TB has beenway too excited about the Armando Iannucci film coming out on the 17th April. The Thick of It was by far the best thing the BBC has put out in years and judging on this clip, the film looks as if it will be a roaring success:
Can't wait! Hat-Tip -
The Blue Blog
- not the tories one!
PS. sorry about two videos in a row but think the both deserve it. Since TB and co started posting the Citizen Hannan yesterday, it has gone on to be the headline story on the biggest poltical blog in the world -
TB wasn't going to blog about Jade Goody but there is one point that has stuck out in his mind ever since Gordon "the era of celebrity is over" Brown took time out of saving the world and offered his two cents. Goody didn't have such friends in high places when she was a national hate figure after her racist outbursts and the general embarrassment that was that series of Big Brother. TB was never a fan of Goody but he wouldn't wish such a vile and cruel punishment on anyone.
What really angered him though was Gordon's statement that "the whole country has admired her determination to provide a bright future for her children." Yes we do, and yes that is the basic driving force for most of humanity, and yes Gordon you are a hypocrite. No Prime Minister or Chancellor has done more to wound the chances of being able to do this more so than Gordon. 45% rates of tax, lampooning of bankers or anyone else with a vague capitalistic streak and stealing 40% of people property when they are powerless to stop it - when they are dead.
Gordon jumped on the band wagon but should take a long hard look in the mirror. The left have always hated the family, just as they hate any barrier that comes between the state and the individual, and yet he has the audacity to state that we should be proud of Goody's inherent capitalist streak and and shameless desire to leave her children something behind. Why is Goody allowed to do this and the rest of us are not?
Instead of two bit statements and faux grief in order to win some headlines, actions speak louder than words Mr Brown.
What has really surprised TB about the Liberal Youth elections is just what a bunch of illiberal spinners they really are. It has been
noted elsewhere
that the Returning Officer has specifically banned the publication of an article that criticises the candidates from being included in an online Liberal Youth membership magazine. You can read the article below:
What an absolute joke. An official of the organisation is once again stamping out discussion of the farcial elections. Through censorship and attempts to silence, more people will now have read that piece thanks to publicity it has now receieved. The Returning Officer Mark Valladares puts up a weak arguement about affecting the results of the election, but last time TB checked isn't that the point of having a campaign?
In yet another high profile result for Richard Jackson and the
Conservative Future website
, DC has taken part in the regular Q and A:
Sadly he just sticks to the message and doesn't really offer much else, but the fact that he agreed with Iain Dale that people should join CF to get laid, made TB chuckle, given the fact he has just finished his dissertation on why young people joined in the 1950s, with that being the basic answer. Apologies for the lack of blogging in the last couple of days. Having handed in the tome on Friday, TB hit the town. Was an epic weekend and he hopes the Liberal Youth hacks didn't miss him too much. Bumping into CCHQ's Head of New Media at about 2am on Saturday night was a particularly surreal moment too! Anyway Normal service will now resume, and TB has something rather interesting in his possession about a certain candidate for Chairman of Young Labour.
has been trawled for people doing funny things, or boobies. No surprise though that the camera cars were given such a warm and hospitable welcome to Scotland's capital. Amongst the strip clubs and brothels of the Lothian Road one man doesn't like Google very much:
TB is also a little concerned you can see into his bedroom on there.
What are Google plotting?
We are going to wake up one morning and they would have taken over the world.
"In the end all Labour Chancellors run out of money and all Labour governments bring this country to verge of bankruptcy. Stability has gone out the window, prudence is dead, Labour has done it again."
This little bit of intrigue just pinged into TB's inbox:
Dear Tory Bear,
I’m the creator of the Liberal Youth Downfall video. I’m writing this because of the way that Bagshaw and her lackeys are trying to make Sara take the rap for all the leaks, and are trying to spin the idea that she was the only person to blame for the video, and everything else; even trying to chuck her off the exec before she resigned. This is straight out of laa-laa fantasy land, and tries to make out that everyone in Liberal Youth is whiter-than-white, and if only Sara hadn’t come along and spoiled it for everyone else. The truth is that half the members and activists and exec are up to their necks in this, and we’re all leaking like the Titanic. Sara may be mentally unbalanced, like Elaine says, but she had nothing to do with the video. I figure Sara probably did leak her resignation email to you. But as for the other stuff, it’s not like only a select few people know. Half of LY knows all this. Hell, half the bloody party know this stuff. The reason the Downfall video’s been so damaging is that every line is based on some fact – like someone said on the public LY forums, “The worst thing about that video is how stunningly accurate it all is.” And no, of course I didn’t mean the ‘libellous’ line about Elaine and Clegg literally. Of course that never happened, and I withdraw any suggestion it did. IT WAS A METAPHOR!!! But fuck it, she might as well have been giving him head, since it seems to sum up her toadying, sycophantic attitude towards him. Look at the whole way she’s handled the fees thing (see the video).
