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Flanders to be BBC economics editor? Just what BB...

2008-02-18T17:53:00.000Z

Flanders to be BBC economics editor? Just what BBC One viewers need – a posh-voiced oxbridge bird telling them why they are so poor. At least she should get on with Robert Peston (they both went to Balliol College, Oxford). Small world innit?

I posted my correction of your figure to embarrass...

2008-02-17T21:14:00.000Z

I posted my correction of your figure to embarrass you not to help you (so you ought to have published the comment). Next time I'll just send it to Recess Monkey.

I will not hear a word against Stephanie Flanders ...

2008-02-17T18:00:00.000Z

I will not hear a word against Stephanie Flanders - she is seriously top totty, in a blue-stockinged, english "tennis girl" sort of way, and with brains to match. She appears to have to rein herself in to make her reports more "accessible" and "inclusive", i.e. understandable to a cretin, and I cringe each time Paxo's eyes glaze over when she tries to explain to him some important detail. My dream would be having a serious discussion with her on the medium term future of the economy and then rolling around on the Wilton.

You know I watched Andrew Marr today and I thought...

2008-02-17T13:16:00.000Z

You know I watched Andrew Marr today and I thought what an utter waste of space and I thought back to Jeff Randall who once said BBC Management needed a good clear-out or words to that effect and how right he is :
Paxman
Marr
Flanders et al
All high earners but clueless about the real world and even if they fuck up - it's just treated as a joke and they earn a promotion or get another programme to front to top up their inflated salaries and massive ego in case they jump ship.
Jeff Randall spoke sense

Bogeyman @ 5:25Harperson has a plan to send every ...

2008-02-17T12:51:00.000Z

Bogeyman @ 5:25

Harperson has a plan to send every woman a Dromey, based on the house elf Dobby in Harry Potter. She saw it in the cinema, so it must be possible. Also, it worked for her.

Scrapings from Jack's cheeks are being cloned in massive bottles, provided by Tuscan Tony, who found a supply of containers and flogged them on at enormous profit as gene sequencing flasks.

So far all they've got are enormous hairy cheeks like a cross between a duvet and a coconut doormat, but soon they hope to make fully-functioning Dromeys for the homeys.

A leaked dossier contains a post-it note: "Haze, poppet, get this picture over to Good Housekeeping and see if the customer demand is for the jumbo version, or it it has to fit under the stairs, ta, xx H"

The dossier also contains an ancient Betamax video tape and a futher note in the same hand:

"Schtum. We need to get the biometrics systems in place and a complete hosepipe ban, pronto. We can't have this again.

anon @ 10.17 - are these the same bright sparks wh...

2008-02-17T00:00:00.000Z

anon @ 10.17 - are these the same bright sparks who have voted in the current shower of shite three times running? If so I am very pleased that my opinion is diametrically opposed to these know-nothing fuckwits.

I have never liked "Tinsel Tits" as he likes to be...

2008-02-16T22:18:00.000Z

I have never liked "Tinsel Tits" as he likes to be known, Evan Davies.

He reminds me of that Aussie idiot Steve Irwin, who finally got his cum uppance from a sting ray.

Both of them talked to the viewer as though they were addressing a class of five year olds. Unable to just present financial news in a normal way Davies seems to be preening himself in front of the camera.

Hope the retard now pisses off into obscurity.

NICOL Stephen, was found guilty of breaking Holyr...

2008-02-16T22:17:00.001Z

NICOL Stephen, was found guilty of breaking Holyrood's expenses rules while he was claiming thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to buy a flat in Edinburgh.
The mortgage on Mr Stephen's home in one of the Capital's most sought-after areas was held jointly with his wife, Caris Doig - a clear breach of Holyrood's regulations, parliamentary authorities ruled yesterday

Mr Stephen, who has risen to power on the back of a squeaky-clean image, admitted that he regretted the "error" but stressed that the investigation by Holyrood's governing body had found that neither he nor his wife had gained from the arrangement.

HAHAHA-YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP!

