tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post1548851152791502406..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Tuesday Evening Open ThreadIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81987044676548279582007-11-29T11:56:00.000+00:002007-11-29T11:56:00.000+00:00I am still in shock at discovering that Hilary Ben...I am still in shock at discovering that Hilary Benn is a man.<BR/><BR/>What sort of plonker would give a boy a girl's name?<BR/><BR/>Or is this another example of Labour's mendacity? Put up a man at the election but give him a woman's name to garner the votes of bewildered feminists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-11425771774299787682007-11-28T14:59:00.000+00:002007-11-28T14:59:00.000+00:00DES "... has faced the loss of lives of a child." ...DES "... has faced the loss of lives of a child." And how many lives does this child have? <BR/><BR/>Given that the child's father is McCavity, I am guessing nine.<BR/><BR/>Are you suggesting that you now have to have a string of disabilities and bad luck to qualify to be PM?<BR/><BR/>[9:46] Interesting, especially given that not one print or broadcast medium, across the political spectrum, ever mentions this fact. It is always "youths".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-401846552211471972007-11-28T13:16:00.000+00:002007-11-28T13:16:00.000+00:00* has Harriet Harman done anything wrong?How about...<I>* has Harriet Harman done anything wrong?</I><BR/><BR/>How about being born?Sir-C4'https://www.blogger.com/profile/03917709983378003032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-3732671041672540082007-11-28T11:34:00.000+00:002007-11-28T11:34:00.000+00:005:38. You laughed then you say i'm not funny. ????...5:38. You laughed then you say i'm not funny. ???????<BR/>5:54 Ooooo I am so hurt <BR/>9:47. Say what you like about him. But he is a very strong man. He had an accident where he lost an eye. He has faced the loss of lives of a child. He is a very strong man. And your petty insults merely so you up as what you are. A weak nonody.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-34796526986726103852007-11-28T10:48:00.000+00:002007-11-28T10:48:00.000+00:00What gets me is the puny sums involved. £5k is no...What gets me is the puny sums involved. £5k is nothing, £200k is also not a huge amount --- those folks spent a lifetime getting to where they are, and then they are tempted by peanuts?<BR/><BR/>1. Either they are stupid and corrupt, which raises the question how did such simpleton oafs ever get so far without falling for the nearest monkey trap.<BR/><BR/>2. Or there are other huge bribes we're not seeing (yet) and they merely gotten casual on this one because usually it's so safe to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-74202645551486487042007-11-28T10:20:00.000+00:002007-11-28T10:20:00.000+00:00Things are bad when nulab put up Buff Hoon - they ...Things are bad when nulab put up Buff Hoon - they are catastrophic when the put up Jack Cunningham as they did on today's Toady prog. The writing is on the wall (or should that be on the chummy letter from Mendelsohn to Abrahams). BTW Osborne was excellent - pitch perfect, despite being kept waiting an awful long time by anodyne questions to Buff Hoon and questionable 'analysis' from Nick Robinson. Robinson managed to confuse the two Janets used as intermediaries - an easy mistake given how byzantine this story is becoming but still a bad one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-11112252791977850952007-11-28T09:46:00.000+00:002007-11-28T09:46:00.000+00:00verity Last night's Al-beeb 6.00 news gave the fac...<B>verity</B><BR/><BR/> Last night's Al-beeb 6.00 news gave the fact that these youths are 'mainly of North African origin'. Normally a fact like that escapes from the beeb only months after the event. How bad can things be getting if the Al-beeb is telling the truth?<BR/><BR/><B>golfwidow</B><BR/><BR/>I have every sympathy with medical students who have spent years training only to find their jobs taken by foreigners. But it isn't only them.<BR/><BR/>Thousands of British IT staff, with years of experience, have not worked in IT this century. Nulab, and their corrupt friends in the civil service, have been remorseless in ensuring British jobs don't go to British people. There's a lot of money to be made from pretending there is a shortage of British staff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-59769094233009075742007-11-28T01:15:00.000+00:002007-11-28T01:15:00.000+00:00Guido has thisGuido has <A HREF="http://www.order-order.com/2007/11/two-gordon-fundraisers-linked-to.html" REL="nofollow">this</A>Fitaloonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872861873594626781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-52375923649530110332007-11-27T22:50:00.000+00:002007-11-27T22:50:00.000+00:00[10:29] - Brown's ghastly and ineffective and I wo...