Blair should have been hung,drawn, and quartered by now or should we all just accept that our Prime Minister is a compulsive, pathological liar and just get on with it?
December 15, 2006 at 7:13 PM
Anonymous
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should we all just accept that our Prime Minister is a compulsive, pathological liar and just get on with it?
I think we just take it as given.
December 15, 2006 at 7:16 PM
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I'm only coming if it's a cocktail do. I've been dying to wear my gorgeous new frock.
Anyway Guido, you supply the wine and nibbles (or is that nipples?) and I'll bring the chemicals...
Otherwise engaged breakng into cars in the Southwark area your grace?
December 15, 2006 at 8:41 PM
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Mong 7.13: because The Independent's SO BORING! Their why this/why now story selection seems to be just a randomiser - ie their front pages are date and fact independent - hence the name I suppose.
No we shouldn't just accept Blair's a congenital liar etc... We should all join/donate/give our time to a political party that opposes him and has a practical chance of winning and make a positive contribution to our country.
I'm off out for a beer. (And canvassing for the Tories tomorrow.)
December 15, 2006 at 9:09 PM
Anonymous
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"Tories tomorrow."
vegetables today?
December 15, 2006 at 9:14 PM
Anonymous
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Was David Cracknell there? I'm very worried about him.
December 15, 2006 at 9:20 PM
Anonymous
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happy christmas Guido.
2006 really has been the year of the British political blog. well done. enjoy your party. (but please leave the 500 megawatt sound system and lazers at home please..)
December 15, 2006 at 9:41 PM
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Wonder if Mr Dale has invited Mr Duncan Smith ?
This from today's Independent...
* Iain Duncan Smith got his Y-fronts in a twist this week after telling a newspaper that gay parents "don't register on the Richter scale of how to bring up children". (IDS says the unwise remark was taken out of context.)
A former employee of The Quiet Man tells Pandora that the pink vote was a delicate subject in the MP's office.
"He used to get quite ratty," said the source. "We once asked him to sign a letter supporting a Gay Pride event in Manchester. He lost his temper, screwed up the letter and threw it against his office wall.
"Another time we were discussing gay rights in a service station. He got so irate and thumped his fist against the table, catapulting a plate of food into someone's lap.
"I don't why he got so touchy. Maybe it was due to his army days."
Come on, Iain. Reach for that rainbow!
December 15, 2006 at 9:50 PM
Anonymous
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Ha ha ha.
While you're out getting pissed Gordo has broken cover.
Shades of Yom Kippur.
December 15, 2006 at 9:59 PM
Anonymous
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tit-bit totty..............said Father Jack
December 15, 2006 at 10:05 PM
Anonymous
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Anyone you know .... http://www.deathlist.net/
December 15, 2006 at 10:25 PM
Anonymous
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I just wish I was there.... I had to make do with a night in the Barrowboy and Banker. Bloody hellfire.
December 15, 2006 at 11:41 PM
Anonymous
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I am just back from a party given by Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale "somewhere in London".
It was a bit cramped and there were a lot of people I didn't recognise, who kept going to the bathroom to blow their noses. And then that Caroline Flint came up to me and asked me about facial hair, as I believe it is generally known that she has a moustache. And I said, don't be silly, as long as the collar and cuffs match nobody is particularly worried. She is a piece of work.
Goodness me if I didn't bump into Ruth Kelly, her usual beatific smile broadened to a maniacal grin and a sort of convulsive tick. I know that she is a fellow Catholic but I draw the line at wearing scratchy underwear. If I wanted to indulge in personal irritation I would see more of dear Iain Dale who has taken to dyeing his hair orange - which in itself not irritating but it clashes with his ties.
Goodness me, I have harped on too much about personal hair problems. Just time to ring David Davis' doorbell and run away.
(Warning)! Blair changing the perceived question again!
During the last election campaign,Blairs strategy response to the 'LIAR' allegation over Iraq (ie he knew the intelligence was wrong/manipulated it) was to change the perceived question in the public's mind.-'I made the difficult decision to go to war in Iraq and I stand by it.'
The media didn't exclaim 'WHAT!?' and neither,to my recollection,did the Conservatives.
Now we have the same situation regarding cash for peerages.-'I recommended people for party peerages as other leaders are entitled to do.' If the media don't point out the evasion of the substantive question (and they didn't in the case of Iraq) then IMO the public (who believe they have an unbiased and crusading for truth media) will perceive the question/substantive issue to have changed and the criminal Blair and Labour's spin apparatus will again have triumphed.
December 16, 2006 at 11:44 AM
Anonymous
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This is the final nail in the coffin for this Labour so-called "government".
Soon we will really have something to celebrate - a Conservative government and the Great British public getting their country back.
December 16, 2006 at 11:44 AM
Anonymous
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I used to be a Labour voter but the more I see of Brown the more I detest the fellow.
Well I attended and there were at least 3 women there when I left (with my dear Kim). Granted some of the men there looked a bit bemused that there were breeders in the room but what can you do?
Come on john Bull just what drugs are you on? Or do you suffer some kind of short term memory loss that causes you to endlessly repeat yourself. Isn't there somebody else you could bore? Try the local golf club, they tend to be full of twats like you.
Why a red blood corpuscule, much enlarged, as party invitation?
December 16, 2006 at 4:11 PM
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john bull,you and other's spoiling tactics are blatant and understood by all.At least Russell Brand aka workers' militia had some wit and was up for laying the smack down.
December 16, 2006 at 4:52 PM
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schoolboyerror - go to the top of the class. blair, when taxed on issues, changes the issue by rephrasing the question to which he can give an answer that appears reasonable to reasonble men. That he has been allowed to evade says as much about our journalists as it does about this mendacious PM.
