Look Back on the Blog Year
Over a thousand articles were posted on the blog in 2007, here are just a few that provoked and amused:
Music to Wind-Up Guardian Readers
Brillo Berates Blinky Balls
What Miliband Bought His Godson for Xmas
The Dougie Alexander Caption Contest
Obscenely Hypocritical Guardian
Where's Gordon?™ (picture is a classic)
Gordon's Handwriting is Revealing
Floreat Etona
Where's Gordon?™ - the Map
Tom Watson Breaks His Promise, As Predicted
"Oh F**k, It Is Harman"
Obama Girl
That "Feral" Blair Speech
Brown Bonks Bonce
E-Oh, Stand-Up, Speak Up
Shapps Caught Personally Astro-Turfing
Bogeyman Brown Nose Picking Video Re-Mix
Blog Today, Print Tomorrow (Again)
Contrarian? Crazy? Betting on the Tories at the Low
Competition Limericks for Gordon's Conference Speech
Ali Campbell Complains About the Blogosphere
Nothing To See Here...Police Don'tWannaReferendum
Miliband : Ten More Years
Cherie on Gordon
Brown's Vanity Publishing
Peter Watt Faces 12 Months on Conviction
GQ's Powerful, Political, Unelected
Totty Watch : Hilary Not Humping Huma
Brown : "I Don't Look at Polls"
Boris Bombs the Bass
OLR Win 90% of Government Contracts
359 Lords-a-Fiddlin'
Sunny's Bitch Slappin'
British Jobs for British Workers
Total Politics, Totally Disconnected
Tories Call for an Inquiry into Balls' Bung
Hain Fundraiser : "Small Problem With Donations"
Ashcroft Should Come Clean
Law Lords Rule Labour Party Guilty of Racial Discrimination
Daily Food Allowances : School Children, Armed Forces, Prisoners, MPs
Gordon's Black Wednesday £11,169,591,442 on September 19, 2007
We Told You So...
Brillo Berates Blinky Balls
What Miliband Bought His Godson for Xmas
The Dougie Alexander Caption Contest
Obscenely Hypocritical Guardian
Where's Gordon?™ (picture is a classic)
Gordon's Handwriting is Revealing
Floreat Etona
Where's Gordon?™ - the Map
Tom Watson Breaks His Promise, As Predicted
"Oh F**k, It Is Harman"
Obama Girl
That "Feral" Blair Speech
Brown Bonks Bonce
E-Oh, Stand-Up, Speak Up
Shapps Caught Personally Astro-Turfing
Bogeyman Brown Nose Picking Video Re-Mix
Blog Today, Print Tomorrow (Again)
Contrarian? Crazy? Betting on the Tories at the Low
Competition Limericks for Gordon's Conference Speech
Ali Campbell Complains About the Blogosphere
Nothing To See Here...Police Don'tWannaReferendum
Miliband : Ten More Years
Cherie on Gordon
Brown's Vanity Publishing
Peter Watt Faces 12 Months on Conviction
GQ's Powerful, Political, Unelected
Totty Watch : Hilary Not Humping Huma
Brown : "I Don't Look at Polls"
Boris Bombs the Bass
OLR Win 90% of Government Contracts
359 Lords-a-Fiddlin'
Sunny's Bitch Slappin'
British Jobs for British Workers
Total Politics, Totally Disconnected
Tories Call for an Inquiry into Balls' Bung
Hain Fundraiser : "Small Problem With Donations"
Ashcroft Should Come Clean
Law Lords Rule Labour Party Guilty of Racial Discrimination
Daily Food Allowances : School Children, Armed Forces, Prisoners, MPs
Gordon's Black Wednesday £11,169,591,442 on September 19, 2007
We Told You So...
188 comments:
Blowing your own trumpet, Guido? Fair enough then.
Here's one for 2008:
"Prime Minister Brown cracks up on the job"
Hello. I've come late [within the last 3 months] to regular reading of the political blogs, and even now read only a handful - since I kid myself that I have a life! Guido is one of those, and has become as indispensable as 'Private Eye' in providing a mixture of the serious news 'they' don't want us to know, old-fashioned satire, sarcasm and cynicism and the occasional bit of naughty, unprovoked and inexcusable scatology.
Thanks for this digest of the high points of the year. I shall enjoy using it to remind myself of the political triumphs, custard-pies, banana-skins and disasters of '07. I wish you many scoops [and scalps] in '08. My principal wish for the coming year would be that politicians and civil servants belatedly realise and acknowledge whom they are either elected and/or paid to serve. Otherwise, I wish that some of your more illiterate correspondents would spend more time at their remedial English classes than they do posting their often flatulent comments.
Happy New Year.
Been a fantastic year, congrats to all especially Mr Fawkes.
I for one am looking for a New Year of better, honest and open governance.
I want less apathy, an end to treating the public with contempt and an end to media manipulation.
High aims indeed, but I like a challenge.
Keep up the good work!
Well, thats the afternoon down the drain - God there are some classics in there, keep it up guido, we've got the fuckers on the run and we need to keep up the momentum - labour MP's reduced to a few inner city shitholes and kept there by some serious boundary changes , public sector salaries to be decided by a panel consisting of an apointee of the Tax Payers Alliance, one from the FSB and one from the civil service and all government job adverts to be placed on the net, not in the gruniad.
Albert - Private Eye has been mute for years. Certainly no significant expose for the last 10 years. They don't even slag people off properly these days.
