Why is Ken Sending The Londoner to Scottish MPs?
The Londoner is a Ken Livingstone financed propaganda sheet. The SNP's Dundee East MP Stewart Hosie reckons Ken is "wasting public money on a lavish scale" sending the newspaper, subtitled News from the Mayor of London to the constituency offices of Scottish MPs and MEPs, and at least one MSP. Some 5,000 copies are being sent to each postcode district in the UK according to the publishers.Since Ken is quoted in nearly every article throughout the 20 pages, on concerns ranging from London's housing shortage, Tube fares, a Metropolitan Police survey, Oyster Cards, offers for Londoners to get half price bus fares and crime in London, Hosie says: "This is an outrageous waste of taxpayers' money to provide propaganda for Ken Livingstone's mayoral campaign. The newspaper articles have little or no relevance to anyone outside London. Bad enough that taxpayers' money is wasted on propaganda but then to have it posted throughout the UK adds insult to injury."
98 comments:
F' me senseless! Hosie is absolutely right! I suspect the Livvie propaganda is being sent out because a lot of 'left-leaning' Jocks sent his prior campaigns cash! You could always ask 'team Livvy' this officially Guido! As a conservative minded voter, i voted for the SNP here in Jockland at the recent elections! rather them than bloody Labour and the 'Golden Shower' lot!
Perhaps he'll try for Mayor of Dundee if he's thrown out of London. Pack him off in a Dundee suitcase!
You say 'the newspaper articles have little or no relevance to anyone outside London'. Actually they have little relevance to us London-dwellers either.
It isn't financed by Livingstone, it's financed by London tax payers. I don't get a copy even though I pay for it, but I don't mind much.
shock news just in
ken livingston is mayor of london !!
ken livingston uses a wide variety of proganda to convince the public he is doing a good job.
ken livingston is wasting tax payers money and he hopes that by sending out the londoner no one will realise.
boris appears to upset him
lee jasper appears to be in the crap , so he wants us all to forget about the corrupt spin machine
Probably because one of his donors owns the printing and distribution rights & he gets a campaign kickback of x ammount per 1000 copies, nulab, nukick backs
It's not just Scottish MSPs, MEPs and MPs.
I know for a fact that at least one Northern English MEP gets a copy as well. I'd be very surprised if it didn't go to all the others too.
I hate getting this New Labour propaganda in my letter box, and as Guido stated, most every article in every issue has a word in it by Ken Livingstone. Vote this asshole out of the London mayor position, all he knows is how to rape the London taxpayer for more money, and give it to the layabouts who are only too happy to vote for more taxes for us people that actually work for a living.
Just an fyi, so far £50 has being taken from me in tax for an Olympics I didn't want, won't watch, and facilities only the unemployable (athletes) and illegal immigrants (housing on site) will use.
Par for the course where Ken's concerned - I'm Backing Boris...
It is sent to Welsh Assembly members as well.
Having just reorganised the newly acquired outer boroughs of work units in the Great Newtopia, Ken will now turn his attention to something more important - himself.
Why not merely send a voucher for Andrex...or sandsheets for the parrot's cage.
Maybe he sends it to all and sundry because he is an egotisical cunt.
Ahh well, nothing surprises me anymore - except that Livingstone hasn't been turned into Deadstone by an irate London taxpayer.
It has not made it as far as Croydonian Towers since 2006. Not that it was ever worth reading other than for the good job it did in keeping my blood pressure up.
This is what you get when the position of London Mayor has no accountability factor built into it. Ken can do what he likes and here is his two fingers to all us hard-working taxpayers. Presumably the scots have done the decent thing and used it as a substitute for peat...
Suggest we retitle it "the Beano".
Livingslime has no intention of losing of losing this election, no matter how much money it costs someone else. In this case the someone else are the very people who wouldn't vote for the reptile and his colour-crutched sidekick Grasper - the taxpayers of London.
The only way to get this thieving cunt out, and his mates Tangerine, Harbint, Bendy et al is the Plod, but he's been bought and paid for, so we are fucked.
The only answer is to take to the streets as the polltax protesters did, and they even had most of the MSM on their side with beeboids handing out drink and sandwiches.
Is that really a fact - that the BBC used the Licence Fee to provide drinks and sandwiches to 'poll tax' protestors?
Nothing would surprise me - just want it confirmed.
Ken is the most despicable commie of them all IHMO. The man (if such he is rather than some Demon sent to torment us) just lies and lies and seems to get away with it. Before his last election he stated that fares and the congestion charge would rise by no more than inflation. After the election they went up by 40% - 60%. No-one batted an eyelid.
