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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Is It Local?

In general Guido doesn't do local stories unless they have national implications because they are (a) of local interest only (b) incredibly involved (c) boring. Also they invariably involve tales of petty corruption which would require resources that Guido does not have to validate. The Sunday Times has the resources to put an undercover reporter into Labour's Leeds party operation to uncover corrupt Postal Vote practises. Guido does not and sticks to Westminster stories.

There are plenty of local focus blogs that break local stories, Greenwich Watch does what it says on the tin to great effect and the annoyance of the local council. The blog billed as the "Welsh version of Guido Fawkes" goes from strength to strength. Despite a certain similarity www.ArsemblyWales.org will not be confused with the official ww.AssemblyWales.org. Some tribute sites are better than others. This one has a few other stylistic similarities that co-conspirators might recognise
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82 comments:

public eye said...

Sorry OT but I see that New Labour in league with the Observer and a stooge at the Palace are today trying to discredit John Yates.

It's an attempt to provide Goldsmith with ammunition to throw out Yates' recommendations to prosecute Blair's coterie.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2068168,00.html

there's something nasty round the corner said...

Why concern ourselves with local elections? The Great Gonzo Gordon said on ITV today that the only election that matters is the General Election.

Perhaps The Great Gonzo intends to scrap local elections when he becomes El Presidente?

Anonymous said...

that welsh blog is pretty good, to be fair.

mitch said...

Off topic i know but to all u nulab trolls reading on here, your leaders legacy just killed a boat load of iraqis 20 explosions this morning.Is this the sound of a healthy young democracy or a fucking disaster??.answers on a ballot paper may 3rd.

backwoodsman said...

re Leeds story :
Nulabour = SERIALLY INCOMPETENT
CRIMINALLY CORRUPT

watch the beeboids avoid that one !

Clive B said...

Posting on a Sunday morning when you should be recovering with a hangover .... are you feeling all right Guido??

Anonymous said...

arsembly is hilalrious!

Anonymous said...

Guido,

I suppose you read the 'national story' in the Observer about 'Pole the Mole' and his former 'Foreign Office' chum (er that is 'spook' to you and me) Sir Robin Janvrin at the palace?

Sir Robin really didn't like our friend Yates sticking his nose in where it wasn't wanted so, no doubt, he must have appreciated Moles empathetic nods on the subject.

Similarities abound. Yates just didn't run after the bones that were tossed to him in that Burrell affair thingy. He had an irritating habit of running off at tagents trying to unearth evidence on irrelevant matters like that car crash in Paris. Have his wayward instincts surfaced again in the Cash for Peerages row?

Still, Mole can draw some comfort from the fact that Sir Robin wasn't charged in the Burrell business. Interesting portent don't you think?

Regards,

Spook Buster

throatwarbler mangrove (deceased) said...

Having read the article Yates comes across as a decent, good, investigative copper - the rest of them (Pole, Janvrin etc) come across as complete cunts.

If Goldsmith throws this case out then God help us all. We'll need to call upon our Italian cousins for their piano wire & lamp post interaction skills.

Sniper said...

How about this for local:

"Mr Prescott's department issued figures showing that 3,856,000 ballot papers, representing 27 per cent of the electorate, had been returned in the four pilot regions by Tuesday night, two days before polls closed. That compared with a total of 2,870,735 votes (20 per cent) cast in the 1999 European elections."

Prescunt was proud of what his vote-rigging party affiliate bastards did to local people.

And here we go again.

What is a Prescunt for?

banana republic said...

Read all about it

http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=46512

Anonymous said...

Arsembly looks like the dogs B)$$)£ks

Leeds9 said...

I know it's quite irrelevent, but I play pool in The Fairway sometimes, and it is manifestly not boarded up, though does look so. It tickles me that a Times reporter was actually there. More accurately reported, Gipton is indeed a rough old place but still matters because it could be one of the places where the BNP make its next breakthrough on its onwards march east from Lancashire. It's all depressing really.

austrian economist said...

