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Another One Bites the Dust

It seems to be a recurring theme of the week, over promoted Labour drones being given a bloody good kicking on television. First it was Miliband Jnr and last night Ben Bradshaw took a thumping from not only Dimbleby and Starkey on the panel, but from the audience as well. Just a little fact check Ben, you probably should have got one of your minions to show you

this poll

before you quoted Wednesday's figures as proof the Sun had no effect:

Bradshaw went on to claim he was a child during the Polanski scandal, he was 17. Despite being Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport he displayed an utter ignorance of cinema that was a "bit before his time."

Would be funny if these idiots weren't actually in charge.

No

The Irish have a chance today to stop the EU from becoming the political equivalent of John Leslie.

No meant no the first time. Best of luck to the No campaign today.

Blaney's Blarney Order

Congratulations to TB's comrade at arms Donal Blaney tonight for dragging the law kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The nation's media is reporting how, along with the help of one Matthew Richardson, Blaney has become the first person in the world to serve an injunction via Twitter. More important though are the implications that this ruling will have for anonymous copyrighted attacks:





Donal has

just blogged

: "Today is a great day for the overwhelming majority of well-meaning, decent people who use the internet and a bad day for bullies. It is, as I have said in the media, the day the scales of justice were tipped back in favour of innocent victims. I am proud that my firm, Griffin Law, has set precedent and made law today.

Now let's see which left-wing blogger is behind this: I am sure the same names spring to your minds as spring to mind..."

One to watch...

UPDATED: Who is this TB guy anyway?

The suits went to the cleaners this morning, the mane is getting a trim, hotel booked etc. Hundreds of little blue teddies are ready to invade Manchester. TB is surprisingly organised for conference this year. He even upgraded the karaoke venue this afternoon enabling space for another thirty or so... Got your ticket yet?

TB is seemingly going to be a busy little bear next week. Through the wonders of

Fringelist

you can see what events he is rocking up to and involved in

here

. You can also see exactly what is going on across the fringe and create your own profile, and more importantly - blackberry/iphone accessible schedule.

Some highlights though:

Sunday:

Conservative Future Conference

with training by

YBF

- TB will be there most of the afternoon and evening. Was great last year and set to be even better this time round. TB will be speaking for half an hour or so about bloggery type things.

Monday:

From 10am till 1pm TB will be debating toryness on the

Victoria Derbyshire Show

on Radio 5. Be sure to tune in if you're not in Manchester.

Lots going on in the evening from the

Pub Quiz

to the

CF curry night

followed of course by TB's Karaoke. This will be taking place in the Studio Club below Chicago Rock, 23 St Peters Street - opposite the main conference venue. It kicks off at 11pm and will go till the small hours. Lots of special guests lined up... Get your ticket here for a fiver, or a tenner on the door.

Tuesday:

Bright and early TB will be on a panel debating the role of the BBC in the new media age. This is happening at 10.15 in the

Freedom Zone

. Full details

here

.

At 2pm he will also be at the Sunlight Centre's

Disinfecting Parliament Debate

and then hopefully getting a long overdue drink with

Dizzy

.

Wednesday:

Before the Party for Change TB and

@Timforchange

will be hosting a Tweet Up and bloggers chinwag in VIP room of the Party for Change. More details

here

. Will be good to put some faces to names and skip the queues before the main event.

No doubt he will be loitering around other events and propping up the bar in the Midland. You can't miss him, he's about a foot and a half tall and covered in blue fur.

myconservatives.com

Telegraph

have been given the first glimpse:

"

MyConservatives.com

, which goes live at 10am, will build on the lessons the Party has learnt from websites such as My.BarackObama.com, by allowing individual users to organise “microcampaigns” and set specific fund-raising targets for online donations. It will also let people telephone canvass from home as well as organise and sell tickets for events online."

Game on.

Last Orders for Labour

TB has eyes and ears everywhere. As if Stephen Twigg throwing some shapes on the dance floor at the Labour Students "Disco" last night wasn't funny enough, the scene at the Grand Hotel Bar will make you chuckle. First there was the singing around the piano:

Then TB's sources told of the heartbreaking scene at 5am, when the bar finally closed. Drunk hacks began banging on the tables, stamping their feet, wine soaked voices in unison shouting...

