doing is increasing its attractiveness. You are deluded Tim and so are your EU loving Tory cronies.
By jove! You scoundrel! You closet racíst! Only one or two* gypos will come here, and they’ll add to the multicultural diversity that you all love! It will be simply spiffing!
Tally ho!
*tens of millions.
Nah, let Tim think it’s a protest vote, the SNP was a protest vote, they took over Scotland , they have a referendum next year, let him think it a protest vote, while he’s looking one way Camorons NuCons will be left behind in the dust, as UKIP gains more voters, of course now UKIP has more PR, they will get blamed for everything, the weather, the traffic, racist all, the ?ists and even Fatcher.
Montgomerie is a hopeless pundit. He’s been on the wrong side of so many political arguments. Bit of a split personality, really. Sometimes castigating Cameron, sometimes praising him. I think it’s more black and white than that. You either think Cameron is a lying snake-oil salesman or an honest man doing his best for the country.
I know what I think of Cameron and can’t wait to see the back of him. He’s another politico only too willing to sell out the people of this country to the Common Purpose mob.
He’s as shit as me
He’s just having a quick pee(p) over the paywall.
While he’s pee(p)ing out, everybody else is pee(p)ing on his tent.
Montgomerie and Matt Parris – those two should get a room. They’re almost as bad as Tatchell with their gay activism.
Could not agree more. I, personally, do not want to be overrun by europe’s jobless and be forced to pay for the ir families, accommodation and benefits for which they have not contributed a widow’s mite because Brussels has demanded it and our Civil Service has rubber stamped it.
I do not consider current legislative preoccupation with gay marriage either a prirority or even on the radar of most people although the seemingly disproportionate preponderance of the limp wrist brigade appears to weigh heavily in the westminster village.
I also do not treat lightly the european stealth takeover of our laws and institutions when I am daily forced to read in the papers that foreign terrorists,brigands and criminal riff raff, backed up by our own Judges for F S, are not allowed to be deported even though a lot of them are illegally here to start with because of their human rights.UKIP may not be the answer in the end but without them “who has had the guts in the last decade to stand up and be counted”? Answer was there none.
Come on princess. Gimme a chance. And have a good day at school.
Some of my best friends are gay.
I just don’t know which ones.
I wonder when we will be treated to the first openly gay PM?
I hope CYA operations will be freely available on the NHS.
Liberals are very free with their hands.
A LOVER has appeared in court accused of trying to suffocate her boyfriend with her BOOBS.
Karin Hoffer is accused of forcing her boyfriend’s head into her breasts as they made love.
A court heard that Andreas Koller struggled to breathe as he was attacked during sex.
What a way to go!
Want me to smother you with my boobs?
I know how the poor chap feels.
Call John Redwood he can usually get the ball rolling
The Queen eats horse, gets the trots and ends up on the throne.
…. at Runnymede?
The ‘Groom of the Stool’ will be working overtime, then.
That should keep Baldrick’s descendants on our screens for generations.
Obama signs off $85bn of ‘dumb’ spending cuts.
USD gains against GBP and EUR. So much for everyone thinking the US economy is headed straight down the crapper as a result of the “enforced austerity” of the sequester. In the land of the spendthrifts, the man who decides not to waste quite so much of his dosh as the others is King.
He was forced into that.
Hopefully congress will not give in. US needs to reduce its size of government.
Unfortunately, with debt being where it is, that reduction will likely not translate to lower tax bills.
“He was forced into that.
Hopefully Congress will not give in…”
Nobody wants to be one who takes away the punch bowl at the party when the guests have become a bit tipsy. The guests are so tipsy, in fact, that (to mix the metaphor) they have failed to notice the turd in the punch bowl. But someone has to stop them before things get any worse than they already are; it’s just that whoever does so will be about as popular as someone who kills Father Christmas.
