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Labour's silence on PLP debate speaks volumes

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:41:00 +0000

Women On, the independent, non-partisan campaign group seeking to transform the debate around women, said they welcome the Government’s announcement that all those with defective PIP breast implants will have the choice to have the faulty products removed, either by private clinics or the NHS.

They added that it was "comforting" to know there will be no women left without any adequate support at this very challenging time.

Commenting on the announcement, Charlotte Vere, Founder of Women On said: “I am delighted that this solution has been reached and that the private healthcare sector is working with the Government to resolve this issues for tens of thousands of women”.

“However, one of the most striking things about the debate has been the lack of input from the usual suspects on the Left."

She added" "Where were the fighters for women? Where were the radical feminists, the women’s groups, the campaigners, the Labour MPs?

"The uncomfortable truth is that they don’t believe women should have the choice of cosmetic surgery and so entered into a heartless pact of non-aggression with those who used the implant debacle to rail against all cosmetic surgery with little resistance.

"I am pleased that this matter is coming to an end and disappointed there wasn’t more support from women’s groups and the Labour Party for the ordinary women caught up in extraordinary circumstances.”

A very happy 2012 to one and all

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:20:00 +0000

I'd be the first to raise my hand in a poll of England's most neglectful bloggers during 2011.
That's because 1) I'm honest and 2) '11 was an interesting and time-consuming year to say the least.
Many changes, much accomplished, and everything to aim for moving into, what I predict will be, an ultimately triumphant year - both personally and nationally.
Whatever place you happen to be in right now, I truly wish you the very best for a happy, healthy and successful 2012 filled with love, laughter and anything else your heart desires.

Hold onto you camels - Kitty's about!

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:59:00 +0000

One could be forgiven for thinking 2011 was the year of the camel rather than the rabbit.

For the toes of the four-legged ungulate have put in two appearances in the space of a week.

The first toe popped up on the menu of the Greasy Spoon Caf in I'm a Celeb when famed Hamster-gobbler Freddy Starr chomped away on the middle-eastern delicacy with admirable fortitude.

The second toe popped up in Blue Water shopping centre.

Kitty showing she's a match for any four-legged ungulate (complete with two humps)

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0000

To ToryTottiers everywhere . . . . Catey Maxx xx

Harman's at it again

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:42:00 +0000

Harriet Harman MP is seeking to censor page 3 girls - but what about top-totty Torso of the Week?

Harriet Harman MP is at it again, trying to censor what we see and what we do.

This time she has turned her attention again to those 'poor page 3 girls' - the super-soaraway Sun and the Star are underfire for daring to show consenting women for the amusement of others.

Labour’s new shadow minister of Culture, Media and Sport Harman is adamant that “… it is not the right thing for women in the 21^st century”.

No doubt she will be joined by former-MP and Liberal Democrat, Evan Harris, who tried to steal the headlines by calling for a ban of page 3 only a few weeks ago.

However, in her relentless pursuit of ‘equality’ Ms Harman has not proposed to ban the ever-popular Torso of the Week in Heat magazine, nor those quant little parties known as the hen night where women whoop and cheer at men tastefully removing clothes for their enjoyment.

Charlotte Vere, Founder of Women On the independent, non-partisan think tank that aims to transform the debate around women, told Tory Totty Online "It is about time that Evan and Harriet realise that sex is an everyday part of life and that just as women are sex objects, so are men.

"Where are they suggsting that it should it stop? Should we ban all photos of people lest someone somewhere finds them attractive?".

She added, "Harriet's views are not those of ordinary men and women - radical femists have gone too far.

"Most women are busy running a home, heading out to work and looking after the children to worry about page 3 girls.

"And most page 3 girls are grown up enough to look after themselves."

Liam Fox knew what he was doing . . . .

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000

THIS week has been sad for British politics. Again.

For over a week Defence Secretary Liam Fox, upholder of the Tory right, has been mired in scandal.

His 'friendship' with best pal Adam Werrity and subsequent irregularities in ministerial conduct regarding overseas trips and access to the MoD, have dominated round the clock news cycles.

Yesterday, he was forced to resign.

Just as we thought the week couldn't get any worse Cam's chief policy advisor, Oliver Letwin, was snapped by the Daily Mirror binning sensitive documents pertaining to terrorism, national security and constituents private details for God's sake!

Fox had apparently "mistakenly allowed the distinction between [his] personal interest and his Government activities to become blurred."

No he hadn't.

This is an intelligent man who embodied everything wonderful about Conservatism.
Raised on a council estate in East Kilbride he worked his way through state school to graduate from Glasgow University, went on to become a GP and also served as a civilian Army medical Officer and Divisional Surgeon with the St Johns Ambulance.

