Matthew Parris said long ago that Bliar would leave office in disgrace. One poof saw thru another.
The prime minister, Tony Blair, said, in a statement released by 10 Downing Street: "Ruth is a person of the highest integrity for whom I have great regard and I continue to have complete confidence in her."
It's like King Herod praising Medea for her child-care.
January 19, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Anonymous
said...
Are you suggesting someone should do the decent thing.
Pour a large scotch and Bam!
This is better than Big Brother, and no downside for your sponsors.
January 19, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Anonymous
said...
I'm wetting me knickers
January 19, 2007 at 6:32 PM
Anonymous
said...
Please Guido, no teasing, I can bear it no longer. The mere thought of Blair being forced to resign over this sends me into paroxysms of delight.
January 19, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Anonymous
said...
When Blair was elected he said he wanted everybody to call him Tony instead of PM. I thought at the time this man has no respect for the office he had been elected to.
We have seen from day one a series of Tonys' cronies, spin, dodgy donations, dodgy dossiers, 5 of 6 wars. His first may include war crimes let alone what he's done to Iraq.
We have also seen a spendfest, the majority of it wasted. We have been left with a huge mortguage to pay over the next generation by the way of PFI.
Plus, and I think this is the key point here, no man who foists on the world's TV screens a 9th level of hell minger like Cherie should go unpunished. Dump the Forceps Delivery Booth - shack up with Shetty, Tone!
January 19, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Anonymous
said...
doubles all round........:)
January 19, 2007 at 6:46 PM
Anonymous
said...
It is said that Blair was really the one who accused Brown of being psychologically flawed.
Is he now psychologically floored?
January 19, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Anonymous
said...
If you needed proof of psycological flaws, I give you.....
Brown backs England for World Cup
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6280663.stm
January 19, 2007 at 6:52 PM
Anonymous
said...
Mr Tony Imagine the fucking turmoil a man like Blair or Clinton goes through, one day your an ugly tosspot married to some dog, next you have all that power and all those opportunities and are still married to the same dog and because of the job there is sweet FA you can do about it. I take comfort from knowing that people like that are deeply unhappy (+: I have a video clip of a wanking chimp on my blog if you would care to see it.
January 19, 2007 at 6:57 PM
Anonymous
said...
At long last the people of Great Britain and Scotland can be free of the vile poison of the Blair era. An era that has gone on far too long in my opinion when the vile treacherous Blair should have given way to a better man years ago.
Now the way is clear for a man of integrity, principle, prudence, and Gandhiesque stature to fulfil his destiny, and take his rightful place in history and to clear the Augean stables of our great country and Britain.
Oh what a gay day! I'm really excited about it, in fact I'm so excited I've just filled my nappy with a great big plop plop.
Kindest regards. G. Brown.(esq) Fife.
January 19, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Anonymous
said...
Talking about Ruth Turner on Radio 5, David (Lord) Puttnam has just said the police have "fingered" the wrong person.
Dead right. It's one of Tony's perks to finger Ruth, the plod should keep their filthy hands to themselves.
PH, thanks, you have summed up the situation more eloquently than that Michael Mansfield QC could have done. Re the simian on your esteemed blog, was that the same one that was spanking the monkey (if I may use that phrase in this context) over Jade Goody the other day? We must be told.
January 19, 2007 at 7:07 PM
Anonymous
said...
Exciting re-make of All the President's Men
CAST
Nixon..............T. Blair Bob Woodward.....G. Fawkes Spiro T. Agnew....G. Brown Maurice Stans....Lord Levy Ron Zeigler.....N. Robinson John Dean III....Lord Falconer Eliot Richardson..Lord Goldsmith Deep Throat.(please supply own jokes) Archibold Cox.....Yates Bob Haldeman....Alistair Cambell John Erlichman...John Reid Rose Mary Woods...Ruth Turner
Talking about Ruth Turner on Radio 5, David (Lord) Puttnam has just said
He also said (on Radio 4) that he'd stake his life on her being innocent. Good thing for him, then, that using your own life as a gambling chip/stake was made illegal some while back.
Puttnam has also pitched up on Channel 4 News, staking "his reputation" on her innocence.
The use of the word "theatricals" has popped up amongst the great and the good in describing the police raid this morning.
Its popped up so many times one might think they were being briefed.
January 19, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Anonymous
said...
Why in heavens name is Lord Puttnam throwing away his unblemished reputation by defending the accessories before the fact? He must be really desperate to be annointed Chairman of the BBC.
And who would you cast as Woodward and Bernstein? ** cough **
January 19, 2007 at 7:21 PM
Anonymous
said...
"Exciting re-make of All the President's Men...etc"
And who takes the part of Gerald Ford to let the guilty bastard off the hook?
January 19, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Anonymous
said...
Not you Guido. You got scooped by the Daily. By hours.
And furthermore, what smoking gun? Talk about a catch-all headline with no hints that can enable you to claim credit whatever they've found.
January 19, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Anonymous
said...
Not only Puttnam but also dear old Blunkers has apparently rushed to say something to the effect that the police are always getting it wrong and its downright appalling that they should pick on this fragrant lass
Are they claiming to know more about the evidence than the rest of us? I think Yates should ask them.
Registered commenters to the right of them, old hand bloggers to the left, into the valley of Fawkes rode the 7.24pm Anonymong!
