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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Farewell Arabella...

Arabella Weir, Guardianista, actress and writer last week on what she would do if Boris was elected:

"I will go on hunger strike and throw myself in front of the next horse at Ascot if he wins."

... and good luck with the diet.

95 comments:

Ian E said...

I do hope that the process is not too traumatic - for the horse, of course!

AnyoneButBrown said...

Great! The next meeting at Ascot is the Victoria Cup Day this Saturday.
The 1st race is the 1.10 John Doyle Buckhounds Stakes.
I shall be there and look forward to Arabella providing the entertainment. If she can guarantee to run under the leading horse I shall alter my betting accordingly. Many thanks Arabella.

Shotgun said...

That was rhetorical like Labour policy and manifesto commitments.

You didn't they or she was serious did you Guido?

backwoodsman said...

Great idea, can she cuff herself to polly & steve & make a clean sweep of it.

Anonymous said...

Bit dangerous for the horse isn't it? Perhaps she can just throw herself in front of Margaret Becket instead.

Not that Nick Wood said...

Like all NuLab promises it won't be kept.

Frank Kemble said...

I will go on hunger strike

Well, at least her bum won't look so big anymore.

When I heard her fawning, Labour luvvies together interview with Richard Wilson on Chain Reaction a few weeks back I was sorely tempted to throw the radio against the wall. Always the weak link in the Fast Show

Anonymous said...

Yes, but in the same way its not a constitution its a treaty, Ms Weir will throw herself in front of the next horse, but not horse and jockey as this was not expressly stated, and as for the hunger strike... well I am too gallant to say, she is many, many, many months from death even with no food at all.

Homosexualist_Bummer said...

If only she had the self respect to actually mean this.

However the whining of these ghastly wimmin, Toynbee, Alibi Broon, Abott etc, about the nerve of these real people who have to use real services like public schools, & the tube voting against Labour is priceless.

According to the utterly charming & delightful Alibi Broon, Boris
simply isn't 'the right sort of Londoner'

Anonymous said...

Voters have "reached their limit" on stealth taxes, ministers warned today as Gordon Brown called the Cabinet together to plan a political fightback.

read more here

judith said...

Wow - I wish I'd known that before I voted for Boris, it would sOOOOO have made me change my mind, after all, who wouldn't listen to the ravings of a fading leftie comedian?

What can one say, except

Go Arabella!

(or just maybe, 'now you know how so many of us Londoners have been feeling for the last 8 years!)

Dave H. said...

The horse will shy away from her oversized bum.

(It was nice to hear the mortal anguish of former Graun writer J. Hardy on News Quiz as well.)

starcourse said...

Well Polly T seems to realise the writing is on the wall. "Labour has become the stupid party - dumb, directionless, depressing." At last she's noticed.

drwho said...

OT. Poor James - a victim of the thought police (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7385370.stm). Clearly Guido's contract with himself is less demanding.

Anonymous said...

Someone promised to kiss Donal Blaney's Hairy Arse on these pages too? Maybe they could swop forfeits?

Anonymous said...

put concisely, new labour and their media supporters are a bunch of cunts.

you'd have to be fucking stupid to support this government, unless, your career and access to power is dependent on it.

o/t but how can the gvt. simultaneously claim that inflation is 2% and that rising bills and prices were the reason for labour's abject failure in the elections?

John said...

I hate to defend Weird but I think she sends her kids to an inner-London comp. To me, this is sheer cruelty if she can afford better but that's only my opinion.
I tell you what though, what self-regarding bloody cheek to compare herself to a suffragette! I mean, come off it! Does she not get the irony of the fact that many women voted for Boris? Perhaps people should only be permitted to vote Labour and then everything would be OK.
BAH!

Phoenix Park said...

anonymous @ 1.50pm As my old man would say EX-FUCKING-ACTLY.

Harriet Hamster said...

Yes Paul Daniels and Debbie McGoo said the same if Labour got in they would emigrate but sadly never did they order the Pickfords van

HH

Lola said...

Arrablla W - Shaggable - but only if there's some tank tape handy for her gob (after she's used it for the business of course).

Chris said...

Arabella,

If the Fast Show ever comes back, why not develop a character called 'Hand wringing-islington based-new labour apologist-media figure'? Would be a good deal funnier than the shite you came up with before.

No offence.

some bloke said...

