tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270248642011-12-28T08:27:47.693ZRanting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.comBlogger3601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-14471383919030256702009-01-21T11:53:00.003Z2009-01-21T12:00:38.651Z

The tax bill deadline is looming and your god Gutternsipe has submitted, as is required, a hefty breakdown of every financial coming and going in my last business year. This is, I am led to believe, a legal requirement.So given that I have to do a breakdown of all this and keep records of my expenses in case the government think I’m conning money out of them why is it not the case for our MPs?Why

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-35075353290466124892008-12-22T23:02:00.004Z2008-12-22T23:06:38.229Z

A flying visit if you will...Why the fuck can the bloody Government decide that the Ramblers' Association can tramp across someone's land irrespective of the fact they don't own it and are not responsible for its upkeep...In the Queen's Speech last week, a Bill was proposed to change this. It would give the Government the power to establish a "corridor" at least 10 metres (33 feet) wide around

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-35983403912081999112008-11-19T10:23:00.001Z2008-11-19T10:27:09.169Z

It seems that there’s a list of BNP members been published on the internet. I’ll not link to it since I respect the right to privacy, and odious as one might find the BNP (socialists and therefore cunts) they can have the same rights as the rest of us.But it’s the reaction to the nervous twitchings of several people on the list that has caught my attention, and the fact that the powers that be

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-84702550094646293272008-11-19T09:24:00.004Z2008-11-19T09:33:27.261Z

Just fucking do one Gordon.HAHAHAHA!!!! (emphasis mine - RG)PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Tony Blair will host a meeting of international leaders and experts in January to discuss the global economic crisis, the president's office said Tuesday."We are living in a crucial period for our economies and our social organisations. More than ever, we must

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-34448621721640675032008-11-18T10:15:00.004Z2008-11-18T10:23:50.136Z

Quick do something... ANYTHING!Oh for fuck’s sakeEvery area of England is to be covered by a Children's Trust Board (CTB), the government is to announce.The boards, which aim to prevent abuse by co-ordinating child protection workers,will also be strengthened.The initiative follows the failure of social workers in Haringey to prevent the abuse and death of Baby P.So what we’ve got here is the

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-55863410947492141402008-11-18T09:47:00.004Z2008-11-18T09:49:33.153Z

Every time I looked at my life and see what our crackpot fucking government has taken from me whether in money or other delights of my life that I am now no longer allowed to do I think “what the fuck do you want… blood?”Now it seems they’re going for the next best thing.“Gordon Brown is not ruling out a change in the law on organ donation even though a panel of experts has rejected the idea of "

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-51123087847726713022008-11-13T21:01:00.004Z2008-11-13T21:17:26.185Z

Gordon turns his attention to those of us not in the Public Sector Richard Littlejohn lets fly in today’s Mail. As the headline of his article suggests, for years he’s always had a good laugh at the wealth of non-jobs offered in the public sector through the Jobs section of the Guardian. But our economy is going tits fucking up everywhere you look and still the government and public sector are

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-24100418238619519772008-11-13T19:50:00.001Z2008-11-13T19:52:06.036Z

So… a couple of ‘edgy’ broadcasters leave a lewd answering machine message and all manner of shit flies off resulting in…Brand resigned from Radio 2 in the wake of the row, while Ross was suspended without pay for three months.Radio 2 executive David Barber, the station's head of specialist music and compliance, who would have been involved in checking the content of programmes prior to

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-65687627076286216052008-11-13T12:23:00.000Z2008-11-13T12:24:26.665Z

Well it’s been nearly a year since Scarlet Pimpernel like I disappeared. Why? Mostly work but there was also a few other things…The state of the country got so fucked up that I can no longer watch the news or pretty much any politics broadcast without wanting to throw the remote at the TV or use the BBC iPlayer as a punchbag. As such I have been remarkably ill-informed about the finer points of

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-68663687051479386632008-01-18T14:14:00.000Z2008-01-18T14:19:20.873Z

According to the news the BBC Licence Fee could be shared amongst other institutions as well naturally the BBC is sulking about it. However there is a real opportunity here to right all the wrongs of the country.Scrap the BBC news and have everything depressing in the country reported by Pathe newsreels... Flooding in Tewkesbury? Well they may be up their necks in water but they're filled to the

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-5253596942203793272008-01-14T12:30:00.000Z2008-01-14T12:32:44.426Z

On the front page of the Telegraph's web site concerning the planned police protest:Home Secretary faces backbench rebellion as police plan to take to the streets.And a good thing too... get them from behind their desks weighed down by NuLab paperwork and out on the streets where they belong.Anyone else think that all the jewellery shops are clamouring for the route to go past their premises?

