What Watson?
Tom Watson's constituency office is also the home of West Midlands Amicus Union (ex-employers of Watson). Relations have been somewhat strained between regional staff and Watson's constituency office since his resignation.
He's been none too popular, and this has affected even the family relations and been embarrassing for them. Watson's sister-in-law Joanna Watson works in the same building (just next door to his office) for West Midlands Labour MEP ultra loyalist and NEC member Michael Cashman, and Watson's younger brother Dan works part time for neighbouring MP and Social Exclusion Minister Pat Mcfadden, another ultra-loyalist and ex-Number 10 spin doctor. Watson has angered a good many people in his region, and it hasn't further helped good relations that he was overheard telling senior party officials in his constituency recently that he expects "to be back in government" after Gordon takes over in the summer. Which is a shame because his blog has improved greatly since he has had more time on his hands.
Gordon wouldn't reward the treachery that he has publicly disavowed advance knowledge of and claimed he would have advised against. Would he?
He's been none too popular, and this has affected even the family relations and been embarrassing for them. Watson's sister-in-law Joanna Watson works in the same building (just next door to his office) for West Midlands Labour MEP ultra loyalist and NEC member Michael Cashman, and Watson's younger brother Dan works part time for neighbouring MP and Social Exclusion Minister Pat Mcfadden, another ultra-loyalist and ex-Number 10 spin doctor. Watson has angered a good many people in his region, and it hasn't further helped good relations that he was overheard telling senior party officials in his constituency recently that he expects "to be back in government" after Gordon takes over in the summer. Which is a shame because his blog has improved greatly since he has had more time on his hands.
Gordon wouldn't reward the treachery that he has publicly disavowed advance knowledge of and claimed he would have advised against. Would he?
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Gordon wouldn't reward the treachery that he has publicly disavowed advance knowledge of and claimed he would have advised against. Would he?
Tight-fisted sociopathic swine like Brown? Reward someone? Show gratitude? Shouldn't think so
Elementary stuff...
I could stomach Watson back in government as long as Chris Bryant or Sion Simon never ever get to be PPSs again.
"Tom's a proper blogger" Sion Simon Oct 2006.
Still can't post any damned comments on his blog. It stands on zero out of four. I'm taking it as a back-handed compliment.
Take it back. Two have appeared. It's only the attempts to post around Tom's moments of madness that have vanished into the ether.
I seem to recall this complaint being made before... by some guy called Praguetory. Then there was this other complaint by another guy called... Praguetory.
So, using your own special brand of logic:
The only person who bitches and moans about this is Praguetory.
(and/or)
All Praguetory does is bitch and moan about this.
What a widdle whiny weenie.
Yup!
Tom has said to friends that he doesn't expect to be back in government automatically, and that it wouldnt be the end of the world if he didn't, because he's enjoying being a dad, a blogger and backbench MP.
As for Brown, at least he knows what loyalty is. Blair shafts Blairites in reshuffles. The list of so-called mates of his that Blair has done over is staggering. Sacked Mandelson twice - the second time in a blind Campbell-driven panic. Blunkett twice, the second time after giving him his backing and sending him off out of Number Ten. Derry Irvine made Blair, and Blair knifes him too. Blair gave Milburn the job of running the election capaign then ran off to Gordon when it went tits up, leaving Milburn with nothing to do. He got Dobson to run for Mayor then left him swinging when Ken beat him. Hoon took the rap over Iraq and so Mr Pretty Straight Kind of Guy demotes him twice. He sets Charles Clarke up to run against Brown, then fires him just after he said he had full confidence in him. I know who I would rather rely on in a trench, and it's not Blair.
And anyway, what's treacherous about telling the PM, to his face (well, in a letter): I think you should quit. Sounds like honesty to me, and thank God someone did it. Otherwise, he'd still be there this time in 2008. When he goes, they'll have to prise his fingers off the door handles, but at least we know now that he's history by end of September 2007 at the latest (and I bet he'll cling on to the very last second, the egotist.)
Tom, I've mentioned your unfortunate problem with accepting comments once on Guido's site here - where he was noting the same issue. It's not imagination - others to note your problems are here, here and here. Your blog seems to have moved from the secret society to a stream of consciousness. Sorry, if I don't like your drivel you loser.
