WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012
Bookies Slash Odds on Tory Corby Win With Strauss
Ladbrokes are offering 50/1 that Strauss steps up to the crease and is made the Tory candidate for Corby, with the former England captain 16/1 to beat Andy Sawford and win the seat. A Ladbrokes spokesman said: “If the Tories send Strauss into bat in Corby their odds of securing the seat will tumble“. Only KP running for the LibDems could stop him…
UPDATE: The punters are piling their cash on Strauss for Corby and he is now 25/1 to be the Tory candidate.
UPDATE II: Odds have been slashed again – now 16/1.
The back story…Corby Tories Back Strauss in Local Media
The local press in Corby like the idea of Andrew Strauss knocking Labour’s Andy Sawford for six, as does one local Conservative councillor they have quoted:
Howzat?‘Corby borough councillor Rob McKellar said: “I couldn’t rule out voting for Andrew Strauss as a Conservative candidate if the rumours were to be true. I would like our next MP to be somebody who lives in the constituency and who has Corby and East Northamptonshire at heart.
But that is not to say a high-profile candidate couldn’t achieve this, while raising the profile of the area at the same time.”’
Mandy’s Harry Rant
Claims Guardian Will Never Make Money Again
The Prince of Darkness has today slammed the lack of Internet regulation which allowed Guido and others to publish the naked photos of Prince Harry last week. Moody Mandy also bemoaned the Guardian‘s future profit prospects:
Mandy can pluck Guido’s keyboard from his cold dead hands.
How beastly that the establishment cannot censor and control what is news anymore.“The bigger question is how the domestic media market can be made economic and subject to any form of regulation in an era when, a click away, there is access to information that respects no national boundaries and the laws of no single national parliament or the basic standards of conventional journalism. It is hard to see how some of the best-known sources of quality English-language journalism – the Times, New York Times, the Guardian spring to mind – will ever make money again. We come to grips with the fact that the internet is giving public access to uncorroborated, undigested and unmediated news, all in the name of free speech, is becoming one of the defining issues of the 21st century.”
Mandy can pluck Guido’s keyboard from his cold dead hands.
Andrew Strauss Could Stump Labour in Corby
Many have been wondering why England captain Andrew Strauss has quit international cricket. While it’s probably has more to do with his bad couple of years at the crease and major dramas in the dressing room, it’s well known that Andrew is a Tory and rumoured that he has an interest in moving into politics. He raised £25,000 for the party at a 2011 fundraiser…With the Tories struggling to find a candidate for the Corby by-election, perhaps it’s time for Strauss to serve again.
Selection meeting is this Friday, could he rise from the Corby ashes?
UPDATE: Strauss has retired not only from international cricket, but from Middlesex too. Coincidently Corby the tourism website says “the area has a long cricketing tradition.”
UPDATE II: Others are circling:
This seems an opportune moment to repeat my prophesy about Andrew Strauss one day becoming a Conservative MP.
Bob Crows About His Council House
Guido would rather bang his head against a brick wall than sit through a whole interview with Bob Crow, so thankfully LBC have clipped the important bit. The RMT’s resident thug justifies living in his luxury central London council house, because he likes it:
Crow asked “do we really want social housing purely for those people that are poor?” Well yes Bob, that is what they are for. People who can’t afford houses get state help. People earning £133,138 plus expenses should not.
Crow asked whether he would be judged for having a council house if he didn’t earn lots of money, and declared wealth should have nothing to do with it. He’s clearly never heard of renting.He argues that because he was born in a social house he should have one for life. The Frank Dobson mantra…
Cops Nick Ex-Times Hack Over Nightjack Blogger Hack
What Did Guardian’s Sabbagh Know and When?
Former Times hack Patrick Foster has we understand been nicked this morning by Operation Tuleta cops investigating the outing the previously anonymous Nightjack blogger in 2009. Earlier this year it was revealed that Foster had discovered the identity of the blogger through computer hacking. The media editor at The Times at the time was theGuardian’s current head of media, Dan Sabbagh.Even after the Nightjack scandal broke Sabbagh continued to commission him with work for the Media Guardian pages and judging by his tweet appears to still be in the loop with Foster:
...police came to his home this morning (unexpectedly) I understand...
UPDATE:
Cops Nick Ex-Times Hack Over Nightjack Blogger Hack, What Did Guardian’s Sabbagh Know and When? bit.ly/Ow9hLR
- @MediaGuido @GuidoFawkes My knowledge of arrests consists of my tweets. Knew about it about 3 mins before tweeting. More on MG shortly.
Clegg Wakes Up to LibDem Destruction
The last we heard of Nick Clegg was his post-Lords reform tantrum over Boundary Reviews. He used his very disappointed face then and it seems he is still smarting even after a few weeks in Spain. From the fearless pulpit of the Guardian he’s squared up to the Prime Minister, demanding that there be more taxes on the rich. You would never have guessed conference season was just around the corner…Clegg has told the Guardian that he plans to embark “on a strategy in which he will take no prisoners as he moves to shore up his party’s support in the runup to the 2015 general election.” Apparently “anyone who stands in his way… can expect a withering rebuke.” The political equivalent of being slapped with a wet fish.
It seems he forgot to tell his party that he was up to something though:
Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson in Lords @SusanKramer - didn't know Clegg plan for wealth tax & says "will be interesting to hear the details"
“We took a calculated collective gamble as a party when we went into coalition and clearly it has turned out to be a lot harder and a lot tougher than any of us could have anticipated at the time. We have lost a significant amount of support in the opinion polls, I have lost a significant amount of support.”At least he’s honest enough to point out that these potential tax rises are not in the national interest, but about saving his own skin.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012
Video: Another Heathrow Dough Blow for Yeo
Guido’s Heathrow/China story earlier was dismissed by pro-Yeo types (of which there are very few) as a conspiracy theory and a weak line of attack. Seems Sky News did not agree with them:
Just because a conflict of interest is declared, it does not mean the
Just because a conflict of interest is declared, it does not mean the
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