Comments on Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Miliband's Blog Assistant Costs £62,400 a Year

HERE MATE - get a grip or you'll be a laughing sto...

2007-03-27T08:22:00.000+01:00

HERE MATE - get a grip or you'll be a laughing stock.

For a start, who the fuck are you to define what i...

2007-03-26T22:50:00.000+01:00

For a start, who the fuck are you to define what is reasonable for that cunt Millibland to pay, of my and others fucking money? It would be even more reasonable all round if the fucker paid for his own fucking blog.

Or is that simple fact too fucking simple for all you Milliband cock suckers to understand?

£30 an hour is massively too much for someone to be paid as an assistant to upload a blog...most of us do it for fucking free!

So you take something that's actually pretty reaso...

2007-03-26T22:42:00.000+01:00

So you take something that's actually pretty reasonably priced and you inflate it to an exorbitant amount and put that in your headline?

Deceitful? Yes.

Spin? Definitely.

This isn't news, this is stirring and you should know better.

You're deluded Chris.Millibland is tainted by New ...

2007-03-26T22:13:00.000+01:00

You're deluded Chris.

Millibland is tainted by New labour and the failings, incompetence and sleaze of New Labour, Brown and Bliar, and will be forever.

Like Tory minsters from the Thatcher era, he is doomed.

And good fucking thing too for this useless cunt.

What rude and crude company you keep Mr Fawkes. Th...

2007-03-26T22:05:00.000+01:00

What rude and crude company you keep Mr Fawkes. This story of yours is dopey bollocks and has been from the start. £3600 is not £62000 and £3600 is also not an unreasonable amount for the job or for DEFRA to build a public face for digital famers and yeomen.

Your casuistry and curmudgeonly nit-picking really is getting more tedious than Tony.

If the Bullingdon Bullshitter ever gets elected - which will be proof if needed that the media and public are simply bored.

Rather than affronted as they were by the relentless selfishness of Tories.

If this disaster ever comes to pass, say in 15 years or so, then non-Tory bloggers will enjoy some great years following your precedents for electric storms in matter hatter teacups.

Or otherwise deal with issues that matter to people. £3600 for a blog for a year with a couple of schoolboy errors from a 41-year-old kid with a great future. Not that I'll be supporting him for the top job until he remembers his DNA.

'cunt', apparently. said... shogun, calling pe...

2007-03-26T20:18:00.000+01:00

'cunt', apparently. said...

shogun, calling people cunts won't do you any favours.

I'm not after any favours...especially from a cunt like you.

neither does inflating the figure (which, whatever it is, shouldn't be spent from the public purse) to 62k.

No inflation at all but a demonstration of hopw much it costs for Millicuns assistant using a simple extrapolation based on an hourly rate. You think it sounds better or worse to say he is paid the equivalent of 62k pa, or that Millibands blog costs us £30 an hour? You choose.

that carry-on makes it easy to dismiss legitimate points.

See above, but what legitimate point are you making?

(translation for your benefit: fuck off you dozy cunt, telling lies that people can see through right away doesn't get you anywhere - unless you're leader of the labour party)

There you go, at least an honest comment, cunt that you are you've shown yourself capable of a semblance of integrity.

Just got to work on your skills at seeing points made without resorting to being a cunt.

shogun, calling people cunts won't do you any favo...

2007-03-26T20:12:00.000+01:00

shogun, calling people cunts won't do you any favours.

neither does inflating the figure (which, whatever it is, shouldn't be spent from the public purse) to 62k.

that carry-on makes it easy to dismiss legitimate points.

(translation for your benefit: fuck off you dozy cunt, telling lies that people can see through right away doesn't get you anywhere - unless you're leader of the labour party)

Anonymous said... so, he's not actually employ...

2007-03-26T19:30:00.000+01:00

Anonymous said...

so, he's not actually employed full-time, but if he were.. he'd be paid 62k a year.

i guess that doesn't make as good a headline though, does it G?

nasty little non-stories like this make it difficult to take you seriously.

No, nasty stories that my fucking tax money is financing that cunt Millibands blog make it difficult to take cunts like you seriously.

You want to be taken seriously? Raise that issue. Guido raised the issue of us paying for millicunts personal blog and you don't like that, so you fucking pay for it, personally, and don't expect me to make any contribution at all..

Anonymous 11:05 AM Don't see anything bad about th...

2007-03-26T15:58:00.000+01:00

Anonymous 11:05 AM

Don't see anything bad about that, unless you are attacking Bryan Appleyard literary abilities. The only insult there seems to be levelled at Samizdata being neocon - something that I am sure will merit a great laugh from the Samizdatanistas.

Ok - the easy solution is for Miliband to tell us ...

2007-03-26T14:13:00.000+01:00

Ok - the easy solution is for Miliband to tell us the full time salary of this public servant. Come on David - put your leadership bid on hold. Maybe he can also explain given the number of posting why it would ever take 10 hours a month to put them online!

