Bad Week: Damien Green MP, Woolworths, Gordon Ramsay, Brownies
by Greg McDonald
So
you’re a member of the Tory shadow cabinet – which of these should you try to
avoid at all costs? Is it a) being a few minutes late for a select committee
meeting on parking restrictions? b) wearing the same tie as the Shadow Minister
for Fisheries? Or c) getting arrested by counter-terrorism police? Yes, it was
a bad week for Shadow Immigration
Minister Damian Green – and his boss
wasn’t exactly having a giggle either.
It
was a sad week for Woolworths, as
the 99-year-old icon of the British Christmas went under before Advent had even
begun. For diehard Woolies fans, here’s some festive nostalgia from 1983, when
you could get a state-of-the-art Woolworths hairdryer for £5.99. They don’t
make ‘em like that at Tesco. They do? Oh.
It was a meal of a week for
celebrity bully Gordon Ramsay. For starters, there were freshly served
allegations of adultery with a locally sourced blonde side dish. And for the
main course, the spicy revelation that the mystery ingredient was none other
than a professional marriage wrecker looking to launch a TV career. Poor
Gordon. This media dicing couldn’t have happened to a nicer little lamb.
Finally,
it was a bad week for Brownies, as the girl scouts were banned from singing
Christmas carols for old people for fear they might – oh yes – obstruct the
fire escapes! Health and safety? Humbug! In honour of bosses at Hemel Hempstead’s Marlowes shopping centre, to sing us out
this week here are another bunch of muppets.
Why is Labour so hyped up? I thought this was the party that encouraged whistle blowing. Pity it backfired though.
Posted by: Jesse | 06 December 2008 at 08:55
At least Labour is running true to form and denying everything with Reichfuhrer Smith saying it was all above board and correct. The silence from the rest of LAbour has been thunderous and LAbour MPs must be wondering what Pandora's box the Home Office has opened. If there is a funny side, it is the fact that Gordon Brown made a lot of his reputation using "leaks". HAs anyone else noticed that when anything hits the fan, Gordon is always conspicuous by his absence.
Posted by: Brian Wylie | 02 December 2008 at 09:48
I really don't know much about politics but I would have thought that something as high profile as raiding an MP's home at dawn and being arrested by counter-terrorism police would have to have been sanctioned by Jackie Smith.
Posted by: Silly not Stupid | 01 December 2008 at 21:59
The only time our people are ever going to taste freedom is when the last red flag is burned.
Posted by: Bob | 01 December 2008 at 17:19
Does this mean Mr Green is now on the DNA database?
Posted by: Chick Mc Kain | 01 December 2008 at 16:34
Jaqui Smith the Home Secretary said this morning that the raid on Damien Green's house and Parliamentary Office was not "Stalinistic" How true, it was more like the SS and the Gestapo in their prime. Smith says she knew nothing about it nor did any of her colleagues. Well, folks she should have done as it broke all the rulse on PArliamentary Privilege. I would certainly have the police who organised this.Smith is just a menace along with her boss. Her defence of the indefencible was well up to Blair and Brown standards
Posted by: Brian Wylie | 30 November 2008 at 14:42
Brown's no snake. Snakes are honest. Brown by nature I'd say; he's a turd.
Posted by: Zarg from Tharg | 30 November 2008 at 12:44
Time to go Gordon Brown.
No wonder you failed to get into the SNParty they know what a snake in the grass you are.
So does Damien Green now!
Posted by: et al | 30 November 2008 at 10:51
I expect that tory getting nicked made your day huh McDonald?
Posted by: Zarg from Tharg | 29 November 2008 at 14:27