Interesting poll in tomorrows Times Guido seems on...

2008-02-16T22:17:00.000Z

Interesting poll in tomorrows Times Guido seems on the non-dom issue your way out of line with the rest of the country.
The criticise darling for not toughening up the rules.

According to the poll, he should not have done so, with 60% saying he should have toughened up his proposals to tax nondoms more rather than relax the rules. Only one in five, 21%, think it is right for nondoms to pay less tax because of the jobs they generate in this country.

Interesting (and accurate) portrayal of Britain to...

2008-02-16T22:06:00.000Z

Interesting (and accurate) portrayal of Britain today on www.news-365.com
titled "What Great Britain?" made me depressed reading it..

Anonymous 4.18Knew a tax bod at the Brown Broadcas...

2008-02-16T22:00:00.000Z

Anonymous 4.18

Knew a tax bod at the Brown Broadcasting Corporation and he accidently let slip (under duress!)who the 2 highest paid journalists were at the Beeb.

1) Jeff Randell (so how much does he earn at SKY????)
2) I'll leave that to the viewers - first correct answer.....

Now Speaker Martin gets caught up in the sleaze, a...

2008-02-16T21:45:00.000Z

Now Speaker Martin gets caught up in the sleaze, according to the Sunday Mirror tomorrow!

COMMONS SPEAKER 'USED TAXPAYERS' AIR MILES'
By Andrew Woodcock, PA Chief Political Correspondent
House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin used air miles earned on official business to fly members of his family business-class from Glasgow to London for a New Year break, it was revealed today.
Use of the air miles for family flights goes against official guidelines that MPs should use them to reduce the cost of future business travel paid for from the public purse.
Mr Martin chairs the House of Commons Members Estimate Committee, which oversees MPs' expenses. He is also heading the parliamentary inquiry into MPs' expenses in the wake of the furore over former Tory MP Derek Conway's employment of his sons.
The Sunday Mirror revealed that the return flights were worth a total of £3,090.50, but the family saved around £360 a head by using Mr Martin's air miles.
A spokesman for the Speaker said that his son Paul paid £309 and his daughter Mary Ann £230.50 towards the total flight costs.
Mr Martin last year clocked up £10,587 in parliamentary allowances to cover air travel on official business - much of it covering his journeys with wife Mary between Westminster and their Scottish home.
According to the Sunday Mirror, he has amassed more than 1 million air miles, and cashed in 54,000 of them for the New Year trip by his children's families.
Mary Ann flew with her husband and son from Glasgow to London on December 28, returning on January 6, while Paul travelled with his wife and two daughters on December 30, returning January 2.
Ministers are banned from using air miles for personal use but MPs, including Mr Martin, are not covered by the same rules. Instead advice from Commons officials is that they should be used only for business.
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who has called for reform of Westminster perks, said: "This will further damage public confidence in the system of parliamentary expenses. A benefit which is accrued because of spending by the taxpayer should be returned to the taxpayer."

Incidentally my favourite balls-up of this type wa...

2008-02-16T21:06:00.000Z

Incidentally my favourite balls-up of this type was when a US news reader read an urgent new flash: "And an update on that automobile accident. Five people were killed, two seriously."

Wok experince trypist. Savs mony.Doze it bullocks....

2008-02-16T21:04:00.000Z

Wok experince trypist. Savs mony.

Doze it bullocks.

ALEX WIPES FLOOR WITH NICOL STEPHEN!http://www.you...

2008-02-16T20:47:00.000Z

ALEX WIPES FLOOR WITH NICOL STEPHEN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh2c4rDJ9A4

Mr Lee Jasper left school with no qualifications a...

2008-02-16T20:21:00.000Z

Mr Lee Jasper left school with no qualifications and went on to obtain a degree in social sciences.

I believe this points to a man of vast intellectual ability who has selflessly fought for the right of others to be like him.

One look at his portrait will give you a sense of his serenity, his wisdom, intelligence and honesty.

http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/02/15/Jasper460x276.jpg

I just heard Evan Davies host a R4 programme calle...

