Mirror's Maguire Brown-Nosing Into Downing Street
Kevin Maguire fantasises that he will be the Alastair Campbell of the Brown regime. He has Campbell's old job as political editor at the Mirror and certainly sucks up to Gordon enough to make himself a candidate to follow his predecessor's footsteps. Guido saw Maguire at the Milburn / Clarke website launch and wondered if he was actually there reporting or spying. It is also noticeable that of late he has been putting himself about giving "media training" to Labour party candidates and is increasingly seen at regional party events.
As well as practising his Brown-nosing at the Mirror, he is part of the New Statesman / Sith nexus, so it is no surprise that he was one of the few hacks to quote the recent discredited "Opinion Leader" poll. Maguire soothed Brownite nerves in the Mirror last week
As well as practising his Brown-nosing at the Mirror, he is part of the New Statesman / Sith nexus, so it is no surprise that he was one of the few hacks to quote the recent discredited "Opinion Leader" poll. Maguire soothed Brownite nerves in the Mirror last week
the poll that really counted this week may prove to be an Opinion Leader Research survey of senior public figures. Political heavyweight Brown was judged to "believe" what he says by 87 per cent, lightweight Cameron by 59 per cent.
Maguire claims the poll that mattered wasn't either of the two field-tested four-figure population polls from ICM and Communicate research, it was the one organised by Gordon's pollster, Deborah Mattinson, of 100 carefully selected "opinion leaders". Does he really believe what he writes?
If Maguire gets to be Brown's spinmeister don't expect a highbrow moral tone from the man who this week wrote of often dreaming of Margaret Thatcher's death and how "back home on Tyneside at the weekend, I found many a Labour voter eagerly awaiting the day [the] former premier is dead and buried." Strangely yesterday morning on Marr's BBC show he didn't recount his dreams to Carol Thatcher - who was sharing the sofa with him. Now that would have really livened things up.
When not dreaming of Carol's mother's death he calls Cameron "Druggie Dave, the Bambi Killer", which may be fair comment or an indication of the nature of the coming Brown onslaught on the poll favourite. If Brown appoints Maguire it will signal that he intends to fight a dirty, class-based political struggle which appeals to Labour's activists - a style reflected in Kevin's journalism that has helped the Mirror lose 25% of its readers since 1997. Can he do for his party what he has done for his paper?
If Maguire gets to be Brown's spinmeister don't expect a highbrow moral tone from the man who this week wrote of often dreaming of Margaret Thatcher's death and how "back home on Tyneside at the weekend, I found many a Labour voter eagerly awaiting the day [the] former premier is dead and buried." Strangely yesterday morning on Marr's BBC show he didn't recount his dreams to Carol Thatcher - who was sharing the sofa with him. Now that would have really livened things up.
When not dreaming of Carol's mother's death he calls Cameron "Druggie Dave, the Bambi Killer", which may be fair comment or an indication of the nature of the coming Brown onslaught on the poll favourite. If Brown appoints Maguire it will signal that he intends to fight a dirty, class-based political struggle which appeals to Labour's activists - a style reflected in Kevin's journalism that has helped the Mirror lose 25% of its readers since 1997. Can he do for his party what he has done for his paper?
71 comments:
What an obnoxious, cowardly git he is!
(i.e. the perfect man for the job)
Ha, ha! Rattled your cage over the weekend, did he? I saw what Maguire had to say about you in the latest New Statesman.
How do you respond? With a 'Brownite in Brownite behaviour shock' scoop. Cutting edge stuff, Guido. Maguire must be shaking in his boots. Did you send him a threatening email as well? I framed mine.
Here it comes... government interference with the bloggers..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/05/data_sharing_partii/
Seems like these f***ers are multiplying.
Maguires articles always make me chuckle his grasp of reality is either very weak or he is a lying weasel on the make....erm hard one that.
hahahaha
Guido subscribes to the New Statesman.
It take it you won't be bullying him with the threat of a libel lawyer?
Time to let loose the Hounds of Guidor.
Let's expose the twat for what he really is. I'm sure with his connections there's many a skeleton waiting to be uncovered.
