Willetts Says Vampire Bats Are Tories
Guido is pretty certain that he did not dream hearing David Willetts this morning on Marr's Radio 4 show Start the Week compare (in a positive light) the altruistic social behaviour of vampire bats to Tory thinking about human social behaviour. Stepping back from the point he was making, which was both interesting and valid, it seems to me that only Willetts would try to win people over to the Tory cause using vampire bats.Batty? Yep. God knows what Michael Howard will have to say about this...
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Whereas cats are definitely socialists.
Self-satisfied, demanding, and asleep half the day.
Lazy gits!
What Michael Howard would say? Possibly something like: "There's something of the right about this man!"
Well in that case the Lib Dems are Zedonks - a different animal depending on where you look and ultimately sterile (thank goodness).
he has a point.
willets is blind to the irony and he has got big ears
Dogs are LibDems: woof woof I'll be whatever you want me to be
Vampire bats are Tories for the simple reason that they get on their wings and go out looking for blood. They don't hang around in the batcave waiting for the National Blood Delivery Service (NBDS) to meet its centrally-agreed target in Uniform Plasma Distribution, and spend the remaining time writing to the Guardian about how they suspect some bats are getting unfair quantities of the red stuff.
And when another bat is short of blood, the neighbours help out. They don't hang around writing to the Guardian....
No, socilaists are vampires too. They're all blood-suckers, the whole lot of them.
still think count mandelson is the prince of darkness , ive never seen him in a photo visit to a garlic factory ??
i rest my case
cameron was quite good this morning with new children proposal from willets.
johnson tried to play a hand with BMA , then cocked it up with the words "force the gps"
soon be looking to the ak47 eh alan , now its not the sort of democracy you like!!.
Not really surprising. The guy has sharp teeth, lives in the dark and is totally batty.
Think there should be two 't's in Willetts - one got eaten by bats, clearly...
Revealing article in the Inde
//www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brown-refuses-to-reveal-contacts-with-murdoch-777681.htm
What about the limpdems?
Possums, perhaps.
OK, so MPs require some expenses to function properly, but how much.
If you take the example of Dr Richard Taylor, who consistently is in the lowest 5% of claims of expenses (averaging just under £100,000 for each of the past four years); he speaks in an above average number of debates, participates actively in a select committee, is a fairly assiduous voter, and has a high reputation in his constituency for supporting local issues, then you have a benchmark of what reasonably needs to be spent.
There are a very few MPs with special constituency needs (Western Isles, for example) but in general the level might be pegged back to the Taylor standard without loss of quality
I'd send him to Transylvania to apologise.
Bloodsuckers all.....
He'd be better off with two dicks than two brains if this is the sort of shit they produce but then so, I am sure, would we all; a shame that we have been so evolutionarily short-changed.
Vote Tory and get Two-Dicks Willets! That'd be a winner.
Better at any rate than -as at present - vote Tory and get Tony Blair on a fucking bicycle. With a chauffeur following behind. Cunt.
How is it possible for the BBC to describe Sadiq Khan as a 'senior Muslim' MP, given that he is 37, and only entered The Commons in 2005? Is one of the editors a chum of his perchance or just extracting the urine?
They work for you note that Sadiq Khan
How Sadiq Khan voted on key issues since 2001:
Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
Voted very strongly for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
Voted strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
Voted very strongly against investigating the Iraq war. votes, speeches
Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes, speeches.
Will he now be changing his stance on ID cards?
What a silly bunt*
*Spot the Python reference there, anyone?
asb
if there is a definition that better describes a fascist than 'a bundle' it is surely that bundle of fascist actions you have supplied.
his mother must be very proud.
erm... actually his mother probably wouldn't have got into the country if that fascist had have been in power at the time.
Well said Stanislav.
I thought some OU Sociology student was blahing on - and then I heard who it was. Complete bollocks! What with this, Camerons Nurse for new Mum's nonsense and all the other complete crap being spouted by ALL parties, no one is bothered to vote.
What is the difference between this sort of codswallop and the daily splutterings of the Nu-Labor government?
Cameron could have it all if he had the balls to promise to throw the Human Right's Legislation out!, Build more prisons, shut the borders up and throw every illegal out and make the underclass work for their dole. He'd never be out of power!
Is the man autistic (or at least somewhere within the Aspergers Spectrum Disorder), I wonder? He is logically right, but clearly has no apprehension of the emotional overtones of what he says. Dangerous - since most voters cannot appreciate logic in any shape or form!
