What else could go wrong for David Cameron in the next 6 months?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01008/mandelson-460_1008589a.jpg

osborne is so repellent

The wisdom of bringing Mandelson back into the cabinet is starting to tell. None of the young guard in the cabinet is particularly adept at dirty politics, Brown has only ever done it by proxy and badly, so he called in the professional with no reputation to lose.

Dirty politics doing really well for the McCain camp right now.

Different country, different part of the cycle, plus the republicans have no one playing clean politics.

Cameron only likes to criticise in retrospect.

It's too early for him to criticise what's happening right now.

Dunno, I don't see Mandelson and Osbourne hanging out with Russian oligarchs and getting into a trivial 'he said she said' bunfight playing particularly well with voters of any stripe at a time when Britain is sliding into a recession.

It hurts the Tories more than Labour though.

I expect this will all get blamed on Rothschilds. See the odious Letts in the Mail f'r'instance. Although quite why they would want to damage the conservative party is not clear. If this does happen the tories may have to look elsewhere for funding as they've given a ton of cash to them over the years.

Dunno, I don't see Mandelson and Osbourne hanging out with Russian oligarchs and getting into a trivial 'he said she said' bunfight

heh now i'm imagining mandelson and osbourne doing the 'he said she said' dance

and wondering who gets the "she's lovin' the fact that she's gifted" line

Channel Four news was spinning this last night as Rothschild getting angry at Osbourne for breaking the 'what goes on the yacht stays on the yacht' rule.

The other good thing about this story is we have another Bullingdon photo to gawp at.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_01/bullindonDM_800x484.jpg

Newsnight was pretty good at covering the 'bad manners' aspect of the row as well.

The bloke on the far right doesn't look old enough to be at university.

Insert 'I thought they were all on the far right?' gag here.

Signs you're getting old #32: students don't look young enough to be at university

(this happened to me about 3-4 years ago, I think)

Hm, uncomfortable truth there^. I was just thinking 'it's quite funny seeing children dressed up in adult clothing'.

This whole row has been quite useful to me, actually. Much as I think Labour deserve a kicking for certain, um, harms, and much as I think the next government will do good on those issues, the fact is that once the shackles are off the tories will be many times more abhorrent than the current lot, and for more intransigent reasons.

Newsnight was pretty good at covering the 'bad manners' aspect of the row as well.

WTF has Buster Bloodvessel got to do with all this?

He was present on the yacht.

did the speccy one end up in politics?

I heard that old Oleg Oligarch was keen on Special Brew...

Best way to get through those cold Russian winters is Special Brew and 2-Tone!

Ah, but Bad Manners were on Magnet. Pete Waterman signed them, you know.

Actually Dale was doing 1981 on POTP last Sunday and I'd forgotten what a good single "Walking In The Sunshine" was. They did have their occasional moments.

ooyeh.

Shenanigans over the 'new' Bullingdon photo. All rather amusing.

Compare and contrast...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2975864070_23436db25c_o.jpg

Seems to me that this 'new' new one is the original, a rather messy cut'n'paste job. And the one from the Mail last year is a cleaned up copy thanks to modern technology.

Still if it got Peter Hitchens all riled up...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/maguire/2008/11/18/gordon-brown-s-strategy-on-tax-cuts-has-panicked-david-cameron-115875-20905743/

Mandelson has to be man of the year as well. Dude is the Phil Brown of Brazilian twink fucking media manipulators.

Yes but he can't just come in and pick up where John Sergeant finished.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7753557.stm

That's very strange. I'm uneasy at the idea that the opposition shouldn't be doing everything they can to monitor what the govt are up to.

is that what it is?

if he's receiving stolen files then isn't that the same as receiving stolen goods?

