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Jesse Jackson’s Hymies, Mel Gibson’s ‘Niggers’ And Glass Houses
THAT glass house Jesse Jackson lives in should be showing some cracks about now, writes Anorak’s Man in LA on the Mel Gibson Racist Rant Sequel.
Jackson released a written statement to Radar Online Thursday about Gibson’s recent and previous rants.
“His penchants for anti-Semitic and racist diatribes reveal the actor’s fundamental character flaw,” wrote Jackson. “He needs help.”
Hi, Pot. Our Man in LA would like introduce Mr. Kettle. You two have more in common than you realize.
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Posted: 2nd, July 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Boris Johnson Dances In HairSpray: Pictures
LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson spoke and moved at the T Mobile Big Dance Launch, at London’s Palladium theatre. The mayor took part in a one-off performance of You Can’t Stop The Beat from the musical HairSpray. Boris wore his Comfi-Suit, an outfit which allows lots of room for movement. The suit is big enough to make the casual observer believe Boris is dancing like an evangelical dervish in his clothes – it is just that the clothes aren’t moving all that much. This might explain why Boris often looks like circus performer in his mobile big tent…
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Posted: 1st, July 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Lord Mayor Of Leicester’s Trousers Fall Down At School Function
THE Lord Mayor of Leicester, Mr Colin Hall, would like to apologise to the schoolchildren for allowing his trousers to fall to his ankles as he attended an educational event.
Councillor Colin Hall was walking the lino at Southfields library as part of the Global Education function. He sits down. He then stand up to offer a few words of thanks and his trousers take a bow.
Says a spokesman for Mr Hall:
“The lord mayor has offered his deepest apologies to those attending the event for any offence caused by the accident.”
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Posted: 1st, July 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
LibDem Councillor Brown In Racial Abuse Storm: Video
SHIRLEY Brown, a Liberal Democrat councillor, tells the members at a Bristol City Council budget meeting that Conservative member Jay Jethwa is a “coconut”.
Shy? No. Brown and hairy on the outside and sickly white within. She is accusing Jethwa of betraying her blackness. And of being hairy, which is unforgivable. and,then, Jethwa isn’t black.
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Posted: 30th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Floella Benjamin Takes Her House Of Lords Seat: Pictures
FINALLY the kindergarten teacher from TV’s Play School arrives in the House of Lords to maintain some order and help the ageed criones that people that other place dribble into their bibs. Floella Benjamin has taken her seat as a Liberal Democrat peer. Anyone misbehaving will be defenestrated through the mullioned window…
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Posted: 28th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Jeremy Hunt Is Rhyming Slang In Liverpool
JEREMY Hunt is now rhyming slang in some parts of Liverpool. The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt suggested that hooliganism had played a part in the Hillsborough football disaster when 96 Liverpool fans died.
Well, it did. Had it not been for hooliganism, there would have been no fencing around the Hillsborough pitch. But that is not what Hunt meant. He said that the “terrible problems” of “Heysel and Hillsborough in the 1980s seem now to be behind us.”
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Posted: 28th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
David Cameron Meets Angela Merkel At Premiers’ Premier League: G20 Action Photos
THE World Cup is over. And David Cameron is at the G20 Conference, a political get together for the Premiers’ Premier League.
Had England lost to Slovenia – what they don’t know about goat herding only the Albanians can teach them – the world of politics would have been altered. England would have been demoted and Solvenia at the G20 shindig.
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Posted: 28th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Tony Blair Becomes English For The World Cup
TO prove that Tony Blair is not an opportunist, here are pictures of the former Prime Minister kicking a football during his visit to the new Northumbria University Sports complex in Newcastle to promote the Tony Blair Sport Foundation.
Says Tony Blair:
“If we play to the best of our ability we will win…
“Anything can happen, even great teams can be put out. We are still in there and we have a very good team…
“Everyone says we should relax, but we never do.”
Tony Blair was born in Scotland.
Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (6)
Nick Clegg Meets The Government’s First Celebrity Guest: Christy Turlington
AND the first celebrity to meet with the coalition Government is… (rustles envelope; buffs shoes on trouser legs) Christy Turlington. The supermodel met Nick Clegg in the Cabinet Office to speak about maternal health ahead of the G8 summit. Turlington wore a light cappuccino V-neck loose fitting smock top with ruffled epaulets on top of black wool-frog skin Comfi-Slax (Anorak own brand) and leather flats. Mrs Clegg wore a broad grin and the air of expectancy.
Next week, David Cameron talks GM crops with Captain Sensible…
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Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gen Stanley McChrystal Scapegoats Obama And The Politicans
IN the closing stages of the film, A Bridge Too Far, we saw Generals Urqhart and Browning starting to distance themselves from what was then evident as a military disaster, with Browning uttering the immortal words: “I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far.”
There seems to me to be something of this with Gen Stanley McChrystal and his interview with Rolling Stone magazine. With the man admitting that everything said was on the record, and the magazine checking back with the General’s aides before using the quotes, we have on the face of it an example of a senior soldier committing professional suicide.
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Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (9)
Chris Huhne: A Hypocrite, A Bisexual Trimingham An A Green Joke
CHRIS Huhne has left his wife Vicky Pryce for Carina Trimingham. The Mail leads with news that Huhne is the “MINSTER FOR HYPOCRISY”.
How so?
“Deplorable hypocrisy”, says the Mail?
Again. How so? Well, at the election Huhne plugged his family in election leaflets and lent his name to the words:
“Family matters to me so much – where would we be without them?”
Well, Huhne was, allegedly, shagging his lover at his family home. So, unless the question is rhetorical, we’d answer: “at home.”
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Posted: 21st, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
In Pictures: Chris Huhne, Carina Trimingham And Another Tory Success
THE Energy secretary Chris Huhne announces that is separating from his wife Vicky Pryce because of a “serious relationship” with the P.G. Wodehouse-inspired Carina Trimingham, Mr Huhne’s press manager for the 2010 election.
At least the PR response should be good. She is also Campaigns Director of the Electoral Reform Society. It just gets better and better for the Tories.
Vicky Pryce is the chief economist at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
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Posted: 19th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (5)
Do You Wish You Had Dale Petersen Watching Your Back?
DO you wish you had Dale Petersen watching your back? Well, no. Not through a gunsight or in a homo-erotic way. But if he wans to he looks like he might do whatever he likes…
Alabama’s Dale Petersen Challenges Nick Clegg To a Joust
Carly Fiorina Enters Race For Worst Political Advert Of All Time
Urination Nation: The Worst Political Advert Ever
Via: Tim Blair
Posted: 18th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
In Great Photos: Carla Bruni Lays An Earring At Charles De Gaulle’s Statue
PRIME Minister David Cameron, his wife Samantha, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni had tea in 10 Downing street, London today. It’s the 70th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle’s radio broadcast urging his nation to resist the Nazi occupation of France. To mark the occasion Italian-born Carla Bruni lay an earring at the statue of Charles de Gaulle. He appreciated the gesture. No need for a golden cloak. An earring will do. Apology accepted…
Pictutes of note: 2 – the laying of the earring; 6 – Little Dave; – 13 – Are you bored too?; 17 – Do I look taller now..?
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Posted: 18th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Forget Bloody Sunday – It’s The Ballymurphy Massacre Inquiry We Want
BLOODY Sunday is salved with the Saville report. The killed 14 were innocent. The British Army killed their own countrymen. But what of other killings? What of the Ballymurphy Massacre? Eleven died. Between the 9th and 11th of August 1971, during Operation Demetrius, Francis Quinn, Hugh Mullan, Joan Connolly, Daniel Teggart, Noel Phillips, Joseph Murphy, Edward Doherty, JohnLaverty, Joseph Corr, John McKerr and Paddy McCarthy died.