A combination of Hislop's outside interests and the owner's madness means Private Eye is mainstream now. It was inevitable really; what was anarchic 40 years ago is the norm now. P.E. doesn't really have a role now and I don't think they're bothered about finding one.
Brown's hand was shaking badly again on TV earlier today. How long before he falls apart completely?
The gross mismanagement of the economy over the last decade has brought us dancing drunkenly to this point; the imminent disintegration of the 'miracle economy' and the final re-assertion of economic reality onto the British people. Brown has presided over an extended period where, through a combination of fortuitous economic conditions, cynical politics and/or blind stupidity, we have been fooled into accepting a level of perceived wealth way beyond what we deserve. Modern finance, instead of facilitating investment in productive activities, has instead been used to suspend economic reality for such an extended period that the majority now think it is the normal state of affairs. This had had the following results:
A huge rise in the perceived wealth of the home-owning majority - this has in turn led to the rise of the most awful media personalities who are the inevitable result of extreme wealth without the discipline and hard-work required to earn it..namely Rosie Millard, and the unremittingly awful Liz Jones. People such as this are the vanguard of an entire section of upper middle-england whose days are spent obsessing about Jimmy Choos, the right kitchen scales etc....in other words, their entire waking lives are devoted to consumption and self-obsession, whilst producing NOTHING; surely there can be no greater testimony to what has gone wrong with middle england than reading Liz Jone's terrible articles.
It has also allowed Gordon and chums to tax massively in order to fund their creation of an entire underclass of welfare-dependent NuLab voters who have no interest in working, when faced with huge waves of cheap workers from abroad, and generous benefits at home. The level of taxation that we now endure would not have been tolerated had people not been given the feel-good factor of rising equity. The same goes for the removal of our cherished freedoms. Despite the huge increase in tax-take (which the government has pissed most of up the wall, creating an enormous sector of guaranteed laour voting public sector non-jobbers), they have also managed to run a persistent and growing deficit, through phenomenally cynical accounting practises, principally off-sheet PFI, and arbitrary redefinition of the economic cycle.
But now the wheels are coming off...nothing more can be done to prolong the stupidity, and now the piper must be paid. The government is now truely stuck between Cylla and Charybdis...what can they do? Raise interest rates? This would shore up the pound, but lead to a massive surge in repossessions and financial problems as most people are hocked up massively. Lowering interest rates will only cause rapid import-led inflation which will also serve to impoverish the overstretched UK consumer. Raising taxes to plug the spending gap is out of the question; it is OK when everyone is getting 'wealthier' through HPI to slip tax increases through, but much less so when people are pinching their pennies.
It can not be doubted that the housing bubble has been probably the major tool that has allowed labour to carry on with their project to f**k up the UK. And now they have achieved it...let's hope they are banished from power for a generation like before.
Certainly no significant expose for the last 10 years.
Beg to differ. Private Eye made a good job of exposing the sleazemeister in charge of the National Audit Office, Sir John 'Fill yer boots' Bourn.
The Partys Over
Finally someone hits the nail on the head. The impending housing collapse will be the final nail in the coffin of the idiot that is GB. I hear that developers are boarding up flats in city centres cos they cant sell them..... i passed a new development yesterday with the sign "move in for 99 quid" what a joke........this collapse will be much worse than the 1990/91 debacle because its a gigantic bubble that will bursting not simply higher rates.
I think the 'Eye' still does cut it as a dissident rag, exposing corruptions and miscarriages of justice. The problem appears to be with the timorous failure of the mainstream press and TV to pick up the stories and run with them. This is possibly attributable to their reluctance to be hit by libel suits, given some of the utterly tonto awards which have been made. Look how long they took eventually to pick up the Sir John Bourn story, which PE had been running for months.
Ian Hislop introduced far greater editorial rigour, and I don't believe that the 'Eye' has been successfully sued in years. Richard Ingrams' editorial policy was along the lines of "wouldn't it be funny if X was screwing Y, or stealing Z. Tee hee. Let's make it up and print it." Mad old Peter Cook was far too pickled to care.
It's getting better and better at some of the egregious miscarriages of justice, where inadequates and misfits have been stitched up and sent down. It was in early on exposing the gaping holes in the evidence against Barry George, for example.
Mr Bean saying he has had a marvellous year: about as predictable as the TV news progs saying, firstly how bad things will be for shops at Christmas, followed a day or two later by saying what a record Christmas it's been for shop takings. Or as predictable as Wizzard playing their Chrismas song - yet again.
My new year prediction - watch to the East for snowy weather and hard times - just like the Nazi Generals had to after the invasion of the Soviet Union did not succeed straight away, back in '41.
Guido - Any idea what the 'Save the Northern Crock' fund is costing us to date ??? It has gone very quiet out there - all whistling wind and tumbleweed - Darling must be locked in the bunker.
You missed out the legendary compo this summer where in a mouldbreaking shock move a real prize was actually physically awarded by you - still enjoying it.
Keep up the good work for 2008 Guido!
Somebody in the Labour party has to grasp the bull by the horns in 2008, and the earlier the better. Alas, it is quite clear now that Brown is an inept control freak with delusions of adequacy. Surrounded by the few fawning halfwits that make up his inner circle, he listens to nobody else and will not take advice from anybody. Not anybody. Not ever.
I wonder how he feels right now. Deep in his bunker, the wheels having come off the train long ago, an economy rapidly disappearing down the pan and Labour's poll ratings sliding as as the Retail Prices Index soars and insolvency figures making grim reading. Still proclaiming that he never intended to call an early election, and that he has had a great year. I wonder, too, how Labour backbenchers feel. They want to help, but Gordon won't let them, because he knows best. The frustration must be telling, for it is the well over a hundred or so backbenchers that are at the sharp end, all too aware that they stand to lose their seats when Gordon finally calls the election in 2010.