"Perhaps she can just throw herself in front of Margaret Becket instead" anon 1:21, priceless

This reminds me of the time when some brownosing Roman Senator fawned to the ailing Emperor ( Caligula I think ) someting like " Oh, that I would die so that thee may live "

Upon recovery Caligula handed the Senator a sword and ordered him to top himself there and then. Ha Ha Ha.

Eileen Critchley said...

Must have been a real tough upbringing with yer old man being an Ambassador and all that!

Just another champagne socialist cliché!

This lot don’t even make me angry anymore – they just make me laugh.

Anonymous said...

What a spiteful crowd on here. Hello ? It was only a joke. Like this blog, not ever to be taken seriously.

Alan said...

Guido,

Surely it's time for another campaign of nagging from you and Dizzy, like the one you used to get Tom Watson to pay up?

"A former Fast Show star and leftie complainer died today after a sustained internet campaign forced her to throw herself under a horse." Too good to be true.

Penfold said...

Excellent.

As for the Ascot lark, shouldn't someone warn the RSPCA, that's clearly a threat to harm an expensive and loved horse and needs to be subject to criminal proceedings.

AHHH, don't you just love it when the wheels start coming off the NuLab wagon train.

Anonymous said...

I was at school with dear Arabella and she always was a posturing, self publicising, exhibitionist - even aged 11. She was new labour incarnate well before they were dreamt up. All spin and showmanship - no brains.

Anonymous said...

"May 6, 2008 2:30 PM"

boris? is that you?

Edward said...

Beat you by miles on my return to blogging, Guido: http://trustpeople.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-boris-becoming-mayor.html

bergen said...

I thought we had heard the last of "Luvies for Labour" after Iraq.

I often marvel at the arrogance of these wretched mummers lecturing hard working people on how they should vote.

Anonymous said...

Arabella Weir comes, of course, from an impeccably upper middle class - daddy a diplomat, mummy an academic - high achieving family.

fuchsia groan said...

Dear Arabella

Best stick to acting dearie. Nobody gives a toss about your politics.

Anonymous said...

Forgive me guys but who the hell is this Arabella Weir,I've never heard of her but then I don't get out much,no I don't live in a cellar,can Guido put her mugshot up for us all to see.

idle said...

There is a horse called Supersonic Dave entered in the first at Ascot on Saturday. I hope he's a big fecker and tramples her good and proper.

OT, my favourite figure of hate among the Socialist standups is the staggeringly unfunny oik, Mark Steel. Brezhnev got me giggling more than he ever has.

Lilith said...

I am a wommin and I would vote for Boris every time, given half a chance.

Tom FD said...

I thought the anti-Boris message was that we shouldn't listen to the political rantings of bumbling comedians. So why did the Guardian ask for hers?

Anonymous said...

MPAC tries to tie Boris to the BNP

and fails miserably - read the comments....


tip: note the ethnic diversity of the IDF babes sitting next to Boris...

EPIC FAIL MPAC...

backwoodsman said...

anon : 2:37
'It was only a joke, not to be taken seriously'

bit like nulab then ?

Anonymous said...

brown not told of scots referendum plan

seems like wee wendy can see a lame duck arse of a PM and just went ahead with calling for a referendum...

"But the U-turn was a further blow to the authority of the embattled Prime Minister, who Miss Alexander failed to inform prior to the announcement.

Downing Street aghast at the move and this morning embarked on a damage limitation exercise in a bid to portray Miss Alexander's decision as merely a contribution to a discussion in the Scottish parliament. "

this my fellow conspirators is what is known as "the labour party tearing itself apart".


stand back, and enjoy. and savour.

Mr Jones said...

Dont fancy the chances of the horse.. and Arabella does have an aweful lot of starving to do before she could slip through the rails...

dan said...

Why stop at Arabella?

Lets have a clear out, augean stable style, of all those leftie luvvies sucking on the teat of the BBC, starting with those lame panel shows on Radio 4 where they still seem to think that jokes about Thatcher will have us all rolling in the ailes.

It's like an employment agency for Trots. Which is quite appropriate in a way, given that it's public money that is funding these numpties.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a spiteful crowd on here. Hello ? It was only a joke. Like this blog, not ever to be taken seriously.


thanks 'Bella.

Anonymous said...

Cut the crap, Arabella, JUST DO IT. (but not at Ascot, you'll mess up the grass).

Anonymous said...

Can't afford to pay your mortgage/council tax nowadays? No problem: get some advice/help from an alternative comedian (oh, alright then, comedienne).

