Giulio Andreotti, the EU and the Mafia | The Commentator
BBC Leveson Coverage Let Down Public | Guardian
Ed Tweets Tribute As If Fergie Had Died | Star
Thatcher Wanted to Leave EU After Office | Speccie
Alternative Queen’s Speech | Douglas Carswell
Leveson’s Mr Jay Becomes High Court Judge | MediaGuido
Massage Parlour Say They Didn’t Bruise Nigel Evans | Times
Balls is Not Pulling His Weight | Peter Hain
Ed Can’t Speak Human | Mary Riddell
Three-Pint Eurosceptic Tory Heroes | Nigel Farage
Letter to Stephen Hawking | The Commentator
BBC Leveson Coverage Let Down Public | Guardian
Ed Tweets Tribute As If Fergie Had Died | Star
Thatcher Wanted to Leave EU After Office | Speccie
Alternative Queen’s Speech | Douglas Carswell
Leveson’s Mr Jay Becomes High Court Judge | MediaGuido
Massage Parlour Say They Didn’t Bruise Nigel Evans | Times
Balls is Not Pulling His Weight | Peter Hain
Ed Can’t Speak Human | Mary Riddell
Three-Pint Eurosceptic Tory Heroes | Nigel Farage
Letter to Stephen Hawking | The Commentator
Ashcroft V Lynton Gets Bloody
When Lynton Crosby was hired by Cameron, a grumpy Lord Ashcroft kindly warned the Aussie hardman:
It looks like the good Lord’s lunch yesterday with Labour’s attack dogs has paid off. Can it be a coincidence that the limelight is shining on Crosby just hours later? Labour Twitter lines to take are full of digs at the antipodean spinner, for example:
Dugher, singing for his supper.
“Finally, I know you understand as much as anyone that it’s never a good thing when the adviser is the story. That being the case, I’m sure you’ll get on with the job and stay out of the limelight. Meanwhile, I’ll be following progress closely and will no doubt have more to say as things unfold.”Taking to Twitter Lord Ashcroft has been quick to get with the Twitter meme thing, going so far as to recommend a Downfall Parody video:
It looks like the good Lord’s lunch yesterday with Labour’s attack dogs has paid off. Can it be a coincidence that the limelight is shining on Crosby just hours later? Labour Twitter lines to take are full of digs at the antipodean spinner, for example:
Dugher, singing for his supper.
Nadine has been WATCH: Dave Trashes Chukapedia
It was an open goal for the Prime Minister when he came face to face with Chuka “Barack” Umunna in the Commons. Did he score? Yes he did…
UPDATE:
UPDATE:
Labour Expenses Piggy Tries to Run Again
Expenses trougher and Labour’s former Enfield North MP Joan Ryan has some nerve. In a letter to her local Labour Party seen by Guido, Ryan begs them for her support, saying she wants to run again in 2015: “we have to select the best candidate to win for Labour in Endfield North… now I’m asking for your support to become Labour’s parliamentary candidate”. Apparently with a straight face, she insists “had it not been for the changes to parliamentary boundaries we would still have a Labour MP in Enfield North”.Definitely nothing to do with the fact that during the expenses scandal Ryan was exposed as having claimed £4,500 for work on her second home, having to pay back over £5,000 in mortgage interest the following year. Her wikipedia page was mysteriously edited at least ten times from inside the parliamentary estate in an attempt to remove details of her expenses indiscretions. For some reason no mention of any of this in Ryan’s letter. And certainly no apology. Her local party have given her short shrift so far, the final selection meeting is tomorrow…
UPDATE: Ryan’s ex-agent Chris Deacon has come out against her plans for a return:
“I think the membership feels that for us to win we need a fresh, new candidate to take the party forward.”
Maggie’s EU-Turn
A very interesting revelation from Charles Moore at last night’s Speccie event at Cadogan Hall: Maggie wanted Britain to leave the EU after she left office. According to Moore it “became her view… after the Maastricht Treaty in 1992″, but was kept quiet on the advice of her advisers.Judging by the reaction to Lord Lawson’s comments yesterday, you can bet Tory MPs will be taking note…WATCH: Dennis Skinner’s Black Rod Joke 2013
“Royal Mail for sale, Queen’s head privatised.” He’s had worse…
Ed Screws Up Fergie Tribute
Ed and Twitter is always a great source of amusement. Here is his awkward tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson:
Literally hundreds more had the same sentiment. “A generation will remember him fondly from Blackbusters.”
Literally hundreds more had the same sentiment. “A generation will remember him fondly from Blackbusters.”
Hain Bashes Balls
The tension from Labour’s underwhelming performance at the locals last week is boiling over. Last night Peter Hain comically denied he was firing a broadside against Ed Balls for not pulling his weight:
It was described by the Guardian as a ‘coded attack’, but now the full piece in Progress is out, the word coded looks like a massive understatement:
It was described by the Guardian as a ‘coded attack’, but now the full piece in Progress is out, the word coded looks like a massive understatement:
If that is a ‘coded attack’, then bring on the open fireworks. Ever the master of subtly, Hain is so loyal to Miliband, Guido doubts he rumbled Macavity Balls without permission.Though worth remembering the lecture is coming from someone who quit the Shadow Cabinet to make some money…“Labour’s Treasury team need to get out on the stump now and work even harder. It shouldn’t just be left to Ed and Harriet to carry the heavy load, whether on the World at One, the Today programme or anywhere else.”
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