Tuesday, 30 March 2010

The Delusion of James Macintyre Part 45

James Macintyre

writes
: "With a few exceptions, the dark briefings by ministers against other ministers within Labour went away with the departure from Number Ten of Tony Blair"

Is he mental or just spinning out of control? Brown's entire government has been one big internal briefing mudbath. Has James been hanging out with Draper again?


UPDATE: The fact that former defence minister Eric Joyce is the f
irst person to comment
on Macintyre's piece and pours scorn says it all.

He's Not the Messiah

They just can't let him go can they? The media really do purr and role over to have their stomachs tickled whenever St. Tony cares to grace these humble shores with his presence. During Chilcott it was bad news for Labour, but today they have dominated both Sky and BBC for the last four hours, and given the rate hacks are blogging about it, tomorrow's papers look set to be a tonefest.

It's incredible that the man they cast out because "he would not win another election" has come back to attempt to shore up the worst of the damage for his old foe. TB is impressed TB didn't tell Gordon where to go, though with Mandy and Campbell back at centre of operations it must have been just like old times. Liked the tacit endorsement of Miliband too - the project must go on.
A good day for Labour. Thanks to media's really rather pathetic Stockholm Syndrome, Blair has drowned out almost all discussion of debate last night and stopped the Tories from getting coverage while they pursued a pretty big cock-up by Darling, live on TV, and a humilating climb down for Burnham and Labour over their disgusting death tax plans. A very useful resource for Labour to deploy when they need a media blackout.

Shame the rest of the country still thinks Blair's a...


UPDATE: Just spotted this
gem
from secret crush Margot James: 
"Suspect Blair will be as much use to Brown as Bill was to Hillary on the campaign trail" Spot on. While the media had a field day with Bill, the question must be posed... how'd that nomination come along Hillary?


Quote of the Day

As a very orange Blair spends one of his ninety days in the country giving a speech for Labour, TB was reminded of Mr Miliband's astute

analysis:


"People will be saying 'wouldn't it be great to have that Blair back because we can't stand that Gordon Brown'"

Monday, 29 March 2010

As the Dust Settles

So as Hague, Huhne and Wee Dougie work the spin room, TB's initial thoughts are firstly Cable was further to the left of Darling, and secondly he really needs to get over his five minutes in the limelight. Sadly with the way things are the Lib Dems are getting far too much oxygen than they deserve.

Darling was the only one that told genuine porkies about Tory policy and despite the furious spinning from Labour all day that his neck was on the line, Osborne held his own competently and calmly. For better or worse he was the only one who stuck to the question where the others were able to dodge and duck and fight back through refusing to answer.

Cable had the audience on side and TB suspects large swathes of the undecided public. Good news is this socialist snake charmer will never get near No11. It was soundbite central from the yellow team.

There were no killer blows though, no shrapnel wounds really either and for all the hype, the leadership debates better be a bit more than exciting. Nothing that happened tonight will be remembered by election day, but Labour will have to pack the Osborne's rubbish spin in. The real winner was the genial host.

Tweets from the Debate



Chancellor's Debate Warm-up



A little something to get you going before the big showdown.

TV's TB - 7pm Sky News

TB will be doing some Chancellor's Debate warm up on Sky News tonight with Jag Singh from
YouFundMe.uk
. Tune in from 7pm.

Labour Posters

The broke Labour Party can't afford posters, they can't afford an ad agency and it seems they can't even afford in house designers. They have had to resort to some lame spin about opening sourcing their new poster which will be displayed for about forty five minutes this weekend. Obviously it's not just been Labour folk offering their views. Some classics around.
 From 

Billy Blofield
:
From
Guido
:


Busy Bear

TB has been out filming all this morning. Osborne's big day started well with the smoothies and cookies press conference. The new CCHQ press room was lookig good. TB then bounded back down Millbank to make it to Stuart Wheeler's

Trust Party
launch and he is now trawling through the new IPSA rulings.

He will be live blogging from the spin room Chancellor's Debate tonight so come back later.

Sunday, 28 March 2010

More like it...



If you didn't laugh you would cry. More of this please.

You're Not Fooling Anyone Mr Brown

As the sun sets on the Brown's government, Labour have resorted back to the old 1997 pledge card tactic. The image even has a setting sun on it. The problem is it seems the Labour have nowt to offer this time. The vacuous pledges consist of pickled sound bites and government speak.

The thing TB found most amusing though was the rather familiar logo on the card. Even though Washington has stopped returning No10's calls and Obama runs a mile every opportunity he has to meet Brown, the desperate fan is still trying to copy even Obama's campaign logo. It's pathetic.

Saturday, 27 March 2010

Whory Bear



Don't you dare say TB actually looks like Byers.

Friday, 26 March 2010

TPA skewer Unison

The Taxpayers' Alliance
 Research Director Matthew Sinclair stitched up union thug Dave Prentis from Unison on today's Daily Politics good and proper:
Hasn't been a moment like that on the show since the Draper days.

Quote of the Day

"Policy wonks, SpAds and people called Crispin need not apply."

-W4MP Advert

You Couldn't Make It Up

Via
Hyena

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Beat Balls!



Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Hypocritical Labour Hack Laments

Thomas Graham, a prominent Labour hack and President of Edinburgh University Students Association has been forced to grovel after a stunning drunken outburst, as reported here first on Sunday. Edinburgh newspaper The Journal has

caught up with the story
:
"Witnesses say he became aggressive and made some “inappropriate comments” towards door staff before being forcibly ejected.
“I have apologised for my behaviour to the staff involved in this regrettable incident. I accept full responsibility for my actions; clearly my behaviour was not acceptable. I will ensure that it does not happen again.” Vice President of Services James Wallace said: "I cannot comment specifically on this incident. But I have full confidence in the staff and security who did an exceptional job on Saturday night.""
Ouch. Sadly no mention of the assault witnesses confirmed to TB though.

One thing that had to make TB laugh is just how hypocritical, in line with his true colours, Thomas Graham has been about all this.
Another story
from The Journal from September aes for an interesting read these days:
"The head of EUSA has criticised the university's student Conservative association following the chairman's run-in with the police last week for drunken misconduct.President Thomas Graham told The Journal: “It is clear that the Conservative Club have not changed their attitude towards Scotland’s drink culture and have let the Students' Association down.”
Thomas Graham, President of EUSA, expressed his disappointment to The Journal, saying: “He is an individual student in a position of responsibility and we are very disappointed he has decided to act in this way. “We feel sorry for the Conservative Club who have to begin the year dealing with this. It is a great disappointment especially after the success of Edinburgh’s Fresher’s Week which had such an emphasis on non-alcohol related events.""
Well worth a
read
. Those who laugh last...


"I am a Cider Drinker"



And an unhappy one at that. Cheers Darling.

Labour Dodging Purcell Questions

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has just pulled out of doing Question Time this week in Glasgow. Last time he did something significant in Glasgow it was attending a Labour Party fundraising dinner with Gordon and Steven Purcell, who then mysteriously resigned. Liam Byrne has been put in as a replacement - crucially he has deniability as he has no connections to the Scottish Labour Party. See latest in the saga here.

Why is Murphy running away from difficult questions about sleaze in Glasgow? What does he know?

Guy News Budget Special

Not sure about the social media guru look, but we knocked this out in an hour:



Why not check out the 

Drinkers Alliance.