The loser from the Kevan Jones storm is Gordon Brown

Julian

So much for not knowing who these smear "mavericks" are. How close do these people have to be to Brown before he accepts responsibility? Will it be another case of Mr. Jones, or just Jones again?

No doubt Brown will be apologising to the gay guy who cracked the Enigma Code, but not apologising to Richard Dannatt

wonderfulforhisage

Mr H. you write: "If Jones - or any other member of the government - can be tied to the smear plot, then it's certainly a resigning matter."

Pre 1997 maybe, but not anymore I'd wager.

The Bellman

What blinking flip? Does the whole of Westminster have ADHD? McSnotty's gutless smearing of colleagues is not 'an old wound'. And that florid little turd McBride has only been on the naughty step for about half an hour. McSnotty himself is a walking case of anaemia on that front: as long as he's in office, the wound cannot heal.

Plus it's not like these guttersnipes haven't tried to take a pop at General Dannatt already - about a month ago, I recall.

And if you think McBride was the only - as opposed to merely the nastiest - assassin in McSnotty's closet, and that his removal 'drew a line under' the practices on which his master so obviously depends, then you're wrong.

At least Lord Mandelvort has the wit to attack the other team...

Hawkeye

What a bunch of scum!

The Bellman (after one too many espressi)

p.s. McSnotty is a convulsive political corpse, kept alive only by the Mandelson defibrilator simulating signs of life. He cannot conceivably 'lose' anything more. The actual 'loser' is, as it will continue to be as long as this nasty, malicious and uncouth shower of swine remain in office, British public life.

R King

Does anyone in this desperate nulab party and/or government ever resign for wrongdoings?

Would there be many left if they were really "Honourable" people?

David Ossitt

Brown still presides over an operation built on smears and character assassination.

He always has and he always will; the man has no honour.

This is but one more nail in this governments coffin.

AB

Integrity - there is no greater crime in the eyes of the Labour Party. It has fallen to a soldier to point to the moral black hole that has engulfed nearly every aspect of public life since Blair, Brown and the podgy high priests of "progressive" politics tricked their way into government.

Ray

This is 'Churchillian' Brown at his best: "I have nothing to offer this nation except blood, debt and smears".

Bruce, UK

Resign? Labour? Brown?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

You are card, Peter.

Resign. Good one. Must tell it down the pub (before it is forced to close).

Jeremy

If Lord Foulkes is involved then you can be certain that Brown knows about it.

Foulkes is one of Labour's "Most Vicious", and he has had an axe to grind against the military ever since it became known that an ex-SAS man had facilitated the passage into the public domain of information - chapter and verse, in fact - about the extent to which MPs had been personally profiting from ransacking taxpayers' cash.

Foulkes is a nasty piece of work but - being a Labour peer - he would not have acted in this way against Sir Richard Dannatt without the prior knowledge of senior figures within the Labour government.

This administration clearly houses some extremely low and vicious characters, but if they are now seeking to denigrate the character and reputation of a man who is both better and braver than themselves, then they might be setting in motion a sequence of events which they will come to regret.

Max Biaggi

Hat's off to Guido - again.
He should get a knighthood.

Wishful thinking on "forcing a resignation"... they don't do resignations.

Short the UK

Just phoned his constituency office and off-loaded both barrels: 0191 371 8834

Was considerate to the poor guy who answered the phone.

David Lindsay

Kevan Jones.

Nuff said.

Ask anyone round here...

stephen

Let's hope the Tories put this odious little creep Kevan Jones' seat in Durham on their hit list at the next election. Maybe Gen Dannatt should stand against him as a new style Tory candidate!

catesby

@ David Lindsay

Ask anyone round here...

Jones has form as a chippy little oik with an impertinent curiosity about the domestic arrangements of senior officers.

He even asked a PQ about the Adjutant General's tennis court.

I suppose there could be two such figures in the current roster of MoD ministers, but if that's so, it makes matters even worse.

David Ossitt

stephen

"Maybe Gen Dannatt should stand against him as a new style Tory candidate!"

Now there's an idea that is worth repeating.

David Lindsay

In a past life, I was Secretary of a District Labour Party half of whose area comprised half of his constituency. As someone once said, I bear the scars on my back.

As do the erstwhile (Labour) leading lights of that District Council, since abolished.

And then there is his own past life on Newcastle City Council...

logdon

And wasn't it Brown who blocked Dannatt's final promotion?

This grisly fat turd denied a fitting post from which to ease into distinguished retirement, to a man whose military career has been an example to all.

Says it all really.

Guido's band of take no prisoners, merry jesters put it all into perspective.

Sometimes their brand of profane savagery is entirely apposite.

And a correct riposte to these monkeys whose jabbering tea party has reached it's plate smashing, balloon popping nadir.

Archie Wedderspoon

What sort of a name is 'Kevan', anyway?

David Ossitt

Archie Wedderspoon

What sort of a name is 'Kevan', anyway?

The sort of name that the strange celts to the west might use.

Peace&Harmony

Durham North's MP works tirelessly for his constituents, unlike some local councillors who do sod all to make a difference in their community.