Another Day, Another Downing Street Rat...
Andrew Porter reports that Martin Sheehan, Gordon's Head of Strategic Communications, is making the dash for cash to PR firm Portland.
Martin Sheehan says: "The opportunity to join Portland at this stage in the company's growth is one I couldn't refuse. Working for two Prime Ministers has been a fantastic experience. After spending eight of the last ten years in Downing Street, it's time for a new challenge." Translation: a year of the Prime Mentalist is enough for me...
Martin Sheehan says: "The opportunity to join Portland at this stage in the company's growth is one I couldn't refuse. Working for two Prime Ministers has been a fantastic experience. After spending eight of the last ten years in Downing Street, it's time for a new challenge." Translation: a year of the Prime Mentalist is enough for me...
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Meanwhile I see that Caroline Flint is preparing plans to try to save the housebuilding regime from Gordon's kiss-of-death plan to dramatically increase housebuilding! I suppose a concrete foundation might be one way to dispose of our Subprime Town-planner. Is it time to jump Hips?
Anything that comes from Flint is always unsound,badly thought through, released for a sound bite and profile raising exercise and is usually expensive, impractical and a bit shite.
Expect something about building 'affordable homes from Lego'
'New purplefield sites,a mixture of Green and Brownfields'
'footpaths re designated as transport links'
'The Army move out of barracks and into tents on agricultural land. [good practice for Afghanistan]The empty decaying barracks become the new affordable housing.
Still, she manages to combine the uglier aspects of naked ambition with a complete lack of talent. She will surely prosper even further under Brown.
Housebuilders are mothballing sites and are losing production capacity. It could take years for them to recover.
Could they no just put up that cool prefab housing, cheap and adequate, and save the planning permission for when the market's looking healthier?
Why anyone would want "Gordon's Head of Strategic Communications" on their CV beggars belief.
"Still, she manages to combine the uglier aspects of naked ambition with a complete lack of talent. She will surely prosper even further under Brown.
July 1, 2008 1:21 PM"
she could return to Brazil.
There are always film studios over there who could make full use of her other attributes.
Everything and everyone who has anything to do with Bean is toast! He really is the Pariah.
Just thought about his 'house building programme. Ever since it was announced (3 million by 2020?), the housing market has been in a vertical drop - and it's going to get much, much worse.
Poor Bean.
Gordon's fucked ain't he?
No one to write his speeches, type his letters or head his communications.
Helping myself is far more important to me than helping the people of this country, with all due respect!
P.S thanks for all the expenses!
Martin S.
Prime Mentalist offers tips for success
Gay Gordon has offered students his tips on how to be a good politician -saying the key to success is listening and being clear about your goals.
The Prime Mentalist met newly-elected student representatives as he visited Thomas Tallis School in Blackheath, London.
Asked by the students if he has any other talents, he said he played tennis - but complained he did not receive the right teaching to be a success.
can you really blame anyone wanting to jump that ship?
no.
Poor Gordon.
Tis' the winter of discount tents.
Bloody Hell!
All of those students will be certain to fail their exams now!
Pity they can't all jump ship preferably just as it's coming in to dock !
AND
Whatever happened to that cunning plan to make the process of buying and selling a house more easier(but instead managed to depress the housing market ahead of the "credit crunch") at the wonderful knockdown price of £500 a punt ? And for that you get 3 or 4 pieces of useless paper which no mortgage lender will accept, still insisting on doing their own searches etc. And remind me who was the Minister responsible ? Oh yes I remember now it was "Mrs Balls" aka Yvette Cooper another of Gordon's "golden circle" of over-promoted non-entities.
But then again "in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king !"
I think it is time to buy shares in caravan parks, we'll all be trailer trash soon with Jonah's hand on the economic tiller!
Stephen
O/T, but the lack of foresight as to the Federalist EU future may be related to the jumping-of-ship of the sailors...
We read that the President of Poland may have tried to put another spike in the great EU wheel or as it is known in the trade: the 'master-plan for the 4th Reich'.
Poland has good historical reason to be suspicious. It's something 'courage' Brown would never do - "not Flash, just Neville".
perhaps he could co-opt in that MP, Sion Simon, the one who entertained us so eloquently and who clearly wished for a greater role than mere foot soldier
. His ability to communicate certainly drew a response !
