March 2nd, 2013

Saturday Seven Up

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You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…


319 Comments

  1. 1
    Person from Porlock says:

    We are so near… and yet so far.

  2. 2
    Owin Jones says:

    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.

    • 17
      Person from Porlock says:

      Excuse me!

      You have missed out fruitcakes and loonies.

      I am most particular about being described not only correctly but fully.

      • 65
        Thatcherite says:

        Glad you’re honest. The core kippers are unpleasant, potty mouthed racists. The rest are just mid term protesting.

        • 84
          Fruitcake, Nutter, Racist and Bloody Proud says:

          And what are you a posh gay boy?

        • 90
          254 Tax Rises since 2010 says:

          Thatcherite?

          You would not have lasted two seconds in her presence wet boy. Now get back to knitting your lace handkerchiefs bedwetter.

          • Thatcherite says:

            Go for a walk old man. Thatcher wasn’t a racist Powellite.

          • Expat Geordie says:

            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.

          • Thatcherite says:

            Take out his racism, Powell was brilliant. That’s the same view as Thatcher had of him.

          • Enoch Powell MP says:

            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…

        • 106
          Go ahead and call ukip names it will just make it harder for Tories to win says:

          If you think this is bad Cameron and the Tories are gonna get absolutely trashed in 2014 European Elections

        • 115
          Message from the Liblabcon says:

          How dare you English not welcome your ethnic replacement.

    • 30
      DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

      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

      • 117
        Anonymous says:

        Wait till the Elm B & B scandal time bomb explodes, and you’ll see just how utterly corrupt the liblabcon really are.

    • 32
      Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler says:

      I’m not a closet racist. My closet is brown.

    • 36
      1 in 3 Romanian immigrants is a convicted criminal. 29 million more to come. says:

      Yeah.. Immigration. It’s lovely. ‘Enriching’. Only a fruitcake would oppose it.

      • 53
        DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

        And where was Dave this week ?
        Latvia , probably explaining the benefits of moving to Britain to it’s inhabitants

  3. 3
    ?/? says:

    SO, will a certain ex-MP be swilling out before next weekend?

  4. 4
    Maybe it's because I'm a (half educated) Londoner says:

    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?

    • 13
      Person from Porlock says:

      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.

  5. 6
    Person from Porlock says:

    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.

    • 7
      Person from Porlock says:

      This was in response to ?/? at 7:38 am

    • 132
      Expat Geordie says:

      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.

      • 188
        Casual Observer says:

        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.

      • 192
        Person from Porlock says:

        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?

        • 309
          Expat Geordie says:

          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.

          • Person from Porlock says:

            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.

  6. 9
    Owin Jones says:

    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.

    • 11
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      We all laughed when you said you were going to be a comedian. We’re not laughing now.

  7. 16
    Arkwright says:

    It’s been a funny week. Gladys Emmanuel’s got some new stockings. I see that Huhne fella’s still on the lamb

  8. 18
    Person from Porlock says:

    Dave says that anal sex is good because it works with all genders.

  9. 19
    Owin Jones says:

    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.

    • 21
      Ma­qboul says:

      ..by killing off the frail and elderly, thus leaving a healthier nation of taxpayers.

      • 33
        DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

        And making the English pay for the prescription charges of Scotland , Wales and Ireland

    • 38
      NHS Hospitals = Soviet-era Deathcamps says:

      “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?

      • 51
        DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

        All unemployed spongers should be forced to receive their treatment at The North Staffordshire Hospital

        • 55
          Casual Observer says:

          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.

        • 64
          Dave Cam the rare'un says:

          Sorry going into administration

        • 113
          Fishy says:

          At least the Clayheads in North Staffs have a better hospital than down the road in MID STAFFS

      • 191
        Andy Burnham says:

        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.

  10. 22
    Person from Porlock says:

    Is Owen Jones a debt slave or does he find difficulty making ends meet?

  11. 23
    On the Record says:

    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

    • 31
      albacore says:

      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?