While Tories are vampire bats, Labour are that other type of blood sucker - leeches. As for Lib Dems, the term "poodle-stabbers" may be appropriate.
Big Brother is watching and listening, so watch out Gordo they may have a tape or two on you...
so, the wilson document isn't worth the paper it's written on. no wonder blair didn't give a fuck about changing it in '05.
that means we can bug that cunt gordon's mobile phone that he makes all those calls to his american masters on.
According to Beeb news it iooks like Plod is being lined up to take the rap for the bugging.
Unfair. I heard that radio interview with David Willetts and thought he made an interesting point about the social habits of vampire bats. The ones who suck the most blood share it with those in the colony who didn't manage to gorge themselves. It was in the context of economist Tim Harford's book "The Logic of Life".
Willetts came across as an original thinker. I was just waiting for some stupid cunt to spoil it by making jokes about blood-sucking Tories.
Guido.
The other day you posted a competition to see who could come up with suitable job for Hain. Morgan Allen Moore are now advertising on w4mp... Someone ought to tell them the competition's already been won.
Another,
I'm curious. How does an MP vote "very strongly" for things? Do people who feel strongly about issues now get more votes?
Last time I looked there were only three choices: vote 'for' or 'against' or abstain.
come on bogeyman, you are sounding like a communist.
the theory of trickle down just has not happened. wealth is sucked up. old labour taxed the rich and new labour tax the poor right? can you offer an example of the tories doing it differently and not sucking what little money the poor have ie moral taxation, because I haven't heard a dicky bird from the tories on this issue. aren't you just blindly defending your party?
a fair question.
How dare you compare us vampires to the Tories!
That bites, it really does. I'm so hurt.
Willets and Oliver Letwin, vote winners the both them.
Unlike our own dear Labour Party, infested as it is by Vampire Prats!
That Wendy Alexander... always looks like she could give someone a nasty suck...
firstimer,
the last time you looked, at what? your cock? just look in the mirror and you'll see one. legislation goes through a process where....
oh I can't be fucking bothered.
if you are a troll fuck off, if you aren't, don't ask stupid fucking questions, educate yourself moron. this is a political blog, not a state creche.
Now Geordie Scoot! You know that the Liberals love dogs! Well, al l except for Alsatians, which, for some reason, the bastards shoot.
No Liberals, we haven't forgotten what you did to Norman Scott's dog, Rinka!
Thick as Thieves, did you hear the interview? I don't follow your logic. In fact it's you who sounds like the communist with "wealth is sucked up".
Am grinding through Willett's well-intentioned report.
Time use surveys show that parents spend, on average, ninety-nine minutes a day with their children compared to twenty-five minutes a day in
1975.
Apparently the children are more miserable than in 1975 (did anybody ask them then?), so there's your quick answer: don't talk to them, it's obviously pissing them off.
...
Actually firsttimer asks a good question because I couldn't work out how the weighting worked on publicwhip - which supplies the voting record data to theyworkforyou.
They put up two explanations as to how they give their rankings, though.
How is the voting record decided? The voting record is not affected by what MPs and Peers have said, only how they voted in relation to that topic in the house - i.e. "aye" or "no". Votes on each topic were examined, and strength of support determined based on these votes. Follow the "votes" link next to each topic for details. Additionally, in many votes, MPs and Peers are told how to vote ('whipped') by their parties. Since the Whip is secret, we have to assume, like the Speaker, that all votes are free.
(theyworkforyou)
Agreement score explanation
The measure of agreement between this MP and the policy is a calculation based on a comparison of their votes.
(publicwhip)
Unfortunately, being cockless it still made little sense to me, but it did suggest that Sadiq Khan is inconsistent in some respects, voting strongly for his own party (i.e. consistently anxious to apply its legislation to everyone else) and then getting shirty when the provisions he has voted for are applied to him.
bogeyman, we've been getting on okay just lately but all this this 'did you listen to the interview' stuff just makes you sound like a fucking robot. never mind a poxy interiew in which willets makes a dick of himself, what is the t-o-r-i-e-s position on taxing p-o-o-r people? did you manage to keep up with that bogeyman?
