Hutton v Brown? What has he got to lose?
He has recently sorted out his contact lenses and started getting his hair done more fashionably. He hasn't endorsed Brown and he is careful in interviews not to do so using a word formula that is in itself revealing. He was challenged in an interview and repeatedly asked if he thought Brown needed a "cabinet-level" challenger. He basically did not say no. Evasive. Unlike Miliband he has not gone on bended knee before Brown and publicly repented for his Blairite sins. He is more Blairite than Blair.He famously told Nick Robinson that "Brown would be a fucking disastrous PM".
As a result he is not going to feature in a Brown cabinet. After Reid and Johnson he is the next favourite, ahead of Miliband and Hilary Benn. He is surely worth a few quid on Betfair?
58 comments:
Just caught Alastair campbell on the Radio - he was immensely rude and got cut off - going on blaming the media for trivialising politics and making it into a soap opera - was he talking about things like this I wonder? If so keep it up- you seem to have got right up his nose!
Would be amusing - if he squeeked through it would be Yes Minister made real. But I like the man - decent people politican as well. Very much a Clinton disciple.
I wonder if the spad of another possible candidate would start repeating the 'tittle tattle' about him if he stood?
Hutton is too decent and honest to get to the top. My money's on the liar, and Cherie tipped him yesterday.
Hutton Hoo?
I predict Brown and Reid to fight each other to a standstill in the dirtiest bitch-slapping contest this country's ever seen.
When they and the party are traumatised and exhausted Hutton will come through to take the leadership.
He's my MP, he's done bugger all for his constituency.
The only reason he keeps getting back in is that too many people up here still think that Labour is the party of the working class.
Guido refers readers to Betfair cos he gets money for each referall.
Pig. Nose. Trough.
"Guido refers readers to Betfair cos he gets money for each referall."
shock horror. a blogger who wants to earn some money, so that he can sip his wine and continue to blog.
i suppose you're one of the Labour fuckwits that think that City bonuses are obscene while enjoying a parasitic living off my fucking tax money.
tosser.
anonymong 6.10
yes, and ITV carries adverts for tampons, does that mean I have to buy tampons?
Do what most sensible people do, take the tip and bet at your prefered betting house - or is free thought beyond you?!
a petty and pedantic point like yours could only be made by a politician - and a poor one at that!
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He has recently sorted out his contact lenses and started getting his hair done more fashionably. He hasn't endorsed Brown and he is careful in interviews not to do so
Iain Dale or this Hutton chap?
Robbo says that Tony's speech was quite surreal, gets caught up in it, and ends with saying that "Even I'm getting nostalgic."
Isnt this the geezer who bought a house only to find his new neighbour was abu hamza or omar bakri!
Lets hope he doesnt keep up with the joneses. He might start calling Gordon Brown the Infidel!
Ha
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p.s My blog has now been visited by over 1,000 british eccentrics who like reading a blog by a dead cat?!
you missed the other half of the quote; "and I'll do anything in my power to stop him."
Dianne Abbott was suggesting that he would nothing without Milburn's permission on the daily politics yesterday.
Hutton's as dull as dishwater. Not quite on the big Gordo catatonia inducing level but near enough. Mind, being excrutiatingly dull never proved to be an obstacle to Sir John Major.
Oops, doubled posted there, sorry (should have included a betfair link, up my bonus).
@ Vienna...I ain't taken any of your tax money. You should take some anger management classes there, seems like you got some rage built up deep inside you. Bet you vote BNP or are a stalker or something similar, yeah?
And yes, sometimes I do think such City bonuses are obscene - not obscene enough for me to return my own though.
Right now I would be with Anon 6:07 if it were not for Milburn prowling in the wings, like a panther beyond the firelight.
Milibland on DP today...seems someone did finish that stick-back-plastic model of him. If oil conducted electricity he would have short-circuited the entire conference centre.
AC getting rattled...seems the Blairite bunker mentality is finally hearing the Commies' artillery. Somehow I do not see A Liar's Stare Campbell sitting comfortably with Reid and listening with (a) Mother.
What has Hutton got to lose?
How about his anonymity?