    • 177
      Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler says:

      Tory voters, along with Lib Dem and Labour voters, are a bunch of closet idiots extremely bad at disguising the fact.

  12. 25
    Dave the Disaster says:

    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?

  13. 27
    Dave"The One Term Prime Minister" Cameron says:

    “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

    • 34
      DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

      Me too

      • 43
        DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

        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

        • 54
          254 Tax Rises since 2010 says:

          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?

          • Working hard for the idle sods says:

            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!

    • 41
      Tony Bliar (war criminal) says:

      Ah *wipes tear from eye* The Cons are adopting more New Labour policies. *sniffs*. My Legacy lives on!

    • 48
      Slack Alice says:

      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.

      • 75
        Dave Cam the rare'un says:

        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

  14. 28
    Annie says:

    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.

  15. 29
    Mummy jones says:

    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

  16. 35
    Owin Jones says:

    Off to be wined and dined at somebody else’s expense. Again.

    Good Morning

    • 39
      Call me Dave says:

      Wined, dined, and 69`d

      • 44
        DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

        The Tories have done nothing but wine since Thursday

        • 60
          albacore says:

          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

        • 78
          Dave Cam the rare'un says:

          “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?

  17. 37
    Call me Dave says:

    I rather like the Arctic Monkeys.

  18. 45
    Fuck off Herman says:
    • 59
      254 Tax Rises since 2010 says:

      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.

    • 61
      Herman van Rompuy (unelected president of Britain) says:

      PS: Give me £20 billion every year and don’t you fucking dare complain how I waste it.

    • 63
      Herman van Rompuy (unelected president of Britain) says:

      PS: Give me £20 billion every year and don’t you fucking dare question how I waste it.

    • 67
      BloJo and his banker friends says:

      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

      • 91
        Curly says:

        Perhaps the City could make some money by giving the ECB some lessons?

      • 102
        254 Tax Rises since 2010 says:

        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.

        • 112
          Catty Comment (Ms) says:

          Oh bugger, silly me! Try again.

          Catty Comment (Ms) says:
          Your comment is awaiting moderation.
          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.

          • Catty Comment (Ms) says:

            That’s better. This m0dDyb0tTy is more lo0nee than the bloke who came last on THursday.

    • 110
      Catty Comment (Ms) says:

      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.

    • 143
      Taxpayer says:

      Oh do please fuck off. But give all the money you have stolen from us back first.

    • 228
      EU Watch says:

      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.

    • 280
      CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

      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!

  19. 46
    Bob Fleming says:

    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..

  20. 50
    Ah! Monika says:

    ‘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).

    • 66
      One-term Dave, dragging the Tories to their grave, says:

      Spiffing!

      • 178
        Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler says:

        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?

    • 109
      Gonk says:

      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)

      • 122
        The BBC says:

        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.

    • 138
      Bring some diversity to Eastliegh says:

      Send them to Eastleigh Herr Bürgermeister. Let those voting liblabcon experience the consequences of their actions first hand.

  21. 52
    Lord Rennard says:

    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

    • 57
      Sandalista Sister says:

      Enough of us still voted for the LibDum cnut at Eastleigh though.

      • 95
        Curly says:

        … apart from (or including) those who had their postal votes “organised” by somebody else.

  22. 56
    Dave"The One Term Prime Minister" Cameron says:

    For the avoidance of doubt,my political beliefs are to the right of Margaret Thatcher.

  23. 58
    Tom Perdu says:

    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.

    • 72
      One-term Dave, dragging the Tories to their grave, says:

      “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!

    • 98
      Matilda says:

      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.

  24. 62
    Old England says:

    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!!!!!

    • 69
      Person from Porlock says:

      Son of Blair equates to Form without Substance.

    • 71
      laughing cavalier says:

      And Boris IN

      At least we will laugh while go down the tubes

    • 73
      DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

      Me too , Conned by the “Cast iron Liar” Cameron and his party
      i will Never vote Tory again

      • 156
        P l e b says:

        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?