Gordon Brown's deliberately engineered property price bubble is destroying sections of the middle classes

We used to have it all...
Sebastian Cresswell-Turner says he and his professional friends are the nouveau poor – a frighteningly downwardly mobile class
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article1719509.ece

Don't worry Sebastian old chap. Brown has screwed the economy. Stagflation will tear down asset prices, particularly house prices, within 2 years, so that pile in the country will be going for 60% less than now. Only to those with cash though, as credit will have dried up significantly by then.

Anonymous said...

am I the only one who thinks Brown has done an excellent job?

Far better than Dozy Dave Cameron who lost the UK £17 billion on Black Wednesday.

Cassandra said...

anon at 2.50

er yes, round here you are.

Anne Widdecomb said...

Cameron is just a bad PR copy of Blair.

Cameron was involved in Black wednesday, he opposed the minimum wage, opposed bank of england independence and is in fabour of the war in Iraq.

If thats the best you can find, you've got no chance.

Anonymous said...

Was Blair in favour of Black Wednesday, being the model for Cameron? Fuck, I didn't know that!

Mrs Cameron said...

£17 billion.

Cameron lost Britain £17 billion. not £1millon
not £100 million
not even £500 million
or even £1000 billion

but £17000 billion (Seventeen thousand billlion pounds).

And you schmucks want to make him First Lord of the Treasury.

How many schools and hospitals would £17billion have built?

You just dont' give a damn. You'll vote for any pig with a blue rosette

Doh!

Sniper said...

anymouse 2:50

Cameron did have a"bit part" in BW - given. Caused by a an addiction to the DM which I never understood (Arse Index 1).

However, consider the Gobshite:

"Liberate" the B of E - but only on avery narrow sphere that can be controlled by the Treasury (Arse Index 1).

Oh, and change the rules that govern even that (Arse Index 2).

Oh, and stuff it with my "independent" toadies and lickspittles (Arse Index 3).

Next stick to Tory spending plans for 2 years so when it goes wrong it's not my fault (Cowardly Arse Index 4).

Now flog off the gold at the bottom of the market to help the Euro - forget the DM but still suck up to Brussels - (Arse Index 5).

Creat and maintain a Byzantine tax relief (Tax Credit) system that those who, it is claimed, will benefit cannot claim it as they cannot understand it (Arse Index 6).

Bully everyone in the Slavour Party by holding the demise of Toady Bliar over them (Cowardly Arse Index 7).

Slash military budget while agreeing to Slavour Party leadership line on going to war (Fucking Cowardly Arse Shithouse Index 8) - this one espacially gets me; the Gobshite is the cunting cunt of all cunts.

Cost the country billions in PFI to keep bad fiscal management off the books (Coward Index 9) - even more money lost than BW with this one.

Fuck private pensioners after he condoned the purchase of bad stocks and even advised it (Coward Index 10).

So there you have it Anymouse. You are not alone ever.

fuck off brown hatter said...

Mrs Cameron said...
£17 billion.

Cameron lost Britain £17 billion.

but £17000 billion (Seventeen thousand billlion pounds).....

You don't seem to know your billions from your thousands of billions you sad, innumerate, New Labour, trolling arsewipe piece of shit.

lubeck massive said...

I am comforted by the fact that New Labour have lived up to their reputation for:

Tax and spend.

Bog standard education,despite a massive injection of taxpayer investment.

Financial crises in the NHS due to lack of reform,despite massive taxpayer investment.

Welfareism on a massive scale.

Means testing on a massive scale.

Public sector non-jobs on a massive scale.

Soft on crime,despite the massive prison population.

Soft on massive increases in asylum and immigration, despite 'Tone' pledging he would get personally involved a couple of years ago.

Sleaze and mendacity on a massive scale,despite 'Tone' saying he would be, 'Whiter than white,purer than pure.'

Altogether a massive thank you for living up to your reputations.

Now,f**k off!