At the moment he can walk down the street without people punching his lights out because of the state of work and (especially) pensions. That really should change...
If he's more Blairite than Blair then my few quid is on the little eel turning up at Battersea tommorrow night...
I got Skybet to offer a quote on Hutton. They offered me 40-1. It's better than betfair at the mo. But have already taken 120-1 on Betfair.
Hmm
400/1 on John Denham.
he's a pretty bright feller....
Some very attractive odds. Especially when you figure that Tony has a sackful of dirt on Gordon. A lot can happen in six months.
milburn turned up on c4 news tonight.
Hmmm. Mad staring eyes, receding hairline, boredom-inducing wonk. Right about Brown but his only chance of winning would be if the TV-addicted electorate mistook him for 'celebrity' chef Nick Nairn.
Ho Ho Ho, Heh heh heh, Hah Hah Hah...what a load of absolute tosh, who can believe any of this shit from a bunch of mendacious shits.
This shower lost any credibility years ago, only the apparatchiks and idiot faithful can believe anything that has come out of this conference.
Time for a Roumanian solution, it's the only way to go.
is that Lord Stevens at the top then in the photo?
6.07 Anon (..Brown and Reid to fight each other... dirtiest bitch-slapping contest this country's ever seen.
Brown to win 100-1
He was right on the money about Brown. Seems a reasonably honest bloke for a career politician...
Adverts and 'Paid For' links should really be clearlly marked. i've got no problem with them existing though, he has to pay for this website somehow. should just be upfront about it.
to continue the ITV comparison, product placement and subliminal advertising is illegal. Anythin ITV is paid for has to be clearly marked as sponsorship or advertising.
Go for it Hutton !!
Anyone but Brown !!!!
So who's going to get Blair's endorsement : Milburn, Reid, or Hutton?
Whoever it is, this is gonna be nasty and Brown will have a fight on his hands!
Prepare for more leaks about the more dubious, darker, and seedier side of Brown ;-)
anonymong 6:10 and 6:24
Guido is making money referring y'all to Betfair.
Using you all.
Pig. Snout. Trough.
Yeah well, we have a choice and Guido has exercised his in allowing your post, despite the fact that it's not witty and gossipy, but it is boring. Which is better than say, Milliblog, who doesn't like free speech at all...unless it's "you're lovely" etc etc
I agree with BofV... tosser
Adverts and 'Paid For' links should really be clearlly marked. i've got no problem with them existing though, he has to pay for this website somehow. should just be upfront about it.
to continue the ITV comparison, product placement and subliminal advertising is illegal. Anythin ITV is paid for has to be clearly marked as sponsorship or advertising.
Unlike the BBC, where product placement makes a nice little earner for certain producers. Al-Beeb, the Voice of Labour, Guardian of the Airwaves (geddit?), cushioned by an annual £3bn of extortion money (pay up or you go to jail), jealously guards its independence and is far above such venal concerns as money ... Get real, matey.
"@ Vienna...I ain't taken any of your tax money. You should take some anger management classes there, seems like you got some rage built up deep inside you. Bet you vote BNP or are a stalker or something similar, yeah?"
wasnt angry. just stating the obvious. which is even more obvious by your resorting to throwing the "BNP supporter" label around.
why the would I , a libertarian, want to support a gang of authoritarian socialist wankers like the BNP?
alaistair campbell has popped up on Newsnight now.
something is going on - why is Alaistair back?
newsnight commenter made a very VERY interesting point about the blair speech.
Although this went over the heads of Labour drones, Blair was actually attacking Cameron from the centre-right, criticising his pandering to anti-Americanism. And what he had to say about Islamic terrorism was in George Bush neo-con territory.
very interesting - a Labour PM attacking a Tory leader for not being right wing enough...
we live in interesting times.
the whole point is that Blair either gets it and is right about Islamism or he doesn't.
Thats the judgement.
Camerons dodging is adolescent.
.. Brown and Reid to fight each other... dirtiest bitch-slapping contest this country's ever seen.
Brown would easily beat the Gorbals Gobshite. The man is so conceited I bet he thinks they move a satellite for him when he uses Google Earth.
