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Nick Clegg’s Speech In Full Wiv Da Lol Pitchurz
NICK Clegg’s Speech In Full:
TONIGHT the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party and the federal executive of Liberal Democrat party have overwhelmingly accepted my recommendation that we should now enter into a coalition government with the Conservative party.
Before I say anything more about that coalition government I would like to express my thanks and admiration for Gordon Brown. He has been a towering figure for more than a decade in British politics and the manner in which he has acted over the last few days has displayed immense dignity, grace and a profound sense of public duty.
We are now going to form a new government, more importantly we are going to form a new kind of government. I hope this is the start of the new politics I have always believed in: diverse, plural, when politicians of different persuasions come together to overcome their differences in order to deliver a good government for the sake of the whole country.
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Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
In Pictures: David Cameron Becomes Prime Minister To Queen’s Delight
AND then there was one. David Cameron has killed off the other two Prime Ministers and rules alone. Nick Clegg can now agree with Gordon Brown, who is front runner to take over as leader of the Gary Glitter fan club, the Gordon Brown Appreciation Society and Twitter. And David Cameron can smile. Winners are grinners. and her majesty is smiling. “You see,” she says, “I knew Eton wasn’t a waste of money.”
Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Alastair Campbell Plays Football Like A Spin Doctor At Stamford Bridge
THEY say you can tell a lot about a man by the way he plays football. Here’s a picture of Alastair Campbell getting to grips with former MP Andy Reed during a charity football match for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust at Stamford Bridge in London. We hold no truck with the theory.
Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Kim Jong Il Joins Queen At Wellington Barracks, But Where Is He?
CONTINUING our occasional look for Kim Jong Il, leader of North Korea. Was he there when Queen Elizabeth II posed for an official photograph with the Grenadier Guards in Wellington Barracks after presenting the regiment with their new colours, London? Yes. He was. Can you find him before the star of group photos and photoshop finds you..?
Click the image once or twice ot make it huge – More Kim fun soon…
Amazing pictures or Mr Kim at work and play.
Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, The Swingers Club And A Crisis In French Politics
IRONY of the day is found in the matter of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a leading Socialist politician in France and head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
A book entitled Secrets of a Presidential Contender, written under the pseudonym Cassandre, says the man once filmed emerging from a swingers’ club captures the attention of the Times’s Matthew Campbell, who says the book which portrays Strauss-Kahn…
“… as an obsessive seducer whose weakness for women could wreck his presidential ambitions.”
Ambitious French politico derailed by the ladies? Are things in France really changed that much..?
Posted: 10th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Election News Round Up: Cameron Meets The Queen And Brown Stays
THE Election fail continues to entertain the media. And because all the hacks know now all about the country’s constitution, the laws and the deals, readers can get all the facts.
Daily Star (front page): “IT’S GORD RIDDANCE”
Con-Lib deal kicks Brown out of No 10
So, Gordon Brown has gone. Fact. It’s at times like these that we turn to the organ of historical record, like Automated Trader:
UK Election update: Talks between Tories and Lib Dems to continue today
Monarchists Seize Power: Prince Harry Gets His Wings In Pictures
The Telegraph rubs its chin and observes:
Five of the last seven American presidents have been left-handed, as well as David Cameron, the Conservative leader.
Such are the facts. Anyhow, back to Brown.
The Sun (front page): “BROWN MONDAY”
“Fears for £ as Gord hijacks Lib talks”
The pound rose against the U.S. dollar on Monday, erasing some of its recent losses after Britain’s Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties said they were close to agreeing on a deal that would allow David Cameron to take power.
Or as the Mail’s ridiculous Peter Oborne puts it:
As Britain wakes up this morning to financial markets in turmoil, the need for stability and strong government has seldom been greater.
And the need for decent journalism based on facts remains negligible, Peter?
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Posted: 10th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Sky News’ Kate Burley Teaches David Babbs About Impartiality
SKY News’ Kay Burley is on the streets with 38 Degrees campaign group director David Babbs. He wants fairness. Burley wants it too. She works for Rupert Murdoch – where impartiality is the byword. Says Kay Burley of Sky News:
“I pride myself on impartial journalism.”
