Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Polly Goes Crackers
Entire Column Riddled with Inaccuracy

pollyIf you’re about to launch yourself into an almighty rant about people you do not like being “inept” , it’s probably a good idea to make sure you get your facts right. Guido meant to complete this take down of Tuscany’s finest earlier, but got distracted. Polly Toynbee’s diatribe this morning was riddled with more mistakes than she owns houses. The entire premise of the article was a half-time review of the coalition, which Polly states is tomorrow, it seems pretty much everyone else disagrees. The Guardian‘s very own Patrick Wintour set it at  the beginning last month. He even wrote his own half time report…

She talks of “cutting into a slump has killed demand, paralysed investment and choked off growth”, wilfully blind to the fact that the ONS say retail was up 1.6% in October on the year, and 4.9% since 2010. Consumer confidence is also up – seven points in one month – and the UK currently enjoys the highest business confidence in the EU. It’s hardly much to write home about, nevertheless you could be forgiven for thinking Polly is ignoring the fact that GDP increased by 1% in Q3. Note that she can’t explain what is going on with the employment figures either.

Polly concludes: “This is the world of Smythson of Bond Street, headed by Cameron’s wife”. A basic fact-check from a sub would have thrown up the fact that SamCam quit “heading up” Smythson in May 2010. The whole thing is wrong from top to bottom.

Did anyone even read it before it went to print?

Monday, November 26, 2012

Labour Panicking About Rotherham
HQ Diverting Resources North

Labour insiders are getting nervous about Rotherham after this weekend’s Labour council omnishambles. With Respect’s Yvonne Ridley now at 5/1, Labour HQ are diverting resources from Croydon and Middlesbrough, fearing a Bradford style upset. All Labour politicians, staff and volunteers are being told to head to Rotherham instead of the other two constituencies. Buses are being laid on. Guido understands that Harriet Harman was meant to go campaign for Steve Reed in Croydon today, but is instead heading north. Sounds like they’ve been watching too much Homeland…

With Ladbrokes offering exactly the same price for Respect’s Lee Jasper upsetting Labour’s Steve Reed in Croydon, someone is going to get it in the neck if the upset falls there. Reed, a Marmite candidate from the start, is losing local support fast.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Quiet Man Turns Up Volume

“Never underestimate the determination of a quiet man”.

Or rather never underestimate the power of the last word…

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Loony Labour MP’s Echoes of Galloway

The sheer idiocy of some of those who inexplicably manage to find themselves sat in the Commons never ceases to amaze Guido. Step forward Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi, who took to twitter yesterday to air her views on the Israel-Palestine conflict:

Apparently those Iranian made 21-foot long Fajr-5 rockets, which carry 90kg of explosives and can be fired from up to 75 kilometres, have been put together by some amateur in a Gaza back yard. Crazy Qureshi then went on to tweet a link to Stalinist Hamas apologist Seamus Milne’s pathetic piece today about how he wants “a change in the balance of forces on the ground”. Qureshi is the MP for Bolton South East. Gorgeous George would be proud…

Labour Shadow Health Team Doctor History

Following “Dr” Eoin Clarke’s latest humiliation yesterday, now his previously unwavering disciples have been left red-faced. Top of the pile comes fellow conspiracy theory lover Tom Watson, who rather ill-advisedly retweeted a link to the good doctor’s recent claptrap about Virgin private healthcare. Clarke has now deleted all the original tweets, but as shown below several Labour MPs have been caught out repeating his smears:

Also joining in was Karl Turner, who retweeted some seven links to Clarke’s made up material, while Diane Abbott, Sadiq Khan, Grahame Morris and, perhaps most worryingly, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham also retweeted fantasy posts by Clarke. Labour’s shadow health team were conned by a lunatic without so much as a fact check. Now they could be in hot water too…