Similarly his congestion charge has nothing to do with congestion, rather it’s the old left politics of envy. Any reduction in congestion caused by fewer cars has been more than offset by the deliberate congestion he’s built into the traffic system. This in turn causes more pollution, thereby choking the very people he claims he wants to help.
As I’ve said before he’s the one politician I’d cheerfully put up against the wall and shoot – one knee cap at a time. (Other politicians I’d put against the wall with more reluctance and execute them swiftly.)
I have a large sign on my letterbox which reads no free newspapers or junk mail. The only publisher who completely ignores this sign? The cunt Livingstone and The Londoner. The man needs shooting.
Ken has been pumping off taxpayers' money to Grasper and his black power buddies, so that they can fund activities where black youths are taught that white society will always be against them.
He should have cut out the middleman and just provided all these rudeboys with knives and guns.
Soul power!
It is totally untrue to suggest that 5,000 copies of the Londoner are being sent to each postcode district in the UK. No copies are sent to each postcode district in the UK. Like other publications of local authorities, the Londoner is sent to every household in the area covered by the Greater London Authority – that is Greater London. More than three times more residents of the capital say they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard. In addition, as London is the capital of the UK, individual copies of the Londoner are sent to each Member of Parliament and each Member of the European Parliament to ensure that they are directly informed about the actions of London government. This is important as London is frequently discussed in the UK parliament and EU legislation can have important consequences for London. As the Londoner is circulated to more than three million households in London, the costs of this circulation is a minuscule proportion of total circulation costs.
Is it true that Cameron's former press secretary has been given a new low level position in the "diversity" department at CCHQ?
is this andy coulson's doing? Sounds like quite a step down.
A copy of The Londoner was delivered to our house for the very first time last week. It must be published for the benefit of the ethnic minorities because although their were numerous photographs on every page of happy Londoners enjoying Ken's largesse there were only two pictures of white folk. Funnily enough they were also the only two people featured who had jobs - a policeperson and a bus conductor.
Perhaps the MPs in receipt of Ken's propaganda should return it to him with a note saying that the bogroll they normally buy is softer and comes ready-perforated.
GLA Spokesperson,
The fact that you have time to mong about on a blog just shows how much money is wasted by Ken.
Is it true that there are more media mongs / advisers / officers at the GLA working for Ken than there are in Downing Street?
To MSPS, Welsh AMs, MEPs all MPs - but to me, a Londoner? No. Not that I want the bloody thing...
Why don't you give us your name GLA spokesperson? You are a public employee are you not, and as Guido pointed out, with so much time apparently free from productive work you can mong about here in your employers interests.
What is your opinion on the charge of propaganda, or are you not allowed one? How about only two white faces in your pamphlet; does this reflect the relative importance you and your boss attach to the interests of the indigenous people of our capital?
Do enlighten us, as it is not ofetn we have the honour of a visit from a Nu-Lab person who appears to be literate, and can spell. A treat - come back soon, please.
Anon @ 3.26, I don't know, but it was a charge I heard at the time, and I don't think those cunts were any less cosy with the rabble-rousers then than they are today, so I believed it, and still do.
Anon at 3.46
yes George Eustice has a new low level job in Diversity after his "sabbatical" - rather different to the one ConHome were trying to get him.
"More than three times more residents of the capital say they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard."
Says who? I live in London and nobody asked me.
3 million households in London .... I shudder to think how much that costs.
Still, it's a local authority publication written only in English (so far as I can recall), so I suppose we should thank Heaven for small mercies.
Use The Londoner to line your cat litter tray. By the time this odious little man's image has been dumped with a week's supply of cat-shit he looks just as I will always wish to remember him.
"More than three times more residents of the capital say they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard"
Ahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Pull the other one.
GLA Spokesman:
"No copies are sent to each postcode district in the UK"
Nice try- how many ARE sent to postcodes outside the Greater London area?
"More than three times more residents of the capital say they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard."
Says who? Your 3 office colleagues?
Best of british luck trying to spread your agitprop here!
gla spokesperson droned:
"Like other publications of local authorities, the Londoner is sent to every household in the area covered by the Greater London Authority "
What a waste of money.
"More than three times more residents of the capital say they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard.
"
I'd like to see that survey! Was it done by one of Lee Jasper's companies by any chance?
"In addition, as London is the capital of the UK, individual copies of the Londoner are sent to each Member of Parliament and each Member of the European Parliament to ensure that they are directly informed about the actions of London government."