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-27175023531526516392007-12-20T15:33:00.000Z2007-12-20T15:35:53.828Z

The Liberal Democrats' new leader, Nick Clegg, has announced a reshuffle of the party's front bench.The full list is available here.Now go have a look at that list… count them, there are 35 front bench positions in the commons that I can make out which by my calculations, based on the 2005 election count of 62MPs is 56.4% of the Parliamentary Party.Any backbench rebellions aren’t going to last

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-2333016086187976622007-12-20T09:40:00.000Z2007-12-20T09:46:34.329Z

... and all through the house not a creature was allowed to do anything fucking pleasurable at all.It seems that those venal cunts in the government can’t seem to approach the Christmas period without attempting to ban something else.. so once again they target a group of people not known for their criminal intent…. SmokersBBC:Motorists who smoke at the wheel could be prosecuted under a new rule

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-45399861676280889722007-12-19T14:24:00.000Z2007-12-19T14:26:35.841Z

During the PMs press conference Gordo has ducked out from hiding behind Alistair Darling…BBC:Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said recent scandals to have hit the government, such as data loss and proxy donations, will be "quickly forgotten".Since it is panto season…Oh No They Fucking Won’t Sunshine!

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-46577627075490274692007-12-13T20:40:00.000Z2007-12-13T20:43:21.266Z

Today at his Commons grilling session Gordo said:"You cannot make decisions and assume that people will simply follow them. Most decisions can only be successful if people are part of the process."He then fucked off to sign the fucking EU treaty before you could say "We Still Want a Referendum"Doesn't this count as lying to Parliament?Fucking two-faced one-eyed cunt!

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-37560737378616968902007-12-12T13:13:00.000Z2007-12-12T13:15:36.452Z

In addition to our own armed forces appearing well down on our ratshit government’s priority list they are extending their shameless brand of cuntery to their aupport staff as well.Times:More than half the Iraqi interpreters who applied to come to live in Britain have had their applications rejected, drawing accusations that the Government is “wriggling out” of its promise to help former Iraqi

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-91740626623863578092007-12-07T15:25:00.000Z2007-12-07T15:32:16.830Z

Over at resident joke butt Terry Kelly's blog he is talking about his birthday..."They say that you are getting on when you are glad that the phone is not ringing for you, well that has already happened and suddenly, yesterday it was, I became 59. Another big 0 approaches and a third of my life is almost over, I continue to grow old disgracefully."So, as a lasting testament to the brilliance of

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-36058624322681407592007-12-06T10:36:00.000Z2007-12-06T10:43:24.579Z

Telegraph“The Conservatives have called for Paul Myners, the prominent businessman who is head of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA), to be sacked after he attacked the party during an edition of BBC1's Question Time last week.Chris Grayling, Tory pension spokesman, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Work and Pensions and Secretary of State Peter Hain.”Well

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-83682480492830187802007-12-05T12:39:00.000Z2007-12-05T12:43:09.951Z

OK I'm a geek (not in the same league as Dizzy mind) but I've never really seen the pull of World of Warcraft.However this review in The Register caught my eye..."For the hardcore World of Warcraft fan who has everything (but regular access to fresh air and sunlight, of course): How about a WoW-themed gaming notebook?Dell is punting a special edition of the XPS M1730 emblazoned with World of

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Apparently, according to Neil Harding… all the current woes in Britain are down to Margaret Thatcher… 17 years after she stopped being Prime Minister she’s had such an effect that she’s still strangling the country after a greater length of time than she was in charge of it.Amongst such things that Maggie should be taking full and personal responsibility for are Northern Rock, fat kids, being

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-79482247694099261522007-12-05T10:25:00.000Z2007-12-05T10:28:03.042Z

Over at Harry Haddock's fine shopkeeping nation... I believe he has reached breaking point."Then we had David ‘fly the red flag’ Blunkett. Misuse of public funds for his shag piece. Peter ‘dances like a dream’ Mandleson. Dodgy loans. Twice. Dodgy dossiers ~ no juicy sex action here, just a few thousand dead British servicemen, countless dead and injured Iraqi’s, a great scientist driven to

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-89858565514460191932007-12-05T08:24:00.000Z2007-12-05T08:54:20.850Z

Get accused of fiddling your expenses without proof... and you're managed out of the system."Despite being only 48, Andy Hayman, an assistant commisioner, said the "time was right" for him to leave his high-profile job as head of the specialist operations department at the Metropolitan Police, which includes anti-terror and protection squads.""In recent weeks, it has emerged that Mr Hayman was

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-29420552481289142072007-12-04T14:57:00.000Z2007-12-04T15:00:13.895Z

BBC:"Meanwhile, the hunt is on for the "mole" who leaked the names of donors to the Sunday Herald newspaper. Two Labour peers, Lord Maxton and Baroness Adams, have asked the police to investigate."No doubt they'll put far more effort into checking the source of the leaks than they do with checking the source of donations.