Ir strikes me that our Prime Minister is a bit of a bully.
I wonder what would happen if any of the cabinet stood up to him, didn't let the shouting etc. get to them, called him an incompetent dithering psychopath, warned him he was ruining the party (good) and the country (bad) and that he needs to go.
Did you see him in the frint bench yesterday: he looked like a miserable, sick man knowing just knowing that most of the country holds him in complete contempt.
He's a nutjob, he can't help it. But those spineless hairbals siting around him - they have a lot to answer for propping up the worst Prime Minister in modern history.
Gobshites.
What he really meant was "The opportunity to get the fuck away from Brown and his co wankers is one I couldn't refuse. Working for two cunts has been a degrading experience. After spending eight of the last ten years in Downing Street,i feel totally demoralised."
Back to Flint & housing - despite the bottom dropping out of the market - builders pulling back & laying off staff & some developers going bankrupt, we're about to have the elegant & eloquent (not)Hazel Blears running her hands over our local greenfields sites, figuratively speaking, as she plans how best to concrete them over so that all the new NuLab voters coming in on the backs of lorries through our local ferryport will get suitable housing. There's something about her relentlessly optimistic grin (oh, oh, the house is burning down - but aren't they lovely coloured flames) that I feel might easily drive me to violence if I ever met her face to face. Incidentally I was reading some NuLab troll column where they thought the Snotgobbler had had a good first year. A somewhat strange definition of 'good' I thought.
"Asked by the students if he has any other talents, he said he played tennis - but complained he did not receive the right teaching to be a success."
Also, his opponents kept hitting the ball in the opposite corner to where the great lumbering oaf was standing. Children can be so cruel.
Surely the most extreme rat leaving the sinking ship is the fragrant Mrs Gordon, desperately trying to get back into the media game :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2121751/Gordon-Brown%27s-wife-Sarah-holds-slumber-party-at-Chequers.html
(hat tip someone on the last thread)
Bill Quango:
For shame - Caroline Flint is one of the shining lights of this cabinet. An intellectual giant who resounds success.
Admittedly, the bar isn't set very high. In fact, the bar fell off years ago:
Harriet "I can't believe I'm still employed either" Harman
Miliband ...
oh heck ... Jacqui "Afraid to leave my flat without the full Met police with me" Smith ....
Ruth "where's my laptop" Kelly ...
Hazel Blears (Where on earth did she come from ?) ...
Geoff "Worst defence Minister Ever - and I mean EVER" Hoon ...
Shaun "What are principles ?" Woodward ...
Yvette "Feed me" Cooper ...
Beverley Hughes ...
Tessa Jowell ...
Oh heck I give up.
Safe to say, Flint is in good company.
This Cabinet is so bad that it compares (badly) to the Ikea Trollstar without the hinges, legs, doors, and drawers.
Therefore Bill - I feel you owe Caroline "sorry" Flint an apology.
Guido, would it be possible to have the first few bars of the theme tune from 'Titanic' played every time a story like this is published.
Or the opening bass part from 'Another One Bites The Dust'
It is fascinating watching the dumb-stuck NuLabour crew watching the canoe speedily approach the rapids, just for the sake of a first mate who failed to make skipper. I wonder if they will be jolted out of their paralysis?
backwoodsman said...
"perhaps he could co-opt in that MP, Sion Simon"
Truly a case of "in the land of the blind the one-eyed snot-gobbler is king" then!
Triffid said...For shame - Caroline Flint is one of the shining lights of this cabinet. An intellectual giant who resounds success.
In light of your eloquent post and the comprehensiveness of your points it would take a totally incompetent person in serial denial not see the sense of your arguments.
But, in the spirit of The Prime Mentalist I am not going to do a U-turn and continue to insist, in all reasonableness that CF is a very very low flyer. So low that I suspect her official civil service nickname is 'THE HOVERCRAFT'
Anonymous said...
Pity they can't all jump ship preferably just as it's coming in to dock !
