UPDATED (again): They Don't Half Pick 'Em

The problem whe

n you become a poster girl for a political party is realising that instead of being a random groupie on twitter, when you get the endorsement of party elders, party slaves and party cheerleaders, when you are photographed with the PM, you deserve a little more scrutiny. LabourList proudly state young Ellie Gellard is their most

influential communicator online.

It takes a pretty sick individuals to look at the footage of a frail old lady enjoying a reward for years of loyal and great service to her nation and

wish a violent accident

involving stairs and skateboards upon them. You may disagree with someone politically but to wish them a violent death? Baroness Thatcher has been hospitalised in the past from falling down and to suggest the image of her falling down the stairs over a skateboard is in anyway funny or just reward to anyone is as deeply disturbing as it is shameful. Apparently this is funny though to Labour's poster girl Ellie and

Barnsley councillor Tim Cheetham.

So will Alastair Campbell, Kerry McCarthy, John Prescott, Labour HQ and even Polly Toynbee, who were so quick to praise this deluded young lady for her campaigning about the Labour PPB please have at worst a quite word with her, or at best do the right thing and publicly condemn her? Or is this an acceptable message from representatives of the Labour Party?

TB got in touch with senior Conservative source, and friend of Mrs Thatcher and showed them this filth, their response said it all:

"Healthy political debate is one thing, but it is quite another to spread vile jokes like this around the internet. This young lady should be ashamed of herself. It's clear that gutter politics aren't just confined to the top of the Labour Party."

A joke here and there and a bit of banter is one thing but a line has very much been crossed here.

UPDATE: 22.30: A point or two: both of these people officially speak for the Labour Party. One is a councillor, the other brought in to email the entire Labour Party membership list and has been thrust into the limelight as an officially endorsed poster girl for the appalling attempt at a Labour fight back. "Game on" eh?

The official line to take tonight seems to be smear TB as a sexist, all very well coordinated kids. However TB would have gone after anyone sick enough to make those remarks. He doesn't care what any old kid says on Twitter, but when someone is a representative of the party of government they should think twice before they open their mouths. The reason Ellie was targeted was due to the fact she is such a prominent activist supported and endorsed by Labour HQ, rather than one of a last handful of irrelevant Labour councillors. Though with the "vermin" nonsense they hardly have a good rep these days do they?

So stop the spin and the shouts of bullying etc and bite the bullet. If you can't take a taste of your own medicine then that says more about you than it does about the bear. TB is just interested in whether these thoughts are commonly accepted and supported views in the Labour Party? So far no one condemned Ellie from the red camp. Telling.

UPDATE 12.01: Could those various press officers who claim on the phone to still be looking into this please hurry up. TB is starving and wants to go to lunch soon...

Mystic Mac

TB has had a busy day making life difficult for a certain MP, but he did have the opportunity to laugh, and promptly send hoards over to James Macintyre's

latest fantasy blog post

. First it was Blair to win and now fifty odd piss taking comments must surely be a new record for the the low traffic Statesman site?

"Indeed, yesterday's poll and the apparent trend reminded me that, after I dared to suggest in my new year predictions (some wrong, some right), that the two main parties' positions in the polls would switch by the end of this year Iain Dale, the aimiable and popular partisan Conservative blogger, reacted with "cackling laughter" and said "In your dreams, sunshine".

In fact, private polling commissioned by Number Ten is today showing just that."

Course it is James.

TB's fav comments have to be the "Did Gordon slip you some of his happy pills?" and "Is this secret poll No.10 has, is like the secret intelligence report no. 10 had about iraq having WMD's?"

Now as far as TB is aware there are very strict rules on how Downing Street can use party political polling, and particularly if they brief the media on them. British Polling Council

rules

say that if you media release any results from a poll, then the whole poll must be published in full within 48 hours by the pollster:

2.3. Public opinion polling organisations reporting results will endeavour to have print and broadcast media include the above items in their news stories and will in any event make a report containing these items together with full computer tables of the results available on their web site within 2 working days of the original release.

2.4. In addition to the information outlined above, the public opinion polling organisation responsible for conducting the survey that has entered the public domain will place the following information on its own web site within 2 working days of the data being published.

· A full description of the sampling procedures adopted by the organisation

· Computer tables showing the exact questions asked in the order they were asked, all response codes and the weighted and unweighted bases for all demographics and other data that has been published

· A description of the weighting procedures employed and weighted and unweighted figures for all variables (demographic or otherwise) used to weight the data, whether or not such breakdowns appear in any analysis of sub samples.

