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Guido Fawkes Blog: Matthew Taylor is Ruining the RSA

  • Mitch · 10 months ago
    This "progressive" thing concerns me, we have now had a "progressive" government(their words not mine) since 97 and I can only assume from the evidence that the word means a Police state run by wankers for the benefit of anybody except the indigenous population.


    could anyone please tell me where we are progressing too?(apart from penury)
  • preston · 10 months ago
    "Matthew Taylor is Ruining the RSA"


    Yeah? And there was me thinking we had it bad with McTwat ruining the whole fucking country.
  • Submariner · 10 months ago
    Very true, Guido. I used to admire the RSA. A few years ago I was approached by both the RSA and Common Purpose to become members. I went and had a look at first hand by attending a few events before making a commitment. Fairly quickly it became obvious that there was massive group think going on in both organisations, and that it was assumed you would fit into a particular broad-left big-state view of the world. As the man from the Mirror used to say, "I made my excuses and left".
  • All Seeing Eye · 10 months ago
    o/t.somebody section the cunt quickly.....how many more lies will he tell?


    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5767876.ece



    pope tells gordon to fuck off and doesnt allow him to kiss his ring!
  • A recipient of Victorian-style · 10 months ago
    Off topic:


    When it comes to 'muppet' stakes then Tony McNulty of the DWP is high up there. Having watched Digby Jones's Channel 4 Dispatches programme on the Jobcentre plus operation I was stuck by how little McNulty really understands about what is needed now - and not in six months time - for those who have just been made unemployed.



    What McNulty would not admit is that the present Jobcentre plus system was devised - along with all those external contracts - to beat up on the unemployed, to appease the Daily Mail's railings.



    Events have moved quickly - and I hope you note that the DWP SoS is nowhere to be seen when the odure is flying - and now all the Incapacity Benefit changes which the government has contracted into will just push the unemployment levels up, so ensuring Labour's certain defeat. Hoisted by their own meaness of spirit.
  • Bill d'Sarse · 10 months ago
    Gordon Brown has said he supports Tessa Jowell, after her estranged husband was convicted of accepting a bribe


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7900004.stm



    That's her f*cked then.



    WV fusti - is that what he Pope did to the idiot?
  • Mitch · 10 months ago
    GM is currently producing 128,000 cars a month, a pace of 1.5M cars for the year. $16Bn on top of the $14Bn we already gave them means it is costing the Untied States $20,000 PER CAR that GM sells to keep them in business. But wait - it’s worse than that…. GM only employs 140,000 workers in the United States and their "plan" is to lay off 47,000 of them. That means they are asking for $16Bn to keep 93,000 workers - that’s $172,000 PER WORKER!
  • Beowulff · 10 months ago
    Also glad you picked up on this one, Guido.


    One of Beowulf's tribe used to be a Fellow of the RSA but was disenchanted when it never did anything for Manufactures and Commerce. Now it prefers 'arty-farty navel gazing' to anything to do with making things, same philosophy as McDoom's.



    Once the uber Blairite took over it became a ZanuLab creation in support of the cult leader, well captured in that posy photo. Our tribal member then cancelled his membership.



    All this is sad for an organisation which stood for something sensible in the past.



    What the Tribe of Angles would like to know is, 'Who the F*** gave Taylor the job?'



    As someone else wisely observed, 'They are everywhere now.' What did we do to deserve this?



    More importantly, 'How do we rid ourselves of this pervasive parasitic canker'



    A bit of good news. I did see McDoom entering the portals of the RSA the other day, and being welcomed by the Chief Greaser, so perhaps all is not lost.
  • Error · 10 months ago
    just looked again at a video I posted, hadn;t realised it had antisemitic overtones in it, hope you caught it.


    The entry was entitled Goodbye my britain or something
  • Plain talk · 10 months ago
    What a complete fuck, someone do him in.
  • Cybernaut · 10 months ago
    Transsexual joke lesbian Labour minister Angela Eagle is getting slaughtered over the economy


    I heard her on R4 earlier. I thought I'd tuned in to a prog about Dr. Who, so much does she sound like a squeaky monotone wobot in urgent need of, uh, oiling. The Tin Woman?
  • Frank Fartwell · 10 months ago
    Anonymous said...


    "He's known as 'The Ghoul' in our house, due to his hollow-eyed cadaverous appearance."