He first became an MP in 1992 and enjoyed a steady rise to prominence within the party, culminating in his role as defence secretary, which he carried out, up to now, with great competence.

His mistake wasn't naivety or misjudgment. It was getting caught. Fox knew exactly what he was doing. To ask us to believe otherwise is to treat us like idiots.

It pains me to say it, because he always has been and always will be one of my favourite Tories. He's a clever, decent man and an extremely capable politician.
But these were acts of gross stupidity from someone who should have known better, and he paid the ultimate price.
Selfish, reckless behaviour which now renders the government and the country worse off due to his departure from the MoD.

As for Letwin. I despair. Again, how dare behave in such a feckless manner, displaying a blatant disregard for both his constituents and his office.

Cameron must reign-in these wayward politicians before things get out of control.

We need a period of focus. A return to responsible governance. We need to address issues which matter to the ordinary man on the street. Jobs. Pensions. Unemployment. Rising costs. Impending strikes. I could go on.

These distractions only serve to compound lefty taunts that Tories don't care and Lib Dems are incompetent.

And whilst I agree with the latter, the former couldn't be further from the truth and we need to get that message across to the electorate.

Nadine Dorries (#nadinedorries) - the real deal

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:15:00 +0000

Last night I had the pleasure of the company of the MP for Mid Bedfordshire.

She needs no introduction.

Nadine Dorries is a unique entity.

In the words of 90's pop group The Shaman, this Tory MP is "very much maligned and misunderstood."

Never have I been in the company of such a warm, funny, honest, normal and attractive individual, who, is both charming and, importantly, a laugh.

Politician or no politician - the cheap headlines peddled by the mainstream press and the left-wing Twitterati are a world away from the intelligent, savvy, personable woman with whom I shared an extremely enjoyable evening.

I wish Nadine well in her continued campaign to reduce the abortion time limit to 20 weeks, and also in her campaign against the IPC's decision to allow US waste company Covanta to build a Wembley sized incinerator in mid Beds.

Other than that - best foot forward my friend ;)

Harman and the sisterhood

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:22:00 +0000

Harriet Harman's move to secure a place for a female at the top of the Labour leadership is "anti-men" according to independent think tank Women On.

Harman's impassioned speech at the highly sexist women-only meeting on Saturday (September 24), which was attended by honorary woman Ed Miliband, outlined her plans for the expansion of the Labour sisterhood stating desperately "we are still outnumbered by men 3 to 1 and we’ve still got further to go on Labour representation of women in councils."

In the ultimate act of positive discrimination, which takes no account whatsoever of a candidate's ability to do the job, Women On state that this "ridiculous act" makes two assumptions: 1) that a women will always act in the best interests of other women, which is clearly untrue, and 2) that there will always be a woman up to the job, which is a fallacy.

Despite all her efforts and years of tinkering which resulted in all women shortlists, less than a third of Labour MPs are female. This means that either the leader or the deputy leader will be selected from a smaller pool which immediately reduces the chance of picking the best person for the job.

Founder of Women On and former Tory PPC Charlotte Vere told Tory Totty Online: "Yet again, Labour are attacking men by giving women greater rather than equal rights.

"They assume that men can’t or won’t act in the best interests of women. What does that say about their ability to empathise with any group?

"Must a leader be poor to empathise with the poor? Must a leader be a Muslim to empathise with Muslims? Must a leader be black to empathise with ethic groups? Clearly not."

She added that Labour members and the Unions should reject Harman's ridiculous "seat-for-a-sister" plan as an outmoded idea from a radical feminist which is patently anti-men.

"But will ‘honorary woman’ Ed Miliband stand up to her?"

52 Weeks of Weakness

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:55:00 +0000

To mark the first anniversary of Ed Miliband’s narrow victory in the Labour leadership contest, the Conservative Party has published “Fifty-Two Weeks of Weakness”.

The document details Ed’s weakness in the face of the unions, his inability to come up with a credible plan to deal with Labour’s deficit and his failure to do the right thing and apologise for Labour’s mistakes.

Conservative Party Chairman Sayeeda Warsi said:

“From his inability to stand up to his union paymasters to his failure to come up with a credible plan to deal with the mess Labour made, the past year has shown that Ed Miliband can’t provide the strong leadership Britain needs. His message to the British people is ‘vote for us – we’d do it all over again’.”

Read it here: 52 Weeks of #Labour Weakness

Blokey Bullingdon boys at #pmqs aren't becoming

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:00:00 +0000

Brothers in smarms

I, like many other commentators with a conscience, watched the Nadine Dorries debacle at PMQs yesterday (Wednesday) open-mouthed.
The way the Prime Minister behaved towards the MP for mid-Beds was completely inappropriate.