Still Gordon staggers on, like an obstinate and angry drunk wielding a handgun, while his ministers dash around fighting fires that should never have been started. Some of his former cabinet colleagues warned us it might come to this before Brown assumed power in the summer coup, but we gave him the benefit of the doubt. How quickly things have changed since those summer months.
It wasn't meant to be like this. Surely someone has to put a stop to this complete and utter madness before Brown destroys his party's reputation and Labour find themselves out of power for another generation. Left, right or centre, single party states are not good for democracy.
Gordon must go, and go early in 2008.
Congrats to The Party's Over for a neat assessment of Britain 2007/8. That's really how it is.
What's in store for next year? The snot-gobbler has no scruples; he would prise the gold from his grandmother's teeth if he could. So I predict an attack on the last two remaining sources of money - savers and small businesses.
Minorities, now appearing in many different clothes, are sacred because they supply the Labour vote. They must be fed and cosseted. Big business has clever lawyers and accountants - they get harder to fleece.
Which leaves savers, the prudent among us, a vast source of wealth to be tapped by backdoor methods, and people like Mr Sam, who is too busy lunning his lestaulant to fight back.
It will happen. Just wait and see.
"gooey blob" seems to have summed up the political situation in Britain very well. I too am keen to maintain a healthy and broad-based democratic choice in this country, and have long said so.
Meanwhile, it has been a year when several of us, including the delightfully pseudonym-ed "Albert M. Bankment", became regular readers here. Stanislav's English improved hugely, and Mr Sam told us all about what "Bollis" and other public figures have been up to at his fine estabrishment.
As Victor Kayyam might have put it: "I was so impressed, I bought into it myself" and started my own (modest) 'blog a few weeks ago -- and I don't do that kind of thing lightly! It will never be a patch on the greats such as this 'blog, of course, but I've accepted that.
Indeed, this and similar 'blogs is where much of the future news reporting and comment will be found, as rthe "dead tree press" fall more and more out of favour, despite their attempts to join in the online debate/comment world.
If nothing else is remembered about 2007, it should be that it was the Blogosphere that ensured that numerous truths came to public attention and remained there much longer and more strongly than would have been the case otherwise.
There still is not enough influence to be a complete answer in this regard, but this must surely change for the better in years to come.
I, for one, look forward to that!
4.03
Sadly correct.
Brown's smash-and-grab raid on saving's accounts is getting closer.
A 10% grab from all bank and building society acconts will pay off the current account deficit and prevent him having to reduce public spending and sack all those diversity officers. It will also prevent him having to reduce benefit rates and there'll be enough left over to build sufficient housing for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming to Britain in 2008.
The IPPR have costed it already.
Evanomics from Beans Broadcasting Corporation
Forecast for next year by Evan Davis, economics editor.
Things will be good if they stay the same - which they might - and they will be bad if they change for the worse which there is every chance they might.
Please tell me we pay this guy with peanuts!
He most likely went to the same school as Blinky. Famous for "It is not that our children are doing worse, but that everyone else is doing better."
Slowly working my way through last years nuggets - priceless!
Get your snout in the trough already:
Nazi victims' fund pays out £21m
By Angus Crawford
BBC News
A British taxpayer funded scheme to return money belonging to victims of the Nazis has paid out more than £21m, or 10 times its budget, BBC News has learned.
The Enemy Property Claims Assessment panel (Epcap) was set up to help people who lived in enemy countries and whose British bank accounts were frozen.
It was meant to end three years ago, but is still receiving applications.
The monies include a "six figure sum" paid to a woman whose Jewish grandfather had his savings seized.
Greville Janner, Lord Janner of Braunstone who campaigned for the scheme to be set up in the first place, said the reparations paid by UK taxpayers are a matter of justice.
"The average taxpayer would not want the government to have money stolen from murdered people," he said.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7162998.stm
Hey this is a great day to bury bad news!!wonder what snotty will sneak out while the entire media is focused on Pakistan.
Now I AM worried. Just watched McSnot delivering his sermon on the Bhutto killing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7160000/newsid_7162000/7162075.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1
And this man is Prime Minister of Great Britain? Sallow, baggy complexion. Glazed, bloodshot eyes. Drooping eyelids and shoulders. A slight slur to the unsteady voice. Slack-jawed mouth breathing habit, usually associated with dribbling mental retard at bus window, now kicks in several times per sentence.
If he was hung over after Christmas jollies I could understand it. But McPuritan is no Charlie Kennedy.
We should all be very concerned.
I have just caught up with Brown's statement on the Bhutto assassination.
I defy anyone to watch this footage and not concur with the view, frequently expressed here, that Brown is serioulsy ill. A PR disaster, but incredibly revealing.
Bogeyman - we were on the same wavelength!
we were on the same wavelength!
Same channel too!
Dear Mr Rabbie rotten
Is there anything in eternity, in the infinity of space and time which you feel would not be illuminated, amplified, clarified, altogether improved, embellished, glorified by you commenting upon it, from out of your arsehole?
Is there no occasion or event or circumstance about which you are not compelled to comment at insufferable length? Might there ever be something happen in this world without it attracting your observations ?