[10:29] - Brown's ghastly and ineffective and I would say marginally insane, but Blair is the more to be loathed because he is a destructive spirit and was wily enough to manage to get his horrendous agenda through.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-23613100355169331722007-11-27T22:49:00.000+00:002007-11-27T22:49:00.000+00:00How the f*ck was the money actually transferred to...How the f*ck was the money actually transferred to the Labour party if some of the supposed donors claim not to even known about having donated to the Labour party. What a bunch of scumbags.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-85584869046204952222007-11-27T22:43:00.000+00:002007-11-27T22:43:00.000+00:00Things must be bad if Buff Hoon is the best NuLab ...Things must be bad if Buff Hoon is the best NuLab can put up for an interview about their latest travails.<BR/><BR/>Why not Millipede or one of the Bollox family?The Remittance Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13104149259707414863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-28175683058381630572007-11-27T22:42:00.000+00:002007-11-27T22:42:00.000+00:00High Noon for Gordon at PMQs tomorrow. He's had a ...High Noon for Gordon at PMQs tomorrow. He's had a good grilling today, but he's got to face Big Dave tomorrow - a mean hombre.<BR/>So, he needs to go tooled up.<BR/>I suggest a tight-fitting butt plug.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78475634879414067702007-11-27T22:39:00.000+00:002007-11-27T22:39:00.000+00:00Consider the following...You receive a donation th...Consider the following...<BR/><BR/>You receive a donation that you realise is being put through a 3rd party, which you know to be against the law - so you return it.<BR/><BR/>The original donor then makes a donation directly.<BR/><BR/>Do you<BR/><BR/>1) Take it, no further questions asked.<BR/><BR/>or<BR/><BR/>2) Make absolutely sure something fishy isn't going on, if only to make sure you are not being set up?<BR/><BR/>If you decide on option 2, might you ask whether the person has ever donated to Labour before through a 3rd party?<BR/><BR/>Might you check whether they had previously donated to the party directly or through the same 3rd party?<BR/><BR/>If you find that the 3rd party had been used before would you cover it up or bring it out into the open?<BR/><BR/>On a different track, when running a campaign and raising funds, do you ever look to see who is funding your competitor?<BR/><BR/>Do you check to make sure they have declared their funding properly?<BR/><BR/>If you see a name on the list that you recognise as having tried to illegally make a donation to your campaign do you draw it to the parties attention, or ignore it?<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately there are lots of questions that come from Hilary Benns refusal to accept the original donation. It is not Just Harman that has questions to answer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-41888712908220088182007-11-27T22:29:00.000+00:002007-11-27T22:29:00.000+00:00As a Tory party activist, these people have manage...As a Tory party activist, these people have managed to inspire in me a remarkable hatred of Gordon Brown and the way he is governing in a way that Blair never remotely managed - I am desperate to get rid of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10819792460502312792007-11-27T21:47:00.001+00:002007-11-27T21:47:00.001+00:00Cameron will be preparing a good kicking for pmq's...Cameron will be preparing a good kicking for pmq's tomorrow but Brown will just plead ignorance again and promise it won't happen again.<BR/><BR/>The only potential casualty will be Harman. She may have to be sacrificed to take the heat out of the situation. Let's hope so!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14724827474480619852007-11-27T21:47:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:47:00.000+00:00I've said it before, but a couple of weeks after B...I've said it before, but a couple of weeks after Brown took over, I could see it was already all falling apart and he wasn't the man to hold it together (thank God). He will not be able to cling on by his fingertips until the election. I give him six months absolute max. He is hopeless and the gang of crooks in the cabinet are the gang that couldn't shoot straight. They even mess up their bribes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-90756539379004715002007-11-27T21:44:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:44:00.000+00:00Harriet Harman has committed a criminal offence.Li...Harriet Harman has committed a criminal offence.