― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
osborne is so repellent
― conrad, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
The wisdom of bringing Mandelson back into the cabinet is starting to tell. None of the young guard in the cabinet is particularly adept at dirty politics, Brown has only ever done it by proxy and badly, so he called in the professional with no reputation to lose.
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dirty politics doing really well for the McCain camp right now.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Different country, different part of the cycle, plus the republicans have no one playing clean politics.
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cameron only likes to criticise in retrospect.
It's too early for him to criticise what's happening right now.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dunno, I don't see Mandelson and Osbourne hanging out with Russian oligarchs and getting into a trivial 'he said she said' bunfight playing particularly well with voters of any stripe at a time when Britain is sliding into a recession.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
It hurts the Tories more than Labour though.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I expect this will all get blamed on Rothschilds. See the odious Letts in the Mail f'r'instance. Although quite why they would want to damage the conservative party is not clear. If this does happen the tories may have to look elsewhere for funding as they've given a ton of cash to them over the years.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dunno, I don't see Mandelson and Osbourne hanging out with Russian oligarchs and getting into a trivial 'he said she said' bunfight
heh now i'm imagining mandelson and osbourne doing the 'he said she said' dance
and wondering who gets the "she's lovin' the fact that she's gifted" line
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Channel Four news was spinning this last night as Rothschild getting angry at Osbourne for breaking the 'what goes on the yacht stays on the yacht' rule.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
The other good thing about this story is we have another Bullingdon photo to gawp at.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Newsnight was pretty good at covering the 'bad manners' aspect of the row as well.
― Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
The bloke on the far right doesn't look old enough to be at university.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Insert 'I thought they were all on the far right?' gag here.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Signs you're getting old #32: students don't look young enough to be at university
(this happened to me about 3-4 years ago, I think)
― Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hm, uncomfortable truth there^. I was just thinking 'it's quite funny seeing children dressed up in adult clothing'.
This whole row has been quite useful to me, actually. Much as I think Labour deserve a kicking for certain, um, harms, and much as I think the next government will do good on those issues, the fact is that once the shackles are off the tories will be many times more abhorrent than the current lot, and for more intransigent reasons.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
WTF has Buster Bloodvessel got to do with all this?
― Eric in the East Neuk of Anglia (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
He was present on the yacht.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
did the speccy one end up in politics?
― ILX Systern (ken c), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I heard that old Oleg Oligarch was keen on Special Brew...
― Eric in the East Neuk of Anglia (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Best way to get through those cold Russian winters is Special Brew and 2-Tone!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, but Bad Manners were on Magnet. Pete Waterman signed them, you know.
Actually Dale was doing 1981 on POTP last Sunday and I'd forgotten what a good single "Walking In The Sunshine" was. They did have their occasional moments.
― Eric in the East Neuk of Anglia (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
ooyeh.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shenanigans over the 'new' Bullingdon photo. All rather amusing.
Compare and contrast...
Seems to me that this 'new' new one is the original, a rather messy cut'n'paste job. And the one from the Mail last year is a cleaned up copy thanks to modern technology.
Still if it got Peter Hitchens all riled up...
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/maguire/2008/11/18/gordon-brown-s-strategy-on-tax-cuts-has-panicked-david-cameron-115875-20905743/
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mandelson has to be man of the year as well. Dude is the Phil Brown of Brazilian twink fucking media manipulators.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes but he can't just come in and pick up where John Sergeant finished.
― What a broad smile! It is like a delta! (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7753557.stm
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's very strange. I'm uneasy at the idea that the opposition shouldn't be doing everything they can to monitor what the govt are up to.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
is that what it is?
― conrad, Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
if he's receiving stolen files then isn't that the same as receiving stolen goods?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm assuming it's an enquiry into leaks. If so, leaking to the opposition strikes me as very different to any other kind of leak. I haven't really thought it through - it kind of reads like it's bribery or similar, which he obviously shouldn't be doing. But then finding out what the govt is doing (and holding them to account) *is* his job
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
10 o'clock news made this sound rather innocuous - basically involvement in leaks on immigration statistics and employment of illegals i.e. politically-embarrassing info, not national security type stuff
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 27 November 2008 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
The T in ITN stands for Tory though.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 27 November 2008 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would have expected the Tories to have gained ground again in the past week, tbh. They seemed genuinely fucking horrified at the PBR, mostly due to what might happen if they actually win the election and inherit that mountain of debt.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 November 2008 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
How interesting this should all happen on the same day as Ian Blair is forcibly retired as head of the Met, having been forced out by a Tory mayor.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 28 November 2008 13:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
ComRes:
CONSERVATIVES 37% (-6)LABOUR 36% (+4)LIB DEMS 17% (+5)
Labour majority of 23.