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-13971808023828118972007-12-04T09:25:00.000Z2007-12-04T09:32:21.290Z

...But I know bollocks when I see it….Mark Wallinger has been named the winner of the Turner Prize for his replica of the one-man anti-war protest in Parliament Square, State Britain. A replica of Brian Haw’s protest? A replica? So let me get this straight… this fucktard basically copied someone else’s work and got paid £25,000 for doing so. Meanwhile Brian Haw, who let’s not forget has just had

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-23633368259760462212007-12-03T08:26:00.000Z2007-12-03T08:27:27.788Z

Grateful as I am for every Guttersnipe who appears to view these sacred pages. Some of the things that are being searched for really raise too many questions:Gordon brown kiddie fiddler (??? – Brown’s many things, but this?)Twat problems (I share your pain brother or at least I think I do)Harriet Harman is a cuntDavid Abrahams rent boysTeddy bear fucking muslimsReligious belief for spleenBut did

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My good Greek friend's lefty love interest is vowing not to go down without a fight...BBC:"Wendy Alexander intends to carry on as Scottish Labour leader, despite continued pressure for her to quit over donations to her leadership campaign. "Well that's not really surprising given that integrity and honour are seen as mere obstacles to becoming a Labour leader rather than desirable

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-33143041880320832742007-12-02T09:57:00.000Z2007-12-02T10:00:39.291Z

I don't usually look further into ConHome's Columnists section, however I do wish I'd written this:The first run on a British bank for a century, and Brown’s reaction is to undermine the Bank of England governor through newspaper leaks. We get an ID fiasco beyond the realms of the imaginable, and Brown’s response is to blame a clerk and to attack the Conservatives for their 2005 election

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-44798058061788983302007-12-01T19:56:00.000Z2007-12-01T20:12:55.075Z

It seems that anyone who thought that the dodgy donations scandal would be used to shoe-horn in state funding were right:"The last week has shown the need for immediate changes in our own party."But I would also argue it has seen the need for broader change within our system of political funding," he told party supporters.Gordon, let me be clear on this…We don’t need you to change the rules on

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-79572696289663330752007-11-30T14:11:00.000Z2007-11-30T14:13:23.716Z

Has anyone else noticed the subtle alteration in Harriet Harman’s argument since she took over… I paraphrase here slightly but:June 2007: “I should become Deputy Leader of the Labour Party because I am a woman”November 2007: “I should remain Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, I didn’t know about any of these things, I’m just a girl”

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-20418385297275479492007-11-30T13:26:00.000Z2007-11-30T13:31:50.713Z

It’s bad enough having Blears, Brown and that stupid NuLab fucktard Flint banging on in defence of the rank stinking corruption that is the Labour Party, but in typical fashion we now have Neil fucking Harding too…Although Brown cannot be blamed for some of the problems Labour currently faces - (discgate could have happened under any government and the party funding fiascos that puts the blame

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-23032793142368987692007-11-30T12:02:00.000Z2007-11-30T12:05:20.635Z

As you are no doubt aware, the Millicunt has summoned the Sudanese ambassador to express his concern in the strongest terms over the jailing of Gillian Gibbons.But did he really use the strongest terms? At no point will he have used the word fucktard, at no point will he have inserted the phrase despotic hate-filled cuntjunta, at no point will he have told the ambassador to go fuck himself, at no

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-49759585824951585992007-11-29T15:28:00.000Z2007-11-29T15:33:22.871Z

Telegraph again... "Hundreds of criminals, including those accused of sexual offences, have avoided prosecution after a "cover-up" in magistrates' courts, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is to admit that over a period of "many years" hundreds of cases never came to court because warrants were not issued for the arrests of defendants when they failed to show

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-88779121389696473562007-11-29T12:55:00.000Z2007-11-29T12:58:02.979Z

BBC:"An interim report into how two discs containing the personal details of 25 million people went missing is expected in December, the chancellor has said. "Assuming it isn't lost in the post eh Al?

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-86097494395838653992007-11-29T12:38:00.000Z2007-11-29T12:46:27.908Z

Telegraph:The taxman could face another investigation after it emerged that the confidential details of parents, included on letters to apologise for the lost discs fiasco, have been sent to old addresses.HM Revenue and Customs sent out letters with national insurance and child benefit numbers printed on the top and many have been dropping through the wrong letter boxes, raising new fears of a

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-14845177915992173852007-11-28T15:54:00.000Z2007-11-28T16:04:44.255Z

More on the questionable lawbreaking of Gillian Gibbons:"A British teacher has been charged in Sudan with insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs. "Inciting hatred? What the fuck? She named a teddy bear. In fact she didn't name a teddy bear she allowed a teddy bear to be named for fuck's sake.How is that inciting hatred? If I remember my childhood correctly

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-36377991409014861622007-11-28T15:14:00.000Z2007-11-28T15:19:44.612Z