Arch C, between naps in your celestial duvet, take a peep at Liddle's piece in Spec on your late mucker W Tyndale. Seems the pair of you have much to answer for. Dominus vobiscum.
Many thanks to Messrs Fawkes and Dale for plenty of drinks and an opportunity to meet the fellow loons who contribute on these blogs... I had no idea one of them was in fact the Attorney General, though! Talk about a surprise guest, Guido...
December 16, 2006 at 7:40 PM
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When Blair told the last Labour Party conference goodbye and god bless all who sail in you they cheered and stamped and said isn't he wonderful? as he stepped from the sinking ship; and now they're in the final meltdown.
Italy, (and the past) is another country, but it is worth googling Tangentopoli and the 1992 collapse of the third Republic. Since then there has been no christian democrat party, no communist party, no socialist party, no republican party, no recognizable parties at all, as a result of the sharing of the prizes of power, both governmental and state, wholly for personal and factional advantage and not national interest.
Now there is just Prodi and Berlusconi slugging it out, backed by ad hoc coalitions. Currently it's Prodi 2 : Berlusconi 1 (and on trial with Mr Jowell for corrupting anything that moves, but particularly corrupting the judicial process).
That is what is happening here as the corruption scandals unfold. The Conservatives will survive, they're infinitely malleable into the appropriate form for wielding power, even if they need time to get organised, for they have always thrived as an ad hoc coalition of inspired self-interest extended to defending their state and environment and willing to pay for social peace.
The Labour Party, though, specifically designed to be the political representative of organised labour and of welfare recipents and their administrators, will not because of:
its total incompetence in economic management and its utter failure to encourage an appropriate wealth-producing environment; the alienation of policy instruments to non-democratically answerable bodies (though in the case of the Bank of England, thank goodness) the corruption resulting from the stuffing of every governmentally engendered institution with Labour placemen; the arrogant ignoring of the interests of the country as a whole (ridiculously high taxation levels, pension destruction, clunking-fist redistribution by means test) in the interests of a narrow, sectarian, vote-gathering agenda for factional - not even party -interest.
And because their next leader is Gordon Brown, who is largely responsible for much of this and hasn't even the saving grace of appealing to a wider constituency than the permanent minority of Labour Party supporters who glory in the narrow worthlessness of their aims and, through his chancellorship, have forced them on the rest of us for the last 10 years.
December 16, 2006 at 7:53 PM
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Methinks Hatfield Girl is a Tory who cannot see the disintegration of Tory England has followed on from Tory Scotland and Tory Wales............the Conservatives are a regional party of the Southeast and nothing more
December 16, 2006 at 9:43 PM
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'.the Conservatives are a regional party of the Southeast and nothing more'
There is nothing more; all the rest depends on the south east and the south east's globalised economy, for everything it gets.
And Brown keeps on crippling its efforts and impoverishing us all so as to maintain his factional voter base.
December 16, 2006 at 10:12 PM
Anonymous
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huh? Lembit Opik (crazy name, crazy guy) has dumped Sian for a Cheeky Girl?
hmmmmm.. one wonders was it just the one cheeky girl....
December 16, 2006 at 11:56 PM
Anonymous
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Guido, don't forget to read the tory rags tomorrow. They seem to have managed a double act with their front-pages which will give Britain's favourite neighbours from hell a touch of indigestion over breakfast.
December 17, 2006 at 1:01 AM
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The readily accessible oil from the North Sea oil fields is exhausted; what wealth there has been generated from there over the last ten years has been squandered by Gordon Brown.
Gordon kept us paying higher taxes while shifting the benefits on to his voters at the same time dismantling the welfare state; he further betrayed any residual socialist commitment by promoting his private-public partnerships that milk the public over and above taxation. Gordon combines the worst of all possible worlds, capitalist greed and corruption, nationalist isolationism (Gordon kept us out of the euro under false pretences, for his five criteria are totally reversible) and socialist paternalism - overtaxing and overspending.
December 17, 2006 at 9:05 AM
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New Labour's in open warfare and Guido's still in bed:
No. 10 secret memo: We are seen as a shambles Exclusive by SIMON WALTERS 16th December 2006 Labour has no chance of winning the next Election because voters think the Government is a shambles - and there is little Gordon Brown can do to stop David Cameron becoming Prime Minister.
That is the devastating verdict of a secret Downing Street memo drawn up for Tony Blair by his senior advisers and obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
The confidential document states:
- Labour's standing is so low that the party's only hope of recovering may be to abandon Mr Brown and 'move to a new generation' by picking a much younger new leader.......
December 17, 2006 at 9:58 AM
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Good to see a Sunday hack doing his own PR! Leaving the byline on the posting is always a giveaway - doesn't the mong realise! Curiously, no one is touching the "story" so far today - perhaps the doubt its credibility?? No 10 has denied the anyone there has written the memo - which means as Iain Dale said on BBC's paper review last that it was almost certainly a planted story by Philip Gould to "motivate" Labour troops ahead of the next election!
December 17, 2006 at 10:35 AM
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The Chancellor doesn't know where the cash came from ;-)
The next Labour leader won't be Brown but someone most of you have never even heard of.
December 17, 2006 at 10:44 AM
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RE 10.35am...has anyone else noticed that Iain Dale posted today's ail on Sunday's tedious memo story about NuLab being shit at 9pm last night? Surely, Dale the Desperado isn't working hand in glove with the Sunday Hate to generate a bit of a storm for the paper? Hope Dale's earning a few quid out of it.