Funny, there's nothing in the Londoner about the promises Ken broke about price rises... in fact, there only seems to be stuff showing Ken in a good light. That's just the sort of distorted picture you get from a stalinist propaganda machine, though.
"This is important as London is frequently discussed in the UK parliament and EU legislation can have important consequences for London."
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Listen to this shit.
"As the Londoner is circulated to more than three million households in London..."
Please stop reminding us of this profligate waste.
"...the costs of this circulation is a minuscule proportion of total circulation costs."
Which should be zero.
Goodbye Ken and your sleazy cronies.
I have forgotten where London is and how to get there.Is Kempton Park racecourse in London?I have been there and it seems normal.I have heard that London is a foreign city ruled over by a maniac.Us country boys had better stay away.Maybe they should start printing maps with a big white space where London used to be.Then we can forget all about it and get on with our lives.
The GLA has a responsibility to ensure that untrue statements about it, such as those you have chosen to publish, are corrected. You seem to consider you have a right to publish nonsense about people and then criticise them for pointing out that it is nonsense.
GLA lackey:
And you have a responsibility to answer legitimate questions such as those raised above.
We're waiting.
You happy recipients of Ken's missive, think yourselves lucky you don't get 'About Guildford'. Total crap produced by Guildford Borough Council saying how wonderful they are and how well they are rated in various surveys (no doubt paid for by us idiot taxpayers).
They are all at it.
gla spokesperson whinnied
"You seem to consider you have a right to publish nonsense about people and then criticise them for pointing out that it is nonsense."
You were the one claiming that totally biased propaganda mag called 'the Londoner' was an important piece of communication.
What a load of shit.
I loved your evening standard dig by the way. You don't like it because it lifted the lid on the stinking corruption you'd rather not have out in the open.
gla 5:05
"You seem to consider you have a right to publish nonsense about people and then criticise them for pointing out that it is nonsense."
Rather like Ken in fact.
Go peddle your shit elsewhere.
Then get a proper job.
gla spokesman: The Londoner exists to boost Ken Livingstone's and his regime's reputation. It is a propaganda sheet with no criticism of our glorious leader allowed to stand uncorrected. I almost enjoy reading it as the bias is so blatant, it's almost a parody of the genre. Please refer us to the entry/entries in the Londoner where Ken's broken promises on fares, the Routemaster, levels of Congestion Charging etc. have been covered...
GLA spokesperson: You may have "pointed out" that it is nonsense; you have done nothing to demonstrate that it is. Who are you, anyway? Are you paid for doing this?
All Councils of every persuasion send useless glossy publications to their unfortunate constituencies. The left-wing ones don't merely boast about their achievement, they tend to indulge in social engineering, with exhortations to "celebrate diversity".
I remember the old Inner London Education Authority used to shower schools with a rag called "Spotlight". It contained lots of pictures of children working in their classes.
I'd say that about 80% of the children pictured were black and this would be in the early seventies
BTW, is anything happening over the Lee Jasper caper?
There's a very fetching picture of Hain attached to Mike Smithson's article (link top right, or ) clearly demonstrating the correct technique and equipment for the ancient Welsh pastime of badger watching. Not all Hain's predecessors have been as resourceful. Things have only get better.
GLA Spokes'person':
You seem to think you have the right to publish nonsense about the GLA via 'The 'Londoner'. It's hardly surprising you and your cohorts will be criticised.
Although to be fair to you, the GLA isn't the only local authority publishing such bs. My local authority does as well- therefore I think it may be standard practice for local councils in our once great nation to waste tax collected from us in such a godawfully arrogant manner. They think that wasting trees and tax 'bigging up' themselves is totally acceptable.
W**kers, the lot of them.
if this publication is sent to 3 million londoners how come the dozy gits at the gla have never sent a copy to my place in camden?
it sounds as though i am missing out on a fantastic publication
GLA Spokesperson: you are clearly unaware of the level of loathing amongst the majority of indigenous people in this country (England) for your nasty little boss, his nasty little cronies (Lee Jasper et al), his nasty sponsors (Nu Labor aka the Resurrected Zombie Government of the German Democratic Republic circa 1960) and the profligate wastrels they employ to perpetrate their dastardly cons. Just in case you didn't get the message the first time: We don't believe your lies. You have been rumbled. Your propaganda is not working. Your days are numbered. You are the weakest link - goodbye.
GLA spokesperson.
One of the 70 employed to troll around no doubt.
