Swinson Ducks the Question
Sarah Teather isn’t the only LibDem woman to have gone missing during the Rennard scandal. Guido noted last month and Cathy Newman asks this morning why women’s minister Jo Swinson, who investigated the initial claims, has stayed silent. How many women did she speak to? What did she do with the complaints? As if by perfect timing Swinson popped up on the Today programme this morning. Here’s a new one: when asked about randy Rennard she refused to answer “out of respect” for the accusers. The same ones that claim she told them they had to put up with it if they wanted to get on…
Talk about flogging a dead horse…
Climate change is the most used wishy washy excuse by politicians and planners to dodge an answer or accept fault.
Modern day flooding in the main is caused by poorly planned urban development, agriculture and someone elses “flood defences” but you can bet your bottom dollar that everyone from the top politician down to the3 council who neglects to unblock the drains will blame a flood, any flood on “climate change”, which used to be global warming, which used to be British weather, which is natural variation of the seasons and the weather.
Did you misread “flogging” for “floodin”g by any chance
Or are you still high?
Back in the 50′s and 60′s,vast swathes of agricultural land was drained,i believe
grants were involved,(no need for EU)..Rivers were dredged and banks cleared,ditches were dug,and maintained….It did not stop exceptional flooding,but,it cleared fairly rapidly…Since then our wonderful planners have seen fit to allow building on flood plains,and the concreting of acres and acres of soak away land…Flood defences seemed to be built regularly,and i had rose tinted glasses!!!!
Lack of dredging is a major factor. Dredging supposed to upset the birds but wet behind the ears conservationists fail to realise that nature bounces back and 99% of what they consider natural landscape in the UK is actually man made.
The Green Party were recently complaining because large areas of Leyton marsh were soggy.
Geedo if you really want to know, why don’t YOU personally approach her and get a lead on all your competitors, that is what your hero, Rupert, would have done years ago, go on, get out there, don’t keep relying on secondhand information, Rupert may make you his ace reporter.
Good Point
People won’t talk to Geedo any more, he’s sold out. They might as well go straight to Rupert.
“sold out”. How quaint!
LOL
Anonymous says:
March 6, 2013 at 10:08 am
Well Rupy set him on, maybe a trial basis, Geedo does push himself to get himself noticed
Hello me deerio oh and don’t forget to nether your nadger’s scrunnit.
I love your sense of irony – it’s almost as if there some other Lupert employment status than being on trial.
Don’t go a lumperin in the further woods until the cuckoo calls.
Like the excuse it’s before the courts.
Swinston is another brat pack member who has never held a real job.
Come on, the “real job” people in the HoC seems to be moving towards the minority
Steady on sir, Jo is mylocal MP and a lovelier more down to earth young ‘Scottish Lass’ has never graced the Palace of Westminster. She is married to another’ young turk’ Lib Dem, the MP for Chippenham strengthening Anglo Scottish friendship in these troubled times. Three cheers for Jo !!!
What about respect for the accused?
+1
Respect means a proper investigation rather than trying to bury the story and changing your account of events all the time.
Respect means not being shifty.
Respect means taking difficult decisions.
Respect means not claiming “retirement on health grounds”
And more and more.
“means not being shifty” seriously how many in the HoC come in to the “not being shifty” category
Respect is accusing some one through the correct channels, and not the media. Expressing concern over an issue within an organization, is not an accusation it is an attempt to have a person side-lined by the leaders. Any organization can choose to side-line anyone, just like they can choose to promote anyone.
Only certain institutions can punish.
I for one do not want alternate courts in this country. But the use of the media as a kangaroo court is just fuelling demands for the increase in the number of groups allowed to punish.
The alternate is to admit our justice system is broken, and is worthless to even attempt to use. (That however is a valid, and essential, use of the media)
The ‘correct channels’ are, as it appears in this case, often are more part of the problem than a route to solution.
…And we must punish those new organisations if they fail to punish well enough!
She never showed me or my staff any respect.
Rup respect in my eyes is hard earned but can be easily lost
Aha, busted! She doesn’t want to ask questions about sleazy colleagues. It shows how the Lib Dems are on the run, ducking for cover rather than standing up to support colleagues in trouble.