If someone was to write OH NO, NOT THAT CUNT AGAIN in letters as big as the Milky Way it would be a poor illustration of the effect you have on sensible people. You are as funny as rectal cancer. You have the insight of a cement mixer, although entirely lacking its utility. You know nothing of any value. You and elegance are estranged. There is better reading on a bus ticket. Nothing you say is witty, informative, provocative, original or scurrilous; nothing you write is worth reading, You are clumsy, cackhanded, plagiaristic, trivial, meaningless, insincere; unredeemed garbage. Even pored-over, analysed, the odd nugget is seen to be stolen from other postings, shabby, second-hand, grubby; you cannot even recycle with any distinction.
You are a one-man walking Daily Mail. You make Iain Dale look like a revolutionary. You are the dullest, most boring, predictable, tedious, mind-numbing gabshite on the planet. Aside from that bloke with his double rrs, and he, narcolepsy in the flesh, doesn't even merit correction. Contrasted with reading your musings, watching the grass grow is scintillating, dazzling and provocative. You are as stupid as it is possible to be and still be sentient; nay, that is a misjudgment, lumps of rock are smarter than you, a bag of sand has a better sense of humour. Living with you, even a garden gnome would hurl himself in front of a train, rather than endure one more moment of your endless, infantile commentary. You are an unspeakable cunt. Why don't you just either shut the fuck up or seek psychiatric assistance for your delusion, the one that makes you think the world cannot survive without you being its continuity announcer. Nobody on earth, not even your mother, if you have one, gives a fuck about what you think about anything. Most people would rather gouge their eyes out than read your drivel. You are an almost unassailable argument for shutting down the Internet; single-handedly you undermine the case for freedom of speech.
The Saviour himself, encountering you on the mountain, would say Fuck me, not this cunt again, does he ever, ever, ever even for a fucking second, shut the fuck up and just be? Or does he think that he spellbinds his betters, enchants his peers and renders reality herself incomplete without his tuppence worth. This is one cunt and a half, lads.
Do you really imagine that you are so perspicacious, so wise, so seasoned that your turds of wisdom, your barrel scrapings of warmed-up Daily Mail leaders, your worthless sweepings-up are indispensable to the world? Do you think people tune in to Radio Four in the morning and exclaim: I can’t wait to hear what Robbie Rotton thinks about copper smelting in Zambia ; gosh I hope he posts quickly?
It may be argued in your favour, although I wouldn't, that crass as you are, your heart is in roughly the right place; you head, however, remains, inextricably, cemented up your arse.
You are unpardonably stupid so, here, for Mr Rotten, your very own, easy to understand parable:
"Omar went to the Master. He said, Master, I have been painting for years and remain unhappy with my work, can you help? Go, said the Master, and do your finest work and bring it to me. Five years later Omar returned with a painting he had slaved over and handed it to the Master, who threw it straight on the fire."
Look at your posts for something not already better said; its not there. Is this the point of you ? Cover versions?
If you would speak, first learn silence. Learn some Zen, Shithead. Learn some plumbing.
With apologies to the Buddha for the worthlessness of incarnations like Mr RR.
Bravo John Bright.
Have been saying it for years.
Robbie is a fuckwit n half.
Am sending him to scotchland on the morning train to be a plumbers apprentice.
Laid a small private bet yesterday - there'll be a General Election in autumn '08.
Stanislav (aka John Bright?, and many other pseudonyms), you really are a brilliant writer, but do let the rest of us have a look-in sometimes. It's getting difficult to tell who's Stanislav and who's anyone else.
General Election in Summer 2008, after Brown is forced from office by a combination of terminal incompetence, universal civil insurrection and the cerebral condition which was once quoted by doctors on death certificates - GPI (General Paralysis of the Insane).
There was a rumour that Gordo is Gay, and the whole marriage thing was a scam, he is uncomfortable around women... Perhaps he has AIDS...
My predictions for 2008...
January. House Prices fall by 6%, massive reposessions as interest only buy to let to council to asylum seeker landords are asked to refund their overstretched mortgages
February. Annoucments of 100,000 personal bankruptcies driven by the office of tribute as people cannot pay their personal tax
March Northern Rock is finally bankrupted, and an EU investigation into illegal funding is launched.
April Labour hits 25% in the polls, unemployment hits 2 million, and riots in city centres as benefit payments are mysteriously paid late.
May Big Run on the Pound, Sterling hits parity with the Euro then with the Dollar. Unemployment hits 3 Million and food prices skyrocket. More Riots, Brixton Burns...
June. A peacful month, it is my birthday...
July. Gordo, looking sicker and sicker dissapears from sight all together. Milliband in control as "deputy" although no formal announement to that effect.
August. EU army called in to surpress food riots in Liverpool and London. Scotland holds internal referendum for independence, UKIP announces a referendum for independance for England, supported by the Daily Mail. Labour Support hits 20% and Jack Straw joins Respect.
September. Knacker of the Yard formerly arrests some 100 Labour senior activist and politicians, including several cabinet members. Gordo still out of sight.
October, EU report on Northern Rock indicates illegal funding. Darling Arrested as a result and dragged off to Strasbourg. Gordo (under pressure?) announces resignation after a failed attempt to form a unity government with the conservatives.
November. Massive blackouts as balance of trade and falling pound makes it impossible to pay for gas supplies. Huge cuts in civil service anounced, rioting in Scotland, Alistair Salmond declares UDI. Martial Law declared in UK enforced by French and Spanish riot police.
In an extraordinary turn of events Christine Smith gets elected as Libertarian President of the United States, after both Republican and Democratic candidates are disqulified for funding irregularities
December Scotland recognised as an independent state. Refused entry to the EU.