AND
Whatever happened to that cunning plan to make the process of buying and selling a house more easier(but instead managed to depress the housing market ahead of the "credit crunch") at the wonderful knockdown price of £500 a punt ? And for that you get 3 or 4 pieces of useless paper which no mortgage lender will accept, still insisting on doing their own searches etc. And remind me who was the Minister responsible ? Oh yes I remember now it was "Mrs Balls" aka Yvette Cooper another of Gordon's "golden circle" of over-promoted non-entities.
But then again "in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king !"
July 1, 2008 2:18 PM
Anonymous said...
Pity they can't all jump ship preferably just as it's coming in to dock !
AND
Whatever happened to that cunning plan to make the process of buying and selling a house more easier(but instead managed to depress the housing market ahead of the "credit crunch") at the wonderful knockdown price of £500 a punt ? And for that you get 3 or 4 pieces of useless paper which no mortgage lender will accept, still insisting on doing their own searches etc. And remind me who was the Minister responsible ? Oh yes I remember now it was "Mrs Balls" aka Yvette Cooper another of Gordon's "golden circle" of over-promoted non-entities.
But then again "in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king !"
July 1, 2008 2:18 PM
Anonymous said...
Pity they can't all jump ship preferably just as it's coming in to dock !
AND
Whatever happened to that cunning plan to make the process of buying and selling a house more easier(but instead managed to depress the housing market ahead of the "credit crunch") at the wonderful knockdown price of £500 a punt ? And for that you get 3 or 4 pieces of useless paper which no mortgage lender will accept, still insisting on doing their own searches etc. And remind me who was the Minister responsible ? Oh yes I remember now it was "Mrs Balls" aka Yvette Cooper another of Gordon's "golden circle" of over-promoted non-entities.
But then again "in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king !"
July 1, 2008 2:18 PM
Surely you meant "Golden Shower"
Another one leaps off the Treadmill to Oblivion.
Bill,
I respect your undertaking to follow the great Gordo in refusing to do a U turn.
However, is CF so bad ?
I mean it's not as if she and Gordo denied expecting a property crash and then kept her private briefing notes (which said the complete opposite) in a see-through folder to be photographed by any passing tourist with an instamatic camera ...
oh ...
umm ...
nice day isn't it ?
No more boom to bust said...
Housebuilders are mothballing sites and are losing production capacity. It could take years for them to recover.
Many of them never will recover - they'll go bust. This housing business and the general economic situation is much, much more instense than anything seen by anyone in the western world since the depression - and it may well be a lot worse than that.
Dr Doom
it gets better sarkozy has more or less said "somthing is wrong with europe" , polands pm has said he will not ratify .
RDS wonders at which point the revelation occured , that democracy had been deemed to be unimportant in the striving for the EUSSR , how ever i am hope full that this trick and treaty has been rumbled as wonk and contemptious.
as for flint being nick named the hovercraft , why does she have poor steering or is that her skirts (which provide the lift) are always flapping , or i could just be that she is one big fan of gordon!! groan groan
stanislav seemed to have the best title of "crack bitch whore" .
i prefer Edith Piaff
re post i wonder just how may spads will have missing years on there CVs ,
you can imagine just how probing those job interviews will be .
int: "so between 1997 and 2008 it says you worked in high profile media relations role in uk goverment"
app: "yes it worked with some of the most influencial people in the Uk"
int "please name some ??"
app: "well for instance douglas alexander"
int (face changes to look of concern) "AND"
appl : "none other than the pm gordon brown"
int :well if we could terminate the ineterview here , and if you are succesfull we will contact you in a while . gordon brown thats the funniest thing ive heard all day HA HA HA , and your in PR HA HA HA , and you wanting to have a job with a PR agency HA HA HA HA , unbelieveable
'VENI,VIDI,VERSACE!'
Over at Coffee House, they have a marvellous bit of footage from the African Union summit where Robert Mugabe is confronted about his bloody and fixed "election."
On what basis do you call yourself president of Zimbabwe? Mr Mugabe is asked.
His answer: "On the same basis as Mr Brown regards himself as Prime Minister."
Ouch.
Probably Mrs B is trying to get back into the media world because she realises that the Brown family will needs a breadwinner very soon & it ain't going to be Gordon. I somehow can't see him following Tony B'Liar into international banking or the lecture circuit.
