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This blog is for political tittle-tattle, not for solving the Middle East crisis. If you don't have anything funny to say, go to Comment is Free, LabourHome or ConservativeHome. Please don't bore on about things here, we have standards.
If your comment posts are not appearing, don't bother emailing, it is because after the gay Gordon stuff yesterday Guido has had to again put the blog comments on moderation - and will be rejecting the comments of bores and loons. So BNPers, the "I'm not anti-semitic, I'm anti-Zionist" crowd and the tiresome will have to go elsewhere. That includes the "why don't you do something about [insert earnest topic]" whines. You want the Indy for that kind of thing.
Remember : Gossip = Good, Wit = Even Better, Bores = Deleted. See here for guidance.
If your comment posts are not appearing, don't bother emailing, it is because after the gay Gordon stuff yesterday Guido has had to again put the blog comments on moderation - and will be rejecting the comments of bores and loons. So BNPers, the "I'm not anti-semitic, I'm anti-Zionist" crowd and the tiresome will have to go elsewhere. That includes the "why don't you do something about [insert earnest topic]" whines. You want the Indy for that kind of thing.
Remember : Gossip = Good, Wit = Even Better, Bores = Deleted. See here for guidance.
48 comments:
Hear, Hear! Presumably we can make jokes about the Middle East crisis - just not talk about the issues at hand.
The Loveable Neocons.... taking over the world, one dictatorship at a time.
careful dear boy, at this rate you're going to need back room staff, then the grey reptile aliens will of course apply, take over the blog and before you know it you're off on a one way trip to see David Icke... thats how they do things.
I have a tinfoil hat spare if you need it?
Maybe Guido needs an intern. I suggest a posh, leggy media studies graduand. You can find them in droves halfway down the farringdon road
Your site, you call the shots. But there is a legitimate distinction between anti-semitism and anti-zionism.
Given that Mrs Guido is already pissed off with Guido over the press invasion during the holiday, I'm not sure how she would respond to a leggy intern managing Guido's (comment) box!
I presume all this "Health and Safety" issue with the police relates to lead poisoning.
Guido - have you noticed how Cherie Blair has been praised (eg in yesterday's Standard) on 'human rights' grounds for her bravery in visiting dissident types in Russia during the G8 meeting? But isn't she a human rights lawyer (see the Matrix Chambers website http://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/AreasOfPractice_HumanRightsLaw.aspx)? So wasn't she just touting for business - directly or indirectly? And wasn't she doing this at taxpayers' expense? And isn't that shameful rather than praiseworthy?
"At a joint press conference with President Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a 'de-escalation of Mid-East violence.' Later, Bush called for both sides to 'de-angrify' and 'de-hurt' each other."
I only found this place after someone mentioned it in a comment on Nick Robinson's blog a few days ago (See? It's useful for something). The comments here are far more entertaining than I'm used to reading and I bow to you all. Except the boring ones.
MIT discovered tinfoil helmets actually intensify radiation to the head. Be careful who you give this information to; some of them, we wouldn't miss a bit.
I'm not anti semantic, just anti cynic.
Probably with relief....
Are there? I want one of those...
ghost of humphrey the cat sings -
Look not everyone can be hilarious and witty. All people in need of sense of humour bypasses are welcome to post their dronings on my blog
http://ghostofhumphrey.blogspot.com
Im not choosy.
Today Im asking can we trust a party who has ended up 27 million in debt running a membership organisation with our nations economy. Come on lets all have a heated debate..
There are some good tin foil hats here.
Must be the weather. Driving everyone crazy.
There's bugger all to see here anyway chaps. There has been no impropriety on the part of Blair, Prescott etc. It's all a vicious campaign orchestrated by over-zealous coppers and Tory bloggers controlled from CCHQ.
Now where's my knighthood dammit!
Maybe the G8 lot should try a bit of de-bauch
Guido - any chance you could do a littel digging on a story the mail wanted to run, for which they had two affidavits, but were blocked by an injunction. Clues are the real thing and a former pr.
Just had lunch with a bunch of Indy-Guardianistas in my office.
I can barely keep it down.
Anyone know where Blair is heading off to on holiday? I take it the country in question hasn't signed an extradition treaty with the UK?
anonymous 2:15pm... Somehow I don't think Guido's out to get occasional users of class A substances... unless they're in the cabinet and voted to ban shrooms, I suppose.
Have you noticed the weasel wording in the Conservative accounts re interest charged on their loans - basically says that notional income (and hence reportable donations) only arise on non interest bearing loans and on interest waived on interest bearing loans. Meaning that there were no reportable donations on their interest bearing loans - whatever the interest rate charged.
Labour on the other hand reports the interest rate it receives on the loans (Base +2%) - which is probably consistent with a rate which would apply if the loans were on commercial terms - so no donation to report under PPERA.
Accounts also contain other howlers such as:
- not reflecting the liability for the pension scheme, which is now required under UK GAAP
- not consolidating their Party Conference company - which is surprising given that the test for consolidation is control - but then they would have to report all the donations/sponsorship income received through the Conference company - and other fronts such as the Winter Ball.