    February 19, 2009 5:29 PM



    That's too much wanking that does that. Makes one listless and ineffectual with no lead in the pencil. That's why wankers are so-called...
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    Is quantitative easement anything to do with that building created by Henry V111?
  • It's only monopoly money - pri · 10 months ago
    £2,000,000,000,0000 National Debt = we're fucked chaps although Brown is still peddling the line that every country is in the same boat and that the UK economy is one of the strongest in the World with national debt only 47% of GDP er sorry Gordon now the ONS has insisted that the £1.5 Trillion bail outs of RBS & HBoS go on the Balance Sheet it's nearer 150% GDP and still rising.
  • So17 · 10 months ago
    All of these institutions are infested with this scum.
    Charity organisations are now an unofficial arm of the bloody civil service, complete with over opinionated fucking job dodgers called 'Charity workers'.

    These cunts ring up vunerable people like my mum who did a real job before retirement and emotionaly blackmail her into giving two pound a fucking week,most of which goes to pay their fucking wages.

    And worse,these whorehouse organisations then become influential in guiding government policy on shit like climate change etc.

    And to add insult to injury the head of this bollocks will probably get a fucking Knighthood.
  • Guido 'despairs' of me and oth · 10 months ago
    The 'Third Way' yes of course a piece of political genuis which requires hard working, dedicated, law abiding citizens paying ever more to indulge the hordes of feckless, work-shy filth to live on benefits, and to have kids they neither want nor can afford.
  • Max the Inhaler, . . · 10 months ago



    Yes, agree with many sentiments above. And so relieved to find you Guido, and others share them.



    I did not care to continue my once valued 'Fellowship' when it became clear something was contaminating the solid principles on which the RSA was founded.



    So much to put right in this benighted land.



    'Progressive' (sic) . . . YUCK!!!!



    Now what do we have? ArtyFarty Bliarist nonsense, - made worse - I cannot find suitable words - by current dumbing-down humbug.



    Anyway, time to purge that lot out of my system.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    Gordon Brown gave the Pope a framed copy of a letter from an Ethiopian woman, thanking him for purchasing the first Vaccine Bond.


    In return the Pope gave Gordon Brown a humiliating snub.



    Fair exchange.
  • Bored lefty · 10 months ago
    What a pointless post. No doubt you are settling some childish personal score here, Guido, as usual. The country's going to hell in a handcart, in case you haven't noticed. Time to up your game.
  • So17 · 10 months ago
    Sorry to go on about this issue.
    My mum like many of her generation puts others first.

    She sponsors three african kids,a couple of dogs and pays out to at least three or four other charitys a week.

    Like fucking vultures these 'Charity workers' smell easy meat and continue to harass my mum.

    I can do nothing. To point out the truth would break her heart and I dont wish to do that.

    So here I am vexing my spleen in a manner in which I could not do elsewhere.

    Thank god for your Blog Guido.
  • bofl · 10 months ago
    Shitstain brown lying again....'nobody saw the financial problems'....zzzzzzzzzzz


    can someone print off the seven imf warnings and staple them to the cunts head?
  • about time !!!!!!! · 10 months ago
    o/t..........itv text is reporting a demonstration of 150 people outside drowning strasse..........


    maybe the worms are turning?
  • Matt London · 10 months ago
    "All this is sad for an organisation which stood for something sensible in the past."


    I agree - pretty much why I dropped my Fellowship some years ago - but the change predated the present regime by quite a while.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    Of course the Third Way was the hobby horse of Mussolini. 30's Italy here we come!
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    'politically independent' says the RSA web site.


    I think you may be being too soft on him Mr Fawkes.
  • Mercian · 10 months ago
    Who on earth is this bloke Taylor? And I've never heard of the RSA. Is it anything like the Midland Institute?


    I know I might be a backwoodsman, but you might be in danger of becoming as London-centric as the politicians and MSM.
  • Air Nokia One · 10 months ago
    bofl said...
    Shitstain brown lying again....'nobody saw the financial problems'....zzzzzzzzzzz



    can someone print off the seven imf warnings and staple them to the cunts head?

    February 19, 2009 9:05 PM







    As requested will the finder please staple to McFuckwits head.