File under: beyond parody.
Note: Burley is hectoring and all tell and no show, but Babbs does seem unable to convey what he is trying to do.
Says the 38 Degrrees website:
Together, we intend to defend fairness, protect rights, promote peace, preserve the planet and deepen democracy.
Which differs from politicians how? Why is he protesting?
Oh, and the Sun’s Page 3 Girl is as keen on proportion as her figure…
Posted: 9th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (7)
Election News Round-Up: Brown’s Requiem And Monarchy Rules
WHAT the Election of Britain’s Prime Minsiters means. The moanarchists are ready to seize power with Prince Harry at the helm. In the meanwhile, helping us to understand Banzai Brown and his mates are the newspaper columnists:
Monarchists Seize Power: Prince Harry Gets His Wings In Pictures
Ian Kirby (NOTW):
THE BROWN framily have already started house hunting in Edinburgh as Sarah Brown tries to prepare her husband for life beyond 10 Downing Street.
Vincent Moses (Mirror):
Gordon Brown and David Cameron battled for Nick Clegg’s support last night by offering him up to SIX seats in the Cabinet.
Ready for more facts?
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Posted: 9th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
VE Day Pictures: Banzai Gordon Brown Digs In After The War Is Lost
THE Prime Minsters were all there at VE Day. Prime Minister Gordon Brown looked tanned as if he’d tumbled into a vat of Touche Éclat. Prime Minister Nick Clegg looked smaller than he does on the telly. And Prime Minister David Cameron looked as rosy fingered as Dawn. This is VE day, and the chatter was that Brown resembled one of those Japanese fighters who emerge from the bushes on a Pacific island decades after the fight is won and launch a rictus-grin charge at a coachload of holidaymakers waddling in for a scuba class. There he is armed with bit of paper that says he has not been voted to be Prime Minister twice. Any more of this and the Americans will be forced to invade…
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Posted: 8th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Tim James, Alabama And The Business Of Sex Offending:
TIM James. Alabama and the business of sex offending. As a businessman I like inconveniencing sex offenders – in soft focus… As a businessman:
Posted: 7th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Aboard The BBC Election Boat With Andrew Neil’s Nicky Haslam Meets Captain Bligh
MOST ghastly fun of election night was Andrew Neil’s celebrity Thames barge party. Whenever Jeremy Paxman drawled himself into bored paralysis in the BBC studio – where a hereditary Dimbleby anchor modelled Dame Barbara Cartland’s mortuary makeup – we cut pierside and to Andrew’s game attempt to cross Nicky Haslam with Capt Bligh, writes Madame Arcati.
Beyond Andrew’s well-chronicled adoration of stars it was hard to see what his Debrett’s People of Today-approved liggers added to the occasion, but at least the likes of Bill Wyman kept him happy. We wouldn’t want the chairman of the rightwing Spectator publishing company not to feel indulged.
The Best And Weirdest Election Pictures: A Gallery
There was Bruce Forsyth. Bereft of a gameshow crowd of dentured chucklers, he twirled to face the party-gatherers behind him and cried, “Nice to see you …” etc, to indifferent response. The former Sunday Times editor didn’t know where to look. Standing by Bruce’s side was Sir Ben Kingsley (or “Sirben” as he’s better known to luvvies) who irrelevantly paid tribute to democracy in a poorer part of the world. Neil looked unengaged (Gemini!), backed away a bit… [cut to studio!].
Private Eye fans will have welcomed the sight of Ian Hislop positioned within slapping distance of our host. For years the magazine has repeatedly published a photo of a vested Andrew partying with some gorgeous gal (not Pamella Bordes!), wilfully misspelt his name (Neill) and teased his thatch (“Brillo”). But for the TV cameras they were buddies – isn’t that always the case with slebs? Ian seemed put out by the Lib Dem collapse which gave Andrew an opportunity to josh him as a commie bastard, or something.
