More Marie Antoinette Behaviour From Cherie
Auctioning an autographed copy of the Hutton report into David Kelly's 'suicide' is incredibly distasteful. Guido has some other comedy auction ideas for Labour fundraisers; DNA from Blunkett, share certificates from Byers, tax advice from Mills, Lordships from Levy... oh, they already do that one.
Stewart Jackson is rightly determined to put the boot in with an EDM:
CONDUCT OF LABOUR HON. MEMBERS AT MAY 2006 FUNDRAISER
22.05.2006
Jackson, Stewart
That this House notes that senior members of the Labour Party including hon. Members and Government Ministers attended a party fundraising event last week at the Arts Club in Mayfair; further notes that a copy of the official report by Lord Hutton into the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly, signed by Ms Cherie Booth QC, was auctioned for party funds raising £400; believes this conduct to be in appalling bad taste, arrogant and crassly insensitive in seeking to make money, albeit indirectly, through hawking, as a novelty item, an official Government report into the death of a public servant; regrets the distress caused to the family and friends of the late Dr Kelly; calls on the Labour Party to apologise for such tasteless and offensive conduct and to donate the money raised to an appropriate charity; and deprecates such conduct by hon. Members.
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If she wants to be Marie Antoinette I am sure it could be arranged....
Never heard of Jackson before, but good on him. My research tells me he used to be a small business manager. Now he is a small MP. Apparently he is the head honcho of the Parliamentary Friends of Islam. Not sure we need that sort of thing in the Party thanks. Still credit where it's Jew.
Yet again the sheer degradation, depravity and thoughtless from a remote and ultimutly detached government strikes Britain again.
The despicable antics of Blairs family, let alone his government are systemic of a government without principle, ideology or popular support. In the words of Robin Cook it is a government that knows no shame and hides no shame or for that matter remourse. His words related to the goverment they sort to replace.
Obviously not only did they take many of their policies (the tories)to build on but also the disgusting behaviour of MP's, minister's, party apprechicks and hangers on and behave in an even worse fashion.
Judgement day will come and they deserve a hammering of the same magnatude the tories recieved in 1997 or worse. The poor and deprived in this country do not have a voice - abandend to a squalor and overty in life only matched by the shambolic behaviour of the government.
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Right on, anon!
Good lord, that is just stunning. Words fail me. There is supposed to be at least the appearance that Labour doesn't win literally over people's dead bodies.
Hows this for an idea?
We auction off the details concerning a suicide attempt by a member of a certain prominent family?
Fortunatley the young lady in question survived so we havent a coroners report to aution, so maybe just a brief summary signed by somebody of note would suffice?
As much as I want to see Cherie Booth/Blair live in infamy for this, where can we draw the line? Will it stir up too many memories for the Kelly family if Cameron raises the isue in PMQs? The merit of the EDM speak for itself, and it'll either pass with the coverage it's gradually being accorded now or it won't. Hopefully if Cameron were to make an issue of this in Parliament, he would have the decency to see how far the Kelly family wants to go with it.
> Hows this for an idea?
Extremely poor.
PIT - now that one draws blood, doesn't it?
Meanwhile, attempting to get back to the flippant, what about auctioning off dates with John Prescott?
Michael Oakshott's horrible attitude is just the kind of thing that got Guido Hung Drawn and Quartered the firt time around....
Labour just can't get any good press at the moment. Especailly now The Sun seems to have be moving towards the Conservatives.
Don't understand the problem. What was horrible about that? I can do far worse than that! And I have always been led to believe that Guido was fitted up anyway. Robert Cecil was the Alistair Campbell of his day, though probably just better at it.
This was one of the topics on BBC Radio London with Vanessa this morning and lets just say that Public Opinon on this one is speaking as one voice, that Labour are just a bunch of F****** C**** that should be executed and their heads stuck on poles at London Bridge, for us all to see. My personnal thoughts are ******* ****** *******!!!!! **** ******** ******* ****** ***** **** ******* ******, the list could go on. What a bunch of scum. Sorry I just had to get that out. I'm off to join the Imagine Party:)
Anticitizen was just trying to match the bad taste,not being serious.
Sorry to invade this string - it may not be the place, but it damn well is the time.
Guido - you're a crude libertarian, no? Lets have some comment on the Brian Haw scandal! I know, I know, he's a bit annoying in person, but you've got to admire him, and, to put it bluntly, damn the man!
His name is Haw. What more excuse do you need?
unbelieveable behaviour... truly unbelieveable!
Charlieboy, I totally agree, What amazes me is that 40 coppers turned up at 2 in the morning to take down his placards, no wonder you can never find a copper when you need one.