Glad you're here though, you cunt, just like your boss who proved the old adage having been Leader of the GLC and now Mayor that once a cunt always a cunt.
Fuck off and do some work, cunt.
I believe fair comment is allowed!
if this publication is sent to 3 million londoners how come the dozy gits at the gla have never sent a copy to my place in camden?
Nor here South of the River just a very good stone's throw from Ken's Palace of Waste.
GLA Troll: in your language I would like to ask you what is the carbon footprint of your waste-of-money rag?
Taxi for Ken.
Meanwhile the real political battle is being decided in the supermarkets, petrol stations and the energy supply market.
With lots of bad news on the economy out today and public sector workers getting shafted on pay rises it looks like pretending to be a socialist will be a bad idea for about a generation.the unions have suddenly realized that CPI is a crock and RPI is the one to watch Ole ed bollox got a bigger pay rise for his lot(bruun nosing) leaving the police fuming so here comes WINTER OF DISCONTENT 2 this time its on credit.
who would be a lab troll these days eh?
ITN news - food prices rising at fastest rate, EDF energy prices up by 12%. Rising petrol prices. People wondering how to make ends meet, and also why the economy is going to hell in a hand cart. Voters now remember who has been presciding over the economy for 10 years, step forward McCavity Broon, the well known amateur gold dealer.
Nothing on falling value of £ against the Euro and the dollar, 3% or so fall in FTSE, Peter Hain out of the news, but instead possible nationalisation/seizure of Northern Rock.
Good day for Broon...not! His prudent econmic policies.
Incidentally what was that odd story being peddled on BBC News Website about a murder trial being partly in camera? Isn't in any way linked to last night's anti terrorism operations on Sky.
GLA pillock
Just run that by us again...
.."they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard.'
So the true purpose of the Londoner is as a buffer against the free press - for example -the Evening Standard. What an admission! And how typically arrogant of one of Chairman Livingston's aparatchiks. I'm amazed how much i really hate you lot....Go stew with your islamist buddies...
I think you're being a bit harsh on Ken. Let's have a bit of a compromise can't we? He can spread his vile propoganda as long as he prints it on soft paper so that those who wish to defile his words may do so by wiping their arses on his missive? What say you?
GLA Spokesbot,
"No copies are sent to each postcode district in the UK."
Ri-i-ight. So how many actually were sent to any postcode outside London? You've been asked twice now.
"More than three times more residents of the capital say they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard."
Oh hardy-har. Gilligan's really put the shits up you lot, hasn't he? You are of course comparing your junkmail with a paid-for publication. So what's that? From your own internal polling, you reckon 3x ES's circulation are happy to receive your glossy. So how many weren't happy to receive it? What were the percentages? And what question[s] were asked of the sample?
You nu-labor types really shouldn't try to bullshit intelligent people by quoting unattributed unverifiable statistics and chancing that we'll get sufficiently bored before the end of the obfuscatory paragraph to not notice or care.
Naughty.
I live in zone two and have never received a copy of this so informative publication. My only chance of getting a copy is to open my window at the traffic lights where there are always a bunch of unwashed individuals wishing to stuff the thing into my car. How much do they get for littering and loitering?
GLA spokesperson - do find a proper job.
Save us Boris!
Bit late to moan about the govt, isnt it? After all, you sassenachs elected them 3 times in a row!
Well, only 2.5 years until bean calls his election-and EVEN THEN, odds are he will be there for another 5 years!
You're a lot of poor sods, arent you?
Re Livingstone, Jasper and LDA
Appologies if someone's posted this already, but there's an Evening Standard Article from yesterday, saying that that three London MPs, Kate Hoey, Lynne Featherstone and Greg Hands, are calling for a full-scale inquiry into the LDA fundal scandal: http://tinyurl.com/2pxseu
Give me a tax break and let me choose how to spend my money!
Anonymous 4.39
He's not an 'odious little man' he's a bloody big bugger. People just think he's little because of the nasally whine and looking like Uriah Heap. A bully to boot as I'm sure gla spokesperson can confirm.
Remember when he clumped his girlfriend for having a fag at a party?
"Gold surged to an all-time high of $914 an ounce in New York on bets that the authorities will flood the global system with further liquidity to stave off a mounting debt crisis."
Oh gordon what where you thinking??
The wheels really are coming off his clown car economy.
