Nigel Farage tells the Evening Standard…
“Have you met the cretins we have in Westminster? Do you think we can be worse than that?”
Ken Blames US For Boston Bombings on Iranian TV | Tim Stanley
10 Stupidest Islamic Terrorists | Brendan O'Neill
How to Unlock Growth | City AM
Back UKIP to Get More Than 50 Seats | Guido
Cut Aid and NHS Cash | Telegraph
Why a Strong Economy Could Hurt Tories | Janan Ganesh
No More Sky TV or 18-Rated DVDs For Prisoners | Chris Grayling
Don’t Listen to Anti-Fracking Spinners | Peter Lilley
PM Hires Chris Lockwood from Economist | ConservativeHome
Tories Prepare For the Worst | Speccie
Guido More Influential Than Nick Robinson | GQ
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013
Cash for Equestrians
Whiny Steve Rotheram likes asking questions in the House about Aintree racecourse. He also likes free boozy days out at Liverpool’s premier race course. His question in 2011 was particularly friendly, by chance of course:
Earlier this month Rotheram was generously handed another two tickets for lunch and racing at Aintree worth £800. Guido awaits his next gushing question…“As people will know, Aintree has world class facilities and race meetings. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the levy [for bookies to help fund horse racing] is important even to racecourses at the top end so that they can continue to improve the racing that they offer, which will then attract tourism to cities such as Liverpool and contribute wider economic benefits to the sub-region?”
IDS Bites Back
Forget Ed finally admitting on Daybreak that borrowing would be higher under Labour, there is only one story in town this morning: Iain Duncan Smith’s no nonsense dealing with rude Treasury officials. After Rachel Sylvester reported the“biting balls” comment in the Times, Team IDS have been stressing to the Mail that there was no biting involved. According to Tim Shipman they are “at pains to stress that he would be cutting, not biting”. Sadly Guido had already done the Photoshop…Soubry’s £5 Billion Plainly Packaged Surprise for Osborne
“Super” Anna Soubry, as she is ironically known by embittered Tory colleagues, hasn’t fared to well in her ongoing spat with Ian Paisley Jr. Twice she has failed to answer his questions on the possibility of the Department of Health having to buy intellectual property rights from tobacco companies in order to pass plain packaging legislation. Apparently she has “an open mind”and is looking at the evidence, though for some reason is being coy about how much it would cost. Perhaps Guido can help her. Rewind back to the 2008 consultation and a Citigroup analyst warned that the government could end up having to give tobacco companies up to£5 billion in order for plain packaging legislation to be lawful. Soubry has the figures, for some reason she is keeping them quiet. She might want to mention this detail to the Chancellor…Back UKIP at Evens to Take 50 Seats
Over at the Paddy Power Blog, Guido makes the case for betting on UKIP taking 50 seats…
Ken Livingstone Blames America for Boston Bombing
Ken Livingstone has gone on Iranian State TV to blame the evil Americans for terrorists blowing up Boston:
“Very often, people get incredibly angry about injustices that they see. They would have been reading about the torture at Guantanamo Bay, at Baghram airbase. They would have read stuff about how, I think it is 54 different countries secretly collaborated with America for this rendition — people being snatched off streets taken to be tortured, because the Bush regime believed that they were all potential terrorists.Odd that he was a little more cautious with his words when it was London hit by Islamists. Here is what he really thinks.
There was such ignorance in the Bush White House about Islam and about the history of so many disputes that exist in the Middle East. People get angry — they lash out. It’s the whole squalid intervention that has disfigured the record of the Western democracies. I think this fuels the anger of the young men, who — as we saw in Boston — went out, and, out of anger and demand for revenge, claimed lives in the West.”
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013
Mrs Mad Al Throws in Towel
The ghastly Fiona Millar finally woke up to the fact that her psycho husband was always going to blow her chances of becoming an MP. According to the Standard, Mrs Alastair Campbell has pulled out of the race to be the next Member for Hampstead. Despite how toxic his name is on the doorstep, thanks to the blood on his hands, the Campbells are spinning away to the very end: they’ve blamed Ed’s vague education policy as the reason. Instead of the poisonous legacy of him indoors.Tory MP Claims Dave is Safe No Matter What, But…
This could be a Michael Fish moment for Bob Neill. The backbench MP declared that even if the Tories lost more than three hundred seats on Thursday then everything will be alright for Dave, the party totally love him and they would forgive such an horrendous punishment beating.Neill has nailed his colours to his mast but Guido hears that not all of his parliamentary colleagues are so brazen/confident. A “what-if” contingency plan is being hatched by the men in grey suits, in the unlikely event of total wipe out north of 400+.
LISTEN: Ed Miliband’s World at One Car Crash
“No you don’t understand Martha”
Guido goes out for lunch and Ed Miliband drives into a brick wall. Typical…
Guido goes out for lunch and Ed Miliband drives into a brick wall. Typical…
Awkward Ed Miliband Guru Moments
In yesterday’s Sun column Guido revealed an awkward moment Ed Miliband would be proud of for his American campaigning guru Arnie Graf. Hoping some of his Obama community organising magic would rub off this side of the Atlantic, Labour sent Graf door knocking with Tessa Jowell. When she later invited him along to her surgery, he was not so keen, awkwardly asking whether she might like to go with someone closer to her. Maybe a friend or family member for a hospital visit, Graf optimistically suggested. America and Britain, still divided by a common language.
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