Above all we need to expose the Clegg Cover Up, he’s changed his story more often than he’s changed his underpants.
Can’t stop.
Just sorting our my sons posh school then I’ve got a plane to catch.
Well at least nobody has shot a dog yet.
Look I said SFA out of respect for my job
Did Jo enjoy the Everard casting couch?
Could Jo Swinson have been one of the randy lord’s actual conquests ? Her silence is very interesting.
Alan Douglas
She’s certainly fugly enough.
http://www.joswinson.org.uk/
.. mad eyes, too.
Absolutely, you would run a mile from dating her – pukka bunny-boiler material.
Does Everard have standards? I thought being female with a pulse was sufficient enough allure for him to try it on.
I await mortuary visit reports with breath baited.
Quite possibly, she has always put career ahead of principle.
She is a politico isn’t she, they all say they are badly payed for the “work” they do, but would stratch each others eyes out to get into parliament if the no. of members was cut down to 500
Perhaps it’s because she fell for his charms.
from Spain clear skies warm and Country on the way up according to
the BBC.
what a load of bollocks.
We will fill the entire days output with Hispanic content to remind everyone that our dear leader Chavez has passed.
Soon we shall have our own Hispanic Leader.
Senora Cleggora, step forward please.
In the 70′s when the BBC high ups were probably at uni they most likely fancied themselves as “Wolfie” Smith and had posters of “Che” on the wall of their squats whilst shagging everything in a mini-skirt or dungarees(I make no comment on gender) out of their minds most of the time
I remember the mini skirt and the hot pants, trouble was the wrong sort totty wore them, they either had skinny legs or thunder thighs. I was in my early late teens early twenties in the 60′s drugs were just used by pop groups, uni students and idiots, especially in my neck of the woods. I did overhear one old woman when I was smoking a B&H cigar, a strange looking mottle brown and green colour, “Is he smoking marijuana?” I was never part of that had better things to do. Perhaps Geedo could enlighten us as how many journos on his not favourite rag are on something, they have always been addicted to booz by reputation
Ah, if you remember the 60s you weren’t really there!
I was, but I was not as high as kite and rarely drank alcohol (not that I did not have my moments) then again I was living a long way from London thank goodness
What goes up must come down…
So said Werhner von Braun
‘Cept he never came down, from working slave labourers to death to achieve his ultimate V1 and V2 weapons for the Fuhrer, going on upward to gain the US’s highest honour.
Just goes to show, ‘It ain’t who you know, it’s what you know.’
It’s WHAT you know, about WHO you know, that REALLY makes for success in this crazy world in which we live. THEY know who they are, and what they’ve done, and so do I. A nominal consideration now and then never goes amiss. A nod’s as good as a wink, boss.
The current delusional epidemic is ruining that idea. We can have all the dirt on a person we like. It is however, meaningless if all those in leadership are treated as not responsible for the culture, or the actions of their people.
For some one to even say they believe they are the right person for the jobs is a delusion. They believe they are uniquely attributed. Anyone that states they are the only solution are always the ones to closely watch.
As long as they believe their route is just, they can kill, abuse, maim with a clear conscience. Dirt will not stick to these sick people.
After the war where did he go, to that peace loving coutry the USofA
The wide boiys are betting on a Spa
The wide boys are betting on a Spanish recovery
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/182f4a32-7524-11e2-8bc7-00144feabdc0.html
Much of Spain’s “unemployment” is artificial
They love working on the black market and receiving benefits at the same time
Spanish economic patterns have merely reverted to the situation that pertained from the end of the 16th century till the death of Franco.
That will be Spanish practices, then.
I would have thought that a bet on a Spa was the better investment.
The FT is crap, full of Guardian leftovers pushing AGW and the Euro. I recommend City AM for honest financial reporting…..
I thought you would have recomended the WSJ
So who is going to go through O’Farrell’s new book for his views on Margaret Thatcher, and other Tories?
I will.
O’Farrell’s comedic masterpieces are a joy to read.
Oi
I think Spittoon Image was one of those shows that could have just kept going, over the last 16 years there have been times when i really would have come into its own, why did it have to stop when Liebore came into office, the affairs of politics just keep giving and giving, as time goes on gives new impersonators a break, the present lt would be just as funny. It’s a fact that when the series ended politicos were queuing up to by their SI images .