Richard Borth investigates:
How much traction this is going to get is difficult to judge. So far, only the BBC seems to have covered it – the so-called Ballymurphy Massacre in August 1971, just short of six months before Bloody Sunday. Then, 11 people – ten men, including a local priest, Father Hugh Mullan, who was shot while giving the last rites to a dying man, and a mother of eight children – were killed, again by soldiers from 1 Para.
Now, on the back of the Saville Report, the relatives are demanding their own inquiry into what they claim is the brutality of the Paras, remarking on the similarities with Bloody Sunday where the British system also “connived in a cover-up.”
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Posted: 18th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Married Glasgow Labour MP Frank McAveety Resigns Over ‘Dusky’ Maiden
FRANK McAveety, a married Scottish Labour MP for Glasgow Shettleston, tells a committee clerk that the woman sitting in the public benches is a “very attractive girl” during a conversation with the committee clerk. A microphone is on and nearby:
“There’s a very attractive girl in the second row, dark . . . and dusky. We’ll maybe put a wee word out for her.
“She’s very attractive looking, nice, very nice, very slim,” before adding: “The heat’s getting to me…
“She looks kinda . . . she’s got that Filipino look. You know . . . the kind you’d see in a Gaugin painting. There’s a wee bit of culture.”
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Posted: 17th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (6)
Barack Obama Is Less Popular Than Offshore Drilling: BP News Round-Up
BP oil spills into the US Gulf. Barack Obama tries to sound Churchillian, talking of an “assault” on America’s beaches and nation under “siege”. Obama wrests £13.5bn from BP as compensation down payment. BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg says BP will not pay a dividend to its shareholders. The news:
Most Americans still support offshore drilling and believe it is critical to making the U.S. competitive, despite the growing oil spill along the Gulf coast, a new poll showed on Wednesday …
In a national survey of 522 adults, on a scale of 0 to 10, the average show of support was 6.3 when asked if the government should allow offshore drilling.
An Anorak readers writes:
Obama is milking this for all it is worth to the American people and starting to come across as quite disgusting and it is not helping his low ratings, since BP had already stated weeks ago it would take care of everything.
A Record 57% Of Americans Disapprove Of Obama’s Performance
Daniel Hannan On The Isolated Obama
Not that we should feel singled out. The Obama administration has scorned America’s other established friends. It has betrayed Poland and the Czech Republic, whose Atlanticist governments had agreed to accept the American missile defence system at immense political cost, only to find the project cancelled. It has alienated Israel and India. It has even managed to fall out with Canada over its “Buy American” rules and its decision to drill in disputed Arctic waters. Never has there been a worse time to be a US ally.
Cameron said he wouldn’t enter into “megaphone diplomacy” with Obama in the face of calls from listeners to the show for him to take a more aggressive stance in defense of the London- based company.
Mr Obama gave a televised address in which he once again attempted to rescue his own faltering popularity by attacking what his administration has been careful to characterise as a foreign oil company.
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Posted: 17th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (8)
The Truth About Non-Smoking Vegan Winston Churchill’s Vanishing Cigar
WINSTON Churchill has finally been defeated by the fascists. At the entrance to the The Winston Churchill’s Britain at War Experience on Londond’s Tooley Street a mural celebrating the wartime leader’s life and greatness shows his cigar airbrushed from history.
Or was it airbrushed in?
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Posted: 17th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
In Photos: Gay Pride At Pride Minister’s Drinks – No David Laws
WITH Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Prime Minister David Cameron to the Gay Pride reception in the garden at 10 Downing Street. No sign of David Laws. David Cameron tells the 200-odd guests he backed “equal rights and equal treatment”. Gay, straight, bi, onanistic – whatever… So long as you’re upper middle-class, you’re in. Pink gins for everyone!
Posted: 16th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
After BP the US Labels Milk As The Next Big Pollutant
BP will place $20 billion in an escrow account for the Gul clean up – and the US Environmental Protection Agency considers the next bio-hazard: milk. Milk is now a pollutant.
The BP Wave – The Fish In Oil Picture
The Environmental Protection Agency intends to classify milk as a hazardous waste; in the same category as oil.
