Obscenely Hypocritical Guardian
Leader, Thursday March 22, 2007
For richer, for poorerYou don't have to be one of those obscenely overpaid City analysts to recognise that the number one thing on Gordon Brown's mind yesterday was politics.
Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, was paid £487,000 last year. Obscenely hypocritical?
25 comments:
I've never understood how senior journalists justify their income. I remember reading Piers Morgan's book and thinking "how can he be worth that?"
Still it's a free market and if people are stupid enough to buy awful newspapers...
You have to laugh at the socialists who spend hours on the phone managing their investment portfolio and discussing their current tax avoidance arrangements with the tax lawyers...
Anyone know how much tax Sleazy Levy paid in 2006?....
What did David Mills (Mr. Jowell) do for a living?....
GORDON BROWN EATS A BOGEY
Sorry this is completely off topic...
But did anyone see Gordon Brown picking his nose and eating it during Prime ministers questions yesterday?
About 5 minutes 50 seconds in, after Camerons third question, Gordon picks his nose and then discretely pops it in the old cakehole
Follow this link (you need realplayer) copy and paste into windows internet explorer
http://video.twofour.co.uk/play/video.asp?videoID=2208
Scroll forward to 5 mins 50 secs
Do we really want a secret boggy eater to be prime minister?
Does Rubbisher actually write the leaders? I thought that was Kettle's job.
You only need to read the bile spewed out by Toynbee last year; you know, the Conservative Party's Great Hope For An Economic Future. Take her piece on taxation, entitled Taxes are a moral good, and avoiding your fair share is a moral disgrace where she states that,
Taxes do three traditional things: raise cash for public services, redistribute from richer to poorer, or induce people to change their behaviour - less drinking, smoking and driving cars.
Perhaps Ms Toynbee and Mr Rusbridger could be persuaded to demonstrate their transparency and reveal their tax returns for 2006 to us all while they are on their collective moral hobbyhorses?
Anonymous 1:06 PM
But did anyone see Gordon Brown picking his nose and eating it during Prime ministers questions yesterday?
Well I just watched that and felt my breakfast starting to move. From what I could see it didn't come out of his mouth again so that answers the old 'spit or swallow' question about the prat.
The nose picking and bogey eating incident has been commented on in this blog and in Iain Dale's blog.
But has anyone seen anything in the nationals?
If I were Gordon Brown's stylist I'd feel like shooting myself after all that effort with capped teeth, blow-dried hair, etc.
Perhaps Rusbridger's bloated salary will be cut down to size after New Labour is kicked out and the Guardian loses all those millions in advertising revenue it gets from the Government for recruiting diversity officers?
As for Brown's bogey eating activities, I saw him doing this live on TV during yesterday's PMQ's. I nearly retched up my bacon butty.
Only approx x 20 times average earnings.
Dear ole dear, Rusbridger is getting shortchanged by them guardianistas.
Perhaps if he were to give evidence for Conrad in Chicago, a quid pro pro could be arranged.
Brown eats a bogey!
Wait one minute do we really know what we are talking about!
http://www.anorak.co.uk/news/strange-but-true/165514.html
So Brown is only eating snot to improve his immune system?
It'll be compulsory next.
Analysts died out in the City after the dot com crash in 2001 (conflicts of interest, prison, that sort of thing). And those few that do work claim tax credits. Doesn't everybody who earns less than £100k a year?
Good to see our erstwhile dead tree editors are up to date with current trends.
anonymous 1:06pm
I'm afraid you're seriously misrepresenting the facts of this story...
the bogieman committed the act in front of the entire nation
ergo he is not a secret bogie eater
but proud to be sticking his slime-curd away
really anonymous, in this day and age a person's victual orientation should not bar them from public office
To...
I like my bogie butties crunchie (blf member) said... 3:14 PM
Sorry, I was quoting Derek and Clive
Winston Churchil secret bogey sketch.
I should have made that clear.
But you're quite correct, and I appologise for any distress I may have caused... except to Gordon that is.
sorry typos
* churchill not churchil
* apologise not appologise
there's probably more i can't get the hang of this computer malarky
How do you think the guys who run auto trader, or whichever respectable organ it is that subsidises the guardian, feel about being milked dry to subsidise toynbee, white and co ?
487K is peanuts. No wonder he's left wing, with a prole's salary like that.
The bourgeois left, love to criticise capitalist wealth, but think that they are above that if they make there money from (pseudo) intellectual or artistic endeavours, even though they are part of the same machinery except they don't have to worry about getting up early for work in the fucking morning and it is the people with proper jobs who pay their massively inflated earnings. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds! They have a horrible elitism that thinks that anyone making money from a normal job is greedy and undeserving and that they might buy the mansion next door and lower the tone of the neighbourhood! They think everyone else should be kept down so that they can feel superior. What a bunch of c***s!
> Still it's a free market and if people are stupid enough to buy awful newspapers...
Nope the Grauniad
a) Loses money every year.
b) Is subsidised by a Car Trading magazine.
c) has falling sales.
d) has the vast majority of advertising spend for extortion funded jobs.
geezer
Here Here.
However why do you call these slugs of humanity by the name of the only thing I really like? Although god knows why.
When I want to be really rude to these types of infestations I just call them by what they are, which is to my ears infinitely worse.
Just call them SOCIALISTS. In the same way they say TORY. It pisses them off something special.
Says the man with assets in the British Virgin Islands and who pays his tax in Ireland.
That's what they said in the Guardian on Tuesday and, errrm, corrected on Wednesday.
anonymous 3:46pm
apologies accepted...
I admit that I totally missed your literary reference
I do however see that this whole episode has a verdant lining...
if he had not come out in this very public way...
he could well have become a target for Al Quaida greenmail attempts
and we'd have ended up with a supermole as PM
"Perhaps Rusbridger's bloated salary will be cut down to size after New Labour is kicked out and the Guardian loses all those millions in advertising revenue it gets from the Government for recruiting diversity officers?"
What? Do you seriously think Cameron is going to shrink the state? All we are going to get under BlueLabour is a new fresh set of hands doing exactly the same damn thing. You want a smaller state? You want to really upset the Guardian? Do NOT vote Tory, vote UKIP.
First off - I found this because of your appearance tonight on Newsnight.
Secondly - what are the salaries of the editors of The Times, Torygraph, Independent? It's a market economy and if Rusbridger can pull that number - I don't see any inherent hypocrisy - subject to further information as to what he does with £487K (less taxes, of course).
If he's powdering his nose, having a swimming pool dug in the back garden, flying first class, driving some hot wheels, buying his 'significant other' or mistress trinkets from mines in Sierra Leone - we would indeed be witnessing big time hypocrisy.
On the other hand, maybe he has redistributed large amounts towards the usual good causes, tries to live by the values he expects of others and makes his mistress recycle her bottles and cans.
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