Ah the good old Beeb. Nick Assinder's PMQ's Sketch rarely manages to give David Cameron a complete credit and usually gets in his usual leftist spin.Today he's tried it again....He didn't quite say he was acting for the greater public good in all this, but it was there for those who wanted to hear it. Similarly he did not mention controversial Tory donor Lord Ashcroft - that was left to a

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-90811351872567608232007-11-28T13:07:00.000Z2007-11-28T13:14:03.894Z

I've not ranted so far about the money laundering operation that is Labour Party funding. Mostly because I have had no idea where to start, however......over at the blog of that nice Mr. Dale he questions just how independent Gordo's independent enquiry is going to be: [Emphasis mine - RG]"The inquiry which Gordon Brown announced yesterday into the donations scandal will be conducted by a former

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-39857434571095070512007-11-27T11:33:00.000Z2007-11-27T11:36:16.982Z

Of course they’re a peaceful and tolerant lot aren’t they?BBC:A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam's Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad.The BBC has learned the charge could lead to six months in jail, 40 lashes or a fine.40 lashes for ALLOWING the children to do this? One wonders how many times they are going to whip the

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-21261398489544192752007-11-24T08:18:00.000Z2007-11-24T08:21:18.815Z

According to the super soaraway Currant Bun:"Ten days ago the Home Office vowed to act over 5,000 illegal migrants working as security guards — some in highly sensitive posts. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has known of the problem for months. But almost all the migrants are still in their jobs. Is the Home Office just hoping we’ll forget all about it?"You know? I'll bet they are...

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-30680099993462040982007-11-23T09:40:00.001Z2007-11-23T09:40:58.508Z

BBC:“Millions of young people could damage their future careers with the details about themselves they post on social networking websites, a watchdog warns. The ICO also said young people could be putting themselves at risk of identity fraud because of the material they post on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. “I can’t imagine that they are at any greater risk of identity fraud by

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-72786648721835235312007-11-22T13:55:00.000Z2007-11-22T14:02:53.152Z

Trust Us... We're from the Revenue From the Mail:“At least two more discs containing data that could put people at risk of ID fraud have been lost by Revenue and Customs, it has been revealed. Staff at the tax offices in Washington, Tyne and Wear, said they sent more two unencrypted discs to London but they are unaccounted for. The discs contained national insurance numbers and dates of birth but

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-60774995126750055732007-11-22T12:57:00.000Z2007-11-22T13:00:20.949Z

A rather nice insight from newcomer to the Honorary Guttersnipes roll, The Nameless One"If your organisation loses the data of 25 million people then you'll take some stick, but you should be OK.If your organisation repeatedly shoots an innocent man in the face, your job should be safe.If your team loses a game of football, then you're fucked.Pathetic, isn't it?"Quite!

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-60425283452834754202007-11-22T10:07:00.000Z2007-11-22T10:09:26.282Z

When I keep banging on that we should be out of Europe...This was not what I meant!

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-42796054952036594802007-11-21T14:30:00.000Z2007-11-21T14:32:24.324Z

From the BBC:Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan - who has been imprisoned under Pakistan's state of emergency - has begun a hunger strike, his family says. Hafizullah Khan said his cousin Imran was in good spirits in a prison in southern Punjab but would be taking no food or water for an indefinite period.Brutal stuff coming out of Pakistan there as one of the world’s more famous

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-11701711532502569872007-11-21T14:12:00.000Z2007-11-21T14:14:29.406Z

This thought has just occurred to me, it’s probably occurred to some of you before so I claim no credit for originality.We Tories keep saying things like “Government on its last legs”, “Whiff of decay”, “Time has past” and all that sort of shit but did Blair think the same thing? Hence his desire to get out while he could and enjoy huge sums of money for talking shit to China.Pretty much the

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-84218705507636673052007-11-21T13:27:00.000Z2007-11-21T13:29:36.755Z

This extract from the BBC’s PMQ Point by Point.Mr Cameron said it had been happening for years. He asked: "Does the prime minister feel at all responsible for this?"Mr Brown said the Tories had supported the merger of Revenue and Customs and wanted to cut its budget even further.For fuck’s sake…. His greatest justification for the mass rape of the country’s fucking identity details is that “Well

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-11340595147046241522007-11-21T11:27:00.000Z2007-11-21T11:28:39.294Z

Former Spin Doctor and now Trade Union Butt Boy Charlie Whelan not only appears to have gone fruitbat batshit insane today, but it seems he’s decided that the outlet for his insanity should the Daily Telegraph."This was no Black Wednesday, after which millions of people really suffered as a result of Tory economic incompetence. In the current volatile political climate, the polls will go up and

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-90199817853230343572007-11-21T11:21:00.001Z2007-11-21T11:22:12.451Z

Apparently Cyclops IS going to be at PMQ's today...... Damn being at work, and damn being unable to watch it.

