Sion Shoots Himself in the Foot
Guido is told that CCHQ have had a surge in traffic to WebCameron as the Sion Simon story hots up. His whole "take my children, take my wife" thing has backfired. He also looks a complete tosser in his baseball cap. He looks like a 1989 Madchester raver with his floppy hair anyway...
See Sky News here to see Sion lose it in a toe curling display of how not to do an interview. Below is Sion making a twat of himself.
See Sky News here to see Sion lose it in a toe curling display of how not to do an interview. Below is Sion making a twat of himself.
152 comments:
Is that really him?
I thought it was just some unfunny brummy twat.
He looks a little like Harry Enfields spotty teenager alter ego Kevin , only without the humour.
This 'spoof' is fantastic news for Cameron. It is rare for any sort of video to be as toe-curlingly awful as this, but Simon has achieved that distinction. CCO should be putting links to this crap all over the place. Simon is going downhill rapidly anyway, and from an already low point - from having been an obsessive Blairite this schmuck suddenly turned around to suck up to Brown with shameless alacrity (sorry - is that too posh a word for this blog?)
he looks like claire short in a suit.
and he's a rude fucker to that woman in the interview.
Fuck his wife?
Anybody got Mr Simons wifes telephone number ?
looking at him in that video the poor girl is probably sorely in need of a good seeing to from a man over 5 feet tall who doesnt bash her in the face with his big hairy man boobs during congress, she is probably also going short of a good laugh if that is his idea of humour.
Fuckwit.
What a tosser! Having a go at Cameron for trying to "get down with the kids" when he goes round looking like that!
He used to look like this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/mpdb/img/67927.jpg
Which style is more befitting a Parliamentarian in 2006?
Ah, now I feel guilty.
SS suffers from choroideremia, an eye condition which is slowly causing him to go blind. Perhaps his hair isn't his fault.
SS, sorry if I caused offence in the last post.
Sion has form on giving the Tories free publicity, I think he is just profoundly stupid
Totally agree that the video was tasteless - but given all the bile you and others (Peter Hitchens for example) have poured out re Cherie and her kids over the years don't you think that you are being just a little two faced!
A very immature man. I've no idea who he thinks he is - speaking for the youth's taste ? It'd be interesting to see the demographic of his constituency. Gotta say - What a c*#T. Only Politics could throw up tossers of this calibre. Dontcha just love it ? Please, please, please Guido - post his phone number.
Sorry i cant leave this alone
"nakedly adopt youth culture and get down with the kids"
This coming from a morbidly obese middle aged man sat there, as guido rightly points out, wearing a fucking stone roses circa 1990 haircut.
Fuck me, I didn't think it possible that there was a man under the age of 40 who could actually make Cameron look "cool" by comparison, this fat faced mong has proved me wrong.
You should see the comments on youtube, most popular are, twat, tosser, little shit, prick, which sum up the crap video perfectly!!!!!
Btw don’t you think he looks like Sebastien from little Britain?
I wander if this thread will run and run. I have friends with family in his seat. Time to make sure Sion's rudeness and idiocy is well understood.
Also, why is he banging on about Tom Watson being a blogger "committed to the medium"? It's well documented that Tom failed to post tonnes of comments after his plot back-fired - including mine.
He looks like he's turning into Clare Short and is about as popular right now within the Labour party.
The decent thing now would be to post his resignation speech on YouTube and bugger off.
Sion Simon is a loser. Overlooked for Govt job he has been losing the plot for the last three years. He is not well physically or mentally. He will soon be interviewd by The Independent when he will disclose bouts of depression alcoholism and self abuse. He deserves our sympathy and understanding as does the retired pornographer manic depressive attention seeking self pitying twat, Campbell.
WebCameron is so intensely lame I can't physically stand to watch it... but Mr Simon's impersonation is utterly weak and therefore not funny. He misses Dave's overacting, fey love-me Tony style of talking, crap-is-good production quality. He was right to try and take the piss but it's probably best left to a pro.