Right folks what about Blair's Whopper today. There should be a prize and journalist of the year award for the person who finds the man at number 14, who allegedly gave the lads a cup of tea and said sorry.
Those lads had no idea where Tony was going with his fib It was the first time they heard it..Bliar indeed
I thought Hutton was backing Commie Ron; Blair's twin.
Hutton looks like one of David Icke's Lizard shape shifting aliens. fucking creepy.
"the whole point is that Blair either gets it and is right about Islamism or he doesn't.
Thats the judgement.
Camerons dodging is adolescent."
i would agree. there is one thing i admire Blair about - the Iraq war. he had BALLS to pull that one off.
as to whether it was the right thing or not is a moot point. the fact is , is that he dragged his party kicking and screaming into the Iraq war. and yet the party didnt split, and he won a third term.
thats ballsy in my book.
Fuck islamism and fuck Blair
I have no more to say for this evening.
go to bed now son
err... is he still up?
just watched brown watching bliar. Brown's gurning during the speech reminded me of my 10 year old son who has Aspergers (mild autism). He's incapable of stopping strange facial expressions appearing. People who have Aspergers have:
- problems relating socially to others
- prefer working with numbers to working with people
- difficulty understanding emotions
Could this be GB???
Guido, I sent u an email ages ago flagging this up. You ignored it - you cunt.
mutleythedog said...
"Just caught Alastair campbell on the Radio - he was immensely rude and got cut off - going on blaming the media for trivialising politics and making it into a soap opera - was he talking about things like this I wonder?"
The guys a prat when drunk or sober.
Has anyone stopped to consider what sort of support Hutton might have among Labour MPs and the unions (ie 66pc of the electorate in this contest.) Answer: practically none.
Seriously, he would struggle to get 20pc of the vote.
The only serious opponents to Brown are Reid, Johnson and Miliband. Miliband says he won't run, and I believe him. Johnson can't make up his mind. Reid in my view will run, but impressive though he is, he ain't got much support among MPs and the unions either.
Phat Planet said...
Hutton looks like one of David Icke's Lizard shape shifting aliens. fucking creepy.
more like a ferret I've always thought
Anonymong complaining about adverts:
They are everywhere you mong. That is why Guido is laughing all the time. The money rolls in everytime you mongs come here!
Why don't you make an official complaint to the Blog Complaints Commission?
There was talk of him having his own TV show.'The Hutton Report'a satirical look at contemporary events.Dropped when critics branded the pilot 'unbelievable'
Having watched Peter Mandelson on telivision for many years,I know what a sock cutter looks like (As an aside)someone elsewhere brought up the subject of ladys'pockets.Mandelson is fortunate enough to have two (though his mother kept them sewed up when he was young).
On another matter I think I know why Gordon Brown has that strange oral gape.Just picture him laying,naked,on his back with a hand grasping the back of each knee.He strains forward thinking 'just another inch..just another inch.'
gordo's strange, oral gap has given me cause for fixation but I am by nature orally fixated.
pork hitchens
"On another matter I think I know why Gordon Brown has that strange oral gape.Just picture him laying,naked,on his back with a hand grasping the back of each knee.He strains forward thinking 'just another inch..just another inch.'
9:57 AM
next to Prescott in similar position thinking 'just another foot..just another foot'
But I'm not in a position of Golden Shower (me old China)
I can't look at your beloved Dear Leader Lord Snooty Macaroon without thinking of those blokes who go around clubbing innocent seal cubs. He's the cub you understand not the fella with the club.
You know stories about Michael Heseltine planning his political rise on the back of an envelope.
Did Cameron and his mates from Eton plan their political rise while wanking on the back of a biscuit in the dormitory?
You're writing this drivel from conference?Mr Prescott.
Hutton is not stupid and he knows the value of letting other people think he is.
He was imposed on Barrow and Furness and it took his workers a long time to realise how good an MP he is.
If I were him I would have to go for it. Reason ? He has nothing to lose because if he isn't leader of the Labour Party at the next General Election he will certainly be slaughtered in his constituency.
Mind you the Tories on Barrow are trying their hardest for Hutton by knocking down houses people want to live in.
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