‘Severely utilitarian and philistine’
Apparently "This is a very large painting that was painted about 100 years ago":
Read it
Apparently "This is a very large painting that was painted about 100 years ago":
It seems to be a modern day benchmark of failure. When someone or something goes titsup, the shit hasn't really hit the fan until someone makes a Downfall spoof of you.
Well Elaine Bagshaw, Chairman of Liberal Youth, your day has come:
Thank you to the anonymous 3am VforVendetta256, obviously someone very much on the inside.
As many have pointed out, there is only one profession with a lower public opinion rating than politicians, and that's journos. A vicious pack of hacks are a formidable bunch and no one will know that more than the White House press spokesmen. For West Wing fans, CJ's sometimes effortless put downs to this feral bunch were some of the best moments of the whole show. But now that the West Wing is gone, TB has to fill his days with watching the actual White House in action.
There is a fascinating insight
LabourList is orgasmically proclaiming an apparently fantastic
Speaking during a visit to the Evening Standard Newspaper, Mr Gorbachev - the former Soviet leader whose Glasnost policies brought new freedom to Europe and helped end the Cold War, said he felt the Tory leader is too wedded to the policies of the Eighties:
"To me, the Conservative Party is not ready to give up the policies of the Reaganomics era. Maybe they would like to take the initiative but they are not ready for that yet."
Speaking of Gordon Brown, however, Mr Gorbachev said "I think he has made several really wise decisions that have been taken up by his partners in other countries."
David Cameron is clearly on the right track if failed former communists don't want him to be the Prime Minister.RBS and the FSA have some serious explaining to do after Fraser Nelson's breathtaking expose, the details of which can be found
TB is quite proud of the fact that despite working on this sodding dissertation for a fair few months now, he has only today, for the first time typed his subject matter into Wikipedia. What a treat greeted him when he did - once again proving what a reliable and steadfast source Wikipedia is, this 1982 song by The Kinks is stated as a historical source:
And rightly so.
Dolly is getting a lot stick from the
Well it's
TB has a eyes and ears everywhere but he doesn't envy his little friend in Lib Dem HQ today though. Apparently the whole email leak has gone down like a cup of sick with the Returning Officer of the Liberal Youth elections. A full scale witch-hunt is now under way to determine who the source was. Well Elaine certainly knows how to "wind up" the organisation in every sense of the word.
The party's press office had very little to say on the subject. TB put some questions to them earlier and they finally got round to replying:
Q. Is it true that the Cowley Street IT department are attempting to find the source of the leak?
A. "This won't be something we will be commenting on."
Q.What would the consequences for any person found guilty of this?
A. "This won't be something we will be commenting on."
Q.Do the Liberal Democrats officially condone the repression of free speech and the right to a free press by banning journalists from their youth forums, with false accusations?
A. "This won't be something we will be commenting on."
We'll take that as yes then.
An unbelievably helpful bunch! It's almost as if they are seriously contemplating taking up Elaine's helpful suggestion of scrapping the whole organisation.
Something tells TB that this whole saga isn't quite over yet... watch this space.
After it was exposed that Nottingham Student Union President Nsikan Edung had abused his taxpayer funded trip to China, TB's sources have confirmed that he was last night officially censured by the student council.
A motion of censure was put forward and 28 voted in favour, 3 against and 1 abstention. The matter has now been referred to the Union executive for investigation.
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So just as Tory Bear was getting into a good ol'chat about the whole email leak thing on the
Just when he thought that the Liberal Youth elections couldn't get any more farcical, TB is laughing on so many levels at this leaked email. Once the initial surprise passed that a member of the Liberal Democrats actually has an opinion on something, just how damaging this email is, began to sink in:
Rumours were flying, speculation was mounting, but now TB can confirm that Ed Hallam, of
This is well worth a watch if you have five minutes:
This open letter just caught TB's eye on Facebook. Is it a precondition of being a Liberal Democrat to have faux piety pour from your mouth at the drop of hat? What's with the whole holier than thou bullshit coming from the Bagshaw campaign? Both camps are as bad as each other.
The outrage felt on campus has spread to those outside the university who hate to see money wasted in such a ridiculous fashion. Tim Aker, Grassroots Coordinator of the TaxPayers’ Alliance and Nottingham Graduate, said: “This is a ridiculous use of the University’s funds. With his union’s members struggling to pay their bills, it’s wrong that this supposed student leader is partying on the other side of the world at taxpayers’ expense. Students are being forced to pay costly fees to go to university, but it seems some academic institutions are happy to throw money away on free jollies.”
CF and YBF's Christian May, slammed Edung’s jaunt as a complete waste of money. “Did this trip, paid for by the university, add any value to the education of ordinary Nottingham students? I very much doubt it. These are the kind of publicly funded jollies that must be stamped out during a recession. People are very loose with money when it isn’t their own. Just look at Derek Simpson of the Unite Union – living in luxury whist his members lose their jobs.”
Edung went on to boast that he planned to “check out some house parties, ruin diplomatic relations and spend a night in a Chinese cell.” A source close to Nottingham University Student Union claims that plans are underway to hold Edung accountable for his “inappropriate boasts” and to press university authorities to take further action. The source added, “this is what happens when union officials get too big for their boots.”
TB has been trying to get a straight answer out of the university all day. Firstly the President is not taking calls or returning emails. The university press office refused to comment on whether they paid for the trip and referred to it as a union matter. The union press officer was equally unhelpful. She stated firstly that she would look into it, then that she couldn't find out who had paid for the trip, or what it's purpose was. Finally she admitted she wasn't going to give out the information.
TB reckons they know they have cocked up here. His sources have confirmed that the trip was paid for by the University, so out of essentially public money. They seem to be determined to brush it all under the carpet.
You've got some explaining to do Mr President...
It seems that Sara Scarlett, the heckler of Harrogate, has been getting some flack for her very public outburst against her opponent for Chairman of Liberal Youth:
TB would have stood by his words. Over to you Elaine.It seems that
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