        • 301
          Grand Poobah Pang says:

          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.

    • 168
      Gonk says:

      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.

  25. 70
    DAVE (start packing) CAMORON says:

    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 ?

    • 76
      TimYeo is a useless sack of shit says:

      Don’t forget the completely and utterly useless imbecile that is Theresa May.

      And Tim Yeo.

    • 197
      Point of Information says:

      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.

  26. 74
    Half-term Dave says:

    I’m history.

  27. 77
    Election 2013 says:

    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.

    • 80
      TimYeo is a useless sack of shit says:

      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)?

      • 93
        MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD and COD FATHER of SOLE says:

        Some straws just have to be clutched

      • 99
        Matilda says:

        Shirley that can be safely ignored (a la cast iron guarantee) if he loses a motion of confidence?

      • 135
        I fight on ! I fight to win ! says:

        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

      • 170
        The Watcher says:

        ” 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.

    • 147
      ITories are shafted either way says:

      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

    • 293
      John Bron, says:

      There are no rebels. They are all talk, but wouldn’t dare out country before party.

  28. 81
    Psy Rennard says:

    Grope-grope-grope- grope-grope-groping LibDem Style

  29. 82
    Perves Я Us says:

    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. ;)

  30. 83
    MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD and COD FATHER of SOLE says:

    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 !

    • 108
      ZAFOD KING of the VULCANS says:

      Call John Redwood he can usually get the ball rolling

      • 133
        I fight on ! I fight to win ! says:

        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

        • 167
          alabacore says:

          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

        • 283
          CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

          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?

    • 142
      Person from Porlock says:

      Did he go to Eaten? LoL

      Morning sir. I do trust you are in fine form on this wonderful morning here?

    • 180
      Anonymous says:

      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.

  31. 85
    Hang The B@stards says:

    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.

    • 89
      One-term Dave, dragging the Tories to their grave, says:

      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.

    • 101
      Bridge over troubled Camoron says:

      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.

      • 286
        CYNICAL OLD MAN says:

        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.

    • 103
      Curly says:

      He’s just having a quick pee(p) over the paywall.

      • 124
        Problems problems says:

        While he’s pee(p)ing out, everybody else is pee(p)ing on his tent.

      • 181
        Anonymous says:

        Montgomerie and Matt Parris – those two should get a room. They’re almost as bad as Tatchell with their gay activism.

    • 215
      Phil says:

      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.

  32. 87
    Handycock says:

    Come on princess. Gimme a chance. And have a good day at school.

  33. 94
    Ah! Monika says:

    Some of my best friends are gay.

    I just don’t know which ones.

  34. 97
    Ah! Monika says:

    Liberals are very free with their hands.

  35. 104
    Wot a way to go says:

    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.

  36. 105
    ZAFOD KING of the VULCANS says:

    Call John Redwood he can usually get the ball rolling

  37. 111
    Consequences says:

    The Queen eats horse, gets the trots and ends up on the throne.

  38. 119
    Talking sense says:

    Obama signs off $85bn of ‘dumb’ spending cuts.

    • 182
      Tay King-dePisse says:

      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.

    • 206
      Point of Information says:

      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.

      • 248
        Tay King-dePisse says:

        “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.

      • 270
        Point of Information says:

        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.

        • 305
          Tay King-dePisse says:

          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.)

        • 315
          Titty Falarious says:

          … yelling at your cat who was the initial cause of all that spilled milk (going forward)

  39. 123
    Theresa April, Home Secretary says:

    I look forward to a convincing Conservative win in Eastleigh next Thursday.

  40. 125
    John Prescott says:

    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.

  41. 127
    • 131
      Mind you ..the Tories would be hard pressed to win any election even if they changed leader says:

      “David Cameron is NOT a winner !”….I think we can ALL agree with Tom for once

  42. 136
    anon. says:

    “Like a Tiger”

  43. 140
    Person from Porlock says:

    Prime Minister swallowed by sinkhole.

