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MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013

Weiner Sexting Girl Shoots Celeb Porno

Continuing in the age old tradition of getting your kit off after being caught up in a political scandal, Sydney Leathers is not even bothering to wait until Anthony Weiner loses the Democratic primary in the race to be the next Mayor of New York. The latest girl involved in in his ongoing scandal fuelled slow motion car crash comeback has already managed to shoot a porn film:

“I’m Sydney Leathers. Anthony Weiner and I had a ‘sexting’ relationship for several months, and that came out in the press, so here I am!”

Christine Keeler, she ain’t…

Via Buzzfeed

Rolf Harris Re-Arrested After Further Allegations to Yewtree

This weekend Rolf Harris performed in Hampshire, Australia  telling the crowd:

“Just before I go any further I would just like to thank you all for my support … for your support. I didn’t say it very well, but you know what I mean. Thank you for your support, I will always wear it.”

According to local media:

“Answering screams of “I love you Rolf” from a male fan while introducing Waltzing Matilda, Harris responded: “I don’t know what I’m talking about now. Images of you loving me are all through my head.”"

Which is pretty weird.

Well he needs his fans support more than ever now – Harris was re-arrested today when he appeared to answer his bail conditions after Operation Yewtree received further allegations. Struth! 

Cruddas Says Cheers

The Sunday Times may well be appealing the case won by Peter Cruddas against their Insight team, but that has not stopped the former Tory treasurer cracking out the champers. Guido hears that Cruddas has written to a select few who did not put the boot in when he was stung by the theSunday Times to invite them to a “thank you for standing by me party”.
Given the Conservatives are refusing to give him an official apology, Guido does not imagine many in Downing Street or CCHQ made the invite list. 

Balls Ally Turns on Union Reforms

Labour’s summer fightback has so far consisted of poor Chris Leslie giving an off camera briefing and Chuka going on LBC. Where is everybody? As questions about Miliband’s direction grow, his shadow cabinet are nowhere to be seen. Yvette Cooper is lying low, as is Liam Byrne and Douglas Alexander. Once again Ed Balls has gone missing – he has not been seen properly in weeks. He’s allies are not so quiet though…
General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union Billy Hayes haspopped up to call for a rethink on Miliband’s plan to introduce union opt-in:

“We will not dress up as a good thing the battering of the union link, nor the reduction in Party control via open primaries. By insisting upon examining the practical problems of opt-in and primaries, perhaps a re-think can be prompted. That is essential if, in future, the Party is to avoid bankruptcy or becoming a state-funded liberal party.”

Given how close Hayes is to Balls, the intervention is certainly well timed. The CWU all but ran his leadership campaign as well as endorsing it. As one Labour source put it to Guido, Hayes “doesn’t fart without Ed Balls’ permission.” What does his old chum have to say?

Unions Burning Money

Is the public sector trade union Unison getting a little jealous of all the media attention that their rivals at Unite have been getting over the last few weeks? Guido hears they are splashing out over £81,000 to hire two new spinners who will earn a lot more than the typical public sector union member gets for their 35 hour week. Spending the cash fixing Labour selections would probably be a more effective way of generating publicity. 

Unison clearly have the cash to spare as they took over at Doncaster on Saturday sponsoring the “Unison Raceday” with 7 races including the “Unison Speaking Up For Public Services Maiden Auction Stakes” and the “Unison Everyone Deserves A Living Wage Handicap”. Their baron Dave Prentis has no problems living on his wage, he has a £127,000 pay and benefits package so he can afford to enjoy a flutter…

Where’s Rawnsley?

Last week Guido published some pretty damning evidence that Andrew Rawnsley had lifted vast swathes of his column almost word for word from a previous edition of the Economist. He has been silent about it ever since despite the chance to comment or refute the allegations. Yesterday the“the Observer’s award-winning Chief Political Commentator” was conspicuously absent from the paper, instead he was replaced by Joanna Biggs, the assistant editor at the London Review of Books. Guido hopes he is just on his holidays and not in trouble? Anyone missing Andrew’s insight too much should probably just buy a copy of the Economist…

Labour Frack Up on “Desolate” North

The fracking argument is not going away, with alarmist Nick Herbert stirring up trouble today by claiming it is the ‘biggest threat to countryside after housing’. Last week Labour jumped on Lord Howell’s comment that it should take place in “large and uninhabited and desolate areas, certainly in part of the North East”. He was forced to apologise for apparently suggesting anywhere in Labour’s northern strongholds could possibly be desolate. So surely none of their MPs would ever make such a suggestion?

Well, as revealed in yesterday’s Sun column, apart from Shadow Minister for Climate Change Luciana Berger who invited a Minister to visit Liverpool last year to see “the desolate sites”. Or the multi-millionaire left-wing firebrand MP Michael Meacher who claimed in April that “communities across the north were laid waste” and “many of those communities are still desolated today”. Or Leeds MP George Mudie who once said “my constituency, it is desolate.” Or another Labour millionaire Geoffrey Robinson who said his Coventry seat “has become derelict. People do not eat there socially, congregate there or spend time there. It is desolate.” Or what about Labour grandee Tony Benn who once declared “the truth is that whole areas of the country have been laid desolate”. What the frack…