Well, yes you are!

So, the chairman of Ipsa believes every MP who has made a complaint about Ipsa – including all of us who took part in a Westminster Hall debate on the subject on 16 June – is a liar.

-- a rather miffed Tom Harris.

Well, Tom, what happened to that EU Referendum that Labour promised us?

What happened to Cameron's cast-iron guarantee?

What happened to the Lib-Dems' pre-election promises?

Etc., etc., etc.

Every single one of you cunts has stood foursquare behind your parties' policies and reneged on at least one each. Legal sophistry aside, how does that make you fucking paragons of virtue then?

Quote of the picosecond

James Delingpole spends a large part of the rather stirring article being incredibly contemptuous about sneering demagogue Michael White—an activity so worthy that even I, who despise such government interventions, almost believe should be subsidised.

-- The Devil

Quote of the picosecond

He has also answered an age-old question of who do you have to fuck to get promoted around here…

-- Guido

Quote of the ... err ... thingy!

Christopher Hitchens comments:

"The heir to the throne seems to possess the ability to surround himself—perhaps by some mysterious ultramagnetic force?—with every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer, and water-diviner within range."

Found here.*

*Is that my last ever snippage from the Times?

Quote of the demifemtonanosecond

Labour could do a lot worse. Indeed, it is probably about to do a lot worse.

Heh.

Quote of the femtosecond - neither fish nor fowl edition

Even worse, the Bloggers I read, be they Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem, Libertarian or even B & D...

Mummy!

Quote of the fucking century, already

As there is no real problem with the Internet, it's not surprising that some of our top minds have been working diligently on a solution.

-- David Harsanyi, Reason magazine

Quote of last century?

Via a Mr P. Hitchens, George Orwell said:

‘Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals ... If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’

This is why an iron control of the media is not necessary -- all you need to do is make sure that your view of the world is the current orthodoxy.

Quote of the day...

Here.

Quote of the hectodeminanosecond

* - they're not.

Cutting!

Anyway, Tory manifesto today… decided not to risk further injury and merely skimmed it. Unlike Labour’s manifesto it’s full of pictures, diagrams, case studies and other fun little highlights to give a pleasingly friendly, caring and progressive impression. No idea if the substance matches. I’ve given up trying to work out what the Tories stand for.

I thought that was a bit rich coming from a bloody LIB-DEM!!

Quote of the day

They said Blair deserved the benefit of the doubt, back in 1997. He didn't. He was worse than anyone could have imagined.

"New Labour was a recognition that the values of enterprise and aspiration could be fused with a commitment to social justice and fairness. And the party that best exemplifies that view now is David Cameron's Conservative Party.".
Michael Gove, quoted in the Telegraph, March 2010

The warning signs are all there, from "heir to Blair" to "cast iron promises". If you support the Tories and help to put the new Blair on the throne, you will regret it.

-- Vladimir

From my very own blog's comments, as well!

Thought for the day

Imagine how different the story would've been if Jesus had been crucified on April Fool's Day...
-- Suman Biswas

Quote of the hectonanosecond

It's nice to see him make a speech he's not being paid for.
-- David Cameron, referring to Tony Blair

Quote of the picoseptosecond

John and I are not worthy because we are gay blokes sucking men off in toilets
-- Kevin Boatang*

*I accept there may be a bit of missing context in this specific quote.

Quote of the deminanosecond

There’s anger… and incredulity about their stupidity… getting suckered by a sting like this.
-- Jack Straw

Quote of the septonanosecond

Shows what a poor condition our economy is in that an overspend of £160bn - 12% of GDP, unprecedented in our peacetime history - is regarded as some kind of triumph.

-- Fraser Nelson

Quote of the day

I plan to have my body stuffed with tobacco and then get cremated. Then I want my ashes thrown into the faces of the people on my list so I can get right up their noses, one last time.

-- Leg-Iron

An astonishing lack of self-awareness

I've only just noticed this:

This is the LibDem election slogan...

‘Change That Works For You. Building A Fairer Britain’.

See what they've done there? Combined the Tory and Labour election slogans into one. Isn't that what people hate about politics currently? No originality, and all three parties eating off the same electoral carcass.

-- Iain Dale (!!!)

Quote of the day

A dump in a carrier bag should be able to oust Gordon Brown.
-- the nameless libertarian, discussing DING.