Chancellor and Shadow (you two clowns) pay close attention to what’s taking place over on the other side of the Big Deep and learn from it. It WILL show up on the final exam; you’ve been well warned.
We should start looking out for more mixed metaphors from our ‘boys’.
They have stiff competition across the pond: ‘Jedi mind meld’… whatever next ? Sensible economic policy ?
http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Obama+Jedi+mind+meld+mixed+metaphor+infuriates+nerds+across+galaxy/8038170/story.html
Starter for 10:
The lessons learned in Eastleigh is yesterdays ancient history and should not be judged by the cover and there is no point in yelling at your cat.
But we should be “belling the cat,” though, shouldn’t we?
Trouble is, we’re leaving it to bell-ends to see it’s done.
(For those educated under Labour, “belling the cat” is a reference to performing a task which all agree is necessary and desirable, but which carries great personal risk, and which nobody will volunteer to do, either from an excess of caution or from cowardice. Professor Schrodinger has nothing to do with it.)
… yelling at your cat who was the initial cause of all that spilled milk (going forward)
I look forward to a convincing Conservative win in Eastleigh next Thursday.
That one’s on the house.
I’m sponsored by Seven 7UP it’s the real reason I fart with all the gas and all you suthern jessie can stick that in your pips and smoking it for good reeson that I have spoken with Guido and he is willing to support me with the Age of Chancers which Ed (Special Needs, not Balls) has trusted me in order to bring about a public-private partnership but in the end the people will decide and that’s why it will not be successful becos the people are stupid like you Suthern jessies.
The founder of Shit2bfit.
You’re far too articulate to be the real John Prescott.
Some light reading
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2013/03/a-killer-quote-from-a-conservative-mp.
“David Cameron is NOT a winner !”….I think we can ALL agree with Tom for once
We cannot have winners.
“Like a Tiger”
Prime Minister swallowed by sinkhole.
Get the plug, quick ! (We can put it on expenses, right ?)
Most of them are only interested in other men’s “Stinkholes”
I’ve just placed £10 on myself at 200/1.
I know it makes sense.
Some selected odds for next Tory leader: 4/1 Boris, 12/1 Davis, 25/1 Fox, 33/1 Afriyie, 66/1 Brady, 200/1 Bone. http://bit.ly/fouTZY
Who doesn’t love the movies? So many fond memories. I remember sitting in the back row with my arm around 13 year old Lucy. I even remember the movie. Skyfall.
Mum hit by bedroom tax because her sons are serving in Afghanistan http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bedroom-tax-mum-twin-soldiers-1738521?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter … – I wonder if Hammond has anything to say on this?
Will MPs have to pay bedroom tax on their taxpayer funded second homes?? after all it is a benefit payment because its paid for out of the tax pot of this country..
How old are they, five and six?
NB I served in the army and they provided me accommodation, though it was shite.
There is nothing wrong with a tent.
….and that, children, is how your great-grandma came to be.
Mother asks for state to subsidise her spare bedrooms because sons are fighting for their country. Seems reasonable to me.
They’re old enough to fly the nest, surely?
They aren’t fighting any more.
So – mother with two working-age sons (both in fulltime employment) expects everyone else to subsidise her rent.
How to put it politely? She’s a fucking parasite and can just fuck off, really.
Surely the rest of the taxpayers should asking this woman for advice on how to get away with such things, if we all did it then, who will pay the tax to pay for such thick/stupid ways of taxing the public, I think we should be looking at MPs wages they can afford a 50% tax hike or a 50% wage drop.
Shouldn’t YOU be in an assisted-living facility, Your Idiocy, or hasn’t Horsey-Face tired of you yet? Care In The Community was a well-intentioned though misguided policy for some persons, such as yourself, who are in need of a more-structured environment.
Tough.
Her sons have left home. She no longer needs that bedroom.
Just because her sons have joined up does not give her special status.
Labour are the dregs for bringing tear jerkng shite into politics.