It stopped because writers and future Labour candiates like O Farrell wouldn’t want to bite the hand that feeds.
I know that, but you must admit that from to the present day (being non-political here) would supplied endless comedy down to the Hunt and Huhne comics
Maybe all these wimmin limp dem MPs are hiding because we all now know the truth. The shameless bints have all had to shag Rennard themselves to get where they are! That’s the question they’re scared of being asked – “So Sarah Teather, Jo Swinson, et al – just how did you manage to pass the selection process?”
Rennard’s at the end of his Teather!
And at the end of Tonge, the smelly end !
How many times did they have carnal knowledge of him?
sorry wrong sentance we are fucked.
“she told them they had to put up with it”
And she’s women’s minister?? You have to be shitting me.
Soon all ladies be able to enjoy the attentions of their liberal Masters, thanks to the Ministry for Women promoting ‘all day’ marriage.
Droit de Liberali to be introduced for all who wish to progress.
And Cameron to legislate for compulsory sodomy
talk about eating a dead horse,,,
Little Ed Reallybland has made a video saying sorry for Labour getting it wrong on immigration
It’s fucking pathetic ! , with the sad music playing in the background
Was Sarah Teather on a short list?
I’d hate to be sued, by a Liberal Democrat no less, so I’ll suggest a *possible* skenario… minor minister agrees to soft pedal on complaints in return for assurances on future concessions that will *more* than make up for the temporary letting down of victims. If one of those concessions, perhaps the only one, is a better post for that minister, well, it will allow her to do so much more for women and stuff, so what’s the problem? Doing a deal worked for Clare Short…
How come Mr Mrs Brown make such a fuss about one little girl hurt by the “bad guys” and ignore all the little girls hurt by Labour’s war making adventures?
Because he is a deranged, one-eyed stinking hypocrite (and his spouse must be mad too).
Oh dear, surely he has some redeeming feature(s)?
She’s simply a sad attention-seeker.
Because Mr Brown is milking her plight as part of his UN Global de-education strategy. Have a look at the material he is pushing there and all will become clear.
It’s not clear if Malala is being paid for this, or herself is truly interested / supportive.
LibDems – the most prolific and proficient liars of all the political parties : there’s some pretty stiff competition out there.
After the loons of Eastleigh have elected another Libdem the party will ruthlessly close this issue down as voters don’t seem to care about their sleaze, hence the silence.
Simpletons not much else.
Postal votes, not much else.
In breeding, even their new MP lied about his job. His election literature said he was a business manager in actual fact he is a mortgage broker working for a private bank.
Lies, lies and more lies from theLibdems.
Clegg, Swinson, Cable, Huhne, Kennedy, Hughes, Pantsdown, Teather, Laws….. and on and on
Yes, it has gone a bit quiet. Nick Clegg has not denied being in coalition. Perhaps no one has told him about that.
Lend ???? A true socialist. Just borrow and borrow and borrow.
That’s what I’m trying to do, borrow, borrow, borrow…..,
And what’s wrong with that for a principled Socialiste.
You don’t need any equipment Tom
Just be yoursellf and everyone will laugh
Here’s an idea.
Buy your own karaoke equipment with your inflated MP’s salary and then quietly donate it to a local club when you’ve finished your high-profile charidee fund- raising….
He thinks he’s doing everyone a favour by not putting one on expenses
Actually, it’s a test of loyalty to see how many offers I get.
Why don’t you lease one over 200 years on PFI as your party loves expensive stuff to be off the balance sheet.
That should screw you up financially, then we can all have a fucking good laugh. It is for charity after all.
Buy some you scrounging arsewipe. On your money you could easily afford to buy your own. MP free free free.
One wonders what Jo Swinson herself had to “put up with” when getting herself selected as a Lib Dem candidate… Is the “casting couch” the method of selecting female parliamentary candidates?
The casting couch is a tried and tested method for creating empty celebrities who we then promote
Just look around a bit
Lord Rennard called me many years ago to find out how we did it
PS Guido has a celebrity promotion PR company for any wannabe celebs…
I beg your pardon?
