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Monday, October 01, 2007

Labour Figure Vomits in Taxi

Iain Dale 3:09 AM

There's been far too little gossip on this blog lately, so how about this one for a corker.

Which Labour stalwart consumed so much alcohol one evening at Labour's annual shindig that he vomited in his taxi and had. to fork out £50 to pay for cleaning it?

He'd better hope that Bournemouth cabbies are a decent sort and treat this chap better than they did the Tory MP Patrick Nicholls in the mid 1990s.

45 Comments:

At October 01, 2007 6:49 AM , Blogger Daily Referendum said...

Posted at 3:09am? I didn't realise Blackpool was in a different time zone.

 
At October 01, 2007 7:37 AM , Anonymous Marquee Mark said...

After Brown's Lurch to the Right at Bournemouth, I bet he wasn't the only the Labour stalwart throwing up...

 
At October 01, 2007 7:55 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't know. I give up.

 
At October 01, 2007 8:16 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, because no Tory has every disgraced themselves in drink have they?

 
At October 01, 2007 8:41 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ahh, binge drinking is alive and well in the Labour Party!

They say one thing and do another...

 
At October 01, 2007 8:54 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Iain, don't descent to the same depths as NuLabourLite; you're above all that.

 
At October 01, 2007 9:13 AM , Blogger Edward said...

Bob Marshall-Andrews?

 
At October 01, 2007 9:15 AM , Blogger Ed said...

Well it isn't our puritanical PM that's for sure. Do you think he allows himself any of life's pleasures at all? The way he holds Mrs Brown's hand it looks like he doesn't even let himself enjoy that.

 
At October 01, 2007 9:17 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm impressed to hear on the radio this morning that despite Cameron's 'bring it on' rhetoric, they don't yet have candidates for all seats..

Or a complete set of policies.

Go on, Brown, spoil their day..

 
At October 01, 2007 9:17 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why be a Labour MP and ruin the inside of a taxi, when you can be a Labour PM and f**k up the whole cuntry ?

 
At October 01, 2007 9:19 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Peter Mandelson ? I doubt he can handle a lot of alcohol, as I don't think he's had that much inside him recently..

 
At October 01, 2007 9:26 AM , Blogger Paul Linford said...

I think you need to give us a few more clues Iain...

 
At October 01, 2007 9:28 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Give us a clue. Male or female?

 
At October 01, 2007 9:37 AM , Blogger Chuck Unsworth said...

Maybe one might wonder which Labour 'Figure' has not vomited over us all.

Seems to be quite up to the usual standards.

Probably down to the fish and chips, though.

 
At October 01, 2007 9:38 AM , Blogger Hannibal said...

Anonymous 9:17 AM

"...they don't yet have candidates for all seats...or a complete set of policies..."

-

Is that Labour or the Conservatives you're talking about? We know Labour don't have all their seats selected, and we also know there must be policies they need to adopt quickly to show the change of regime as opposed to the Blairite status quo we're seeing now, otherwise why bother holding an election?

 
At October 01, 2007 9:38 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brown is looking very rough this morming watched him on tv ,he looks as if he's had a bad night,could it be because he's put petrol up.

 
At October 01, 2007 9:41 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Iain

did you see the excellent bremner programme last night on c4?? a brilliant assasination of brown.

 
At October 01, 2007 9:45 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the Labour figure was John 'smeato' Smeaton.. I suspect he would be willing to turn up at the Tory conference as well if he was offered some dosh, a standing ovation and twenty pints of bitter.

A loverly, heroic guy, but in danger of working his 15 minutes of fame until he has overstayed his welcome..

 
At October 01, 2007 9:56 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm told it was McNulty.

 
At October 01, 2007 9:59 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would have thought Louise Casey might be a good each way bet, as she is famously tolerant of binge drinking...

 
At October 01, 2007 10:03 AM , Blogger Travis Bickle said...

£50? Do they have rickshaws in Bournemouth then? No self respecting cabbie would have let a scumbag politician get out of their cab with less than a couple of ton cleaning and hush money.

And I should know !

 
At October 01, 2007 10:19 AM , Blogger anthonynorth said...

So all the others hit the road?

 
At October 01, 2007 10:29 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

not really a corker, just mildly interesting and no name. come on iain, up your game or we'll all go to guido.

 
At October 01, 2007 10:34 AM , Blogger jailhouselawyer said...

£50 seems like an expensive valet. It costs about £3 in Hull...

 
At October 01, 2007 10:39 AM , Blogger Little Black Sambo said...

Anon. 8.16
Yes, because no Tory has every disgraced themselves in drink have they?
What on earth has your playground riposte to do with it?

 
At October 01, 2007 10:39 AM , Blogger Harriet Hamster said...

Sadly the only bottle Cameron hits is the hair dye one maybe do him good to have a few glasses

HH

 
At October 01, 2007 10:44 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon at 9.17,

Did you read Steve Richards in The Independent last week?

I not you say Cameron has no policies and try to contrast this to Brown. Well here's what Richards (no friend of Tories) had to say:

"In the mean time, policy development is at an earlier stage for Labour than the other parties. Cameron cannot move for policies after his unwieldy but in some cases thoughtful reviews. As ever the Liberal Democrats propose a mountain of detailed policies. Brown was right in his speech to focus on his objectives for public services instead of instigating another inaccessible debate about the means. But in an election campaign he will need to answer questions about how, for example, he plans to make GPs' surgeries open at times when most people could visit them. Yet his NHS review, although progressing well, is not over. There are reviews galore across Whitehall at the moment, which is sensible politics for a new prime minister, but not the basis for an election campaign: Vote Labour and we will announce the outcome of the reviews in a few months' time."