· An e-mail address for further enquiries. It is assumed that all other reasonable requests for other data, over and above the requirements specified herein, necessary for readers of the polls to assess the validity of the data will be answered

· A link to the BPC web-site

So who is the pollster and where is the report on their website?

Are they not a proper BPC registered polling organisation?

Or was Macintyre making up anonymous LOOK AT ME I'M IMPORTANT briefings from No10?

Well they have 48 hours to publish, but TB isn't holding his breath...

Cartoon - Still on Recess?

Well it was a pretty poor

first shot

.

The EU Gets Seriously Duped

"The European Commission has signed a $1bn (£602m) development pact with Nigeria"

reports the BBC

. Oh come on, they can't really have fallen for that? Everyone gets spam emails from "Nigerians" begging for money, but only the European Union could be collectively dumb enough to fall for that trick.

Jess the Dog

exclusively reveals the email that sealed the deal:

Dear Your Excellency Development Commissioner of the European Union,

I am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart. With due respect trust and humanity, I appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter.

My father was former Nigerian Peace and Human Rights Minister. He has been exile in prison house arrest in Abuja under many guards and tortures. He is not live long even if they release. But he has Swiss bank account with one trillion million dollars that is pledged for peace, security and human rights.

My friend, I know you love peace even though I not know you. I know you believe in human rights and want to see the dream of my father come into the world. But the bank in Swiss will not release one trillion million dollars without special deposit. If you will send me the sum of one billion dollars as special deposit then bank will release one trillion million dollars for peace, security and human rights.

I trust you, my friend, to respond urgent.

XXX

They will be using European taxpayers' money to buy counterfeit viagra and prescription pills next.

Sunday, 22 November 2009

CCHQ Show Labour How It's Done

Gordon u-turned and as Jedward went off the X-Factor this poster went out across London:

Look around London and email the bear a pic if you see one.

Game on - these digital ad boards are going to be great fun in the GE.

Friday, 20 November 2009

Bob Ainsworth is a Disgrace - Episode 45

If the Tories move to place the police under local control there will be resignations,

says top copper

Sir Hughly important Orde:

"We must be operationally independent in terms of how we deliver policing. We should not be influenced by anyone who has any potential or suggestion for a political basis."

News reaches TB though that on December 5th the Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth will be focusing entirely on the war in Afghanistan from the warmth and comfort of several Coventry pubs and bars along with Superintendent Deborah Harrod from West Midlands Police. Debs recently missed out on the top job in the West Midlands force and is also understood to be eying up a promotion in one of the London forces. Being seen with a cabinet minister must have its perks...

The visit has caused a furore for a number of reasons:

• Bob Ainsworth says he's totally focused on Afghanistan and yet can find time to trawl bars in search of insurgent binge drinkers... They must get a lot of those in Afghanistan for it to be worth of the Defence Secretary's attention,

• The visit is not in Bob's constituency - the neighbouring Coventry South constituency is thirsty Jim Cunningham's. Perhaps the police were worried Jim might become part of the problem after a few.

• The visit features exclusively Labour politicians who do not represent the area in a city that is Conservative-controlled and in a ward that is all-Conservative. It's been seen as a politically provocative move from the police.

Is this the freedom from political influence and bias Hugh Orde means?


Thanks to Coventry's biggest political blogger

Mike Rouse

for this one.

The Sharpest Political Hack in the Village

James Macintyre, sage of the New Statesman, has shown

once again

how on the ball he is with his shrewd analysis and foresight. If you are ever in doubt of who is the greatest hack of them all, just look what he published yesterday:


Sharp.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

+++Harman (lawmaker) To Be Charged (lawbreaker)+++

TB is on the move but news is breaking that Harman is to be charged for driving offences. At the time she was reported to haver said to witnesses "I'm Harriet Harman, you know where to find me." Well it seems they found her.

In days of yore politicians would resign for much less.

She should go for the line not the crime.

Make Your Mind Up Gordon

What a surprise

. Gordon has u-turned on what he thinks about X-Factor uber-freaks Jedward. This is especially embarrassing after Labour's botched attempts to have a dig at Cameron and Osborne with a disasterous online

poster campaign

.

Labour's online team haven't really had the best of weeks really.

Special Report

Guy News

now has a studio.. rather exciting:



Eat your heart our Chris Morris. Well not quite yet.