She probaly didnt have to put up much
“It doesn’t matter how the votes are cast, but how they’re counted.”
What’s the betting that some Labour MP gets up at PMQs and asks Cameron to offer his condolences ??
We prefer postal voting.
As the Eire President did on the death of Hitler.
Yes I won four elections, the opposition simply disappeared.
And during the official seven days of mourning, any current opposition will also disappear.
Any postal votes involved?, if not what kind of socialist was he. fakir.
Vote early and often! You know it makes sense.
The Conservative led coalition wrestling sub-committee mourns the loss of legendary manager Paul Bearer (William Moody), who passed away Tuesday evening. http://wwe.me/iq5Ea.
I shall lead tributes at todays PMQ’s.
Jesus! It’s Prezza’s long-lost separated-at-birth twin brother!
Cameron is universally described by a word that also starts with C, but is only 4 letters long and ends in UNT
Why are Liberal Democrats described as Liberal and Democrats when they clearly aren’t ?
Same issue as Conservatives being described as Tories.
Why was Huhne placed in charge of the environment when he ruined it with windmills and high speed driving?
Ffs, Andy Pandy is more controversial the Camoron, Chavez was allowed to throw people in jail and take over businesses, Camorons only idea is homosexual marriages, Camoron would do better opening a woman’s lingerie shop.
Why do the Limp Dums claim to be against selective education when Clogg is going to send his kid to a posh school?
Because they are fucking hypocrites, just like the Kaff Lick Cardinnals
because hes an arse licker.
After being educated at Stowe School and Oxford, why does Moonbat have to ask such ridiculous pointless questions?
Must be something that they put in the Water at Guardian HQ. Not one of them leaves the building sound of mind.
Look for the little scar behind the left ear. Its where the Common Purpose DNA was implanted.
I am very sound of mind
I live in Albany and we are all in this together
Like our very clever tax avoidance experts
Tax avoidance is vital to keep me in grand pianos.
Intellect is not wisdom.
Is she saying that she decided to put UP with it? Just grateful?
Who is behind th dirty tricks on Theresa May?
It is not us, for once
Pretending people are running a campaign against you is an old trick to get favourable press and be seen as a ‘player’. May is a has-been who will never lead the Tories. She is the person responsible for calling them the nasty party.
This is womens week and Swinson is behaving like a lame excuse for womanhood .
She is after all in charge of the “all party Parliamentary Group on Body Image” and managed to get a 10K donation for the “Body Confidence Awards” so she is not exactly behind the door when it suits her !
The 10K came from people masquerading behind the name ” bareMInerals” from Soho who seem to like selling expensive cosmetics you do not find in Poundland and use an advertising slogan of “Hello Georgeous” .
This woman is a disgrace to her sex , a disgrace to her office , a disgrace to her Party .
A decisive Leader such as Mr Clegg will sort her out .
If anyone called me “Georgeous” they would get a good slap in the face.
As a woman I find it most insulting if a man treats me like this .
Ms Swinson has clearly found ten thousand good reasons to put up with it .
Is that what is known as prostitution?.
Every week is women’s week.
I thought it was every month!!
“Heading Out” by Sue Perkins on BBC2 is the singularly most unfunny pile of crap I’ve ever seen on telly. It’s almost worth watching because it’s so bad.
Her and that Mel Gizzybonk or whatever are strange cases, they have all the on-screen ease, talent and charisma of a hamster having a furious scorpion inserted into its anus.
The paragraph above is funnier and more shrewd than the entire Perkins opus combined. In August 2012 she appeared on Tatler’s list of ‘coolest lesbians’. I rest my case.
They seem to be on TV for the sole reason that they have been on it before. The shite that the BBC is pumping out as prime time comedy right now is just mystifying; if they cleared the decks for new talent from all comers (rather than just achingly trendy lefties) we might have some decent TV made again.
It’s a shame, the US is making the best TV ever right now such as Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, Louie (CK), Mad Men etc.
We can only do period dramas well. It’s tiresome.
PS – I am a proud non-license fee payer.
I watch the US stuff from internet downloads, as it is usually shown on satellite channels at stupid times of day in order that the main channels can be stuffed with ‘will-this-do?’ shite like that produced by Sue Perkins.