He's not doing this stupid parody to help Labour's poor social security layabouts, he JUST WANTS POWER for his gang and not t'other one!
Wanker.
Judging by Dave's "it's a noisy place" approach it looks as if Hilton realises that despite all the excitement the Punch Blair vs Judy Cameron show didn't play well everywhere.
Oh happy day - what a joy! The entire New Socialist party is going mad.
Choroideremia presumably the reason for his shirt/tie combo ?
He's got to be thick as pigshit to follow up the stupid video with as unpleasant and badly mannered an interview as that. He looks incapable of taking criticism, which is a poor character trait for any politician, let alone a plain, badly-spoken, mean-spirited jerk with a barnet straight out of Wayne's World.
But didn't this joker hold down the politics spot on the Speccie for a year or two?
Imagine that, a bloke who looks like Clair shorts younger sister with David Blunketts eyes.
maybe it a kindness, would any of you want to shave everymorning looking like Blunkett or Sion Simon?
What a loser.Poor old Labour are so bankrupt they have to resort to things (and MPs) like that.
It is hoped that DC does not ask Simon to remove this biting satire.
The achilles heel of any 3 term govt is looking out-of-date...
Having been away a bit I come home to try to make sense of this.
I gather that David Cameron has made a video aping Sion Simon MP, effectively accusing him of abandoning all principles in his relentless (but hopeless) search for political success.
I agree this is total hypocrisy. Cameron should be ashamed of himself. Talk about Pots calling Kettles!
It isn't very funny, but Cameron's "webcameron" is utterly dire, so I'm hoping a real comedian rips it to shreds at some point.
I think we're missing the point. This chap is obviously "on message"; he wouldn't dare do anything that alienated his master(s). Presumably Gordon thinks that this kind of negative advertising is the way to get at Cameron.
His insulting behaviour on Sky news is another matter entirely. There seems to a trend developing (remember Gorgeous George on Sky recently) that it's OK to be rude to interviewers - because, presumably, they can't answer back. If this IS the case, PLEASE, PLEASE, don't let the Tories listen to the media trainers who advocate this. It may be old fashioned (and, OMG, I'm turning into my father) but good manners cost nothing but can cost you dearly if you come across as arrogant/out of touch/pig ignorant as this guy did.
ha ha
"Be quite an let me speak"
This guy looks like a complete numpty. Guess what is going to be on his oppenents campaign literture.
Obviously the increased traffic to WebChameleon will make the internet public realise what an excellent Tory Party leader Sion Simon will make in comparison to the real thing. Perhaps they will just miss out the middle man and migrate straight to Ali G?
"Why you dissin me? Is it because I is Old Etonian?"
Those NuLab politicians have such a great sense of humour I'm sure they'll laugh themselves silly with this one......
Tony Blair was visiting a primary school and was taken to one of the classrooms where they were in the middle of a discussion about words and their meanings. The teacher asked the PM if he would like to lead the discussion so Tony asked the class for an example of the word “tragedy”.
A little boy stood up and offered “If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in a field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be tragedy.”
“No”, said Blair, “that would be an accident”.
A little girl raised her hand: “If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.”
“I’m afraid not,” said the PM. “That what we would call a great loss.”
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Tony searched the room. “Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of tragedy?”
Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand. “If the aeroplane carrying you and Mrs Blair was struck by a friendly fire missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic”, exclaimed Tony Blair. “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Well”, says the boy, “It has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”
It would seem we have another dave the Chameleon moment and nulabour getting egg on their faces again,wonder if this was gordos idea cos its crap.
What an unfunny cunt.
Nothing about Webcameron seems aimed specifically at the "Yoof", in fact a recent post was Cameron's speech to the King's Fund, so Simon's cringeworthy attempt at satire really misses the point.
