A great man and manager.

A true gentleman, a passionate football man who has always been honest, dedicated and genuine.
We will miss you Bobby; I will always remember you.

It's looking increasingly like Peter Mandelson is actually the boss, the unelected boss of an unelected PM.

Last night on newsnight there was snake skinned Mandelson actually saying that first of all, he's abandoned the crude talk of Labour investments versus Tory cuts. He now talks of a choice between what he describes as substantial adjustments by Labour ministers, in comparison with savage cuts delivered gleefully by their Tory opponents.
I have never heard the glee in their voices when announcing possible cuts and it certainly won't be there when they discover the true state of this country's finances!
Golly, I thought kamikaze Brown and snake skinned Mandelson planned that Ministers would pop up all over the place to announce "initiatives" during the Parliamentary recess. Don't they know there is supposed to be a close season?
snake skinned Mandelson "...now talks of a choice between what he describes as substantial adjustments by Labour ministers..."
For goodness sake, why can't these people stop talking in SPIN and get back to English.
There will be CUTS, regardless who takes power next year.
The Treasury publication shows that snake skinned Lord Mandy's own department will have a "growth (as Brown would put it) of MINUS 20 percent in 2010/11.
Why can't these people be honest?
I would gleefully take an axe to the special advisers in Whitehall. And make every IT contract and consultancy engagement contingent on the delivery of the "promised" results. So you say you'll improve efficiency? Do it and we'll pay you from the benefits delivered.

But this is what you get when you put someone in charge of the military whose only "working" experience is as a shop steward for 20 years.

One of the British soldiers at the centre of a 'petty' Government court challenge to reduce compensation for wounded servicemen is back fighting in Afghanistan.
Light Dragoon Anthony Duncan is fighting on the front line on his first tour of duty since a bullet ripped through his leg while he was serving in Iraq in 2005. It took him two years of rehab before he was fit again and he shipped out this April for a six-month tour just as the Afghan war headed towards its most bloody phase so far.
I cannot imagine an issue more likely to undermine morale than an attempt by the MOD to cheat injured soldiers out of compensation awarded to them by the courts. The action of MOD simply beggars belief.We need to chuck out this whole dreadful, self-seeking and dishonourable rabble of a government and replace them with proper leaders of integrity.
Another reason to get rid of this government then!
It is false economy to not have a good compensation structure. If we expect the best soldiers to fight for this country, then we need to pay, on every level.
From equipment, wages, conditions, and compensation packages for the dead and wounded. FREEDOM DOES NOT COME CHEAP.
Politicians need to get the message, Don't go to war if you can't afford the cost.
A bit like don't bail out banks then moan when they rip us off again!

You'd think after 12 years they'd get it, but obviously not.

You will always be 2nd class with Labour!

In a speech to the Universities vice chancellors today Lord Meddleson had a dig at elite universities, asking: “Why, for all the work in the sector and all the seriousness with which it has tackled this question, are we still making only limited progress in widening access to higher education to young people from poorer backgrounds — especially at our most selective universities? It is not enough for universities simply to confer life advantages from one generation of professionals to their children.”

Either snake in the grass Meddleson does not know where the problem is, in which case he would be a fool, or he knows and is just spinning, in which case he is a hypocrite.
If he would waste less time spinning and get on with the job of ensuring that our state schools deliver a reasonable proportion of sixth form students with the intellectual tools necessary for a University education, he would do the country an enormous service.
It is after all, only what New Liebore should have been doing for the last twelve years - or what his grandfather's Old Liebore should have done sixty years ago.
This government has created a large number of 3rd rate "universities" and now seeks to drag our remaining excellent universities down to a remedial level of higher education to match the dreadful and declining standards of the school system. The maxim seems to be quantity not quality in the name of equality. Crass, utterly crass!

The dumbledorf's Darling Buds of May

dumbledorf Darling, speaking on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show, said: ‘I am extremely concerned at what the banks are doing for the small and medium-sized businesses.' 'What companies are being charged does seem to have gone up relative to what banks are actually having to pay.’ dumbledorf Darling acknowledged that banks needed to rebuild their balance sheets. But he added: ‘We also need them to lend and that’s why we recapitalised them.' They've got to live up to the promises they made.’

dumbledorf Darling's grasp of reality is certainly not one that commands respect, from businessmen or, one imagines, psychiatrists.
The policy of re floating banks was always a disaster. As any sailor knows, you can't re float a hulk if it's still leaking like a sieve. The banks were given an unconditional gift of billions of pounds and told to go forth and do business. They did - boosting their revenue and profitability, reassuring their shareholders and looking after their senior managers with renewed bonuses. Anyone else could go hang. Loans are on grotesque margins and bear no relationship to the cost of capital. Government has exercised zero control over its - our - investment except to try to get it back, creating confused responsibilities for banks.
Northern Rock, the earliest beneficiary, is still charging 4.9% on locked-in mortgages - having passed on precisely nothing of the reduction in base rates.
So much for government policy. What's worked? Well, scrappage. I don't personally like a reflation policy that only helps people who can afford a new car, but that's nuliebore for you. And the fact is that it has improved fortunes in the auto industry. So, why not do more in terms of direct consumer and taxpayer support? After all, if you want people to spend, wouldn't it be a good idea to help them feel a bit more solvent? They will buy products and services which support small business, still trying desperately to hang on while banks charge them usurious rates for working cash. But this is not part of dumbledorf Darling's plan, and we can only assume that government is more concerned about protecting the bonus culture than actually taking care of business. So what's new?

At last an Honourable Member.

I am not surprised by Andrew MacKinlay's decision. He always comes over as an honest and principled man.

It is a shame that Thurrock will now be deprived of his services. Even more so that it has been brought about by the depths to which his own colleagues have fallen. Can someone please tell me what the Government Whips said to the Liebore MPs to make them change their minds?
This whole nonsense in sending Gary McKinnon to America is just another of the many examples of ''dictatorship'' in action by kamikaze Brown. Despite Brown's protestations that he is ''sympathetic to his plight'' it is just another of the many lies Brown has told us.
He above all people had the absolute power to stop the extradition of McKinnon, but choose not to.
Brown is a hypocrite, a liar, and for this reason he hasn't got a chance in hell of ever being elected by the people of this country. And this is why he will wait until the last possible second before calling an election.

Clarkson crashes into trouble with C-word attack on PM

Clarkson, who previously had to apologise to Gordon Brown in February after calling him "a one-eyed Scottish idiot", described him as a "c--t" in not-for-broadcast comments during the recording of this week's Top Gear programme on Wednesday night.
At the filming of the previous week's programme, on 15 July, Clarkson also used the same word to describe Brown as part of a joke. "Clarkson was talking about a government policy and said as his payoff line: 'The reason you can't do that is because Gordon Brown is a c--t'. "Everyone found it very funny."
Come on Jeremy you missed two words you should of said "one eyed c--t"