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.
Posted at 3:09am? I didn't realise Blackpool was in a different time zone.
ReplyDeleteAfter Brown's Lurch to the Right at Bournemouth, I bet he wasn't the only the Labour stalwart throwing up...
ReplyDeleteDon't know. I give up.
ReplyDeleteYes, because no Tory has every disgraced themselves in drink have they?
ReplyDeleteAhh, binge drinking is alive and well in the Labour Party!
ReplyDeleteThey say one thing and do another...
Iain, don't descent to the same depths as NuLabourLite; you're above all that.
ReplyDeleteBob Marshall-Andrews?
ReplyDeleteWell 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.
ReplyDeleteI'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..
ReplyDeleteOr a complete set of policies.
Go on, Brown, spoil their day..
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 ?
ReplyDeletePeter Mandelson ? I doubt he can handle a lot of alcohol, as I don't think he's had that much inside him recently..
ReplyDeleteI think you need to give us a few more clues Iain...
ReplyDeleteGive us a clue. Male or female?
ReplyDeleteMaybe one might wonder which Labour 'Figure' has not vomited over us all.
ReplyDeleteSeems to be quite up to the usual standards.
Probably down to the fish and chips, though.
Anonymous 9:17 AM
ReplyDelete"...they don't yet have candidates for all seats...or a complete set of policies..."
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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?
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.
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ReplyDeletedid you see the excellent bremner programme last night on c4?? a brilliant assasination of brown.
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.
ReplyDeleteA loverly, heroic guy, but in danger of working his 15 minutes of fame until he has overstayed his welcome..
I'm told it was McNulty.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought Louise Casey might be a good each way bet, as she is famously tolerant of binge drinking...
ReplyDelete£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.
ReplyDeleteAnd I should know !
So all the others hit the road?
ReplyDeletenot really a corker, just mildly interesting and no name. come on iain, up your game or we'll all go to guido.
ReplyDelete£50 seems like an expensive valet. It costs about £3 in Hull...
ReplyDeleteAnon. 8.16
ReplyDeleteYes, because no Tory has every disgraced themselves in drink have they?
What on earth has your playground riposte to do with it?
Sadly the only bottle Cameron hits is the hair dye one maybe do him good to have a few glasses
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Anon at 9.17,
ReplyDeleteDid 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."
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.
ReplyDeleteBMA 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.
Iain, Why are you singularly failing to keep us updated on what is going on at the Tory Party Conference ??
ReplyDeleteMaybe nothing newsworthy is going on there which is why we're having to hear old news about pavement pizza.
Prescott if there was pie ? Ask the driver please ....
ReplyDeleteHH
What goes around, comes around..
ReplyDeleteYou smear Sayeed Awarsi, we smear [insert name of 'tit for tat' victim here].
It is like the good old days again..
My guesses are :-
ReplyDelete1/ 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...
Anon 11:30.
ReplyDeleteReading 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.
chris paul, you do realise that the labour party needs you less than you need it don't you?
ReplyDeletechuck - 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.
ReplyDeleteDickie Attenborough?
ReplyDelete"£50 seems like an expensive valet. It costs about £3 in Hull..."
ReplyDeleteLet's face it, you'd get change out of a tenner for the whole of Hull....
Anon 12:06
ReplyDeleteDifficult 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.
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'..
ReplyDeleteBrilliant speech by George Osborne, a real vote winner.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
Lord George Brown. Wilson Govt. 1963.
ReplyDelete@ 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?
ReplyDeleteNuLab, purveyors of shit to the nation.
And now, Nulab with extra puke for all you lucky cabbies.
Sickened by what's become of their Party?
ReplyDeletebernard said... "Lord George Brown. Wilson Govt. 1963."
ReplyDeleteBut, 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."
Ken Livingstone. Or so my journalist friends tell me...
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