Mr GLA Spokesperson, Sir,
In view of your comment "The GLA has a responsibility to ensure that untrue statements about it, such as those you have chosen to publish, are corrected" I'd be fascinated to know under what guidelines The Londoner is published. I've read numerous of the copies that have been pushed through my door and have yet to discern any statements about the GLC in it, that could be even loosely described as true. As others have said, it's just a propaganda rag for Ken's administration. Few of the stories bear the slightest resemblance to the London I know or the people who live here. I read it in same spirit as I would any work of fiction. The Beano springs to mind.
Out of interest, are you yourself a Londoner or are you just another piece of riff raff that has come to exploit my city for whatever you can get out of it?
I received Cunty Ken's propoganda rag.
I tore it up in to lots of little pieces and posted it back to City Hall. Without a stamp. Or a return address.
As mentioned above, it was actually quite hilarious. I actually thought, for a while, that it might have been some sort of Chris Morris led parody, it was that good!
Livingstone, you are the slimiest newt-loving cunt. Goodbye.
GUIDO GUIDO GUIDO !!!!!
NB NB NB GET ONTO this now. Stop it, or if you can't get onto all the litle star-struck girls who work on the "News desks" of the "Local Papers".
This is very important and the newt-Fancier is being quite clever. All their friends, and all the newscontacts of the locals who lick this up will influence their friends in London to vote for Ken, if not nooped now.
The trouble with him is that he looks like a sort of friendly cheekie-chappie, the sort whom if he was a mate of their male mate and they met him in a pub, then they would not fear him. This is dire and hateful and dangerous. He is to be feared, very feared.
Get onto it and stop it now.
You cheeky scotch cunt @7.42. You know that the Southern English (who BTW pay for every fucking thing you have) are not responsible for reelecting these arseholes who've gerrymandered their way to power.
Still, now your ignorant kilted wonders have given political independence to their very own deep-fried Mars bar brigade, watch the lights go out after the next election. If I was you I'd be ashamed to be a part of the wife-beating, cross-dressing, alcoholic tartan horde (TM Stan) that has joined forces with the asylum seekers and Islamists to destroy Britain. Enjoy your independence when it comes - we will, it will be like losing an old smelly perverted uncle who keeps nicking everything not nailed down, spending it down the pub, coming home and performing the technicolour yawn on the, now threadbare, carpets. In other words thank the fuck. Cunt.
Just wondering -
If 3 million copies of this publication were supposed to have been distributed in London, and yet hardly any Londoners on here claim to have received it; is it possible that somebody just told Ken that 3 million would be distributed, but had about 1000 printed and then pocketed the cash for the rest?
High-tax Britain booted from club of 'free' economies.
The country has continued to slide down the league under Gordon Brown's economic management, falling from fifth to tenth place over the last two years. It has been overtaken by Canada, Chile, Switzerland, Australia, and the United States.
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling
Gordon Brown stands accused of turning UK into a weaker economy
Britain now scores below 80 points on a range of key indicators, dropping into the "mostly free" camp with Germany, Japan, Bahrain, Armenia and Trinidad.
Two eurozone shockers are Italy (64), and Greece (80), now ranked lowered than most of the old Communist bloc.
The ever harsher verdict on Britain comes as Mr Brown's tax and spend policies begin to reshape the basic structure of the UK plc, transforming it from one of Europe's leanest fiscal states to one of the most bloated.
"Total government expenditures, including consumption and transfer payments, are very high. Government spending has been rising since the 1990s and in the most recent year equaled 44.7 percent of GDP," said the UK country report.
"Bit late to moan about the govt, isnt it? After all, you sassenachs elected them 3 times in a row!
Err.. No they didn't. More people voted Conservative in England in 2005 than voted Labour, but Labour have a huge boundary advantage, where Northern chav give Liebour a lot of cheap seats.
I live in SW20. Sure, it's not a trendy Clapham Street lined with pretty and comfortable 4 bedroom houses (where people like Lee Jasper live, shelling out 96 quid a week for a council house he still lives in despite earning 120k per year).
But it's still London. I am a Londoner.
Why have *I* been deprived of the joy of reading the latest antics of our newt owning People's Leader.
Which supporter of female genital mutilation did he shake the hand of this week?
Exactly which area did he spend money encouraging people to vote the week before? (Answer: the ones most likely to vote for him).
I must know!