(I apologise for any cock ups,sleaze,or totally whacky policies that I have missed,as there must be a massive skipload of them.)

boom and busted said...

The major part of the UK economy is based on hundreds of billions of pounds in consumer spending financed largely by credit. When the debt hangover hits us in the next year, the economy, the currency, and house prices are going into meltdown while unemployment, repossessions, and bankruptcies are going through the roof.

Just because Brown's chickens haven't come home to roost yet doesn't mean they never will.

Can't you hear them getting closer .......cluck, cluck, CLUCK!!!!!!!!!

boom and busted said...

ps I forgot to mention all the hundreds of billions of pounds that reckless cunt Brown has taxed from us or borrowed to piss away on Capita, management consultants, and an army of diversity officers.

Mrs Cameron;s nightmare said...

Mrs Cameron, I don't think you passed your 11 plus somehow, if you have to post, try not to show how ignorant you are

JOHN MAJOR said...

Tony Blair and Labour have delivered record levels of investment and record low interest rates.

WHENEVER A TORY WAS IN CHARGE,THE ECONOMY COLLAPSED. THE TRUTH.

Since 1997:

1. An END to boom and bust
2. An END to record high interest rates
3. An END to high unemployment
4. Record levels of investment in public sevices
5. A new school is being built every week, under Labour.


Oh and a few more:


1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
2. Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 30 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best-ever primary school results
8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. 77,500 more nurses
12. 19,300 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work

19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
23. Restored city-wide government to London
24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997

25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. Over 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over-75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less

john major the maastricht years said...

john major:4.42.
You like fiction do you?

Mrs Cameron said...

Ooops, sorry you are right! It should have read:

£17000 million. Not Billion, even that would be a bit much for Cameron and fetus-brained Osbourne.

Its still a bloody awful tory blunder by Cameron though.

John Major said...

I'm afriad even you sad Tory Tossers cannot argue with facts from the Bank of England which show we have had record low interest rates and record high employment- much more than you lot achieved in your years of destructive rule.

Mrs Camerons nightmare said...

... FOETUS I thought you hadn't poassed your 11 plus

cynical sex seeker said...

4:42 PM, April 29, 2007:

I suppose we get laid more too, do we?

lickspittles R US said...

mrs camreon:4.49.
Would you like to run my whelk stall? You may just manage it, but I have my doubts.

John Major said...

Mrs Camerons nightmare said...
... FOETUS I thought you hadn't poassed your 11 plus

***********

I've never even heard of the 11 plus. You must be very old. Its not around anymore so I could not have 'poassed' it as you so eloquently stated.

Lets try and argue on more substantive issues than your petty, semantic drivel shall we?

Oh no, I forgot, you can't because you have no facts to argue with because the Tories really are pathetic, nasty individualists with no moral compass and no concept of community other than their own self-centred obsession with hate, bile and Daily Mail-driven garbage.

Anonymous said...

I really, really hope that Brown gets the mother of all kickings come May 3rd. Good luck Cameron I think you are doing a terrific job!

fr said...

Quite clearly the ungrateful British people do not deserve a genius like Gordon Brown.

Candid Cameroon said...

Cameron has no polices, no beliefs and no backbone- aka- the perfect Tory.

Cycling to Parliament to be environmental while a Lexus drives behind him with his bags. Classic Cameron.

What hope have you got when he makes such stupid errors while in opposition?

Oh, and didn't he get told off by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for using the Parliamentary estate to fill Tory coffers? Private dinners with Cams for £50k.

Bet Cameron does make you proud, because you haven't got a bloody clue.

john major the curry years said...

johm major:4.52.
Hmm,does that record high employment record include the record high on incapacity benefit I wonder?

fr said...

Across the three leading political blogs the new lab trolls seem to be getting quite frantic. I wonder why!

tony blair the wilderness years said...

candid cameron:5.07.
You must be gutted that DC will be our Prime Minister in the not too distant future.

John Major said...