In the words of Quentin Letts:

‘Frustrated’! Ha ha ha! said Mr Cameron.
‘Perhaps I should start again.’
‘I’m going to give up on this one!’
And with that he sat down and gave Mr Clegg a blokeish push on the shoulder.
How the House loved it.

First and foremost, Ms Dorries was only saying what a large number of Tories, myself included, think: Cameron is bending slavishly to Lib Dem demands who, as she so rightly said, make up a paltry 8.7% of Parliament. It's a joke.
They seem very gobby for a bunch of lilly-livered lemoneys who are skating on precariously thin political ice.
True Conservative values are being diluted by a big, fat dose of liberal complacency.
We're either being held to ransom by Clegg and his cronies, or, Cam's not a true Conservative after all - something, I hasten to add, I never thought I'd say.
Which ever is the case, he needs to follow Ms Dorries' advice and remind our Nick-half-day-on-a friday-Clegg who's the boss.
This public 'hanging-out-to-dry' of Ms Dorries, who, whatever you may think of her abortion amendment bill, still has a right to a fair hearing in parliament, is a disgrace.
It shows what a puerile, fickle, blithering farce the Commons has become, where respect, integrity and plain common sense are a thing of the past, and where the Prime Minister of this great country thinks it's amusing to belittle his colleagues - particularly females.
I'm disgusted - and believe me - it takes a lot where the Tory's are concerned.
But Cameron's Bullingdon roots are sneaking in a bit too frequently for my liking, so too, are those of Osborne, who Letts commented:

Few people had laughed louder at her (Dorries) question, by the way, than William Hague and George Osborne

If the Tory party want to earn a mandate to govern on their own in 2015, they need to get a grip.
Ghastly guffawing at female colleagues in any situation, is a hideous trait.
And one they'd do well to nip in the bud.

A blistering and justified attack on Cameron's leadership

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:39:00 +0000

By Leo McKintstry

The Tory-led Government continues to lurch from one crisis to another.

On every front ministers appear impotent, from the flaming inner-cities to the paralysed economy, from rising immigration to falling employment.

The failure by David Cameron’s coalition to provide the nation with robust leadership should present an easy target to the Opposition.

Yet the Labour Party, trapped by its politically correct dogma and woefully run by the gauche Ed Miliband, keeps missing the target. If anything its aim is becoming even more dismal.

According to a document leaked at the weekend, Labour strategists plan an autumn off- ensive against the Government in which Cameron will be por- trayed as “a recognisably Right- wing leader” and a “traditional Tory”.

Using this new line of attack, Labour hopes to win over the British public by claiming that Cameron’s Con- servatives have “moved rapidly rightwards” and abandoned “the centre ground”.

This approach could hardly be more laughably ill- conceived. Only someone with a keen sense of irony could describe the Prime Minister as “Right-wing”.

The fact that Labour could come up with such nonsense just exposes how badly the party has lost all grip on reality.

Labour’s campaigners now appear to inhabit a Marxist fantasy land where, in their self-delusion, they think the British people share their attachment to all the orthodoxies of Left-wing ideology.

But after 13 years of Labour rule much of the country is crying out for a more vigorous, Conservative style of government, especially on immigration, europe and crime.

Far from being outraged at any departure from Labour’s socialist creed, most voters would welcome the restoration of tough border controls, a less servile relation- ship with Brussels and longer jail sentences.

One opinion poll last week showed that a significant majority even wants to see the death penalty brought back, something that is taboo amongst the political elite.

The tragedy of our times is that Cameron has failed to exploit the public mood for change. It is absurd to pretend,

as Labour chiefs argue, that he has vacated the “centre ground”, which in reality is just the terrain of fashionable Left-wing thinking, with all its support for the EU, multi-culturalism, a vast public sector, high taxation and softness on crime.

This is precisely the outlook Cameron has adopted through- out his time as Prime Minister. There is nothing remotely Conservative about his Cabinet. his policies are almost indistinguishable from those adopted by Labour.

To call him “Right- wing” amounts to an abuse of the english language.

This is a leader who has presided over a massive increase in net migration to Britain, further accelerating the transformation of our country into a multi-ethnic land mass.

According to figures released last week, 575,000 new arrivals came here in 2010, the first year of Cameron’s Government, while net migration was up 20 per cent compared to 2009.

A truly Conservative Prime Minister would have acted immediately to reverse this trend through a temporary freeze on all immigration or drastic restrictions in the award of student visas. But, typically, Cameron has just indulged in tinkering and empty words.