Feral kids running wild in your street? Some poor sod stabbed? Easy: send for an alternative comedienne. They'll be around in a jiffy. Sorted.

Children leaving school; can't read, write or add up? Why not get some extra tuition form an alternative comedienne?

Can't afford to shop or put petrol in your car? No more worries - just ask an alternative comedienne for help. I'm sure they'll oblige.

Gran died of MRSA or C. Diff. in your poxy hospital? An alternative comedienne will surely have the answer. Maybe they'll pop in from time to time to help with the 'deep cleaning' that Gordon keeps banging on about.

And I'll bet that alternative comedienne feels our pain, too. What a burden it must be.

Christ Arabella, go and look up in the dictionary the word democracy. 'Cos if you don't get it yet, you'll soon be looking up the word totalitarian. But maybe that's what you want. Really??

Oh. And by the way. There are few garments in which your bum wouldn't look big. (No offence).

That character on the Fast Show with the cardigan said...

"So, there I was in the Royal Enclosure with Her Majesty and Prince Philip, when who should step out in front of the horse in front but an emaciated Arabella Weir. She broke every bone in her body and, in the ensuing melee, the horse I backed came through to win at 66/1.

Which was nice"

Righty Right Wing (Mrs) said...

If it weren't for Al-BBC-eera & the Guardianista these over weight, nagging, overbearing, nannying, insipid, sinister, un-patriotic, Britain hating un-funny loathsome leftie wretches would be unemployable.

I have such a hangover from the election celebrations.

All through the night I was wondering if BBC HQ had "champagne bottles strewn all over the place", or did they just mutter under their breath into their crappy Cuban Chardonnay?

Great days ahead folks.

Trumpeter Lanfried said...

If Arabella Weir throws herself under a horse I will have a slap-up meal.

Anonymous said...

Talking of Labour women with big arses - "Wee Wendy" goes for broke and threatens the SNP with bringing forward a Labour sponsored bill in Scottish Parliament to enable legislation to hold referendum on Scottish Independence . One "senior minister" when told(allegedly) was "incandescent with rage" (Duck - incoming another Nokia hits the wall).

Is this what Labour meant by a re-launch for Gordon ?

stalin's gran said...

What a silly cow! And yes, darling it does. More than ever.

Harvey Hawley Crippen MD said...

Weird Arabella Weird

John Trenchard said...

just heard on irish "today fm" - the successor to bertie, one brian cowan, is being compared to the "disaster" of gordon brown, and will he be as big a "disaster" as brownstuff , or a relative sucess unlike Gordon Brown...

thats how the irish see brown - a disaster, upon which they can compare their own politicians.

have you woken up yet Labour?

transfattyacid said...

Having read her columns, I'll bet she sleeps with the horse if it is famous.

Stroppycow said...

Arabella Weird more like.....

Anonymous said...

Who is this Arabella Weir, anyway?

simon said...

great! can i run over the silly lefty fat moo with a cement flattener after the horse has done the deed- just to make sure, you know!

Cynosarges said...

The Guardianistas are really feeling the pain. But will any of them keep to their word?

After Zoe Williams, Ian Jack and others publicly announced that if Boris won, they would leave London.

After Boris's victory, I decided to assist them of this announcement by posting the URL for London Removal firms on Yellow pages.

This seems to have got me banned. So apologies for my absence from the Guardian. However, Guido is much more tolerant than the censors at the Guardian, so I'll pop-up here from time to time.

---
A proud resident of Bexley and Bromley - 58% of Boris's majority
"It's us wot won it" (Original credits, "The Sun", 1992)

clochoderic said...

Red Wendy has just confirmed that she discussed the independence referendum with Broon.
No mention of any other referendum or indeed of any real reason for the u-turn.

S Jamieson said...

I have google images of Ms Weir. She appears on one image saying "Does my bum look big in this" (actually it looks ******* enormous)

The hunger strike is going to take a long long time

Anonymous said...

Boris should step in, and magnanimously absolve Arabella from her commitments.

On the practcal side, what is worse for a racing horse, to hit a fat bitch or a skinny bitch?

mitch said...

Perhaps she meant a rocking horse?

Shit-Bag said...

It was all going swimmingly for Gord until he had that soft-soapy 'interview' with gravelly-voiced celeb Mariella Frostrup at the Labour Party conference.

Since then, one disaster has followed another for the Great Clunking Fister.

In other words, Danish sexpot Mariella is to blame for all Gordon's woes.