January 19, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Anonymous
said...
jsut had a dobule scoht....too celebrate the good news....will the hanging be public or more of an "iraq affair"...perhaps Tony could keep some of his dignity and his head...
January 19, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Anonymous
said...
they found the gun but it won't smoke. as much as the police prod it, tb has a tight grip on it.
January 19, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Anonymous
said...
I hope your right guido cos ive got a nice single malt to celebrate.Brittania clears her throat and coughs up bliar,good riddance.
January 19, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Anonymous
said...
Magritte said:
Ceci n'est pas un revolver.
January 19, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Anonymous
said...
"At long last the people of Great Britain and Scotland" - i like how even GB knows to seperate Scotland from the Great.
January 19, 2007 at 7:52 PM
Anonymous
said...
Desperate Dan said...
Puttnam has also pitched up on Channel 4 News, staking "his reputation" on her innocence.
If he thinks she is innocent then what does he think of Blair?
January 19, 2007 at 7:54 PM
Anonymous
said...
Blair should be on War Crimes charges in the Hague, with his pal Clinton. Or better still, on trial in Belgrade for crimes committed during his illegal wars in the Balkans. But Pentonville will do.
January 19, 2007 at 7:58 PM
Anonymous
said...
7.27 Are you Alessandro or Domenico? You are both amazing but who are we listening to?
January 19, 2007 at 8:01 PM
Anonymous
said...
Have just read all the main news blog from the media. All, without exception, follow the same line and say the police are very naughty boys.
Why do i believe that they are all full of bullshit??
Simple.They are.
January 19, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Anonymous
said...
Ha Ha! From Nick Robinson's blog:
"Just before Christmas, my feeling was that there were more interviews to be done..."
Isn't it simply marvelous that the BBC has a reporter with such vision in its ranks?
January 19, 2007 at 8:05 PM
Anonymous
said...
If Mr Fawkes knows about a "smoking gun", he should tell us as much as he can.
If Mr Fawkes is indulging in wishful thinking, (and let's face it; many of us are ), he should tell us that, too.
Don't get my hopes up, Guido old boy
January 19, 2007 at 8:07 PM
Anonymous
said...
8:05
Old Mother Robinson's crystal ball again I would think. It predicted Christmas as well.
January 19, 2007 at 8:09 PM
Anonymous
said...
"Carry on blogging"
Kenneth Williams Iain Dale
Sid James Guido "totty" Fawkes
Hattie Jacques Tim Ireland
Charles Hawtrey Croydonian
Bernard Breslaw Tuscan Tony
Newmania Kenneth butterworth
January 19, 2007 at 8:11 PM
Anonymous
said...
"If Mr Fawkes is indulging in wishful thinking, (and let's face it; many of us are ), he should tell us that, too."
Lets face it, he'll be pissed by now after abstaining all week.
January 19, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Anonymous
said...
Dan,
What fucking reputation? He was one of the directors of Anglia television that shat all over the employees.
Remember the Archer insider dealing?
Puttnam got his "k" for keeping his mouth shut and breaching his legal duty of care.
Terry Scott as Peter Hitchens and introducing Ruth Turner as Barbara Windsor
January 19, 2007 at 8:24 PM
Anonymous
said...
Is this the same David Puttnam who was queuing behind me at Labour Conference to see the Great Leader but somehow managed to get to see the Leader's Speech tho those of us desperate to boo him were barred entrance.? They must be desperate to be touting this silly old luvvy round the TV studios! Ruth is a Grade A bitch and she had it coming.......she's an unprincipled careerist and she's shafted plenty of good Party members in her time. Now it's her turn.Excellent!!!!!
January 19, 2007 at 8:36 PM
Anonymous
said...
Guido off topic ,hear the Yanks are getting their driving licences turned into id cards , did bush give blair the idea ,or was it the other way around , your in the know please tell me
January 19, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Anonymous
said...
At least this Irish Colleen knows what she can do when she gets out of clink: sell the Big Issue, which she started. I suppose that's forward planning... maybe Tone and Cher will also be selling it alongside Ruth. What a delicious image.
January 19, 2007 at 9:28 PM
Anonymous
said...
Mr. Hitchens.
Surely you mean PETER Butterworth.
NOW is notyvsa the time for inaccuracy.
Please keep up!
January 19, 2007 at 9:37 PM
Anonymous
said...
No, surely by then Euan will be using his contacts - sorry his MBA from Yale - to make a mint and can support the old couple
January 19, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Anonymous
said...
Accept nae substitues. "G. Brown.(esq) Fife." 7:03 PM is no the real thing.
------------------------- The king sits in Dunfermline toun drinking the blude-red wine; 'O whare will I get a skeely skipper to sail this new ship o' mine?'
January 19, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Anonymous
said...
He strack the top-mast wi' his hand, The fore-mast wi' his knee; And he brake that gallant ship in twain, And sank her in the sea.
January 19, 2007 at 9:50 PM
Anonymous
said...
Half-owre, half-owre to Aberdour, 'tis fifty fathoms deep, And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, wi' the Scots lords at his feet.
January 19, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Anonymous
said...
On yonder hill there was a Doocot [dovecote] It's no there now, 'cos some cunt took it
January 19, 2007 at 9:58 PM
Anonymous
said...
'Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid, Gordon, Gordon Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid, And why sae sad gang yee O?'
