Late last night I switched on BBC1 in the middle of a mesmerisingly tasteless kinetic version of Heat Magazine, called “See you in Court”
What do George Galloway and Danielle Lloyd have in common, apart from both being remorseless self-publicists?
You got it. They’ve both been contestants on Big Brother. Appearing on Big Brother may be an instant, if sad way of increasing your public profile, but contestants must be aware that in doing so they sacrifice all, and I mean all, privacy.
Now this ill-matched twosome have turned to the courts of Justice to seek damages from corporations they claim have intruded upon their privacy. Ms. Lloyd had some images stolen by Carphone Warehouse during a phone-to-phone data transfer. The subject of the images in question happen to be the very things (another twosome) she is famous for, and she considers these particular images private because they show some scarring, due to a recent operation after a cancer scare. She claims. She has hired a respectable, expensive-looking lawyer to handle the case, whilst at the same time acquiring, courtesy of the BBC, some nice useful publicity for what she calls her career.
This is what we have come to expect from the BBC, and to be fair, this country. Cause and effect, effect and cause.
Much more unwelcome was the sight of George Galloway, the dandified publicity-seeking former Respect MP who seems to have nothing better to do than lead a camera crew around London, onto a train, and to the Guardian Offices to meet his good friend the Marxist Islamo-phile associate editor of the Guardian, Seaumas Milne, I can’t remember why.
Mr. Galloway feels he has had his phone tapped or bugged, but he’s not quite sure, by the Newspaper that Andy Coulson was in charge of.
These cases are very lucrative for the lawyers and possibly the winner, but in the scheme of things not particularly relevant to the advancement of all mankind. George Galloway is enjoying publicity, free, gratis, and to no benefit to you, me, or the man on the Clapham Omnibus, for his sickeningly hypocritical vanity project. A man who purports to be a politician, i.e. beyond reproach, who willingly, without duress or coercion, appeared on what they call ‘National Television’ wearing a red leotard while impersonating a cat in a most unsettling fashion, is claiming huge amounts of money, on the bandwagon of discrediting David Cameron because he once employed Andy Coulson, in the celebrity phone hacking mountain out of a microscopic molehill.
And the BBC adds insult to injury by beaming this repulsive trashy saga into our homes, pitched, needless to say, firmly on the side of the protagonists, and against the defendants, at our expense.
Who the fuck gives a shit about either of them? Or the BBC, for that matter…
Section 5 P.C. Natsman. Hand over that warrant card – NOW!
Surrendered my warrant card ages ago…
Well don’t try any funny handshakes, that wont get you out of this Section 5 either.
The Milne fellow is a son of the former Director General of the Beeboid Corporation, one Alasdair Milne.
This reminds me of another politician and lover of publicity who cavorted on Big Brother and resorted to the courts but is now spending his days in a well known Scottish prison. That’s Tommy Sheridan, for anyone who hasn’t been paying close attention to the tawdry show that passes for public life these days.
Millie,
How amazing, Tommy’s name came up at lunch today as well. See below.
Many of our politicians are witless, grasping ego-maniacs. Galloway however is actually evil.
Funny. I had lunch today with 2 scottish socialists. I love mixing with socialists, it is free entertainment.
They brought up the subject of Gorgeous George , Palestine and Israel.
I said ” Did you know his second wife was Palestinian , she divorced him because of his “relationships” with other women and he and his ex-wife had a big luxury villa in Portugal ? Typical socialist “.
Stony silence. Didn’t put me off my lunch though !
But Sheridan’s wife is standing by him, at least in public, anyway.
Millie,
At one stage she was going to stand against him in elections, can’t remember which ones.
She was going to be up against Galloway in the recent Scottish Parliament election.
She was going to be up against Galloway in the recent Scottish Parliament election. He was greatly offended!
How did that get there twice?
Roland,
That happens to me and other posters. No idea why. As has been commeted here before , this is far from the most user-friendly blog system.
“‘Speak up — my other ear is wired to the Guardian'”
(by Melanie Phillips)
[Extract]:
“In other words, to the BBC (and the education unions) this was the same old same old – cruel heartless Tories, favouring the rich and screwing the poor.
“But hang on a minute. Willetts ( who ever since David Cameron decided to take the Tories to the left has discovered his own inner social engineer) has repeatedly promoted policies which continue Labour’s strategy of favouring the poor over the better-off, and has accordingly dumped meritocracy and social justice in pursuit of the left-wing shibboleth (and Guardian mantra) of equality of outcomes.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6935710/speak-up-my-other-ear-is-wired-to-the-guardian.thtml
One must remember that George Galloway is the leader of a political party( the well loved Respect Party!).
They may no longer exist in our world-but forever will be in the hearts of enemies of Israel and indefatigable Ba`ath Party supporters-which will include many of the bys and girls upstairs.
No such courtesy extended to those “nutters” at UKIP though and their ilk!
I caught that programme – my fish and chips were wrapped in it.
Egregious George, the Hero of the Trotocracy, saying how insulted he would be by a settlement offer of £60,000 or £160,000. If £1,000,000 was on the table well of course he would give that serious consideration… for his projects, his children, and his grandchildren you understand. All this because someone may or may not have listened to his voice mails.
His socialist chums love him, but hate ‘greedy bankers’.
There’s a thing.
Now if he wants to sue the BBCC they’ve presented him with an open goal here. Got to be worth more than a million quid.
Click to access 11_05_05_psi_report.pdf
Page 15 of the document (17 on the pdf).
Ve-ery interesting.
They can listen to my voice mails for £60,000.