tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post5306884807271947286..comments2024-03-19T09:19:39.539+00:00Comments on Constantly Furious: Jacqui Janes - CounterfactualConstantly Furioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03010139518958428871noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-48101345951014040262009-11-15T13:16:14.037+00:002009-11-15T13:16:14.037+00:00Yes, the Labour combine has an evil PR machine. Bu...Yes, the Labour combine has an evil PR machine. But this story isn't about them. It's about the evil PR machine of the Tory combine. Outsourced to the Sun, of course. Good business thinking, there. Pointing out that one side is as bad as another doesn't mitigate the <i>bad</i>.Working Class Heronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-11637911293057518422009-11-14T13:51:57.952+00:002009-11-14T13:51:57.952+00:00I thought all PMs penned letters like this and, un...I thought all PMs penned letters like this and, until now, it was seen as a private affair. <br /><br />Not only is it a non-story, but this blog post is a non-post of hypothetical piled upon hypothetical, and this comment is a non-comment trying to remind us all that we're all mongs but the Sun is a bigger mong than most.@jearlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844143156533663190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-3271164775446781582009-11-13T13:56:19.830+00:002009-11-13T13:56:19.830+00:00I read, on Craig Murray's blog, a comment in w...I read, on Craig Murray's blog, a comment in which the writer said Ms Janes had been helped by Help for Heroes. They recommended she approach the Sun.<br /><br />I have no evidence whatsoever to support this but thought it worth mentioning.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-77912209658482993232009-11-13T04:31:40.151+00:002009-11-13T04:31:40.151+00:00The Sun does a Gordon Brown:
http://www.anorak.c...The Sun does a Gordon Brown:<br /><br /><br />http://www.anorak.co.uk/230333/politicians/the-sun-joins-gordon-brown-in-disrespecting-jacqui-janes-by-calling-her-jacqui-jones.htmlAnorakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04776828181131019067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-88931446107886397252009-11-12T01:07:41.060+00:002009-11-12T01:07:41.060+00:00we have forgotten how things used to be havent we ...we have forgotten how things used to be havent we CF ,such is the rotteness of this labour government , innocence and decency have long ago been traded , for non answer and deciet.<br /><br />An interesting angle CF and reminder of why so many of us feel like we do .caesars wifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-16888105834637819982009-11-11T17:26:44.190+00:002009-11-11T17:26:44.190+00:00Nemo_sum ..
Your quote is rather apt in so far as...Nemo_sum ..<br /><br />Your quote is rather apt in so far as this government contains sufficient clowns to staff several circuses .. and between them they've stolen enough "bread" to have Rank-Hovis-McDougall worried ..<br /><br />I'd trust this shower about as far as I can spit through glass ..Captain Haddocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-55232837633978883572009-11-11T17:15:06.588+00:002009-11-11T17:15:06.588+00:00There is much in what you say, CF.
I wonder, ho...There is much in what you say, CF. <br /><br />I wonder, however, how many <b>more</b> news cycles this non-event will take up and how much 'bad news' is being allowed to slip past us while we are all watching this tawdry little side-show.<br /><br />A little like X-Factor and Strictly perhaps - <i>panem et circensem</i>?nemo_sumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-68226369518618665502009-11-11T13:03:59.383+00:002009-11-11T13:03:59.383+00:00CF..
Fantastic post and everything you have writt...CF..<br /><br />Fantastic post and everything you have written had Jacqui Janes gone down the different route then by god Labour would had milked this until the cows come home.<br /><br />The pro Labour trash media would had made Brown out to be some moral high statesman with a kind and sympathetic heart.<br /><br />Cameron and his party would see all of this hype for what it was but as you Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-12570913822318848552009-11-11T12:00:09.019+00:002009-11-11T12:00:09.019+00:00I'm on the cynical side....Maggie always wrote...I'm on the cynical side....Maggie always wrote a personal letter to those who died in the Falklands...Conveniently forgotten by Labour lovers...GB does it for Brownie points...#FAILDippyness.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03074617995848289735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-63080594776991750112009-11-11T11:44:24.393+00:002009-11-11T11:44:24.393+00:00"Imagine if Jacqui Janes, on receiving that l..."Imagine if Jacqui Janes, on receiving that letter, was very moved by the personal touch"<br /><br />Personally, I suspect that the monocular mong and his hapless cohorts had indeed planned this. "Look at Gordon!" they would coo, "he's trying so hard, oh the humanity!"<br /><br />Fuckweasels. And it went wrong. Cry me a fucking river.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-41289716376995447332009-11-11T11:40:09.785+00:002009-11-11T11:40:09.785+00:00Yes,Mandy can complain and did so at length on the...Yes,Mandy can complain and did so at length on the Today prog this morning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-61646320056324340712009-11-11T11:24:10.243+00:002009-11-11T11:24:10.243+00:00Gordon even brings his own shovel.Gordon even brings his own shovel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-18701659123818906152009-11-11T11:18:27.493+00:002009-11-11T11:18:27.493+00:00"You talkin' to me?"
GUFFAW."You talkin' to me?"<br /><br />GUFFAW.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708444000412716821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-26505832246900564292009-11-11T10:50:06.340+00:002009-11-11T10:50:06.340+00:00To draw a parallel from relationships:
Alphas get...To draw a parallel from relationships:<br /><br />Alphas get away with everything, betas get away with nothing.<br /><br />Or as Balzac put it: "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues"<br /><br />Gordon is finding everything he does has the glass half empty. A sure sign of his Nick von Miseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03985951853422897135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-79549546461020274102009-11-11T09:40:52.354+00:002009-11-11T09:40:52.354+00:00"you do know what a tu quoque is, don't y..."<i>you do know what a tu quoque is, don't you? ;)</i>"<br /><br />Know it? This blog <i>lives</i> there. ;-)Constantly Furioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02820008075933084222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-80559762451646787862009-11-11T09:07:10.537+00:002009-11-11T09:07:10.537+00:00I think your counterfactual has happened enough ti...I think your counterfactual has happened enough times already.<br /><br />There is of course the other, much more boring, much more common kind of story. The kind where grieving families receive letters from politicians and, regardless of whether they are pleased, offended or indifferent to have received them, they STFU, file the letter away (or frame it, whatever), and go back to their grief, Stuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315721343398529214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-31762258167255977542009-11-11T08:44:53.477+00:002009-11-11T08:44:53.477+00:00My response in this parallel universe would be pre...My response in this parallel universe would be precisely the same as the current one. Its a non-story being used for political gain and should never be news, because it isn't, and it detracts from the real issues; the reasons and conduct of the conflict, the failure to adequately fund and supply the armed forces et al.<br /><br />The Sun went for an easy target so as a consequence, it hit theLongriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139120804208136012noreply@blogger.com