January 19, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Anonymous
said...
Memo to James Gordon Brown:
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way
January 19, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Anonymous
said...
>Ha Ha! >From Nick Robinson's blog: > >"Just before Christmas, my feeling >was that there were more interviews >to be done..." > >Isn't it simply marvelous that the >BBC has a reporter with such vision >in its ranks?
Nick got burnt at the start by saying that it wouldn't go anywhere.
But he did have the good grace to admit he was wrong. Which some of the others have yet to do.
This is better than Big Brother, and no downside for your sponsors.
But unfortunately you do still have the fat, unappealing woman with the huge mouth and insatiable spending habits ...
January 19, 2007 at 11:22 PM
Anonymous
said...
I'd like to hear John Bull's views on all this.
January 19, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Anonymous
said...
julian - Que ? Where did Pauline Prescott come into the story ? Did something happen while I was having a cup of tea?
January 19, 2007 at 11:40 PM
Anonymous
said...
did i really just see Newsnight Make their lead story out of a email sent by a conservative Cllr to another conserative Cllr and soft soap their second story - a leading official from Downing St is questioned about perverting the course of justice?
January 19, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Anonymous
said...
ulster tory , yes you did. We may have entered the twilight zone...
January 19, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Anonymous
said...
Puttnam presented me with my degree. Does this mean that is another dubious honour devalued by his present big mouth? I want a refund.
January 20, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Anonymous
said...
ulster tory ; are we through the looking glass?
January 20, 2007 at 12:02 AM
Anonymous
said...
anon 12:01
Did I really hear a ratttled Puttnam shout "bullshit!" at Jon Snow?
January 20, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Anonymous
said...
congrats to yates. there is no way he can survive this.
January 20, 2007 at 12:10 AM
Anonymous
said...
Puttnam's appearance on de Channel 4 news was de disgrace. How many's peoples who's gets arrested have their friendly peer given prime news time to defend dem...an implicitly criticise ours esteemed police force!
De atmosphere in de Chequers dis weekend will be hot man. When yours most loyal staff is bein publicly shafted by de men in de huge pointy hats den you's knows you's got problems big time.
I can't believe that advice on wiping hard drives is being posted on this blog. Moscow Rules gentlemen, Moscow Rules.
January 20, 2007 at 12:40 AM
Anonymous
said...
I'm waiting form Lord Mandy to appear. Then he's truely fucked (in both senses - Mandy has fancied him for some time).
January 20, 2007 at 1:08 AM
Anonymous
said...
Hehe. My previous post's verification thingy was scanpm. I agree most wholeheartedly!
January 20, 2007 at 1:10 AM
Anonymous
said...
Whos going to play the NBC or the ABC? Not the BBC or Channel 4 thats for certain. As for the Washington post. Even the Daily Mails gone statist so we now only have our misplaced faith in the plod left to save us.
To say I dont have any confidence in the police "service" would be un understatement of Prescott like proportions.
All this will not even start to be exposed fully untill Labour are out of power and the BBC is instructed/forced to start doing its job honestly.
There is a hope that now the BBC employees have their morgage payments sorted for the next few years we may see an improvement in the BBCs behavior. Please dont put the kidds piggy bank money on it, im just trying to be optomistic about something.
January 20, 2007 at 2:04 AM
Anonymous
said...
Anonymous 12:10 AM said...
congrats to yates. there is no way he can survive this.
Nice to see Millbank is beginning to recover from the day's events
January 20, 2007 at 8:00 AM
Anonymous
said...
from bbc.co.uk this morning: 'Labour anger over honours arrest' Labour peer Lord Puttnam, who is a friend of Ms Turner's, told BBC Radio Five Live he thought the arrest was "ludicrous".
And in other news: 'Burglars should be allowed to keep proceeds, says Sheena Easton' 'Police well-known for fabricating evidence, says Jeffrey Archer' 'I only stabbed her a little bit, says OJ'
January 20, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Anonymous
said...
I agree with Haha. You do have to laugh. BBC breakfast talking about what were previously criminal offences like theft or threatening behaviour now given fixed penalty notices ! Followed by that Labour twat Puttnam "appalled" by the police behaviour to Ruthie.
...Er, Perhaps Puttnam and Jowell and the rest of the Labour party don't consider Conspiracy to Pervert to Course of Justice a serious offence. Perhaps that's the next offence to receive fixed penalty notices?
January 20, 2007 at 9:52 AM
Anonymous
said...
Typical of BBC news to try and help their mates in Labour out. A Tory councillor gets rebuked for sending an insulting email to someone! Wow! that's scandalous, the nation must be shocked! This type of pathetic anti-Conservative party propaganda is a disgrace but will intensify when Brown takes over. So much of the BBC bias is based around this type of agenda setting, Deciding what to headline as well as how they present it. I really hope the Tories have the guts to scrap the telly tax when they next get in, and take these bastards on.
But, all TV news (all 3 organisations) is the same. It's run by the same Oxbridge socialists who keep the BBC model of broadcast journalism alive. That includes Sky. Sky couldn't make up their minds whether they were going Put CBB or Turner's arrest as the top story. When they reported on Turner's arrest the had comment from and SNP MP and some Liberal Democrat MP saying that it was like the "last years of the Major government". Strange, I don't remember any criminal investigations into Major and Co. Perhaps he should have said it was like the Lib Dems chief donor being sent to prison for fraudulent activities!