Q; is tiny "Red" Rosa Prince of the Telegraph's Three Line Whip the worst blogger ever? Dopey Rosa's latest scoopette is a damning revelation (courtesy of a written answer) about Government Minister Gerry Sutcliffe's visits to numerous sporting events. It's a scandal and he didn't even pay! But then again Sutcliffe is the Sports Minister. Doh! What does Prince-ss think should have happened? Should taxpayers have footed the bill? How on earth did she get her first Lobby job with the Mirror before moving to the Telegraph anway? Perhaps the equally diminutive Conor Hanna, go-fer to the Daily Mirror editor, and his excellent mentoring skills could be the answer?
Does the Londoner cover Livingspart's U turn on zero rating the congestion charge for the lowest CO2 emitting vehicles? Having recently forked out for one of the lowest emitters in preference to a hybrid, Casa Cassandra is not impressed. Mind you, the chance of any of us voting for the bugger was nil anyway - a fact he has doubtless surmised as the adults in our household work for a living.
45 Govt said:-
"You cheeky scotch cunt @7.42. You know that the Southern English (who BTW pay for every fucking thing you have) are not responsible for reelecting these arseholes who've gerrymandered their way to power."
Your inherent racism showing, 45??
hahahahah
When you shower of sassenachs can mobilise the calibre of folks who can organise and run your own country, the sooner the better! Only then will we be able to head back up north and run our own!In the meantime, although we detest having to do so, I reckon we will have no option having to continue to rule over you saddos!
Oi scotchman anonymous @ 7:42 what 45govt said at 8.50. You get around don't you? I've noticed your cheeky porridge wag line and use of the word sassenachs at a few other blogs lately. Are you a horrible scotch MP or just a horrible scotch troll? Go and toss a caber you caber tosser! You're inciting our hatred of you which is against McStalin's law.
English lib front said:_
Oi scotchman anonymous @ 7:42 what 45govt said at 8.50. You get around don't you? I've noticed your cheeky porridge wag line and use of the word sassenachs at a few other blogs lately. Are you a horrible scotch MP or just a horrible scotch troll? Go and toss a caber you caber tosser! You're inciting our hatred of you which is against McStalin's law."
Obviously touched a raw nerve, sassenach?
Truth hurts, eh?
Gordon Brown killed Hain's political career stone dead in an ITV interview tonight, repeated on Newsnight, when he said that Hain wasn't corrupt but that he was "incompetent".
It's also all over the front page of tomorrow's Brownite Daily Mail just to rub Hain's nose in it.
Tango man is dead in the water.
well for those of you who missed the european communties finace bill readings, the red despot spotters role of honour (for what its worth) goes to
philip hammond for not only making simon syphon complain to the speaker about being humiliated, but for delivering the withering lines "after ten years will this goverment be remeberd for wasted money, broken promises and incompetent goverment"
andy burnham used his time to waffle splutter and did not elude to the cost balances that this debate was supposed to explore , crackerberries on the near empty labour bench and bits of paper kept being passed to him as he struggled with a subject he didnt seem to understand the finacial aspects of.
others of honour
peter lilly
john redwood
peter bone
pat cash
and i nearly wept my self at richard shepards speaking.
i even thought dr cable (who is pro europe) highlighted that there is somthing wrong with using stealth to get somthing through parliment that affects every person in the uk .
as was pointed out the sums of money are huge it will be £1.9bn per annum and rachet up , at at time when fiscal necessesities are on us.
the bill got through , but was not financially explained nor the question answered that MRs Thatchers rebate had been eroded resulting in a deal that it was unclear if the british interest had achieved value for the tax payer .
andy burnham did not offer the debate nor could he , the tory back benches at least articulated burnham obfuscated .
peter hains woes were being downplayed , not as bad as thought , really i beg to differ.
camerons chopper gate is not really a story , helicopter flight from 2005 i ask you, but at least he seems to want to be clean, hain just goes off radar .
bronski beat evanomics offered a slight improvement, but still looks like light entertainment .
pen at the ready on thurs mr maguire i hope , if you are reporter that is
word verifcation hainpantsonfire
its finally dawned on you that boris hasnt a chance.
so out comes the Andy Cauloson inspired smire machine.
How is the Coleshill campaigning Service these days Guido
Gold is at a record high but our gold reserves have been sold
FTSE down 190 points
£ at record low against the euro
Northern Rock about to be nationalised
EDF gas prices up 12.9%
Council 'workers' have submitted a 6% pay demand
WHERE'S GORDON?
True stories about Ken told to me by Labour supporters.
1. The party incident. Ken got pissed at the infamous North London party and fell asleep. He woke up and wandered back into the party and thought his pregnant girlfriend had been smoking. Ken is very anti-smoking so, quite reasonably, kicked Emma in the belly. He was dragged outside by younger men and then tried to fight his way back into the party and in doing so, managed to push the chap from the Standard (Emma's friend) off the steps. He fell 12ft into a concrete basement.