December 17, 2006 at 10:46 AM
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Doesn't the Mail on Sunday make up all its stories??? Lost all credibility years ago, don't know why anyone would buy the rag.
December 17, 2006 at 11:07 AM
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Dalewatcher - he was doing a Sunday papers review on Sky (or was it the BBC?). They do get to read them beforehand you know.
December 17, 2006 at 11:22 AM
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anonymous - his paper review on the beeb is at almost midnight! The front page was on his site by 9pm! Just looks like a bit of collaboration - heaven forfend!
December 17, 2006 at 11:27 AM
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Come on Guido you lazybones. Please get out of bed and tell us what happened at the party and give us a headsup on the MoS story.
The next Labour leader won't be Brown but someone most of you have never even heard of.
Come on then, who?
John Reid? - never heard of him. Alan Johnson? - the Labour Party's "Swiss Tony". Margaret Beckett? - even her husband doesn't know who she is, only the Caravan Club of GB does. Hazel Blears? - Authoritarian pin-up of the year, 1960?
Don't tell me its going to be a little known MP called Blair?
Do tell.
December 17, 2006 at 11:48 AM
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I see the Brownite anonymong trolls are back trying to rubbish the Mail's memo story.
Try to face the truth fellahs; open warfare has broken out again between Tony and Gay Gordon and they're spinning and leaking like mad against each other.
The campaign of shock and awe against Brownhatter has only just started though. Your hero will be battered to a pulp and out of the fight within months.
December 17, 2006 at 12:29 PM
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I fear that our less-than-prudent Chancellor has already dropped himself in it...
"Brown has already given a statement to police saying he knew nothing about the loans, and if it were to emerge that he knew more than he has publicly admitted his position would be seriously compromised."
anon 12:45 "Brown has already given a statement to police saying he knew nothing about the loans, and if it were to emerge that he knew more than he has publicly admitted his position would be seriously compromised."
Will Polly Toynbee follow Magda Goebbels' precept?
December 17, 2006 at 12:56 PM
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John Trenchard, I am very cross that I have been duped into reading the Mail on Sunday. You should have added a warning with your link. Margorie
John Prescott has backed state funding for political parties amid new claims in the cash for honours affair.
December 17, 2006 at 4:54 PM
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ghost of john trenchard... That outfit the "cheeky girl" is wearing, looks like one of guido's party pieces...is this why he's gone AWOL? "guido in lembit stole my clothes scandal?"
December 17, 2006 at 5:02 PM
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Did Lembit turn up with his cheeky girl?
December 17, 2006 at 5:02 PM
Anonymous
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Cheeky girl? Geeky girl?
Am I bovvered?
December 17, 2006 at 5:12 PM
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A lot of commentators are saying that under Ming C the Lib Dems are well-and-truly shafted. Lembit seemsto be shoeing the truth of this.
guido - last seen by Croydonian at Victoria Station - see C's blog.
December 17, 2006 at 7:14 PM
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Apparently the Cheeky Girl's Anthem is: "touch my bum…such is life”."
Since Lembit has been a supporter of both Mark Oaten and Simon Hughes in the past, this seems to be a very apt theology to get to grips with. Maybe it could be the new Party slogan?
December 17, 2006 at 7:14 PM
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Who planted that story in today's Mail about Mo Mowlam claiming Brown was gay?
Same person who leaked the memo perchance?
It's turning nasty in New Labour.
December 17, 2006 at 7:17 PM
Anonymous
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It has ALWAYS been nasty in New Labour. How do you think Mandelson was dispensed with?
December 17, 2006 at 7:25 PM
Anonymous
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Mandy is still around and is still busy shitstirring against Brown.
December 17, 2006 at 7:57 PM
Anonymous
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Brown gay stories have been around a long while. Its not unusual for those with that basic instinct to opt for the conventional. Election to public office produces change in the pants and presentaion depts. A number of weddings of long term bachelors spring to mind.
December 17, 2006 at 8:08 PM
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Just heard from a Labour source, who should know, that the Mail's so called leaked memo is almost certainly a fake.
December 17, 2006 at 8:36 PM
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Anonymous said... Just heard from a Labour source, who should know, that the Mail's so called leaked memo is almost certainly a fake.
Yeah course you did.
So how come senior Labour apparatchiks aren't denying it's genuine and are trying to claim it's the work of a minion?
Innuendo re sexual orientation is one of those binary things. Some get none, some all. At the extremes would be John Reid and Gordon Brown. Reid was first married at the age of 22 and entered Parliament 18 years later. Brown entered Parliament at the age of 32 and married 17 years later.
There must be an equation for age when entered public life (P) age when married (M) and innuendo re sexuality (I), I suggest
If M - P > 10 = I
December 17, 2006 at 8:46 PM
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Brown married in an attempt to quash gay rumours and increase his chance of getting the leadership.
He's not the first gay politician to do this and won't be the last.
It seems particularly prevalent amongst Tory MP's.
December 17, 2006 at 9:04 PM
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"Just heard from a Labour source, who should know, that the Mail's so called leaked memo is almost certainly a fake." 8:36
Well we all know what this means: thememo is definitely NOT a fake! Nothing's true til it's been denied by the SS (smith sith )
somebody is hoping ot steal your role in the blogosphere, it seems. see the post on lembit opik and the cheeky democrats and the comments about a certain Mr. Guido.
The "Brown is Gay" story makes me shiver. Can you imagine standing next to him in the urinals and being met with that oleaginous grin? Never mind paruresis, I would be pooping my panties.
December 17, 2006 at 9:48 PM
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Where is Mr Fawkes? The Parliamentary cellars? I do hope so!