Of course, Sky then left the Conservatives out of the debtate altogether, that's a typical BBC trick, Don't dare give the Tories any airtime, even though they are the official opposition party in this country!
Sky seem to use sensationalist stories as an excuse for not talking about the more serious domestic issues. When Blair was questioned by Police, Sky didn't even headline it FFS. Theya hs some other sensationalist crap as the main story (can't remebr what, as it was so trivial)
Broadcast news is excluively NuLab.
January 20, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Anonymous
said...
I thought it was government policy not to comment on an ongoing police investigation? Yet suddenly, the air is thick with comments. Am I missing something?
January 20, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Anonymous
said...
I've just seen Peter Spencer on Sky News, virtually apologising, for the attacks on the government yesterday, saying "we went a bit over-the-top" Fucking hell! have this government passed a law, saying that broadcasters are not allowed to criticise them ,or something! Broadcast news is just state controlled!! I'm emigrating to a non-fascist country!!!
January 20, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Anonymous
said...
Just when I thought the pantomime season had finished, up pops Puttnam, how the fuck does he know what Ruth has been doing with Tony?
His appearance, together with those paragons of virtue Blunkett and Mills suggest that the pressure of this little enquiry is beginning to tell.
However, much as I would like to see these scumbags in chokey, Tony Bliar and his cronies have had 10 years to put their mates in positions of power and influence. Regretably, Bliars teflon coating has proved to be most resiliant.
Anyone that can conjure up the Hutton report is capable of anything. There will be countless toadies desperate for a few minutes in front of a camera (Puttnam) or who are prepared to prostitute themselves for some future honour.
Now that claims of Iraq having WMD have been proved to be fundamentally flawed, am I mistaken in thinking that the author of the dodgy dossier, far from being sacked for incompetence, has just recently been Knighted?
Is it likely that Andrew Gilligan who exposed the government lies is likely to welcomed back into the BBC. I doubt it. The Beeb has become an organ for Gnu Labor propaganda and most of the reporters are so far up the arses of Bliar and Brown you can barely see their shoes.
I hope that Yates of the Yard has the balls to see this through and that he isn't seduced by the dark side.
I wonder if the broadcast media are soft-soaping this because they feel a bit sheeping about the way they over-egged the Bad News Funeral in December.
January 20, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous
said...
Thery're soft-soaping it because they are either NuLab lackies trying to minimise Labour's losses at the next election or because number 10 has been on the blower to News Corp and bought out the old threats of banning page three, bringing in privacy laws and breaking up the Sky Satellite monopoly. What is the fucking point of broadcast news!!!!!!
nice one, geezer this is how far the conversation went on the radio 4 pm prog yesterday: 1.5 mins devoted to the story.
Puttman was available for comment yesterday because as deputy chairman channel 4 they would have been having high level meetings re CBB.
Hence he was at the heart of the political-media complex and could be directed to hand out comments. For EVERYBODY else it was all-poets day.
January 20, 2007 at 12:25 PM
Anonymous
said...
Lets be honest, this is just another step in the decay of the UK, its one of those ones events where someone has steped in something unmentionable and the only doubt is whether they slip and land in the mess or not.
The twist is that as in Cuba there is a hand over of power within a socialist state, Brown has a few scores to settle and Yates will probably be used to do some of the work for him. Is one of Brown’s acolytes doing some humble service to the great man and making some anonymous phone calls to Yates when things don’t seem to be moving in the required direction?
That’s where to look for ‘Deep Throat’ , once Brown has put some patsy into no.11 to distract from that mess look for something analogous to Gerald Ford’s Watergate post coital.
January 20, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Anonymous
said...
Does anybody else think it is wonderfully that, of all sorts of people that could be sent to defend Ms Turner, they chose a *Labour peer*?
January 20, 2007 at 1:23 PM
Anonymous
said...
er... wonderfully _funny_, that is. Must learn to use the preview.
January 20, 2007 at 1:23 PM
Anonymous
said...
Geezer 11:59 - Not threats. Though the revelation in today's Telegraph that Princess Toni has done a deal with Murdoch for his memoirs (4 million is quoted) might have something to do with it.
January 20, 2007 at 2:36 PM
Anonymous
said...
Is the Smoking Gun a document or a statement?
Hopefully a bit of both, so the Blair courtisans can tear themselves apart disputing it.
But you can never predict the death blow in a good detective story.
January 20, 2007 at 3:24 PM
Anonymous
said...
bt 2:36pm
Plenty of thereats. Everyone knows that The Murdoch empire and NuLab are hand-in-glove because Murdoch promises to get-off NuLabs case and claim support for them, and in return, the government doesn't fuck with News Corps assets.
January 20, 2007 at 3:32 PM
Anonymous
said...
Still fair is the scene, but ah! how changed Are the hopes that we fondly cherished Like a wa-t'ry gleam, like a morning dream On Cul-lo-dens field, they ha'e per-rished
January 20, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Anonymous
said...
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low, Through the streets in my kilt I'll go, And all the lassies shout hello Tony where'syour troosers.
January 20, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Anonymous
said...
Where is our Pinochet ?
January 20, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Anonymous
said...