The same laws apply to all whether you be civvies or pongos. Always has done, always will do.
Red Ed will be wanting her to get child benefit and free school dinners next.
Labour are callous shits
Mrs Bone would like to know when she’s going to get boned.
Mrs Bumgardner would like to know when she’s going to get fertilized.
Biologically speaking it is a shark, since sharks comprise only of throbbing gristle.
I would like to know why a senior politician of the Tory persuasion hasn’t been arrested re Elm Guest House.
Have the rozzers been nobbled?
Barking up the wrong tree perhaps?
Why not ask me?
Today I will be simply playing Guardian by Alanis Morrisette, the well-known environmentalist.
Oi, Rustbucket– Thank You. Ironic, innit, you being a guardian and a mentalist yourself? But, You Oughta Know, right?
Lib-dems voters are either very forgiving or have no morals. Eastleigh has me baffled.
The postman always votes twice.
No use tellin’ em anything, Jack, they can’t handle the truth!
The politicians are pissing all over the voters and the voters are so braindead they think it’s rain, until the voters start to ask politicians what’s in it for the voter then all is required from the braindead is deep pockets.
The voters of Eastleigh have given our chocolatier their SEAL of approval for his Spring Surprise.
Not really. The LibPervs had 13000 votes on Thursday and 25,000 votes in 2010.
Halving your vote ain’t nothing to brag about.
Recent by-elections have shown that electors do not punish parties for the wrongdoings of individual MPs. People are more intelligent than pollsters, it seems.
But when it comes to Pervs Я Us it seems that every individual member is a wrong ‘un.
It’s simple. The public does not want Labour in power. They want a stable government which commands the support of more than half of fellow citizens. They also want to give it and the EU a mighty kick up the backside.
Hands in pockets chaps.
Chaps have no breeding, hardly officer and gentlemen class.
‘Iconic’ is the Modern for ‘ugly’.
And there was me thinking that the Titanic went down well.
I read that the Titanic was an insurance scam and it was it’s renamed sister ship that sank.
My Olympic scam was a doozy, don’t you think ?
Yes, I saw that film too (several years ago) – but had it not bumped into that pesky iceberg, Titanic would probably have got safely to New York (and in consequence spared us all from that maudlin rubbish and those screaming banshee female “singers”).
… and NO, I did not bother to go and see the film either.
For as long as the tribe on the left keep throwing spears at the tribe on the right and vice versa – those of us in the middle who have opened our eyes will have to put up with their stupidity.
The left / right spat is one of the keys to divide and rule or should that be misrule – over the masses?
SheepHerds …
Gun Store Depicts Obama As Firearms Salesman of The Year
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Yankee Go Home
P!ers Moron has done more for Bushmaster sales.
Not sure where the leftist goons get off wanting to have those posters banned. If they don’t like it they can buy their guns at a different store.
“Streisand Effect” = by Barbra Streisand’s apparent paranoia about having her Malibu house photographed from the air offshore, as part of a study about the erosion of the Pacific Palisades and having nothing to do with her specifically, she only insured that more people would want to, and would in fact, possess the photo, as her resistance to its widespread availability created more demand for it by Internet freedom advocates, just on general principles. Bet your bottom buck there will be more of those posters sold, when opposition to it is publicised.
It’s what your Mum always told you– if the other kids see you’re annoyed by what they’re doing, they’ll just do it all the more, because that’s just how kids are. Anyone who can’t see that the poster is FUNNY is a humourless mong: “He’s painting us as Gooberville, Arkansas!” A bit rich coming from a man who thinks such posters are hate speech– we’re sure the people in Arkansas won’t be pleased by his characterisation, either on the stereotype or the merits of the underlying message about gun ownership.
I wonder if Cameron’s paying bedroom tax on all the bedrooms he has… Oh, wait, of course he isn’t. GIVE US OUR COUNTRY BACK.