I trust someone in opposition will also broach the not insignificant matter of whether the £72 report (available to us Plebs from HMSO) was duly paid for - or maybe it was a prototype of the State funding we're told is needed to avoid donor/lender embarassment - ie one of politicians' freebie copies.
Auctioned by Chris Bryant too I see - He who poses in his pants to advertise for casual gay sex on the internet under the promise 'Horny as Buggery'
Difficult to imagine a sicker bunch of weirdos
"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."
"Charlieboy, I totally agree"
So do I.
I spent just one night out there with him on the CA vigil through the Autumn of 2004. It rained and was cold on my stint- but we did have relays of supporters and hot-drinks deliverers etc.
How he kept it up the way he did is near unbelievable. OK not the most aesthetically pleasing encampment but you really do have to admire the man.
sabretch, maybe Mr Bryant wouldnt need to advertise online for casual sex if tony rewarded his loyalty with a ministerial role, please show some underdstanding!
the thing that shocked me most about the Bryant photo incident was the fact that a gay man would show such a lack of taste and wear Y fronts.
Harley, you ask the question "As much as I want to see Cherie Booth/Blair live in infamy for this, where can we draw the line?"
I think that this is the second time that a Hutton report has been signed and auctioned in this way by Labour. Having crossed the line of decency in such a gross manner twice, should people ignore it and let Labour carry on with this "little" earner for party funds?
Rather than worry about any future comments David Cameron might make, I am more concerned that no one in the Labour party thought about the distress this might cause the Kelly family. Anyone who sat in their seat at these events should hang their heads in shame too.
Personally, I could warm to the idea of getting a hospital report (surely not beyond the powers of a British tabloid) on the suicide attempt of the young daughter of a certain well-known family. It could have the details of her physical condition when she was taken to the hospital, the various tests carried out of her, her treatment and her psychological report, etc and be signed by her chief doctor. If auctioned off, it would fetch a fair penny as a novelty item. Of course, you might be found to have slit your wrists in a country lane close to your home later on ...
Charleyboy - as Nigel Farndale wrote in The Sunday Telegraph, "Haw fought the law, and the law won."
- Anonymousette
You'd think if eother of them had a scrap of humanity that Tony and Cruella would both be sensitive to issues around suicide after their family's problems. If they couldn't imagine how the Kelly family might feel about this trashy act how can either claim to feel any understanding for anyone?
The only good thing about those two is that at least they married each other and no innocent parties were involved.
"We auction off the details concerning a suicide attempt by a member of a certain prominent family?"
You're obviously not serious, but no matter how much we dislike the two you know who parents, I feel quite sorry for their children.
"Lets have some comment on the Brian Haw scandal! I know, I know, he's a bit annoying in person, but you've got to admire him, and, to put it bluntly, damn the man!"
I was bloody angry when I heard some prominent Tory agree with his Labour counterpart that Haw was an annoying nuisance who had to be removed - no matter how annoying a protest is (even if it's some deluded Galloway Saddam-loving commie standing outside my window), it's the right of every Englishman to protest as long as it's peaceful.
Rosie Winterton was there, I wonder if she had anything to auction.
Croydonian...Dates with presott?
I think not, he would probably spit the stones on the carpet.
manic minarchist - Well, I think that is why no one here has seriously suggested dragging this girl's desperate action through the gutters of Grub St. In fact, many of us probably feel warm sympathy for the lass, which is why even the grubbiest of papers never published the details.
- Anonymousette
The auctioning of the Hutton report was a horrible thing to do and I feel very sorry for Dr.David Kellys family.The Labour party shows true contempt for the people of this country.
Anonymousette, I too feel great sympathy for the young person concerned, when I found out about it, I wished I hadn't. But this Hutton auction makes me so angry, I couldn't believe it at first (I was the commenter on Iain Dale's blog who requested a scan), so I can completely see where Poverty Is Thrift is coming from. How can people who've experienced something like that themselves do this to another family?
Perhaps not so much Marie Antoinette, more Mrs Milosevic. Gloating over the "suicide" of a political enemy sounds like the behaviour of the wife of some tin pot dictator.
Croydonian: Nice try at cheering things up by suggesting auctioning dates with Prescott. To keep up the attempt at flippancy, I think it's time to trot out the old joke that in fact any sane person would pay not to **** him.
barbara worth, I said above, or perhaps on another thread here, that Cherie Blair was more Elena Ceaucescu than Imelda Marcos or Marie Antoinette. So I agree. She is the overbearing, overweening, jumped up wife of a tinpot dictator.
anonymous - I think we all felt a rush of sympathy for this young girl and her desperation and I think even the ravening wolves, hungry eyes aglint, of the British press behaved protectively. Not out of any sympathy with the parents, but the child.