Jailhouselawyer You lowlife Where do you fit into the grand scheme of things? Apart from being lower than something most of us scrape off the bottom of our shoes after a walk in the park. You're not even a proper murderer, just a fucking amateur who got lucky.
wrinkled weasel: Hitchens do a blog? Ha, ha, ha. He can't even write, let alone blog!
peter hitchens: more likely you get my dog's shit on your shoes in the park, because I take him out so he does not shit on my own doorstep! Where do I fit into the grand scheme of things? How many cases have you won in the ECtHR? Have you beaten the government? Wanker!
Why the fuck would I want to "win" cases in the ECHR securing privileges for scum? I wouldn't do it for anything you fucking perverted idiot. Unlike you fucking demented buffoon i think prison is for punishment, not an opportunity for dross such as yourself to get a nice bit of compo after enjoying a few years of getting your cock sucked by you cell joey. Do something productive in the real world for law abiding people you fucked up waste of space.
December 18, 2006 at 12:01 AM
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Tomorrow's Times claims Downing Street aides are being investigated for perversion of justice.
Or is this more shit stirring from the Brown camp?
peter hitchens: Ok, I accept that you are not as capable as I am. Just one thing, human rights for human beings. You couldn't do it for anything. Hardly. Hardly, again. "prison is as a punishment, not for punishment", Alexander Patterson.
Mr Hirst You are right in assuming that I, unlike you, am not stupid enough to have spent 35 years in prison. And the best you can do is quote somebody else? I couldn't do what? Prison time or real life? If you are so bothered about your fellow man/woman go and volunteer to take an elderley person for a day out or help out in a care home. Of course you wont be doing that as it doesnt massage your ego does it?
December 18, 2006 at 12:29 AM
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Never mind this shit. What about Lembic's joystick?
December 18, 2006 at 12:30 AM
Anonymous
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peter hitchens is my hero.
December 18, 2006 at 12:59 AM
Anonymous
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"gordo is gay" - ho ho ... nice diversionary tactic by Nu Lab scum as he robs your pension funds and taxes you to death.
Missing blogger found. Kircaldy & Cowdenbeath Observer reports that a man dicovered yesterday tightly bound to piece of childrens' nursery equipment has been formally identified as that of Ghee D'Aufaurcs, a London-based pyropractor. Well known in the trade for substantial size of his blog, the man is thought to have been strapped to the frolicksome equine contraption by a third party. A local politician, arrested in Fife hospital where he was receiving treatment for an unusual combination of splinters and vibration white finger, is honouring police after their enquiries.
Missing blogger found. Kircaldy & Cowdenbeath Observer reports that a man dicovered yesterday tightly bound to piece of childrens' nursery equipment has been formally identified as that of Ghee D'Aufaurcs, a London-based pyropractor. Well known in the trade for substantial size of his blog, the man is thought to have been strapped to the frolicksome equine contraption by a third party. A local politician, arrested in Fife hospital where he was receiving treatment for an unusual combination of splinters and vibration white finger, is honouring police after their enquiries.
Missing blogger found. Kircaldy & Cowdenbeath Observer reports that a man dicovered yesterday tightly bound to piece of childrens' nursery equipment has been formally identified as that of Ghee D'Aufaurcs, a London-based pyropractor. Well known in the trade for substantial size of his blog, the man is thought to have been strapped to the frolicksome equine contraption by a third party. A local politician, arrested in Fife hospital where he was receiving treatment for an unusual combination of splinters and vibration white finger, is honouring police after their enquiries.
I'm devistated... "Ms Lloyd gave an angry interview to The Mail on Sunday, saying the MP " isn't capable of an adult relationship"...and here was me thinking that MPs were proper mature sensible upright citizens...adult in every sense...I wonder if Ms Lloyd knows Mark Oaten?
December 18, 2006 at 9:13 AM
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I'd be angry too. Imagine being dumped for a cheeky girl... even if you are Sian Lloyd.
Mr Hirst You must have misheard me (+: Get yourself to an old folks home this christmas if you want to do something decent, many of them are on their own and dont deserve to be. I am just writing out a christmas card to a friend who is on the final 8 months of a 10 stretch, and serves him right.
December 18, 2006 at 11:29 AM
Anonymous
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Yikes Guido, looks like a vagina under a bit of stretch.......you havn't been seeing a weather girl have you.
December 18, 2006 at 11:54 AM
Anonymous
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Peter Hitchen is currently playing Eberneezer Scroodge in Christmas panto at the Aldwych Theatre. He is also available for children's parties & barmitzvahs.
December 18, 2006 at 12:58 PM
Anonymous
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Hitchens you really are a lowlife piece of filth. I would like to hurt you very very much.
peter hitchins: There is a sanity clause. Whilst the old folk might appreciate some company, the Home would probably seek a CRB check and I suspect that I would not get clearance.
I already support the most vulnerable group in society, ie, prisoners.
December 18, 2006 at 5:19 PM
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The most vulnerable?
I'll keep that in mind next time I interview a victim of domestic violence who's had her face rearranged by one of you "vulnerable" mates.
You may kid yourself mate, that's part of the tragedy of Aspergers. But don't think you're kidding anyone else.
123 comments:
errm...don't you mean tid-bits, shurely....oh, ahh sooo.
I accept paypal and will divulge the address to the highest bidder
I hope to have some tit-bits at a Party tonight in Westminister too - but Iain or Guido aren't invited.
Just looked at the front page of the Telegraph and in my (medical) opinion Tony looks like he is about to have a heart attack.
I've said it before - that his pupils have lost the black rim (indicating heart failure). Just look at him he looks ASHEN - like a corpse.
Somebody HAS TO ASK HIM ABOUT HIS HEALTH !!