Oh, revenge handbags at the next starry do!
The Best And Weirdest Election Pictures: A Gallery
Earlier, Andrew had talked with Ian’s other mortal foe, Piers Morgan. It was a shocking exchange. Piers sounded intelligent and faintly socialist! He looked slimmer than I recall! Next to him was Mariella Whatsup who bemoaned the influence of markets on democracy; and did I see Jane Moore of The Sun there, sounding a lot less enamoured of the Tories than in her column? I guess she has to keep Rebekah happy.
Later Andrew invited Martin Amis to bring some “literary sense” to the election. Mart tried but it’s hard to think amid canapés. And then I noticed on Twitter that Guardian writer Jemima Kiss thought Andrew “needs a better colourist. Sheesh.”
Yes, to start with.
The Best And Weirdest Election Pictures: A Gallery
Posted: 7th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Nick Clegg, Duckworth-Lewis, Brownkenstein And The Election Fail In Pictures
GORDON Brown can be brought back to life. Nick Clegg has the power. Nick Clegg can create Brownkenickstein. A little bit of Ken Livingstone, a dash of Gordon Brown, a soupcon of Nick’s special sauce and there you have it. The creature may yet walk again. Meanwhile, David Cameron says that according to the Duckworth-Lewis method, he won by six Ed Balls…
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Posted: 7th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
The Media Rebels Lost With Nick Clegg As The Electorate Lost The Plot
IT does seem like a long time ago, but do you remember the time when the people in the know – nodding heads on the telly, the well informed, experts, editors and broadcasters – were telling you how great Nick Clegg was and how he would sweep in change and bring about Nu Politics? The Old Guard would die and Cleggmania would rise.
OK, Clegg had one policy: to change the voting rules. But it was a great policy. The experts talked to the great unwashed and told us that Clegg was the technical politician. In football terms, Cameron’s Chelsea would win a weak league, Brown’s Liverpool would fail but Clegg’s TV-friendly Arsenal would win the moral vote and foment real change.
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Posted: 7th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Child Votes In Wyre and Preston North, Dappy Absent
A 14-year-old boy is believed to have voted in the general election in the Wyre and Preston North constituency, Lancashire.
I’ll bet he got a shock when he couldn’t find Dappy’s name on the ballot paper – Bat E Bird.
Posted: 7th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Goodluck Jonathan Sworn In As Nigerian President
DAVID Cameron and Gordon Brown, we have news from Nigeria where the country’s President Umaru Yar’Adua, who died Thursday at just 58, has been replaced by Goodluck Jonathan.
Nominative determinism at work…
Posted: 7th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Native American Journalists Joins Barack Obama Death Cult
BARACK Obama Death Cult embraces Tim Giago, Oglala Lakota, is the founder and first president of the Native American Journalists Association and is now the publisher of the Native Sun News.
In “I fear for the life of President Obama”, Mr Giago tells readers of Illinois’ Belleville News-Democrat:
Stop for a minute and ask yourself this question: What will happen in America if some fanatic embraces the hysterical rants of far-left or far-right groups and assassinates President Obama?
Well, the press will go potty and lap it up like a dog at a jam-encrusted crotch.
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Posted: 5th, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
In Pictures: When The English Defence League Went To Aylesbury
DID you see The English Defence League hold a march and protest in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire? What is the purpose of these marches? With no political campaign, whatever the intent is, it has no chance of being made real. The BNP claim to stand for their version of Britain – a vision that looks not enough unlike an old German dream for these islands. Is the EDL the BNP without the foreign Nazis? Is the EDL protest a show of force born of fear? What is English and what is being defended – the right to free speech and protest? Tolerance? Democracy? If so, it’s job done. What lies at the heart of the protests?
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Posted: 3rd, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama Proves He Knows Nothing About Immigration In ‘Countries Like Europe’
IMMIGRATION is the hot topic in much of Western Europe. From Dutch extremist Geert Wilders to Gordon’s Brown’s “bigot” Gillian Duffy and the likes of Abu Hamza, the English Defence League and more the flow of people is a big issue. But not to Barack Obama. Barack Obama tells a crowd that “countries like Europe” do not “replenish” their human stock with new arrivals.