I agree with you and Poverty Is Thrift; how could any family that has experienced a touch of a similar dark event - albeit it this girl lived and Dr Kelly didn't - behave thusly? They are beyond being reprehensible. Further down the food chain than bottom feeders.
- Anonymousette
Hard to believe these people could be so stupidly cruel and out of touch. They remind me of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu who were also arrogant and did not consider themselves "the ordinary people" and we know what happened to them.
A possibly minor point which I might have missed. Was this particular copy of the Hutton Report their's to sell? I can't imagine either of them paid for it. Any more of HMG's property finding its way to auction courtesy of No 10? I think we should be told.
anonymous - What a good point! Of course it wasn't theirs to sell!
- Anonymousette
Such sensitivity from the Scum. Would they have been so tender if it had been Trace from Oldham?
Sorry, Anonymousette, I missed your comment about Mrs Ceausescu. I repeat my own anecdotes but try not to pinch other people's.
More ideas for the NuLab auction of promises:
Margaret Beckett edits your wardrobe
Tessa Jowell overhauls your finances
John Reid visits your guest bedroom
George Robertson babysits
Who bought it?
I love the Ceaucescu analogy, MP5's at dawn,
Im going to enjoy that happy fantasy as I uncork a bottle.
As this wonderfully charitable occasion was officially tax deductable then no doubt the generous donor will be making his/her donation known to the tax man and writing off £160(of our money ) I can't wait to find out who the sewer dwelling turd is.
barbara worth - and a hot, high ticket auction for John Prescott not to visit your own bedroom.
Also, for those unlucky enough not to win the "Margaret Beckett edits your wardrobe" prize, there could be a consolation prize of Margaret Beckett gives you make-up and hair styling advice. Cherie Blair will take a shower with you and scrub off your bad karma. Carole Kaplan will hold you down and muffle your screams. Tony Blair will give you free trip to accompany him to Iraq wearing the full Lawrence of Arabia drag. (Your task will be to play the theme song on the accordion as Tony runs along the top of the train, hopefully getting his feet tangled in his thobe and falling between the carriages. Oh well.)
- Anonymousette
So we still need to know to whom the report originally belonged, and did they personally pay for it?
If not, then surely it's theft?
Nothing Cherie Blair, or Booth (or whatever name she adopts to make more money in any particular set of circumstances) did would ever surprise me now. The woman has no breeding; is a parvenue; and is ill equipped by nature to rise above that state. The ideal spouse for the meretricious, grinning cardboard cutout who, since 1997, has done to the country what he must on many occasions have done to her.
P.S. If you're still in any doubt, I am not a fan of either.
Let's not forget that the Labour organisers thought it a fit item for auction too.
Vermin. The whole lot of 'em.
How do we get a new General Election?
At least there's some wider coverage now - R4, Guardian website. Others?
Why did our Cher autograph the book? Was it hers? Why did she buy it? She had no part in the enquiry? Having thought she might need it, what happened that she no longer needs it as a reference?
Sup with Long Spoon - What Guardian website? Where?
OK, I found it. The MP who is writing to Heather Blears, who is the minister of some little tinpot fiefdom in the Kingdom Blair, is Stuart Johnson of Peterborough. He deserves support. This is beyond repellent.
- Anonymousette
anonymous
headline: Labout attacked over Hutton auction
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1781336,00.html
and Radio 4 has just done a longish piece.
Thomas Fuller - it's got nothing to do with class or breeding or social skills, it's a simple matter of knowing the difference between right and wrong.
Perhaps we should all invite Labour Chair Ms Blears to advise precisely who had paid for the publication auctioned. According to her website she can be reached at blearsh@parliament.uk.
I’m not surprised Alistair Campbell signed it (author’s privilege) but what on earth is the connection between it and the first chavette?
Just nasty, plain and simple.
And the first prize in the raffle is one night with Cherie Blair. Second prize is two nights with Cherie.
One might also wonder whether £300 was the opening bid.....
Anon 5:58,
But it is a matter of "class".
Not the upper-lower-middle argy bargy Labour thrives on. Simply having the knowledge to behave in a manner suitable for the very public spouse of the Prime Minister regardless of what she may think in private.
An attribute often wrongly attributed to the upper classes in days gone by.
RM
You're obviously not serious, but no matter how much we dislike the two you know who parents, I feel quite sorry for their children.
Well, apart from Euan. I see he's got a 50k scholarship from Yale. I didn't realise a 2:1 in ancient history was a passport to such riches.