"When he goes, they'll have to prise his fingers off the door handles"
Don't be too hasty with that assumption,
you know what they are like for freebies!
Poor Praguetory... he's so emotionally worked-up that he can't tell his Toms from his Tims.
(plays world's smallest violin)
wee wee wee wah wah wahhhh
Tim, you have the emotionally worked up political website I've ever seen. Your previous comment was also untrue, so crawl back under your rock.
Would be v. surprised if Brown calls upon the dubious services of the Deserting Rats of September'06. A pawn is a pawn - & a trouble-maker is a trouble-maker (cf C.Short, P.Mandelson, D.Blunkett). I'm sure there are some wonderful wooden-spoon appointments to be doled out instead, in the nether regions of the People's Party.
Praguetory - get coherent... "you have the emotionally worked up political website I've ever seen". Wtf?
wee wee wee wah wah wahhhh
So which part was untrue? Specifially:
[insert answer here]
The untrue bit was that the only person who has pointed out that you can't get comments posted on TW's site is me.
The website I am talking about is your personal attack on the Guildford MP. Tim, you're a simpleton... you are going up a blind alley. That's me done.
PragueTory and tim
Handbags at dawn.
Tim you're obviously a prize twat.
Prague you seem like a decent sort. What the rest of us want to see are photos of eastern european strumpets in white vinyl thigh length boots and thongs who will suck your balls off for £5 and a plate of goulash.
Maybe you have some photos that you could share with us?
the goulash sounds good
Must say Tim, I've struggled a bit with your blog...it was so many bits all over the place and no real definition. Maybe you should have an opening statment about what you are trying to achieve....Jings I sound like a 'consultant'...
meanwhile back at the Watson case, surely Watson was the guy that was stuffed, given Broon's lack of a back bone in following though the Palace revolution in the summer, he just folded in under pressure...God knows what he will be like if he ever gets to be PM...
Peter Hitchens said:
"strumpets in white vinyl thigh length boots and thongs who will suck your balls off"
Oh, do they have them there as well?
And I was looking forward to a get away from it all holiday
Guido.Do you think that a 'Labour Sleazeometer' might be in order?One of the problems with media impartiality is
that they will not criticise without ABSOLUTE proof.As we all know and as Iraq showed once more,sleaze is carried
out by word of mouth.There won't be any proof--hence no criticism.The Labour Party use this to their
advantage.They allow perhaps 2 weeks for the story to die down (during which period Blair often goes abroad to be
statesmanlike).He then returns and makes a speech about the 'path ahead' and many Labour initiatives are
launched,the vast majority of which are soon thereafter dropped.I believe this is at the root of the 'Teflon
Tony' myth.As the vast majority of us aren't interested in politics until election time.Labour's wrongdoings fall
from the memory like sh#t from a shovel.Unless the man in the street is told by what he believes to be an
authoritative source that Blair/Labour has done wrong,it will be disregarded.Perhaps you and 4? others could form
a 'sleaze panel'!?.People who know how politics is 'done' and can make a judgement as to the credibility of the
government's 'excuse/reasoning' for their action not being sleazy--A 'credibility index'.You could have the
Current Labour Sleazeometer and the Cumulative Labour Sleazeometer.The panel would give their weighting to the
severity of the sleaze episode through their knowledge of politics and the cover(up) story by the credibility
index.Place these surveys freely on any website that wants them and you've got a memory aid that I think would be
very usefull.Just hold your mouse over/or click on the image for detail etc.
Splashitallover has said it all here. Brown rewards loyalty where Blair stabs his friends in the back. Not just his political friends either.
The difference between a leader, a great leader and a follower is well represented in history.
We've had loads of leaders everywhere and in every field.
Everyone of them have a place in history.
A great leader is the one who stands out in history and they stand out for one reason.
They knife their friends if they have to. If they don't, then they have a friend for life.
Napoleon, Thatcher, Churchill, Blair. You'll remember this crowd forever and a day but do any of you remember Geofferey Hauge a couple of Tory leades ago? No you don't. Not one of you.
He was the bald headed cunt who ran around Alton Towers telling us that we're all doooooomed if we don't vote for him.Fuck off knob.
Great leaders make decisions that hurt almost everyone.History has been good to this type of figure.
