Shhhh, Don't Mention the Leadership
Every newspaper, broadcaster, blogger and pub bore is discussing the Labour leadership. Every Labour party hack at their conference this week is doing the same in the bars. The conference itself won't be discussing the matter. The Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC) has ruled out of order 17 motions from CLPs on the leadership election. Over at LabourHome they say rightly "If this decision stands, Labour Conference will be the only place in the UK where the issue of the leadership is NOT being discussed".
32 comments:
Guido is obviously very excited.
Guido is obviously very excited.
Good lunch?
Excellent point.
Bears repeating, I feel.
John
Bloody repeats. No doubt you'll soon be launching "Guido Fawkes Gold" to cash in on your old entries.
Labour's accounts have been published.
Like all reports, it should be read from back to front. (27,247),in 000's, is the bottom line.
Note 28 of the 'Notes to the financial statement'(p.60) names the high-value lenders and, for the first time, puts on record the conditions of the loans. They were at 2% above the base rate, initial terms of 180 or 365 days, rolling 180-days after that.
Does that constitute 'commercial terms' ? If it doesn't, the law was broken when the loans weren't declared to the Electoral Commission.
Perhaps that's something else for the delegates to discuss on Monday. The last two items on Monday's agenda: 'The Future of Party Funding'. 'NEC Submission to the Hayden Phillips Review'. Watch Dromey go.
Guido where are all the postings on this blog. have you eradicated them.
Guido ,where have all the interesting posts gone.Have you censorised them like Iain Dale does.They were bloody good views from activists.
Labour's party conference slogan this year:
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
This ought to take their minds off the Leadership Race...
http://www.dailymotion.com/blog/video/431648?key=fzkyzjudxyf9c7z3jdbtk60mql3vksr89adc00na&play=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tastelikepizza.com%2Findex.php%3Fitemid%3D651
Note the kerchief colour ?
I'm at the conference (through job obligations rather than choice). There's one very clear obsession amongst the whole of the Labour High Command, and that's David Cameron. They're terrified of him. I swear, they're probably telling their children that if they aren't good, David The Chameleon will come and get them.
Today, I had to listen to, in order, speeches by Sir Jeremy Beecham (chair of the NEC), Hazel Blears, Peter Watt, and Ian McCartney. Every one of them name-checked DC and explained why they weren't afraid of him.
I then left and went to a fringe meeting, where I heard Hilary Benn and Ed Miliband, amongst others, also explain why they had to concentrate on beating David Cameron. Not the Tories, you understand - David Cameron personally.
Quite how Hilary Benn fitted that into a speech on Social Justice I'm not too sure even now.
The party doth protest too much, methinks...
No one's discussing it in my house. My daughter can now say "bus" - that's our main topic of conversation.
shame really, no chance of any exciting spontaeneous combustion at conferece this week with such a strong party line being taken.
Unless they let Prezza loose at the buffets....
Nothing to discuss. Brown is already PM for fucks sake. His little skidmark army is standing to awaiting orders for the final assault.
Focus on the real fun and games. Can Prezza be prised from his snout in trough sinecure.Pauline and Hull frighten the shit out of him. Chipolata will fight a rearguard action to retain the shagging rights that come with the job.
If the Labour Party only ever pays commercial rates, why doesn't it go to a bank where it will get commercial rates, like the rest of us? It would save all this emabarrassment, collars of upstanding industrialists being felt, worries about who next etc etc.
But then 2% above base rate for an over extended borrower with declining income gives a new meaning to "commercial", doesn't it.
Give us a "commercial" dearie, oh go on, pleeeese. I've spent all me money.
Anonymous 9:10 wants decent rates.
Spot on Anon! Best post yet today/night.
Wait till the votes come in during the next election. You and I and many others will sing and dance the night away. 'Commercial' is a word which is not understood by this bunch of squealing underperformers.
re anon' 7:30 That is the problem with Cameron and the opposition-they are frightened of him,but he is only 4% ahead in the polls and we should be 20%.
The problem with us conservatives is that us activists are disenchanted with the A listers and cannot break into a sweat to help them.
Today we see more of it ie SEX.
Get rid of the A list and reintroduce meritocracy and we may see our party really move ahead and labour will be worried.
"They're terrified of him. I swear, they're probably telling their children that if they aren't good, David The Chameleon will come and get them"
An amusing image of David Cameron carrying them off in a sack for eating chocolate oranges springs to mind. Labour should base a party poster on it.
The Zac Goldsmith epic in todays papers confirm that the Notting Hill Leadership is just one big Shagothon- and leave Prezza's little indiscretion out of it.