I think anyone in ZaNuLabor who thinks that Gordimmo will bring some integrity back into the party is going to be greatly disappointed.
Lets hope he does launch a vicious class based campaign, as john prescott said
"we are all middle class now"
Most voters do not live in a Marxist fantasy world, unfortunately our government does.
IanP said...
I reckon they should ask Guido how he does it , it would save us millions.
How to tame the web for there purpose's ,they would be better chucking the money into the Thames.
You don't need a subscription to read Maguire: http://www.newstatesman.com/200703050021
the trolls and loony left is out in force today..
must be some bad news on the way, keep yer eyes open.
IPRESUME WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE REAL
Kevin McGuire
(double bass & vocal)
Raised in the Scottish Borders town of Peebles, Kevin has recorded and toured for a decade with ..... Most recently he has performed with Blazin Fiddles as a member of the popular With Strings Attached folk-pop touring project, and as a member of Eddi’s solo band. He is also a member of the acclaimed Scottish folk big band The Usual Suspects and much in demand as a session player.
A word from Kev:
"The musician I'd most like to invite over for tea is ... Watson.
A piece of music that really moves me is Shetland fiddle tune "Da Day Dawn".
One album I'll never get tired of is Josh Rouse's "1972".
The thing I like best about being a musician is going to amazing places and meeting people you'd never get to meet any other way: from the wee kids we met in a mountain village built into a rockface in Oman to singing in an ancient chapel in Armenia."
www.usualsuspects.uk.com
If this twat starts a "class war" based campaign Labour are fucked.
The vast majority of the middle class who voted labour will leave them in droves if they start that kind of bollocks.
Thinking about it like that, he sounds like the perfect choice!
12:38 PM
Guido is that all they have on you,Iam disappointed.
Clearly Tyneside is his spiritual home, and perhaps he thinks more of Britain should be like it. He's certainly backing the right man for the job in that case.
What a cowardly cunt.
Imagine saying he wished Thatcher dead, then appearing on the show with Thatch's daughter and not letting on?
Maguire, if you're reading this, you're a prick and your Mirror newspaper is on an intellectual par with The Sun.
So Gordon Brown plans to have an experienced journalist as his press spokesman - and Guido doesn't like his politics. Well knock me over with a feather!
What Gordon will need is a press spokesman with the impeccable morals like Bernard Ingham - now what did John Biffen say about him?
Guido you seem to be upsetting some people how can you do that after all your are only a blogger and these big guys are real jurno's,
Please have pity on them.
toryboysblahblah - you are Kevin Maguire and I claim my £ 5
Kev, as I expect he's known back up North is a candidate for head of the Smarmy army. Watching him on Marr yesterday he's so careful to nurture his image that he'll say anything.
I bet he's got more than a few skeletons in his cupboard, so let's hope he gets the gig with Gordo Broon.
why-aye man, me's name kevin maguiiiiiirrrre. ah talk lak a northerner, but ah lives in kingston upon fooking thames like. shine my fooking shoes guido.
Maguire is employed by the BBC as a regular contributor to 5Live's Drive programme. His conversations with Peter Alan usually follow the same pattern:
PA: What's going to be in tomorrow's paper Kevin?
KM: Cameron's rubbish/a toff/no match for Brown/etc...
Sometimes he alternates with Andrew Pierce of the Times and the conversation goes:
PA: What's going to be in tomorrow's paper Andrew?
AP: Cameron's rubbish/a toff/no match for Brown/etc...
It is interesting that Guido should hold Kevin Maguire responsible for the Mirror's 25% drop in circulation since 1997 given that Mr Maguire was Chief Reporter for the Guardian up until 2004. How did he manage it, I wonder?
Having just read the New Statesman piece by Maguire I was amazed. It read more like a schoolboy/rag week mag of years ago than (serious?) political journalism. No wonder the Mirror's circulation has gone down.
If that's the sort of stuff he's going to do for Gordo then we can only say.....bring him on.