He hasn’t taken our country. It is still here. All that is required is for people believe, to reach out and touch it.
You have a funny idea of politicians, they are not there to give but to take.
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I hope my troll above can get some help soon.
PFP – do you fully understand what ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ means?
I understand the theory. I have never suffered myself.
Why do you ask? Is that you trolling me at 1:39 pm?
Wise words…
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bz6krmj
Check out the parallel with the UK…you could literally switch the US for the UK in this piece and it still reads true.
The reason for the similarity, of course being, both have libertarian forms of government.
Tosh. The UK is a big state, big debt, high tax oligarchy.
Do not confuse libertarian with neo-liberal.
Can switch the words around, but that it because the US is following the same center left socialist policies as have been followed in the UK.
See ‘The Naked Communist’ for explanation as to why.
For libertarians see the Tea Party / Republican party, not the Democrats.
Apparently there are more germs on a door handle than on a toilet seat.
From now on I’m opening the door with my arsehole.
But what will we do for a living if everyone takes that attitude?
Mine certainly opened doors for me!
Bizarre comment from a `senior Tory source` in the press today. Cameron is a great electoral asset whose popularity is greater than any other politician, it is still the Tory Party which is the problem with voters, and that is why Eastleigh was lost. What planet do these people live on?
One not inhabited by normal human beings.
The senior Tory source need not worry. There will soon be no Tory members left so Dave will be able to win his resounding victory in 2015 based on his own personal popularity without being hindered by his party!
Dave is so simply simply marvellous.
Do you not think you might be being just a tiny tiny tiny bit over-effusive?
That was in the T’graph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9903831/Eastleight-by-election-is-a-wake-up-call-rival-warns-David-Cameron.html
The Conservative Left and Right are dividing.
Cameron clearly is not as asset as Eastleigh has shown. Looks like the Conservative Left are themselves resurrecting the nasty party campaign. Odd.
A couple of defections to UKIP would stir the pot nicely. And the police to start taking action against the likes of Handycock.
Ah, got it. (Wrong month, Telegraph – well done !)
“One senior Tory source said: “Anyone raising concerns about David Cameron needs to realise that he is an electoral asset and that the Tory brand is a net drag on the vote.”
In other words, neither Cameron nor the ‘senior Tory source’ are Conservatives and both are in the wrong party.
Perfect analysis. There is no problem with the Conservative party except for their apparent fifth column incursion.
The changes to the 1922 committee (Cameron in 2010, made it almost identical to the PLP…) and Clegg’s fixed term Parliament change of 2011 have made sorting this problem more tricky.
Currently in HoC there are:
303 Conservative
57 Lib Dem
256 Labour
Looking at gay marriage vote, there are at least 175 traditional tories in the 303. There will be more once back bones are rediscovered.
A few Conservatives could defect to give UKIP some presence, as for that matter Lib Dem / Labour members who have reservations about current EU path and some of the other PC social changes going through.
The Lib Dems are not acting in the interests of the UK at present and if a vote of no confidence is called in Cameron will likely form coalition with Labour. This is the problem territory which needs to be dealt with.
Absolutely accurate.
The fixed parliament makes things far more difficult and is a device by Clegg/Cameron for retaining power. It undermines traditional democracy and produces continental-style political horse trading. It is one of the many things which proper onservatives should seek to get rid of – one of many many things, but an important one.
Source ?
What planet do these people live on?
Prison Planet!
The Csmeron/Osborne mission is to deliberately destroy the Tory Party which they despise equally with the cultural self-hate of their own kind.
Their wealth should be confiscated and they should be compelled to live in council houses – in Middlesbrough!
OJ Simpleton called Middlesbrough a city the other day. It is a town.
The left these days are thick.
What’s wrong with racism if there is no discrimination ?
You mean racialism?
Greece has been quiet ? No.
PAS0K leader Evangel0s Ven!zelos said in Athens on Friday 1st March 2013 that lenders had offered Greece the option of a ‘velvet exit’ from the Euro in 2011.