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Go on... jump! Not content with royally fucking over taxpayers so that Northern Rock customers, well let’s be honest Labour voters, can get out of the shit, it would appear that Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Fucktard at the top are now sending our personal data out into the wide blue yonder:BBC:“Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-36386384984020576852007-11-19T15:06:00.000Z2007-11-19T15:07:38.422Z

BBC:There has been a "dramatic improvement" in the UK's security since Gordon Brown took over as prime minister in June, Security Minister Lord West has said.Brown really leaned on him hard didn’t he?Why not just put a video of him with today’s newspaper on YouTube and let him announced he is being treated fairly by his captors and have done with it?

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-40053636662081949122007-11-19T12:47:00.000Z2007-11-19T12:50:27.399Z

Nothing gets the blood boiling like a Monday morning. Especially if that Monday morning features an article in the Times about all my money being wasted on fat fucktards!Almost two thousand people who are too fat to work have been paid a total of £4.4 million in benefit, it emerged last night. Too fat to work? Fuck off. These people are not too fat to work, they are too lazy to work. In fact they

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-91239824832598117892007-11-18T22:06:00.000Z2007-11-18T22:11:09.845Z

There are moments when one man can demonstrate how precious our right to free speech is when he can utter such well timed brilliance as this.Via The Snob I have found this:"Matthew Marr, press adviser to party leader Wendy Alexander, quit his £60,000-a-year post after becoming "tired and emotional" at a glittering awards ceremony and loudly describing Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, as a

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-9890469821519722052007-11-18T21:41:00.000Z2007-11-18T21:47:16.440Z

Oh the Politics Show today was a moment of pure brilliance... it really was. I'm not really a supporter of the licence fee, but today's Politics Show was worth the licence fee twice over.On questioning Huhne denied that he would refer to Nick Clegg as a calamity... and then Sopel responds by saying "so why do I have here a briefing from your office entitled "Calamity Clegg""Oh the look on Huhne's

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-16743031272017927752007-11-12T13:15:00.000Z2007-11-12T13:16:37.332Z

I can’t confess to being the most charity minded bloke at the best of times but Children in Need really gets up my nose at the moment.You may have noticed that this past weekend has featured Remembrance Sunday, and a fair few people selling poppies. Why oh why then does our state-funded behemoth of a fucking state broadcaster and our waste of fucking money Charities Commission feel it appropriate

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-12070303735925998702007-11-01T13:02:00.000Z2007-11-01T13:05:25.542Z

BBC:A senior High Court judge has refused a government request to reconsider a tribunal's decision to prevent a murderer being deported to Italy. Learco Chindamo, the murderer of London head teacher Philip Lawrence, could be released from prison next year.Now this twat has murdered a headmaster. Being a headmaster is a shit job with crap pay, too much hassle and too much responsibility, and our

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-87762746513332618462007-10-31T19:16:00.000Z2007-10-31T19:19:07.440Z

The shit some people search for... and why do they find me through it?October's highlights...masturbation in young muslimsaccidental masturbation (seriously... who searches for this? - RG)young kids in braone boy fuck with her antypolly the clone diedSo... Did you find what you were after?However hats off to the one wandering guttersnipe who searched for:"long speech with cunt in it"You will find

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-10762455349184963692007-10-31T15:27:00.000Z2007-10-31T15:34:09.750Z

My fine and dear Prodicus has tagged me to calmly and rationally announce the “10 People I most want to hit in the face with a Brick”.Now I’m going to keep this mostly to people you will know of so I’m leaving out the Former Lady Guttersnipe (who is a venomous hag) and my former business partner (who is a Class 1 High Cunt).It also specifies people so I must leave out the French, Socialists as a

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-38492219707300466712007-10-31T11:20:00.000Z2007-10-31T11:24:17.045Z

Having a good trawl through Tyler’s fine blog getting myself all worked up about Alison feckless fucktard Goulding again I have found Tyler highlighting this graph. Now… let’s have a look at this as it goes back some time. Right in fact to the heartland Labour party argument that if we have a Tory government then we’ll hark back to the days of 3 million unemployed and all that lefty socialist

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-57378614282050494232007-10-31T09:14:00.000Z2007-10-31T09:15:46.351Z

A rather disturbing headline on the BBC:Blears targets Islamic extremismHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Sadly this is not by going on a personal search of Afghanistan looking for Bin Laden, but by organising a “web based project”.Now who thinks that a live beheading on the internet would be a suitable web-based project?

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-66484900593060884312007-10-30T13:49:00.000Z2007-10-30T13:53:41.361Z

The Humble Devil has alerted me to the unwashed fucking waste of time and effort that is Alison Goulding.Scrounger Alison Goulding rakes in thousands of pounds a year of your hard-earned cash - but she still wants MORE.And she's even praying for one of her EIGHT children to be diagnosed with a serious medical condition so she can carry on freeloading.Alison - who is five months pregnant - reckons

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-68105458865712579622007-10-30T13:04:00.000Z2007-10-30T13:08:02.010Z

BBC:At the opening of the Two Kingdoms Dialogue between the two countries, Mr Howells told the audience that both the UK and Saudi Arabia respected each other's religious and political traditions and have common reason to work together for increased security. Yup…. An example of those political traditions:Human rights in Saudi Arabia are generally considered to be minimal or non-existent.[1].