    These are the IMF warnings which give the lie to the your protestations of innocence:



    1) Dec 2003 IMF gives Brown borrowing warning



    2) Sep 2005 IMF report warning over £1 trillion mountain of debt



    3) Sep 2005 Brown besieged over growth and borrowing plans



    4) Dec 2005 IMF fires new warning over Britain's finances



    5) Sep 2006 IMF warns over possible UK property crash



    6) Oct 2007 IMF report UK house market is 'heading for crash'



    7) Apr 2008 IMF: UK vulnerable to US-style housing slump



    This October, the IMF said that the UK was worst placed of all the major economies to weather the coming recession.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    from Mike Smithson on PB.COM telling us soemthing we probably already know


    Are public purse voters the bedrock of Labour support?

    Last July Ipsos-MORI introduced a novel new weighting to try to deal with the over-representation of Labour supporters in polling samples. Unlike the other polling firms who weight by past vote or past party ID MORI now split their samples into those who are on the public pay-roll and those who are not.



    Just look at the chart above to see two key elements. Conventional telephone polling seems to reach many more public sector workers than their numbers in the adult population suggest and in each poll since the change MORI has to scale their influence back quite considerably. In almost every monthly survey the public sector respondees have been well over double what they should be and the numbers adjusted accordingly.



    And this is having an impact on the overall poll findings. The headline shares from those who are 100% certain to vote had the Tories 20 points ahead on 48%. Yet amongst the public sector workers polled Labour was in the lead. And If the “payroll” vote had been excluded then the Tory share would have been 50% with Labour down at 27%.



    Quite why public sector workers figure so prominently in polls is had to say - but it happens month after month and I’m sure that the other phone pollster have the same experience. They just deal with the distortion in a different way.
  • Brown caught lying again · 10 months ago
    Brown claimed the Pope "welcomed his invitation" to visit Britain. The Vatican replied that "no travel by Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom is scheduled or under consideration."


    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/02/19/gordon_brown_tries_to_spin_the_pope__vatican_response_spin_on_this
  • Marcellus · 10 months ago
    The fight back is starting against this fascist Labour Government. There is going to be a huge coordinated set of conferences/meetings throughout the country on 28 February 2009 - The Convention on Modern Liberty. to discuss the destruction of liberty in this country. There are very many well known people and organisations who are behind this. This is going to be a very important development. Now we have a chance to fight back.
  • FrankFisher · 10 months ago
    lol - fucking BBC


    "That one trillion pounds of debt on the public balance sheets sounds a lot worse than it actually is"



    Shoot them. Hang them, then shoot them as they're hanging. Bring the family - everyone can have a shot.





    YES! Word ver: ATLAS



    he's shrugging like a mofo
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  • Wondering Wonderer . . · 10 months ago



    Anonymous said...



    Of course the Third Way was the hobby horse of Mussolini. 30's Italy here we come!





    Just things going round and round in my head . . like . . .



    Third Way . . . Mussolini . . . . Third Way . . Bliar . . . . Bliar . . . Mussolini . . . . Third Way . . . Mussolini . .. . hanging upside down . . . Bliar . . . ?





    Nah . . . nah . . .



    It's a thought though . .
  • PINKSTEROID · 10 months ago
    I once blew out a greeny on the wall of the tate modern,imagine my fucking suprise when some cunt paid $2346799.000000098867.988888888999999999 for it.


    btw.A recent poll of our office staff revealed that they would most like to headbut that gay cunt that keeps giving it tra la.Paul gadd came in a close second.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    If Obama does not attend Gordon's save the world party in April, will Gordon crack up once and for all?


    The Pope has already stood him up, will the chosen 1?
  • Stu Palmer · 10 months ago
    "The Worst Economic and Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression Reveals the Weaknesses of the Laissez Faire Anglo-Saxon Model of Capitalism"


    Nouriel Roubini agrees with me stupid cunts



    toryism = nu labour
  • Marcellus · 10 months ago
    BBC News cannot be reformed, it is now far too corrupted. All the staff in the news department must therefore be sacked within 24 hours of Cameron taking over.


    All new staff taken on will have to sign very strict contracts.



    I would be very happy to organise and attend to all this personally.
  • Gordons Boom, Gordons Bust · 10 months ago
  • Gladys Pew · 10 months ago
    These fuckwits are like clones manufactured from sub standard human dna and pigs testicles. God I hate them so much!
  • Thatsnews · 10 months ago
    Oh, dear.


    "Progressive"

    "a new collectivism"



    SS RSA heading full steam ahead to two rather large icebergs...
  • Ruth Kelly's plaything · 10 months ago
    Sad to learn of NuLab's creeping corruption spreading its tentacles into the RSA too.