The Video Labour Should Have Used

Ok ok, TB promises he will change the record soon, but one final comment on that god awful PEB from the Labour Party last night (See previous postings.) Much fuss was made that they were listening to their grassroots when in reality they are broke, and rehashing stock footage and slipping the Hovis guy a twenty for the voice over was cheaper than making a whole new campaign. If Labour really cared about their grassroots they could have done a lot worse than follow up this video:



Instead of lies and clips of Obama, a PEB on similar style to that effort. It was made by grassroots activists, for grassroots activists, when Labour was at the lowest low point back at the beginning of the summer. The quality is rubbish, it was knocked together on Blackberries, but that doesn't matter. The message behind it is far, far more powerful then anything that has come from the top. Hell even TB was moved by the determination of the core. He may well disagree with everything this deluded bunch stand for but damn you got to respect their commitment and a great way to communicate their message. Who can hate a bit of Journey.

Here's to the fighters, not the glory seeking twitteres, but the ones actually putting the work in.

Do Not Pass Go

Do not collect anymore deliberately pilfered taxpayer money.

Fantastic news

in this morning's Telegraph -It seems that the Met is closing in on the worst troughers. As suspected, it seems the scummiest offenders have been Labour's Chaytor, Morely and Devine.

What about Moran and Malik though?

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Vomit

Oh dear, look what just popped into TB's inbox:

Dear Tory Bear

More than likely, you don't know who I am, and are wondering why I'm emailing you. I’m not a politician, I’m an ordinary Labour Party member.

A few weeks ago I started a campaign to get this video released as Labour's PPB

And guess what - tonight it's going to be shown on TV. On BBC 2 at 5.55pm and BBC 1 and ITV 1 at 6.55pm.

I saw it for the first time at Labour Party Conference this year and it actually made me cry. It reminded me why I joined this Party, why I campaign for this Party and why I will always fight for this Party.

But here's the interesting thing - I started to show it to people who weren't members, people who weren't even sure they were going to vote Labour this time round - and they loved it too and said it made them more likely to vote for us.

The video outlines the measures announced in the Queen’s Speech – like free personal care for those in need as a step towards the creation of a National Care Service – and sets them in the context of Labour achievements like the Minimum Wage and the creation of the NHS.

It’s called "Fighters and Believers" - you'll see why when you watch it - and in honour of this, this weekend the Labour Party is holding a "Fighters Weekend".

If you list an event that you're organising for this weekend on Membersnet by the end of the day the Labour Party will send you a batch of special limited edition "Fighters and Believers" badges for your CLP

This is the story of Britain and of our Party - people fighting to achieve change, people fighting to secure fairness and opportunity for those in middle and modest circumstances and people fighting for the country as a whole.

And the lesson we should all carry with us in the coming months? When we fight we win.

If you have ever wanted anyone you know who’s undecided about how they might vote at the next election to understand why you’re Labour get them to watch this video

Best wishes,

Ellie Gellard

PS – If you can’t campaign for Labour this weekend but want to join the fight – you can donate to Labour now and make a massive difference. Every penny you donate will be spent on our fight.

She may "always fight for this Party" but that is the very problem with Labour and this government, they fight for themselves and not for the country.

PS. Is that Bevinite or Bevanite Ellie?

Digby4Pavillion

It's the

Brighton Pavilion primary tonight

and the good people of Brighton should pick

Scott Digby

to be their man. Scott has a fantastic record as a councillor and did wonders running some fantastic events at Conference, such as the highly successful Party for Change. He would make a great MP.

TB wishes him the best of luck.

UPDATE - Massive Blunder in PEB

Quite unbelievably the error strewn Against the Odds video is err still error strewn, inaccurate and stomach churning, ready for its TV debut tonight. See TB's earlier post.

Millionaire Labour donor JK Rowling plug gone though, unsurprisingly.

UPDATE: A brilliant spot by the

Angry Walrus

. At 1.40 there are shots of the city and some banks. Here we can see the true legacy of this Labour government:

"Mortgage approvals slump to record lows"
"Economy to slow this year despite rate cuts"
"weak pound aggravating inflation pressures"

Red faces at

Silverfish

yet?

Queens Speech

Labour know that none of these Bills will pass, and thus makes the whole thing even more political. As TB's buddy Strathclyde said, there are only thirty odd legislative days left in the upper house and it would be a failure on the part of the Lords if they did not conduct proper scrutiny. The ever plugged in Kevin Maguire just let slip the entire Labour strategy on Sky moments ago. There won't be time to get these through, but it sows the seeds for the election campaign, which started officially about two hours ago it seem at Mandy's Victoria Street briefing. Kevin clearly stated that these Bills will be put to Cameron to accept in the campaign. Labour are fighting like an desperate opposition, the government is trying to make the opposition dance to their tune, a sign of how far they have sunk. They know the game is up. They are exhausted, they have no real new ideas.

Dizzy looks

at each measure in his ever erudite style. Cameron must stay strong and not play their game.