You're as bad as the politicians themselves, Guido...

2007-03-26T13:52:00.000+01:00

You're as bad as the politicians themselves, Guido.

Talk about stretching the actual facts

Monday, March 26, 2007Guido in false accounting sc...

2007-03-26T13:22:00.000+01:00

Monday, March 26, 2007
Guido in false accounting scandal...

Maths teacher: What is 2+2 =?

Guido: 5?

Casual observer: Duh!

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Re: that piece on Guido.At least Guido places his ...

2007-03-26T13:03:00.000+01:00

Re: that piece on Guido.

At least Guido places his beliefs above grudges; So London may be slagging him off but it's also paying Guido to advertise. Free market conclusion!

very unfair Guido, very unfair indeed.The blog is ...

2007-03-26T13:02:00.000+01:00

very unfair Guido, very unfair indeed.

The blog is carbon neutral and blogs hosted by the Labour Party are Carbon positive.

It s therefore in the best interests of the environment that this blog is hosted by those that care for our environment.

Money well spent.

Gary

Exactly, anon at 12.28. The whole point of a blog...

2007-03-26T12:46:00.000+01:00

Exactly, anon at 12.28. The whole point of a blog is that it is supposed to be PERSONAL - not having the taxpayer fund some politico's aimless witterings.

Doesn't say much for Millipede's alleged great intellect if he is unable to log on and type, does it?

Even us low-paid workers who've just been screwed by the Budget can manage that........

Why does Miliband need any 'blogging assistant'? Y...

2007-03-26T12:28:00.000+01:00

Why does Miliband need any 'blogging assistant'? You log on to your blog and you type in what you want to say. Why does it need to cost any money to anyone?

so, he's not actually employed full-time, but if h...

2007-03-26T12:21:00.000+01:00

so, he's not actually employed full-time, but if he were.. he'd be paid 62k a year.

i guess that doesn't make as good a headline though, does it G?

nasty little non-stories like this make it difficult to take you seriously.

What have you got against pandas?

2007-03-26T11:57:00.000+01:00

What have you got against pandas?

the guy/gal's probably getting cash and doing it o...

2007-03-26T11:52:00.000+01:00

the guy/gal's probably getting cash and doing it on the side for a whole bunch of other politicians too...

conservatives, liberals, greens...senior naval attaches to the Iranian embassy...

I see maths is not your strong point.Whats going o...

2007-03-26T11:43:00.000+01:00

I see maths is not your strong point.

Whats going on in cash for honours? All your leads dried up? Where we once had exciting stuff about a scandal which could bring down the PM, now we get dodgily calculated ephemera about a bloke who is no more than political planckton

Miss Millies Band encourages and sanctions 6% of a...

2007-03-26T11:37:00.000+01:00

Miss Millies Band encourages and sanctions 6% of a public sector employees time to be devoted to party political matters rather than the public services role they are employed to undertake.

Total UK public sector employment is stated to be 4.7m in Q4 of 2006.

The NuerLab potential leadership therefore envisages 282,000 full time equivalent (FTE)public sector employees allocating all their time to Labour party political activities.

This is certainly a way forward to assist the party's funding crisis!

11:05 AM That's a nice piece on Guido , but I thin...

2007-03-26T11:36:00.000+01:00

11:05 AM

That's a nice piece on Guido , but I think Brian missed out the lonely hearts band who comment on Guido's blog ,all looking a political home,all lost souls thinking do I vote red ,blue purple, yellow or green at the next election ,all waiting for Mr Yates to get out of a paddy wagon and knock on a certain door ,all waiting for Guido to come up with a better piece on milliboy than this.

Devils Kitchen - sorry didnt know you had done the...

2007-03-26T11:20:00.000+01:00

Devils Kitchen - sorry didnt know you had done the same sums as me. Yes the figure apportioned for blogging may be £3600 - but their annual salary would be £62,400.

The point here is why is someone who I would hope to be quite senior (if they can command such a salary) spending ANY time acting as a blog assistant. What sort of level would an official be on at such a salary?

And if they are just hired in for 10 hours a month to blog edit - then the taxpayers is overpaying at £30 an hour!

Anyway - Im sure David is a bit busy now just waiting to launch his leadership bid.

Ahem - pardon Guido? How do you work that £60,000+...

2007-03-26T11:16:00.000+01:00

Ahem - pardon Guido? How do you work that £60,000+ out?

Boris Johnson gets up to £10,000 for an after dinner speech lasting an hour. So therefore on a 40 hour week he's earning £20million a year. Right? NO!

further to 11.06if cours ministers do care about h...

2007-03-26T11:11:00.000+01:00

further to 11.06

if cours ministers do care about how many hours it takes for an official to do something if they can use it as an excuse to avoid answering a parliamentary question or FOI request