Cowley Street Sanctioned Bagshaw Coup

TB's ears at Lib Dem HQ have confirmed that Baroness Ros Scott - the president of Liberal Democrats sanctioned the coup against the now former Liberal Youth Chairman. It is no surprise then that this one succeeded where so many failed before. Scott was approached by the plotters before the letter was put to Bagshaw and given the fact so many of the executive had already resigned it was simple to set up the two thirds no confidence constitutional passage out for Bagshaw. Elaine tried to fight it, but with the party machine against her she soon realised her time was up.

Loyal to the End

As the dust sort of settles on the Liberal Youth bunfight, two more yellows have jumped ship. James "Eva" Shaddock, loyal to the end to his lover and wee

James Harrison

 who TB is most glad to see the back of, both hung up their sandals this afternoon. These two were the only ones to stand by Elaine Bagshaw both privately and publicly, loyal dogs to the end.

James Shaddock's resignation letter about his caring friend is well worth a read if you fancy

a laugh

.

Puts Elaine's mention of a year of ups-and-downs into perspective.

The Bagshaw Coup

Well Lib Dems certainly know how to organise a coup. Maybe Elaine would have survived if she had stayed in the Labour Party. TB has been working the phones to find out what really happened. All this is on the record from a key figure in Liberal Youth:

"Elaine's explanation that she's resigning because she's 'no longer able to give this position the attention it deserves' is complete bullshit: it's the latest lie from a compulsive liar. Elaine was forced to resign because the Liberal Youth exec finally had the guts to stand up to her, and organised a coup. Seven committee members signed a letter of no confidence over the weekend giving her three days to resign immediately. She knew that her time was up, and we could do this the easy way, or the hard way."

It seems that her main reason for resigning was hilariously to attempt to salvage something of her reputation for her future political career. She sobbed to Cowley Street to try get the coup stamped out but they cut her loose.

"I mean, how can you overturn being no-confidenced by over half your own exec? What was she thinking? We won't be sorry to see the back of this bruiser and her bullying ways. Though now that she's got more time on her hands, Christ help us if she ever tries to stand for parliament. As a Lib Dem, anyway."

TB has been

warning

the Liberal Youthers about Bagshaw since March last year. Hate to say he told you so...

Liberal Youth Chairman Throws in Towel

TB was hearing stirrings of this last night but couldn't get it confirmed. Good news is that Elaine Bagshaw has resigned as Chairman of Liberal Youth. After months of chaos and resignations it seems this once Labour Student hack has decided to pack it all in.

+++developing+++

UPDATE: 13.16: 

From: "LiberalYouth Admin"
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:06:00 -0000
Subject: A Message From Elaine Bagshaw

Dear all,

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have to inform you that I will stepping down as your Chair, effective immediately.


This is not a position I wanted to be in, but unfortunately recent events have meant that I'm no longer able to give this position the attention it deserves, and to give all of you the Chair that you deserve.

Blah blah blah.

TB hears that it wasn't exactly a happy parting. Rows, tantrums and tears before bedtime. This leaves "Britains Liberal Youth movement" in even more chaos than they were in already. Expecting an epic bunfight.

UPDATE - 13.48: Oh it's good, really good. Watch this space.

On Your Blog

Hordes of lefties let out wails as it emerged late Sunday that Lord Tebbit has joined the blogosphere:

I have often enough been called a rotten old blogger (or something which sounded like that) but to be a Telegraph old blogger is a new experience, and I’m proud to join a team which includes a lot of people I admire.

Something tells TB

this

is going to be good.

One More

Neil Hepburn made TB laugh with yet another

mock up

of the Dave poster:

Wonder what the King Over the Water really makes of the direction things are going in.

+++Wootton Bassett Islam4UK March Called Off+++

Seems the scumbags have chickened out.

Good news.

Quote of the Day

-Paul Goodman

Enough

said.

"Funeral Hearses are Circling Parliament Sq"

Make no mistake how damaging the Peter Watt expose is. Finally someone from the heart of Downing Street is saying the truth. It's telling how quick

LabourList

are to come out of the blocks with the official line:

That's not what TB is hearing from one of his more reliable Labour sources though:

"Watt an earth is going? I've heard a rumour that a fleet of funeral hearses are circling parliament square. It's so bad. I wouldn't rule out another plot at this rate: regicide or cannibalism? Need gallows humour to get through.