Funny too that he praises his "friend Tom Watson", because he was indeed rightly mocked a few years ago for some piss-poor "teens" page which I don't know whether is still there because his site seems down but it would surely come count as Grooming under recent legislation?
here's the direct link on YouTube if you fancy passing the URL to this utter twat around.
Be quiet then, while I speak!
Twat as a Journalist has become an even bigger twat as an MP - wasn't he at the "lets plot against Tony curry night" that led to that idiot Watson signing the shortest suicide note from an MP
Sion Simon being a former press hack should have known better - he has just given licience to an army of people picking over his life! I hope their are not any skeletons in his cupoard or shop soiled glass tables in his house.
He seems to be a bit depressed, his hair is a mess and judgement is poor.
You have got to feel sorry for the guy, maybe he has issues with swinging and children? He may have projected insecurities proxy of this frauden clip! Still you would be depressed if you had a sense of humour by-pass such as this. Simon should not get all the blame as his fellow MP filmed it. As Oaten found with his glass tables - not everybody is teflon and shit does stick!!! Boom Boom !!!!!!
Come on, chaps, show a bit of Christian charity to the poor soul. We ought to feel pleased that he's got a job, even if it is only as an MP.
Jobs can always be found for people who are stupid, ill-mannered, unfunny and physically hideous. But thank goodness New Labour is here; otherwise, who'd employ munters with a hairstyle like his?
It would have worked at 11 seconds, but at 1:11 it's just a horrible, mobius strip of a self-parodying parody. Does it get more amusing when you're drunk?
And I was unaware you, too, had male-pattern baldness sufferers who cope by growing the sad remains into mullets and covering them with a baseball cap. Clearly I have much to learn about the UK.
His articles in the Telegraph were equally dire.
WebCameron is ripe for satire but Simon's attempt is cringeworthy.
According to Simon's website. he started out as a research assistant to George Robertson.
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8:52pm raincoaster "Does it get more amusing when you're drunk?"
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Bloody hell, just imagine the political broadcast New Labour could make if Sion Simon, Tom Watson and Chris Bryant got together - that would be a real first i am sure! A real Crack a minute!!!
Girl hair and mean little Lenin mouth begging for a fist to be smashed into it.
"Be quiet strumpet! NuLabour man is speaking!"
That interview deserves a wider audience.
Yeah, the trio could start a new movement with oaten and call it the glass table club - they could reach places not previously covered!!!
This crop of MP's really do have to much time on their hands - has anyone seen the clip by Mark Oaten on youtube?
It really does bring having a shit day in the office to a new meaning.
Fellow plotter Tom Watson did something similar last week. The New Labour Al Qaeda, sucicide backbenchers' video messages from beyong the cave?
Not so long ago, Cameron would have been allowed to call him out and shoot this poltroon for attempting to besmirch his wife's virtue and his own honour as a gentleman. *sighs for ye good ol'days*
you know, after 5 seconds I was curious as to what was on th eTV behind him. Later, I was rather expectant that he'd do something shock/horror/funny...
I am left in a state of profound disappointment.
Guido, As a Catholic on a day when the vatican has re-approved mass in Latin you should like this. Please can we return to the other old practice of always saying where an MP represents. You should never just say the name of an MP unless he is a minister: you should say: joe Bloggs (L) S. Brum. That way it is the Constituency that is important, not the idividual that happens to be representing them at present.
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Anon 8:59pm & 9:03/06 "the political broadcast if Sion Simon, Tom Watson & Chris Bryant got together" and "Mark Oaten"
Like N Korea's Nuke & birkenstock wielding Greenpeacers, descending on the Guardian -- too much even for Guido's hardened Adult Bloggers
Is this woman hating creep's constituency having a recount?
What an arsehole.
If spoke to me like that I'd bop him one.
What are you all actually talking about.Politics? No. What then?
This Sion shitface prank is gonna rebound on Nulab just like the chameleon did.
How old is this prat supposed to be?