If I were a bookie I would be cutting the odds of him going to early an early grave rather than early January.
Tony - you're dead meat walking.
Off to the Party ...
Guido - do you have a pretty dress to wear?
Will now be staring at pupils to see if they have a black rim. Please explain more.
Will someone reveal the sceret address?
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anon 6:25
for cold hard cash
If I were a bookie I would be cutting the odds of him going to early an early grave rather than early January.
All fingers crossed. Whatever it takes to get rid of the tosser.
His Grace received an invitation, but, having no corporeal presence, politely declined.
He could, therefore, disclose the location, but has absolutely no incentive to do so.
Just as well, Cranmer. You'd only recant as usual.
Why no mention of this on tonights news?
Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2076137.ece
Blair should have been hung,drawn, and quartered by now or should we all just accept that our Prime Minister is a compulsive, pathological liar and just get on with it?
should we all just accept that our Prime Minister is a compulsive, pathological liar and just get on with it?
I think we just take it as given.
I'm only coming if it's a cocktail do. I've been dying to wear my gorgeous new frock.
Anyway Guido, you supply the wine and nibbles (or is that nipples?) and I'll bring the chemicals...
I think my invite got lost in the post.
Otherwise engaged breakng into cars in the Southwark area your grace?
Mong 7.13: because The Independent's SO BORING! Their why this/why now story selection seems to be just a randomiser - ie their front pages are date and fact independent - hence the name I suppose.
No we shouldn't just accept Blair's a congenital liar etc... We should all join/donate/give our time to a political party that opposes him and has a practical chance of winning and make a positive contribution to our country.
I'm off out for a beer. (And canvassing for the Tories tomorrow.)
"Tories tomorrow."
vegetables today?
Was David Cracknell there? I'm very worried about him.
happy christmas Guido.
2006 really has been the year of the British political blog. well done. enjoy your party. (but please leave the 500 megawatt sound system and lazers at home please..)
Wonder if Mr Dale has invited Mr Duncan Smith ?
This from today's Independent...
* Iain Duncan Smith got his Y-fronts in a twist this week after telling a newspaper that gay parents "don't register on the Richter scale of how to bring up children". (IDS says the unwise remark was taken out of context.)
A former employee of The Quiet Man tells Pandora that the pink vote was a delicate subject in the MP's office.
"He used to get quite ratty," said the source. "We once asked him to sign a letter supporting a Gay Pride event in Manchester. He lost his temper, screwed up the letter and threw it against his office wall.
"Another time we were discussing gay rights in a service station. He got so irate and thumped his fist against the table, catapulting a plate of food into someone's lap.
"I don't why he got so touchy. Maybe it was due to his army days."
Come on, Iain. Reach for that rainbow!
Ha ha ha.
While you're out getting pissed Gordo has broken cover.
Shades of Yom Kippur.
tit-bit totty..............said Father Jack
Anyone you know ....
http://www.deathlist.net/
I just wish I was there.... I had to make do with a night in the Barrowboy and Banker. Bloody hellfire.
I am just back from a party given by Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale "somewhere in London".
It was a bit cramped and there were a lot of people I didn't recognise, who kept going to the bathroom to blow their noses. And then that Caroline Flint came up to me and asked me about facial hair, as I believe it is generally known that she has a moustache. And I said, don't be silly, as long as the collar and cuffs match nobody is particularly worried. She is a piece of work.
Goodness me if I didn't bump into Ruth Kelly, her usual beatific smile broadened to a maniacal grin and a sort of convulsive tick. I know that she is a fellow Catholic but I draw the line at wearing scratchy underwear. If I wanted to indulge in personal irritation I would see more of dear Iain Dale who has taken to dyeing his hair orange - which in itself not irritating but it clashes with his ties.
Goodness me, I have harped on too much about personal hair problems. Just time to ring David Davis' doorbell and run away.
Are we going to get to see the tit-bits?
What is that graphic? A womb?
Is Guido too hungover to break news on loans-for-honours?
The Beeb have a new "twist" this morning...
Oh what joy to see Blair and Brown fighting again like rats in a sack:
'I'm being dragged into the cash-for-honours scandal' says Brown
Gordon Brown has condemned what he believes are persistent attempts by Number Ten to drag him into the cash-for-peerages scandal.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=423027&in_page_id=1770
very public school gathering... blokes only.
A largely but not entirely male gathering. Much respect to Mr Fawkes for being one of the last four standing.
(Warning)! Blair changing the perceived question again!
During the last election campaign,Blairs strategy response to the 'LIAR' allegation over Iraq (ie he knew the intelligence was wrong/manipulated it) was to change the perceived question in the public's mind.-'I made the difficult decision to go to war in Iraq and I stand by it.'
The media didn't exclaim 'WHAT!?' and neither,to my recollection,did the Conservatives.
Now we have the same situation regarding cash for peerages.-'I recommended people for party peerages as other leaders are entitled to do.' If the media don't point out the evasion of the substantive question (and they didn't in the case of Iraq) then IMO the public (who believe they have an unbiased and crusading for truth media) will perceive the question/substantive issue to have changed and the criminal Blair and Labour's spin apparatus will again have triumphed.
This is the final nail in the coffin for this Labour so-called "government".
Soon we will really have something to celebrate - a Conservative government and the Great British public getting their country back.
I used to be a Labour voter but the more I see of Brown the more I detest the fellow.
Well I attended and there were at least 3 women there when I left (with my dear Kim). Granted some of the men there looked a bit bemused that there were breeders in the room but what can you do?
What's up, can't take your drink? It's Saturday, now, and you still have Friday's post up front. Yawn!
Come on john Bull just what drugs are you on?
