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Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Sky Reporting Cop Killer Should Have Been Deported

Adam Boulton being cautious. If true Clarke is toast.

UPDATE : Home Office confirms investigating the case of the Somali alleged to have killed WPC Sharon Beshenivsky.

Pervy Prezza : Sky Making Hints

A nervy Sky presenter just interrupted Labour’s Geraldine Smith MP in full flow with “and we stress that these are only allegations…” This media-dam is going to break.

Cheque books are being waved by tabloid journalists at luscious Labour lovelies and harassed civil servants… developing.

UPDATE : The Sky headline was “Prescott Back On The Job”

Beeb’s Nick Robinson Denies Cover-Up

Guido is willing to give Nick Robinson the benefit of the doubt when he says “I’m not covering up for Prescott!“ if he explains what the, errm, hypothetical of course, position is in the event that another Prescott mistress were to be revealed.

Firstly, does he know now of any other Prescott mistresses?
If so, what is the public interest in witholding her name from the public if she turns out, like Tracey, to be paid out of the public purse? That would be the same taxpayers who pay his wages, with a clear public interest in knowing if their taxes finance hanky-panky on government premises, in government time.
If he doesn’t know of any other mistresses and another subsequently comes out of the woodwork, will he feel he has done his best for the British public?

Over to you Nick.

Yates of the Yard Quiz Starting Soon

The Political Quiz Show to end careers begins soon. Nervous millionaires are consulting their solicitors and getting their stories straight. Theatre producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh is widely quoted as saying he was offered a peerage in return for a loan – he wisely turned down the opportunity. Yates is likely to add him to the list in his notebook.

Guido understands that interviews, under caution, will begin next week, tactfully after Thursday’s local elections. Rumour has it that one donor in particular may cough, if the right assurances are given.

Guido is lovin’ it.

Pervy Old Groper Prescott Got Lewd With Virgin Hostess

As if the revelations from former Labour aide Tricia McDaid about Prezza trying to grope her were not bad enough, according to The Sun, Prezza made crude remarks to an air hostess about her breasts on a flight to Washington:

He is now said to have ogled air stewardess Helga Forde, (not pictured), and made her skin crawl by saying, “Lovely pair!” as she served him fruit.

Prescott, 67, was on his way to Washington from Heathrow with a group of top Labour politicians for a meeting at the White House. But he could not take his eyes off attractive Helga, who was serving passengers food and duty-free products.
Helga said: “It was disgusting the way he was acting… I stopped at Prescott with the duty-free trolley and he looked at some of the products including make-up. He told me a red lipstick would look good on me, which I thought was very unprofessional for a man of his power. I then went back to him with a bowl of fruit. As I asked him if he wanted any he took a pear and replied, ‘Oh, what a lovely pair’ as he looked at my chest with his beady eyes.”

Helga went on: “I worked as an air hostess for several years so I was used to the normal male attention on flights and how to deal with it. But Prescott took it several steps further and made my skin crawl… I have served members of royal families, famous people and politicians but I have never come across someone so brazen as Prescott.”

Prezza is like Sid James in a “Carry On” movie, there is a lot more of this to come. Labourettes have suffered his groping for years.

Labour MP Geraldine Smith says: “It’s as old as Adam – the male employer taking advantage of the young employee. It looks pretty appalling. It is taking advantage of a junior employee and most women MPs will be quite alarmed at that… What someone does in their private life is one thing – it’s between him, his mistresses and his wife. But when it cuts across into the public role, which in this case I think it has, it’s a different matter.”

Over-Use of Viagra in Older Men Can Cause Blindness

Guido understands that Tracey’s unexpurgated diaries revealed a penchant for Viagra to put some led in the pencil when she was taking his dictation. (Old seaside postcard joke, but Guido feels it appropriate in this context).

Guido is concerned that the associated risks for 60somethings necking the blue pills were not understood by Prezza. Rapid vision loss within 24 hours can occur. The condition, known as nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), causes a rapid reduction of vision and can, in the most serious cases, lead to blindness. Clearly it led to Prescott being blind to the consequences.

Getting Better?

Shed Seven’s “Getting Better“ with the lyrics “its getting better all the time”, is the theme tune for this evening’s Labour party political broadcast – which has dropped the cute Blue Chameleon and will instead cite Labour’s achievements, remember in 1997 when pill popping D:Ream sang “things can only get better“.

Sadly, Shed Seven broke up after a few years in 2003. Things, err, got worse.

"The Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze"You Can Write This Book!

To commemorate the 9th anniversary of New Labour coming to power Guido and Iain Dale are announcing the imminent publication of a new book called “The Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze“.

And we’re asking for your help. We want the blogging community to help write it. We have, with your help, compiled a list of the Top 100 Labour Scandals since 1997. Each one will be included in the book. Have a look at the list and see if you’d like to write up to 400 words on a scandal of your choice. All you need to do is email Iain and lay a claim to your scandal, then get writing. The deadline is 7pm on Sunday, 7th May. Please do not take part if you cannot meet that deadline. The book is being illustrated by Hoby and the cover design is by our friends at Beau Bo D’Or. Publishing a book at such short notice is commercially a very risky thing to do, so the success of the book will depend on how much viral marketing we’re able to do throughout the blogging world. Iain is willing to take the commercial risk on the production and booktrade marketing of the book, but we are going to launch an appeal to enable us to advertise it properly in national newspapers and the political media. More details on that later.

Guidance for Contributors

Choose your scandal (feel free to choose more than one) from the list here.
Immediately email Iain to claim it – he will email you back by the end of the day.
Write in an informal style. Make it factual but feel free to use a little humour, satire or comment.
Above all, avoid libellous statements.
Stick to the 400 word limit. If it’s a minor scandal try to keep it to 100-200 words.
If you’re unsure if you’re on the right track, email one of us to check.
Email Iain your contribution before 7pm on Sunday, 7th May.

All contributors will receive full credit and free copies of the book and further quantities at 50% discount (plus p&p). Make sure you post details on your own blog. The success of this book will partly depend on how widely publicised the book is through non-commercial advertising. You can pre-order copies by clicking here.

Monday, May 1, 2006

Mayday! Mayday! : Two More Prescott Women’s Names to Come

With well over a thousand votes in, the verdict is clear, the only obstacles are legal. There is of course the name that everyone knows about and she is threatening to sue if she is named. Somehow Guido suspects that She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is bluffing and will not risk perjuring herself and relying on Prescott to do the same in the face of the widespread knowledge of the affair around Westminster. This is the one that the papers randomly mention for no reason whatsoever and that a few websites have specifically named as his former mistress.

Then there is a much younger woman that the predatory Prescott is said to have given his unwanted attentions to, and she has now been sent safely away on a slowboat to China.

Any lawyers with concerns should fax Guido’s publisher on +1-650-240-3958 because the people have spoken…

ePolitix is Proud to Spin?

ePolitix.com has been shortlisted in the ‘website of the year’ category at this year’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations Excellence Awards – whatever that might be. So it is likely that ePolitix will be voted the spin-merchants favourite website. Paul Adeleke, ePolitix.com’s head of communications, said: “We are delighted to have been included on the shortlist for the CIPR awards… We will continue to focus on working ever closer with our Stakeholders and to strive for editorial excellence.” Why would you want to boast about that?

ePolitix is basically saying they’ll print anything they’re paid to and the spin-merchants club recognises we’re good at reprinting press releases. Guido would be embarrassed, “editorial excellence” implies to Guido some kind of editorial independence and self respect.