"Four more years, four more years, four more years."

Eduction Eduction Eduction!

A new low for Labour in their latest

Party Political Broadcast

:

3/10, see me.

Cheers for the anonymous tip-off.

UPDATE: #CPC #cpc09

If you hate Twitter look away now.

As Labour's swan song in Brighton draws to a close attention inevitably shifts toward the Tories. People have tentatively begun tweeting with a different combination of hash tags for Dave's rave in Manchester. Hash tags should be obvious and short - Conservative Party Conference?

#CPC

anyone?

UPDATE 23:45: Apologies for the continued techiness, however, after much discussion with the Tory twitterati a compromise of #cpc09 has been drawn. CPC was getting confused with the Conservative Party of Canada, apparently. TB didn't know what all the fuss was aboot.

Having been an absolute loser for the last hour he is now going to finish the video he has been trying to work on all day. All sorts of things have cropped up though.

Watch this space.

News in Blue Briefs

This has to be TB's fav News in Briefs in a while:

The honour of welcoming the Conservatives in from the cold, in a pair of blue lacy knickers, was bestowed to Keeley, 22, from Bromley who said:

"David Cameron is the man. Looking at his background, he needs to prove he's in touch with hard-working Britons. However this is his time. Everyone will expect him to make things better. He can't possibly do this instantly as he will inherit huge, long-term, deep rooted problems. WE need to allow him time to implement fresh ideas and polices that will get the country off its knees."

Smirk.

Clone Wars

Tickets are selling nicely so take advantage of the £5 price tag while you can. You'll also have an opportunity to get your hands on one of these little fellas:

Only at TB's events though.

Harman Smears Osborne

It seems that

Paul Waugh

did a double take too when listening to Harriet Harman's sexist rantings this lunchtime. As TB

said at the time

, it seems Ms. Harman has been attending evening classes at the Damian McBride School of Political Studies. Paul goes into

more detail

:

Contrasting Labour's record on equalities and feminism with that of the Tories, she said that David Cameron would extend foxhunting rights to everyone, while George Osborne would replace a SureStart in every community with "a lapdancing club in every community".

I immediately thought this was odd. Why single out Osborne and lapdancing? There is no Shadow Treasury policy on the issue, as far as I am aware. Could this have been a sly reference to something about Osborne's private life? After all the News of the World had snaps of him in his youth next to a prostitute - snaps that were referred to in the "smeargate" affair.

Anyway, I've just been told by sources close to Harman that no smear was intended. It was simply meant to be a jokey reference to lapdancing club tickets distributed during last year's Tory conference in Birmingham.

Yeah right.

If looks could kill...

G

ordon isn't having a good day with front pages. He can protest about the media as much as he wants, but they can smell the stench of decay coming from his government and won't ignore it. It's all very well whining, but it's not as if he helps matters by being rude, obnoxious and arrogant in a

live TV interview

.

The overbearing message from Labour Conference?

Go back to your constituencies and prepare for opposition.

Score

Gulags for slags, huts for sluts, camps for tramps, jail for tail, the list is goes on, but Labour's terrifying attempts at social engineering have given

Big Brother Watch

their first front page hit. This mornings metro had their headline and a quote from them rolled out across every bus and train in the country.

Not bad for an operation that has only just set up!

Ed Miliband Owned by Paxman

The wunderkid Ed Miliband just got a vintage Paxman creaming

on Newsnight

. Imagine Blinky Balls crossed with the guy out of the South Park film. He kept saying "If you'd just let me finish, if you'd just let me finish.. errr let's not turn this into one of those interviews, can I finish?"

Eventually Paxman lost it and in exasperation said "yes yes I'm trying to let you finish, I want you to finish."

Popcorn worthy.

UPDATE 00.01: As

Alex Massie

pointed out to TB, the similarities to this are uncanny:



"This is like watching Bambi's mother be punched by John Leslie..."

The Sun Shines for Dave

Didn't see this one coming, but tonight the Sun has cocked up the entire post GB speech narrative by announcing their endorsment for Dave. It may have been obvious it would happen eventually but the timing is spectacular.

Shares in Nokia will be through the roof tomorrow.

