Spin Cycle : Caine Off to Bell Pottinger
Jonathan Caine, a former Tory Northern Ireland SpAd for Mayhew is going back to spinning. He has had previous with the Communications Group and is until next week still a SpAd on NIO & DCA until he joins Bell Pottinger.More stories of Tories off to spin merchants welcome.
Do email Guido names of newly minted Tory lobbyists...
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Its Dolly Draper all over again isnt it? )+:
Do Tory policy officers really call them themselves special advisers? How sweet.
Talking of spin, Irwin seltzer Ed Balls/Gordo cheerleading in the guardian seems to have been well received.
I always took SPAD to be an acronym for Signal Passed at Danger
they're not spads they're researchers to no mark tory mps.
don;t encourage them by using the term
it's like the lib dems and their "shadow cabinet"
Gordon's made himself look a right tit with his call today for immigrants to do "voluntary community work" before being granted British citizenship.
I wonder who advised him to come out with that one ;-)
MIRANDA,
In case you hadn't noticed, gordo could call for anything short of gassing badgers infected with TB and the beeboids would carry it as the main lead , announced in suitably reverential tones, as the top story.
Gordon Brown supports gassing badgers? Just shows there is some good in everybody after all.
Or is this a cunning plan to settle Millibland once and for all in an "accident", and take out a few badgers as collateral damage? Probably not. Megabland is more of an over-promoted hedgehog than a badger...
Brown was peeved by the generally positive response Cameron got yesterday to his call for border police so he was encouraged to come out with this immigrant volunteer nonsense as a response.
It's backfired and left back-stabber Brown looking even more of a two-faced, opportunistic lightweight.
No wonder Blair's not going anywhere until he can get a replacement set up to beat Brown in a leadership election.
Milburn and Charlie Clarke are getting the ball rolling again today and I hear one or two other senior Labour politicians have quite a few tricks up their sleeves.
I think all MPs from Scotland should be forced to do voluntary service until they learn to speak the Queen's English without a Scottish accent.
(and just in case I'm described as racist I'm a Scot...:-))
re: 1:35
"over-promoted hedgehog",
Now what have hedgehogs done to deserve this comparison??
P.S. did Gordon include all the EU immigrants in his grand plan?
'Brown was peeved by the generally positive response Cameron got yesterday to his call for border police so he was encouraged to come out with this immigrant volunteer nonsense as a response'
Genius. I refer fellow Fawkites to the first series of Thick Of It and the glorious 'Sponge Avengers' episode.
Abbot and his SpAds dream up an 'eye catching' inititaive involving clamping down on benefit fraud and fall over themselves anouncing, un-anouncing and re-announcing it.
Looks like Gordon's team is more inept than any satirist could imagine.
Also, was thinking this morning that we are looking at a proper meltdown for Labour. (The people calling You and Yours today to tall to the Sports Minister were amazingly hostile).
Will Gordo's 3 years at No 10 be even worse than Major's run-out?
Anon @ 1256:
Patrick Mayhew was Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 1992 and 1997. Therefore it's entirely likely that he employed Conservative special advisors.
It seems some people have forgotten that the Tories were actually in power once.
I assume the lack of posts on this thread means that Mr caine is more respected than Ms Pim!
I believe it is only researchers paid for out of Short Money who are called 'Special Advisers', although, as you say, it is a bit wanky.
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