 
At October 01, 2007 11:18 AM , Blogger Chris Paul said...

According to the Bournemouth cadre of the T&G taxi drivers branch this question is utterly unfair as there were fifty incidents, albeit that' s thirty less than the last time the Tories visited. <<< Made Up Statistic Alert.

BMA seems like a pretty good bet from Edward. But he would have paid the hush money I reckon. McNulty however wouldn't. He is also a completely addicted tobacconista and that may be an emetic along with the crash of surf on pierage.

Not QD or DJ surely? Not James Purnell anyway as he can prove photographically with a timed, dated and signed blick from somewhere 50 miles away.

If this becomes smearage Dale you could be barred from office for three years so do be sure of your facts and the proof thereof.

 
At October 01, 2007 11:30 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Iain, Why are you singularly failing to keep us updated on what is going on at the Tory Party Conference ??

Maybe nothing newsworthy is going on there which is why we're having to hear old news about pavement pizza.

 
At October 01, 2007 11:31 AM , Blogger Harriet Hamster said...

Prescott if there was pie ? Ask the driver please ....

HH

 
At October 01, 2007 11:32 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

What goes around, comes around..

You smear Sayeed Awarsi, we smear [insert name of 'tit for tat' victim here].

It is like the good old days again..

 
At October 01, 2007 11:33 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

My guesses are :-

1/ Shaun Woodward

2/ Quentin Davies

3/ Patrick Mercer

..on the basis that you can take the boy out of the Tory Party, but you'll never take the Tory Party out of the boy...

 
At October 01, 2007 12:01 PM , Blogger Chuck Unsworth said...

Anon 11:30.

Reading skills 2/10. Did you go to a State school by some misfortune?

The technicolour yawn was in a taxi, not on the pavment - at least, as reported.

 
At October 01, 2007 12:01 PM , Anonymous cp done said...

chris paul, you do realise that the labour party needs you less than you need it don't you?

 
At October 01, 2007 12:06 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

chuck - ah, yes, but Iain also said it was a 'he' [even though he is just making an assumption], and that did not stop me trying to spread some bit of mis-information about Louise Casey - but looking on the bright side I'm being well paid by my New Labour paymasters now that I'm on the payroll again in time for the General Election.

 
At October 01, 2007 12:11 PM , Blogger UK Daily Pundit said...

Dickie Attenborough?

 
At October 01, 2007 12:13 PM , Anonymous Marquee Mark said...

"£50 seems like an expensive valet. It costs about £3 in Hull..."

Let's face it, you'd get change out of a tenner for the whole of Hull....

 
At October 01, 2007 12:31 PM , Blogger Chuck Unsworth said...

Anon 12:06

Difficult to establish who isn't on NuLab's payroll these days, what with the profligate dispersal of taxpayers' cash on wizard NuLab wheezes.

Still, good to see that we're all keeping you in the style to which you have become accustomed. Just don't get too comfortable, you'll need to put something by for the rainy days due to arrive very shortly. After all, once the election comes and goes so do you.

 
At October 01, 2007 12:54 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

chuck - apologies, but in my rush to post I should have conceded that the creation of a bit of 'fog of war' as to who vomited, where and when, can act as a useful way of spreading the blame around - which might seem a bit counter-productive; but just think of it as spreading the shit a little bit more thinly, or spreading the boxer's punch a little more widely. Thanks for your concern about my employment, but I'm a 'gun for hire' and will, of course, like any good promiscuous mercenary, swap sides as required when the 'price is right'. Lots and lots of love. 'Stool Pigeon'..

 
At October 01, 2007 1:06 PM , Anonymous floating voter veering towards the tories said...

Brilliant speech by George Osborne, a real vote winner.

The unity in the hall was great to see too. Brownite stooge Kevin Maguire looked sick afterwards. No dissent, just solidarity, not the script the New Labour apparatchiks in the media were hoping for.

Watch the polls change in the Tories favour later this week.

 
At October 01, 2007 1:30 PM , Blogger bernard said...

Lord George Brown. Wilson Govt. 1963.

 
At October 01, 2007 1:34 PM , Blogger Chuck Unsworth said...

@ Anon 12:54 (and are you really one and the same as the other two?). "Spreading the shit" has been a NuLab function since it came to power. Indeed I can't think of anyone who has not been completely covered in NuLab shit over the past ten years - except perhaps, the NuLab cronies. Would you count yourself as one of them, by any chance?

NuLab, purveyors of shit to the nation.

And now, Nulab with extra puke for all you lucky cabbies.

 
At October 01, 2007 1:47 PM , Blogger Yak40 said...

Sickened by what's become of their Party?

 
At October 02, 2007 1:43 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

bernard said... "Lord George Brown. Wilson Govt. 1963."

But, more recently, "Sir Nicholas Scott, MP for Chelsea since 1974 was deselected in December 1996 after being found face-down in the street after a Conservative Party conference reception."

 
At October 06, 2007 12:52 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ken Livingstone. Or so my journalist friends tell me...

 

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