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BBC:The Tories have said there is "no possibility" of agreement on party funding while Labour refuses to put a cap on trade union donations.Justice Secretary Jack Straw accused the Tories of misunderstanding union fees and behaving in a partisan way.Now personally I fucking hate this. It’s not like me to turn my acidic pen against the Tories but why the fuck are we even talking about state

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-26809756965503569332007-10-24T08:53:00.000Z2007-10-24T08:54:05.890Z

What the f….?The Metropolitan Police chief who led the cash-for-honours inquiry said he received "less than full co-operation" from some people involved in the probe.What are we going to hear next? Possibly this?The Metropolitan Police chief who led the inquiry into the robbery complained that “Fingers” Harris hadn’t confessed.Since when were the Police expectant of receiving full cooperation

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-79348785205373468612007-10-23T11:57:00.001Z2007-10-23T11:57:43.225Z

According to The Wrong Man:"Dr Seldon's book says 40-year-old Mr Balls regarded Mr Blair as a "moron" and egged on Mr Brown to drive him from office."Well I never thought I would agree with Ed Balls on anything.You live and learn…

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-7367194292065210312007-10-16T08:18:00.000Z2007-10-16T08:21:18.400Z

The LibDems are out in force in the media today announcing that there was no plot to remove the doddering old coffin dodger that was Sir Menzies Campbell.For fuck’s sake, have some fecking honestly will you? There can be more than one nasty party you know?For all Iain Duncan Smith’s credits, he was not the most inspirational leader and therefore we got rid of him. He’s still involved doing what

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-18486419273010911942007-10-11T16:01:00.000Z2007-10-11T16:04:18.781Z

No I've not suddenly joined the CWU... I'm away until Monday on work stuff now and no bloody internet access.Blogging returns on Monday.Now, no doubt, something really major will happen like Gordon gets gang-raped with vegetables by 200 members of the Tax Payers Alliance. If only...In the mean time... keep sniping!

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A bit behind I know but there’s been some ranting and raving about this email from the Sergeant at Arms.With effect from today, staff and other users should be prepared to give way to Members when queuing for retail and catering services, the post office, travel office or when using other facilities such as lifts, photocopiers, telephone cubicles, etc. When using parliamentary facilities, please

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Press release from Conservative Party:In yesterday's Pre Budget Announcement (PBR), Alistair Darling announced the early introduction of the flat rating of the State Second Pension (S2P). The original deadline for this reform was the end of the next parliament, not until around 2014. Bringing this change forward has raided over £2 billion from people's pension funds over the next five years.This

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Yesterday was one of those good days to be a Tory. This morning I see it happily continues with these excerpts from our good and dear press:"David Cameron raised the political temperature of the House of Commons yesterday with a devastating attack on Gordon Brown's lack of "moral authority"." - Herald"Gordon Brown endured a Commons humiliation on Wednesday as David Cameron, the Conservative

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1765136333430752482007-10-10T13:48:00.001Z2007-10-10T13:48:45.021Z

Every day on my way to work I have cause to pass a few of the main delivery offices of my area…. And they are deserted, as you might understand there being a strike on.But wait…I remember when strikes were proper strikes. You know… load of blokes in woolly hats sat round an oil drum screaming “Scab” at anyone who looked like they might go into the car park… but today? Nothing.Much as I hate

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I felt like a damn good fisking...The BBC’s point by point of PMQs:· Conservative MP Robert Neill asked Mr Brown to congratulate his local Tory-controlled authority in Bromley on its recycling record - and taunted Mr Brown by offering to show him its "bottle banks" - a reference to claims Mr Brown had "bottled out of" calling an early election.· Mr Brown replied he should be pleased with the

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From ConservativeHome’s live blog of PMQs.Cameron: 'He said he would go to the country if polls suggested a Labour majority of 100. He's the first PM in history to flunk an election because he thought he could win it. Has he found a single person who believes his excuses for calling an election?'Brown responds by saying that only 26 people had signed a Downing Street petition calling for an

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-73080107033948233892007-10-10T09:24:00.000Z2007-10-10T09:30:11.056Z

I have returned once more to re-vent the spleen... to be honest work got in the way. One of the real downsides of being self-employed is that suddenly you do something right and then your life is sucked out from under by your clients.If anyone ever tells you that being your own boss means you can do what you like tell them to fuck off!Anyways... 5 reasons why I have returned now.1. I enjoyed it2.

