I never tire in telling people about my trashy taste in music, and no 1980s group sums this up more than Dollar. So you can imagine my delight when I read in Private Eye yesterday that Dollar's David van Day has signed up to the Conservatives and is standing for a local council seat in the unfortunately named Skidrow ward in East Sussex. He really is a SHOOTING STAR. let's hope he won't need his HAND HELD IN BLACK & WHITE [That's enough - ed].And in other non political news to annoy my readers today, it seems West Ham have pulled off the transfer of the year and signed the best two players in South America, Carlitos Tevez and Javier Masherano, as well as a young Czech goalkeeper who chose the Hammers over Real Madrid. Wise boy. UPDATE 5pm: Click HERE to find out why I'm a happy Hammer tonight.
PS Sorry for lack of meaningful posts today. Brain is tired. Back to normal this evening (hopefully). What would you like me to write about?
Er, there is no ward called Skidrow in Brighton. Think you may be a little confused by the Eye's in-joke terminology, Iain...
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ReplyDeleteIain - take your pick ... any insider-intel you have on:-
Levy
Knacker of the Yard's progress
Teflon Tony's current invisibility
Two Shags Prezza (ANY subject)
Inside the Beckett Caravan
The scars on Ruth Kelly's thighs ... ooh Matron!
Blunkett's red-top blog
Just can't get enough !
I agree with vervet unless you want to update us on how it is going looking for the top 100 Conservative blogs.
ReplyDeleteI was writing a peace for my blog about taxation but am so emotionaly tired after an argument about immigration and its effects on the poor with some nu Lab nutter who makes Lord Tebbit look like a commie, over on polliticalbetting.com.
When The Times reported about various "big club" transfers today, it went on to say,
ReplyDelete"However, that [transfer deal] could be overshadowed by developments that may end with two [South American] World Cup stars moving to one of the Barclays Premiership backwaters."
I was at a loss as to which club could be described as "backwaters".
It was obvious really...West Ham!
"What would you like me to write about?"
ReplyDeleteOooh! Tell us a fairy tale, Uncle Iain!
There's the one about The Emperor's New Clothes, or the one about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or the one about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.....
Iain well I know people who like far more trashy stuff than you. Then again who am I to talk...I have a soft spot for stuff like REO Speedwagon.
ReplyDeleteHow about some in depth analysis on how responsible Mr T Blair is for Sedgefield's coming sixth in the Obesity report published today?
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can fill us in on how your search for a parliamentary seat is going.
ReplyDeleteDid you know today is International Blog Day? And yesterday was "have a row day". That's a double whammy for lots of ranters who love to blog!
Any more on Paula Rumpy-Pumpy, JP's best friend.
ReplyDeleteIain, who the hell were/are Dollar?
ReplyDeleteWhy not write about the best 100 Tory blogs, or my (vain) efforts to get Prescott to justify his son using tax payers money for his own enrichment!
An apalling, possibly unelectable, lapse in taste there, Dale. Therese Bizarre does look a bit like Bagshawe from some angles, though.
ReplyDeleteYou must be off-colour if this is what you've sunk to. Try an online recipe next time. Prescott tart would be a good start.
Otherwise, stoke the fires on the first resignation of the autumn. Could it begin with a B?
Would you write about Blair's resignation honours list?
ReplyDeleteSooo Desperate. With a planet sized ego. Thats how David van Day comes accross. Perhaps that's the kind of chap you want on side...
ReplyDeleteApart from hideous taste in music What fashion faux pas did you commit in the 1980s?
ReplyDeletepersonally I went through a phase of wearing leg warmers, I had a pair of leather pants and a suede t shirt that I used to wear with a cashmere scarf wrapped around my throat, oh , and some ankle boots )+:
I have to agree with this review of a recent Van Day appearance:
ReplyDelete"time hasn't been kind to Dollar. Not only does David Van Day think he is still a star, but the music had dated more than anything else that was on offer this evening, and his trousers were a crime against fashion. In fact they were even a crime against kitsch retro 80's fashion."
Very popular in the 80s but deluded but now hopelessly dated? Iain - let that be a lesson!