Record high employment and record low unemployment. The number on incapacity benefit have also fallen I'm afraid.

In 1993, the figure was 7.38m. It is now 7 million people.

This is nowhere near what I would like it to be, but, as a statistic, it shows economic inactivity was higher under Major.

Taken with the record high employment, low unemployment and low interest rates, its a booming economy which has squared the circle of achieving an economy that withstands the pressures of globalisation (in some sectors better than others) while at the same time not compromising on the universal nature of its welfare state. Pretty good, I would say.

john prescott the ******* years said...

john major:5.21.
Wow, I'm impressed.Perhaps New Labour should put you in charge of the up and coming home repossession statistics,showing of course that they are going down.

stinkytony said...

As worrying as postal voting fraud is, it is equally worrying that the so-called Opposition are kicking up very little fuss about it. The Tories should be standing on a ticket to abolish postal voting for everyone except Service personnel overseas and the like, ie the system we had pre-2001, then some of us might actually vote for them.

Time for New Labour to get a kicking in the Local Elections said...

so many New Lab trolls on this site. They must have been canvassing today and realised is going to pretty ugly on May 3rd.
They are gonna get what they deserve.

Gareth said...

Fuck me the arse-faced, fuckwitted, dick brained Nulab trolligensia are out in force today aren't they. Fantastic,the more you post the more we all think you're total cunts; keep it up, it's hilarious.

Oh and by the way "record level of investment" is EXACTLY my fucking problem with you lot. You Nulab cunts think that input is what counts and fuck the output, you could not be more wrong. There has been little or no discernable change in public sector output for all of my money you've pissed away and in many cases you've fucking made it worse you pricks! Time after time you poured money in but were too scared to initiate badly needed reform thus leading to public sector waste on a scale never seen before. Now go away and stop fucking up this country.

manic street preacher said...

The Sunday Times has a go at labour for rigging postal voting in Leeds, but you gotta remember that labour have a moral duty to the poorest people in our society to keep the torys out. Don't forget what the torys did to the miners. If they got back in again, they would close all the pits all over again. So the ends justifies the adjustments to postal voting that Labour are doing.

yer man said...

common guido
wakey wakey
how well are the SNP doing in Brwown's alleged Labour backyad

12spanners said...

It would appear that you Nu Labour arsewipes are shitting yourself, due to the number of you posting on her. Unless it's just one of you, pretending to be lots of different Nu Labour arsewipes. Bit like Tony really.

Anonymous said...

re: Leeds. It goes on in all Parties sadly. No one (especially Kerron Cross) can get on a high horse about it.

Gengiz the Kahn said...

Well Mr Thomas, what do you think of Welsh Nationalism?

Dylan Thomas's reply was direct and to the point, and consisted of three words, the second and third of which were 'Welsh Nationalism'.

arthurscargill said...

manic street preacher:5.59.
Err,so all the pits that were shut down have to be opened again so the Tories can shut them again? Is this postmodern irony,or have you had too much red with your Sunday lunch?

manic street preacher said...

Postal voting abuse may be technically wrong but its the lesser of two evels, compared to the damage that would be done to us up here if the torys get back.

Anonymous said...

Postal voting abuse may be technically wrong but its the lesser of two evels, compared to the damage that would be done to us up here if the torys get back.

manic street tosser is right. We can't let the electorate make any mistakes. We must abolish elections altogether to ensure that the proletariat rules forever.

nuttyslack said...

manic street preacher:
Actually,of the 2 desparate Tories who live up t'north ,one has managed to clock up 10,000 votes by abuse of the postal system, thus ensuring a Tory victory in at least one ward.How do you like them apples? Miners beware.

Tricky Dicky said...

Mr Major,

Firstly, if you want to join in this discussion and be taken seriously it is rather essential that you don’t destroy any credibility you might aspire to, by making demonstrably false or stupid statements (to whit “I've never even heard of the 11 plus. You must be very old. Its not around anymore so I could not have 'poassed' it as you so eloquently stated”).