Or do you suffer some kind of short term memory loss that causes you to endlessly repeat yourself.
Isn't there somebody else you could bore?
Try the local golf club, they tend to be full of twats like you.
Anne Widdecombe - very funny! :-)
jailhouse lawyer maybe he isn't out murdering or robbing, is that what causes you to disapprove?
Why a red blood corpuscule, much enlarged, as party invitation?
john bull,you and other's spoiling tactics are blatant and understood by all.At least Russell Brand aka workers' militia had some wit and was up for laying the smack down.
schoolboyerror - go to the top of the class. blair, when taxed on issues, changes the issue by rephrasing the question to which he can give an answer that appears reasonable to reasonble men. That he has been allowed to evade says as much about our journalists as it does about this mendacious PM.
Arch C, between naps in your celestial duvet, take a peep at Liddle's piece in Spec on your late mucker W Tyndale. Seems the pair of you have much to answer for. Dominus vobiscum.
A present for Guido.
Many thanks to Messrs Fawkes and Dale for plenty of drinks and an opportunity to meet the fellow loons who contribute on these blogs... I had no idea one of them was in fact the Attorney General, though! Talk about a surprise guest, Guido...
When Blair told the last Labour Party conference goodbye and god bless all who sail in you they cheered and stamped and said isn't he wonderful? as he stepped from the sinking ship; and now they're in the final meltdown.
Italy, (and the past) is another country, but it is worth googling Tangentopoli and the 1992 collapse of the third Republic. Since then there has been no christian democrat party, no communist party, no socialist party, no republican party, no recognizable parties at all, as a result of the sharing of the prizes of power, both governmental and state, wholly for personal and factional advantage and not national interest.
Now there is just Prodi and Berlusconi slugging it out, backed by ad hoc coalitions. Currently it's Prodi 2 : Berlusconi 1 (and on trial with Mr Jowell for corrupting anything that moves, but particularly corrupting the judicial process).
That is what is happening here as the corruption scandals unfold.
The Conservatives will survive, they're infinitely malleable into the appropriate form for wielding power, even if they need time to get organised, for they have always thrived as an ad hoc coalition of inspired self-interest extended to defending their state and environment and willing to pay for social peace.
The Labour Party, though, specifically designed to be the political representative of organised labour and of welfare recipents and their administrators, will not because of:
its total incompetence in economic management and its utter failure to encourage an appropriate wealth-producing environment;
the alienation of policy instruments to non-democratically answerable bodies (though in the case of the Bank of England, thank goodness)
the corruption resulting from the stuffing of every governmentally engendered institution with Labour placemen;
the arrogant ignoring of the interests of the country as a whole (ridiculously high taxation levels, pension destruction, clunking-fist redistribution by means test) in the interests of a narrow, sectarian, vote-gathering agenda for factional - not even party -interest.
And because their next leader is Gordon Brown, who is largely responsible for much of this and hasn't even the saving grace of appealing to a wider constituency than the permanent minority of Labour Party supporters who glory in the narrow worthlessness of their aims and, through his chancellorship, have forced them on the rest of us for the last 10 years.
Methinks Hatfield Girl is a Tory who cannot see the disintegration of Tory England has followed on from Tory Scotland and Tory Wales............the Conservatives are a regional party of the Southeast and nothing more
'.the Conservatives are a regional party of the Southeast and nothing more'
There is nothing more; all the rest depends on the south east and the south east's globalised economy, for everything it gets.
And Brown keeps on crippling its efforts and impoverishing us all so as to maintain his factional voter base.
huh? Lembit Opik (crazy name, crazy guy) has dumped Sian for a Cheeky Girl?
more on the Lembit story here
hmmmmm.. one wonders was it just the one cheeky girl....
Guido, don't forget to read the tory rags tomorrow. They seem to have managed a double act with their front-pages which will give Britain's favourite neighbours from hell a touch of indigestion over breakfast.
The readily accessible oil from the North Sea oil fields is exhausted; what wealth there has been generated from there over the last ten years has been squandered by Gordon Brown.
Gordon kept us paying higher taxes while shifting the benefits on to his voters at the same time dismantling the welfare state; he further betrayed any residual socialist commitment by promoting his private-public partnerships that milk the public over and above taxation. Gordon combines the worst of all possible worlds, capitalist greed and corruption, nationalist isolationism (Gordon kept us out of the euro under false pretences, for his five criteria are totally reversible) and socialist paternalism - overtaxing and overspending.
New Labour's in open warfare and Guido's still in bed:
No. 10 secret memo: We are seen as a shambles
Exclusive by SIMON WALTERS
16th December 2006
Labour has no chance of winning the next Election because voters think the Government is a shambles - and there is little Gordon Brown can do to stop David Cameron becoming Prime Minister.
That is the devastating verdict of a secret Downing Street memo drawn up for Tony Blair by his senior advisers and obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
The confidential document states:
- Labour's standing is so low that the party's only hope of recovering may be to abandon Mr Brown and 'move to a new generation' by picking a much younger new leader.......
Good to see a Sunday hack doing his own PR! Leaving the byline on the posting is always a giveaway - doesn't the mong realise!
Curiously, no one is touching the "story" so far today - perhaps the doubt its credibility??
No 10 has denied the anyone there has written the memo - which means as Iain Dale said on BBC's paper review last that it was almost certainly a planted story by Philip Gould to "motivate" Labour troops ahead of the next election!
The Chancellor doesn't know where the cash came from ;-)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/12/17/do1703.xml
The next Labour leader won't be Brown but someone most of you have never even heard of.
