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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Beermatters

Not a photoshop job, genuine campaign beermat from Blears. Wonder where they were when thought up that idea?

61 comments:

Anthony Thompson said...

I guess they figured out the only way people would vote for her is if they're convinced whilst drunk.

gammarama.co.uk said...

She could launch her own beer... I bet it would taste like piss.

mitch said...

I spose she would look better through the bottom of a glass.If anyone can spin a room its the chipmonk.

scroblene said...

Morning Guido,

Do you really mean 'rom' Blears? They do make great coasters!

I used to aspire to be the beermat flipping champion, New Inn, Winchelsea, 1969. Forgot how many I did, but it went dark for a few seconds!

I think I'd just leave this one upside down; it hurts the beer you know!

angryharry said...

Whenever I hear that woman's name, I hear the phrase "Nasal Hairs", because that's what my missus calls her.

Can anyone who has seen her close up confirm if her nostrils are particularly hirsute?

It is an issue that concerns me deeply.

Alan said...

Delusion ? At her site the strap-line is "We must build on our successes and make politics matter"

Shouldn't take long then ....

ALan Douglas

Ratty said...

Very appropriate given their history of organising piss ups in a brewery.

Anonymous said...

Hazel's website includes a blog, but unforrtunately it has no entries. I don't think she's quite got the hang of it yet. Is there not a team of civil servants who can write it for her?

The Reporter said...

On another planet where they have been for some time.....

Richard Havers said...

Your typo made me think Guido.

Rom Blears. Will she, before long, be someone who we'll only read about as a memory?

Charlotte Corday said...

The Blears' campaign gift shop has been creating a lot of merriment on the BBC's points of view forum after yet another gabbling, grinning, gibberish performance from the chipmunk on QT.
I wonder what the sales figures are?

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...

Typo fixed.

actuary said...

Guido, perhaps the biggest scandal of the decade has been revealed in the Times today. That is: why did Gordon Brown deliberately set out to destroy the British pensions system against the warnings of Treasury officials?

Was it to grab £5billion a year in tax, partly, no doubt, but was there a more sinister reason for it?

Did Brown deliberately intend to impoverish millions of British people after retirement so that they would have to depend on him and go cap in hand for means tested benefits?

It's no wonder he's referred to as Stalin. Is such a creature fit to e Prime Minister? I thinkk we should all be very worried.

The Times March 31st
Pension timebomb – Brown defied advicelen Nugent
Gordon Brown defied repeated warnings from his own officials about the potentially devastating impact of his £5 billion-a-year raid on pension funds and went ahead with it regardless, The Times can reveal.

Pensions campaigners described the revelations — the result of a two year battle by The Times — as an absolute disgrace, and said that it showed the Chancellor “knowingly set about destroying” Britain’s pensions system.....cont

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/pensions/article1593939.ece

Theo Spark said...

Isn't that whining for labour.

Richard Havers said...

02.47 post....must have beena good wedding! Your devotion to duty, by being up so early, is comendable

Man in a shed said...

What that says is: this candidate looks good through beer goggles ! (And maybe taller too.)

Julian said...

"Hazel Beers: Downed all over Westminster, just like her chances of being Deputy Prime Minister"

You forgot to include the link to where the logo actually comes from. Note that this video comes with a warning not to allow young children or those of as tender disposition to watch - repeated nausea attacks can be damaging to your health.

Agent Provocateur said...

Hey Guido, it is a drip-mat, so it seems appropriate to me.

dark avenger said...

A bit late and off-topic, I know, but I've only just caught up on the Newsnight item.

You were stitched up by a pair of supercilious prats who both drink at the same public-sector funded trough. There was never any way that they would give you a fair hearing.

I trust that we will can look forward to further coverage of Mssrs White and Paxman in the near future...

Chin up - revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Anonymous said...

Were any Chipmunks hurt in the making of this beer?

It gives a new twist to the phrase 'bleary-eyed' after a previous good night on the p**s.

backwoodsman said...

actuary, browns' pension raid is no worse than what milimong and his predecesors have tried to do to agriculture and rural dwellers.
Classic stalanist / nulab tactics, try and destroy those you perceive to be enemies.

Anonymous said...

I see the bogeyman is in deep do-do because he received advice that his raid on pensions would cause hardship for those on low-incomes, but went ahead with it anyway.

Report on BBC website

BOF2BS said...

Presume this is the belated caption competition.

So here goes:

We started by extending the licenscing hours to 24 hours a day so
we're all bleary-eyed now.

Anonymous said...

Like the old Labour party advert printed on toilet paper;
"Go with Labour"

World of Jack said...

Was it inspired by Patricia Hewitt?

death of a bogeyman said...

Wot, no more comments on the Brown pension grab scandal?

Brown is fucked over this but you would prefer to go on about feckin beermats.

Oh well back to Iain's.

Cassandra said...

of course Gordon ignored Treasury officials re pensions. From 1.5.97 a key New Labour line has been "I don't want to hear about problems, I want solutions". Any senior official who wasn't "solutions focused" i.e. warned ministers of the potential downside of whatever they wanted to do was labelled "resistant to change" and thrust into outer darkness (i.e. usually paid off at taxpayers' expense) to be replaced by a party member on a fat consultancy contract who was happy to keep paying lip-service to any idiocy while trousering the cash.

Tuscan Tony said...

Dark Avenger - served cold, shurely?

Hazel Beers, presumably what her other half quaffs, when he's feeling a little Bleary.

Anonymous said...