Secondly, I really hope you don't honestly believe all the drivel you have written. It would demonstrate an extremely poor understanding of economics or how the world works at the very least. Further, I know of no credible economist either in the UK or internationally that would support what you say.

The fact is that, a lot of the success you so readily attribute to the Gordon Brown was due to the ‘heavy lifting’ done by the Conservatives in the 1980s and 90s. Could they have run the economy better? I certainly think so; but there again you have also to look at the global economy during the same period and the fact they were trying to manage the economy away from the basket-case it had become by the 1970s (we could have a long discussion about how it came to be in that state, but if we were to proportion blame to any political party, Labour would come higher on that list than the Conservatives).

Mr Brown has also benefited from a rather unusually benign backdrop in the global economy that certainly cannot be attributed in any way to him. I would not generally approve of the way he has run the economy over the last few years, but he could have certainly done worse. Which is hardly a ringing endorsement.

Anyway, the music is coming to the end and there is nothing he or effectively anybody else can do about it. Personally, I would like to see him win the next election as I plan to make a lot of money out of him (as I did with Major & Lamont) and I don’t like the uncertainty that Cameron or Osbourne would bring.

While I suspect your mental capacities are unable to comprehend what I am attempting to convey to you, I have at least tried and perhaps you might refrain from typing such rubbish in future. If you were to take one thing away from this, it is please do not labour under the impression that the last 10 years in power could be described as ‘good’ from an economic perspective due to his superior stewardship rather than luck and circumstance.

Regards,

TD

Ps Dear Manic Street, what on earth are you gabbling on about?

manic street preacher said...

You others are missing the point of what I am saying, yeah? The torys destroyed our villages and towns, and people who did not have a silver spoon in his mouth when he was born had no choice but to rob. I don't want to go back to that. I could not have that on my conshunce.

My brother says that actually the liberals are beating the torys in Gipton. If I lived there I would vote liberal because they want a local income tax which is fairer. But postal voting abuse is valid if the torys are a threat.

mr clusterdyke said...

manic street preacher:7.05
I did not realise you were part of care in the community,and I am sorry I posted a nasty comment about you.

John Major said...

Hey dickwipe, I'm an economist. Labour have stablised the economy during a time of global downturns.


Take a look at the latest data from the IMF (link) and perhaps you'll learn something:

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/2007/042307.pdf


The tories are not owners of the economy or protectors of the public purse or the only ones who appreciate the private sector. Gordon Brown and Ed Balls, amoung many others, have proven that once and for all.

brown, the desperate years said...

john major:7.15.
"I am an economist"
That explains so much.Thanks for the info.It will come in handy as the economy implodes over the next couple of years.

Tuscan Tony said...

"john major"'s comments are QED evidence of the benefit to Labour of easily accessible crack houses in most parts of the country. I'm sure "john" also genuinely believes all he says. The perfect NuLab voting machine - insert the benefit penny and he does the boxticking rest for you.

tommy watson's evil twin said...

How many posts has that grotesque humpbacked ghoul, Ugly Sion Simon, made on here under various names today?

Since he shat on Blair last year Ugly is doing everything he can to get into Brown's good books.

You'll have to do better than post shite about the economy if you're going to get into Gordon's Cabinet, Sion old son.


You could offer to suck Gordon's cheesy knob though I hear he prefers pretty boys to Quasimodo lookalikes.

Tricky Dicky said...

The statement ‘I am an economist’ is unqualified. If you mean that you are a qualified economist (by which I mean holding a higher degree from one of the better universities in this country), I would have to reply I really doubt it for the following reasons:

1.) Your statements and use of “facts” are deeply flawed (e.g. “the 11+ does not exist”, if you had been to a decent university you would have met somebody who had been to a grammar school – they still exist you know – as they still make up a disproportionate amount of the intake)

2.) While I am the first to admit that language is not my strong point, your spelling and grammar is far too poor to have managed the standard required for a thesis.