RE 10.35am...has anyone else noticed that Iain Dale posted today's ail on Sunday's tedious memo story about NuLab being shit at 9pm last night? Surely, Dale the Desperado isn't working hand in glove with the Sunday Hate to generate a bit of a storm for the paper? Hope Dale's earning a few quid out of it.
Doesn't the Mail on Sunday make up all its stories??? Lost all credibility years ago, don't know why anyone would buy the rag.
Dalewatcher - he was doing a Sunday papers review on Sky (or was it the BBC?). They do get to read them beforehand you know.
anonymous - his paper review on the beeb is at almost midnight! The front page was on his site by 9pm! Just looks like a bit of collaboration - heaven forfend!
Come on Guido you lazybones. Please get out of bed and tell us what happened at the party and give us a headsup on the MoS story.
Are there any pics up of the event? Or a totty report...I think those who did not attend have the right to know.
The next Labour leader won't be Brown but someone most of you have never even heard of.
Come on then, who?
John Reid? - never heard of him.
Alan Johnson? - the Labour Party's "Swiss Tony".
Margaret Beckett? - even her husband doesn't know who she is, only the Caravan Club of GB does.
Hazel Blears? - Authoritarian pin-up of the year, 1960?
Don't tell me its going to be a little known MP called Blair?
Do tell.
I see the Brownite anonymong trolls are back trying to rubbish the Mail's memo story.
Try to face the truth fellahs; open warfare has broken out again between Tony and Gay Gordon and they're spinning and leaking like mad against each other.
The campaign of shock and awe against Brownhatter has only just started though. Your hero will be battered to a pulp and out of the fight within months.
I fear that our less-than-prudent Chancellor has already dropped himself in it...
"Brown has already given a statement to police saying he knew nothing about the loans, and if it were to emerge that he knew more than he has publicly admitted his position would be seriously compromised."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1974058,00.html
anon 12:45 "Brown has already given a statement to police saying he knew nothing about the loans, and if it were to emerge that he knew more than he has publicly admitted his position would be seriously compromised."
Will Polly Toynbee follow Magda Goebbels' precept?
John Trenchard, I am very cross that I have been duped into reading the Mail on Sunday. You should have added a warning with your link.
Margorie
Hydrogen Cyanide said
"Will Polly Toynbee follow Magda Goebbels' precept?"
A heart warming thought!
Happy to donate a few litres of unleaded to clean up afterwards..
Has a well known blogger ever died suddenly, not to be discovered for several days?
Has a well known blogger ever died suddenly, not to be discovered for several days?
RIP Guido.
Despised, gluttonous, grossly obese pig wants taxpayers to fill his trough...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6187881.stm
John Prescott has backed state funding for political parties amid new claims in the cash for honours affair.
ghost of john trenchard...
That outfit the "cheeky girl" is wearing, looks like one of guido's party pieces...is this why he's gone AWOL? "guido in lembit stole my clothes scandal?"
Did Lembit turn up with his cheeky girl?
Cheeky girl? Geeky girl?
Am I bovvered?
A lot of commentators are saying that under Ming C the Lib Dems are well-and-truly shafted. Lembit seemsto be shoeing the truth of this.
guido - last seen by Croydonian at Victoria Station - see C's blog.
Apparently the Cheeky Girl's Anthem is: "touch my bum…such is life”."
Since Lembit has been a supporter of both Mark Oaten and Simon Hughes in the past, this seems to be a very apt theology to get to grips with. Maybe it could be the new Party slogan?
Who planted that story in today's Mail about Mo Mowlam claiming Brown was gay?
Same person who leaked the memo perchance?
It's turning nasty in New Labour.
It has ALWAYS been nasty in New Labour. How do you think Mandelson was dispensed with?
Mandy is still around and is still busy shitstirring against Brown.
Brown gay stories have been around a long while. Its not unusual for those with that basic instinct to opt for the conventional. Election to public office produces change in the pants and presentaion depts. A number of weddings of long term bachelors spring to mind.
Just heard from a Labour source, who should know, that the Mail's so called leaked memo is almost certainly a fake.
Anonymous said...
Just heard from a Labour source, who should know, that the Mail's so called leaked memo is almost certainly a fake.
Yeah course you did.
So how come senior Labour apparatchiks aren't denying it's genuine and are trying to claim it's the work of a minion?
Now feck off and stop wasting our time.
Innuendo re sexual orientation is one of those binary things. Some get none, some all. At the extremes would be John Reid and Gordon Brown. Reid was first married at the age of 22 and entered Parliament 18 years later. Brown entered Parliament at the age of 32 and married 17 years later.
There must be an equation for age when entered public life (P) age when married (M) and innuendo re sexuality (I), I suggest
If M - P > 10 = I
Brown married in an attempt to quash gay rumours and increase his chance of getting the leadership.
He's not the first gay politician to do this and won't be the last.
It seems particularly prevalent amongst Tory MP's.
"Just heard from a Labour source, who should know, that the Mail's so called leaked memo is almost certainly a fake." 8:36
Well we all know what this means: thememo is definitely NOT a fake! Nothing's true til it's been denied by the SS (smith sith )
somebody is hoping ot steal your role in the blogosphere, it seems. see the post on lembit opik and the cheeky democrats and the comments about a certain Mr. Guido.
http://www.chdaly.blogspot.com/
The "Brown is Gay" story makes me shiver. Can you imagine standing next to him in the urinals and being met with that oleaginous grin? Never mind paruresis, I would be pooping my panties.
Where is Mr Fawkes? The Parliamentary cellars? I do hope so!
Jess The Dog (formerly Iain Not Dale)
Same old Friday's blog we are now into sunday. Boring!
Peter Hitchens: Journalist? Ha, ha, ha! Hack more like!