Back in the 1970's, during the Grunwick Strike, I remember a Jak cartoon in the Evening Standard that had the Prime Minister Jim Callaghan in Prison saying to his cell mate "and I said to them, you can't arrest me, I'm the Prime Minister".
January 20, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Anonymous
said...
Belatedly the press get it: 'One Westminster source said police inquiries seemed to have made a recent breakthrough. "Quite clearly, in the past few days, the police have found something quite significant, possibly a file dump of some kind," said the source.' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=EY1LZ3DQNZWQ1QFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/01/21/npeers21.xml
January 21, 2007 at 1:11 AM
Anonymous
said...
Peter Hitchens 6.57 pm - is this wanking chimp the one your mother drew to your attention, as you recounted on this blog some weeks ago? Which of you filmed the masturbatory monkey?
January 21, 2007 at 2:13 AM
Anonymous
said...
When will Jonathan Aitken be available to give Ruth a few tips on life on the inside ?
January 21, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Anonymous
said...
Dear Voyager
Only the House of Lords saved us from Herr Blair's recent "Religious Hatred Incitement" proposals
This would have criminalized a remark like "I believe in Christianity" - it might have been likely to incite religious hatred in a likely hearer (eg a Muslim terrorist who might have responded by blowing up London buses)
Christians may well need all the advice which Mr Aitken or Miss Turner can give, if Cruella's husband remains as PM & gets this obnoxious legislation enacted
Your obedient servant etc
G E
January 22, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Anonymous
said...
I seem to recall this bunch of tossers singing Things Can Only Get Better when they got elected,well after the past few weeks i cannot stop singing it myself,cnuts,all of them.
97 comments:
Good, give Blair a good kicking in the cells. That will soften his cough.
Please don't pull my chain. I've waited so long for this, I hope you're not winding us up. x
I do hope mr plod and his mates are dotting the i's and crossing the t's, wouldnt want this to fall cos somebody didnt put a staple in the wrong place
york tory said...
Please don't pull my chain. I've waited so long for this, I hope you're not winding us up. x
5:48 PM
Seconded.
Gotcha!!
Guido, would you care to elucidate?
That isnt a gun
This is a gun
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CMoF-iMdYzo&mode=related&search=
Matthew Parris said long ago that Bliar would leave office in disgrace. One poof saw thru another.
The prime minister, Tony Blair, said, in a statement released by 10 Downing Street: "Ruth is a person of the highest integrity for whom I have great regard and I continue to have complete confidence in her."
It's like King Herod praising Medea for her child-care.
Are you suggesting someone should do the decent thing.
Pour a large scotch and Bam!
This is better than Big Brother, and no downside for your sponsors.
I'm wetting me knickers
Please Guido, no teasing, I can bear it no longer. The mere thought of Blair being forced to resign over this sends me into paroxysms of delight.
When Blair was elected he said he wanted everybody to call him Tony instead of PM. I thought at the time this man has no respect for the office he had been elected to.
We have seen from day one a series of Tonys' cronies, spin, dodgy donations, dodgy dossiers, 5 of 6 wars. His first may include war crimes let alone what he's done to Iraq.
We have also seen a spendfest, the majority of it wasted. We have been left with a huge mortguage to pay over the next generation by the way of PFI.
Plus, and I think this is the key point here, no man who foists on the world's TV screens a 9th level of hell minger like Cherie should go unpunished. Dump the Forceps Delivery Booth - shack up with Shetty, Tone!
doubles all round........:)
It is said that Blair was really the one who accused Brown of being psychologically flawed.
Is he now psychologically floored?
If you needed proof of psycological flaws, I give you.....
Brown backs England for World Cup
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6280663.stm
Mr Tony
Imagine the fucking turmoil a man like Blair or Clinton goes through, one day your an ugly tosspot married to some dog, next you have all that power and all those opportunities and are still married to the same dog and because of the job there is sweet FA you can do about it.
I take comfort from knowing that people like that are deeply unhappy (+:
I have a video clip of a wanking chimp on my blog if you would care to see it.
At long last the people of Great Britain and Scotland can be free of the vile poison of the Blair era. An era that has gone on far too long in my opinion when the vile treacherous Blair should have given way to a better man years ago.
Now the way is clear for a man of integrity, principle, prudence, and Gandhiesque stature to fulfil his destiny, and take his rightful place in history and to clear the Augean stables of our great country and Britain.
Oh what a gay day! I'm really excited about it, in fact I'm so excited I've just filled my nappy with a great big plop plop.
Kindest regards.
G. Brown.(esq) Fife.
Talking about Ruth Turner on Radio 5, David (Lord) Puttnam has just said the police have "fingered" the wrong person.
Dead right. It's one of Tony's perks to finger Ruth, the plod should keep their filthy hands to themselves.
PH, thanks, you have summed up the situation more eloquently than that Michael Mansfield QC could have done. Re the simian on your esteemed blog, was that the same one that was spanking the monkey (if I may use that phrase in this context) over Jade Goody the other day? We must be told.