It was the decision to stay in which led to austerity and economic turmoil.
PAS0K are in big trouble. The coalition in Greece is brittle, and PAS0K itself is just about finished. This is some revisionism to try and direct blame away from the party. The deal cut with the Troika only secured ~$ 3bn towards the $460bn debt.
Transparency International reported in 2012 that Greece is the most corrupt state in the EU, more so than Romania and Bulgaria.
5 Most corrupt EU states in 2012 with CPI Score (lower = more corrupt):
Slovakia, 46
Romania, 44
Italy, 42
Bulgaria, 41
Greece, 36
For comparison:
United Kingdom at 74 was 7th in the EZ, Denmark / Finland least corrupt and joint first with 90. (They also tied with New Zealand globally as being least corrupt.)
On positive note, the Greek army has apparently stated that it will not intervene in the event of civilian unrest.
Blackwater (Academ!) have denied that they have any contract signed with the Greek government to defend their Parliament.
Syr!za have been clear that they will defend all Greece sovereignty from Turk!sh incursion, and intend to make sure that Greek claims on East Med oil reserves are not surrendered.
If there was a figure for corruption in the EU itself it would be massively negative.
That was a good question.
Taking EU CPI measure of corruption to be just average of CPI’s across the 27 member states, the EU CPI figure comes to: 64.
Globally, that places the EU 15th place (after replacing EU member states with the EU).
The US CPI is 73 for comparison, just behind the UK.
Compared to UK, the EU overall appears to be -10 times more corrupt, which could confirm your hypothesis.
There is always an Achilles’ Heel with statistics and no country on earth exemplifies this better than Italy. There are two Italys: north and south. Those from Südtirol are primarily German speakers but their approach extends down as far as Umbria. They are industrious, law-abiding and reliable. They rival Germany for efficiency and any credit in Italian production is almost completely down to the efforts produced by this area. The south are their mirror opposites. Nearly all the problems come from here. They are as different as say Switzerland and Romania.
Agree with your point on !taly: Best to check the Transparency International site for how they define / determine the CPI figure.
!taly was based on 7 surveys.
Switzerland and Romania cannot be compared above as Switzerland is not an EU state.
Switzerland did score CPI of 86, and globally came in 6th just behind S!ngapore.
At joint 174th in the TI survey source, were Afghan!stan, DPRK and Somalia who had CPI of 8.
Two points here:
1.) My use of Switzerland was purely illustratively as a point of extreme differentiation and not in the EU context which I accept completely would be invalid to do.
2.) It is treated almost as a pariah state by some, despite its high Transparency ranking. Completely unjustified as it is one of the longest established sovereign nations and those who hide their money there are, in the main, escaping profligate states who need to tax highly to support their reckless and incontinent spending. Heads of state who steal money from their own country fall into a separate category altogether.
No worries.
Now the EU debate is coming in from the cold it is important to be a little bit precise. That is why clarification. Norway also is not part of the EU, for anyone reading.
!taly is a nice place, but it does have its problems. It is not a bad thing, except in some parts of the south which are no go zones.
The mafia involvement in certain sections of the economy is an accepted risk factor. The Parmalat scandal of a few years back is a good example.
A good indicator of how bad things really are is to look at the kidnap insurance market:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/us-insurance-kidnap-idUSBRE90F0CB20130116
So far no sign of increased abductions, but the premiums charged may be worth keeping an eye on.
There is no anti-!taly agenda, however the country would be better off out of the EU. Or at least that appears to be a view which the people are expressing.
It is probably being destabilized by the EU and left at present, something worth learning from in the UK.
There is still an issue which remains unaddressed here and that is the difference between the analytical view and the ethical one. Human behaviour does not always cash out into numerical measure. There is a tendency to treat all these statistics as being of a homogeneous nature. Sometimes they are but often they are not.