Incidentally, does anyone know which, if any, perfume Polly Toynbee wears? I have it on good authority that she smells of menthol. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Thanks.

John Trenchard said...

leave mariela alone matey.. even though she's a lefty, i'd certainly do her.

one less liberal nazi said...

I'll set my video recoder for Ascot then. Wonder if the local supermarket will notice they are selling less lentals and soya?

not great loss, one less liberal nazi!

peter carter-fuck said...

Don't do it Arabella. The world doesn't have enough fat arsed left wing media whores. We need you.

A N Other said...

Arabella, don't listen to all these nasty, spiteful Tory people. You want to go on hunger strike and throw yourself under a horse because that nasty Boris man got elected? Hey, you go girlfriend!

Anonymous said...

Arabella. Why don't you just stick to what you do best - doing contrived 'infomercial' interviews and being unfunny.

Anonymous said...

"Someone promised to kiss Donal Blaney's Hairy Arse on these pages too? Maybe they could swop forfeits?"

This was on Dale's site last year

August 31, 2007 4:46 PM , Laurence Boyce said...
"Anyway, all I really want to say is that if Boris Johnson becomes Mayor of London, I shall kiss Donal Blaney's arse."

some bloke said...

anon May 6, 2008 2:50 PM said

"May 6, 2008 2:30 PM"

boris? is that you
?

Crikey ! I hope not, I can spell " something ".

if Boris wins I will get twice as drunk more often said...

Arabella Weir.

Just ran a google image search - wow what big bones she has.

Her arse is too big for one blog though, maybe Mrs Dale will kindly cover one of the cheeks for you Guido.

Anonymous said...

Arabella, does she sweat much for a fat bird ?

Anonymous said...

O/T but Labour Home are inviting grassroots supporters to complete a survey, including the chance to send a message to what they call 'the Labour hierarchy'.

Not that I'm being childish or anything but ...

http://www.labourhome.org/

Geordie Scoot said...

Arabella Wierd - according to some money interview she did with the Torygraph googled, she has a house in Crouch End worth six figures, no mortgage and five pensions no less. She feels our pain.

Tuscan Tony said...

You would though, wouldn't you? If you were Michael Foot, that is.

mitch said...

Hmm just did their survey most amusing.
I think everyone should do it.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said "O/T but Labour Home are inviting....." 7.23

Filling in the questionnaire is a very agreeable way to spend 2 minutes of your time. After the ticks for scoring Gordon and the Cabinet 1 to 10 - honestly, you couldn't make it up - there's plenty of opportunity for free text 'advice'.

Fill your boots & let 'the Labour hierarchy' know what you think before they pull the bloody thing.

killemallletgodsortemout said...

Shouldn't we all be acting more responsibly, and inform the Police that this threat has been made?

House arrest, or sectioning under the Mental Health Act should do the trick.



Just a thought......

alan scott said...

The RSPCA should be on full alert to avoid any possibility of injury to any horse(s, with a vet to euthanise the lady.

Watcher said...

O/T, but that questionnaire is great. Just spent a minute saying they're all great, don't change a thing, don't move, hands slowly on your heads, don't anyone say a thing...
No, sorry, got carried away there

PS Verification - wxmphhum. To us it's a fart, to NuLab it's an air-kiss

Carlos the Slackal said...

Anonymous said "O/T but Labour Home are inviting....." 7.23

Thanks. Marvellous.

"What message would you like to send the leadership?"



"Goodbyeeee!"

Anonymous said...

And how come Marcus Brigstocke was at the Cameron presser today 'On behalf of Radio 4' ???

robbie said...

Radio host James Whale is sacked

James Whale had been with Talksport since it launched as Talk Radio in 1995

Radio host James Whale has been fired by Talksport after urging listeners to vote for Conservative candidate Boris Johnson in London's mayoral elections.

The comments were made on 20 March during his late-night programme.

A Talksport spokesman said: "James Whale's contract with the station has been terminated after a breach of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code."

Under Ofcom rules, presenters are banned from showing any bias towards a political party before an election.

James Whale is guilty of a gross error of judgement, which we found to be totally unacceptable - Talksport

The Talksport spokesman described the matter as "very unfortunate".

"We have investigated the matter and after serious consideration, the station reached the decision that there was a clear breach of the rules and that we had no choice but to terminate his contract," he said.

"James Whale is guilty of a gross error of judgement, which we found to be totally unacceptable.