Brown still in denial about crippling,'the most successful pensions industry in the world.'How can you respect somebody who continually denies the bleedin' obvious? Do not,if you can help it,grow old in Brown's Britain;that will be his true legacy.(Sorry, beermats don't do it for me.)

The Hitch said...

considering that the poisonous dwarf is one of those women who are of the deal height at which to balance a pint on their heads I think that the beer mat is an inspired idea.

Savonarola said...

The politicised Treasury can spin all they like. Brown (IQ 180) is a fucking idiot from the closeted world of political anoraks. All theory and no fucking common sense. Gutless gormless staff (Balls you supertwat) are all accessories to this destruction of the pensions/savings industry. This stupid bastard malicious attack on savings seemed so idealistic on paper but the twat just does not see the end result of his of so clever tax raising schemes. May he and his family rot in the poorhouse. What have you to say Bow and Scrape?

dark avenger said...

tuscan tony 2.11 pm

Sorry - you're right, but you live closer to Sicily than me!

My excuse for using the word "eaten" is that I've been watching that video of Gordon Brown too much and...

...excuse me for a minute, I think I'm going to be....

el Tom said...

"Wonder where they were when thought up that idea?"

Same place they were when they decided she'd make a good deputy leader.

Anonymous said...

Yes, where's that cunt Bhownaggree, can't wait to hear what bollocks he has to spout about Gordon's newest predicament.

mitch said...

I wouldnt say to gordon "mind that dog shit"cos he would tax it.

Julian said...

My better half suggests that Hazel Beers would be quite an apt name for the Salford Stalinette's own brew:

CAMRA notes - A rather short, pale ale known for its high levels of toxicity (may contain botulinum toxins - check before tasting) with an insincere body to it and leaves a nasty after-taste upon consumption which can make further draughts very hard to swallow. Unusual for this area this brew comes with a vivid red head, which may change colour according to the favour of the master-brewer.

Personally I still prefer Hitch's view - she's of the right height to be the perfect bar table.

4fawkessake said...

Don't call it half-witted. Half-witted would be an improvement. Among NuLab's many other achievements -- destroying Iraq, out-sleazing the Tories, putting the SNP on the road to power -- they've utterly discredited the idea that more wimmin in politics is a Good Thing.

Anonymous said...

Is this chipmunk campaign anything to do with the fuzzy ginger image you get when tipping up and viewing from the bottom?

fruitcake said...

Julian, I went to see that dwarfs youtube vid as per your comment.

I survived 1 minute and 30 seconds before my brain went numb...all this without alcohol.

But I hate you for the link now.

other half said...

Blair is planning to drop Brown in the shit this week over the pensions mess. He's been waiting for this opportunity.

Anonymous said...

Weazel Blearghs video...

Hazel Beers: 100% reality free

pissed off said...

Gordon Brown stole my pension

World of Jack said...

It's Gordon's Black Wednesday...just three days later.

Cassandra said...

where are all those golden oldie happy pensioners now?

archie wedderspoon said...

Mitch 5.15.pm - how would Gordon tax dog-shit? My mind frankly reels. Perhaps inspiration would come if I picked my nose.

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Anonymous said...

other half 6:37 'Blair is planning to drop Brown in the shit this week over the pensions mess.'

Hasn't happened yet - and to be honest I bet it won't now - but I shall watch out with interest. Someone's got to shaft the thieving bastard.

Anonymous said...

Piss up, in a brewery, spring to mind.

true blue said...

They should have put the advertising stuff for the Chipmonk on a nice soft roll of toilet tissue !

bhownaggree said...

Oh, how delightful, I see I have been missed! I await the flowers in my dressing room - red roses please (of course).

As for the £5bn, the tax relief was abolished to pay for the increase in pensioners' tax credits. The tax relief which benefitted those with the largest pension pots absolutely disproportiately happened to coincide with the a larger stock market devaluation than 1987, and the largest since the Wall Street Crash. It was the "Dot Com" boom - not a tiny £5bn redistribution that caused the current difficulties.

What is not in doubt is that the Turner Report will fundamentally reshape British pensions for the benefit of almost everyone.

As for Blears, she is starting to get quite strong support amongst a lot of "Blairite" Ministers, who may have concerns over Brown, but would never back a Blairite candidate against Brown because of the neccesity of party unity (the public don't like disunity - hence the Tory emphasis on Milibrains). If a big union declares behind her I'd place a wager...

Observer said...

Her face should be in the centre so the beer glass sits on it

Acromac said...

New bumper sticker:

If it's Brown, flush it

Acromac said...

recent bumper sticker

If it's brown, flush it

cheers haze! said...

mine's a bitter (from the wood)

true blue said...

What is it about you boys and bottom stuff ? I am a very serious not Bum Blogger ! just returned home from a C of England Christening The vicar was such a Prat that I`v had to take a little of T`holy water meself Aye its good stuff!

Anonymous said...

Anyone noticed tat her website is hosted by some B&B in the Scottish Highlands. Go to that site and it appears that it is the brother of a bog time Labour lobbyist!

James said...

She may beer, but she's definitely a half-pint.

FootnoteHooligan said...

Just one Blears
would require many Beers:
NAUSEA.

FootnoteHooligan said...

Why does this awful woman make me feel like I want to vomit?

Anonymous said...

Blears is what you feel like when you've had too many Blairs.

Anonymous said...

The beermats have been produced to accompany a bottle-conditioned porter carrying the label Hazel Beers - brewed by an award-winning brewery based in Salford. It would be pretty pointless just producing beermats wouldn't it?


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