2008-02-16T19:58:00.000Z

I just heard Evan Davies host a R4 programme called, errr, Bottom Line.

Disappointingly, the love that dares not speak its name ... dared not speak its name.

Presumably it was all in code for the cognoscenti.

Don't you dare diss Stephanie Flanders ! You're ta...

2008-02-16T19:20:00.000Z

Don't you dare diss Stephanie Flanders !

You're talking about the girl I love !

Couldn't agree more Simon-as a Scot, I am ashamed ...

2008-02-16T19:13:00.000Z

Couldn't agree more Simon-as a Scot, I am ashamed that N Stephen was born in the same country!
But it must say something for the other libdum tossers who voted him as leader in the first place!

I HATE Nicol Stephen with a passion. A totally tal...

2008-02-16T19:06:00.000Z

I HATE Nicol Stephen with a passion. A totally talentless f'kwit with zero charisma and the intellectual capacity of a whelk (sorry- Whelks). Glad the tossers are on course for a wipeout. In the PR Jock elections i sure as s*it made sure i voted for everybody else- apart from the LD's. A problem for next genelec- SNP or Tory? I'll probably go SNP! F'k, i'll be wearing a kilt next!

LIBS FACE WIPE OUT IN SCOTLAND!Two most recent Sco...

2008-02-16T18:47:00.000Z

LIBS FACE WIPE OUT IN SCOTLAND!

Two most recent Scots elections:-

From the Elgin South by-election ;- Peter Horton (Liberal Democrats) 53 votes On top of their 17 votes in Kilsyth N stephens must be feeling pretty chipper right now

GOODBYE NICOL STEPHEN!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Anonymous said... A few years ago I told a TV jou...

2008-02-16T18:34:00.000Z

Anonymous said...
A few years ago I told a TV journalist friend that she should focus on making herself into a really good business reporter and she would have a job for life.

I was in the US in the early 90's when Maria Bartiromo, AKA "The Money Honey", became a national figure on the strength of her daily reports from the floor of the NYSE.

This would never happen here because nobody working in the media thinks money is a "respectable" topic (apart, of course, from their own salary negotiations). This is compounded at the BBC because they're all leeching off the taxpayer anyway.

Americans at all levels are interested in finance because they rely on economic growth, rather than government handouts for their living.

an error which may be allowed perhaps.however quit...

2008-02-16T18:31:00.000Z

an error which may be allowed perhaps.
however quite why the bbc should pay top dollar for evanomics spiel is beyond me , what on earth is so full of public broadcast insight as "it may go up or it may go down"

yeah thanks a lot i feel that my contribution to your 45k slary was worth every penny , the money program has picked up a bit , but its been woeful under this gov .

i appreciate they have to becareful what they say , but partisan and protectionist to the current gov , by broadcasting dumbed down tripe is not on at all, no is too much brown speak .

doesnt his city addresses look like a con now , it was double speak even then

I think Jeremy Paxman is now like Desert Orchid, w...

2008-02-16T17:59:00.000Z

I think Jeremy Paxman is now like Desert Orchid, was a winner once but now needs to pasture for the good of everyone, even the servants !

Ref Anon 2:57, Harperson's cosy chat to the Blodwy...

2008-02-16T17:25:00.000Z

Ref Anon 2:57, Harperson's cosy chat to the Blodwyns of Llandudno about the "nasty" Tories. From Beeb report:

Ms Harman also said Labour challenges included doing more to help women into work, whatever their circumstances.

"We can expose the duplicity and opportunism of the Tories."

Ms Harman also said that helping women back to work, without fearing that it could affect their families, was among challenges facing the party.

"How can we ensure that when the stay at home mother becomes the working mother, and the stay at home daughter becomes the working daughter, that there is still enough time to bring up the children and care for older relatives?"

Aaah, there's lovely. I wonder if she also promised them each a crisp 20 for voting Labour, just to prove how nasty the Tories are.