This story was told to me by somebody at the party, the day after it happened.
2. He is no stranger to the medicinal nip and has, while mayor, had to 'miss' afternoon meetings due to 'diary pressures'.
3. Mother of the Livingstone children, Emma is his office manager and - when her P45 was leaked 4 years ago - was earning just short of six figures. Wonder if she's still there? And wonder how many candidates she had to beat off for the job?
4. After criticising David Cameron for wanting to send young Nancy across Kensington to a church school, news reached Fleet Street that Red Ken had bought Emma a Toyota Prius which was used to shuttle the babes to a smart nursery completely unadjacent to Cricklewood.
Fleet Street checked the story but it remained unpublished because the editor 'wouldn't touch a story involving children'.
Ken has now hired an orthodox Jewish nanny to both cut out the embarrasingly upmarket daycare and make up with the Jewish voters.
Oh, and one more thing GLA spokeslefty. There's a chap in TFL who is now leaking to press. We have the date for the introduction of the TAG and Beacon C-charging under the new IBM contract. We also have details on the roll-out of mass tolling on most of London's A-roads.
Don't think this won't break ahead of the election and inflame Zones 3-6.
Hello, is that Andrew Gilligan........?
cassandra,
I was not aware that cars that emit less plantfood (CO2) also take up less space on the road and therefore lessen congestion.
I see gaysnotter is briefing against mervyn already he has one of his lackys blame him for NR wot a cunt.
The clerk from the GLA says:
"More than three times more residents of the capital say they want to receive their information about London government from the Londoner than, for example, from the Evening Standard."
Yes Knob-head, they "say" they want it. But of they had to pay 50p for the propaganda you wouldn't sell a thousand copies. The Standard's circulation, in contrast, is all paid for by people putting their money where their mouth is. Your GLA shit is forced on us through the tax system.
You think you are smart, but you are ignoarnt. Specifically, you are ignorant of the superiority of teh free-market system, and you are ignorant of history (don't you know that courts throughout the ages have had clerks willing to tell teh king that his coat looks beautiful: if you knew that, and you had any self respect, you would get your self a proper job.)
As for Lee Grasper, I say: Get back inside your Tom Wolfe novel, when you came!
My mate reckons Ken was in a fracas with his wife some years ago. I am not so sure. I think he had an argument with his wife / partner, and someone stepped in and ended up "tumbling" down the stairs.
Can anyone remember the details?
Monkey,
Your analysis is matched only by your spelling. This story came from the SNP. The clue is in "The SNP's Dundee East MP Stewart Hosie reckons.." Doh!
I see the Sun is reporting that Hains department has issued 896,000 national insurance numbers to non-EU nationals when ONLY 275,000 work permits have been issued.
Hains inability to count seems to indicate that 600,000 illegal workers are now operating in this country with their employers thinking they are legal (for which of course the employers are liable for fines and imprisonment etc)
No ifs No buts - you are a prize orange bellend
I live in Lambeth and have never received The Londoner.
I reckon an earlier poster is right - the GLA might be being ripped off by the distributors. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the distributor is some sort of left-wing pseudo company with few contracts from private companies.
Either way, I don't give a monkeys. I don't want Ken's distortions through my letterbox: his press staffers, as evidenced on this very thread, are thick.
Red despot spotter - I too saw Richard Shepherd's speech on TV and I had to stand and applaud, even if Gorbals Mick cut him short. A true public servant, in stark contrast to the sulking, pouting Andy Burnham on the government benches, who appeared to be trying to retract his head into the space between his shoulders. I'm sure Burnham will get a good stiff talking to from the Supreme Leader. As for the adjournment debate, it was pure comedy worthy of a Bafta.
oh dear oh dear
Footsie below 6000 this morning
Citigroup loses 10bn
US consumers stop spending
US tipping into recession
UK property market collapsing according to RICS survey
Spanish inflation at 12 year high
Inflation up everywhere
growth slowing in Asia and China espeially
Nrock about to be nationalised
goodbye gordo you economic genius
I have little sympathy for the plight of london or londoners.
it is a shit hole worth avoiding.
90% of the knobs in the UK live there. The other 10% want to live there.
We hear far too much about it fee of charge.
100% out of london don't give a flying fuck who is mayor.