The Tony and Gordon Show 2.0

It seems our Tone is set to make

a bit of a comeback

:

"Mr Blair’s absence from British politics since his departure from No 10 is understood to have been largely due to Mr Brown’s desire to have a “clear run” without interference. He is also thought to have been bruised both by the way that his 2005 election campaign was overshadowed by the Iraq war and the trauma of his final months in office, which were dominated by the cash-for-honours scandal.

Supporters believe that, after two years of Mr Brown, the public are ready to regard the former Prime Minister in a more sympathetic light. One party figure, in a reference to the last general election campaign, when Mr Blair bought his successor a treat, said: “Gordon owes him an ice cream.”

TB's heart bleeds. Never forget Mr Blair, your last months were tough because of the whole world of shit that your brought down upon yourself with you hunger for power and lust of the high life. You have not been forgiven, the British people will never forget the damage you did. They just never thought it could get any worse.

How wrong they were.

She's No Jackie O

So once again Sarah Brown introduced Gordon today, given her recent meteoric rise in popularity TB is surprised it wasn't the other way round. The ever plugged in Allegra Stratton is reporting that opinion amongst the party is pretty evenly split on this issue. Even scarier than the amount of Twitter followers that Sarah's well orchestrated PR campaign in women's magazines has bought her, is the fact that this unelected spinner is allegedly sitting in on meetings with cabinet members. TB doesn't particularly care about what she wears, or what apparent profound effect she has on London Fashion Week but she has sure as hell pissed off

Alix Mortimer

:

"Hm. Since when was it a good thing that unelected people got to wield power in government? I thought we were all supposed to hate Peter Mandelson, Labour supporters included, for precisely that reason. Did I miss a memo, or is it just because Mandelson doesn’t look like he’d chat to you in the greengrocers (does he need real food anyway?)?

But all that is nothing to the emetic we’re presented with the following weekend, Friday 25th:

Can Sarah Brown rescue Labour?

Say what?

She has transformed from a near-silent political wife to arguably the most admired and powerful woman in Britain…

Bu- Fn- Wh- What in the name of gibbering incomprehension are you talking about? “Arguably”? Ya think? Sarah Beeny has more traction, never mind Lily Allen (of whom more anon). Seriously, I am a wizened political punter and I know absolutely nothing about this woman that wouldn’t fit comfortably on a postage stamp and be about as interesting. Have I just been deposited here from a parallel dimension? More to the point, has the Observer?

How did she do it? And can her extraordinary reinvention help save the Labour party?

Yes, they have definitely, definitely lost it"

Ms Mortimer has been somewhat quiet in recent months but she's on cracking form with

this post

.

Who is Sarah Brown, and what does she want?

Gordon's Farewell Speech

So TB has fled the scene of Gordon's desperate attempt to sound exciting and new. Seems a lot of hacks have had the same idea and have packed out the London train. The speech started well enough, it was a powerful eulogy for New Labour, but very quickly Brown crumbled and slipped back into lies, washed out old ideas, stolen policy and weak attacks on the Conservatives.

It seems Brown has, in his delusional state of mind, dreamt up an image of a Conservative Party he would like to be fighting rather than the one he actually faces. By the end of it he was fluffing his soundbites (probably on account of only being given the speech to read through after draft after draft this morning.) The wording of the ending had the potential to be quiet rousing, but in reality its delivery fell flat.

The speech will no doubt be remembered for the only real new idea in it - Gulags for Slags. Social engineering in the extreme by locking up single mothers in to state funded borstals. A sad day for personal responsibility.

The AV+ stuff and House of Lords announcements are hardly new. It's fine for Gordon to go at the constitution with an word axe, knowing full well he will be out of power before he promised to implement them. As for the ID card "announcement"? Well Alan Johnson announced this months ago and it not a mention of the database, the truly terrifying prospect. Guess that's staying then.

That's the only real relieve about today, whatever Gordon said was meaningless, he could promise the earth, and almost did. None of this ideas will see the light of day though.

Bring on Manchester, bring on DC, let's show the Lib Dems and Labour how a conference is done properly.

Who would have thought...

...Sunny Hundal

and

Will Straw

were such big fans of the bear?

TB wasn't exactly subtle behind enemy lines.