Mark Wadsworth: Troughers

Monday 22 March 2010

Troughers

9 comments:

Antisthenes said...: These little piggies made their house of fifty pound notes so the big bad Times and Channel 4 huffed and they puffed until their house fell down.; 22 March 2010 at 20:24
dearieme said...: Nice one. Or, rather, nice three.; 22 March 2010 at 20:31
Anonymous said...: Could'nt give a shit about the two
piggies on the wings,its the sad
sow in the middle who needs the
undivided attenton of the bitter and twisted brigade. This third rate antipodean leaping ratbag is
due for a top drawer witch hunt
before she slithers from the spotlight.
No holds barred for this back stabbing daughter of Babylon

The Moving Hand; 22 March 2010 at 22:13
Mark Wadsworth said...: Anti, they've just been suspended from the Labour party, yippee. Now to get most of the other 643 suspended, preferably permanently.

D, ta.

TMH, can you clarify that?; 22 March 2010 at 22:34
Steven_L said...: Stinks doesn't it. I mean say I used all the privileged information I have access to in order to dishonestly line my pockets?

I happen to know loads of good scams, should I do a 'Hoon' and, to put it bluntly, turn it into cash?

What a bunch of knobs.; 23 March 2010 at 00:09
ukipwebmaster said...: Don't forget Sir John Butterfill the Tory MP for Bournemouth West:

http://www.ukip.tv/?p=1075; 23 March 2010 at 04:24
James Higham said...: You'd have no space for all the troughers.; 23 March 2010 at 11:03
Mark Wadsworth said...: S_L, what surprises me is the headline this has caused, despite it is nothing new, politicians have been doing this since they invented themselves, and the Tories are just as bad.

UWM, I haven't, but he's not hitting the headlines and I wouldn't recognise him from Adam.

JH, that's why I'm doing them three or four at a time.; 23 March 2010 at 11:11
Umbongo said...: "what surprises me is the headline this has caused"

Not really - this went out on Channel 4 Dispatches - the same channel that gave us the Global Warming Swindle. It was something even the BBC could not ignore. So what does the BBC do? (Per my listening to Today and watching BBC News 24) analogously to the way the GWS story was spun (and is still spun) as a conspiracy by Big Oil-funded denialists, the ex-Ministers selling influence story is spun as a triumph for Brown by telling us that:

1. the whiter than white Labour machine is so appalled by this unique breach of ethics that it has dealt with the crooks summarily ie they are suspended from the parliamentary party leaving just the good guys in position, unlike
2. (by implication and because it's too long ago for any casual listener/viewer to make an immediate valid comparison) the Tories who failed to deal with real villains - the Tory "cash for questions" crowd - who were as bad as or worse than the present crooks.
3. (via Nick Robinson) Brown is relieved to get rid of the remnants of the Blair dispensation which have been corrupting the purity of the Brown vision.

The BBC furthers its "impartial" claims by having Sheena "learn" that 3 Labour and 1 Conservative MP have been lobbying on behalf of various sunny islands in the tropics in return for holidays paid for by same paradises (cue glimpse of one Labour MP while acres of space given to Amess, the sole Conservative).; 23 March 2010 at 12:34

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