No wonder the jails are full;they keep putting us there for dealing with scum just like this without referring to laws, courts, psychiatric social workers or all the other nulabour bought-voters north of Watford.
Here's desperate Dan's excellent joke again but correctly punctuated, for those who don't want to be embarrassed if they send it to their friends:
Tony Blair was visiting a primary school and was taken to one of the classrooms where they were in the middle of a discussion about words and their meanings. The teacher asked the PM if he would like to lead the discussion so Tony asked the class for an example of the word “tragedy”.
A little boy stood up and offered, “If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in a field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be tragedy.”
“No,” said Blair, “that would be an accident.”
A little girl raised her hand. “If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.”
“I’m afraid not,” said the PM. “That what we would call a great loss.”
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Tony searched the room. “Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of tragedy?”
Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand. “If the aeroplane carrying you and Mrs Blair was struck by a friendly fire missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic,” exclaimed Tony Blair. “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Well,” says the boy, “It has to be a tragedy because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”
I cannot belive what I have seen on the Sky Interview. "As a Labour MP it is my job to see the party elected at the next General Election, er, as an MP it is your job to represent the interests of the people whom you claim to represent.
Anyone who has read Sion Simon's Telegraph articles will be aware of his stupidity, I can recall one in particular which was a rant against Mrs Thatcher, using "The Boys From The Blackstuff" as a rallying call, Quoting at the end of the article "remember the Boys From the Blackstuff? I do." Not as well as me matey, because I remember that the original play was written and filmed in 1978.
I cannot belive what I have seen on the Sky Interview. "As a Labour MP it is my job to see the party elected at the next General Election"
I don't know what pisses me off worse, Nulab MPs like this Spyon Simon letting the cat out of the bag that Nulab don't give a shit about their constituents or Nulab's Brit-hating MPs who keep spewing out this 'we love Britishness' crap.
Are we really paying this walking embarrassment £60,000 a year plus golden pension pot plus massive expenses to have crappy ego trips like this?
Which idiots in which part of the UK elected this nerd? I reckon they're due a refund.
'Politics', Bryan? What is this 'politics'?
I usually try and get a bit of bite and a little satire and piss take into my posts...but this is genuinely embarrassing on so many levels.
Firstly, as anon above points out, and rightly, this is an MP who we are paying great amounts of money to. Has it really come to the state of affairs when our elected representatives embarrass themselves like this? Is this genuinely the standard of mong that are being elected? Even one idiot like this being eleceted to the Commons makes a mockery of the UK. His video on youtube was silly, idiotic, mongish, and frankly, unfounded. Cameron I believe is trying to make use of technology, and why not? I suspect most of us here are in our forties or near it, or more.
His interview was also embarrassing in the way he handled it and kept trying to make cheap political points. The interview at best was bizarre, and again, this was an elected representative?
I agree with anyones assesment of his hairstyle etc. Throwback.
I suspect this whole thing is because he is uncomfortable with New labour, and wishes he was a Tory. He started in 2001 and looks set to finish his carreer early in 2009.
He is a jealous Torry wannabe...and a total tosser.
All I can say is that is this is the quality of MP we have now I am glad that I live in Spain and believe me the MPs here aren´t really up to much
Morrisox, the question is: where is politics? The answer is concealed from us all by this stuff.
forget that tosser
just seen Sky News, and believe me, when the Army openly disagrees with the Government over Iraq, this is as close to a coup you can get
wish this were Thaland
"With enemies like that, who needs friends?" as someone almost said
Bryan Appleyard said...
Morrisox, the question is: where is politics? The answer is concealed from us all by this stuff.
You really don't get Guido Fawkes blog do you?
People want to know the name of SiSi's wife, for the purpose of a nefarious scheme.
Gentlemen (well I guess most poster here are male) - I look forward to you condemning the next person who trys to get at Tony Blair through Cherie and his kids. My guess is that most of you won't and based on past form many of you will join in. Who said hypocrisy was the British disease.
This person won 16,810 votes at the last election!