Exciting re-make of All the President's Men
CAST
Nixon..............T. Blair
Bob Woodward.....G. Fawkes
Spiro T. Agnew....G. Brown
Maurice Stans....Lord Levy
Ron Zeigler.....N. Robinson
John Dean III....Lord Falconer
Eliot Richardson..Lord Goldsmith
Deep Throat.(please supply own jokes)
Archibold Cox.....Yates
Bob Haldeman....Alistair Cambell
John Erlichman...John Reid
Rose Mary Woods...Ruth Turner
Talking about Ruth Turner on Radio 5, David (Lord) Puttnam has just said
He also said (on Radio 4) that he'd stake his life on her being innocent. Good thing for him, then, that using your own life as a gambling chip/stake was made illegal some while back.
fr, deep throat.....Tim Ireland
Puttnam has also pitched up on Channel 4 News, staking "his reputation" on her innocence.
The use of the word "theatricals" has popped up amongst the great and the good in describing the police raid this morning.
Its popped up so many times one might think they were being briefed.
Why in heavens name is Lord Puttnam throwing away his unblemished reputation by defending the accessories before the fact? He must be really desperate to be annointed Chairman of the BBC.
Fr,
And who would you cast as Woodward and Bernstein? ** cough **
"Exciting re-make of All the President's Men...etc"
And who takes the part of Gerald Ford to let the guilty bastard off the hook?
Not you Guido. You got scooped by the Daily. By hours.
And furthermore, what smoking gun? Talk about a catch-all headline with no hints that can enable you to claim credit whatever they've found.
Not only Puttnam but also dear old Blunkers has apparently rushed to say something to the effect that the police are always getting it wrong and its downright appalling that they should pick on this fragrant lass
Are they claiming to know more about the evidence than the rest of us? I think Yates should ask them.
Registered commenters to the right of them, old hand bloggers to the left, into the valley of Fawkes rode the 7.24pm Anonymong!
jsut had a dobule scoht....too celebrate the good news....will the hanging be public or more of an "iraq affair"...perhaps Tony could keep some of his dignity and his head...
they found the gun but it won't smoke. as much as the police prod it, tb has a tight grip on it.
I hope your right guido cos ive got a nice single malt to celebrate.Brittania clears her throat and coughs up bliar,good riddance.
Magritte said:
Ceci n'est pas un revolver.
"At long last the people of Great Britain and Scotland" - i like how even GB knows to seperate Scotland from the Great.
Desperate Dan said...
Puttnam has also pitched up on Channel 4 News, staking "his reputation" on her innocence.
If he thinks she is innocent then what does he think of Blair?
Blair should be on War Crimes charges in the Hague, with his pal Clinton. Or better still, on trial in Belgrade for crimes committed during his illegal wars in the Balkans. But Pentonville will do.
7.27 Are you Alessandro or Domenico? You are both amazing but who are we listening to?
Have just read all the main news blog from the media. All, without exception, follow the same line and say the police are very naughty boys.
Why do i believe that they are all full of bullshit??
Simple.They are.
Ha Ha!
From Nick Robinson's blog:
"Just before Christmas, my feeling was that there were more interviews to be done..."
Isn't it simply marvelous that the BBC has a reporter with such vision in its ranks?
If Mr Fawkes knows about a "smoking gun", he should tell us as much as he can.
If Mr Fawkes is indulging in wishful thinking, (and let's face it; many of us are ), he should tell us that, too.
Don't get my hopes up, Guido old boy
8:05
Old Mother Robinson's crystal ball again I would think. It predicted Christmas as well.
"Carry on blogging"
Kenneth Williams
Iain Dale
Sid James
Guido "totty" Fawkes
Hattie Jacques
Tim Ireland
Charles Hawtrey
Croydonian
Bernard Breslaw
Tuscan Tony
Newmania
Kenneth butterworth
"If Mr Fawkes is indulging in wishful thinking, (and let's face it; many of us are ), he should tell us that, too."
Lets face it, he'll be pissed by now after abstaining all week.
Dan,
What fucking reputation?
He was one of the directors of Anglia television that shat all over the employees.
Remember the Archer insider dealing?
Puttnam got his "k" for keeping his mouth shut and breaching his legal duty of care.
John
Terry Scott as Peter Hitchens
and introducing
Ruth Turner as Barbara Windsor
Is this the same David Puttnam who was queuing behind me at Labour Conference to see the Great Leader but somehow managed to get to see the Leader's Speech tho those of us desperate to boo him were barred entrance.? They must be desperate to be touting this silly old luvvy round the TV studios! Ruth is a Grade A bitch and she had it coming.......she's an unprincipled careerist and she's shafted plenty of good Party members in her time. Now it's her turn.Excellent!!!!!
Guido off topic ,hear the Yanks are getting their driving licences turned into id cards , did bush give blair the idea ,or was it the other way around , your in the know please tell me
At least this Irish Colleen knows what she can do when she gets out of clink: sell the Big Issue, which she started. I suppose that's forward planning... maybe Tone and Cher will also be selling it alongside Ruth. What a delicious image.
Mr. Hitchens.
Surely you mean PETER Butterworth.
NOW is notyvsa the time for inaccuracy.
Please keep up!
No, surely by then Euan will be using his contacts - sorry his MBA from Yale - to make a mint and can support the old couple
Accept nae substitues. "G. Brown.(esq) Fife." 7:03 PM is no the real thing.
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The king sits in Dunfermline toun drinking the blude-red wine;
'O whare will I get a skeely skipper to sail this new ship o' mine?'
He strack the top-mast wi' his hand,
The fore-mast wi' his knee;
And he brake that gallant ship in twain,
And sank her in the sea.