At least you didn't get Malbranque.As a Fulham supporter I would have been really upset if he had gone to West Ham..... but then Spurs is just as bad.....
ReplyDeletePyschotherapists for Ministers @ £250 per hour.
ReplyDeleteMenace children and this Govt's futile efforts to be nanny and mother. No bad children only bad parents. Stop subsidising single mothers.
Invisible Shadow Cabinet
Cameron's Blue Book and the vote.
(Thats enough from you Ed.)
What's happened to that Orange guy who got suspended for a memorable definition of Islamophobia? among other things. You championed him at the time. There was a big fuss and boycott threats. Where is he now? quietly dumped on the scrapheap? while the relentless pressure to stop any of us speaking our minds has hardly abated.
ReplyDeleteWhat to write about? The Scottish Conservative Party dose it exist? Discuss.
ReplyDeleteSo, West Ham versus Portsmouth for the Premiership, then?
ReplyDeleteI think "how dodgy is the deal between West Ham and MSI?" would be a good topic.
ReplyDeleteWhat's a feeder club?
ReplyDelete"What would you like me to write about?"
ReplyDeleteWhy the number of violent assaults in Britain has quadrupled since 1997; and how Bliar ("tough on ...") nevertheless got reelected.
Perhaps you could write about the need for West Ham to come clean about the transfer fee they paid for the two. After all according to reports in Argentina it would have cost over £60 million to have bought Tevez out of his contract.
ReplyDeleteYou probably didn't see them, but IMO two television programmes have been very important in the recent schedules.
ReplyDeleteBAD LAD'S ARMY (ITV ) apart from being very funny, has some very important things to say about how to deal with young men drifting into criminality. Anyone who watched the cocky young men being reduced to tears and toeing the line after tough army trainng must be thinking National Service might just solve a few problems.
I thought SHOOT THE MESSENGER was a very brave and thoughtful single play about the black community and how they are in denial about how their young men are disproportionately involved in crime and educational under achievement.
People watch television, Iain. An occasional reaction to an interesting programme with political/social implications might pay dividends in terms of widening your audience.
The Hammers are the plain but friendly girl who lets you into the party. Tevez and Co will be offski once they have the lie of the land. Not that I'm a big Chelski fan but I predict Jose might come a wooing around the January transfer window.
ReplyDeleteOr Pardew had clinched the deal of the century. But we live in cynical times. And this is football.
Your brain must be tired if you've
ReplyDeletegot nothing better than to witter
on about West Ham.
How about Tony's "Minority Report" attempt to take people into care before they are born? Is Ms Caplin one of the psychics?
ReplyDeleteWhy he doesn't suggest going the whole hog and intervening before conception I'm not sure...
Sure we've already got John Prescott from "Tight Fit" and Charles Kennedy from "Bucks Fizz"
ReplyDeleteIain
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog. Why dont you write about that arsehole Blair who seems to have developed the ability of a amazing mega scanning machine that can predict the genetic traits of unborn babies?
How about a write-up on Blair's new wizard wheeze, ASBOs for toddlers?
ReplyDeleteSaw Newsnight tonight - incredible rubbish about how marvellous Reid is. To come back to earth, despite all the revolting spin flannel from the Home Office press "officers", the fact remains that there is still absolutely no monitoring of people leaving this country, absolutely minimal deportation arrangements for illegal immigrants and still absolutely no checks whatever on the criminal past of immigrants coming in. God help us all in what was once Britain - now increasingly a sort of multinational departure terminal for anyone who wants to come here from anywhere for any reason, including to conduct their criminal operations.
ASBOs for toddlers?
ReplyDeleteASBINIS (pron. as-bee-nee-s), I think they should henceforth be known...
electoral ward, east sussex? skidrow ??
ReplyDeleteI don't think so...
Iain, I am horrified by the planned School Census. Given that social services and schools already could give Tony a list of kids "at risk" of turning into thugs, what is the point of collecting 40 pieces of data, every term, on every child at state school? We can't seem to help the kids we already know are struggling. How many thousands of "experts" will it take to analyse the data collected? And just what will they do with it?
ReplyDeleteWhen are you going to delete my above message(like I asked you to in that email to you)and this one?
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