Comments on Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Lobby Lushes Get Blanko on The Taxpayer Too!

Note to Bitchfest: why are you using the name of m...

2008-04-01T13:26:00.000+01:00

Note to Bitchfest: why are you using the name of my late husband to add a bit of interest to your very dreary point? Furthermore, anyone who believes what they read on the gossip page of the Daily Mail has no place in an intelligent discussion of anything.

John TrenchardHow are you mate? Long time no hear....

2008-03-12T16:45:00.000Z

John Trenchard

How are you mate? Long time no hear.

Thought you might perk up a bit when the price of beer go's up. You Paddies, if you excuse the expression, certainly know your own interests. But like us it seems, you no longer have the balls to protect them

BTW

How much is a Pint in Dublin these days?

Also: Whats the chance of a No vote?

Atlas shrugged

Have you got a state-approved UK/EU Internet Licen...

2008-03-12T16:30:00.000Z

Have you got a state-approved UK/EU Internet Licence, Guido?

Oh wait, that's still a few years away *doh*.

Have you got a UK TV license Guido?

2008-03-12T11:47:00.000Z

Have you got a UK TV license Guido?

Anonymous saidWe need a third fewer MPsPerhaps eve...

2008-03-12T02:45:00.000Z

Anonymous said

We need a third fewer MPs

Perhaps even two thirds, on the basis of just 535 members in the US Congress representing 300 million people.

Is it time the Snouts in Trough campaign had its o...

2008-03-11T23:20:00.000Z

Is it time the Snouts in Trough campaign had its own blog/page?

well , the alchohol filled bodies of the lobby wil...

2008-03-11T20:45:00.000Z

well , the alchohol filled bodies of the lobby will sure make our bonfire spark up a fair bit.

i wonder what the drinks tab for the lobby in Brussels is?

its no wonder they report fuck all about whats really going on in the country.

It refers to him as a "father of nine" FFS!It has ...

2008-03-11T19:23:00.000Z

It refers to him as a "father of nine" FFS!

It has been mentioned before, but it is worth saying again and again as it is of great comfort and encouragement to any talentless, ugly, personality-free, conniving gobshites who are afraid they may never get laid.

If Lee can get it without paying - apparently from a sane woman - there's hope for anybody with the slightest spark of virtue to recommend them.

Here's a jolly little piece by babe Victoria Coren for the Observer poking fun at Lee's lurve emails and getting all sniffy about Jasper's adultery. This is a bit gag-making from her, as Victoria had an affair with the late Harry Thompson, which led him to dump his wife - Fiona Duff - and children.

Thompson then died horribly from inopperable lung cancer at age 45. The women apparently all got together to forgive him, (Duff, Coren, and his death-bed bride Lisa Whadcock - she already heard that one, thank you) which is always somewhat easier to do when you know you are about to win the game hands-down. Duff was able to show Harry her new, going-to-live-longer-than-you husband, which was apparently of great comfort to him.

Victoria wrote:
Stressed with work, boggled with porn, baffled by the state of feminism, busy-busy, women are taking whatever they can get.

See, you are in with a chance and the Comments are still open. Chiao and Meow.

So come on Guido, let's name names - who are these...

2008-03-11T18:28:00.000Z

So come on Guido, let's name names - who are these well-known hacks of whom Blanko is a parody?

Jon Craig of Sky is definitely one, since it was him who first coined Blanko's catchphrase "I didn't come into the Lobby to drink house wine."

Call me thick if you want but........why is the ta...

2008-03-11T18:24:00.000Z

Call me thick if you want but........why is the taxpayer subsidising the Press bar & restaurant at Westminster? What has it got to do with us? If journos want to drink they can surely do it where they want and pay what they must and claim what they dare from their employers?

Why is £201,100 of our money going down the throats of the Press? I don't want to subsidise a load of sponging useless MPs, certainly don't want to be subsidising the Press as well. Mind, some of the coverage is such crap, being pissed must be their only excuse.

Mt friend Giusseppe claims that Billy Blanko mean...

2008-03-11T17:42:00.000Z

Mt friend Giusseppe claims that Billy Blanko means Michael White in Italian.....is this true demands Colonel Madd

Lasr orders please makes a good point, can someone...

2008-03-11T17:21:00.000Z

Lasr orders please makes a good point, can someone get hold of a
Commons Bar Tariff, so we can see just how little these thieving gobshites have to pay to get pissed at taxpayer expense?
When you think of the heavy hand of Customs on the little people bringing a few bottles for a wedding or party, crush their fucking car if they feel like it, the fascist bastards. Ooh it does make me cross.