I take it you won't answer it because you want, like the nulab party you keep bitching about to e-x-p-o-l-i-t them. don't be a coward you big old bogeyman, state your view. if that is your position you are just a selfish c-u-n-t and your principle point about the tories being sharing creatures like bats is a load of s-h-i-t!
fair enough bogeyman, even I don't know what expolit means, I'm looking it up now.
but I am being serious, capital gains tax and inheritance tax do fuck all for those on low incomes who pay a higher proportion of their income than average households on tax, 9% more to be precise.
but I'll stop beating around the bush. the reason the tories will continue to tax people on low incomes is because new labour has flooded the country with cheap labour. So my point is, are the tories just going to maintain the status quo or have they got some new ideas?
I suggest a tax allowance of say ten thousand pounds a year. surely the minimum amount of money needed to exist in such a high inflation economy. stop acting like a dimwit football supporter and start wondering how your party would make the country a more civilised place to live. all this talk ids was going on about how poor people need to aspire is bollocks. poor people need cash for courses to increase their skills and to increase their options. if people in a capitalist society work hard but make no profit the whole thing becomes a farce, for profit is the driver of capitalism, no?
I am seriously interested in your views on this matter.
I'm amazed we haven't heard from Vlad the Impala on this matter.
TaT, I haven't a clue what the Tories have up their sleeve for taxing the poor, or the rich, or my elderly aunt who lives in Cornwall, or my neighbour's fucking budgie. I was simply saying that if you didn't listen to the interview - in fact it wasn't an interview as such but a round-table philosophical discussion about a new book - you aren't in any position to comment about the vampire bat allegory. Now go suck something.
bogeyman,
I asked you what your views are.
so nulab have trolls and the tories have fucking robots. you are both as incapable of answering a simple question as each other. sad innit. it rather reinforces my view that party politics is a complete waste of this country's time.
I'd get more fucking sense out of your neighbours's budgie, cretin.
oh and yes I did listen to willets interview you patronising tit.
From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook his fist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"
ooww oohh
Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
The monster mash
And do my graveyard smash
Then you can mash
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
.....
Deerest love
Vlad the Impala
TaT - methinks you need some Midol.
anon 12.41
methinks you are a cunt
who is too scared to post a name.
TaT, I would answer your question if I a) Knew what it was, b) Had an answer.
Your 9:44 post is little more than an incoherent rant. The only question I can see buried in there is something about the Tories maintaining the status quo. So the answer to whatever the question was, is no.
Oh really? Like yours.. TaT?
Posting a fake name is the same as posting anon., you cunt. You are abusive and irrational, and while I initially liked you, you have lost your credibility with your inanity. You are Dalai Lama the 2nd.
to the troll and the torydroid,
tat slap, never heard of you before. but there is a difference, let me explain. when you trolls pop up you usually post anon. well, you've started using names and when you do I bash your brains out and expose you for the cunts you and your war party are.
so you have to constantly change those names. I don't have to change my name because my arguments are coherent and well thought out. I am your enemy, that is all you need to know retard. and as I have a far greater intellect than you, that means you are fucked. now fuck off troll.
bogeydroid,
pride overrules your intellect.
my question was simple, how do you feel about poor people being taxed?
you see I think you are more bothered about the tories getting into power and that you are prostituting your intellect to that end. I posed a genuine question and was honestly interested in your response. the only response you gave was to accuse me of ranting. you are an idiot bogeyman. and on a final note, go easy on the racist stuff.
beware conflating the muslim issue with the fact that we have a useless government. your muslim ranting make you look like a racist imbecile.
TaT.. as usual, off the mark. I am no more Liebour as I am Tory. My affiliation is that I have none - they are all lying, thieving, traitorous and frankly sanctimonious bastards - a bit like what you have become Tat.
You really believe that you are the big man, don't you? Well, I am here to tell you.. there are only 3 'big men' on this blog - Stanislav, 45 and Guido. Now piss off like a good boy, and go play in the sandpit. Stop being a cunt.
oh make your fucking mind up you tart. 'as usual off the mark' are you on acid you cunt. if you are what you claim to be, then our views would converge, atleast partially and if you have read any of my posts concerning independent candidates, that makes your 'off the mark' comment 'off the fucking radar.'
and the way you jumped in off of the back of bogeytroids pathetic attack looks like troll piggy backing to me.
you're full of shit,
bye.
As I said earlier, initially our views were similar and I enjoyed your posts. Lately, you have become redundant and as obnoxious as the trolls you purport to hate. Congratulations.
hey, if I'm winding cunts like you up, I must be doing something right.
Winding up? You are delusional, as well as boring.
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