I wonder how much cash this champagne
socialist will give gordo for a peerage "lord brown nose of kingston upon thames" zero cred already mate.hes jumping on the gravy train just as it has a hatfield wot a mug.
anon 1:29pm - moonlighting
McGuire is scum - and cowardly scum at that. Far too afraid to say something so disgusting to Carol Thatcher's face. I don't like him, his newspaper, his politics or his Master (Gordon Brown) but I don't wish any of them dead - just out of our hair.
Who was it said who was "psychologically flawed"? That seems to apply to all these NuLab freaks - difficult to tell one from another.
All these trolls are revealing themselves to be the creatures they are - turn over a stone........
Go on Gordon, ppplllleeeaaassseee appoint this tosser - you'll give us a few more points in the polls and the only Labour MPs left after the election will be you and Dennis Skinner.
Having never read the Mirror in my life, I decided to have a quick look at the website. It seems Maguire's columns are written for an audience of children aged between 6 and 12 - all this 'Druggy/Diddy Dave' and 'Big Gordie' stuff is just fucking pathetic.
"back home on Tyneside at the weekend, I found many a Labour voter eagerly awaiting the day [the] former premier is dead and buried."
perhaps he did not share this with Carol because, if he had REALLY been out in the Bigg Market he would have found that the word 'former' is supernumerary in the above sentence!
I am fed up with this hateful, slimy tosser. Happily he is quite transparent and I, along with many others, have contacted Five live along the lines of 'Enough McGuire already'. And with some result, as his frequent contributions are no longer as frequent as they once were. As a classic floating labour voter, if he becomes Gordo's Ali, Druggy Dave will get my vote.
The mans a cunt.
But, he's only doing what others before hime have been doing for decades.
The only difference is that Maguire fails to set or meet any acceptable levels of ethics or morals.
To be fair to McGuire, you have to judge him by the competition and, Rawnsley apart (and Daisy is not TOO dim), they're a pretty rum crew. Marr....Robinson....Mrs Marr.... makes you long for 'Mrs Robinson' in a Hoffmanesque manner.
Finlelstein...Aaronovitch...... Why do our papers and TV channels provide charitable homes for student politicians who refused to ever grow up? And then that's back to Robinson!
At some unearthly hour this morning, I found on the TV Ann Leslie and Steve Richards talking across each other interminably, with some third party looking on bewildered while they tossed the single brain cell between them. Where DO they find these people who know absolutely NOTHING about politics but think they do?
Ann Leslie managed to totally kill the point that old people like Ming Campbell can still have sharp knives in their cutlery tray by making direct camparisons with herself who is of a most similar age. Bring back John Junor, all is forgiven!!! Steve Richards managed to state some bizarre 'givens' about 'hung parliaments' because someone called Steve Richards told him that they were so. And, apparently, Ming Campbell agrees with him in that 'Alan Milliburn agrees with Gordon Brown' sort of way.
Pass the sick bucket Alice!
..and here's Kev's insightful take in to the loans-for-lordships email leak:
"For what it's worth, I don't believe most of the so-called leaks on what the Premier may or may not have done come from the boys in blue. They are from Tories, dozens of whom have been interviewed in the investigation and make mischief with info they picked up during questioning."
Mischief making Tories it was then, Kevin. Presumably operating from No. 10 Downing Street, hidden behind a sofa.
Do I detect slight panic here Mr Fawkes? Fisty-cuffs perhaps?
Indeed; people should watch out if Maguire starts to spin the spin.
He is one of the best political journo's around - and notes many MPs to a tee - especially bruiser DDavis.
But remember -its all a game - i.e you scratch my back I scatch yours!
My question would be is he going to cost the taxpayer money or is Labour paying him.
The Mirror, thats not still going is it? next you will tell me the Star has gon broadsheet, or digital or suffink....Th Mirror...ha ha
SNP voter language please
we are above the behaviour of the rest
The BBC is owned by us, sells its programmes to youtube, hires fulham
babes to read the news and pays them
half a million a year and uses pinko hacks for intellectual debate. And I have to buy a TV license to fund all of this?
Tell me where do I live again?
Oh goody! I hope he gets the job! I have some dirt to dish on this ignorant twat of the highest order, and could make a few bob!