<BR/><A HREF="http://prisonersvoice.blogspot.com/2007/11/harriet-harman-has-committed-criminal.html" REL="nofollow">Link </A>jailhouselawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03795278184797990706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-58046822500589276272007-11-27T21:42:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:42:00.000+00:00Golf Widow - Not only ranted on about increased NH...Golf Widow - Not only ranted on about increased NHS staffing (most of it "management", if I may use the term loosely) but they also made much, with a straight face, of vastly increased university admissions. Oh, and the vastly increased intelligence of all those youngsters getting 10 A-levels. This was all due to the vastly increased effectivenss of the state schooling sector.<BR/><BR/>Yes. I can see that it all hangs to together. Nice to see Brown and the cabinet all hang together, if things work out right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-16472912254856208182007-11-27T21:39:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:39:00.000+00:00I get a funny feeling about tomorrows PMQs... not ...I get a funny feeling about tomorrows PMQs... not sure if it will be a ha-ha funny - or an OH NO! funny.<BR/><BR/>Labour is on the rocks.<BR/><BR/>Brown should resign.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-65904648354305108642007-11-27T21:32:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:32:00.000+00:00Perhaps the 600,000 quid could be given to a chari...Perhaps the 600,000 quid could be given to a charity dedicated to preserving the green belt and countryside to offset some of the damage caused by Abraham's Business Park.<BR/><BR/>He got what he wanted so why should he get his bribe returned as Ecclestone did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-56757064609135322612007-11-27T21:29:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:29:00.000+00:00Meanwhile back in the real world in sunny West Sus...Meanwhile back in the real world in sunny West Sussex, the government is still in the business of cockups.<BR/>I was speaking to a customer on sunday and they said their house purchase had been held up for 10 weeks because they were waiting for a Home Information Pack, apparently they are waiting on Southern Water, who have a 8-10 week backlog of applictions to do their bit.<BR/>So much for speading up the process, especially with the news that all properties are to be included.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06810788783886456639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14625809502565641692007-11-27T21:21:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:21:00.000+00:00The latest news update circulated by local Conserv...The latest news update circulated by local Conservatives states: "In 2006, 93% of 2529 physiotherapy graduates faced unemployment. It costs £28580 to train each physiotherapist." I am appalled but not surprised by this statistic. My son studied physiotherapy for a year before deciding it wasn't for him and changing course. At that time the entire new intake was given the opportunity to change course because of the lack of future jobs. Whilst I am relieved that my son's prospects have improved, I feel desperately sorry for his ex-colleagues, most of whom seem likely to graduate with no job and a mountain of debt next summer. What a dreadful indictment of a government which has boasted so vociferously about increased manpower in the NHS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-59253466693375969282007-11-27T21:15:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:15:00.000+00:00How is it that Baroness Jay smelt a rat but Harman...How is it that Baroness Jay smelt a rat but Harman's camp just took the money?<BR/><BR/>Also why was David Abraham supporting 2 deputy leader candidates?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-19155658980112801462007-11-27T21:09:00.000+00:002007-11-27T21:09:00.000+00:00Why shouldn't we enjoy Labour's misfortune? It isn...Why shouldn't we enjoy Labour's misfortune? It isn't as if anyone has really been harmed by this, except the Labour party who have so spectacularly shot themselves in the foot (feet?) And the point is that this is the first time since 1979 when the left haven't been either castigating the Conservatives as venal thugs (to roughly 1990), laughing at their incompetence (1990-1997) or sneering at their inelectability (1997-last October). So who's laughing now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-71782848238832845282007-11-27T20:48:00.000+00:002007-11-27T20:48:00.000+00:00Harriet Hartman is just a nice working class ladyO...<I>Harriet Hartman is just a nice working class lady</I><BR/><BR/>Oh dear DES I've got bad news for you. Not only was Harriet Harperson privately educated but she is actually the niece of an Earl - which makes her somewhat posher than David Cameron.Oscar Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09423019456579337438noreply@blogger.com