It’s the same pattern throughout Government. he has done nothing to challenge Brussels but has bombed Libya to bring hardline Islamists to power in Tripoli. He has slashed the armed forces but squandered billions on foreign aid.

He seems incapable of doing anything about the wretched Human Rights Act yet has encouraged his ministers to indulge in Labour-style social engineering such as the implmentation of the equality Act, which allows employers to discriminate in favour of women and ethnic minorities his Government is driving through large increases in public expenditure.

No radical steps have been taken on public sector pensions or the costs of welfare or the size of the quangos. Instead of supporting those in work, the coalition has hammered them with extra charges, such as the 2.5 per cent rise in VAT, the widening of income tax bands and inflation-busting increases in rail fares.

And what sort of Conservative Government promotes a massive hike in energy bills to pay for a green agenda?

Some might argue that Cameron’s abject failure to act like a Tory leader reflects the fact that he is nothing more than an opportunist who just wants power for its own sake.

It was Robin harris, one of Mrs Thatcher’s closest advisers, who said that he “doesn’t believe in anything”.

But the truth is perhaps even more disturbing. If Cameron has a political philosophy it is one bred of guilt about his privileged background. This has led him to embrace a form of hand-wringing paternalism dressed up in verbiage about the Big Society.

It is telling that the political thinkers who have most influenced Cameron are progressives such as Phillip Blond, British radical and academic, or Cass Sunstein, US adviser to President Obama.

“In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ours?” Sunstein once wrote, displaying his support for heavy taxation, a mentality that Cameron has taken up with alacrity.

If Cameron is so conflicted about his affluent background he should have become a socialist or a social worker.

But to masquerade as a Conservative is an insult to the political process – and a betrayal of the British people.

Shane's shiny new look (but he still wears a white belt!)

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:34:00 +0000

Amidst all the talk of the #tottenhamriots this morning I spotted this gem by Camila Long in the Sunday Times which made me giggle . . . a lot!

Thought I'd share. Enjoy.

Picture from the Sunday Times

To Chelsea — Fulham? — and Liz Hurley’s diamanté boudoir, where a radioactively orange lump of anxiety is staring intently into her Louis XV imitation mirror, inspecting his frosted locks and all-over tan, his lips, eyebrows and newly discovered jawline. No, not an escaped reality TV contestant or celebrity nail technician, but Hurley’s boyfriend, the Australian spin bowler Shane Warne. The 41-year-old former cricketer has barely been dating the actress and model eight months, but she has already transformed him into a thinner, leatherier, baggier version of his original self: a giant crocodile-skin tote, if you will.

Once a bleach-blond ocker defiant in his lack of fitness and love of beer, Warne has been in a marvelled state of shock ever since the superglamorous dress-wearer left her businessman husband for him just before Christmas. He has lost weight faster than a post-pregnancy socialite and raided her face creams. Last month, she had to defend him from accusations of a face-lift: “There’s zero surgery,” she announced on Twitter. “SW’s only crime is nicking my Estée Lauder Resilience Lift moisturiser.”

On Thursday, however, his look reached a terrifying apotheosis: a fully formed Ken doll complete with Ray-Ban aviators and pointy shoes emerged on her doorstep in London. There was something curiously tragic about the appearance, right down to a mysteriously shiny face. As Martin Amis once wrote, “Perhaps it was sweat, grease, or sebum — but, you never know, it might have been tears.”

Tears or not (tears), the overhaul has been astounding. What had Hurley done to Warnie and why? Where was his paunch and his fag, his appalling clothes and five o’clock shadow? His dry skin, his platinum mullet? The craggy teeth, the rest of his eyebrows?

Hurley immediately responded with humour, claiming she had forced him into a “secret, possibly evil regime”, in a series of light-hearted tweets that reeked of vanity and despair. In a corresponding series of tweets that spoke, more off-puttingly, of spike heels and foreplay, her boyfriend said, “I had a bread roll today. Sorry! Please don’t hurt me or punish me or make me sleep in the spare room.” Later he added, “It doesn’t matter what anyone says about anything. I’m very happy!”

I seem to remember Jordan/Katie Price said something along these lines just before she split with Peter Andre. The funny thing is that Pricey did exactly the same to Andre as Liz is doing to Shane: within weeks of falling in love, Andre lost weight, tried Botox, considered implants, both hair and breast. They went everywhere together, bronzed, kohled, fully tweezed: Bluewater’s answer to Antony and Cleopatra.

And so, Chelsea’s. I appreciate that there is always a temptation to “mould” a new boyfriend, heave him out of his bed of crisp packets and make him use two types of shower gel. I’ve lost count of the girlfriends who have moaned about dirt, toenails, the unexpected presence of stilton in otherwise perfectly blissful new relationships.