Guido Fawkes originally reported this as poll as having a 25% lead for the Tories. HEY LET'S GIVE BLOGGERS ACCESS TO THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT PRESS FACILITIES ASAP.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 1 December 2008 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's ComRes poll for the Indie On Sunday, btw.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 1 December 2008 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Much as I would like a 2% Labour lead to spark widespread panic and regicide among the Tories, this is all getting a bit silly now.
― Matt DC, Monday, 1 December 2008 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think what we need right now is a resurgent UKIP. Just to really make UK politics as wacky as possible.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 1 December 2008 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
They're not having Kilroy back, so it won't happen.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 08:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/dec/03/obama-cameron-lightweight
amazingespecially with cameron's please be my friend gorillaz + wilberforce party pack.
― schlump, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
"You might not have heard of this Radiohead in the colonies."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
they kind of look like they're doing the robot.
so great, anyway.
― schlump, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Seannadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Which gives us....
LAB 295CON 279LD 47
― Seannadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 02:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't really understand this. Has Cammy's bubble burst?
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 11:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
New media narrative is that the Tories are the "Do Nothing" party.
― Seannadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 11:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Plus the public are generally loathe to change horses in the middle of a recession.
Gandhi... Bobby Sands... Saddam Hussein... not one of them introduced a Jobs Tax like Labour is planning
― Is that your Ayrshire bacon? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
Apolgies to anyone eating at the moment.
― The Man With the Magic Eardrums (Billy Dods), Friday, 23 April 2010 14:12 (4 months ago) Permalink
― went ham in a bad way (stevie), Friday, 23 April 2010 14:27 (4 months ago) Permalink
fuck it trying to get a davros photo to load
― went ham in a bad way (stevie), Friday, 23 April 2010 14:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
― StanM, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:26 (4 months ago) Permalink
― James Mitchell, Monday, 3 May 2010 08:14 (4 months ago) Permalink
L-R: Cindy-Lou Who, Grinch
― Daily Sport Stunna Yasmin Alibhai Brown (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 May 2010 08:16 (4 months ago) Permalink
Dulwich sending 'em a message:
― snakebite and a passable pinot noir (Upt0eleven), Monday, 3 May 2010 09:59 (4 months ago) Permalink
― James Mitchell, Monday, 3 May 2010 20:56 (4 months ago) Permalink
lol.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 07:11 (3 months ago) Permalink
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 12:06 (3 months ago) Permalink
Haha, that's opposite East Dulwich Station, right? I walked past it pre-vandalism the other day and got rage.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 12:08 (3 months ago) Permalink
SamKampff
http://www.scotsman.com/general-election-2010/Election-2010-When-photo-ops.6257700.jp
― mierda defensa ... no impedir ... espectador (onimo), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 15:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
Ah, she's more into the Ladies Detective Agency, by the look of things there...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 15:50 (3 months ago) Permalink
LOLLLLLL
― portmantovani (suzy), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
is that Foucault's Madness and Civilization above it? Discipline and Punish would've been better. :'(
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 18:44 (3 months ago) Permalink
On her visit, she wore a black Cos dress, fawn Philip Lim jacket and Russell and Bromley shoes
O_O
This is either a journo who knows their stuff and can recognise all of this on sight or it was in a press release handed out at the event.Either way, I don't see how this could possibly help restore politics' credibility.
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 19:00 (3 months ago) Permalink
Cheating Cam cutie Caroline Nokes: Family stunned by affair with Tory toyboy
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2010/06/14/cheating-cam-cutie-caroline-nokes-family-stunned-by-affair-with-tory-toyboy-115875-22331554/
She opened her door, smiling and looking glamorous in a black and white dress. Two hours later, Dinsdale left and drove away.Friends reportedly claim the relationship is purely physical.
Friends reportedly claim the relationship is purely physical.
Good old Friends:
― Mark G, Monday, 14 June 2010 09:30 (2 months ago) Permalink
The return of family values.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 14 June 2010 09:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
Last Monday Nokes, who previously boasted of being told she is “too pretty to be in politics”
I have news for you, love
― I am utterly and abjectly pissed off with this little lot (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2010 10:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
Nokes earlier this year signed up to an election pledge produced by a Christian group which says sex outside marriage is wrong.