How has he descended to such a low level of twatishness? I thought Blair/Brown/Blunkett/Prescott were bad but....
I hear he embarrassed himself on FiveLive as well as Sky...
Fantastic! more from Sion Simon!
Anonymous said...
Gentlemen (well I guess most poster here are male) - I look forward to you condemning the next person who trys to get at Tony Blair through Cherie and his kids. My guess is that most of you won't and based on past form many of you will join in. Who said hypocrisy was the British disease.
Don't talk such utter shite.
Cherie Bliar has put herself not only in the limelight, but in the main political limelight and deserves everything she gets and more. As to their kids...they did the same by their parents. Cameron has used his family to show he is a family man and nothing more. How many political statements has Camerons wife made? How much money has Camerons wife made from being his wife and screwing the electorate? How many dodgy deals on the back of her husband? How many times has Camerons kids been found drunk in the gutter?
Most people can't name Camerons kids or even his wife, but everyone knows, and despises Bliars wife and at least one of their kids.
This isn't hypocrisy.
Yours is sour grapes.
What a dickhead
What an oink. Am I really paying his salary?
He is cleverly making a statement of how people are seeing Wimpy Cameron And His Cameroonies.
Remember you Tories are in a quagmire and are seen as a load of posh eton scripted arsholes who the country as a whole cannot identify with,backed often literally by loads of bum boyos,gay acolytes and nodding totties.
Even your grassroot supporters are coy.
This ignorant twit's taking the piss out of the whole country. HOW MUCH are we paying him for this shit?
Straw's half heartedly condemned him, yet not a word from Blair or Brown. That figures.
Guido, please start a campaign to cut this imposter's pay. I refuse to keep this jerk in luxury.
Its just become a little bit clearer why this country is going to the DOGS!!!!!!!
The cat
http://www.ghostofhumphrey.blogspot.com
Guido, some of your correspondents appear to be in need of reassurance. One - Sion Simon is a despised constituency MP for Birmingham Erdington. Two - he has an ulterior motive for this disgraceful display. I can only surmise that he no longer wants to be an MP and would like to be deselected.
Should he be allowed to stand again the good news is that the internet allows us to ensure that his constituents will have their memories refreshed before they vote.
Who the fuck voted for that twat? I thought I handled him quite well, don't you?
You might be interested to see another interview he gave today to BBC News West Midlands:
Video Link
So, what IS the difference between a 'joke' and something that's just 'funny'?
well I thought Sion was much better than Ming Campbell on camera.
Surely he is to be promoted to the Brown cabinet on the back of this? On the Peter Principle of course.
Desperate, that's what Nulab must be to sink into the gutter in this way. It's not even funny, this bloke makes my flesh creep.
Why are Nulab incapable of grasping that it is just this sort of sick spin that drives their own supporters away?
No wonder the public are so scared of Nulab, if they'll slander another MP in this malevolent way, they'll do anything for a place on the greasy pole.
This Honourable Member representing a part of this great city of Birmingham deserves the highest honour this country doth bestow.
He stands firmly for his beliefs and that of his constituents.
Remember Tory wankers, this City is a no go go area for you.Cameron would not be welcome with all his mega posh twats.Hail Sion and the Midlands.
I was just reading about Sion Simon in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sion_Simon. He is a wanker who will go blind. And that joke is about as funny as his idea that Cameron would prostitute his kids.
Some people have mentioned the make up of his area. Put it like this he has 10 labour Councillors a liberal and a tory. The tory won erdington ward in may and is 23. I wonder if he or sion speaks for the youth in the area more?
Having seen the tw*t Sion S on the telly, I now understand what Peter Mandelson meant when he said in 1998 "that the age of representative politics was coming to an end"
My Blog
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This sick video by the Sion Simons is surely slanderous?
I can't see how Sion can avoid being severely disciplined by Parliament for such serious misconduct - surely a huge breach of Parliamentary priviledge?