And yet, as soon as they’re trussed up in blazers and slip-ons, desire inevitably fades. The foul-mouthed, two-timing bad boy you first fell in love with is a world apart from a preening walker in lip gloss and lifts. The only women who find this look remotely attractive are fearsome Eighties icons such as Margaret Thatcher and Joan Collins. Collins always said she wanted a wife, and a wife is what she got in her nipped and plucked toyboy husband, Percy. For anyone else, a man who sits on the sofa and plaits your hair is total erotic kryptonite. I can only hope La Hurley feels this way, that she secretly yearns for Shane’s old sheep-shearer’s appeal, that she eventually reclaims him, before he turns into Simon Cowell entirely.

I certainly hope she gets fed up with him begging her to tell him off so much: “Please be kind when you re-tattoo my eyeliner,” he moans at one point. Now if that’s not the wrongest part of this gently glistening tale, I don’t know what is. Bring back fat Shane now!

Tottenham riots 2011 - where is the leadership?

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:46:00 +0000

I suspect I join many people in expressing my disgust at the riots in North London last night.

@SkyNews is reporting today that what started out as a peaceful protest ended up as something akin to to a scene from the battleground of Benghazi in Libya.

Tottenham High Road littered with burning buildings, a double-decker London bus burning as if in effigy, three patrol cars dragged onto the high road and set alight, riots, rampaging and looting - even at 7.30 this morning.

Petrol bombs, fireworks and missiles hurled at officers and subsequently eight police hospitalized.

Welcome to 21st century London.

Two things struck me about this hideous incident.

Firstly, it took Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy until 7.30 this morning to dredge up a statement, and still nothing from London's mayor or the Home Secretary.

This is an absolute disgrace in itself, and I hate to say it, compounds a sentiment being peddled by the left-wing press (and John Prescott) that the country's currently being run by Larry, the Downing Street cat.

Let's face it - having so many members of government away on summer holiday at the same time is neither wise or media-savvy. People look for leadership at times like these.

There seems to be somewhat of a leadership vacuum in central government and with comparisons starting to be made to the riots of the eighties - blamed largely on race and recession - this could turn out to be a costly PR blunder for the Tories.

Secondly, the riots started after a peaceful protest over the death of Mark Duggan on Thursday, which sparked anger in the Tottenham community.

Apparently, residents of Tottenham, where he lived, want answers as to why he was shot and killed - and this is how they intended to get them.

However, the IPCC, who was called in immediately following Duggan's death, stated that he fired on a police officer first - the bullet lodging in his radio and ultimately saving him - which led to police firing back, sadly killing the 29-year-old.

So, these thugs may not believe the police's account of the incident - decades of volatility and mistrust of British law enforcement have seen to that.

But the Independent Police Complaints Commission has spoken. This is the body we go to when we want to complain about the police - and they have backed up their version of events.

At the end of the day, these heinous acts of violence and criminality - carried out, it has to be said, by children as well as adults - are nothing but examples of depravity, thuggery and down-right evil, which have robbed innocent, hardworking members of the community of their homes and their livelihoods.

Police resources are stretched as it is - this only adds to the pressure.

We all know the type of people who are responsible for this kind of violence - it's probably not 'PC' to say - but we all know.

And for the world looking in on a city due to host the greatest show on earth in less than 12 months time - what must they be thinking.

Ed Miliband isn't sad - he's tragic

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:48:00 +0000

I just had to post this - such is the utterly entertaining and true contents of the article.

Enjoy.

ED: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre is a much better book than it has been given credit for.

The making of a really good biography requires research, insight and some good gossip. The trouble is that Ed Miliband has not done anything particularly interesting except to be Gordon Brown’s bitch and trample all over his older brother to become leader of the Labour Party.

That is why I would recommend the reader skim through the first few chapters, which basically come to the conclusion that his friends thought he was dull and geeky. The splendid Vincent Graff used to co-present an LBC show when they were sprogs and came to the conclusion that Ed was, ‘very nasal, very serious, very focused and quite dull…there was never any laughter in the Green room, it was almost like he was doing a job’.

And this is the trouble with Ed. He spent his childhood arguing politics with his mum, dad, brother and the good and the great. He doesn’t have something that Dennis Healey said was so essential for a successful politician: a hinterland. The poor fellow just has no other interests in any else but politics, policy and the Labour Party. That’s not sad, it’s tragic.

The only interesting thing I could find in his early years was that he could polish off a Rubix cube in one minute twenty seconds. I’ll skip over the university years out of kindness. No girlfriends, little alcohol, head in books, but used to agonise over which chocolate bars to buy.

