[Closed] Alastair Campbell

That professional liar should be in prison with Tony Blair

You were at a CBI dinner with a prick like Cambpell as the keynote speaker and you didn't have the balls to verbally abuse him with regard to his role in the "Blair" years or at the very least walk out in disgust yet you come on here an tell us he was very good?....how do you think this is going to end wallop?............ 🙄

What about asking him to tell a different amusing story, perhaps one where he colludes to fudging of the original Iraq weapons dossier that led this country into a war that has cost 100,000+ lives and destabilised a previously inert (but admittingly) still volatile central area of the middle east?.

I'd happily do time for a free go at him.

Well yes, unsurprisingly he didn't dwell on Iraq. I should imagine many of the questions were of that ilk. I don't actually have [i]any[/i] balls and sadly heckling the speaker when you are a host at a dinner like that isn't really the done thing. One of our guests had a go though 8)

What did the guest say, and was he applauded?

I've also seen him as an after dinner speaker. He came across as an arrogant, hateful sub-human arsehole.

Did he repeat himself? 😉

I hope all your guests made it back home alive too wallop. No detours into the woods or anything.

He is a strange fellow that Campbell, I have seen bits where he comes across as ok, enjoyed hearing him take the Daily Mail patsy to pieces, then you remember all the vileness he has been involved with and realise that him and Malcolm Tucker are one and the same.

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That professional liar should be in prison with Tony Blair

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Lets not forget Gorden Brown who bank rolled them with our money

He is very good at what he does but what he does is amoral

Glad he amused, many sociopaths are charming and charismatic

I see you've riled the aspiring upper middle Wallop. Well done. 🙂

Did he deal with his bipolar affliction?

Did you ask him what his role was in abusing and harassing David Kelly, so he or M!5 felt death was the best way out

The man is as corrupt and evil as the NOTW two ...

The man is as corrupt and evil

M!5

Well I'm sure that scuppered their algorithms!

I've also seen him as an after dinner speaker. He came across as an arrogant, hateful sub-human arsehole.

Well he had to get into a character that the dinner guests could identify with.

All Tory A-holes together.

Oh. Have you actually met "wallop", then?

He always puts me in mind of the lyrics to a song*

[i]I am just an aging drummer boy
And in the wars I used to play
And I've called the tune to many a torture session
Now they say I am a war criminal
And I'm fading away
Father, please hear my confession

I have legalized robbery
And called it relief
I have run with the money
I have hid like a thief
Rewritten histories with armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books
And I can still hear his laughter
And I can still hear his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong

Well, I've tried to be meek
I have tried to be mild
But I spat like a woman
And I sulked like a child
Hid behind walls that have made me alone
Striven for peace
Which I never have known
And I can still hear his laughter
And I can still hear his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong [/i]

* appologies for the Dire Straights content 🙂

I bloody love that song...

You were the host?

What was his fee?

I'd happily do time for a free go at him.

I reckon he could have you.

I think we need to be grateful to Alaistair Campbell. Yes, he was responsible for countless hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of needless deaths through his lies, deceit and conniving. And... yes.... he was instrumental in a disastrous economic policy that almost bankrupted the country, and spent his career as a cheerleader for the most amoral charlatan ever to grace the office of prime minister, but without him, there would be no Malcolm Tucker. And that'd be rubbish.

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Binners - phew, that's a bit harsh. I'm no fan of Blair, but was he that bad? Surely Thatcher can't be 'beaten' for hateful Prime Ministers of the modern era?

I quite like Alastair Campbell .......

To be honest with you, despite what Blair ultimately became, which is a truly vile creature, and much as we moan about Nu Labour, we still have to thank him and AC for kicking the Tories out of office for 13 years.

Can you imagine what a wasteland this country would now be if they'd have stayed in power? Just how much worse things would now be, in just about every way imaginable? Just look what they're up to now. At least this lot will only be around for 1 term, despite the labour parties best efforts

Can you imagine what a wasteland this country would now be if they'd have stayed in power?

...aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, GO!
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Lower taxes and lower national debt?

Can you imagine what a wasteland this country would now be if they'd have stayed in power?

What I find difficult to understand is how, in this day and age with such great communications and with the amount of information so freely available, people can still be this deluded...

Its an empathy thing ....thankfully you wont worry about this 😉

IDS would have been PM - how awesome would that have been

Were Campbell/Blair really any more disingenuous than their predecessors?

I suspect not, they just got found out and happened to get involved in worse stuff (eg Iraq vs Falklands).

I think we'd have waved goodbye to the NHS about a decade ago. And 99.8% of the nations wealth would now be owned by 2% of the population, who had had peasant hunting legalised, and were now driving round caaaaaarncal estates with huge machine guns on the back of Range Rover Sports, taking out the inhabitants

G4S would run prisons and there would be 135, 000* prisoners

* they would have no idea but that is what they would bill us for

Can you imagine what a wasteland this country would now be if they'd have stayed in power?

It's not exactly a utopia now though is it, after labours failure to deal with the banks, the rising benefits culture and a war that is/ was by and large illegal.
Can't we all just agree politicians are self serving tosspots with one eye on the end of their term when they can charge X thousands of pounds to recount what a complete and utter shower they were whilst in power?

Edit: +1 for "at least we got Mr Tucker out of it."

I think we'd have waved goodbye to the NHS about a decade ago.

Can you imagine what a wasteland this country would now be if they'd have stayed in power? Just how much worse things would now be, in just about every way imaginable? Just look what they're up to now. At least this lot will only be around for 1 term, despite the labour parties best efforts

We would have social mobility. Labour well and truly stamped that out. Obviously, as people move up they stop voting labour.

binners - Member

Can you imagine what a wasteland this country would now be if they'd have stayed in power?

i don't need to imagine it, i've seen Robocop.

think i'm joking? - the tories are clearly angling to privatise the police force after they've [s]sold[/s] given the NHS [s]away[/s] to themselves.

i still don't think i could get bored of punching Al Campbell though.

Can't we all just agree politicians are self serving tosspots with one eye on the end of their term when they can charge X thousands of pounds to recount what a complete and utter shower they were whilst in power?

Yes. being asked who to vote for at the moment is like being asked if you'd like the huge shit sandwich you're about to be force-fed on brown bread, or white?

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is like being asked if you'd like the huge shit sandwich you're about to be force-fed on brown bread, or white?