It must be very hard for her seeing her husband reviled at every turn - presumably she loves the bloke? - knowing it isn't going to get any better. Thank goodness the kiddies are too young to read newspapers.
Part of me actually feels very sorry for Gordon & then I stop & think how he & Miranda have deliberately destroyed this country & have affected my life & standard of living (falling rapidly floorwards) & think that he deserves everything he gets.
triffid - are you not confusing Jacqui Smith with Tessa Jowell ?
No one is that bad, surely !
Hmm.. I would also want to leave before my personal brand and stock rating was contaminated by failure over the next twelve months...
But still, I am sure they will find some thrusting, desperate wannabes on the make willing to take on such a task - perhaps he could give Surralan Sugar a call to see if he is getting rid of the Apprentice rejects at a bargain basement price ??
This is from the goverment website and appears when you try to use the e-mail the prime minister facility:-
"This service has been temporarily suspended for maintenance work. Don't worry, we are still accepting faxes and letters, and you can still let us know your opinions via an epetition or on our new Twitter service.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused. We hope to be back up and running in a few days.
23 June 2008"
So your listening then!
Caroline Flint? Didn't she learn her 'skills' at Lambeth Council?
'Nuff said, then.
CUNT
They're all rotten, stinking rats - they can all fuck off and jump ship into oblivion and the sooner the better. The only entertainment will be watching them bite each other to death and come up with fascinating excuses as to why it's someone else's fault, and ultimately, James Gordon Brown. Bastards, cunts, witless lying stinking rats the lot of them. Jumping ship's too good for them. I hope they get theirs!
follow the leader !!!
Cabinet colleagues of Ruth Kelly are furious that the Catholic minister has been given special permission to miss a key vote on the Government's Embryology Bill.
Miss Kelly, one of several prominent Catholics in Gordon Brown's Cabinet, has told whips she will be in Brussels on 14 July, the day that the vote will take place.
I think that Gordon is the best man available for the job; however, I feel he made on major error, it is an error that bloggers do not mention, but one I feel was a major misjudgement.
It surrounds the McCann�s. He gave the McCann�s very early support, it seems that the UK police did not fully co-operate with the Portuguese police, the UK did not hand over the transcripts of the mobile phone calls that Gerry and Kate McCann made minutes after the �disappearance� of their daughter. The UK did not fully co-operate with Portugal on all matters relating to this affair, because Gerry was on a government nuclear energy advisory board.
Leaving Europe, the world and many Britain�s to believe that one can get away with murder in the UK. Not only that but you can make a fortune from fleecing the innocent supportive public. Then to rub our noses in the sh-t that they speak, they are constantly in the media, and giving government advice!
Shame on you �.
dear anon 5:14
nice try , nu labour are a waste of space , a bunch of lyiars and theives , who have made our country a miserable mess , punctuatued with celebrity events and storys .
the mcanns have indeed suffered and gordon did help them , but they also cocked it up , the mcanns have all the attendent leechs and false sighting stories that have come from the pr.
gordon is a great man slipped in with a macann story , what a wonk corrupt thing to do.
piss off back to LABHQ
anon 5.14. You are a cunt and/or a mentalist. What makes you an authority on the McCann case? Nothing, that's what. Now kindly fuck off and die you turd.
Anon @ 5.14 I feel that rds' and ivan dobski's verdicts were perhaps harsh, but entirely fair.
"Best man available for the job" indeed. From the Tories' point of view only, you cunt.
Fuck off numbskull.
Why the fuck do Portland want Sheehan? This is like P&O headhunting the captain of the Titanic. "Strategic communications" my arse.
Badger's latest wheeze is to 'raise' the protected money limit in Bank account from £35,000 to £50,000. Big deal, it is a limit that has not kept pace with inflation - so hardly a generous move.
Talking of jumping ship: Is Balls wanting Badger to jump ship before the expenses inquiry comes "home" to roost, and so be even more difficult to sack?
Anon 6:02
Darling is protecting nothing in Bank accounts. Sure, at the top of its article the BBC declares:
"Chancellor Alistair Darling has proposed new measures to protect savers in the event of a bank getting into financial difficulty."
But, dig a little deeper, and what do we learn about who is ACTUALLY going to have to pay for any compensation?