Keep digging Guido.

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this might explain gordons recent pledge to allow ...

2008-03-11T17:11:00.000Z

this might explain gordons recent pledge to allow back the oath to her majesty as a labour , yes thats right a labour policy proposal.

it is clear the most pissed are labour , lets be honest you need to be pissed to stand at the goverment dispatch box and face the public after ten years of this lot and the impending doom .

the red despot spotter is now very concerned , that orwell was right , double speak (or spin take your pick) has far more problems than we realised. some elements of the press seem to want the same fake glory as what gordon has turned the house of commons and politics into.

mr purnell what have been upto all these years ???

Guido, you're right. As you know, you'd have to be...

2008-03-11T17:05:00.000Z

Guido, you're right. As you know, you'd have to be clincally insane to drink in the new press bar, it has all the ambience of a motorway service station. But all the drinks in the Palace of Westminster are subsidised. For the record, I don't think that's right either.
As a member of the Lobby, I drink where I like and put my expenses through, and my employer pays them. Anyone who actually drank in the PoW to minimise their spend would be bonkers.

Another good post Guido. Can I commend to you and...

2008-03-11T17:04:00.000Z

Another good post Guido. Can I commend to you and your readership an equally good post on the MSM by the ever reliable Richard North along a similar theme? http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/03/customer-has-spoken.html

Don't know if this is going over old ground, but I...

2008-03-11T17:02:00.000Z

Don't know if this is going over old ground, but I've just read about Lee Jasper's undeclared conviction for assault

It refers to him as a "father of nine" FFS!

So, MPs want to put up the price of Booze for the ...

2008-03-11T16:50:00.000Z

So, MPs want to put up the price of Booze for the Masses, yet they are quite happy to let the masses subsidise their own and their chums in the press booze supplies.

"The total subsidy paid by the taxpayer to the pre...

2008-03-11T16:31:00.000Z

"The total subsidy paid by the taxpayer to the press gallery bar and restaurant last year was £201,100. They drink at the taxpayers expense to the tune of a £1,000 every working day."

Unless, of course, someone is runnig a fiddle.

Link:http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm20...

2008-03-11T16:26:00.000Z

Link:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080310/text/80310w0001.htm#08031012000011

Off Topic but worth a posthttp://www.thisislondon....

2008-03-11T16:22:00.000Z

Off Topic but worth a post

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/article-23451848-details/First+arrest+in+mayor%27s+aide+scandal/article.do

First arrest in mayor's aide scandal
Rob Singh and Pippa Crerar
11.03.08 Related Articles
A key associate of former mayoral aide Lee Jasper was arrested today by police probing the City Hall grants scandal.

Greg Nowell, who ran a scheme linked to Mr Jasper, was seized by Met detectives investigating money laundering.

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Guido - well done yet again for showing the rest o...

2008-03-11T16:11:00.000Z

Guido - well done yet again for showing the rest of us just how corrupt our system of government is, now its the lobby slushes who want US to pay for their entertainment - and face it, its been going on under all governments - thank heavens for you in particular for bringing all this to the attention of the rest of us who foot the bills. - What a gravy train, from the top down. Seems they have all got their greasy hands in the till, from the cabinet down.

Now I understand why momentus occurences in the Ho...

2008-03-11T16:02:00.000Z

Now I understand why momentus occurences in the House go so woefully un-reported, under reported or are biassed by the ommission or obfuscation of certain facts.

More fuel to the revolutionary sentiments heard the length & breadth of this country.

I personally look forward to seeing Nick Robbo's head on a pike anyway

If both Labour and the Conservatives seem rather k...

2008-03-11T15:36:00.000Z

If both Labour and the Conservatives seem rather keen to put up drink prices to stop binge drinking, what's stopping them from starting with the bars in the Houses of Parliament?

Does anyone have a price list that we could compare with, say, a local pub in the centre of London?

If there's one thing that would really piss off the average Brit, it's the idea of someone drinking cheaply at their expense.

anon 3:o3Easily achieved, now they have their own ...

2008-03-11T15:30:00.000Z

anon 3:o3
Easily achieved, now they have their own assemblies, no need whatsoever to fill Westminster up with useless nulab mongs from Wales and Scotland. Simply allocate each assembly a proportional number of votes they can assign to one of the parties to cast for them on defense issues . Job dine

Do we have an analysis of who drunk what at what c...

2008-03-11T15:28:00.000Z

Do we have an analysis of who drunk what at what cost?. now that would be shaming.

Any little voices out there...