The Way Guido Sees It...
Guido has interrupted his second bottle of the excellent local Rosé d’Anjou - courtesy of those LibDem punters who were a little too optimistic about Bromley - to read his email. A very gracious email from John Hemming and a bizarre comment on the Beeb website from that android, Hazel Blears;
the Bromley and Chislehurst result had been an "absolute disaster" for David Cameron's leadership. "People vote tactically in by-elections and clearly there was a move here to vote anything but Tory."
Err, Labour came fourth behind UKIP. They got beat in Wales by an independent despite the herculean efforts of the entire Labour party campaign machine. It was "anything but Labour" last night, so did she actually believe that when she said it? Why do politicians spout crap like that? Does she expect us to believe it?
Conservative chairman Francis Maude said he was pleased his party had won in Bromley and Chislehurst but "disappointed" at the margin of victory.
31 comments:
bloody hell how many phones do you need Guido
Bier, bier, bier, bier
bier oder ich fall um
One phone for each identity?
To the victor go the spoils, eh? Would that your candidate were as gracious! ;-)
It was a night with positives for everyone except Labour - just the way I like it, really.
Best of luck to Bob-a-Job, hope he does the decent thing and takes some chunks out of the likes of Dennis Skinner.
Knees are a jerking. Lessons must be learnt. Bullshit. Just calm down. Dave must continue his Janus faced strategies with focus on touchy feely interspersed with attacks on Govt incompetence. Lay off policy making until election in sight.
A votre sante M Guido.
Haha - I thought the same Jimbo! Just how many co-conspirators does Guido have?
I hope you've either collected already or the rose wasn't too pricey... these are Lib-dims you're talking about I'm sure they have a bar chart showing that they won (and you thought getting money out of antipodean money brokers was hard)!
interesting comment from a labour punter on their shinny new web site - Bromley is actually even more of a disaster for them than it looks, because although DC may prompt some wingnuts to go ukip or inde, he is looking very attractive to the middle of the road voter in a less blue constituency.
Lib dems obviously have a picture of al-beeb chairman in a compromising position with a pig, they appear to have switched their allegience.
It looks as if you have as many phones as Bob has jobs :-)
Wheres Gary Elsby?No doubt that he would agree with Blears that last night was a fantastic one for New Labour
633 votes. Has it taken you until half-past-two to get the brown out of your trousers, Guido ? It looks like M.Rennard Astucieux nearly did a job on you. Moral: beware Lib Dems bearing propositions when they've just seen the postal vote count.
Sero,
Eh? Went to bed after looking at the Betfair Bromley market got a little bit more on at 1.05 thought it was hardly worth bothering at that price.
Woke up unaware it was even close.
Phones - local mobile, usual mobile and house landline plus Blackbery.
Luuurrve the Comical Hazel. Will obviously be her blog-name from now on.
3 phones and a blackberry?
show us a photo of your blacked out lexus and then we will all know for sure your a drug dealer.
Seriously though Im impressed, every drug dealer I have ever met only had two phones, "one for this and this for that"
The by-election result is nowhere near as surprising as the revelation that Guido is an imbiber of rosé.
Most surprising. It reveals more than the contents of his bookshelves.
Speaking of Rosie, I don't know if you mentioned this earlier in your blog, but congratulations are due to Rosie Winterton on becoming a privy councillor - this from Hansard:
Mr. Blunkett: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his generous comments about my right hon. Friend; I, too, offer her (Rosie Winterton) congratulations on her becoming a Privy Councillor only a week ago. I am extremely glad that she is in the Chamber today, because she was stuck in a lift in Sanctuary Buildings, which could have excluded her from today's Question Time.
Rosie has been rewarded for her work. The circle is complete!
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle has caught onto "Comical Hazel". Do I detect a spot of mild plagirism?
http://saxontimes.blogspot.com/
Not unless Guido is psychic, this was posted before that. And Anonemouse sent Guido the graphic to use. Which Guido will because it is damn good.
Cranmer you puritanical bore, rosé is what you drink in the summer, unless you are an English public school boy and drink Pimms.
Guido, to be called a 'puritanical bore' by a Papist is a compliment indeed.
And Cranmer is about to indulge in a fine claret, which is a drink for all seasons.
Whereas white Zinfandel is only drunk by gays and black women, as far as Texans are concerned. Apparently.
People, people, people, it is sauvignon blanc which is drunk in the summer, unless it is Guido, who is apparently drunk the year round. Rosé d'Anjou is overrated, but pleasant. But sauvignon blanc is like drinking the breeze off a meadow, or the distilled essence of the wings of transparent butterflies.
Okay, wine snob out.
I had assumed that a man of Guido's wealth, flair and indeed psychic powers would opt for kir royale in the summer.
Oh, I like kir royale.
That is all.
Whats wrong with Tennants lager?
Mrs Fawkes is a big fan of a couple of Kir Royales before dinner.
Guido's palette doesn't stretch to white wines and Champagne doesn't thrill me at all.
No rosé it is and has been for Guido for the last five summers, pastis to start.
Pinit grigio
I mean pinot grigio
Anyone remember Monklands. Lanarkshire Labour heartland. Vacated by the sad death of Saint John Smith.
Labour dominant in the national polls as Major floundered. The fresh and likeable Tony Blair looking odds. On to be Labour leader.
What happened? The Scot Nats reduced an 18,000 majority to 1,800.
Was it a disaster for Blair?
sam stott
The Monklands by-election was some weeks BEFORE Tony Blair became leader.
B&C long after David Cameron become leader.
John Smith's Bitter?
(Gordo's even bitterer)
Gordon's and tonic?
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