I rose today at 3.30 am, as I do every day. It was dark outside. The sun here does not dare venture out much before 7.00. There was an eerie silence…always a sign that something is about to kick off. When I went to bed last night…. Iain Dale and Yasmin Alibai-Brown were sparring on BBC News 24. I had to agree with Iain Dale’s assessment of that minor skirmish… it was 1-1…
BUT… this morning… it was different… there was blood on the walls….
The Ranting Penguin came through first on my dongle… I knew then…. that this was but the start of a very, very, hard day in British politics…
Things are so bad in South Wales that even the Chief Constable cannot go down to his local Tesco to buy Coco Pops without fear of an attack by the Oldgitsban.. a ‘proscribed’ group of elderly people who terrorise supermarkets on a Saturday and monitor the internet… when they could shop during the week….. just to annoy the middle classes who have to shop on Saturdays because of their own duties working for banks, estate agencies and…some say… law firms, the ‘meedjahuddin’ and advertising agencies.
I do not know who the Ranting Penguin is… all I know is… that when I see a feed from the blog… things are going to kick off and it is time for me to get the ‘kit’ on….
I read this story in The Telegraph… keeping an eye out for roaming gangs of Oldgitsban.…it is well known that this group of elderly insurgents rise early….get up at unusual hours… and are monitoring ‘communications’ on Twitter and in the blogs… I am grateful for their efforts… these people, without thought of reward… watch our liberties…watch our rights…
Being an ’embedded reporter’…. I do have to take instructions from the military… but… I can tell you… on this occasion… as I got out my laptop….even the local Brigadier was happy for me to report on what must be the STORY OF THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS OF SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE ANDREW MARR COMFORTS US ALL WITH HIS GROUND BREAKING PAP SHOW… The Andrew Marr Show – possibly the most trailed (advertised) show on the BBC?
I almost wept, as I saw the reports in the MAIL ON SUNDAY… about Tony Blair asking..
‘Find me some obviously sick children’
Some things are just so bad… that it is difficult for even a hardened blogger to report… and it is at times like this that I am glad we have the the Mail on Sunday to dig deep… as a ‘tribute’ to them… it is best that I let them take up the story…and let you…. decide on the ‘realpolitik’ of the matter…
BUT… it got worse… Gordon Brown had a secret stash of money…. the records being kept in an old exercise book.. and Brown seemed to spend a lot of time scheming to become prime minister… a position which he has held with exquisite lack of success, earning the soubriquet of being Britain’s worst prime minister…and he didn’t even start a f**king war…
The MAIL on SUNDAY… has the story
This is Charon…reporting from the front line…. I’m only sorry that there is no SNOW… I would have enjoyed doing the weather forecast and helping the people of Britain understand just how BAD…snow is… anyway… have a laugh… if you can…. as you read the latest revelations from Peter Watt, former (and very pissed off) General-Secretary of the Labour Party.
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Transparency declaration: Charon has voted Labour for nearly 30 years. This does not make him a war criminal.
This is worth a look:
‘WEB JOKERS MOCK AIRBRUSH DAVE’
The Daily Mirror reports that ‘David Cameron’s airbrushed poster campaign sets off internet spoof craze’
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/16/david-cameron-s-airbrushed-poster-campaign-sets-off-internet-spoof-craze-115875-21971434/
Has all this put you off voting Labour again?
Anna
Has it put me off Labour? No… because I am remember the sleaze at thed of John Major’s premiership. That was probably worse in some respects.
I may have a look at an Independent candidate this time round, though… but I would still prefer to have Labour in but under a different leader….
“Has it put me off Labour? No… because I am remember the sleaze at thed of John Major’s premiership. That was probably worse in some respects.
I may have a look at an Independent candidate this time round, though… but I would still prefer to have Labour in but under a different leader…. ”
What about Mandy?
I actually think that he’s one of the smartest politicians around.
Geoffrey – agree. Mandelson has always been very smart… Too late for this election? Maybe Brown will resign? Somehow… I don’t see it happening.
intersting that dale has sprung to ubiquity at a time when the country’s media are turning ever more towards the tories. i can’t remember a tory having such a high profile as a commentator for years. of course the right will deny it as the bbc is a bunch of trostkyites blah blah. on the (thankfully) rare occasions i have seen/heard him on the real media as opposed to in-house tory stuff, i think he has been billed as a tory hack (or some acceptable synonym for same). i trust this is still the case. if he is being put up as a neutral (yes of course no such thing exists) observer it would be somewhat rich, when (to do him justice) i don’t recall his ever having made any bones about his partisan stance. funny his affection to two ugly, violent bunches of slackjaws – west ham and the tories.
SW – Bonsoir… I see you are of fine form…
I am moving back to LONDON in early Feb… we shall drink… a distinct and ever present danger!