- assuming that General Election Campaign expenditure can only be incurred by Head Office (compare the total with the General Election return) - so all the expenditure incurred by consituency associations before the election was called did not count. If this interpretation is not correct then the Conservatives will have broken the national campaign spend limit. A good question to ask is why did the Conservatives clearly outspend Labour on posters/advertising yet report a lower spend figure in their campaign return?
The Indy-Guardian axis is made up of incurably smug public school drones and pillocks from Oxbridge. Their egalitarianism goes no further than the comments page: they are as dislocated from reality as any Daily Mail comment writer and every bit as mercenary, materialistic and bigoted. Socialism to them is a good as long as it's imposed on other people. Otherwise, get out the chianti, DAAAAHHHLING, and we'll discuss Hoxton's property prices thereafter.
Same with the New Statesman, but at least Cristina Odone was a laugh - if a roller coaster - and, dare I say it, never dull. She got shafted, and I shall say no more on the subject. As for the smug twats at Red Pepper, well - alas there are libel laws...
Cheers Guido, this is such a cool cosmic place.
Far, far better men are trying to stop the war (shit) why should we get involved?
as an incurably smug public school drone who is also an Oxbridge pillock and has worked for both the Indy and the Grauniad I would like to state that the above is simply not true. The latter is stocked with nasty oiks who wouldn't know a fish knife from a fetlock and the former is mostly staffed by grammar school leavers who worked extremely hard and won prizes for scripture. Chianti is a bit robust and Hoxton is horrid.
But you don't deny that they're all still mercenary, materialistic and bigoted?
I blame the little people. And their cousin's, the tree people, who live in the leaves.
You're right, they are, but that's not enough on its own, you know.
croydonian, you evidently have way too much time on your hands but the tin hats are truly wonderful. cd be trend-setting.
If you want some serious chat come to our site... it's lovely.
We'll try and give you some American goss, Guido. We're Atlanticists.
As it happens, we all hate the Guardian. When we lived in the UK... eurgh, it's just so right-on and try hard. It's like the NYT but without punctuation.
Love and hugs
The Loveable Neocons
Possibly I'm in a minority, but I do think Guido has a point. There are plenty of specialised blogsites for those with particular axes to grind, and this site is for well-informed (and hopefully witty) general political gossip.
No connection, but ministryoftruth.org.uk is another such serious political site(unlike ministryoftruth.com which is neo-Christian happy-clappy - don't post on the wrong one as I did, or all hell will break loose !)
"Later, Bush called for both sides to 'de-angrify' and 'de-hurt' each other."
Would have been more entertaining if he'd called for them to defenestrate each other.
Does anybody know the story about a labour mp caught wanking on a train?
anon 2.20 , do we take the dissitation on UK GAAP accounting principals , as a telling riposte to Guido's plea for non boring posts ?
machiavelli at 2.15pm - I think you'll find the focus of the mail's story will fufil your criterea, one day. The scandal if more the way the story was blocked.
Talking of which: there is some bloke on Iain Dale's blog saying that you're sitting on something that will make the Tories shit themselves.
Laxatives?
Yo Guido,
I'm so relieved I passed your boredom-threshold test yesterday. I've been waiting for you to post your own version of what Bush and Blair say to each other when the mike is switched off. And such generous exchange of gifts too, hopefully fully declared ....
Backwoodsman
I agree anon 2:20 talks like a boring accountant - but implications of what is being said are very interesting - Tories broke the law in not declaring interest on their loans, donations received through their Conference etc, spending more than the legal limit on the general election and filed accounts that did not show a true and fair view! All supported by evidence which is better than the usual standard on this blog.
"Talking of which: there is some bloke on Iain Dale's blog saying that you're sitting on something that will make the Tories shit themselves."
If there is some scandal surrounding the Tories I'd like to know what it is. My sympathies are further right than left but I believe no party should escape scrutiny.
Come to think of it, why hasn't Mr Elsby sent this info to the left-wing press if it's so damning?
Well I just had a wank there and I really don't care what anyone says here.
BTW, Wayne Rooney sent off, dear oh dear, what has happened to England.
"...and such generous exchange of gifts too, hopefully fully declared ...."
and just who paid for the "hand-knitted" sweaters? I bet it wasn't Tone.
If that's not enough to condemn them, Mr Gisoad, what is?
Delighted! The vitriol that was spewed on Conservative Home yesterday concerning the Middle East had to be seen to be believed!!!!
If you want to get incensed about something: A former Labour MP and chairman of the health select commitee has landed a lovely non-job paying £5,730 a year at South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust as a non - executive director. With the NHS as an entity suffering problems with funding / spending control/ employment cutbacks is it really necessary to have somebody in this role. WHat can they possibly bring to the organisation that they did not already have.
I would be interested to know if David Hinchliffe was against the trust as this would firmley put snout in trough if he spoke or voted against them.
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