Well, watching it all from Italy, sod the policies. What I want to know is what have Blair and Brown both done to their hair? They both look as if they've got a badly placed alice band just above their ears. Come on, Guido, let's concentrate on something really important like this.
"Richard said...
No one's discussing it in my house. My daughter can now say "bus" - that's our main topic of conversation. "
good point there Richard, given all the security (£5million+)around the center, its bound to have a dramatic hit on the BUS route from south manchester that must pass by that place, so your daughter is right to bring it up as the working week begins in centeral manchester..... 8)
masses of manchester workers arrive late to work monday, and cost the many failing manchester businesses even more profits.
they are indeed wearing malice bands...as will many of their comrades this week, notwithstanding the sugary love in that spinmeister command has ordered
"Anonymous said...
If the Labour Party only ever pays commercial rates, why doesn't it go to a bank where it will get commercial rates, like the rest of us? It would save all this emabarrassment, collars of upstanding industrialists being felt, worries about who next etc etc.
But then 2% above base rate for an over extended borrower with declining income gives a new meaning to "commercial", doesn't it.
Give us a "commercial" dearie, oh go on, pleeeese. I've spent all me money. "
of course while in public,we are all being fed the talk policy not
people, it seems backstage the main agender is talking to the likes of tony wilson (ganada TV and ritch manchester guy) about 'give us some money so we can pay for the inevitable election we are trying to avoid with its vast costs we cant pay for and hence loose....
by the way, whos paying this £5million+ cost to police this relativly small temp central manchester courden, when they couldnt even find enough money to police the MOSS (mossside were that lad got shot and killed a few weeks ago) less than 1 mile away from were the top brass labour people are right now.
If you think Brown's going to get the leadership on a plate, forget it. They're quietly queueing up for a crack at him and the dirt wil flow. My money's on Milburn (40/1)
If Brown does scrape through to take it, he's going to be so damaged that he'll be out straight after a General Election defeat.
Keep your eye on Spencer Livermore nudge nudge ;-);-)
another week, another conference, another leader.....no wonder the great British public yawn...
What I find interesting in the Labour Party today is that the majority of the speeches consist entirely of rhetoric and soundbites. Turn the clock back 20 years and real policy was actually discussed from the podium. It was controversial, there was heckling and the viewer realised that somehow true debate was going on.
Today, Gordon Brown will ramble on and bore the pants off everyone. What is he actually saying? Ask yourself this five minutes after his speech. You, like everyone else, won't have a clue.
I consider it disgraceful that these conferences have turned into a Munich type rally where the Furher has spoken and everyone applauds widly with tear stained eyes.
Pass the sick bucket.
7:40pm Richard "... My daughter can now say "bus" - that's our main topic of conversation"
Dear Richard
I know that the daughter-delighted Mrs Richard will find this difficult to believe, but the amazing thing is that daughters (& sons) actually get better as they get older & bigger
Meanwhile, to important things - how are Miss Richard's Greek Studies (after all, John Stuart Mill could speak Greek at the age of 3)
Your obedient servant etc
G Eagle
Richard said...
No one's discussing it in my house. My daughter can now say "bus" - that's our main topic of conversation.
7:40 PM
6:09pm Sero "Labour's accounts have been published ... should be read from back to front ...
Sehr geEhrte Sero
Ausgezeichnet [excellent] - tres interessant - what page contains "the bottom line"
The figures always reveal the trush, if you do but know where and what to look for
Are you able to post the Accounts for the LibDems ??!!
Your obedient servant etc
G Eagle
And they say that Censorship does not happen in Britain.
Who do they think they are kidding?
Certainly not the electorate!
On Labour's NEC report PDF that Sero linked to there's a photo gallery of the NEC members. Most of them are smiley mug shots, but Jack Dromey looks really pissed off in his piccie. Hee.
A quick straw poll round this small South Gloucestershire village shows that no-one is discussing the Labour leadership. My next door neighbour says he wouldn't give a toss for any of them fuckers. We're all so much more interested in that lovely Mr Dale and his exciting new broadband TV politics station.
Geoffrey Brooking said...
And they say that Censorship does not happen in Britain.
Who do they think they are kidding?
Certainly not the electorate!10:49 AM
Censorship happens on this site,prove Guido wrong or turn the gossip around to "the wrong party" and it`s deleted and moderation imposed.Guido you`re a fraud and a phoney,"The real Peter Hitchens" has more credibility.
Moko, the good thing about having a blog is that you're the one with the delete button. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Although the only thing I ever deleted was the phone number of an overly-friendly twelve-year-old Potter fan.
It's horses for courses. If I posted some of the risque stuff I put here over on Boris Johnson's blog, I'd expect Melissa to take out a contract on my keyboard.
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