Cameron to Hugh Edwards: “Even the BBC… will have to say these are good results” (smirk)
Nick Robinson (on a day when Labour failed to retain a single county council): “Gordon Brown is stronger than he was, but not by much.”
Gordon: “I will not waver… I will get on with the job”
The job being what, exactly? Add your faves below.
"One person writing a letter doesn't mean that everyone is collapsing like a pack of cards." – Alan Sugar
He's getting on with the job of ruining the country and he has the brass neck to bring a Kinnock in. Unelected of course even though their will be a bye election where he could try that age old thing.
Democracy. He will end up with no-one else but Lords and Ladies who will have no mandate. Bit like himself .
I thought the question about Labour cutting public spending and them the one eyed lunatic denying it was just telling. I finally wonder though if Cameron can see the BBC for what it is.
Toenails was a disgrace. Tom Bradby on ITV was totally scathing of McShit's press conference, but Toenails just towed the Labour party line.
I also notice that beeboids seem much happier now, no Champagne but the fact that McTwat has survived (and so has the licence fee) is good news for the drug users and rent boy abusers at the BBC.
The job being what, exactly?
Power is its own reward.
Yep. BBC News 24 slagging Tories. "They didn't do very well"
"This won't win them a General Election"
"A good day for Labour". Oh they didn't say that but they think it.
r5 lies driveltime
" 38% is not very impressive"
Well you can bet your life that Alan Sugar isn't paying 50%+ tax rates.
It's those quotation marks again:
Tories 'winning across England'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8081729.stm
Later in the same article:
"The Conservatives' projection is down on the 44% they got last year and there was some evidence that in areas where Tory MPs had been embroiled in the expenses scandal, the Tory vote dropped."
AND: the Kinnock appointment shows how leaden Labour's political judgment is. However, don't expect the Beeb to say that – the Kinnocks are their darlings (behind Benn).
There's something odd about the length and intensity of this reshuffle – it has certainly kept the disastrous election results firmly in seciond place.
MPs should be paid the minimum wage and nothing more.
We'd have much better politicians then, because the only people who would enter politics would be those who genuinely want to serve the nation.
There should be no financial reward for entering politics.
bbc have stopped the labour councillors lost seats figure at 250.
sky are showing the up to date figures – a loss of 324 councillors
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Interactive-Graphics/Locals2009
deja vu – just like "monitoring the surge ". if the results don't fit the agenda, ignore them !
Yes I noticed the comment "even the BBC will have to admit…" David Cameron has made it quite clear that he knows that the BBC is biased against the comservatives . It is not just a few deluded internet nerds as the BBC would have you beleive.
Brown is getting on with the job?
Are there are still some things in the country that need to be destroyed?
Wark grills Hain.
But then Michael Crick spouts Brownite propaganda. Brown's back in charge and Flint does not matter, says Crick.
"Sir Alan is set to be nominated for a seat in the House of Lords in order to allow him to join the government. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8085254.stm
And to the BBC this is normal – if you can't get elected – just miss out the democratic part altogether.
It really gets me in the pit of my stomach the way this country is being "run". Not a word about what the people think. Only the corrupt elite matter and sod the peasants.
"The wife of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock is to be elevated to the House of Lords to enable her to take on the role vacated by Caroline Flint."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8086207.stm
So Browns cabinet will be made up of the unelected. Corruption at its worst and the BBC don't even mention this obvious anti-democratic move by Labour.
how can Gylnis become a minister in the UK gov. OK I understand about being made a peer, but she has (I would imagine) been reelected by voters to represent them in Europe, how can she possibly do both? As I ask in my blog, is she going to be paid for being MEP & minister? Brown is making a hash of things, regardless of what the Beeb are satying.
by the by, the independent Mayor of Hartlepool has been reelected beating labour yet again 🙂
I agree with John Horne Tooke @ 12:41 AM. Those words can be applied to the cabinet reshuffle and Mr. Brown's premiership as well.
In other news, Hoon out, Hain in. Martin, there's a punch line in there somewhere for you. You've been on top of these two (so to speak!) for a long time now.
I see that Gordoom, after saving the World himself, has now brought in an "Adonis" as transport secretary.
New Labour – The party that just keeps on giving!
Labour is the party that just keeps on taking.
Lib Dems being interviewed and saying they did really well because their share of the vote went up a bit!
And it still carried on this morning against Caroline Spellman
The Independent – 'Brown says: I am going nowhere'.
Clever.A bit like the undying expressions of support from his shrinking bunker buddies.
Sadly, he is taking hi scountry with him.
Peter
(written as I wait for the medical services for my Mum for the 3rd time this week. The footsoldiers are great, but the target masters overseen by great clunking numpties are presiding over an insane, failing system)
Robinson was a total disgrace all day yesterday on the BBC. Even by the BBC's low standards, he was shameful.
And we know Brown is sunk if he has to bring in failed businessman, Sugar !
Today's Telegraph has a report of Brown fiddling his expenses. This should be headline news on the BBC and Brown should resign for this reason alone.
Not to mention bringing in the corrupt, unelected Kinnocks !! Talk about scraping the barrel !
The BBC are saying NOTHING against Brown this morning.