Fingers crossed that the Telegraph's Andrew Pierce is right. His repsonse to Maguire was to suggest this will be the last Labour Queen's Speech for a "very very long time."

Ignore them and it seems they will go away.

Exclusive - The New Against The Odds PEB Leaks

OK so not really, but the day has arrived commie friends. This is the moment we have been waiting for proles and dolls. When we fight, we win!

That's right, today is the the day the inaccurate socialist lies will be peddled on national television. After the

absolute pasting

the Against the Odds video has received by an army of freelance fact checkers online, across the political spectrum, it is of no surprise it had to be sent back to the editing room before it could be aired tonight.

TB predicts the Bevin/Bevan epic cock up will be gone, as will JK "Give us a mill"Rowling and probably the outrageous claim to have freed Mandela. TB gave the vid his two cents here but for a more comprehensive savaging, check out this

no holds barred fisk

:

"“They said that working people were not fit to govern - so we formed the Labour Party”
A party where the intellect, stimulus and money was supplied by the decidedly middle-class Fabians and their friends.

“They said that women didn’t deserve the vote”
This glosses carefully over the fact that Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the main suffragette movement, WSPU, was refused membership of the Independent Labour Party after she was encouraged to do so by her friend Keir Hardie. The refusal was on account of her gender. Several years before her death, Emmaline became concerned by socialism and joined the Conservative Party. We are of course still waiting for a woman to be elected leader of the Labour party, let alone become a Labour Prime Minister. The legislation to extend an equal franchise to women was brought in by Baldwin’s Conservative government in 1928."

Etc.

TB's favourite comment so far has to be one of the ones left on youtube:

"After toppling apartheid, building the NHS, bringing peace to Northern Ireland and winning the second world war.. isn't it hard to stifle a giggle when Gordon Brown suddenly pops up @1.24 with... (drum roll)... Sure Start :-)

But I mock, GB is clearly a great man - just look! he walks with Barack Obama, at 2:12."

The

Labour PR machine

has gone into overdrive over this nonsense. "LOOK AT US WE LISTEN TO ONLINE TYPES!" It's weird to think that if the party is that broke, to the extent they have to recycle their amateurish videos to broadcast on TV, how/why are they paying for private polling about it? Kerry let the cat out of the bag on that one:

Meanwhile, the Labour Party’s strategists had noted the campaign. It’s clear the video appeals to Labour supporters, but then they tested it in focus groups of swing voters and it was going down well. And so the decision to update it and run it as the Queen’s Speech PPB was taken.

This decision is a victory for Labour’s thriving online community. It’s a victory for everyone who understands the power that new forms of communication are now giving us. And it’s a victory for the Labour Party who should be congratulated for acting so quickly to embrace the opportunity here.

Ugh, pass the trough. The left are rattled and they are shoring up their core base, simple as. This isn't about engagement online this is about clocking that some over excited kiddies gurgled and clapped their hands a lot when they saw something they liked. We are still months from an election and already Labour are being made to dance a merry tune by their out of touch and amateur membership, in a desperate bid to shore up votes. Role on 17.55 BBC 2.

TB will have a spring in his step and whistle on his lips this morning.

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

How's this for a Moral Compass?

There is an exciting bit of news breaking over

at the Guardian

. The bonkers Labour group

Compass

could be set to make moves against Gordon. In a sure sign that No10 is somewhat rattled by this, just look at their aggressive reaction to the news:

Criticism of Brown's leadership will anger No 10 as it seeks to build on small progress in the opinion polls and a strong byelection performance in Glasgow North East. It insists that the 4,000-strong Compass has little traction in the parliamentary party.

Senior figures in Compass, however, point to a database of 30,000 supporters. They think they could back the home secretary in return for a pledge from him that a referendum on electoral reform would be held, possibly on the day of the general election, or the foreign secretary in exchange for movement on measures to tackle inequality.

A shift to the left would be the final nail in the coffin, and while might firm up some of the Labour core, it would seal the deal for Cameron as the sensible floating voters come to the blue camp in terrified droves. Why did Labour change in the first place?

If Compass do start operations this could get bloody very quickly.

The popcorn is on TB.

Gordon and the Vermin Problem

Working Class Tory

had a nice little scoop followed up by the

Standard's Paul Waugh

the other day about the Labour council candidate who described the Queen as vermin in a foul treasonous diatribe. Well WTC has managed to dig out a photo of said traitor and guess who is posing happily with him:

To the tower with the both of them.

Pickles Briefing

Well it's pretty clear who has been briefing Peter Oborne. It's almost verbatim.

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