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This in today’s papers… and a thank you to ConservativeHome for ensuring that I can rant without actually having to read the independent."Increases in international aid announced yesterday by the Government will enable Gordon Brown to keep promises given to Bono and Bob Geldoff at the Gleneagles summit on doubling support for Africa. Aid will rise by 11 per cent in real terms over the next three

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BACK! I have absolutely no idea how long for but back all the same with the good news that the international community is taking action to get our sailors released.BBC: The UN Security Council has agreed a statement voicing "grave concern" at Iran's capture of 15 British sailors.It also calls on Tehran to allow the UK consular access to the personnel.Well bugger me…. I bet the Iranians are

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1171526483007989832007-02-15T07:54:00.000Z2007-02-15T08:02:37.220Z

Just a quick note to those people who found the Spleen via a search engine using such relevant search parameters as:dirty cock gobblin slagsWhat surprises me is that The Spleen is #4 in Google for that phrase. What surprises me more is that Our Humble Devil is #3. So... did you all find what you were looking for? Especially the rather specialist chap who searched for:Arse Vented ChairsWhat the

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1171274784199377002007-02-12T10:02:00.000Z2007-02-12T10:06:24.263Z

Unemployed 'must learn English' (BBC)Unemployed people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or face losing their benefits, under government plans.Reckon we should start with this one?

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1170789966139391692007-02-06T19:22:00.000Z2007-02-06T19:28:08.300Z

John Reid wins another Channel 4 Politics Award If it’s one thing that our government does well it’s make a complete and utter total bollocks of everything it touches. They get the wrong end of the stick and then spend millions fucking everything up.Now before I start on today’s batshit insanity I offer an apology to regular Guttersnipes. I wanted to avoid yet more monotonous ranting about Reid.

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1170765546600290932007-02-06T12:36:00.000Z2007-02-06T12:39:06.616Z

And about bloody time….Ever since this fruitbat scheme started it has been a complete waste of taxpayers money. A waste of our money.. your money and it is about time the whole fecking thing was taken out back and shown the bins.What gets me is that the government so far have managed to spend nearly 60 million quid and haven’t produced a single scrap of evidence to show that it will do anything

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1170411011973450572007-02-02T10:07:00.000Z2007-02-02T10:10:11.990Z

I don't give a bollocks me... I would like to get up on a morning and not have to rant about Reid. After all it makes the Spleen rather “same old same old” but the guy just never gives me a break.Today is no different…. I look at the news this morning and the useless twattard is all over the place grabbing a new headline.To recap for those of you who either have been living in a cave and missed

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1170250748101447302007-01-31T13:36:00.000Z2007-01-31T13:40:42.373Z

This may come as a surprise to people who have avoided the news but apparently the Civil Service is on strike today.Good Lord I hear you cry… how will we cope? Should I stock up on food?Well I’ve just been outside and I can assure you that the fabric of reality has not been torn out from under us. Life is going on, in fact probably a bit more efficiently.I have a problem with this strike.

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1170244566289041022007-01-31T11:52:00.000Z2007-01-31T11:56:06.476Z

I’m back… and thank you to the poor greek chap who sent me a rather pleasant letter asking me to return some time ago.Well I had a break for a while, but Old shoot from the hip Reid has set the Guttersnipe blood boiling again…. He has been writing in the Guardian.If you renovate a house you start by taking the wallpaper off. Only then do you discover more problems. That's what it is like in the

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1162562719823883842006-11-03T14:01:00.000Z2006-11-03T14:07:01.703Z

BBC:The armed forces are understaffed, with rising numbers of personnel quitting early, the government has been warned. A National Audit Office report says they are having to cope with operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans while being 5,170 below strength. The MoD agreed operating at this level meant "additional strains" on staff, but denied forces were overstretched. Of course the

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Cameron’s in the firing line again for what the New Labour political opportunists and fucktards are calling the “Love a Lout” speech. I note that their creativity and wit knows no bounds.Now I’m a broad backer of Cameron’s stance and like most of the intelligent people in this country, i.e. everyone except Labour voters, Scottish Socialists and readers of the Daily Mirror, oh and anyone in a

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1162480804695883592006-11-02T15:18:00.000Z2006-11-02T15:20:04.726Z

As my good man the Snob so recently pointed out in the comments, he feels honoured to be an “Honorary Guttersnipe”. Unlike most modern honours as well, the HG is awarded on the basis of merit rather than donating a random sum (say for the sake of argument £1,000,000) to a random political organisation (shall we say for the sake of argument, the Labour Party).Now if you’ve not been to read the

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The Sun:A friend of the Chancellor said: “Gordon will not be backing any one candidate in the race. However, we think it’s good if there is a strong female candidate. It is also true that he holds Hazel in high regard for her work in the party in recent months.”OK you may have noticed that I am no fan of Squirrel fucking Nutkin (as my good man the Snob would call her here and here) but jesus,

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1162459587301187662006-11-02T09:25:00.000Z2006-11-02T09:26:27.320Z

Apparently the Spleen is the number 1 ranking site for:"Making Alcohol From Marrows"Go figure...