Anonymous,I have emailed Blears asking for her views on this dispicable act. I expect her to be too afraid of Our Dear Leader's witless wife to reply with any honesty but it's worth a try.I would like to think she(Blears) is getting buried under piles of outraged letters and emails.
If that really was a charitable event, whoever "donated" that £400 will be very easy to find
umbongo 6.46: "..And the first prize in the raffle is one night with Cherie Blair. Second prize is two nights with Cherie"
And the third? 3 nights with:- in his pants gay sex internet advert 'Horny as buggery' - Chris Bryant. Hon member for Rhonda Valley.
It made Channel 4 news too. Good matter-of-fact report. Krishnan Guru-Murphy ended with: "A spokesman for the Labour Party said 'this was not a Labour Party event; we know nothing about it' " - Honest - and with just the hint of a 'pull the other one it's got bells on' smile playing about his lips.
BTW - Chris Bryant was the auctioneer, in case you're wondering 'what the hell he has to do with anything?'
The extreme physical ugliness of Cherie Booth/Blair is wholly matched by the ugliness of her 'personality'.She is a vile bitch indeed!
Hearing Blair preach from Baghdad yesterday I had a sudden insight into how to read his mind. When he sounds glib it means he's self-deluded. When he sounds sincere it means he's lying through his teeth. Yesterday he sounded sincere. God help Iraq.
The Blair's weren't nearly so dispicable when they lived around the corner - it's a typical case of 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Surrounded by sycophants and snake-oil peddlars they are both as mad as hatters. Everyone knows this, but there's no 'orderly' mechanism to get rid of them.
Only the Bucharest gambit remains...
sabreche - I'm not doubting you, but isn't it Krishnan Guru-Murthi? Or maybe it really is Krishnan Guru-Murphy.
- Anonymousette
anonymouse - Oops, sorry you're right; had a bit of a chuckle at that. Something Freudian going on actually 'cos two of my wife's sisters are married to two 'Murphy' brothers - lots of 'Murphy' nephews and nieces and grand nephews and nieces, Murphys on the brain in fact!!! - sounds pretty much the same though :-)) - Sorry Krishnan - you're a good man.
unfortunatle thatcher confiscated our ak47s, major /blair took our handguns, so it looks like mr tony and his evil wife will have to be launched from clay pigeon traps, I suppose it will make occasion a little more fun.
Incredibly not a single Labour Councillor in South Shields, nor our MP David Miliband has responded to my requests for comments on this story, their lips are sealed (probably easier for them than it is for Ms Booth).
Although the story has risen in the rankings over the past two days, it really does need "Big Dave" and the team to make a big impact with it at PMQs - how much ammunition does ne need for heaven's sake?
I see it as William Hague material myself. I don't think Dave's up to making a meal of this - partly because I doubt that he understands the issue - but Hague can do it.
- Anonymousette
I've got a tumbril licence if anyone needs a driver for any reason.
Regards
Bill
Anonymousette,
Havn't been on here late for a long time. You really put in the hours don't you, Hat's off ;)
5:25 PM Anonymous has an interesting point: the only person really entitled to sign a book is the author. And since Cherie Antoinnette isn't the author of the writing, perhaps she signed on her authority as the author of the events? Cryptocracy 4evR!!!
Just to be fair to Marie Antoinette,she had dignity, and at the end considerable courage, and never mentioned cakes.Our Dear leader's wife could learn from her.
mr grumpy - you are right. She said "Let them eat brioches!" As she lived in a palace with everything, she may not have been being sarcastic. She may genuinely have felt they were being too fussy wanting bread. Oh well, we'll never know and she acquitted herself well at the end.
The Purple Tory - not really. I just don't put in your hours where you are. I don't come on until the afternoon shift, and today have been glued to the computer with a fever. (I have the fever. The computer is fine.) I feel too awful to stand up even, which accounts for my irritating ubiquity today.
- Anonymousette
Anonymousette, my hours are flexible.I'm glad you understand Marie.She deserved better.The Purple Tory? Never mind the computer.I hope you recover from the fever.
Anonymousette/Sabretche
Krishnan Guru-Murthi(Murphy). A relative of Jiddu Krishnamurti(b 1896 India d 1986)? Or himself?
Rosie was there with Tom Watson, maybe she has a thing for big men.
Chris Bryant and James Purnell now claim that "they 'sincerely regret' any offence that had been caused by the sale of the document, which had been autographed by Cherie Blair" and go on to claim that the item did not sell anyway ... strange when others claim that it did indeed sell for £400.
By the way reports claim that Alistair Campbell also penned his autograph on the report.
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