Half-owre, half-owre to Aberdour, 'tis fifty fathoms deep,
And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, wi' the Scots lords at his feet.
On yonder hill there was a Doocot [dovecote]
It's no there now, 'cos some cunt took it
'Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid, Gordon, Gordon
Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid,
And why sae sad gang yee O?'
Memo to James Gordon Brown:
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way
>Ha Ha!
>From Nick Robinson's blog:
>
>"Just before Christmas, my feeling
>was that there were more interviews
>to be done..."
>
>Isn't it simply marvelous that the
>BBC has a reporter with such vision >in its ranks?
Nick got burnt at the start by saying that it wouldn't go anywhere.
But he did have the good grace to admit he was wrong. Which some of the others have yet to do.
Anon 6:24 said,
This is better than Big Brother, and no downside for your sponsors.
But unfortunately you do still have the fat, unappealing woman with the huge mouth and insatiable spending habits ...
I'd like to hear John Bull's views on all this.
julian - Que ? Where did Pauline Prescott come into the story ? Did something happen while I was having a cup of tea?
did i really just see Newsnight Make their lead story out of a email sent by a conservative Cllr to another conserative Cllr and soft soap their second story - a leading official from Downing St is questioned about perverting the course of justice?
ulster tory , yes you did. We may have entered the twilight zone...
Puttnam presented me with my degree. Does this mean that is another dubious honour devalued by his present big mouth? I want a refund.
ulster tory ; are we through the looking glass?
anon 12:01
Did I really hear a ratttled Puttnam shout "bullshit!" at Jon Snow?
congrats to yates. there is no way he can survive this.
Puttnam's appearance on de Channel 4 news was de disgrace. How many's peoples who's gets arrested have their friendly peer given prime news time to defend dem...an implicitly criticise ours esteemed police force!
De atmosphere in de Chequers dis weekend will be hot man. When yours most loyal staff is bein publicly shafted by de men in de huge pointy hats den you's knows you's got problems big time.
I can't believe that advice on wiping hard drives is being posted on this blog.
Moscow Rules gentlemen, Moscow Rules.
I'm waiting form Lord Mandy to appear. Then he's truely fucked (in both senses - Mandy has fancied him for some time).
Hehe. My previous post's verification thingy was scanpm. I agree most wholeheartedly!
Whos going to play the NBC or the ABC? Not the BBC or Channel 4 thats for certain. As for the Washington post. Even the Daily Mails gone statist so we now only have our misplaced faith in the plod left to save us.
To say I dont have any confidence in the police "service" would be un understatement of Prescott like proportions.
All this will not even start to be exposed fully untill Labour are out of power and the BBC is instructed/forced to start doing its job honestly.
There is a hope that now the BBC employees have their morgage payments sorted for the next few years we may see an improvement in the BBCs behavior. Please dont put the kidds piggy bank money on it, im just trying to be optomistic about something.
Anonymous 12:10 AM said...
congrats to yates. there is no way he can survive this.
Nice to see Millbank is beginning to recover from the day's events
from bbc.co.uk this morning:
'Labour anger over honours arrest'
Labour peer Lord Puttnam, who is a friend of Ms Turner's, told BBC Radio Five Live he thought the arrest was "ludicrous".
And in other news:
'Burglars should be allowed to keep proceeds, says Sheena Easton'
'Police well-known for fabricating evidence, says Jeffrey Archer'
'I only stabbed her a little bit, says OJ'
I agree with Haha. You do have to laugh. BBC breakfast talking about what were previously criminal offences like theft or threatening behaviour now given fixed penalty notices ! Followed by that Labour twat Puttnam "appalled" by the police behaviour to Ruthie.
...Er, Perhaps Puttnam and Jowell and the rest of the Labour party don't consider Conspiracy to Pervert to Course of Justice a serious offence. Perhaps that's the next offence to receive fixed penalty notices?
Typical of BBC news to try and help their mates in Labour out. A Tory councillor gets rebuked for sending an insulting email to someone! Wow! that's scandalous, the nation must be shocked! This type of pathetic anti-Conservative party propaganda is a disgrace but will intensify when Brown takes over. So much of the BBC bias is based around this type of agenda setting, Deciding what to headline as well as how they present it. I really hope the Tories have the guts to scrap the telly tax when they next get in, and take these bastards on.
But, all TV news (all 3 organisations) is the same. It's run by the same Oxbridge socialists who keep the BBC model of broadcast journalism alive. That includes Sky.
Sky couldn't make up their minds whether they were going Put CBB or Turner's arrest as the top story. When they reported on Turner's arrest the had comment from and SNP MP and some Liberal Democrat MP saying that it was like the "last years of the Major government". Strange, I don't remember any criminal investigations into Major and Co. Perhaps he should have said it was like the Lib Dems chief donor being sent to prison for fraudulent activities!
Of course, Sky then left the Conservatives out of the debtate altogether, that's a typical BBC trick, Don't dare give the Tories any airtime, even though they are the official opposition party in this country!
Sky seem to use sensationalist stories as an excuse for not talking about the more serious domestic issues. When Blair was questioned by Police, Sky didn't even headline it FFS. Theya hs some other sensationalist crap as the main story (can't remebr what, as it was so trivial)
Broadcast news is excluively NuLab.
I thought it was government policy not to comment on an ongoing police investigation? Yet suddenly, the air is thick with comments. Am I missing something?