LY trying to track me down with an ‘investigation’ is hilarious. They can’t work out simple things like:
Tory Bear’s alter ego is one of 200 members of the facebook group Sara sent her message to – so no leak was needed. All this talk of her having leaked that's just pure fantasy. Several Labour members are in that group, too, so it would have leaked anyway.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves - we're all gossiping like mad, and we're all passing on emails like mad, so the list of leak suspects must have several hundred people on it. This has all been out in the open for ages. If the list includes everyone Elaine’s pissed off in the last year, then it’s endless.
If they need things like that spelt out, then good luck to ‘em! Hell, even though I hadn't leaked anything before, I was going to leak Sara’s Saturday night message myself, and was beaten to it by Tory Bear publishing it before I’d even emailed it to him. That gives you an idea of the kind of dynamic we have in LY at the moment.
Oh, and thanks for posting the edited version of the Downfall video – I was about to do that myself!
I've enclosed a picture you can add to your website - enjoy. I’m close to Elaine. Much closer than she thinks. And I’m keeping my eye on Sara too.
This election’s not over yet. Vforvendetta256
This image was also attached, don't shoot the messenger:
will get to the stage where he regrets drawing Tory Bear's attention to himself and his ridiculous organisation. It was wee James, a wannabe try hard from Glasgow University, who has bought the full wrath of this bear down on Liberal Youth, and particularly on the candidate he so sycophantically creeps around.
Yep that's right kids, just when you thought that TB had got bored of winding up the Lib Dems, or was too busy, once again the plot takes another comical twist. When you read what has happened, at all times, keep the fact that this is a supposedly liberal bunch of kids we are dealing with in mind. Idealistic, free spirited and above all in favour of a little something called free speech. You can read up on what has been going on thus far in their elections from the various links in this post, but essentially Chairman Elaine Bagshaw is now doing everything she possibly can to get her opponent, a now former executive member, expelled from the Party so that she can be returned to her position of Queen Bee with some wet blanket apparatchiks at her side, gently fanning her with large leaves for another twelve months.
Now TB has his ways and means of getting hold of documents and emails from seemingly watertight places, however no-one has thrown quite such a hissy fit as Elaine did last week when TB was leaked an email that proved what she really thought of her electorate and the organisation she ran. It wasn't good news. TB was accused of illegally hacking the Liberal Youth Forums, where apparently the message had previously been posted, and removed, by the the then Vice-Chairman Sara Scarlett - Bagshaw's opponent in the election. TB was sent that email anonymously and wouldn't even know where to begin hacking something like that. Yet without a shred of evidence Bagshaw has put the ball in motion to see her opponent expelled from the Liberal Youth, leaving her path clear open to re-election. Scarlett, the infamous Heckler of Harrogate, somewhat of a firebrand in the organisation if those who have been briefing TB are to be believed, decided to quit her post as Vice-Chairman before she was booted out by the rest of the executive, the majority of which under the thumb of Bagshaw, everyone with a brain having seemingly left.
However that hasn't been enough for Queen Elaine, she is living up to her true New Labour authoritarian streak. Firstly she is still pushing, despite the clearly bloody obvious conflict of interest, for a vote on whether Scarlett should be thrown out of the organisation, with the obvious electoral implications that brings. Secondly, in ways that would make Brown and Wheelan blush, her campaign is getting dirtier and dirtier. A member of her campaign team is under investigation by Cowley Street for racial abuse, after he allegedly bellowed at Scarlett in front of a packed conference bar in Harrogate a couple of weekends ago. If that wasn't bad enough TB's sources have confirmed that Elaine and her little cronies spent the whole of this weekend, at the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference, badmouthing Scarlett, specifically putting round the rumour, in all seriousness, that she was mentally unstable.
You can take the girl out of New-Labour, but you can't take New Labour out of the girl. Bagshaw won't be content until she has destroyed everyone that stands in the way of her ridiculous quest for power. Never before has Tory Bear seen such an uninspiring public speaker, see above. It is unheard of for a Chairman of any organisation to lose, no less than, seventeen members of their executive through resignations and survive, and although student politics can get bitchy there is no excuse for racial abuse. How no one in Liberal Youth has yet stood up like the boy and the Emperor's new clothes and called this brash buffoon out, leaves TB lost for words. This woman is a laughing stock yet she looks set for re-election and we are set for a whole more year of laughs at Liberal Youth's expense.
If RON doesn't win this election the members of Liberal Youth should be ashamed of themselves.
, TB would urge you to get on it asap. It's basically a free program to download that lets you listen to pretty much any song, ever written, ever, ish. Every twenty minutes or so you get an thirty odd second audio advert with some images. This was all fine when it was bands and albums being advertised but for some reason today guess who has turned up to ruin the party.