Your link to the IMF proves or disproves nothing. Though I am not surprised that a given your previous utterances you cite an organisation long considered to be somewhere between incompetent and ineffective as ‘evidence’. If you were any kind of economist you would know that the IMF is one of the last organisations you would use in circumstances such as these.

Unless of course you are being ironic and referring to the glowing endorsements they gave to Argentina – right up to the default.

I suspect you didn’t know that did you?

So we have effectively established you are a LIAR as well as a fool.

Regards

TD

Cassandra said...

In case anyone cares, fetus and foetus are both spellings in common usage although the "oe" spelling might be considered spurious as the word does not derive from ancient greek. (I'm so old that I passed the eleven plus and went to a direct grant school)

Gareth said...

11+, Grammar, Royal Navy. Owe my success entirely to selection on merit through the grammar school system. Suspect the NuLab arsewipes already hate me.

Generalissimo said...

gareth - NuLab arsewipes hate anyone getting anything on merit - just look at the Cabinet.

Could you get some of the remnants of the Navy to blow this lot up with some big guns? We need a military coup.

John Major said...

Oh my, how insular you little people are. More obsessed with class, snobbery and offensive personal comments.

The IMF is a well respected international body and to say otherwise is just laughable.

My time at the LSE brought me into contact with, thankfully, only a few rabid middle class conservatives. All of whom were similarly obsessed with the trivial and mundane.

Labour will continue to run the country for at least the next two parliamentary terms so most of you lot will probably be pensioners before you get a Conservative government.

I only hope you then suffer the life pensioners had under Maggie, you'll soon be praying for Tony and Gordon to come to your rescue.

MandyPandy said...

John Major @ 4:42 PM:

There are lies, damned lies, and New Labour statistics. I wouldn't trust Bliar if he said the sun rose in the east. NuLabour's "economic miracle" has consisted of spending more and more for worse and worse. Mendacity, corruption and waste are the only things that have flourished under Bliar, and he and the rest of the gang are about to take a long, long fall into some deep, deep shit, with most of the country cheering the spectacle. If Lord Sleazy does hop on a plane to the Middle East, Bliar would be well advised to tag along.

Anonymous said...

Are you sure Tony and Gordon would be able to spare anything from their £100,000 + pensions?

austrian economist said...

Brown has drowned the country in debt to create the illusion of prosperity and growth. He engineered a massive credit fuelled boom which is about to turn into an almighty bust.

Now all those hundreds of billions of pounds borrowed and spent, have to be paid for and they will be, by mass unemployment, a debauched currency, house price meltdown, stagflation, recession, and a deflationary meltdown.

You can thank Brown and his lackeys at the Bank of England for that and particularly his five stooges on the MPC who voted to reduce interest rates in Aug 2005 thus ensuring that the economic meltdown would be longer and harder than it otherwise would have been.

Think on that when your jobs gone, your house has been repossessed and your pension's disappeared.

I didn't take the 11 plus I took the Common Entrance exam said...

Cassandra, foetus is the English spelling, fetus is for yanks and those who cannot spell or those who live in a textspeak world

Tricky Dicky said...

Mr Major

Since you have retreated from any other sort of logical or factual defence of your position I hold all other things to be true, namely that you are either a fool and a liar (which can be actually found in dictionary unlike “dickwipe”). Yet instead of trying to defend the indefensible (the basis of your statements, not ‘New Labour’s’ economic management, which I said could be worse) you start on yet another ill-considered outburst.

If you had actually bothered to read my previous posts, you will see that I am no great fan of the Tories. Additionally, I very happily made a great deal of money out of the ERM debacle (as did just about everybody else in my profession, it was a very good year). I am also hoping that Brown gets in at the next election for exactly the same reason (except I have my own company now rather than having to work for somebody else), also my profits are safely beyond the reach of anything this regime could devise.