Jailhouselawyer You lowlife
Where do you fit into the grand scheme of things?
Apart from being lower than something most of us scrape off the bottom of our shoes after a walk in the park.
You're not even a proper murderer, just a fucking amateur who got lucky.
For goodness sake Hitchens, do your own blog so that we can piss on your cake.
;-)
wrinkled weasel: Hitchens do a blog? Ha, ha, ha. He can't even write, let alone blog!
peter hitchens: more likely you get my dog's shit on your shoes in the park, because I take him out so he does not shit on my own doorstep! Where do I fit into the grand scheme of things? How many cases have you won in the ECtHR? Have you beaten the government? Wanker!
Why the fuck would I want to "win" cases in the ECHR securing privileges for scum?
I wouldn't do it for anything you fucking perverted idiot.
Unlike you fucking demented buffoon i think prison is for punishment, not an opportunity for dross such as yourself to get a nice bit of compo after enjoying a few years of getting your cock sucked by you cell joey.
Do something productive in the real world for law abiding people you fucked up waste of space.
Tomorrow's Times claims Downing Street aides are being investigated for perversion of justice.
Or is this more shit stirring from the Brown camp?
peter hitchens: Ok, I accept that you are not as capable as I am. Just one thing, human rights for human beings. You couldn't do it for anything. Hardly. Hardly, again. "prison is as a punishment, not for punishment", Alexander Patterson.
Mr Hirst
You are right in assuming that I, unlike you, am not stupid enough to have spent 35 years in prison.
And the best you can do is quote somebody else?
I couldn't do what?
Prison time or real life?
If you are so bothered about your fellow man/woman go and volunteer to take an elderley person for a day out or help out in a care home.
Of course you wont be doing that as it doesnt massage your ego does it?
Never mind this shit. What about Lembic's joystick?
peter hitchens is my hero.
"gordo is gay" - ho ho ... nice diversionary tactic by Nu Lab scum as he robs your pension funds and taxes you to death.
very clever.
this just in....
Missing blogger found.
Kircaldy & Cowdenbeath Observer reports that a man dicovered yesterday tightly bound to piece of childrens' nursery equipment has been formally identified as that of Ghee D'Aufaurcs, a London-based pyropractor. Well known in the trade for substantial size of his blog, the man is thought to have been strapped to the frolicksome equine contraption by a third party. A local politician, arrested in Fife hospital where he was receiving treatment for an unusual combination of splinters and vibration white finger, is honouring police after their enquiries.
this just in....
Missing blogger found.
Kircaldy & Cowdenbeath Observer reports that a man dicovered yesterday tightly bound to piece of childrens' nursery equipment has been formally identified as that of Ghee D'Aufaurcs, a London-based pyropractor. Well known in the trade for substantial size of his blog, the man is thought to have been strapped to the frolicksome equine contraption by a third party. A local politician, arrested in Fife hospital where he was receiving treatment for an unusual combination of splinters and vibration white finger, is honouring police after their enquiries.
this just in....
Missing blogger found.
Kircaldy & Cowdenbeath Observer reports that a man dicovered yesterday tightly bound to piece of childrens' nursery equipment has been formally identified as that of Ghee D'Aufaurcs, a London-based pyropractor. Well known in the trade for substantial size of his blog, the man is thought to have been strapped to the frolicksome equine contraption by a third party. A local politician, arrested in Fife hospital where he was receiving treatment for an unusual combination of splinters and vibration white finger, is honouring police after their enquiries.
morning whingebags..
Tony, I think we get the drift...
flippin' beta blogger tripleposter mutter mutter mutter
'Kin 'Ell Guido! Monday morning & still not surfaced? Some party!
Relax! The lightweight will be in soon enough to take credit for the Lembit story.
what story...was it in the Sunday Sport then?
It was in the News of the Screws and the Daily Mail, Hedgey. Very unsettling, too!
And today it reached the Independent:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2083886.ece
I'm devistated...
"Ms Lloyd gave an angry interview to The Mail on Sunday, saying the MP " isn't capable of an adult relationship"...and here was me thinking that MPs were proper mature sensible upright citizens...adult in every sense...I wonder if Ms Lloyd knows Mark Oaten?
I'd be angry too. Imagine being dumped for a cheeky girl... even if you are Sian Lloyd.
So thats a cold front blowing in from Margorie then....bbbrrrrrr!
the Lembit/Cheeky story - Ken Bruce has mentioned it on his beeb 2 radio show.
"give us your spin on it".. some sort of text msg compo.
peter hitchins: I accept your apology.
Mr Hirst You must have misheard me (+:
Get yourself to an old folks home this christmas if you want to do something decent, many of them are on their own and dont deserve to be.
I am just writing out a christmas card to a friend who is on the final 8 months of a 10 stretch, and serves him right.
Yikes Guido, looks like a vagina under a bit of stretch.......you havn't been seeing a weather girl have you.
Peter Hitchen is currently playing Eberneezer Scroodge in Christmas panto at the Aldwych Theatre. He is also available for children's parties & barmitzvahs.
Hitchens you really are a lowlife piece of filth. I would like to hurt you very very much.
peter hitchins: There is a sanity clause. Whilst the old folk might appreciate some company, the Home would probably seek a CRB check and I suspect that I would not get clearance.
I already support the most vulnerable group in society, ie, prisoners.
The most vulnerable?
I'll keep that in mind next time I interview a victim of domestic violence who's had her face rearranged by one of you "vulnerable" mates.
You may kid yourself mate, that's part of the tragedy of Aspergers. But don't think you're kidding anyone else.
"Fuck me! That cervix has seen some action"