Monday 24 September 2007

Leecher abuse

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This is not a poo related blog post,

but I was most amused to find that, presumably through lack of foresight, Andrew Robathan MP (Conservative) is using a picture of a coin which bears an image containing an ejaculating phallus and a reference to the
puerile website B3ta, on his Blog

How long it remains is yet to be seen.

In case it has been removed by the time you peruse, here is a screengrab:

UPDATE: It's been pulled and the whoel blog is now comments by invite only, following an article in El Reg.



Here is the original image:



And, for posterity, here are the comments from his blog, to date:


Lord Manley said...

It is sad to see that the pound holds so little value for some.
3:08 PM
Anonymous said...

With subscription rates going up like that, I'm expecting 'stiff' competition ahead
3:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Its hard to argue with that. it isn't exactly a meaty rise after all.
3:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Forget the credit crunch, i think there will be a huge splurge on the pound, leading to rising interest.
People will be forced to steal bandwidth just to survive.
3:37 PM
Anonymous said...

The idea that changing subscription rates increases membership is, in my mind, a logical phallusy
3:45 PM
Anonymous said...

Well I think its good that we have Prince Phillip on the pound and not just the Queen. Its a step forward for equality, and I'm all for it.

Woodchopper.
3:47 PM
Anonymous said...

I think its important that the CDC is well represented. It generates a lot of fluidity on the financial markets
3:52 PM
Anonymous said...

It certainly is a cocksure move to inflate subscriptions like that. What with Northern Rock Hard times ahead for all.
3:54 PM
Anonymous said...

Mr Woodchopper, I think you are in error. Pound coin have long featured national symbols (leeks, thistles etc). I have it on good authority that this one features the new national symbol for England.
3:55 PM
Anonymous said...

Even if the subscription rates are still low, the state the pound is in I can foresee them spurting up rapidly in the near future.
4:07 PM
Anonymous said...

I think this little episode amply demonstrates the integrity of the conservative party. Maybe next time they will splash out on their own image.
4:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Oh come come. This is just an exposed cock and bull story.

I'm glad they've got the balls to do it at all.
5:06 PM
Anonymous said...

bollocks
5:06 PM
Gilgamesh said...

further evidence of the "trickle-down economy" at work
5:08 PM
Anonymous said...

The economy is in trouble - you can see it coming.
5:37 PM
Anonymous said...

a left-leaning member.
5:39 PM
Anonymous said...

A fine upstanding member of the community; I, for one would be happy to splash out on a couple of under 22yr olds.
5:53 PM
Anonymous said...

Great to see some of that true Tory spunk at last! Well done.
6:20 PM
Anonymous said...

Great to see some of that true Tory spunk coming back into politics. Well done.
6:22 PM
Anonymous said...

dolce et decorum est pro patria veni.
6:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Although subscription rises can be unpalatable, I really think we need to swallow this one.
6:47 PM
Anonymous said...

I agree, we should suck it up for the greater good of the Party.
6:49 PM
Anonymous said...

I hope this means we'll see Boris' Johnson standing proud at the next election.
7:04 PM
Anonymous said...

The executive council have shown they are capable of holding their own.
7:04 PM
Anonymous said...

Yes, you should put more muscle into the problem. This is a good start.
7:07 PM
Anonymous said...

I ope this is pricking at someone's concience.
7:10 PM
Anonymous said...

This article should be pulled off immediately.
7:24 PM
Anonymous said...

What the economy needs right now is a rigid Member of Parliament, who's not afraid to stand up and dive in head first.
7:43 PM
Anonymous said...

What a wet article! Stop trying to ram it down our throats!
7:46 PM
Gilgamesh said...

We should learn from the Japanese, they certainly know how to hold an election
8:02 PM
Anonymous said...

I for one support this. I'm fed up of all these 'willy/won't he?' politicians.
8:19 PM
Anonymous said...

I for one would hate to see it shoot up without at least some kind of notice. Having said that, I'm sure your loyal members will rise to the occasion.
8:23 PM
Anonymous said...

To all the commenters above:

Leave the Conservative Party ALONE!!!
8:27 PM
Anonymous said...

I think this needs a wider audience.

This is Youtube material!
8:30 PM
Joe. said...

Hard times certainly are ahead, but I'm glad the tories finally have a thick, meaty policy that should please the under 22s
8:35 PM
Anonymous said...