I've just seen Peter Spencer on Sky News, virtually apologising, for the attacks on the government yesterday, saying "we went a bit over-the-top" Fucking hell! have this government passed a law, saying that broadcasters are not allowed to criticise them ,or something!
Broadcast news is just state controlled!! I'm emigrating to a non-fascist country!!!
Just when I thought the pantomime season had finished, up pops Puttnam, how the fuck does he know what Ruth has been doing with Tony?
His appearance, together with those paragons of virtue Blunkett and Mills suggest that the pressure of this little enquiry is beginning to tell.
However, much as I would like to see these scumbags in chokey, Tony Bliar and his cronies have had 10 years to put their mates in positions of power and influence. Regretably, Bliars teflon coating has proved to be most resiliant.
Anyone that can conjure up the Hutton report is capable of anything. There will be countless toadies desperate for a few minutes in front of a camera (Puttnam) or who are prepared to prostitute themselves for some future honour.
Now that claims of Iraq having WMD have been proved to be fundamentally flawed, am I mistaken in thinking that the author of the dodgy dossier, far from being sacked for incompetence, has just recently been Knighted?
Is it likely that Andrew Gilligan who exposed the government lies is likely to welcomed back into the BBC. I doubt it. The Beeb has become an organ for Gnu Labor propaganda and most of the reporters are so far up the arses of Bliar and Brown you can barely see their shoes.
I hope that Yates of the Yard has the balls to see this through and that he isn't seduced by the dark side.
I wonder if the broadcast media are soft-soaping this because they feel a bit sheeping about the way they over-egged the Bad News Funeral in December.
Thery're soft-soaping it because they are either NuLab lackies trying to minimise Labour's losses at the next election or because number 10 has been on the blower to News Corp and bought out the old threats of banning page three, bringing in privacy laws and breaking up the Sky Satellite monopoly. What is the fucking point of broadcast news!!!!!!
nice one, geezer
this is how far the conversation went on the radio 4 pm prog yesterday:
1.5 mins devoted to the story.
Puttman was available for comment yesterday because as deputy chairman channel 4 they would have been having high level meetings re CBB.
Hence he was at the heart of the political-media complex and could be directed to hand out comments. For EVERYBODY else it was all-poets day.
Lets be honest, this is just another step in the decay of the UK, its one of those ones events where someone has steped in something unmentionable and the only doubt is whether they slip and land in the mess or not.
The twist is that as in Cuba there is a hand over of power within a socialist state, Brown has a few scores to settle and Yates will probably be used to do some of the work for him. Is one of Brown’s acolytes doing some humble service to the great man and making some anonymous phone calls to Yates when things don’t seem to be moving in the required direction?
That’s where to look for ‘Deep Throat’ , once Brown has put some patsy into no.11 to distract from that mess look for something analogous to Gerald Ford’s Watergate post coital.
Does anybody else think it is wonderfully that, of all sorts of people that could be sent to defend Ms Turner, they chose a *Labour peer*?
er... wonderfully _funny_, that is. Must learn to use the preview.
Geezer 11:59 -
Not threats.
Though the revelation in today's Telegraph that Princess Toni has done a deal with Murdoch for his memoirs (4 million is quoted) might have something to do with it.
Is the Smoking Gun a document or a statement?
Hopefully a bit of both, so the Blair courtisans can tear themselves apart disputing it.
But you can never predict the death blow in a good detective story.
bt 2:36pm
Plenty of thereats. Everyone knows that The Murdoch empire and NuLab are hand-in-glove because Murdoch promises to get-off NuLabs case and claim support for them, and in return, the government doesn't fuck with News Corps assets.
Still fair is the scene, but ah! how changed
Are the hopes that we fondly cherished
Like a wa-t'ry gleam, like a morning dream
On Cul-lo-dens field, they ha'e per-rished
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low,
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go,
And all the lassies shout hello
Tony where'syour troosers.
Where is our Pinochet ?
Back in the 1970's, during the Grunwick Strike, I remember a Jak cartoon in the Evening Standard that had the Prime Minister Jim Callaghan in Prison saying to his cell mate "and I said to them, you can't arrest me, I'm the Prime Minister".
Belatedly the press get it:
'One Westminster source said police inquiries seemed to have made a recent breakthrough. "Quite clearly, in the past few days, the police have found something quite significant, possibly a file dump of some kind," said the source.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=EY1LZ3DQNZWQ1QFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/01/21/npeers21.xml
Peter Hitchens 6.57 pm - is this wanking chimp the one your mother drew to your attention, as you recounted on this blog some weeks ago? Which of you filmed the masturbatory monkey?
When will Jonathan Aitken be available to give Ruth a few tips on life on the inside ?
Dear Voyager
Only the House of Lords saved us from Herr Blair's recent "Religious Hatred Incitement" proposals
This would have criminalized a remark like "I believe in Christianity" - it might have been likely to incite religious hatred in a likely hearer (eg a Muslim terrorist who might have responded by blowing up London buses)
Christians may well need all the advice which Mr Aitken or Miss Turner can give, if Cruella's husband remains as PM & gets this obnoxious legislation enacted
Your obedient servant etc
G E
I seem to recall this bunch of tossers singing Things Can Only Get Better when they got elected,well after the past few weeks i cannot stop singing it myself,cnuts,all of them.