Katy Taylor-Richards said...
you scratch my back I scatch yours!
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What's a scatch, Guido?
Please, please, please don't let Kevin Maguire be given a job by Brown.
He's a none-too-bright jobbing hack whose mediocrity is compounded by chronic class chippiness. Given the various personal messes he's got himself into (more news to follow on that) I reckon he'd self-destruct within six months.
His combination of hubristic northern lad arrogance and concealed insecurity remind me of Derek Draper.
Draper blew himself up - so would Maguire.
This man wasn't the 'source' for RecessMonkey was he ? It would make some kind of sense ?
I just wish that Katy would scratch my back...
Is that the 'disloyal, discourteous and wrong' Tom Watson posting here? Has he no shame, no sense of reality?
Don't worry about that geordie twerp and jumped up ex-Mirror hack-on-the make Maguire.
Brown is just using him, as he has his nose in regularly on radio 5 and other low-brow soft-political chatshows and can give backstabber Brown a, largely unchallenged, plug.
In the final analysis though little Kev is no Ali Campbell but a lightweight getting in out of his depth. If he seriously intends hitching his wagon to Brown's failing campaign the Blairites have enough ammo on him to shoot his wheels off.
Brown loves to be surrounded by thugs and semi-literate oiks.
Tom Watson:
“I dropped a present for the new baby. I saw Gordon, but it was a purely social visit and just stayed for a cup of coffee. I did not discuss any letter and it would have been inappropriate to do so.”
bunker buds said...
Brown loves to be surrounded by thugs and semi-literate oiks.
.....and bumboys
I would love him to start a class war as part of the attack on Cameron and the Tories.
The Labour 'core' vote has cancelled its membership and fucked off to the LIbDums, Plaid Cymru, the SNP, Respect, SSP, BNP etc. etc. etc.
The only vote holding Labour together is wanker acolytes like Recess Monkey fucker and Cuntcillor Terry Kelly, and middle class Tories that will return to the Tories at the next election.
It will never happen but just think how delicious it would be for Labour to become the third party in the UK..the fun we could have with cunts like Kelly and Hilton, not to mention Macguire and Campbell etc....
What kind of person would want to fanatise about being a cunt?
He is one of the best political journo's around - and notes many MPs to a tee - especially bruiser DDavis.
You fucking moron...
Whats the cunt doing at the Miror then? Why is he backing that no hoper fucking Brown then? Why does he quote OLR as the one poll to take notice of?
Cunts like you are either dishonest, living in a parallel universe or delusional.
I wonder how Tom Watson feels: after organising an attempted coup against Blair, poor Daft Tom and his fellow muppets were left stranded by Brown who denied having anything to do with them.
What's it like being shat on by your cowardly two-faced turd of a leader eh Tom? Does it feel good eh baby?
Keep kissing Brown's arse and stay loyal to the Brown-cult though Tom as you've got nowhere else to go now have you soft lad?
With Brown's demise you and the other arse-wipes are toast in the Labour Party.
> And I have to buy a TV license to fund all of this?
Don't buy a TV license. I've saved hundreds of pounds by ignoring the TVLA.
Re Opinion Leader Research poll, the Market Research Society code of conduct has exacting standards with regard to opinion polling, for example:
'Q11 If the interviewer has a strong political leaning, is it not possible for them to sway the respondent?
A11 It is possible – but they would soon get caught out, and would be subject to severe disciplinary action. Professional interviewers are trained to exclude bias from the questions they ask, and indeed from every stage of the research, including sample selection. They also frequently have their techniques assessed by a supervisor.
The MRS Code of Conduct governs acceptable interview practice and all MRS members must abide by the Code. A researcher’s failure to abide by it may result in disciplinary action against them.' (ref - www.mrs.org.uk/media/opinionpolls.htm)
If anyone has a mind to register a formal complaint, then please refer to this page - www.mrs.org.uk/standards/complain.htm.
If the MRS invalidate the research, then Mr Maguire & The Mirror (and other papers) may be required to issue a retraction statement.
Speaking of Katy la-di-da TR anyone else see she now has pic in The Daily Sexess?