BUT I finally think the Tory hierarchy have woken up to this. We will see round two tomorrow when the Euro election votes come out and Labour is again pummelled.
Very, very low key reporting of the local elections on the website. No story on the front page; second headline on the politics section; latest figures not updated as they are even more of a disaster for Labour.
When the governing party's vote collapses to historic lows, naturally the BBC should feel that the big news angle is that their opponents didn't get quite as many votes as expected.
Grant 8.59,
Sky News's website isn't shy of mentioning Brown's crooked expenses & the story is on the main page of ITN's website.
I've gone through the BBC website & found a brief mention of it.
('Brown waits on reshuffle response', http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8086717.stm)
This article is 36 paragraphs long & the Brown expenses story appears in paragraphs 35 & 36!!!
And it gets worse. This is paragraph 36:
"A Number 10 spokesman insisted Mr Brown had complied with the rules at all times, a fact backed up by the Commons authorities, but he had agreed to repay about £180 "for the avoidance of doubt"."
"A fact"!!!!!!!!!!
As a wise man says, you couldn't make it up!!
Toady this morning – "the tories didnt do so well" was the message
incredible – and after a day when labour has lost hundreds of council seats.
"a detailed analysis of Mr Brown’s expense claims also reveals that the Prime Minister claimed £30 on his office expenses for the cost of hiring a bagpiper to play at a ceremony for veterans."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5456789/mps-expenses-Gordon-Brown-billed-taxpayer-for-two-second-homes.html
I like the way that the BBC, when showing this graphic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/local_council/09/map/html/map.stm
in it's television reports of the Local Elections, do so in black/white/grey. (BBC News24, 11am, 6th June 2009)
Just watched BBC 1 news. There was only the merest mention of the election results hidden in a long article about what a great PM the snot gobbler is. This is an absolute disgrace.
I guess there aren't many champagne bottles littering broadcasting house this morning.
Martin 6:55 PM, June 05,
…but Toenails just towed the Labour party line.
"Towed" in this sense should be without the 'w'. Remove it and the statement is quite funny.
Why is Robinson called "Toenails?"
TooTrue: we've been asking why he's "toenails" for ages – it's what he's referred to as on Guido's blog too. Martin: any answers?
I thought he was called 'Toenails' as that was the only part of his anatomy that was still visible as he is so far up Brown's hoop. I stand to be corrected.
David Cameron "Even the BBC .. will have to say these are good results".
Whew! Daring Dave! If he thinks the coverage of politics by the 'impartial' BBC merits this type of comment, then perhaps he can be a lot more forthright in condemning the threat to democracy that the quasi-Pravda BBC represents? Until that time, he really can't be taken seriously as a Conservative Leader or a credible candidate to run the country.
Oh, and Hew Edwards, what an odiously biased person he is.
Judith Moritz, the reporter sent to Yvette Cooper's constituency of Castleford, has been doing sterling work on BBC News 24, trying to boost Brown's spirits as best she can but, as the day's gone on, the job has been getting harder and harder for her.
Her earlier report said she met a range of opinions, some pro-Brown, some anti-Brown, but she emphasized only the "very positive" comments (beginning and ending with them). "Those who knew her (Yvette Cooper), those who had dealings with her as a local MP, thought it was worth supporting her in her support of Gordon Brown". (She's great, that Yvette Cooper, isn't she Judith?)
More recently, the "less positive" voters seem to have been talking to her (off camera), & her tone has grown less chirpy. She interviewed a Labour and a Conservative councillor (giving the Brown-backing Labourite the first and the last word, of course) and went on, "There you go. At the end there a note of support for Gordon Brown" and "if Gordon Brown is watching he'll be pleased to know he has some support in Castleford".
Yes Yvette Cooper, a couple of voters and a Labour councillor all support Brown. Relax Gordon, you're safe!
Judith Moritz has just been back on BBC News 24. Peter Sissons asked her about Yvette Cooper & Ed Balls being "not untainted by the expenses scandal". She ignored him & listed some of the nice qualities people say Yvette Cooper has instead. There will doubtless be more reports later. I bet Ms Moritz will continue not to mention Yvette's fiddles (nor to ask the voters about them either).
The voters of Castleford are still divided. Judith says she's spoken to "a fair number of people" who think Brown should stay, but also "enough" who don't – and "a few" who are tired of "the three major parties". Her descriptions of what the pro-Brown voters think are very general, the anti-Brown ones much more specific, which makes me suspicious. That said, the only person she quotes ("a woman") is a staunch Brown defender.
I believe her to be a biased BBC journalist, whose bias can't help seeping through her reluctant attempts at even-handedness.
Living quite near to Castleford, I expect it is possible to get a couple of positive quotes out of the locals, if you interview enough.
Thanks for that insight, Feargal! Nice to know that he went in headfirst!
"Why is Robinson called "Toenails?"
Because he is so far up Gordon Brown's arse, you can only see his toenails sticking out!
When Labour apologists say that these results are a clear sign that the public are "telling us to get on with the job", That can only be getting on with the single and last job of a Government which is the singular job of going to see the Queen to request a dissolution of Parliament.
The public are telling labour very very clearly to GO!!!