Snap election forced by Labour Rebels and Respect MP's. A surprise win by UKIP who announce that England and Wales are to become the 52nd state of the US, in a deal that makes Northern Island a protectorate. Brenda appoints President Smith as Lord Protector of the United Kingdom, Commenwealth and Protectorates.
A happy, if fantastic ending to the year...
Keep up the good work Guido.
Stan, could we have a few more ego-apronectomies, so to speak? There is a lot of excess flab here, and relying on self-control is, as always, a vain hope.
john bright
Robie Rotton may be boring but not half as bad as that fuckwit who pretends to be a chinky owner. Mr Sam or whatever the prick calls himself. It's not you is it johnny?
BTW My local Labour MP here in Manchester has told friends that he thinks Brown is having a breakdown and may have to be sent on a "long holiday" if he doesn't rally soon. Good job for him the next PMQs is a couple of weeks away.
no it isn't, he's just got that much longer to brood about it, lets the tension in his mind build up nicely, the mad churning fantasies of humiliation on TV start to take over, &c.
Imagine you've spent 3 days in your sham home face-to-face with your sham wife, coming to terms with the fact that your sham marriage is a public laughing stock. A minion enters the room and solemnly informs you that the UK's entire geopolitical strategy is about to unravel because a stupid bint has topped herself in the sun-roof of her car in Rawalpindi. You then have to put on a shirt and tie and look statesmanlike before the TV cameras, where you have 60 seconds to rouse the nation from its vague curiosity but total indifference. No wonder Brown failed abysmally.
Just discovered this one in the 'Ali Campbell Complains about the Blogosphere' thingy...
Graham Norton said...
Bum boys to the right of them,
Bum boys to the left of them,
Into the valley of Death
Rode Guido's latent homosexual readers.
perfect...
-stepping back to admire it-
Aside from that bloke with his double rrs, and he, narcolepsy in the flesh, doesn't even merit correction.
Mr Bligt, you lefer to me? I think you velly dlorr. But I not light any more if you not rike and to prease Mr Tommy Ducks.
Stop talking to yourself, Stan. Sign of madness.
Why does that badly made up panto dame bruun keep wittering on about democracy everywhere else while doing his best to fuck it up here?.Whatever his medication the dose is wrong his personality(such that it is)is fragmenting faster than the housing market.Everything he says is utter bollox and the msm let him do it.Is this how the human race ends not with a bang but a wimp?.
Tommy Ducks, Mr Sam, John Bright, Stanislav.
Who the fuck are you to have a go at peeps commenting on this blog?
It is getting to be a one-horse (non-rocking) show here?
Shall we all fuck off and let Guido's blog turn into another Mrs Fucking Dale's diary room?
If you are Guido in disguise then I am turning on the gas oven now.
Sure, it will not be the first time that we peeps have been ass-fucked thinking we have a voice.
If Guido's blog is merely a pretend that we have a voice that opposes and challenges the MSM then it is surely time to a) up the dosage b) emigrate or c) start fucking bombing and shooting some cunts.
you ppologise to mr sam , he just entreplenure in llong stablished take awhay , who not sure about ren kivingston or bloris should recieve blrown envelope, now in dilemma.
ren kivinston need wires attcahing to testicles , bloris already trying low voltage version .
mr sam trying to help politacal debate , by confusion wisdom vlery classy man , noodles blest in rundon.
we vlery upset mr sam not taken more seriously, you appologise flace 5 year plan
Pensioner alert! No heart attacks over Christmas Mike? Shame, Santa can't please everyone.
@ george gershwin.
Like your mom Rosa Bruskin my mom also emigrated from Russia and married a Gershowitz four years later and changed the family name to Gershwin. However the coincidences end there. Joe, our first born was a drunkard who thought he could play the piano, but decided to concentrate on butt-fucking both Charles Hambitzer and Jack Miller.
Tin Pan Alley was only a place to spew up in and his only claim to fame was rearing a bastard son (Robbie Rotton).
The real Girshwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue. Robbie's father wrote only sick-notes enabling him to claim incapacity.
Tommy Ducks, if you bothered to read closely the posts by Stanislav and Mr Sam you would find them a good deal more accurate, witty and perceptive than anything Robbierotten, Pope Arsehole, Red Wossname - and probably yourself - could ever manage.
You are obviously the kind of prat who can only just about manage to take in the Daily Mirror comment. Three short sentences, one in bold, another underscored, in case the flea-brained reader loses concentration.
John Bright's rant was not just good. It should go down as the finest slagging-off in internet history.
Could this be the photo we've been looking for!! :-
http://bbc-biased.blogspot.com/2007/10/tax-credit-system-is-unfair.html
tis the season to be jolly
Fa La La La La La La
ime sorry but i think were just to trying to have abit of fun on here tonight .
i mean what news is there , we cant have a go at politicians as there mostly on holiday , we can only get fired up when parliment re convenes.
i appreciate guido wants some hard core gossip , but errm well most are just in prep training for when it realy gets started .
we know the lies , we know the deceptions , one or two of us even know about the money trail , and what some labour mps are thinking .
quite a few civil servants are off line and journos , so were a bit stuck. so its medical analysis and base offence .
i think ill go back to sleep , it was gordons tv appearenece that got me worried , this new year fight back is taking its time perhaps it will not happen , non election type event .
right then ill go back to bed , set alarm clock for jan 7th , or pakistan civil war which ever comes first.
thanks guido , sorry i cant post much more juicy , but labour have run off , shame really, and if guido turns in ian dales ,it will be a shame "guido so mainstream"
not even many trolls turning up , although some very interesting new troll attack methods , plenty of blurring and prompt posting of good info .
will sharpen up for jan 2008
night night dipsy
@john bright
You are as stupid as it is possible to be and still be sentient; nay, that is a misjudgment, lumps of rock are smarter than you, a bag of sand has a better sense of humour. Living with you, even a garden gnome would hurl himself in front of a train, rather than endure one more moment of your endless, infantile commentary. You are an unspeakable cunt.