In America you can come and go as you please. As anyone who has queued for a visa to the US and been met by those smiling faces at immigration knows, the US embraces all colours and creeds to its lands.
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Posted: 3rd, May 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Join the final Leadership Debate on BBC1 with Anorak and Gabbit, win £50 Amazon vouchers
It’s the third and final leadership debate and things are really hotting up. Who will be the next PM? Will Nick Clegg retain his golden boy status? Will David Cameron charm his way into Number 10. Or will the old bruiser Gordon Brown cling on to power? Everything is still to play for and with the BBC’s David Dimbleby helming the final debate on the economy it looks like a seriously heavyweight and fascinating contest. One which you too can have your say in by logging in to Gabbit.com (it will only take a few seconds).
Do you think Brown is the right man to lead us out of hard times or do you think it’s time for a change? Just log on to Gabbit.com to have your say along with other viewers. The Prime Ministerial Debate is live on BBC1, Thursday April 29, 8.30pm. www.gabbit.com
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Posted: 29th, April 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Wanted For National Newspaper Feature: Hairy Backed Gordon Brown Look Alike
GORDON Brown has a hairy back? Well, his look alike does.
A national newspaper has placed a call out for a Gordon Brown look alikes with a hairy back for nude scenes.
Anorak’s money is on it being the Daily Mail…
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Posted: 28th, April 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
In Pictures: The Ukraine Parliament Fight EastEnders Style
IN pictures: a look at the fight that took place within the Parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine. Look out for EastEnders‘ Christian calleing for Sayeed. There, a heated debate over a deal with Russian’s Black Sea Fleet. The discussion takes in shouting, notes, eggs, a smoke bomb, a little light hair pulling, more notes, questions from the floor, Nick Clegg and a punch in the head. John Prescottski was not there…
Tyler Dixon And Media Bias Presents A History Of Attacks On Politicians: In Pictures
Posted: 28th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Election In Pictures: Scotland Overdoes The Salmond
THE Election in Pictures reaches Scotland. And Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy, First Minister Alex Salmond, shadow Scottish secretary David Mundell and Liberal Democrat Scottish spokesman Alistair Carmichael were the star turns in Scotland’s second live TV debate of the General Election campaign. The broadcast was live (yes, it was!) from Edinburgh on Sky News. Viewers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have never had it so good…
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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Bolivia’s President Says Eating Chicken Created Gay, Bald Elton John
EVO Morales, president of Bolivia, (more nominal determinism?) says eating chicken can make you gay and bald.
Morales says at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth that “when men eat those chickens [injected with hormones] they experience deviances in being men“.
Adding:
“Baldness, which seems normal, is a sickness in Europe,” he said. “Almost everyone is bald. And that’s because of what they eat.”
Stay off the hen. Go for the cock…
Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Another Day In The Duma: Russian Politics Wins Again
WE in the Blighty have our eggs and flowers and slime. The Italians have small statuettes of Milan Cathedral.
But in Russia- oh, in Russia – if you want to rub your politico up the wrong way in the Duma, you just rub them up the wrong way…
Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Yelland Explains Why The Sun Ignored the LibDems
FORMER Sun editor David Yelland explains why he – “a founder of the SDP” – and others on Rupert Murdoch’s payroll ignored the Liberal Democrats:
Make no mistake, if the Liberal Democrats actually won the election – or held the balance of power – it would be the first time in decades that Murdoch was locked out of British politics. In so many ways, a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote against Murdoch and the media elite.
I can say this with some authority because in my five years editing the Sun I did not once meet a Lib Dem leader, even though I met Tony Blair, William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith on countless occasions. (Full disclosure: I have since met Nick Clegg.)
I remember in my first year asking if we staffed the Liberal Democrat conference. I was interested because as a student I’d been a founder member of the SDP. I was told we did not. We did not send a single reporter for fear of encouraging them.
They are now encouraged…
Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