Apart from academia the only real job he ever did was to be a researcher on Andrew Rawnsley and Vincent Hanna’s flagship television show A Week in Politics where he was rather impressive. In fact, he constructed the interview that turned Harriet Harman ‘into a gibbering wreck’. He later became her researcher and was eventually poached by Brown’s mob.

And what a mob they were. Ed Balls, a brooding, arrogant, bullying piece of political excretia, and Damien McBride, a poisonous little toad. Ed must have seemed the most normal person there. The Blairites used to sigh with relief when it was Ed who came to brief them on the latest Brown howlings at the moon: ‘Ed was known as the emissary from Planet Fuck as he was the only Brownite who didn’t tell supporters of the Prime Minister to fuck off’.

However, he did have a bit of an explosion. It was over a Blair strategy to promise Brown he would pack his bags then change his mind. This came to a head in 2004, when Brown stormed into Number 10 shouting, ‘When are you going to fuck off and give me a date? I want the job now’. Later, Ed stormed into the Number 10 gatekeeper Sally Morgan shouting, ‘Why haven’t you packed up yet to go? There’s a deal and he’s got to go’.

Where this book really comes alive is during the leadership election. I thought the serious bitterness between Ed and David was a bit of press hype. Sadly not – and it has dismayed and aged their mother, Marion. John Cruddas just couldn’t understand why Ed could possibly stand against his brother: ‘You don’t just fuck over your elder brother’.

Although the book is a fascinating insight into Ed’s psyche, it also digs deep into the total arrogance of David. One thing is clear: because of his constant rudeness and offhand insolence to backbenchers, David deserved to lose. He was the establishment candidate and assumed he would win. And, by God, his people threatened and cajoled.

And so did the establishment. I found it rather scary that at the moment Ed won, party officials, rather than guide him through the media interviews which was their job, went sobbing to the bar. Ed was on his own. ‘The party officials had just pissed off’. What a disgrace.

And if you want to know the real reason he has scrapped the shadow cabinet election, just remember that the overwhelming majority elected by it didn’t vote for him.

This really is a fascinating book. It makes the Borgias look like members of the Frinton Rotary Club. It examines two men who could provide the Drs Freud and Jung with enough material to last them a lifetime.

by Jerry Hayes at Coffeehouse

Grasping Gordon's revenge on Murdoch

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:15:00 +0000

GORDON Brown's high-profile-cry-wolf antics this week have done nothing more than serve to reinforce what an nasty, vengeful bitter man he is.
Before I go on, let me first get out of the way the fact that yes, it must have been utterly dreadful to see details about his youngest son Fraser - who suffers from the recessive genetic disease cystic fibrosis - splashed across a national newspaper.
Anyone with a modicum of humanity running through their veins couldn't help but be appalled by the fact - myself included.
But, that isn't the point in this case.
Brown's motivation for making such ludicrous and bottomless accusations against the Sun, whom he claims used criminal means to obtain information about his son, is an act of vengeance.
Revenge for News International's decision to drop its support for Labour in favour of the Tories only hours after his disastrous speech at Labour's 2009 party conference.
Ironically, the Guardian reported in November 2009 that in an interview with GQ Magazine the same month, Brown said that he had known "for some time" that the Sun was planning to switch allegiances 'but said he still had respect for it's proprietor, Rupert Murdoch.'

"I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan. "His family come from not far from mine in Scotland, and his attitudes to hard work and getting on with things you can only admire. But the Sun has tried to become a political party.
"It's not personal about Rupert, he's always been very friendly to me. I think the Sun's made a mistake but that's up to them."

Fast forward two years and according to today's Telegraph, Brown said that he "couldn't think of any legitimate means" by which the Sun had got hold of the information about Fraser.
This was fervently rebuffed by New International, who claimed that details of Fraser's illness had come to light following a tip-off from a member of the public - for which they provided proof.

The article also interestingly details the ways in which both Gordon and Sarah Brown happily courted Murdoch and News International over a number of years, never once questioning their practices.
The Times reported several occasions on which the Brown's merrily socialised with both Murdoch and Brooks even after the Sun had run the story about Fraser.

The Telegraph writes today:

The Times went a step further, printing a panel in today's edition illustrating the many occasions on which the Browns had socialised with Mr Murdoch and Mrs Brooks since the story about Fraser's illness appeared on the front page of its sister paper.
Among these was Mr Murdoch's annual London summer party at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park on June 13, 2007, it was reported.
The couple are pictured in the Times smiling broadly with the newspaper owner at the event.
On March 8, 2008, Mrs Brooks - then Sun editor Ms Wade - attended a lunch at Number 10 marking International Women's Day, hosted by the then prime minister and his wife.
On June 14 that year, Mrs Brown reportedly hosted a "slumber party" at Chequers for successful women in the media including Ms Wade, Mr Murdoch's wife Wendi and his daughter Elizabeth.
And on June 13, 2009, Mr Brown and Mr Murdoch were said to have attended Ms Wade's wedding party after she married racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks.