"Ultimately, the UK's regulated banks cover the cost of the compensation scheme as it is funded by compulsory levies on the financial services industry."
And who do you think will see increased charges to pay for these compulsory levies?
You got it, me and thee. Darling will happily try to take the credit, while we pay for it.
"I took this opportunity to be in charge of the store cupboard for Portland as they are only experiencing 10% negative growth as opposed to a far larger figure in the country as a whole."
P.S. My successor will be a blow up doll of Tony Bliar so that Gordo will have something to fling his phones at."
M. Sheehan
follow "...the compensation scheme [...] is funded by compulsory levies...You got it, [paid by] me and thee. Darling will happily try to take the credit, while we pay for it."
..and the difference between that and him handing (some) of your tax money back is....?
Gordon's involvment in the McCann case was scandalous. As Chancellor he had no mandate in law enforcement but as a politician and wanabe labour leader he saw massive public support in talking to the McCanns and putting UK government spin doctors at their disposal.
Would Gordon leave his young sprogs all alone in a foreign flat while he goes out on the piss with Sarah and their friends?
anon - yes he would: it was the special treat the kids asked for
follow the money @ 6:18
Point taken and agreed with.
Conjugate the following NuLabour verb:
I take the credit,
You pay the cost,
He gets the blame,
We get re-elected,
You (the country) get shafted,
They (the EU) run it all anyway.
To: red spotter, ivan dobski and 45 govt;
do you really believe the McCanns are innocent?
Please! Brain washed by spin and lies then??
Winston went to Churchill.
Maggie went to Mrs Thatcher.
Tony went to Blair.
Heath went to Ted.
Brown went to Gordon.
There can't be many left in there...
re: location of missing mccann
ask george robertson, scotch paedo in chief
or bnp activists
Tuscan,
There aren't too many differences between the two options you mention in terms of who pays. My gripe was that Darling is trying to take the credit for a measure that will actually be paid for by the banks and ultimately us.
At least with taxpayers money it obviously is the Chancellor's business as to how it is spent, with voters passing judgement at election time. What Darling is doing is increasing regulation, getting someone else to pay for it, and taking the credit "for looking after savers".
anonymong 6.53. They're innocent until proven guilty, yes. A rather inconvenient piece of English law that NuLab Nazi cunts like you would be quite happy to do away with I'm sure.
Are you privy to all of the evidence in the case? Thought not. Now shut the fuck up before you make a bigger prick of yourself than you already have.
follow, point conceded. Will be doing a post on the stealth tax that is over-regulation shortly (3G licences,. anyone?), as it 'appens.
Isn't it time that the Conservatives binned Ken Clarke and Dave Cameron? They can not produce 1 Tory policy between them.
Gerry and Cilla McCann, both doctors, should be in Government, surely. Only trouble is they wouldn't answer any questions put to them on the grounds that they were worthless cunts, the pair of them.
Got all the right attributes for politics - both doctors, vain, useless, cliche-spouting, selfish, fucking bastards who get some dumb fucks in the public to pay-off their mortgages. Seats in the Lords for Gerry and Cilla, both doctors. War on Portugal. Boycott Mateus Rose.
Mustn't be cynical. It is Gerry and Cilla, after all, who are the real victims here, innit.
Philomena Fishwife-McCann, people love her, don't they, she could be Gordon's PR machine. All she has to say is this is unhelpful at this time, anybody who knows Gordon knows he is a wonderful prime minister, he only slipped out for a quick blowjob, like any normal parent has done countless times and when he came back all the country's fucking money had fucking disappeared into thin fucking air, his friends saw somebody running off with it all under his arm, only they forgot to mention it until it looked like Gordon was going to jail and then Oh! Fuck me, there was loads of them, carrying all the country's money away, yes, I saw them, Me, too, didn't think it was inportant at the time.
The money was both locked-up securely and not locked-up at all, whichever. And anyway the big denomination notes were all quite capable of looking after the small denomination notes should they wake up frightened, or choking.
Gordon wants everyone in the world to go out and look in their sheds, and see if someone has put the money in thereerry and Cilla McCann, both doctors, should be in Government, surely. Only trouble is they wouldn't answer any questios put to them on the groubds that they were worthless cunts, the pair of them.