The pathetic sicko should be banned from the House Of Commons.
Wasn't the beast of Bolsover, MP Denis Skinner, banned for far less than this?
SION FOR KING said...
This Honourable Member representing a part of this great city of Birmingham deserves the highest honour this country doth bestow.
He stands firmly for his beliefs and that of his constituents.
Remember Tory wankers, this City is a no go go area for you.Cameron would not be welcome with all his mega posh twats.Hail Sion and the Midlands.
Hmm funny you say that the tories run birmingham city Council Cameron and the shadow cabinet make regular visits I guess you just dont know what your talking about
SION FOR KING said...
This Honourable Member representing a part of this great city of Birmingham deserves the highest honour this country doth bestow.
Piss off, Sion, we know it's really you.
I saw this MP? interviewed in BBC Midlands Today by Nick Owen. I suddenly found myself cheering for a BBC regional journalist. Unbelievable!
I hear Nick Owen made mincemeat of him. Poor old Bob Piper is upset at the media bias. The ironic thing is that he slags Tories for doing anything to get on TV. I hope the meeja is descending on Erdington to see what his constituents think. Reality TV beckons for Sion.
CityUnslicker, Sion was nowhere near as amusing as Ming Campbell on camera. At least in Ming's case you've got the suspense of wondering if he'll actually snore on-camera. In Sion's case, it was just the audience.
Interesting comments on the local radio, they stopped people in the high street to ask what they thought and an mp of 5 years had the shame of being considered useless and more than one pointed out a tory local councillor has done more for the area in the last year than he ever did! That cllr should stand against him!
Seeing that the lad was born in these parts, I thought I would give him my opinion in a way he could understand. So I e-mailed him. "Fe welais i eich fideo chi "you tube".
Hoffwn i dweud eich bod yn hollol floppy haired tosser."
It looks increasingly like the Brown camp were behind Simon's stunt. The cameraman was leading Brownite Tom Watson MP who was involved in the recent failed coup against Blair.
The local BBC news here in the Midlands also showed Watson in his own blog trying to lampoon Cameron.
birmingham - a city of 1 million souls.
about as big as say, Dublin, or Talinn or Cologne.
has anyone here ever visited Birmingham, for fun?
Having recently dumped Blair after years of slavish loyalty poor mad Sion is now attempting to please his new master Gordon Brown.
Gordon needs all the friends he can get but I suspect he will be disowning this one.
The Sky video of Sion Simon's interview does not seem to be working. I've "right clicked" and checked it's properties, comes up 0.00 length. Has anyone else had this problem or is it just me? Or has it been pulled?
anon @ 11:30pm: thanks. wiki page edited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%B4n_Simon
screenshot before it is reverted:
http://i10.tinypic.com/44l714k.jpg
Nice one ghost of john trenchard(12:52). Can you answer my query (12:51)?
"Cameron I believe is trying to make use of technology, and why not? I suspect most of us here are in our forties or near it, or more."
Actually, I'm only 23, whats more, I've been a blogger since before blogs ever entered the main stream conciousness and working for a blogging site for some time now. I'm not disagreeing with your assesment of Guido's readership demographic, I'm just saying, that even amongst younger people, I just don't think we think like this Moron Sion is saying we do, he's the one who's patronising us, not Mr Cameron.
One thing I hate as a young person is the way the media tells me what young people are thinking and it's so often utter crap. As far as I'm concerened David's site is a convienient way for me to keep up with Tory goings on, because Blogs are how I keep up with everyone anyway. Kudos to David for embracing it. I'd also like to agree that the Tory record for allowing debate from both sides seems far better than labours.
sky new - bit of a big fallout with the army...
Re my post 12:51, I've seen the BBC clip, but I'd really like to see the Sky News interview with Sion Simon. Can anyone help?
but what this Sion character is REALLY saying - "anyone who uses the internet is a baseball cap wearing twat"
in other words - for Nu Labour, the internet is a source of chavs, of fun, something to be not taken seriously.
yeah. right.
you only had to watch blunketts diary on c4 last night to see how arrogant and stupid nulabour are their grip on reality is tenuous at best.