Gary
'Geofferey Hauge'.....unusual, I must have missed him being Tory leader......
Guido,
Now there's me thinking that the man who wants a lobby pass would at least phone to verify this story.
For the record: I do not want to go back into government whoever leads the Labour Party. I'm very happy being a constituency MP.
I may be ending the careers of the regional staff by saying this but I have a very good relationship with all of them.
And just for Praguetory - sorry to offend you. Regular bloggers will know that my blog has a reputation for being cranky. For a crucial 72 hours in September the server was down. This used to happen a lot. We have now moved to a shiny new machine and it seems to be working fine. All your kind and thoughtful recent comments are up there for the world to read.
Tom
Hmm
'Napoleon, Churchill, Thatcher and Blair'. What else do these four have in common?
Tom / Vote Counter,
Phone you to ask did you embarrass your relatives?
Why? What would you have said?
Tom - I'll put a sock in it and give you the benefit of the doubt. I never took it personally (the fact I couldn't post) just thought that the timing was uncanny. I'm not done with your mate Sion, though, not by a long chalk.
I'm an overweight opinionated member of parliament, I embarrass my relatives all the time. That was the only accurate bit of your post. But you know this.
The bit about returning to government is the inaccurate part of your post. But then I suspect you know this too. You are asking people to comment on a story that isn't true. It doesn't do you or political bloggers any service. Then again, why am I bothering to say this to you? You know all this as well.
And Praguetory - you're welcome on the site whenever you like. I like your style.
If you promise never to return to government GUIDO WILL ISSUE A FULL RETRACTION AND APOLOGY.
Deal?
wow, thats a hell off an offer Gudio...how can he resist it..
It shouldn't be neccesary but to amuse you:
I promise never to return to government.
Good enough?
wouls someone tell my brother that he has embarrased me and I'm not speaking to him.
Would someone tell my sister(who i'm not speaking to and embarrsses me) that I'm not speaking to our brother either, because he's embarrassed me.
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My goodness, it appears you people don't have ritalin or prozac over there. Won't the NHS cover anything anymore?
Even though I never read or listen to a word my Brother says, I most certainly don't agree with what he has just said or written.
As for my other brother, who I don't speak to or read anything he writes, if I did read his blog higher up, I wouldn't agree with it either. And what's more I don't.
So you can all mind your own business and that goes for Tom and my brother as well.
Oooh, am I allowed to be deeply offended by that personal attack? Let me call my PR team, so they can prepare the Victim Kit.
I'm not speaking to him either.
he well and truly fucked me up!!
Everyone thinks I'm a fucking idiot.
Even I think I'm a fucking idiot.
Even though we don't speak, read or believe anything we all write, we do at least concur that you are, Sion, a complete fucking idiot indeed of the highest order.
Love thy neighbour
I'd like to intervene into the Tom, Tom's sister and Tom's brother fued if I may and also offer an inside into the embarrassment caused....but before I do, I'm feeling an eastender moment coming on....
'Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summers lease hath all too short a date....
Ok, i'm back.
I find this all too much to bear that nobody speaks to one another, so i shall go back to my dressing room and cry.
Long live Tony (but not his heir)
Tom!
Come to my office at once!
Clear your desk first!
Yestomcometohisofficeatonceandclearyourdeskfirst.
ooohiloveauthority
Why's everyone having a go at me?
what have I done wrong this time?
Give me a break will ya?
I'm an idiot and I fucked up OK!
But Tom put me up to it, didn't you Tom?
Tom? Tom?
Don't speak to him sion.
Don't listen to her sion and don't speak to him either.
Oh yes yar deed Tommy laddie, oh yes yar deed.
I'm naye gonna tak the rap fer thee, wee bonnie laddie.
And i'll naye let thee drop it on a wee innocent little sweet bonnie lassie like sion simple simon either!!
It was thee tommy allll allllang.
So tak thee humiliation like a good anglish sassanachhh that thee truly are..
Och aye the nooo.
But Gordon...er..er...I don't know who you are and i've never met you before and i've never been to scotland. ask anyone in Birmingham. They'll all back me up.
THE FUCKING HELL WE WILL
Hoots mon, hoots!
O yes yee were bonnie laddie an there'zz naye gatting awee we it.