  44. 141
    Peter Bone says:

    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

  45. 144
    Handycock says:

    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.

  46. 148
    Ed Miliband (Prime Minister designate) says:

    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?

    • 152
      Voice of Reason says:

      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..

    • 154
      Banana Republic Britain says:

      How old are they, five and six?

      NB I served in the army and they provided me accommodation, though it was shite.

    • 155
      HRH Heir To the Throne says:

      Mother asks for state to subsidise her spare bedrooms because sons are fighting for their country. Seems reasonable to me.

      • 162
        Sir William Wade says:

        They’re old enough to fly the nest, surely?

      • 163
        Socialism is a severe mental illness says:

        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.

        • 184
          Problems problems says:

          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.

      • 171
        Tay King-dePisse says:

        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.

    • 253
      Red emotional Twaddle says:

      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

  47. 151
    Peter Bone says:

    Mrs Bone would like to know when she’s going to get boned.

    • 157
      Randy Pandy says:

      Mrs Bumgardner would like to know when she’s going to get fertilized.

    • 176
      Grollace says:

      Biologically speaking it is a shark, since sharks comprise only of throbbing gristle.

  48. 159
    P l e b says:

    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?

  49. 160
    Alan Rusbridger, meagre pianist says:

    Today I will be simply playing Guardian by Alanis Morrisette, the well-known environmentalist.

    • 166
      Tay King-dePisse says:

      Oi, Rustbucket– Thank You. Ironic, innit, you being a guardian and a mentalist yourself? But, You Oughta Know, right?

  50. 172
    (I don't need no doctor) says:

    Lib-dems voters are either very forgiving or have no morals. Eastleigh has me baffled.

    • 175
      Jack Nicholson says:

      The postman always votes twice.

    • 179
      Problems problems says:

      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.

    • 185
      Pervs Я Us says:

      The voters of Eastleigh have given our chocolatier their SEAL of approval for his Spring Surprise.

    • 186
      Half could not be arsed says:

      Not really. The LibPervs had 13000 votes on Thursday and 25,000 votes in 2010.

      Halving your vote ain’t nothing to brag about.

    • 205
      Sir William Wade says:

      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.

      • 239
        Stray tup says:

        But when it comes to Pervs Я Us it seems that every individual member is a wrong ‘un.

    • 208
      The Genius of Crowds says:

      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.

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    Chuka arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic says:
  52. 193
    Blowing Whistles says:

    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 …

  53. 195
    • 199
      T May says:

      Yankee Go Home

    • 214
      US Watch says:

      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.

    • 310
      Your Friendly Neighbourhood Irony-Spotting Service says:

      “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.

  54. 198
    Person from Porlock says:

    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.

    • 202
      Britain says:

      He hasn’t taken our country. It is still here. All that is required is for people believe, to reach out and touch it.

    • 210
      Problems problems says:

      You have a funny idea of politicians, they are not there to give but to take.

    • 238
      Person from Porlock says:

      What To Do If Someone With Psychotic Symptoms Refuses Treatment

      Because schizophrenia and other illnesses involving psychotic symptoms affect overall brain functioning, the person with psychotic symptoms often does not recognize symptoms as unusual and may refuse treatment. If symptoms are not too severe and the person refuses treatment, there may be nothing family members or friends can do but remain in contact and support the person.

      I hope my troll above can get some help soon.

      • 308
        Blowing Whistles says:

        PFP – do you fully understand what ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ means?

        • 312
          Person from Porlock says:

          I understand the theory. I have never suffered myself.

          Why do you ask? Is that you trolling me at 1:39 pm?

  55. 200
    Dr P a u l C r a i g Roberts says:

    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.

    • 204
      Politics 101 says:

      Tosh. The UK is a big state, big debt, high tax oligarchy.

    • 218
      US Watch says:

      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.

  56. 201
    Michael Lubricant MP says:

    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.

  57. 216
    THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

    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?