Got all the right attributes for politics - both doctors, vain, useless, cliche-spouting, selfish, fucking bastards who get some dumb fucks in the public to pay-off their mortgages. Seats in the Lords for Gerry and Cilla, both doctors. War on Portugal. Boycott Mateus Rose.
Mustn't be cynical. It is Gerry and Cilla, after all, who are the real victims here, innit.
Philomena Fishwife-McCann, people love her, don't they, she could be Gordon's PR machine. All she has to say is this is unhelpful at this time, anybody who knows Gordon knows he is a wonderful prime minister, he only slipped out for a quick blowjob, like any normal parent has done countless times and when he came back all the country's fucking money had fucking disappeared into thin fucking air, his friends saw somebody running off with it all under his arm, only they forgot to mention it until it looked like Gordon was going to jail and then Oh! Fuck me, there was loads of them, carrying all the country's money away, yes, I saw them, Me, too, didn't think it was inpoertant at the time.
The money was both locked-up securely and not locked-up at all, whichever. And anyway the big denomination notes were all quite capable of looking after the small denomination notes should they wake up frightened, or choking.
Gordon wants everyone in the world to go out and look in their sheds and see if someone has put the money in there -it is vital that w efind this money - but he can't look himself because he has to go on tv right now and look important.
It is quite a normal thing for busy professional people to leave the country's money lying around, alone, in the dark and unprotected we have all done it and so its three cheers all around for Gordon for losing us all our money, and not having to go to jail, like people who aren't dictors have to, Hip-hip Hooray....
I see stan is bladdered again.
I see Dave has done the Harman thing of positively picking a token off white female to be his candidate for Glasgow East.
Well said Stanislav, we must not forget that the McCanns are both doctors..........and liars.
Cant the McCanns stand as MPs they are friends of brown and the sympathy vote could swing it.
Within days of Madeline McCann going missing, Fleet Street had stumbled across the McCann's 'alternative' private life.
One Murdochian hack admitted that the editorial decision was made that the revelations would not be brought up as it was 'irrelevant'.
However, the very conservative and family-orientated Portuguese think very differently - why do think the McCanns are suspects?
The Portuguese police think that there's still a chance that Madeine was grabbed by one of the dodgy people that the McCann's came to 'know' - albeit briefly - in the course of their alternative social life.
If more of us could read Portuguese, I suspect that the stories being told in the local papers would raise questions about the editorial judgment of Fleet Street.
However, to be fair, the Evening Standard has hinted at the 'alternative' lifestyle.
signed...A Hack
Dear Mr Tony Tuscan
No Meditating on clipping a hundred metre hedge in this fucking Scottish rain between posting. No booze, chop my fucking leg off, else, Gremlins in the machine. Must need more olive oil pouring in.
love from stanislav
Soothing virgin elixir on its way, in spirit of not physically. Not for use in garden machinery unlike Mr. Sid Yobbo nihilist Hitch, - he get no more oil from TT no way jose
Dear Mr Stanislav Unwin
No need to clip yer hedge twice.
Why clip it anyway? It only grows again. I suggest you set fire to it.
In fact I am surprised that, what with Hedge Rage being all the rage, more hedges are not set fire to. Certain species (resinous ones especially, like X Cupressocyparis leylandii, otherwise known as the Terror of the Suburbs) go up very nicely indeed when ignited with used chip-wrappings. Crush said wrappings into a ball, thrust into hedge, strike match, leg it away to safe distance, watch (a) merry blaze and (b) householders emerging & jumping up and down. If you can get multiple sources of ignition, so much the better -- an excellent use for the Daily Mirror, Independent, & other journals of integrity and note.
What species compose your hedge? In approximate order of flammability, I list some of the more popular hedge-components:
1. Hawthorn (hopeless -- like trying to set wire alight; flammability 0/10)
2. Beech 2/10
3. Hornbeam 3/10
4. Box 5/10
5. Wilson's honeysuckle 7/10
6. Yew 8/10
7. Juniper 9/10
8. Gorse (as favoured in Scotchland) 9/10
9. Leyland's cypress 10/10
I hope this information is thought-provoking and ultimately proves useful.
