Friday, June 15, 2007

Quotes of the Day

"Ann's mother always wanted us to get married and maybe one day we will. But it will have to be in a very monastic way. We'll set up our own religious Order of the Perpetual Indulgence" - Father Michael Seed, the so-called priest to the stars, contemplating marriage to Tory MP Ann Widdecombe.
"You're wearing my frock" - What Princess Diana really said to her butler Paul Burrell according to a new book by Tina Brown. Burrell thought she said: "You are my rock".
"Tony Blair was dead right about the British media. It's a fleet of runaway ICB diggers without drivers or brakes, beyond accountability or control even by those who nominally run them" - Political pundit Polly Toynbee.
"I am the Marmite candidate. You either love me or hate me" - Hazel Blears when asked whether she would win Labour's deputy leadership contest.

23 comments:

maneatingcheesesandwich said...

Personally I am a Marmite lover. Or was. That smug little ginner has put me right off it now....

She will, of course, go far. For another few years.

Anonymous said...

The Polly Toynbee comment is priceless and should be framed considering the drivel she gets paid a lot of money for peddling on a weekly basis, she is New Labour's pet propagandist for god's sake!
She is the worst example of a champagne socialist I have ever come across. She must need a warm jacket sitting on top of her self imposed moral mountain while dictating "how" the other half should live.

Jeremy Jacobs said...

Iain, You missed this beauty from the anti-semite Clemency Burton-Hill
on the "Palestinian" war in Gaza (as pointed out by Stephen Pollard at the Spectator Blog)

"For once, on this bleakest of days, I find it hard not to want to blame the Palestinians themselves".

Stephen then added this comment:

A group of homicidal maniacs engage in murder, beatings, and other savagery and Ms Burton-Hill finds it hard not to want to blame them. As opposed to blaming who? Mickey Mouse? The Nawab of Pataudi? Keith Harris and Orville? Or...here it comes...ISRAEL.

Anonymous said...

Jeremy, you forgot to add America as well!!!
What ever goes on in the middle East just remember it is Israel and America's fault what ever happens whether they get involved or not!

Ted Foan said...

Blimey - Clemency is an anti-semite. A bit of a strong statement, Jeremy. What's all that about?

Ted Foan said...

I have been irritated by Simon Heffer's articles in the Daily Telegraph for some years now. His constant sniping at the Cameron Tories will prove to be counter-productive in the long run - if he keeps it up.

But his appearance on 18 Doughty Street discussing his book on the 50 greatest political speeches ever made was a revelation. I knew he was an intelligent man but I didn't realise he could be so articulate in the flesh.

I shall "listen" to him in more detail in future.

Newmania said...

La Toynbee`s sad little mew struck me .Evryone should be free to agree with her I suspect.

Laurence Boyce said...

“Ann’s mother always wanted us to get married and maybe one day we will. But it will have to be in a very monastic way. We’ll set up our own religious Order of the Perpetual Indulgence” – Father Michael Seed, the so-called priest to the stars, contemplating marriage to Tory MP Ann Widdecombe.

I feel ill.

Peter Mc said...

A JCB? I quite fancy having one of those. How much do you have to donate to the Labour party to be awarded one?

Unsworth said...

Toynbee: 'It's a fleet of runaway ICB diggers'.

I know that she does have to deal with more pressing matters, but at least she or her sub should be getting this one approximately right. It's JCB not ICB.

Unless an 'ICB digger' is a hitherto unknown type of Australian or New Zealander.

As to 'runaway'. Well yes, her 'thinking' certainly has 'run away'. Brain into gear before mouth in motion, please. After all, who was it who so assiduously courted the press? And who was it who reciprocated?

Maybe Polly would prefer to see all the media being State controlled. In which case she really ought to be made to 'reapply' for her job.

Anonymous said...

Seed by name, seedy by nature.

That guy makes my flesh crawl.

Anonymous said...

Jeremy, when are you going to emigrate to your beloved Israel and spare us all the frequent sight of your smug visage?

Anonymous said...

'ICB' digger ?

Recycling Tina Brown's dreadful quotes [or is it Craig Brown..?] - This is C- minus stuff from you, young Daley.

Must Try Harder..

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Anonymous said...

Diablo,

Did it occur to you that the reason Simon Heffer is sceptical about Cameron is that he is right to be?

Intellectuals tend to have long memories and an ability to join up the dots. Do this with the Cameron template and you will find Blair-Lite.

For more proper thinking - though not necessarily joined up to action - try Boris, lovely uncontrollable Boris, who is indeed an intellectual, but also someone you can trust, sort of, ..and here comes (his) my quote of the week...

"I would much rather have cyberspace regulated by public scorn than by Tony Blair, who should depart as soon as possible to complete his farewell tour in an open-top submarine"

I love that.

Anonymous said...

Re Polly's comment, to be kind maybe she's making a more subtle point.

The last time I saw those initials together was in ICBM so maybe she means Inter Continental Ballistic diggers...being generous of course ; )

Iain Dale said...

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Anonymous said...

And why should anyone wish to be kind to Polly Toynbee, the hypocritical harridan of Hampstead? (well, I don't know where she lives but it's pleasantly alliterative).

Anonymous said...

"I am the Marmite candidate."

Thick and sticky and totally devoid of any beef!

Jeremy Jacobs said...

Chatterbox: Silly me forgetting the United States of Satan.

Diablo: Check out Stephen Pollard

Neutral (but clearly not): I think you'll find that emigrating to Israel won't preclude me or anybody else from blogging or having computers.

Anonymous said...

"Intellectuals tend to have long memories and an ability to join up the dots."

Well, that sure as heck rules out Simon Heffer..

David Lindsay said...

If Tina Brown's new biography of Princess Diana contends that her actual words to Paul Burrell were not "You are my rock", but "You're wearing my frock", then who else might the protagonists be for this story to be, if not historically accurate, then at least morally edifying and aesthetically satisfying? And why?

Anonymous said...

The difference is - some people do like Marmite