    • 217
      Anonymous says:

      One not inhabited by normal human beings.

    • 220
      Tory now UKIP says:

      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!

    • 223
      Julie You Know Who says:

      Dave is so simply simply marvellous.

    • 224
      UK Watch says:

      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.

      • 229
        Cameron is corrupt, contagious and catastrophic says:

        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.

        • 244
          UK Watch says:

          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.

          • THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

            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.

    • 226
      Cameron is corrupt, contagious and catastrophic says:

      Source ?

    • 230
      Alex Jones says:

      What planet do these people live on?

      Prison Planet!

  58. 221
    Anonymous says:

    The Csmeron/Osborne mission is to deliberately destroy the Tory Party which they despise equally with the cultural self-hate of their own kind.

    • 222
      Anonymous says:

      Their wealth should be confiscated and they should be compelled to live in council houses – in Middlesbrough!

      • 225
        Mong Watch says:

        OJ Simpleton called Middlesbrough a city the other day. It is a town.

        The left these days are thick.

  59. 235
    A white anglo saxon protestant says:

    What’s wrong with racism if there is no discrimination ?

  60. 240
    EU Watch says:

    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.

    • 245
      Lou Scannon says:

      If there was a figure for corruption in the EU itself it would be massively negative.

      • 247
        EU Watch says:

        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.

    • 246
      Person from Porlock says:

      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.

      • 251
        EU Watch says:

        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.

        • 269
          Person from Porlock says:

          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.

          • EU Watch says:

            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.

          • Person from Porlock says:

            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.

          • EU Watch says:

            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.

          • Person from Porlock says:

            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?

          • EU Watch says:

            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.

    • 249
      Chuck 'em a bone says:

      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.

  61. 250
    Owin Jones says:

    Oh bum!!!

    • 259
      Amazon is For Losers says:

      • 296
        MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD and COD FATHER of SOLE says:

        FFS One sniff of mine and they wouldn’t have to look far for him
        he’d be unconscious behind me

  62. 255
    Red Ed and Shoe Tax says:

    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

    • 256
      Owin Jones says:

      Eeee, yer right there, Obadiah!
      :-)

    • 257
      The Geordie Lads says:

      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

  63. 260
    Owin Jones says:

    EDL are nothing but a bunch of bald white chavs living on benefits who have nothing better to do with their lives.

    • 306
      Blowing Whistles says:

      They’re also too stupid to realise that they are funded by the zioloons as it happens.

  64. 261
    EU Watch says:

    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.

  65. 262
    ian says:

    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

    • 263
      Tessa Tickles says:

      “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.

    • 268
      Sir William Wade says:

      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.

      • 272
        old SHEP says:

        Romulus and Remus founded Rome, Dave founded that nobody likes his policies.

    • 287
      Key Board says:

      That little upwards pointy arrow

  66. 267
    George Galloway says:

    I’m not happy that the EDL have got a good old-fashioned Mancunian welcome.

  67. 271
    Owin Jones says:

    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.

  68. 275
    Anonymous says:

    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.

    • 291
      EU Watch says:

      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.

  69. 276
    The Queen says:

    That’s the last time I’m having a doner kebab.

  70. 279
    Yvonne from the Colliers Arms Clydach says:

    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 .

    • 281
      P l e b says:

      He being Cameron, you mean?

    • 284
      I've got an idea says:

      If everyone on benefits joins the TA, that should save a few bob!

      • 299
        Tony Eden from Eton says:

        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 .

        • 311
          Blowing Whistles says:

          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’.

  71. 282
    Right, I wished people would make their minds up! says:

  72. 285
  73. 288
    Owin Jones says:

    Doesn’t anybody just sit in a bath of beans for Comic Relief anymore?

  74. 300
    PETER MANGLEDBUM LORD OF THE RINGS says:

    A man just disappeared up my stinkhole

  75. 319
    Casual Observer says:

    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|        -2
    

    The UKIP are gaining a lot of ground fast.


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