This morning’s ding-ding on the Today program was miles apart from your usual stuffy debate. Ian Hislop tore a chunk from Andrew Marr over his 2008 love child super-injunction
“As a leading BBC interviewer who’s asking politicians about failures in judgment, failures in their private lives, inconsistencies, it was pretty rank of him to have an injunction when acting as an active journalist.”
Just to think, Marr could have spared all that time, money and not to forget damage done to his reputation, if he and Alice Miles’s child had just done the DNA test in the first place. Marr says that injunctions are out of control these days, yet it seems they were fine when he needed one.
“New Politics” is out of the window over at YES2AV this morning. Desperation has sunk to such a low, that someone in the offic has come to the conclusion that ditching Eddie Izzard and replacing him with Peter Mandelson is a good idea.
The Dark Lord was last seen tapping up Russians for his bond villain wannabe lobbying-venture Global Counsel LLP, but this morning, he has waded into the AV debate:
“Cameron has been forced to intervene, to turn it into an intra-Coalition partisan scrap in order to mobilise Tory support and Tory-supporting newspapers.”
It sounds like someone has had a lot of time out of the loop to come up with theories.
There is no way that Mandelson’s intervention could have gone ahead without clearance from the Yes to Fairer Votes brigade. Any group that attempt to persuade people that AV will make MPs work harder, yet deploy one of the most corrupt MPs in recent history as its poster boy, has to be falling apart. What does an MP who had resign from the cabinet twice know about “working harder”?
UPDATE: It went under the bank-holiday radar, but Ed Howker has found the printing machine that is producing both YES! campaign literatute and referendeum ballot papers. Katherine Harris would be proud.
Guido is off to talk to the Adam Smith Institute’s Bloggers Bash:
Blogging: Yesterday’s news?
Speakers: Tim Montgomerie, Douglas Carswell MP and Guido Fawkes
Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
The Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, SW1P 3DW
No doubt there will be a drink or two afterwards if you come along…
Further to yesterday’s news that the PM is going to the wedding in tails, Guido’s man in Moss Bros tells him that Dave refused to wear tails to his step-brother in law’s wedding last year – Will Astor – despite everyone else doing so and him being an usher according to a well-bred source. Nor did he wear tails at his sister’s wedding earlier this year – though that may have been less the form. All a bit unnecessarily prolelier-than-thou out of fear of paparazzis. Mrs Fawkes thinks tails suits him…
Edmond Talmacean has inspired national headlines in Romania with his Michael Jackson-style moonwalking and impersonations of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. “Dancing is another kind of political message to appeal to the younger generation, that it is good to have fun … that you can go to a disco and dance,” says 40-year-old Edmond. Conservative Partidul Democrat-Liberal bosses have ordered him to tone it down with Prime Minister Emil Boc declaring the routine was more suited to “showbiz” than politics. That he is one of the most popular politicians in Romania with the highest name recognition is evidence that the Guidoisation of politics is global…
Edmond’s populist, centre-right Partidul Democrat-Liberal is the largest party in the Romanian coalition government. Yes there is such a thing as a popular centre-right Liberal Democratic coalition government party, all Clegg needs to do is get Cable moonwalking. That is if Cable doesn’t just walk…
Hat-tip: Nothing To Do With Arbroath