Its simple really. Simon is mental.Its what happens when you see your lifestyle heading for the terminus. Blunkett has gone mad, Campbell is a manic depressive. It what Nu Lab does. And Tone is seriously deluded but is so far off the wall he appears normal. Trust me I am a doctor.
I think you are being terribly unfair to poor Sion. He got confused. He meant to refer to "Tony" not "Dave" in his clip - now that would have been funny.
I wonder if he has any other vids on You Tube...the ones that don't show the baseball cap......
immature dickhead
This won't impress female voters one jot, whatever their age - Labour's PR people must be cringing over this gaffe. From a female perspective I found SS's comments about Cameron's wife and kids tasteless, and a bit creepy. Looks like Labour's returning to the good ol' self-destruct mode they operated in up until Tony arrived. Now he's going, the gloves are off, the mask is slipping & we can no doubt look forward to more hate-filled, gratuitously offensive stuff, I expect - Labour just can't help themselves! All Cameron has to do to look comparitively good is maintain a dignified distance and refuse to be drawn in, which is what he's astutely done this time.
Sion Simon for King & Archduke -
As an ex-pat Brummie myself, I'd like speak up for the city's reputation and point out that not everyone from Birmingham is a t**t - just the ones who voted for Sion Simon in Erdington!! Hope these voters have learned their lesson. Brum always used to be "Tory town" and it will be again - especially if Labour and its supporters are so rattled by their opponents that they have to resort to insults and juvenile behaviour - try to grow up, kids and maybe we'll take you seriously!
"Sion for King"
Surely this is a slur on Jonathan King. Sion should see a therapist NOW.
It's bizarre that the Guardian is spinning this as having drawn blood and upset the Tories. I bet they're convulsed, all right, but perhaps with mocking laughter instead.
Gawd knows I'm no Tory, but please. This is so lame it's worse than useless as an attack; think of it as a man with erectile dysfunction trying to take your girl away at a party. Unfortunately, it's so lame it's not even amusing.
Someone needs to put some beats to this and make it funny: Popozao, perhaps?
Around 2001 Sion Simon wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph that was one of the most pretentious and self serving bollocks I have ever had the misfortune to read. I sent a letter to the Telegraph expressing my opinion. Needless to say the wankers there did not publish it.
I then forwarded the article to Pseuds Corner in Private Eye. Of course those very nice people promptly put it in their next issue.
Anyone out there know of any sites on the net where I can find that original column by Sion (idiot) Simon?
Thanks in advance.
Utter twat with a twattish haircut. Tory party secret weapon for sure.
Anon @ 8.49: do you mean the one from 2002 criticising Paxman's book on politicians?
8:47am Raincoaster ".. funny: Popozao, perhaps?"
Miaow, moiaw, maoiw
Er ... um ... how does one put this gently ... "Nie dankie, nie"
and I thought that things could only get better
after having a vision of Sion & a mob of birkenstock-wielding Guardianistas, irrupting into the Blogosphere
Tot siens
G a Cat
PS When you've run out of Pandas, please do not start eating cats
This is the kind of "humour" one expects from those desperately unfunny little tits who infest most student unions up and down the land. The Billy No-Mates geeks who spend three years desperately trying to get elected as Union Tea Boy and are despised by most of their contemporaries.
In my experience most of these unfortunates do eventually mature and become vaguely normal members of society. Sadly, such an evolution appears to have passed Mr Simon by.
Surely the good folk of his constituency deserve better than this, even if they are Brummies.
Still, I supose we shouldn't be too rude. After all, he's handed the Tories another chunk of Dave the Chameleon type publicity.
All this does is prove the old adage (which I've just invented) that scurrilous, tasteless, guttersnipe mud-slinging is never accep