The Mail also reported today that:

"If the Browns really were appalled by the conduct of Mrs Brooks and her paper, they did not show it. Sarah Brown helped to organise Mrs Brooks 40th birthday party and, in June 2008, even held a slumber party for the editor at Chequers. Guests included Murdoch's wife and daughter."

So, how odd that the old Labour juggernaut picks now as the time to express his disdain for certain alleged practices of News International.
It's nothing more than the political point scoring we've come to expect from his desperate and frankly ineffectual successor in the past week, topped off with a nice, big dollop of Brown malevolence.

In the words of American author and poet Maya Angelou:

" Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host."

Chris Bryant Kay-hater

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Great to see the Burlster putting in yet another Oscar winning performance on Sky News today.

Our Kay has a habit of making grown men cry (remember media whore Peter Andre blubbing on live tv) and today's little-man-scorned was none other than former priest turned political petal Chris Bryant. (C'mon - it simply had to be a lefty)

It's not the first time this odious little socialist has crumbled under the relentless interviewing skills of our Kay.

In September last year, the Welsh whinger became so un-nerved by this formidable femme fatale that he resorted to calling her 'dim' live on air:

Clearly bereft of any kind of media-training (or social graces), the former vicar from the valleys displayed the usual chip-on-the-shoulder-now-we're-in-opposition aggression that's becoming all too familiar from the opposition benches.

Today was another case in point. He accused Burley of "attacking" him during his last appearance on her show and angrily demanding an apology, to which our Kay coolly retorted: "I'm certainly not going to apologise to you Mr Bryant, no":

Apart from looking like a disgruntled, pubescent school boy who still hasn't managed to bag his first bird, this former man of the cloth should perhaps pull his neck in, learn a few manners and at least pretend not to be intimidated by women of strength.

Red Ken-Hypocritical Imp

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:48:00 +0000

As soon as news of the recent phone hacking scandals broke, Ken Livingstone lost no time in castigating Boris Johnson’s ‘dire judgement’ in dismissing the original claims as ‘codswallop cooked up by Labour’.

Livingstone also said that Boris ‘had at least two meals with Rebekah Brooks, one dinner and one lunch with James Murdoch, and one dinner with Rupert Murdoch [when he was] trying to keep the lid on this story.’

Livingstone was at it again on theToday programme this morning, saying the ‘scandal goes right to the heart of the establishment’.

Certainly, it was rash to describe the claims as ‘codswallop’, but is dinner such a crime? I ask because, according to his published diaries, Ken Livingstone had lunch with James Murdoch and others on 10th October 2006, two months after Glenn Mulcaire and Clive Goodman had been arrested. The lunch engagement was so official and proper that it merited a mention in the Mayor’s report of 2006.

Livingstone is also a regular attendee at Rupert Murdoch’s summer parties, where he rubs shoulders with Matthew Freud, a Murdoch by marriage. Livingstone’s relationship with Freud has been scrutinised in the past. When Mayor, Livingstone paid Freud £350,000 for public relations work to encourage investment in London; this was in addition to the Mayor’s 70-person PR team. Johnson cancelled Freud’s contract on assuming office.

So, even Red Ken is Establishment now. Politicians from all sides have perhaps been too cosy with News International; but, 'let he who is without sin' and all that.

From Spectator Coffeehouse

Wor Chezza - simply Cowell fodder

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:57:00 +0000

No matter what you think of her (and I'm a fan) 'Worr Chezza' - the darling bud of that infamous Walker council estate (& prood uv et-pet) - who wouldn't be - has been well an truly fucked over shafted by the Cowellster, and it's a God dang travesty.

Such is Cowell's confidence that the faithful Xfactor-following-sheep will 'choon-in' for a series bereft of the very people they 'chooned' in for: namely Worr Chezza and Dannii . . .that the only member of the 0-11 season is the highly annoying (but likeable - hate to say it) Walshey-pants.

The rest of the panel are American has-beens (apart from Gaz Barlow) which adds insult to injury to our Geordie pop-princess, after she was unceremoniously booted out of the states last week.

Please adopt the Boycott twibbon as a sign of your solidarity to Cheryl and Dannii.

God save the Queen

Wish you Waziristan

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:15:00 +0000

Wish you Waziristan - the film everyone's talking about but no-ones's allowed to watch. . . .incase it offends terrorists.

How very . . . . British.