Yes but shes part of the establishment so is guaranteed an income for life quality has no place with luvvies.
This is quite fascinating .
What is the Committee’s stated view on male pattern baldness and a possible cure this side of May 2015?
We are working night and day find a cure for Hague Syndrome, or New-Variant Shortarsism as it used to be known.
It’s my fundraising effort for Red Face Day.
Any Cheap Oil?
Any old iron?
Who is “Our”?
You don’t speak for me Herman or Britain. You are overstepping your remit as the figurehead of a chamber of trade and you ARE NOT a political leader or any type of leader.
Its an Imperial ‘Our’
Would be nice for you to deepen your relationship personally by being intured with him.
EU -follow him to hell, and resume your relation there.
We want to buy all gilts issued by the Government for the foreseeable future
It is a mere accounting entry
Dont talk to us about Weimar which never existed
Keep up the good work! We’re waiting and ready to sort out the LibLabConners, Immigrants and other undesirables once and for all.
And how might I ask does this all party committee on Body Image help me get a job and lower taxes?
Bush may have been a donkey.
But I was his poodle.
Yes but hes still alive, I would call you a tosser but you dead.
Funny how it’s the Tories who still get tagged the nasty party, when the evidence suggests it’s Labour and Lib Dems filled with perverts, crooks, thieves and murderers.
You mean Brittan, Bottomley, Heath, Yeo, Afiyie, Laud, Portillo, Shapps, Fox, Hague, etc etc have all changed party?
No, I agree they’re all wretched too. My point is that it’s ONLY the Tories who get tagged nasty, when there are just as many, if not more, in Labour and Lib Dems.
Hugo. My Hero.
2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – Venezuela:
“the following human rights problems were reported by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the media, and in some cases the government itself: unlawful killings, including summary executions of criminal suspects; torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; prison violence and harsh prison conditions; inadequate juvenile detention centers; arbitrary arrests and detentions; corruption and impunity in police forces; corruption, inefficiency, and politicization in a judicial system characterized by trial delays and violations of due process; political prisoners; interference with privacy rights; restrictions on freedom of expression; corruption at all levels of government; threats against domestic NGOs; violence against women; anti-Semitism in the official media; trafficking in persons; violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity; and restrictions on workers’ right of association.
The government sometimes took steps to punish lower-ranking officials who committed abuses, but there were no investigations or prosecutions of senior officials for alleged corruption or abuses.”
I am bereft
Of talent.
Mine, too. I shall never forget his generosity in providing low-cost heating fuel for the people of Massachusetts, distributed through my company, of course. And I had the chance to repay this fine benefactor of humanity, through the efforts of my brother Bob Jr the environmental activist (he of the wife dr!ven to suicide), by getting my ex-brother-in-law Governor Andrew Cuomo (he of the uncanny Moe the Bartender resemblance) to outlaw fracking in New York State, even though it would bring thousands upon thousands of jobs to an economically-depressed region and lower fuel costs in the US.
Like her approach. When reporters asked us about Brittan and Heath in the 80s we fitted ‘em up with our friends in the Met. Can’t understand the fuss. Nothing happened that we didn’t all go through in first year at Eton.
When is Gordon saving the beaches of Fife?
Guido
Please launch a thread on th Labour Party
I think that young Ed has lost the plot
He has no policies
At least Tony and Gordon and I ran the best Ponzi scheme in British histort
PS I cannot intervene personally any more because I am a bankster now catching up with Natty and Oleg and co
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Mothers Day is totally unacceptable in our new Gay Marriage paradise. It is totally unfair that two caring guys should not each receive presents from their little children, just because they cannot be the real parents.
We can celebrate Gayer’s Day as a national holiday. Let’s replace Easter with it.
I notice that the BBC are still managing to report on a child grooming trial in the North without managing to mention the names of the men on trial or their religion. Funny, that.
They are not Catholic.
They are muzzies, no change there then.
To be honest, Guido, I don’t even know what you’re arguing.
No dear, of course you don’t.
With due respect to all ladies concerned. If you want to get on in Liberal Politics, then you’ll have to put up with the odd groper groping. Call that political way forward, I call it a liberty.