Your botanical friend
Dennis
Dennis - you've missed a couple...
3= Holly 3/10 (All smoke no fire)
7.5 Privet 9/10
All around here Jock shakes ginger beetle-browed head and says No, cannae grow they hedgerow thingies up here, the noo, in all this wind, ye ken, so best jump back in bed wi' yon wee schoolboy.
So stanislav grow half-mile, more, of thick luxuriant hedge, ten feet high and six feet thick and home to bird and bee and fuck knows what else, is like tropical fucking rain forest round here, get all burnt by winter's bitterbastard wind but come back right as fourpence every spring.
Jock is just idle fucking bastard, why bother with nurture and cultivate and make garden and oxygen and wildlife when best thing is drink giro and headbutt Mrs in chops, and get sent in anger management course off probation oficer; why bother make fucking exercise when hospital is free off English blokes' tax. Jock would have garden if social services come and make one and maintain but otherwise is no fucking chance.
Cannot, therefore, make hedge arson from hedge, matter of Anglo-Polish pride, - some corner of a foreign barbed wire-strung field that is forever England - but will consider possible flammability quotient of Jock, instead, bastard should go up like fucking rocket, innit, all that cheap booze and porridge and amyl nitrate.
Will come and discuss species of hedge in your bell tower, cynical bastards here probably not recover from yesterday's child care lessons. Me neither.
Jock response to noisy kid is, of course, throw down fucking stairs or go out and have quality time piss-up with professional Jock colleagues, leave kid alone and hope for fucking best, innit.
Stan perhaps sails close to the wind with the McCann references, but their situation and their behaviour seems to typify modern mawkish Britain. A personal tragedy ia turned into a complete sircus, where the original event (the dissapearance of a child) becomes merely the opening scene in a big media production. The parents, typical of a minor celeb media obessed culture fall for it and allow their grief to be traded publicly and their dignity stripped away layer by layer, until it is revealed that this couple, who clearly did well to achieve the status of their profession, typify the clutching self-obssessed new Brition armed with a sense of self-importance and entitlement, which can so easily be flicked to a craving sense of victimhood. Litigation and a few million for hurt feelings follow, the victim sets up a single issue 'charity' to 'raise awareness' and they become 'experts' called on by the Tabloids or to the GMTV sofa to opinionate on some other similar tragedy, where in front of a few million, they can offer 'counselling and support'.
Meanwhile, the DTP and it's idle journos ust sit and fill the column inches with anything that will shift copies.
The circus of the McCann case will hopefully draw to a close soon - and pray they can get on with their lives in quiet dignity, raise their other children and bear their grief. What an abhorration if they decide on the 'D' List celebrtiy/victim/expert route.
Their alledged 'alternative social life' should put the brakes on that course, though in this day and age on wouldn't care to hazard a guess. However, these revelations were IMO "Too much onformation"
Thousands of kids go missing around the world each year. Many are trafficked form very poor countries to childless couples in wealthier countries. Most grow up never knowing the truth.
Many more are of course sold into servitude, many are killed. The fact is, it is a very bad world out there and this nasty stuff happens.
What we do now know apparently is that a British (recently) middle class professional and aspirational couple lost their child on holiday. We know lots we didn't want to or need to know about them, we had the Portuguese authorites lambasted (our oldest ally) and a police chief loat his job and is now wrting a book about the whole thing. We found out that the McCanna and their relatives and friends, weren't maybe the type of people we'd like to associate with. Some celebrities got to show their 'compassionate' side by making appeals. The media had a field day, well hundreds of them.
No one found the child.
The poin tof my rant here - well, this case in ways typifies NuLabour Britian, all style, all fluster, lots of useless and non-information, lots of initiatives and discussions, debate and reflection. Mediocre people elevated and responsible in posts they are hopelessly out of their depth to hold. No actual substance, no actual doing things.
minekiller I always enjoy reading your posts. Ever thought of doing your own blog?
Anon,
The useless HIP packs are an EU diktat. The information on energy efficiency will be used when they levy a 'carbon tax' on personal homes in the near future.
All this useless bunch of cunts can do is rubber stamp the decision like the good little functionaries they are.
Dave will do the same. We are fucked until we leave the EU.
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