The world's most influential music video

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sat, 28 May 2011 08:10:00 +0000

Bin Laden Demise

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Videos released by the Pentagon apparantly showing Osama bin Laden shacked up in his bunker watching videos of himself.

Are these 'home movies' real? Or are we just being treated to a bit, fat helping of U.S. propaganda?

£80 million just to stage Nick's referendum #av

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:59:00 +0000

THE government has released information about exactly how much Nick Clegg's referendum is going to cost us.
Instead of ploughing money into public services and helping reduce the deficit, local councils across the UK have to cough up an astronomical £80 million pounds for this half-baked, hair-brained Lib Dem scheme.
It accounts for almost 10% of their budget cuts.
In order to reduce the staggering budget deficit bequeathed on us by the last government, local councils have had to absorb huge cuts to their formula grant - either by increasing council tax, or cutting public service.
As if this wasn't enough - thanks to Clegg, they also have to find £80 million for this ridiculous and pointless referendum, which they're going to lose anyway.
Joan Ryan, Deputy Campaign Director of NO to AV told Tory Totty Online:

“The Alternative Vote system is unwanted, unfair and – on top of this – far too expensive at a time when public finances are stretched.

The money being wasted on this Lib Dem lifeboat would be better spent protecting public services.

If you want to make sure that AV doesn’t cost any more than it has done already, vote NO on Thursday.”

Full list of the cost of the AV referendum broken down council by council: here

Open letter to @skynewsweekend

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:41:00 +0000

Dear @skynewsweekend

For future reference, if you must invite desperate, hysterical MPs onto the channel who refuse to engage in intelligent, reciprocal debate can you please do it on a week day?

My Sunday morning 'r and r' has just been trashed by the abominable Chis Huhne, who behaved like a screaming banshee on today's Murnaghan.

As much as I am a @skynews disciple, I draw the line at this kind of uncivilised, simply atrocious behaviour.

Thank you

Totty

Ken Livingstone and Lee Jasper Reunited

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:27:00 +0000

DO you remember Lee Jasper? As Ken Livingstone’s Director for Policing and Equalities in City Hall for 8 years, Jasper was one of Red Ken’s closest advisors and confidantes.

Having been suspended in February 2008 due to a storm over alleged dubious dealings at the London Development Agency, he resigned in March 2008 when it turned out he was secretly sending “sexually charged” emails to a woman who ran projects that he helped to get taxpayer funding for.

Jasper’s reputation soured the entire Ken campaign in 2008 – and since then Ken has steered well clear of him, at least in public.

The message has been that this is a new, clean Ken Livingstone, without dodgy mates like Jasper on his bandwagon any more.

How surprising, then, to see the list of speakers at the TUC’s May Day Rally in an email sent out by Lambeth TUC, and since sent on to me:

Ken Livingstone (Labour Party NEC member and candidate for London Mayoral election) Matt Wrack – FBU General Secretary
Tony Benn
Sarah Veale – TUC Lee Jasper – Black Activists Rising Against the Cuts Eylem Ozdemir – Refugee Workers Cultural Association

It seems the old band is back together again. (And yes, you did read that right – Jasper really has set up a group that believes the cuts are racist, and he really has called it “BARAC” in a heroically desperate attempt to get some Obama-glitz-by-association.)

According to his propaganda, we are meant to believe that Ken Livingstone has changed, but here is, once again, sharing a platform with the same old cronies, banging the same old drum.

The leopard hasn’t changed his spots – and who really believes he’s been trying to?

From the block-busting blog of the inimitable Mark Wallace @ www.crashbangwallace.com

Sorry - Britain is full

noreply@blogger.com (Tory Totty Online) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:00:00 +0000

REUTERS news agency today reported that Pope Benedict, in his traditional Easter message, called on European countries to welcome desperate migrants fleeing war-torn Libya.

"May all people of good will open their hearts to welcome them so that the pressing needs of so many brothers and sisters be met with a concerted response in the spirit of solidarity,"

the pope said.

While here in the UK we're forced to watch helplessly as brutal regimes like Libya and Syria perform the systematic massacre of their respective peoples, on a scale I have certainly never witnessed, I must take issue with the above statement.

Not because I'm in any way unsympathetic to the situation. Entirely the contrary - never have I been so sickened by anything.

But because Britain, in particular, is full.

13 years of uncontrolled immigration by the last government has rendered the UK unable to help people who really need it, such as civilians from the two countries mentioned above.

So full are we of migrants enjoying the great British gravy-train - mostly illegally, that when it comes to providing a safe-haven for victims of dictators like Muamarr Gaddafi - we can't.

Contrary to what the Pope suggested, maybe it should fall to nations other than ours to exercise a bit of good will for a change.

Australia perhaps?