That's right, every twenty minutes the government ram their latest shit initiative and ideas down TB's throat. Is there anywhere that we can escape their clutches, will there ever be a sanctuary from this overbearing and constantly infringing state? You can't turn on the TV or radio without thinking you are going to be done for benefit fraud or hit by a train. You can't go for a drink without being told you are going to choke in a pile of your own vomit, or get raped, and even the bloody adverts behind the urinal in TB's local have started talking to you, reminding you not to forget to wash your hands don'tyouknowthankyouverymuch. It's no wonder that the taxpayer is second only to
P&G
in terms of money spent on advertising in Britain.
Why do they have to ruin everything fun? Why can't they just leave us alone?
Continuing with the current series of guest posts Reeves Eggton, from Skegness Conservative Future tells us why computers will never win an election:
Few will have failed to notice the tragic rehabilitation of former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott from seasoned campaigner into Internet whiz kid. There is something fundamentally disturbing about the self-styled ‘working class and proud’ veteran swapping his roots for wires to take the political battle from the walkways to the web. Already, in the information age political organisations have in many cases wisely made use of social networking applications to get the Party message across to the public and more importantly, younger voters. But the launch of Prezza 2.0 reveals the unhealthy obsession with Compolitics (computer-politics) whereby the doorstep is switched for they keyboard with little consideration for the long-term impact on prospective voters.
When comparing the time it takes to canvass a street to the time it takes to message the exact same number of people over Facebook, it’s easy to see why Compolitics is capturing the agenda for many seasoned campaigners. Thanks to Labour, money is tight, taxes are high and crime is soaring, voters need support and dialogue on the doorstep - and they need it now.
Organisations like Conservative Future avoid providing Second Life avatars for the campaign trail and instead concentrate on providing real activists in real areas of need. By supporting critical campaigns with hardworking volunteers, the team has already made a huge impact on marginal seats across the UK. In the London region this year alone, the organisation has held two major campaign days in target areas, with the next scheduled in Westminster for March 28. With a growing member base and several more events in the pipeline, Conservative Future will be key to winning the next election.
Make no mistake, Compolitics is without doubt an essential tool in any campaign, but it must never be a substitute for activism on the ground. With Labour support crumbling and once loyal activists de-motivated and feeling let down, this is the moment for Conservative Future activists to steal the show.
With an election just around the corner, don’t be fooled by Labour’s desperate attempts to dominate the Internet with online gimmicks. Simply peel back the 2.0 gloss and you’ll see a tired organisation desperate for innovation, but stuck with Gordon Brown.
With the public seeking real change, it’s essential that Conservative Future demonstrates that its activists are committed & dedicated as well as Internet savvy.
Only by convincing voters we are ready for Government both online and in the real world will we seriously be considered to run the country once again.
On that note, to avoid hypocrisy, I’d better get out there now!
If you would like to write something for Tory Bear while he does his dissertation, email your ideas to editor@torybear.com
I have today written to Michael Rock as Chairman of Conservative Future to tender my resignation from the National Management Executive.
A year after taking office in March 2008, I have reached the end of my elected term, and believe now is the right time to step down.
In leaving the NME today, I want to make clear that I am not leaving CF or retiring to the shadows. I am 100% committed to supporting CF and helping the continued growth and success of the organisation.
I would like to thank CF members for their support and encouragement over the past year. There have been many challenges and difficult decisions, but I have enjoyed my time on the NME immensely and encourage CF members to get involved and stay involved. CF can and indeed must keep going from strength-to-strength, and I look forward to it playing a vital role in removing this disastrous Labour Government from office whenever the General Election is called.
This just pinged up in TB's Google reader: "FROM ROBBIE GIBB, EDITOR OF THE DAILY POLITICS:
They have had a go at each other online and now two rival bloggers will face each other for the first time in the Daily Politics studio. The Battle of the Blogs will see
Guido Fawkes
and
Derek Draper
go up against each other on our Thursday 26 March programme. Draper from the Labour List blog will debate with Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes, from the Order-Order blog. The two bloggers have been highly critical of each other, and others have been
critical about the nature of political blogging
.
And we want your help - what questions would you like us to answer this pair?
Draper threatened to sue after his professional qualifications were called into question by his online rival. And the Labour man has accused Guido of peddling racism and sexism, something that Guido - who rarely appears as himself with his real name - vehemently denied.
We will have the pair in our studio, with
Andrew Neil
and
Jo Coburn
taking on the job of referee. What questions would you like to see this pair answer?"
The two problems TB has with yoof politics is the lack of accountability and a lack of humour - TB intends to kill, or at least wound these two birds with one stone. editor@torybear.com
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