For example, and to pick up on your point, I have a problem with the existence of an insurance m@rket to pay for ransom money, not for services required to negotiate. The very existence of such m@rket encourages the very activity that it is protecting against, which activity is illegal. Another manifestation of moral hazard.
My second point in the previous post goes to this argument.
The problems with the gross inequalities in sovereign states where a Luxembourg equates in some ways to a Germany also demonstrates another shortcoming in the purely statistical approach.
The multi-level issues concerning the trial of the NatWest Three illustrates this disparity in yet another completely different area.
On the face of it, no relation to each other. In real life, it is a huge problem which human beings across the planet have rushed into without clearing the ground first.
Transparency International is a Common Purpose NGO.
Here is link to their Corruption Perceptions Index stuff:
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012
Their FAQ on CPI essentially destroys its value (second point):
‘There is no meaningful way to assess absolute levels of corruption in countries or territories on the basis of hard empirical data.’
For pouring petrol on the EU fire they are useful idiots, but as a hard measure they are of zero real value, but help to reinforce prejudices with pseudo-science.
Incidentally I do fully agree with your sentiment regarding the plethora of subjective indexes out there. They mainly work as propaganda tools. Above, I built a ‘credible’ case against the EU, and some reacted rightly with dismay when they find a low ranking which goes contra to their direct experience. eg. Like that of !taly.
The misery index is more scientific in its approach, based on unemployment + inflation. (Agreed: Not really scientific…)
EU misery index is at a high. !taly comes in 18th, but Greece and Spa!n the bottom two. Spa!n is worst. This assumes inflation is the same in those member states, at HIPC 1.97% for Jan 2003.
Austria scores least, ie least miserable.
UK comes in about 10th ranking for unemployment, but with UK inflation rate being @ 2.7% Jan 2003, its misery index comes out twelth, between Sweden and Eston!a.
All’s fair in love and war. !taly I do like, just want to see her independent again.
The least miserable is where I have domicile though I am rarely there as I travel a lot due to commitments, pursuit of interests and the need to consider future revenues.
Fortunately I am not the best of linguists otherwise I would probably make myself miserable reflecting upon the leftie control there, trivial compared with Britain. The Reds (social democrat SPÖ) have it, the Blacks (ÖVP), (who I would probably vote for) run second fiddle, the Blues (FPÖ) were Jörg Haider’s lot before he split away to form the Oranges (BZÖ). So the right is pretty well split here and the left still rule. The model for the UK?
The splitting of the right seems to be pattern in many places at the moment.
US : Republicans / Tea Party
UK : Conservatives / UKIP
It is a little more complicated than that, but broadly seems to be what has happened.
The ‘right’ need to regroup and prepare the counter offensive.
Working off the stereotypes which they allowed the left to propagandize all over is going to be tricky, but it can be done.
Apparently the O’bummer is cutting the US federal budget by $56 billion this year, but then their total spend is $3.80 trillion with a annual deficit of $901 billion so it’s a drop in the ocean really.
A big part of Obama’s budget cut plan involves this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213626/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Sir-Jeremy-Heywood-centre-incestuous-nexus-lobbying-end-independence-BAE.html
Oh bum!!!
FFS One sniff of mine and they wouldn’t have to look far for him
he’d be unconscious behind me
A Geordie lass now has to go down the shops and buy her own ciggies and booze now that her lads have joined the army.
It’s a Tory lead disgrace I tell you and a tax on shoe leather
Eeee, yer right there, Obadiah!
Wor mutha has te walk 500 yards in the pouring rain te buy hor tabs an gin since joined the army.
Ed Miliband says it is a shoe leather tax
Away the lads
EDL are nothing but a bunch of bald white chavs living on benefits who have nothing better to do with their lives.
They’re also too stupid to realise that they are funded by the zioloons as it happens.