Then why speak about him at great and tedious length, you half-wit? You weren't even original: it was mouldy scraps from Twatchett's plagiarism of Douglas Adams or mouldier scraps from the lesser inspired bits of that cunt Ben Elton's Blackadder rejects. Anyone who admires your flatulent invective needs to learn where the nearest library is and start using it. Robbie isn't great, but who is? Certainly not you, you squashed louse on the matted pubic locks of internet sub-literature.
bogeyman, you're so far up stanislav's rectum...
This is getting like a game of Cluedo. Who is Sticky Vicky, I wonder?
Admittedly I was a fair way up John Bright's rectum for his exquisite rant. Is he Stanislav? And who is Mr Sam?
Robbierotten has just shown his true colours and seems the nicer bloke for it.
As for Anon, did he do it in the study with the lead pipe or in the billiard room with the candlestick?
Popeknobhead, why did you post that pathetic little whine twice? One posting would have been one too many.
Some of you need to understand the difference between spewing your random and near-worthless thoughts onto a keyboard and writing constructively for an audience to which I am, for the most part, grateful to belong.
Dear Senor Quixote
Don't know the works of Mr Blackadder I am afraid and would run a mile from little Mr Ben Elton. I understand that their joint opus was a bit like Dad's Army for Oxbridge types but I have no way of knowing as I rarely watch TV. There may be a touch of Mr Adams, off the wireless, in my jottings but it is much more likely to be a Mr Persig, whom you will not have heard of, you being an avid tv watcher, and it will be there subliminally and not a bare-faced pinch.
I grant you that in my avuncular note to Mr Rotten there is much of the King James Bible and Shakespeare but I fear that such is unavoidable in anyone with an education and can hardly be called plagiarism. Again, you will probably be unaware that both these sources somewhat predate Mr Rowan Atkinson and Mr Elton in their influence on the language.
It is touching that you spring to Mr Rotten's defence; more telling, though, that he, if not you, read my note in the spirit in which it was intended. That squiggly thing, by the way, after the word defence in the last sentence, is a semi-colon; no Senor Quixote, it is nothing to do with the arse, which in your case seems to be located where others keep their minds and through which, no doubt, your share your wisdom, such as it is, with your unfortunate, backward children, on the, one hopes, restricted occasions on which you meet them and for whom, I regret, there can be little prospect of academic excellence, not with a dimwitted troglodyte like you for a pater. Do you still see them at all?
I would love to stay and chat with you about Mr Elton; he does musical theatre now, I believe, and jolly good luck to him. Do you perhaps envisage a career in show business yourself ? I must warn you that even in these dumbed-down days a budding entertainer requires a firmer grasp of English than that you display and indeed even a slender acquaintanceship with irony. Fuck me mate, there's fucking Poles round here write better stuff than you do, as it were.
As for visiting libraries, I have my own library, thank you; I am sitting in it; it is only about twelve thousand volumes, but none of them, I assure you, are by Mr Elton or any of the other celebrities you mention. If I did want an autobiography, say, of Mr Max Bygraves or Ms Kirsty Wark, then I would probably take your advice and venture to the public library; such desires, however, would be most uncharacteristic and, in any event, I would rather leave the library service exclusively to folk like yourself, who cannot afford their own books. It is, so I am told, very difficult on Incapacity Benefit these days.
I really must go but I fear I would be failing the body politic - or that snarling, resentful, libertarian portion of it which resides hereabouts - if I failed to mention that you are a fucking po-faced, humourless, sanctimonious, toilet-dwelling cocksucker. I suspect you're one of those presbyterian chaps. Only a presbyterian thinks as you do.
People rant and rave and froth and gibber on here but they are also quick and sharp and bright and funny, alert, enthusiastic and compassionate and angry and well, well, well acquainted with the dark doings of our masters; some are partisan, some anarchic; poor Dr Moneybags, for instance, is so angry that he is dying from multiple ailments: prolixity, angry cynicism and pure hatred. You, on the other hand are merely a prick and a dullard.
Mr Shitbag
In my country, calling someone a Liberal Democrat is considered most infelicitous and can lead to a sudden catastrophic and involuntary falling incident - or, detubare deorcum shaftus Scargillitum fatalis.
To avoid further accusations of rectal penetration, I won't put it any stronger than 'Can't argue with John Bright's latest'. Except for one thing:
I would be failing the body politic - or that snarling, resentful, libertarian portion of it which resides hereabouts...
Perhaps you and I have a different idea of libertarianism. Indeed, there are several definitions each with its own compass swinging from a dislike of excessive state control (Hayek, Buchanan et al) to outright anarchy.
I guess most people here have a libertarian streak. You may be confusing the "snarling, resentful libertarian" with the meddlesome Liberal Democrats, who are far removed from the Classical Liberals of old.
Im sure sticky vicky was a performer in spain who did weired insertions and other amusing tricks.
Had a clout like a bucket.