There'zz more chance of seeying nessie, aye there izzz, than of thee being no in Scatland on that dee, sweet bonnie laddie.
Yee fucked me up and i'll naye forget it. Och aye, i'll naye forget it.
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Ahlll show thee power Tommy lad.
When I take the throne, I'll show you what power is all aboot!!
Ye could have come to me and not broon. But ya dinee, did ye! Ye had to go to broon and suck up ta heem.
Wellll it's mee allll thee wee and I'll have me revenge wee bonnie laddie. Aye that I will.
It curtains for yopu Tommy lad and that goes for simple simon too.
yeel be swimming with the wee beastie soon enough, that's fir sure. All promise ye that!!
"I promise never to return to Government. Good enough?"
Tom Watson.
No it isn't.
Who's a naughty boy then?
Who's a fucking naughty boy then?
I don't mind anyone having a bit of fun at my expense, but please try and keep it civil and respectable at the very least.
Leave my parrot out of it you fucking idiot!
What have I done now???
Why does everyone blame me!?
Give me a break, Tom. Give me a break.
Don't speak to him Polly, he'll only embarrass you!
How can I not speak to him. I'm the only fucker that does!!
All he ever keeps saying is: Who's a naughty boy then??
I just keep saying, over and over again: You, you soft cunt!
But it just doesn't sink in!
For fucks sake, someone get me out of here!Could you stand his ugly mush in your face, telling you that you're a naught boy?
NO!! Then how the fuck do you think I feel????? For fucks sake please come and ring my fucking neck!!
Tom, ignore these common working class thugs and come and join us higher class people.
I've got an expedition to the South Pole coming up and I'd like you to hook up with me.
There's no need to bring a sleeping bag as I've got a very big one (indeed) big enough for the both of us.
I reckon that you have breached my Human Rights under the European Convention of Human Rights and If this ridicule continues, I'll ask for proceedings to take place in order to restore them fully.
fraternally yours,
Tom
Trouble is Tom, we couldn't give a fuck about you either.
Nor could we give a monkey's about the simpleton with the funny hair.
Your parrot is another matter though.
Resolution 1672:
We demand that the parrot be spared anymore misery and be set free. We further demand that the fugitive, known as, 'Simple' Sion be transported to the Hague to answer the hair question.
We further demand that, 'by all means neccessary', Tom is spared the responsibility of further responsibility.
This is more like it.
Tony, I'm not responsible for any of this and these two clowns are also innocent....I'm...very..er..........loyal.
liar
That's not what you told me Gordon.
You said I could be the Foreign Secretary if I fucked Tony up!
Gordon, you said I could be the Foreign Secretary if I fucked Tony up. Does the offer still stand?
Hang on a minute, I'm going to be the Foreign Secreatry, aren't I Gordon?
Oh for fucks sake!
Am I going to have to endure this twat saying over and over again:
'Who's going to be the foreign secretary then?'
Who's going to be.....
For fuck's sake I beg you to ring my fucking neck. PLEASE!
Think yourself LUCKY! I've been trying to wring my own fucking neck for years!
I thought I was a cunt, but this pair take the jippatti.
You are! we are loyal and ..er upstanding people members.....and know...er...what's the difference..between er..erm right and er wrong. Don't we simple Sion?
Er...yes, Tom. If you say so.
You know the difference between right and wrong?
The fucking hell you do!
Osama,. would you like to be the Foreign secretary
I think you should veil, Tom, I really do.
Veil or no veil, we will always be with Tom, but not the fucking infidel simple Simon.
Tom, if you want to come up here and sit on this mountain top and talk to no fucker at all, you're more than welcome.
It will probably be a step up in your now shattered career.
Yeah, fuck him off!
Tom, I'm so embarrassed about what you have said and done that I have no alternative but to resign from reality forthwith.
I can no longer be associated with anyone from Birmingham who holds such views or commits such an act.
I really do feel sorry for your parrot.
Sion is a fucking idiot and you took advantage of his simpleness.
I'm going to Iraq where normal people live.
Goodbye.
Tom, they take the piss out of us, but they will never get me to let our secret out of the bag. Trust me.
Shut up you crazy fool. These walls have ears!! Keep it shut,it'll blow ove very soon.Just be quiet.
Sounds nice!
Can I join in? Can my coffee table join in to?
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