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1162388633136775622006-11-01T13:38:00.000Z2006-11-01T13:43:54.796Z

I think it is about time the Speaker of the House of Commons changed his title to “Spokesman for the Labour Party”.Today he’s ruled against David Cameron asking about the Labour leadership since “The Prime Minister is here to talk about government policy, that is a matter for the Labour Party”. It is true that the Speaker has had the odd pop at Blair for talking about Tory policy over the past

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1161951278375674642006-10-27T12:08:00.000Z2006-10-27T16:55:40.176Z

Patsy Hewitt can just fuck offGiven that I am not a 17 year old harpy with 7 kids to 7 fathers, 2 ABSOs, an addiction to Heat magazine and would look out of place on Trisha I shouldn’t really have a problem with this. But then I am a Guttersnipe… and I do.This is also going to contain some really quite creative swearing. Please move along if easily offended. In fact please move along if the

Ranting Guttersnipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16689997686909541842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27024864.post-1161943853086225572006-10-27T10:07:00.000Z2006-10-27T10:10:53.113Z

I know Iain Dale's been on this for months but... BBC:The Liberal Democrats could still be forced to pay back £2.4m in donations from convicted perjurer Michael Brown, the Electoral Commission has said.The watchdog has previously said the party could keep the cash donated by Mr Brown's company 5th Avenue Partners ahead of the last election.But new information has come to light about the company

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Our good fella the Reactionary Snob takes apart Reid again.“Reid, as I've said before, is a tabloid voodoo doll. A Red Top has a campaign and gung-ho Jock runs in with all sorts of higgledy-piggledy strategy. A deeply worrying, illiberal eejit.”Indeed,Go read the whole thing…

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Not only right wing, but rightBoris hits the mark in the Telegraph this morning.And I also know that, as soon as we gave the very ghost of a tax-cutting commitment, the great Labour lie machine would chunter into action. Ed Balls would start boggling indignantly from your screens. Gordon would begin his nasal dronathon about closed hospitals, axed nurses, cancelled heart operations and mutilated

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Julian Glover clutches at strawsLabour's poll rating has got that sinking feeling, falling in today's Guardian/ICM survey to 29%, a level it has hit only once before, in May 1987.And Guttersnipe here thinks that “sinking feeling” implies that we should continue to seeOn today's score, Mr Brown's spell in Downing Street, assuming it begins next year, might be rather brief. The numbers would

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You're going down slag!DNA database 'should include all' Tony Blair called yesterday for the national DNA database to be expanded to include every citizen. He said there should be no limit on the development of the database because it was vital for catching serious criminals.[…]During a tour of the Forensic Science Service headquarters in London, he dismissed concerns of opposition politicians,

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Polly's getting scared again by those evil Tories:The government must make the social justice case if it is to succeed in repairing the damage wrought by Thatcher The damage wrought by Thatcher eh Pol? Baroness Thatcher resigned her role as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990. Now really Pol was there that much damage done to the system by good old Lady T that it requires 16 years to put it right?

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BBCThe home secretary is under pressure to make a statement about the UK's use of control orders after it emerged two terror suspects had gone on the run. Shadow home secretary David Davis says John Reid should explain to MPs how the pair could have escaped, in what he described as "a piece of incompetence".Actually I would have used the phrase “Further piece of incompetence”. As many

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Fuck you Hans BrixThis is what the US inspectors have said yesterday:Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte said the findings came after analysis of radioactive debris detected at the site of the test. A US military aircraft collected air samples on 11 October, two days after Pyongyang made its announcement of a successful test.The apparently small size of the explosion had led to

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What the f…?Police dogs are being muzzled to stop them biting and injuring suspected criminals, it emerged yesterday. The policy, devised by North Wales Police, comes as a result of increased compensation claims from members of the public who have been bitten by police dogs. Officers say the toothless tactic provides a safer way to tackle unco-operative offenders, and it may soon be adopted by

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"Oi Toynbee... go feck yerself!" Meanwhile over on Comment is Free…Shadow Education Secretary David Willets tells Polly to shut the feck up!Well that’s the dream but his response to yesterday’s article, while not as vitriolic as your good Guttersnipe, Devil or Mr. Worstall would offer, is still a good read:“She listed our "assault on Sure Start" as evidence of a supposed secret agenda. Like the

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Louise Bagshawe has been selected to fight the Corby seat... I have to confess I was thinking of moving.However I have been to Corby, it's a shithole... the place contains signs in the local McDonalds that say "Please do not cycle in the restaurant"It just got too surreal. It does have the very beautiful Rockingham castle just outside.So Good Luck to Louise... it won't be hard to improve Corby,

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