"Had a clout like a bucket."
she still has
@Bright
Here's an acronym for you to ponder: TLDR. Yanks enjoy and are impressed by gas-baggery, so your confession about Persig (mentioned early on, fortunately) comes as no surprise.
At the risk of sounding reasonable, may I suggest you let your gaze just slide over the posts of people you find boring?
This is in the fine tradition of FREE SPEECH, where loonies of all sorts can stand on a soapbox and say what they like. You don't have to listen, or agree, but you in turn have the right to say what you want.
I agree that "Robbie Rotton" is not exactly Oscar Wilde; he even left an insult on my blogette, but I will not delete it and defend to the death, etc., etc., etc.
Freedom of speech is the primary freedom. Without it no other is possible.
Mr Bright [3:03am].
I would like to apologise unreservedly for suggesting you are a Liberal Democrat astro-surfer. That was a cheap shot.
The spelling, grammar and syntax of your homage to Mr Rotten were such you could not possibly be a Lib Dem. Furthermore, the lack of any reference to coprophilia should have convinced me that you are no Friend of Mark Oaten.
Unfortunately, I must admit that I had consumed vast quantities of Sunny Delight, and I was in no fit condition to post a message on Guido's blog.
Word verification: nunsvpl
Change of topic:
This morning I've seen everybody around here dutifully putting out their recycling rubbish - not realising how much energy it takes to re-cycle the stuff.
Why are we recycling then? Answer, because the Germans (esp the green party) wanted to do it. They found that recycling put up the price of their products, so they used the EU to equally cripple all the other member states.
Why the Conservatives think this recycling is a good idea defeats me.
Anonymous said...
Popeknobhead, why did you post that pathetic little whine twice? One posting would have been one too many.
-adopting patient voice-
nobody obliged you to read either, but if you did you would (possibly) have grasped that the second posting included additionally 'a wellwisher's' anal obsession
do keep up!
Lurvies, singers, faggots, civil dogsbodies, glove puppets, X-Factor non-entities, ect. ect. ect....drone....yawn!
Cut the fucking crap!
Long gone are the days when great men and women of enormous courage did something so valuable and useful to the benefit of all of us and were recognized by these awards.
I reckon Bean had who-ever-she-was killed so that the MSM could focus on something other that his shameful handling of life, the universe and everything.
What's up ya snot-gobbling queer gibbering unstable cunt, run out of canoe/teddy bear/xmas shopping (will they wont they) threads?
What about law breaking, money laundering, lost identities, bank failures, police investigations, filthy hospitals, failing education, sterling collapsing, house prices falling?
You don't know what ya doing do ya!
Do Britain a favour, appoint yourself a honour and take a rocking-horse ride into the Lords asap.
What's the inside story on old Brucie not getting a K? When you look at all the cronies, NuLabour arslickers and showbiz luvvy nonentities who get awards, you'd think that Brucie might at least be in line for a Knighthood for longevity?
Who has blackballed the popular old hoofer?
Well said Mr Wildebeest!
You should be careful ridiculing brown he has a nasty history of breaking pencils and sulking.
Brucie is not a fan of NuLabour therefore no gong.
Brown can stick his fucking pencil up his fat fucking arse for all I care, the CUNT.
You want gossip? OK then, you asked for it!
Just who did whack the Pakistani bint Bhutto?
a) Musharaff
b) The Taleban
c) The CIA/MI5/6
d The FSB(RF)
e) Nawaz Sharif
It was 'e'! or at least he knows full well who did it.
His first interview after the killing was telling as he made some basic 'micro expressions' ie little gestures with his facial muscles/eyes that are common in those who are trying to lie or mislead.
The first rule of "whodunnit" is,
WHO BENEFITS! and Sharif would have lost the election to Bhutto hands down.
The tribal elders had too much to lose with a Bhutto win and now the Mullahs can relax back into their backward, women abusing/drug dealing ways!
But as usual nobody will listen to me and some will take the piss, but then again thats why Im Cassandra!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Cassandra (blue version)
I agree that one can find it very difficult to induce others to take any notice of one's analysis and predictions. Some attribute this to the maliciousness of the gods but others to your clear inability to think up a soubriquet that is not already in use on this blog.
If this goes on I shall be forced to make more use of my various aliases.
Brown's debt-fuelled ponzi economy is heading for the rocks:
House price fall worst for seven years
By Richard Alleyne
29/12/2007
Daily Telegraph
Homeowners were warned to prepare for a substantial fall in house prices next year after a survey revealed that values had dropped in consecutive months for the first time in more than seven years.......
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=U5RCNLDDG3UGVQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/29/nhouse129.xml
Can anyone explain why Comrade Broon sold off half our gold reserves some time ago, and has this now had a knock on effect on our economy? Was this another example of Broon "prudence" (ie fuckwittery)?
Prince Philip killed Ms Bhutto who was expecting his love child.
Ms Bhutto killed her brother when he publically criticised the appointment of her husband as Minister of Theft and Corruption. Ms Bhutto a silly corrupt Paki like all the rest of them. Who bloody cares about Pakistan. It is in the dark ages thanks to Islamic rule post partition. Only difference is they have changed the horses and spears for Mercs and nuclear bombs.
Ratsniffer
Brown sold our gold because he is a dysfunctional cunt. The fucking moron thought he would show the Treasury who was the Boss. So he sells off gold, traditionally the metal is the cornerstone of reserves,but announces his intention to the market. Utterfuckwit then had to sell in a falling market. Fuckwit never had a job in the real world and never took advice. How the City laughed.