The ferrets are well and truly fretting. The Mail

editorial

is killer:

"This is not so much a government in crisis as a crisis pretending to be a government"

Tories Put Boot In re Watt

Commenting on the revelations by former Labour General Secretary Peter Watt, Conservative Party Chairman, Eric Pickles said:

"After a week in which six senior Cabinet Ministers failed to back the Prime Minister, this is yet more evidence of the dysfuntion at the heart of Gordon Brown's Government. It is now clearer than ever that we can't go on like this with such a weak Prime Minister and such a divided government."

TB makes that the 178,492nd thing we can't go on like this week.

Watt a Legend

"Peter, we've spent 10 years working with Gordon and we don't like him. The more the public get to know, the less they will like him too"

Dale has quite the scoop in bagging Peter Watt's book.

The Mail has the serialisation

. Despite being able to see the pound signs glowing in Watt's eyes on Sky a moment ago, he raises some

serious points

:

Mr Brown’s Cabinet ally Douglas Alexander said the PM’s inner circle wanted an early Election partly because even they didn’t like him – and they feared the British public would soon form the same view.

The day Mr Brown called off the 2007 Election, denying he had ever intended to hold one, Labour chiefs had a fleet of limousines circling Parliament Square ready to take Ministers on the campaign trail, and had 1.5million leaflets ready to be posted.

No10 is ‘completely dysfunctional’ under Mr Brown, who runs the country ‘by making it up as he goes along’.

Sulking Mr Brown walked out of a Downing Street dinner party with US politicians because they sat down without his permission.

Ouch.

The most damning part has to be the evidence of just how was the "election that never was" was:

He also reveals the chaos caused when Mr Brown made his U-turn on the Election during a TV interview.

‘As he spoke, the fleet of limousines ordered at No10’s behest was circling Parliament Square.
'They had come . . . to collect Ministers and whisk them off on the campaign trail. They were sent away on a pretext, to spare us the humiliation of anyone spotting them lined up outside our offices.

‘We had already spent £1.2million. Somewhere in a mail depot were hundreds of sacks of personalised letters to voters in marginal seats – 1.5million envelopes waiting to go.’

Smoking stuff.


DALE:

Has the 101.

Reloaded: Save Our Gordon!

A long night but enjoy!

Gordon Invades CCHQ

TB's CCHQ eyes got in touch:

Seems Gordon took the Cabinet on a field trip to CCHQ for a lesson in party unity.

Exclusive Footage From NI

Had to be done.

What Were They Thinking?

It's basically an advert but this is very funny:

The morning after the night before...

From

here

.

According to The Telegraph

Harman did have a hand in this. As predicted by TB as soon as it was breaking. Gordon apparently begged for Cabinet support. Ignore their fake blustering, the government is decaying before our very eyes. Come on Gordon, give in, make it all go away.

Go to the Palace.

Best Poster Ever

Prescott

tried it

, Clifford Singer the man behind the hilariously bad "

Other TPA

" site

tried it

(with the

endorsment

of Labour PPC and Second Coming Chuka Umunna and surprise surprise

a man

who drunkenly bragged he coordinated Labour PPC's twitter activities.) Yet this one has to be the most hilarious coat tailing attempt by a

politico

to rip of the Conservatives Cameron poster:

Just wow.

Steve Hilton Nicked

The Birmingham '08 

arrest

of Steve Hilton has been circulating for a while now, the culmination of a week of briefing against him by a member of the Shadow Cabinet. One thing that immediatly came into TB's mind was that who has honestly never been tempted to call someone a wanker during a dispute with a train guard?

It's not like he slapped his wife or slept with a seventeen year old, to mention just two stories about Labour or government staffers that TB has heard... A great little scoop for Cathy Newman but the copy was handed to her on a plate. This story will and should blow over.

Tory Bear Vs LabourList

As requested.. Last night's fun and games:

Keep Calm and Kerry On

Political Scrapbook

have proved their insider credentials by regurgitating the emails from backbenchers in reply to the plot against Gordo, that once again the Cabinet chickened out of. Wonder who was putting those out eh? However their response to

KerryOut

was at least witty and TB is arranging the local printers to have this blown up to A0 for the office wall:

Legendary use of Paint by Labour HQ New Media bods.

Ouch

If Labour can't get behind their leader why should rest of the country?

Election, now, please.