"Talksport has acknowledged the seriousness of the complaints received, does not excuse the content of the broadcast and has told Ofcom that it has taken steps to prevent this happening again."

"He's saddened at the way this has happened and it's come as a huge shock" - James Whale's agent Stuart Hobday

The matter was being investigated by Ofcom, he added.

The presenter's agent Stuart Hobday said Whale was "deeply disappointed".

"He's spent 13 happy years at Talksport," he said. "He's saddened at the way this has happened and it's come as a huge shock."

Ofcom have confirmed they are investigating the case.

A statement said: "Ofcom is currently investigating three complaints about comments made by James Whale during his show on Talksport.

"All UK broadcasters must adhere to the Ofcom's Broadcasting Code which sets standards for the content of television and radio broadcasting.

"In particular, broadcasters must ensure due impartiality is preserved on matters of major political or industrial controversy and major matters relating to current public policy."

Whale, 56, started his career at Metro Radio in Newcastle in 1974 and had his own late-night show on ITV in the early '90s, The James Whale Radio Show.

He had been with Talksport since it launched in 1995 as Talk Radio.

He considered standing for London mayor in 2006.

Anonymous said...

Can I ride the horse please?

spot the talentless. fat, arselicking slag said...

Arabella: "Does my bum look big in this dress"

Gordon Brown: "Yes, does mine?"

disillusioned labourite scribbler said...

shit-bag 6.08pm

I have met Polly Toynbe many times and can assure you that she doesn't smell of menthol.

She actually smells of stale lavender from mothballs well past their use by date. She also has a faint, but unpleasant, whiff of stale body odour, and a rather acrid halitosis whenever she opens her mouth.

Julian said...

There is one more deeply offensive shemale than Arabella Weir who wrote a very nasty article indeed about Boris, the repellant Zoe Williams. Just in case anyone failed to see this unpleasant rant you can read it here.

PS, is it ok to save the poor horses from bouncing off Arabella, and just use a Rangerover instead?

dc said...

*...a rather acrid halitosis whenever she opens her mouth*

That's all right. I'll only be requiring the occasional blow-job.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said "O/T but Labour Home are inviting....." 7.23


"What message would you like to send the leadership?"


" surrender "

Anonymous said...

"Just in case anyone failed to see this unpleasant rant you can read it here - BORIS"

Thanks for the link. It makes fascinating reading. Good old Boris.

Anonymous said...

"Suits you madam"

Julian said...

Having read about James Whale being sacked from Talkback Radio for daring to say "Vote Boris, Vote Boris", apparently due to something about breaching the impartiality of the media, might I suggest that Zoe Williams be sacked from her position as a Guardian columnist. In Ms Williams' article on 1st May she lays out a method of how to tactically vote in favour of Ken Livingstone, namely:

How to keep out Boris ... whatever your politics
If you passionately want to keep Boris out

1st Choice Ken
2nd Choice Anyone except Boris

If you don't like Ken, but want to keep Boris out at all costs

1st Choice Not Ken or Boris
2nd Choice Ken

Fucking delicious! said...

Ducking twatting tories; let's see how the boy cameroon handles the economy when brown-the-clown hands it over to him. disaster looms for you capitalists; no brains, no sense, no hope.

btw, it now appears that Scotland WILL have a legislation for a referendum introduced in 2010, just as the SNP promised. Goodbye Brown, goodbye failed union, goodbye U-bendy.

It's Scotland's oil. Saor Alba.

Fucking delicious!

ron vibbentrop said...

Big arsed bitch will rear for stallion at Ascot! Bollinger Bolshie buggered with one furlong to go!

I have always ensured that I wipe my arse with her coloum rather than the other way round.

Chalcedon said...

And she will not be kicked to death by the non-runner Referendum Boy who has been withdrawn.

Odds on fave is Lisboa Con who will win in a one horse race unless Naughty Leprechaun is actually a ringer for last years winner Dutch Frog.

thick as thieves said...

julian,
the rules for radio broadcasts are different. the tories really should, in due course, give him something for that because every little helps and he was up against the bbc propagandists. a brave man.
oh, and talksport may well be out of order by sacking him before ofcom made a ruling, so he may have a case against the station considering his long service for them.

re:fat bitch.
the fat bitch must mean ascot 2010.
the lard-arsed fucker will need to be on hunger strike for atleast a couple of years to shift all that excess weight.

Anonymous said...

What sort of name is Arabella anyway?


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