Then he declines to dress as his City hosts do for their annual white tie dinner.
Contemptible piece of shit.
See the Police have gunned down somebody again.....
They are unable to wound - must be the kill - what poor training or they are just unpleasant.
IPCC called in - so a guaranteed whitwash...
Hope 2008 will be better. I used to think it was only the Tories who were arrogant bastards, NuLabour has altered that opinion.
attention seekers are boring said...
Popeknobheadxiv
Do you ever have anything interesting to post or are you just totally obsessed with yourself?
You flatter yourself if you imagine that the disturbed ravings of a collection of Tourette-Tories are infinitely fascinating. Idiotbaiting is mildly amusing up to a point but enough is enough...
I quit.
Last of you to have a purple faced rage induced stroke is a cissy! :D
Simon Heffer in today's Telegraph refers to the snot-gobbler thus:
"Those of us who knew Gordon Brown before he came into what he believed was his birthright felt he was not quite as most other men."
I wrote what I thought was a reasonable request,as had others, for some enlightenment as to quite what the Heffalump meant, viz:
To Andrew Cramb - I suspect that the matter at which the estimable Mr Heffer hints is the increasing assumption in the public at large that Gordon Brown is gay, and that his marriage may be a front to stay in the closet.
Of course, being gay does not debar you from high office, nor should it, but as with the mendacious Ted Heath, Britain's last gay PM, the lengths that the deceiver will go to to conceal his true self from the electorate make him entirely unsuitable to lead the country, by very virtue of that mendacity . Security services have long been aware of the risk of blackmail to closet homosexuals with a high profile, though why this should be the case in these enlightened times seems strange.
All the populace ask of their elected representatives is that they are honest, and when the belief gains currency that they are patently not, then the office and its holders are brought into disrepute.
Peter Mandelson was publicy outed by a good and decent fellow gay man, Mathew Parris, and his career has not faltered in spite of some more relevant and highly damaging facts about his character emerging subsequently.
If Mr Brown is indeed gay, what does he have to fear from honesty?
I do hope the Telegraph does not feel it incumbent upon itself to limit my free speech on this subject!
This was some hours ago, during which many other comments have been posted, but not mine. Does anyone know why reasonable enquiries relating to issues that are current in the public forums are to be passed over by the MSM in this manner? We are being very badly served (and it would be futile to mention the BBC in this regard), and as in so many other areas, the Americans can show us the way to true free speech, without which there is NO freedom.
Freedom of speech is one thing but this site is meant to be about pseudo politics. John Bright you must be the most tedious person on the planet, why do you do it? Get yourself to a psychiatrist, I don't think there's a cure for your disorder but at least they could all get a good sleep while you're talking. For some of you others suicide is the only way forward, try and redeem yourselves by taking out a politician or an estate agent while you're at it.
comeoutgordon
There is a D Notice on outing Gordon Brown in the media on the grounds of "British security".
I expect it to be broken eventually, probably by The Guardian.
Anon 2:39pm
"Freedom of speech is one thing. . ."
Censor this:
Cunt.
P.S. Do you think it was a Guido reader who did Bhutto and would you applaud it?
Guido's post was a review of the year's news stories, but anyone reading the comments first would have thought it was a bizarre request for a staggering number of anus related musings.
Nothing wrong with kicking a girl's back door in occasionally, but a lot of people here are obssessed.
estate agents.....2.55pm
haven't you been sacked yet, you slimy waste of space?
The Olivant and Virgin "bids" for Northern Rock will officially be withdrawn by the end of January.
The government will then effectively nationalise this technically bankrupt and lame duck company and keep it afloat by regular and massive injections of capital until it can be broken up and disposed of at a massive loss to the taxpayer.
You heard it here first.
Much better robbierotton wildebeest!
Vitriolic and invective.
Never liked or understood your alan partridge parody thing, leave that to the big beasts, stick to spite/smut/rant.
Anon 2.59pm
"Nothing wrong with kicking a girl's back door in occasionally"
Thinking of Sarah, perchance?
House Price Crash. . .
Said:
"estate agents.....2.55pm"
You did read Anon 2:39pm. No! Of course not you idle fucking tit.
Everytime I'm in the UK all I hear is people wittering on about their fucking house prices, cunts all of them. Used to be drink, drugs and sex, maybe football, then again I was young once.
But fucking house prices, cunts.
they won't be talking about nothing but house prices when they're crashing through the floor.
Anon 3:27pm
No fucking change then.
See "Andy interesting Marr" back in the Mail today with his "essay" thought Thommo had stopped all that malarkey post Hutton ?
This place is going downhill. In the orgy of mutual abuse, everyone has ignored the one sensible question of today. Anon writes...
This morning I've seen everybody around here dutifully putting out their recycling rubbish - not realising how much energy it takes to re-cycle the stuff. Why are we recycling then?
Let me tell you. Recycling is part of the new dominant force in politics - government by scare. We are held in a state of constant obedience under threat of hellfire and damnation if we do not subscribe completely to the bogus theories of global warming, secondhand smoke, speed kills, home information packs, diversity is to be celebrated, every child matters...
"The debate is over", they say. The fuck it is.
Actually I don't have a problem with sensible recycling. We throw too much away and put too much shit in the ground. The trouble is, Nu Labour have gained such a reputation for trickery, lying and deception to empty our pockets in order to fund their crackpot social engineering schemes that even the most sensible measures are now met with automatic derision.
This is their legacy. Well done Bliar. Well done Go