Via Tory Radio

UPDATE:  Guido now understands that Clarke had to pay costs so is understandably sore. He also points out that he deleted all his tweets that were retweeted by Labour’s great and good. The tweets then disappeared from Labour timelines. The point still stands: they were duped by a frothing lunatic who was writing fairytales. No one checked the facts before the Shadow Health team pushed his lies.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Hard-Left NUJ Loons Plan Leveson March on Wapping

Lefty loons at the NUJ are gearing up for the imminent publication the Leveson Report. The  NUJ London Magazine Branch, with help from the TUC, are planning on marching on Wapping when it comes out because “smashing of trade unions at News International’s Wapping plant in 1985-86 was a major defeat for every trade unionist in the country.” It also kept British newspapers alive.

They’ve passed the following motion:

This branch believes:

  • The lack of union organisation at News International and other major newspaper groups contributed to the unethical practices that ensued at titles such as the News of the World.
  • The publication of the Leveson report offers a major opportunity to organise a demonstration to Wapping calling for the recognition of trade unions at News International publications, and every other major newspaper group where trade union organisation does not exist.
  • The branch resolves to call on trades councils neighbouring the Wapping plant, such as Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham, to in turn call on the South East Regional TUC to organise a demonstration to Wapping as soon after the publication of the Leveson report as possible.

Ah, so that’s why people hacked phones.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Guardian’s George Monbiot Apologises To Lord McAlpine

Speaking of uninformed commentators and trial by Twitter, George Monbiot has been in full grovelling mode today.

Possibly something to do with the heavy threat of legal action at the end of McAlpine’s statement. Monbiot’s now-deleted tweets included:

I looked up Lord #McAlpine on t’internet. It says the strangest things.

I can confirm that Lord #McAlpine was Conservative Party Treasurer when Mrs Thatcher was prime minister.

Historical fact of the week: Lord #McAlpine was a well-known treasurer of the Conservative Party during the Thatcher era.

What was that about evidence-based science…

Monday, October 15, 2012

Twitter Media Bitch Fight: Mehdi v the World

It all kicked off over the weekend as poor old Mehdi Hasan waded into the great abortion debate. Having the gall to out himself as a pro-lifer meant, for the first time ever, he was soon experiencing the full wrath of the twitter left.

Things got pretty heated between Mehdi and some prominent lefties:

Guido isn’t quite sure how calling Knowles a “pompous twerp” squares with Mehdi’s no ad hominem attacks policy… 

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Labour’s Chavez Backs Assad

Congratulations to Diane Abbott, Grahame Morris, Jeremy Corbyn, Owen Jones, Jody McIntyre and George Galloway…

Friday, October 5, 2012

Pro-Chavez Labour MPs Fly to Venezuela

Opposition activists murdered, shocking human rights abuses and a tyrannical president – Venezuela is a lovely place. That hasn’t stopped a host of Labour MPs from enjoying an all-expenses paid trip to South America so they can “monitor” the upcoming elections. Usual suspects Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, along with Grahame Morris and ex-Labour MP Colin Burgon are all flying to Venezuela.

At least we can guarantee impartiality, right? Wrong – they all attended a pro-Chavez rally in September. Diane’s people insist to Guido that: “she is there as an official election observer, not to lobby for a particular candidate. She just wants to see a free and fair election”Guido always thought Diane was Caracas…


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How Mervyn King Lost Bank Battle War | WSJ
BBC Corporation Tax Horror Story | IEA
Sally Bercow Judgement in Full | Mr Justice Tugendhat
Commies Blame Capitalism For Terror Attack | The Commentator
Lord Black v Press Regulation | Guardian
Osborne’s Complacency | FT
DWP’s Welfare Failings | Isabel Hardman
Get Used to Coalitions | David Aaronovitch
Woolwich a Showcase in the Banality of Evil | Fraser Nelson
The Enemy Within | Max Hastings
Muslim Led Military-Style Free School Needed | Toby Young


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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious

“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”



Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair


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