    Wasn't it founded by Charles I? Not quite sure what to make of his fate at Cromwell's hands. Perhaps someone can suggest a lesson to be learned.
  • Libby Davy · 10 months ago
    I've joined the RSA today after much thought. My two bobs worth (from having done both) is, better to be involved in constructive conversations / action than mudslinging from the sidelines. I hope you all find somewhere to hang out that gives you the chance to contribute in positive ways to whatever it is you believe in, hopefully for the betterment of many, not few. Would be nice to see less anonymity here too, but I imagine many of you have reasons for that. Hope it changes for you. Bestest - Libby
  • tripe arty · 10 months ago
    Yeah cheers for the sanctimonious drivel Libby
  • Sir Reginald Titbrain · 10 months ago
    SO17


    Did you know the charity sector has its own Cabinet Office Dept, poncily called the third sector. Only a Blairite half=wit could think that up, of course. It a handy way for all the anxious do gooders to sidle up to Nulab and who knows, into Parliament where they can then pass more impoverishing [for the rest of us] legislation.



    Link
  • Bill Quango MP · 10 months ago
    Good for you Libby 11.38pm
    I too decided to join, but seem to have signed up to the RSHA.



    I have been asked to help out with AMT IV section and am to be an honorary Obergruppenfuhrer??

    Seemed like a nice bunch of chaps.They appeared to be making another Draper Downfall video when I popped round.
  • Libby Davy · 10 months ago
    Ps - I found this blog post because the RSA posted a link to it. That speaks volumes to me. How many of you would do the same?
  • Guido Fawkes · 10 months ago
    We all do it, that is the way the blogosphere works.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    So 17, sorry to hear about your mum.


    Socialism is a Totalitarian creed.



    It seeks to take over and destroy anyone who opposes it.



    Whether Hitler and his concentration camps, or Pol pot and his re-education camps or Castro and his special prisons for those who write poetry against him.





    Once you put a Socialist in charge, the organisation stops being open and becomes an arm of the Socialist revolution.





    Anyone who's heard Charter House people speak can see the creep of Marxist controal.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    Excellent post Guido - yes, I am a disappointed member - and reassured that there are so many the same. The left of centre bias, the left-wing events - with the dreaded Toynbee. There really is a need for an organisation that performs to the original mandate and not this pernicious statist, 3rd way
  • Aethelred · 10 months ago
    Given that social mobility has declined significantly under nulab, the biggest barrier that needs removing his Gordon and his coven of thieving lackeys.


    The best thing Matthew Taylor could do, to achieve his own ends, would be to resign.



    Perhaps he could find a new job in the Guardian, probably something involving words such as "outreach", "diversity" or "community".
  • So17 · 10 months ago
    Thank you Sir Reginald Titbrain and Anon 12:32.
    I cannot see my rant being posted up in all its glory on Ceefax and I believe this blogg is doing a good public service.







    Free weekend to Dublin perhaps? :)
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    Well said Guido! I wrote to the RSA's President a year ago, pointing out that Taylor was forever on 'Today' and 'PM' and 'Newsnight', pontificating about the Blair Legacy and what the fuck did that have to do with running the RSA? I got a very dusty reply, saying that the sopciety was absolutely delighted with its new high media profile' under young Matthew.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    Actually I think he's breathed some life into what was an increasingly tired, self-indulgent and lightweight society - I'm considering renewing my lapsed fellowship. At least it is noticeable now and does some interesting stuff - and he is a pretty good political commentator on telly too - quite amusing and self effacing. .


    He certianly doesn't appear to be campaigning for Labour: he was given flogging by John Prescott for saying Cameron has the political courage to tackle the government.



    You might have to face it Guido - Blair and Cameron have more in common with each other than Blair with Brown or either with their own party. That's why Taylor resonates well with the majority of the British public that hopes that Cameron will be the architect of a Blair-ite revival. Just as they the nation looked to Blair to give us Thatcherism with compassion, they are looking to Cameron to give us Blairism with steel.
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    I think the RSA is dragging itself into the 21st century with some surprisingly prescient pieces of work.


    And I have it on good authority that the number of fellows is continuing to rise.



    But you wouldn't be one to let facts get in the way of a bit of sniping, would you Guido?
  • Anonymous · 10 months ago
    When I was at school in the late 1950s, the RSA offered a series a useful examinations in English (and other subjects). These were designed to be taken before O-Level. They were of a high standard. Then, the RSA was a regarded organisation - well known, respected and relevant. Who the hell hears about it now.