I'm assuming it's an enquiry into leaks. If so, leaking to the opposition strikes me as very different to any other kind of leak. I haven't really thought it through - it kind of reads like it's bribery or similar, which he obviously shouldn't be doing. But then finding out what the govt is doing (and holding them to account) *is* his job

10 o'clock news made this sound rather innocuous - basically involvement in leaks on immigration statistics and employment of illegals i.e. politically-embarrassing info, not national security type stuff

The T in ITN stands for Tory though.

I would have expected the Tories to have gained ground again in the past week, tbh. They seemed genuinely fucking horrified at the PBR, mostly due to what might happen if they actually win the election and inherit that mountain of debt.

How interesting this should all happen on the same day as Ian Blair is forcibly retired as head of the Met, having been forced out by a Tory mayor.

ComRes:

CONSERVATIVES 37% (-6)
LABOUR 36% (+4)
LIB DEMS 17% (+5)

Labour majority of 23.

Guido Fawkes originally reported this as poll as having a 25% lead for the Tories. HEY LET'S GIVE BLOGGERS ACCESS TO THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT PRESS FACILITIES ASAP.

That's ComRes poll for the Indie On Sunday, btw.

Much as I would like a 2% Labour lead to spark widespread panic and regicide among the Tories, this is all getting a bit silly now.

I think what we need right now is a resurgent UKIP. Just to really make UK politics as wacky as possible.

They're not having Kilroy back, so it won't happen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/dec/03/obama-cameron-lightweight

amazing
especially with cameron's please be my friend gorillaz + wilberforce party pack.

"You might not have heard of this Radiohead in the colonies."

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/obama-cameron-3-431x300.jpg

they kind of look like they're doing the robot.

so great, anyway.

http://steadyoffload.com:8080/JS1CQ3F8Y6.aHR0cDovL3BvbGl0aWNhbGJldHRpbmcuY29tL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy8yMDA4LzEyL2d1YXJkaWFuLWljbTEuanBn....

Which gives us....

LAB 295
CON 279
LD 47

I don't really understand this. Has Cammy's bubble burst?

New media narrative is that the Tories are the "Do Nothing" party.

Plus the public are generally loathe to change horses in the middle of a recession.

"Football football football double entendre one of the lads like you drink with in those public house things" Mr Cameron read from his cue cards.

Actual bad thing - his dad's just had a stroke.

"Gideon Osborne has whored and this time it's on the G20, in his own goal, actually fucking up his country so I'm pleased to announce that,"

"But not the sort of stroke Wayne Rooney is familiar with," Mr Cameron quipped.

come on city, score up the opponent's goal

"But not the sort of stroke Wayne Rooney is familiar with," Mr Cameron quipped.

^ tasteless, moi?

More news from the private sector which is all set to lead us out of the mess created by evil public sector workers and dole scroungers and into the sunny uplands etc

These are tough times for arms dealers what with us only fighting the one war these days.

Yes, but you don't make money just concentrating on your own wars you've got to go out there and make money out of everybody else's

That's what made this country Great!

lol not the sort of stroke

Too right. I was at Cragside a couple of weeks ago. An enormous pile built on an hillside in Northumberland. Lord Armstrong, who built it, sold guns to both sides of the American civil war. None of yer liberal dogooding right and wrong there. And he was really, really, REALLY rich.

xp

my gf got a fit of giggles at work yesterday re: Cam's dad, as apparently (unless she misheard) his tribute included part where he says "my father did well, considering he was born without heels", which is a pretty crazy statement tbh

eh i think she heard right

i didn't really understand, but

i think he said 'considering he had no heels and _________' -- not that unusual a thing to say? the guy was pretty badly disabled.

i think it was just the bizarreness of specifically not having heels?

Hard to avoid making "well-heeled" jokes I would have thought

This - but very, very easy to make snide comments about inbreeding being at fault - I suspect there's a lot of cousin-fuckery in Cameron's family tree.

At least he won't be hanging around like Thatcher in 40 years' time.