Don't be a dick. £3 isn't so much a pint and a packet of crisps price, as a meat and two veg price!
8:45 PM
Anonymous said...

As a proud member who is over 22, any large rise would be an extreme pain in the rear. But, like any good conservative, I guess I'll just have to grin and bear it.
8:46 PM
Anonymous said...

"In addition, when these changes go through there will no longer be the hard choice of joining your local association or the national party...."

Hard choices are what made us the Party we are today; I feel that the harder things get, the better for all concerned.

A short refractory period should allow us time to gather all our strength for the final push.
8:46 PM
Anonymous said...

There's no point having a limp financial policy and a flaccid attitude to foreign economies. It's time to inject some steel into Britain. Pressing hard into the rear end of the stock market, spraying a massive wad in the face of Europe - that'll show our spunk.
8:50 PM
Anonymous said...

I hope this gives Gordon Brown a rude awakening.
8:51 PM
shang said...

don't trust the tories. they'll spunk our money away...
8:56 PM
Anonymous said...

I fail to see how such a small rise in subscriptions can make a vas deferens to the running of Conservative Future.
9:01 PM
Anonymous said...

This stirring article should be reproduced in the broadsheets - one doesn't get a much bigger organ than the Telegraph, for example.
9:18 PM
Anonymous said...

I hope the pound rises in the face of stiff competition
9:22 PM
Anonymous said...

Why I likes it. I'm going to write a letter saying how much I enjoyed it.
9:25 PM
Anonymous said...

BOLLOCKS TO YOUR BLOG, YEAH?
9:29 PM
Anonymous said...

STOP HOTLINKING OTHER PEOPLE'S IMAGES!

I'm a Conservative supporter, but I'm not a supporter of leeching other people's images.
9:31 PM
Anonymous said...

I nicked it out of your shed.
9:42 PM
masakatsu said...

Good traditional conservative thinking. Of course, any rise would be hard for the modern under 22 conservative to swallow. Better to take the traditional approach and ease the inflation slowly through the back door.
10:21 PM
Anonymous said...

Seems the Tories are trying to give over 22's a right good beasting when they should really be focusing on lowering the time periods for hospital discharges! This will only leave a salty taste in the mouth of their supporters!
10:37 PM
Anonymous said...

I can see why they are shooting for the increase but if they didn't spray the money quite so freely then it might not be necessary.
10:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Good news to here, I had previously worried that the under 22s would get shafted..
10:39 PM
ivor biggon said...

I'm tempted and i bet you are good at running a party, but i find it hard to believe all that can be forced out of just £3, I'm glad to here the rate won't change for for under 22s as i like the price i get them at now, good old fashioned analual prices that's what i want like when i were a Tory bummer boy at Eaton
10:45 PM
Anonymous said...

If I were a conservative I would be proud of those rates. I would ejaculate at every opportunity how proud I was.

I'm not so I won't
10:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Sir, were the party to stop splurging on thier money this increase would not be necessary.
10:57 PM
Anonymous said...

Is it surprising to find yet yet another politician pissing all over the rest of us !!
11:07 PM
The Imaginary Reviewer said...

Wait, isn't Dick Spring a Labour politician?
11:57 PM
Anonymous said...

As an upright Conservative member I find this large increase hard to swallow and suspect I may have been shafted.
12:54 AM
Anonymous said...

Ha ha. Its funny because you are like an old man who probably can't set his video recorder but you are trying to get down wit' the kidz by having a blog, 'cept 4 da fact dat u prob didn't no u 'ad a blog, it is prob ritten buy sum PR dude.

Thanks.
Harold Winston (Lab)
1:31 AM
Anonymous said...

It is good to see the conservatives standing up and showing the young people of today what they are made of. We've all taken a terrible shafting these past years, and if the tories putting it up will get them back up where they belong, then i just can't get enough of it.
1:43 AM
Anonymous said...

here we are, at the belle end of the new millennium, and the tories still have their junk showing! How long must we put up this flaccid, limp dick of a party???
1:47 AM
Anonymous said...

another whitewash leaves a nasty taste in the mouth once again! now we must splash out again to keep the Tories creaming the public once more.
1:53 AM
Anonymous said...

Spunking hell where did you get your cock coinage.
3:45 AM
Psychedelic Warlord said...

I'd vote for those in sterling.
6:29 AM
Anonymous said...

I've got boluxs as a verification code, class!
8:34 AM
Anonymous said...

Good to see Conservative values standing proud.
9:11 AM

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