Army is backing anti-austerity protests in Portugal today. Those familiar with the history of the carnation revolution 1974 will understand why this is more significant than it first appears:
!taly’s youth unemployment rate now higher than Portugal’s at 38.7%.
Greece youth unemployment is currently 59.4%, 2 years ago it was about 38.7%.
Every nation in EU, except Germany (0.1% fall to 7.9%), saw youth unemployment rise.
EU youth unemployment level is now 24.2%
UK Youth unemployment rate was reported at 20.8% (see: parliament.uk briefing-papers sn05871)
This is a little below France, which itself is above the EU level.
The EU will be very happy once these countries are run by their militaries. As long as they do as they are told, a lack of democracy is no bar to membership.
How many tanks has Herman von Rumpuy?
Who needs tanks when you can blitzkrieg a country with a T34 (to be filled out in triplicate).
Here is estimate of Portugal’s military capabilities:
http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=Portugal
They are ranked about 55th, and forces are defensive.
They have 137 more tanks than Herman.
It took Wellington to kick Napoleon out of Portugal though.
Hence the term; wellington boots.
i just get the feeling that winning elections is not that an important an issue to someone like cameron. maybe because theyve all got the same policies they just keep up the pretence big issues are decided in general elections. if he was bothered about winning why would he alienate his party with gay marriage. why would he describe people whose support would be helpful as fruitcakes and closet racists?
am i missing sonething
“if he was bothered about winning why would he alienate his party”
Two probable explanations: (a) he’s very thick, or (b) he’s very very thick.
Cheers Tessa
Eton, Oxford, Bullingdon Club, PPE degree politics, media suit, politics. If he’d been brought up by wolves in the forest he would have more connection with humanity.
Romulus and Remus founded Rome, Dave founded that nobody likes his policies.
That little upwards pointy arrow
I’m not happy that the EDL have got a good old-fashioned Mancunian welcome.
Just noticed David Cameron
He’s be wearing big shoes, a red nose, curly rainbow wig and driving a car who’s doors blow off and bonnet flies up.
And limping.
I wonder what the odds are of Grillo being bumped off?
Beppe Grillo says Italy may soon have to pull out of euro
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9904270/Beppe-Grillo-says-Italy-may-soon-have-to-pull-out-of-euro.html
They tried bumping Farage off, but didn’t succeed.
Probably quite high.
However, if they did, there would be civil disturbances and Berluscon! would likely win if an election was called.
If I was Gr!llo, I would be more worried about the Americans.
That’s the last time I’m having a doner kebab.
Mr Cameron is my Prime Minister right .
What he says goes . He appoints Ministers to serve and do what he tells them to do .
Now that Philip Hammond is I am sorry to say bang out of order.
He says he is going to disobey my Prime Minister.
If he is still in post Monday morning there is going to be big trouble .
He being Cameron, you mean?
If everyone on benefits joins the TA, that should save a few bob!
This may possibly be the beginning of the end .
Most certainly it seems to be a major reversal of the golden rule of collective cabinet responsibility .
Philip Hammond is no fool. He will know exactly what he has done .
One could say his move could well be to protect the British people and their national interests – something Cameron doesn’t quite manage to do as he is beholden to the EU ‘club’.
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/been-there-done-that.html
Doesn’t anybody just sit in a bath of beans for Comic Relief anymore?
I would happily pay good money to sit in a bath of beans with Alex Jones.
Comic relief with has been.
A man just disappeared up my stinkhole
Hi, where have you been Peter (no, please don’t tell me before the watershed), up another Russian oligarch?.
Whatever you do, don’t swallow.
Comparing YouGov Polls : 1st March 2012 / 2013:
Voting Intention |2012 (%)|2013 (%)|Change (%) Con | 40| 31| -9 Lab | 39| 42| 3 Lib Dem| 9| 10| 1 UKIP | 5| 11| 6 Other | 7| 5| -2The UKIP are gaining a lot of ground fast.