Pg 15....
Guido: Kevin Maguire fantasises that he will be the Alastair Campbell of the Brown regime....
Yeah right! Kev, you tosser. If you seriously think so, have a word, say with, Jeff Edwards, your fellow Mirror hack, and listen to what your colleagues think of you. You knob.
AntiCitizenOne said...
Don't buy a TV license. I've saved hundreds of pounds by ignoring the TVLA.
Ditto!
I don't know why people are getting so worked up about non entities, like Maguire and Watson. They are irrelevant, anyway the game is up. They have finally been rumbled.
The only thing dead is the New Labour project, just they are too thick to realise.
The Chinese have an old saying (they would) ' stand by the river bank long enough, and the bodies of your enemies will float by'
Well I'm sat on the riverbank, Chammpers on ice, and a nice Havana waiting to be lit.
Because the show is about to begin.
And tossers like Maguire won't make the slightest bit of difference.
They are Doomed, Doomed I tell you!
W.W.
Wassamatter Kevin? Why didn't tell Carol T what you thought of her mum when you had the chance? Too scared? Oh boo-hoo.
As for your moans about Guido defending himself if he thinks he's been defamed - just what are you saying? You mean we can print any old tosh about you and you won't mind?
For now we'll just call you a 'cowardly hypocrit' eh, safe in the knowledge that 'fair comment' is not libellous.
birkenhead labour
"he has shown the most appalling political ineptitude and has reduced the Labour government to a farcical grotesquerie without precedent in living memory"
Robert Harris on Gordon Brown and the 'success' of Tom Watson's coup.
William Wilberfarce
I wouldn't worry it's just a gentle debate.
I think plenty of us know what you new labour cum guzzlers mean by david davis' "secrets"
No body gives a fuck about that sort of thing anymore, (no im not saying he is a gayer)
if that's the best you cunts can do then hahahahah
You fucking bunch of never managed anything other than a marxist bookstore retards
Return to your constituencies and prepare for unemployment
Excellent piece Guido.
KM represents the truly nasty side of the trolls from all points heathen who control the media in London.
Nasty, embittered, envious & devious, I very much hope Cameron's team have the correct plan to deal with the bile and vitriol Brown is planning.
Surely, they must be the polar opposite, give credit where it's due, a balanced approach etc.
Brown is such an uncertain political operator his nerve will crack if Cameron survives the first three/six months of his annointment as celtic PM.
Obviously the Brown Broadcasting Corporation will be in there pitching for Brown but this politician has a very soft underbelly, chronic uncertainty.
What pisses me off about the oik
KM, is that he cannot resist an opportunity to spew forth at the first sight of camera and microphone. Sure the beeb I can understand, but why does Sky give him such air time?
He's a toilet cleaner's son from Newcastle, why is his opinion so valued?
anon 3.30
There is nothing I like more than a good debate.
But I don't like getting worked up over the likes of Maguire.
Anyway what is to debate, he is a tosser of the worst kind, thats a fact.
W.W.
The Hitch said...3.33
Oh you naughty boy 'gayer' - superb.
Laughed so much that I had to go and knock one out with my rabbit.
Not long now!
"Druggie Dave the Bambi killer",eh?
It is usually a fair indication of desperation and emptiness when they resort to simple name calling as a thought substitute.
Another of nulabs finest, a well balanced individual with a chip on both shoulders !
Why do I find it easy to imagine that mr maguire has some pretty tasteless skeletons in his cupboard, as alluded to by an earlier poster ?
People like Maguire must be positively encouraged to exercise their views and opinions about everything at every single opportunity. Only in this way can people in this country come to realise how truly awful life under Blabour has become for many and how much worse it may become under Brown and his tame poppinjays. Like Guido says, if this chap can bring down The Mirror in such a way that even the late Cap'n Bob must be gazing down in celestial envy at him, then who knows what he will be able to do to a whole country as spinner in chief.
Strikes me that all Brown is bring to the party is a bunch of no-hopers who are working on the basis of "buggins' turn" at being in power ... kind of like what would have happened at the last US election had John Kerry been voted in.
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