Jerry Lee Lewis Submitted on 2010/03/11 at 11:58 am Goodness gracious great Balls of liar |
David Miliband would have said if he had won…
“The deficit. And there is a deficit. A serious one. Which needs to be reduced… This is the biggest argument in politics, and the biggest danger for us. George Osborne says we are in denial about the deficit. Because he wants us to be. So let’s not be. It is a test… Step one is to recognise what is obvious: that we did not abolish the business cycle. We should never have claimed it. You can’t in a market economy. And public spending plans cannot depend on it. Nor can you write your own fiscal rules and then be the judge and jury for how they are calculated and when they are met.
We should have been proposing the creation of an Office of Budgetary Responsibility and we should be campaigning today for its accountability to Parliament to be strengthened. There is no point in denying those things; they are true.”
Boy George Off to the Bilderberg
Osborne must be getting used to his regular jaunts to Switzerland, but something tells Guido, despite the juicy details, that this weekend’s trip won’t be splashed across the papers. Once again George is heading off for a mini-break with his old friend Mandy, to the über-secretive Bilderberg Group annual get together.
Rubbing shoulders with the great and good from the financial and political worlds, Guido was a little surprised to see one of the new intake making the list. What could possibly have secured the enigmatic Rory “not a spook” Stewart an invite?
Hurrah For The Book Deal!
In progressive circles the Mail is a dirty word. The likes of Mehdi Hasan describe the work of what he calls “the right-wing, Tory press” as “bilious and poisonous”. His NewStatesman advises progressive readers “Don’t click on the Daily Mail!“ warning there is “None deadlier than the Mail“, going so far as supporting a protest against the Daily Mail to ‘stop the lies’. His former Staggers colleague James Macintyre decried “Mail smears”.
Macintyre was sacked from the Staggers but has been re-united with Mehdi to work together on producing their biography of Ed Miliband. (Spoiler alert: born to intellectual socialists, sits at Wedgie Benn’s feet as a boy in North London, goes to Oxford, SpAds for Brown, goes to Harvard, becomes MP, has two kids, stabs brother in back to become Labour leader, gets married, fails and is ousted.) Guido had heard rumours that the manuscript was sent back by the publishers for being too much of a puff-piece, now he is hearing rumours of anxiety in the Miliband camp that the usually reliable pair have revealed a few warts. Anxieties heightened when Miliband learnt that the progressive pair sold the serialisation rights to the biography to be seen this Sunday. Sold to the Mail, for a sum not unadjacent to 30,000 pieces of silver…
UPDATE:
@GuidoFawkesGuido Fawkes
Bradford Wastes £300,000 on Union Pilgrims – Taxpayers’ Alliance
Bridgen Denies, Cancels Appearance – David MacLean
More to Come? – James Forsyth
What You Need To Know About the Balls Papers – Speccie
Huhne Papers to CPS – PA
If Ed Balls Loves The Labour Party He’ll Walk – Telegraph
One Night In Westminster – Daily Mail
Andrew Bridgen Arrested Over Sexual Assault – Telegraph
The Reason Ed Miliband Can’t Score – Peter Oborne
How is the Balls-Miliband Relationship? – FT
How Much Do Pilgrims Cost You? - Taxpayers’ Alliance
GMB Walks Into Pilgrim Trap – Indy
Weiner’s Schnitzel – Anna Racoon
Morley Booted Out of Privy Council – Paul Waugh
Dave and the Troublesome Priest – Ben Brogan
Who Elected Rowan? – Alex Deane
Jerry Lee Lewis Submitted on 2010/03/11 at 11:58 am Goodness gracious great Balls of liar |
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