That means, farmers would have to come up with an oil spill prevention plan which could cost them thousands of dollars.
The Senate Agricultural Committee passed a resolution today urging the EPA to take back those regulations.
Obama Moves To Take Over BP’s Goodwill Funds
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Posted: 16th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
In Pictures: Did Ed Balls Cheat At Newsnight’s Labour Leadership Contest?
DID you see the Labour leadership candidates – Ed Balls (nominative determinism), Ed Miliband (Gromit), Diane Abbott (the Tory dream), Andy Burnham (what I did in my school holidays) and David Miliband (old wonky face) were making their pitches to lose the next election on BBC Newsnight.
They drew lots in the green room for the order they will be speaking. Did Ed Balls peek? And does it matter where Ed Miliband stands because like some Picasso painting you can see both his eyes even when he’s in profile.
As for the policies… Well, they all agreed to agree with moving on and not looking back before telling us how great Tony Blair was…
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Posted: 16th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Nick Griffin To Attend Royal Garden Party: Edward VIII Would Approve
NICK Griffin, leader of the British National Party, is to meet the Germans, the Greeks and other royals when he attends a garden party at Buckingham Palace this summer. As an MEP it is Griffin’s entitlemenet.
Last year he pulled out so as not to “embarrass” the Queen. It turns out that the Queen – related to Princess Michael of Kent, Sarah Ferguson and Edward VIII – is not all that easily embarrassed.
The BBC Anti-Nick Griffin BNP Protest In Pictures: Hello Mum
Griffin will not be attending alone, having secured three extra tickets. Who they are is not know, but Bony M are available for hire…
Spotter: June
Posted: 15th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
World Cup: Barack Obama Thanks ‘Agent’ Beckham
BARACK Obama would like to thank Agent Beckham. What did that billboard on Times Square cost? What did it take to release David to play for AC Milan? What hold does Obama have on Beckham, keeper of the England gloves? What did they do to you over there, Dave?
The match:
Posted: 13th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama, David Cameron And The Mystery Of Robert Green’s Slick Gloves: Pictures
DAVID Cameron might consider himself fortunate there is war on. He gets to stand among the troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province and look hard.
And tough Dave’s been on the phone to Barack Obama to remind him that soaking Robert Green’s gloves in BP oil was an inspired ploy and left everyone feeling equal and happy.
England V USA: One Green Disaster After Another Green Disaster
Dave and Barry then, apparently, had a chat on the phone, although we think such calls should take place on a party line and give us all chance to listen in. Downing Street then issued a press release:
World Cup: England v USA Death Blog (Pictures)
“President Obama said to the prime minister that BP was a multinational global company and that frustrations about the oil spill had nothing to do with national identity. The prime minister stressed the economic importance of BP to the UK, US and other countries. The president made it clear that he had no interest in undermining BP’s value.”
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Posted: 13th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Britons Wake Up To Realisation That Obama Is An Opportunistic, Vain Politician
BARACK Obama. What a ****. Not our words, not those of “sweetheart” Kayla Manson (no relation), but the opinion of the Mail which says The One’s posturing to the US electorate over the BP oil spill. As the headline yells:
“OBAMA IS KILLING ALL OUR PENSIONS”
Considering Obama views Britain in much the same way Great Britain views Gibraltar this is not too shocking. He stood Grodon Brown up for the scouts and loved the slave gift. The popular consensus is that £1 in every £7 in the nation’s pension pot is driven by investment in BP. Obama talks of slamming BP and we suffer.
BP And Tony Hayward Are Now A Nigerian Scam: Letter
London Mayor Boris Johnson, calls on Obama to end the “anti-British rhetoric, buckpassing and name-calling”.
David Cameron oozes out of a tap and drips:
“I completely understand the U.S. government’s frustration because it’s an environmental catastrophe.”
President Barack Obama says he’d have asked BP Chief Executive Officer Tony and want to find an “ass to kick”.
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Posted: 11th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (19)