End of!
livingstone is calling on the Polish to vote him back in!
how many here are aware that the newly arrived unlimited European citizens - not British! can vote and influence our politics?
who remembers voting for this massive political change - no one, who remembers voting to have our boarders scrapped? - no one and you tories still think Britain will survive as a country with the EU and that political desent will be alowed once they have us in the bag! - think again,
they have you by the balls democracy is about to die in Europe and you Tories havent even realised it yet - quite pathetic really.
what will you tell your children when democracy and free speech is gone?
You might like to know the facts about the Londoner that GLA Spokesperson did not want to share with you.
It is costing £2.8 million in the current financial year. This is paid for by extorting levies from the GLA bodies in return for which they get advertising space. Transport for London have to pay £1.5 million and the London Development Agency has to pay £500K. Even the Metropolitan Police, who should probably be concentrating on stopping teenagers being stabbed to death, have to pay £250K. The net cost of the Mayor's self-promotion to the Greater London Authority is therefore only £550K.
It is notable that the Fire Brigade (LFEPA) pays nothing. It is no coincidence that the Mayor has been complaining about LFEPA's governance. In other words he chafes that he does not control it. They told him to get stuffed when he asked for a contribution to the Londoner.
PS I live in Ealing and have not seen a copy for some months.
GLA Spokesman you say:
"No copies are sent to each postcode district in the UK. Like other publications of local authorities, the Londoner is sent to every household in the area covered by the Greater London Authority – that is Greater London. "
It may be factually true that they are not sent to each postcode district in the UK. They are however distributed outside the Greater London area. You are provably a LIAR. Why should we believe anything else that you say? How come it is your job to spread untruths at public expense?
What evidence you may ask? I live in Surrey, near Reigate. Definitely NOT part the GLA, would be and receive your propagandist drivel regularly.
In live in Wapping and have been receiving this sh&t for years. It is complete garbage, full of stories along the lines of "Ken saved my children from certain death by removing anything remotely dangerous from their local playground" and similar crap. "The EastEnder" is another rag which seems to print pretty much the same thing, although most of it is in something other than English so I have no idea what misinformation it's spreading. Livingstone's tax-payer funded propaganda is a cancer that had pread throughout greater LondON (as Ken calls it).
We don't need or want a Mayor. City Hall should be nuked from orbit and its pathetic non-job inhbitants strung up from lamp-posts along the Mall.
Re GLA spokesperson
Stewart Hosie was TOLD by the people who publish this that up to 5,000 people in every postcode in the UK were sent this so what this anonymous person is saying is just not true. It might be of interest to MPs outwith London who all have to work in London, less so for MEPs although the argument may hold some water but what possible interest could Members of the Scottish Parliament or the Welsh Assembly have in it. Why send it to them. I also checked with 3 Londoners and none of them had ever heard of it so they dont receive it. I feel sorry for the Londoners who are paying for this nonsense.
Hovis
I live in London. I receive between 3 and 6 copies of the highly glossy propaganda rag every year. All addressed in my own name, delivered on the same day and all destined for the same bin.
Its hard to care for the welfare of people so determined to vote against their own personal interests. So why bother?
London's population voted for a Communist dictatorship. So a Communist dictatorship complete with its 'cult of the personality' viral propaganda, is what they now have.
So fuck them and the BBC, preferably ASAP.
The BBC makes the tens of millions KL spends very wisely on self promotion, and free economy destroying bullshit, look like relatively harmless small potatoes.
However if any of you lot think that Ken, or Kens policies are popular with London's poor people, think again, because you obviously don't know any.
Many have never even heard of him, still less trust anything politicians say, write, do, or promise to do anyway. Lets face it half at least of London's poor cant even read.
But as we should all know Socialists, especially ones like Ken are without prejudice of any kind.
They hate all of living humanity, with a passion, without exception.
May I suggest a bit of swift recycling? When the Londonista propaganda sheet falls onto your doormat, swiftly pin it up on the toilet wall and use it to wipe your arse on.
That's if you can bear having the great man's organ anywhere near your bumhole.
Winchester says:-
Perhaps he'll try for Mayor of Dundee if he's thrown out of London. Pack him off in a Dundee suitcase!"
No such position exists, Winchester! The term is "Provost" not "mayor."
Typical SE England ignorance-can't say i'm surprised though-par for the course!
And in backing Livingslime's campaign for re-election, the Independent today says that Livingslime has cut crime in London! I guess it's because there are fewer cars parked up because of the congestion charge.
The Grauniad will be saying Livingslime can walk on water next!!
Peter Grimes
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