I would have been described as working class at the time when I went to university (though through good fortune and hard work I would not be now). Perhaps that’s why I have so few illusions about the working class. Also, I have very few illusions about Ed Balls having met him on numerous occasions in a professional basis(he is not very bright you know, guess that is why he had to become a politician).

Finally, on the subject of pensions, it really does not matter who get in as the country can ill afford any sort of effective universal system unless the birth rate rapidly improves or we import more immigrants (there again anybody with the vaguest idea of economics and finance would understand this - you clearly do not).

If it makes you feel better, I will not be a drain on the pension system as I have been in a position to retire for several years, though not due to age. If you were not so bigoted or mentally limited you might have been able to manage it too. If you are going to tie yourself down with partisan politics you will never amount to anything, dear boy.

So finally we return to where we started, you are a liar, a fool and dare I say what is probably describe as ‘a loser’. However, if you are really sure of yourself and have an economics degree please feel free to flip me your CV, I might even give you a job (probably not a very demanding one though).

Regards,

TD

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...

Boring, not funny, not gossip, not witty. Go away.

Anonymous said...

Yes,he lost me when he said he hopes Brown gets in next election.

Praguetory said...

Is ripping Labour hearts out funny?

Ordovicius said...

Im the blogger that got an exclusive on-record interview with mystery man Arsembly HERE.

mutleythedog said...

No I am the one who got the secret interview with Arsembly here

I do pretty much the same for the South especially concerning minor deities...

Anonymous said...

Guido Fawkes Esq. said:

Boring, not funny, not gossip, not witty. Go away.

Well argued though.

Ordovicius said...

No I am the one who got the secret interview with Arsembly here


Sorry, I was refering to the real world, not your fantasyland.

Anonymous said...

Back to the top. Yates and the Palace.

Yates wasn't all to blame for the Burrell trial farce. his female colleague was a bigger part (forget name) of it.

They convinced the Queen and PoW to press charges because they had evidence the Burrell had tried to sell the Princess's clothes after she died. They also hinted at a picture of Burrell wearing a dress.

At the the end of the trial's prosecution evidence there was no sign of the so-called sale. So the Queen and Prince C quite rightly protested. They knew Burrell had some of the Princess's stuff in his house. So the trial fell over.

This is what happened - the Q did not 'suddenly remember' Burrell had Diana's stuff in his keep.

There's a little more to go on in cash for honours, though.

PS - Black Wednesday. The figures were released before the 2005 election after a FoI request by the FT. My recollection was that it amounted to less than £5bn and some of it was eventually reclaimed by selling off the currency bought on the day.

garypowell said...

Come come, letts not let the odd 12 billion or so get in the way of a large chunk of socialist bullshit.

Next you will be telling the people that the Americans and the British did not arm Saddam Hussain.

They did not, not so much as a pee shooter. But then when did the truth and iconic socialist propagander have anything to do with each other.

trust me I'm a doctor said...

poster at 8.57 pm
but did you actually pass common entrance?
look in the OED and you will see that fetus is correct.

MI5 Super Agent Under Cover at Order-Order said...

Presumably Toryonline forgot to put anyone undercover in a Lib Dem canvassing team? Or Tories? Collecting completed and sealed PVs is hardly the devil's work. It's not like the Lib Dem vote factories collecting unsealed BLANK but signed PV forms is it now.

But entrapment and partiality is the devil's work.

Where is the Times deep throat in other parties?

Why is the Times confusing not following best practice with illegality? (Not to mention the Leeds LP churls and in particular the dim Labour Students conspiracists and careerists).

Clearly recruiting lots of PVs is important as they are 2 to 4 times more likely to vote anyway. Chasing them through to get as near to that 80% turn out is very important.

Seems like another scarcely a story exclusive. The Yates one in the Observer is far better. Yates is an over zealous nutter. He has history. He is a bit like the SFO were a few years ago. Millions spent and no successful prosecutions.

machiavelli said...

just looking at the Welsh Assembly website... has someone with lots of lipstick been kissing the Presiding Officer?!


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