Thatcher barely hanging in there tho

Always wondered about the lyrics "you got no heels" in a Pavement song, now I know it was about Dad Cam - looking forward to the Pitchfork exposé

(maybe this is a step too far - sorry dude was disabled and sorry he died - sorry about his son too)

lol "well-heeled" jokes

Got an email that caused me some mild amusement this morning -

My friend had brain surgery recently. When she came round, staff asked her sister (this being a German hospital, I'm guessing they felt she was better qualified) to ask some questions to test whether there was any memory loss. The sister asked who the prime minister was, to which my friend replied, "Fucking David Cameron."

What's the betting that as soon as DC gets back after the rollercoaster month he's had personally, he'd go and say "oh fuck off yr fired" to Coulson?

That entirely depends on whether Murdoch allows it surely?

How about we make as many personal allowances for David Cameron's recent tumult as his government seems to be making for disabled people and new mums and/or anyone else going through a shit time which is ZERO and see how he likes it.

Yeah, but his response to having "unpaid leave" would most probably go "... fair enough.(give a shit)" and look the other direction.

Perhaps Colleen Rooney should make some half-assed scripted joke about Cameron's dad in front of a bunch of smirking arseholes, see how he likes it

What's the betting that as soon as DC gets back after the rollercoaster month he's had personally, he'd go and say "oh fuck off yr fired" to Coulson?

Given his dad's just died and he's been on paternity leave, no one's going to blame Cameron for not doing anything for a short while. I suspect he'll be hoping that Coulson slips off the front pages for long enough for him to be quietly bumped off. But ultimately, having paid advisers fucking up is less damaging than having elected representatives fucking up.

Honestly don't think bumping Coulson is on the cards, unless the police actually arrest him or something. For a start would be tantamount to admitting that one of the Murdoch empire's leading UK newspapers was a nest of bunch of lying, cheating scumbags - and I don't think Cameron is about to do that unless Rupert gives him the nod.

Like the NOTW gives a shit about bad publicity... it just rolls through regardless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDYalpZhG_8

looooooool

Reminds me of 'Jane, you ignorant slut'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7S_XWuKpHc

had v little regard for nulab nonentity chris bryant until now but that's fantastic

h8 h8 h8 kate burley and this kinda thing needs to happen more often

kate=kay

I would like to do random mean stuff to Kay Burley.

I remember her saying, I may have said this before but I never mind repeating it, her saying to some interviewee, 'I suppose that is all grease to the mill?' and he said, understandably, 'Sorry, what?' and she said, as if talking to a five year old 'I. SUPPOSE. THAT. IS. ALL. GREASE. TO. THE. MILL.'

Warmed the cockles it did. Because you grease mills obv. Makes the stones turn round more easily.

i think that's the most offensive thing about her - she's really not very clever, but behaves as if everything she says is beyond reproach.

I don't expect much from either Bryant or Burley but both exceed expectations there. Terrific.

Burley: "If Andy Coulston [sic] is guilty...of phone tapping, and it seems that eventually (OH SHIT WHERE AM I GOING WITH THIS)...may or may not become the case..."

Also "Nobody cares what I think"

DON'T LIE

Yeah, that was gold. LOVED "I *HAVE* just said it, you seem to be a bit dim, if you don't mind me saying"

...Madam.

she possesses the few unpleasant traits/tics that even slimy 'crypto'tory psychos like boulton can't bring to sky news without seeming excessively homosexual or veering into self-parody

h8 h8 h8 sky

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kDoyvibiZag/R2kfOv6rdpI/AAAAAAAABNw/l8YqAjfeIEU/s320/BurnsExcellentSticker.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LLRF0cz7T0U/R9YZHUWlCoI/AAAAAAAABoU/gJNYjFOGoFY/s320/MurdochBurns.jpg

really wish ed vaizey would be consumed by worms :D

burley is pretty disgusting but when she said she was out to play devil's advocate I wondered briefly whether her job was to make the other person look good

think that's just an inevitable by-product of being her tbh