Yesssssss
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 June 2010 10:19 (2 months ago) Permalink
She thought it said "sex outside is wrong"
― Mark G, Monday, 14 June 2010 10:34 (2 months ago) Permalink
So wrong it's right
― I am utterly and abjectly pissed off with this little lot (Tom D.), Monday, 14 June 2010 10:34 (2 months ago) Permalink
DIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLEE
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Monday, 14 June 2010 10:36 (2 months ago) Permalink
Since when did Toyboy = a man in his late 20s who is 10 years younger than you?
― piscesx, Monday, 14 June 2010 12:58 (2 months ago) Permalink
Since the word was first used iirc
― That was Verbeek, that was (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 June 2010 13:00 (2 months ago) Permalink
scratchin my head at that but yeah what NV said
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Monday, 14 June 2010 13:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
confusing it with Toryboy which means spotty balding 16 year-old twat that gets beaten up every day at school but gets his revenge as Home Secretary 30 years later.
― That was Verbeek, that was (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 June 2010 13:18 (2 months ago) Permalink
Following an article in a British publication on Sunday, I’ve received questions about a possible trip to the United Kingdom. I have received an invitation for a visit to London, and part of that invitation included the offer of arranging a meeting between myself and one of my political heroines, the “Iron Lady,” Margaret Thatcher. I would love to meet her and hope I’ll be able to arrange the trip in the future.As I wrote last year when I offered her birthday wishes, Baroness Thatcher’s life and career serve as a blueprint for overcoming the odds and challenging the “status quo.” She started life as a grocer’s daughter from Grantham and rose to become Prime Minister – all by her own merit and hard work. I cherish her example and will always count her as one of my role models. Her friendship with my other political hero, Ronald Reagan, exemplified the Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.- Sarah Palin
As I wrote last year when I offered her birthday wishes, Baroness Thatcher’s life and career serve as a blueprint for overcoming the odds and challenging the “status quo.” She started life as a grocer’s daughter from Grantham and rose to become Prime Minister – all by her own merit and hard work. I cherish her example and will always count her as one of my role models. Her friendship with my other political hero, Ronald Reagan, exemplified the Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Sarah Palin
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:07 (2 months ago) Permalink
Oh really, you do surprise me...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:02 (2 months ago) Permalink
She's so like Nixon it's embarassing.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 10:51 (2 months ago) Permalink
well, no
― sites.younglife.org:8080 (history mayne), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 10:52 (2 months ago) Permalink
I can see parallels between her and Nixon's smear campaigns, Death Panel's is a classic Nixonian smear, her resigning the governorship and courting the 'silent majority', touring overseas to gain some statemanslike gravitas. maybe I'm reading too much into it.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
yep
― sites.younglife.org:8080 (history mayne), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:12 (2 months ago) Permalink
This has Bill Kristol-shaped fingerprints all over it.
― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:15 (2 months ago) Permalink
"Exemplify" is really one of those words that no one should ever use.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:01 (2 months ago) Permalink
lol samcam fan art
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 17 June 2010 07:46 (2 months ago) Permalink
Mrs Cameron said: "They've done the most incredible job. It's amazing. He looks so real. He just looks identical to him really."
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:09 (2 months ago) Permalink
^ Picture of SamCam and Nick Clegg?
― I am utterly and abjectly pissed off with this little lot (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:11 (2 months ago) Permalink
By the way, saw Clegg on Breakfast TV this morning looking pretty rough, he has not inherited much politically from Charles Kennedy but he does appear to have inherited the bags from under his eyes
― I am utterly and abjectly pissed off with this little lot (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:12 (2 months ago) Permalink
Lord Rodger said the normal behaviour of gay people must be protected as it was for straight people. He said: "What is protected is the applicant's right to live freely and openly as a gay man. To illustrate the point with trivial stereotypical examples from British society: just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates."
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 July 2010 07:49 (1 month ago) Permalink
to be fair that's just as insulting to str8 dudes
― frap your hands say yeah yeah yeah (history mayne), Thursday, 8 July 2010 08:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
just as male in-the-closet heterhomosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates
― Oracle Crackers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 08:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
lol at playing rugby as a cultural touchstone
― caek, Thursday, 8 July 2010 08:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
Really what they all want is an Iran where people are free to enjoy themselves by going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 July 2010 08:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
think you've just written the plot for the next SEX AND THE CITY movie
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 8 July 2010 09:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
Subtitle: Everybody Must Get Stoned
― Oracle Crackers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 09:09 (1 month ago) Permalink