Richard Littlejohn

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3813

I think he's harking back to a halcyon age when the police were mates with criminals and reporters. Back to the days of corruption and fit-ups, the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad and Operation Countryman, SUS laws and Blair Peach. When crime could be dealt with by nicking first and asking questions later.

Paul · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:29 pm

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Says it all !

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:09 am

Did we cover this one at the time?

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/biscuit_ ... ffice-3084

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As both the Food Standards Agency and the Health and Safety Executive have demonstrated, there is no kind of national legislation relating to the distribution of biscuits in meetings. Sugar-fuelled office workers can be at ease, safe in the knowledge that they won't be hauled before a court of law for accepting a colleague's offer of a snack.
It is possible that Mr. Littlejohn is referring to a specific example of an independent body enforcing their own health and safety policy. If this is true his phrasing is misleading, as he appears to be suggesting that this biscuit ruling applies is universally enforced.

satnav · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:15 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2084510/Jacqui-Smith-expenses-Just-did-away-Jackboots.html

I think most of the article can be summed up by a simple question. Why does Jacqui Smith get more TV work than Richard?
I suppose it helps that she lives in this country 365 days of the year which is a real advantage for someone who wants to appear on British TV.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:24 am

Fflaps · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:34 am

John Smith's babble gets more incoherent each week.

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It seems to be true that once you've made the public eye, you can always make a crust - even though you might have been as notorious as Jack the Ripper - as our modern-day Jaq is constantly proving! Got away with £150 grand - no problem - the Beeb will provide a top-up, with an otherwise critical Humphrys acting as the front-man cashier, and what about the next Strictly? If it's good enough for Weighty Widdy and Cutie Curry, then surely Jacqui Jackboots can't be far behind in the chorus line? What a great Blair-Babe she turned out to be - a true disciple, with the same eye for the main, chance, with organisations like the Beeb shelling out - for old times sake!+++Who'd have though that Barnsley was the "Jules & Sandy, Pink" capital of the NUM membership, with Scargy acting as the "Mister 'Orne of the coal-pit! "Ooo, in' ee bold, says Jules, as Scargy threatens to strike - but how Bona says Sandy!++And thank God we didn't have the H&S in WW2- a worse enemy than the Luftwaffe!
- John Smith, Birmingham, England, 10/1/2012 8:23
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SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1622

satnav wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2084510/Jacqui-Smith-expenses-Just-did-away-Jackboots.html

I think most of the article can be summed up by a simple question. Why does Jacqui Smith get more TV work than Richard?
I suppose it helps that she lives in this country 365 days of the year which is a real advantage for someone who wants to appear on British TV.

Perhaps, just perhaps, she has shown herself to be a competent and capable broadcaster rather than a blowhard who is a running joke in the TV industry after being comprehensively pwned by Michael Winner.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Fflaps wrote:

John Smith's babble gets more incoherent each week.

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It seems to be true that once you've made the public eye, you can always make a crust - even though you might have been as notorious as Jack the Ripper - as our modern-day Jaq is constantly proving! Got away with £150 grand - no problem - the Beeb will provide a top-up, with an otherwise critical Humphrys acting as the front-man cashier, and what about the next Strictly? If it's good enough for Weighty Widdy and Cutie Curry, then surely Jacqui Jackboots can't be far behind in the chorus line? What a great Blair-Babe she turned out to be - a true disciple, with the same eye for the main, chance, with organisations like the Beeb shelling out - for old times sake!+++Who'd have though that Barnsley was the "Jules & Sandy, Pink" capital of the NUM membership, with Scargy acting as the "Mister 'Orne of the coal-pit! "Ooo, in' ee bold, says Jules, as Scargy threatens to strike - but how Bona says Sandy!++And thank God we didn't have the H&S in WW2- a worse enemy than the Luftwaffe!
- John Smith, Birmingham, England, 10/1/2012 8:23
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Quentin Letts is his true idol. You can see how he tries to emulate his hero with his pompous prose.

satnav · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:32 pm

Managed to get this past the mods.

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Looks as though Richard is slightly peeved by the fact that Jacqui Smith gets more TV work than he does. Perhaps TV companies prefer to employ people who hold original views rather than people who trot out the same predictable tripe each week.
- c fisher, chesterfield, 10/1/2012 9:07
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1j3PfPmtV

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3813

There's a definite correlation between the literacy levels of the highest greens and red.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:44 am

a bit of balance wrote:

Are you assuming that all Mail readers are the same?

Pheeeeeeuuuuuwwwww....

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:40 am

Well, a rare foray into current affairs... :shock:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... -tell.html

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My invitation to appear before the Leveson Inquiry must have got lost in the post...

Along with the knighthood in the New Year's honours, eh? :roll:

Rambles on about how great Sue Carroll was and how Leveson should have been at the funeral. Our hero implies that he was there himself - but never actually comes out and says it. Some clarification required.

A bit of Guardian bashing, a line of thought that reasons journalists are better qualified to run the country than government, the obligitory reference to how brilliant the Mail is and it's

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pivotal role in bringing two of Stephen Lawrence's killers to justice

Blah-de-blah. More than a whiff of writing to instructions from on high.

Not an old tv prog reference in sight. No, really.

And of course, his 'old friend' and role model McKuntzie gets a mention - and a photo, subheaded 'Wisdom'. Oddly enough no photo of Dirty Desmond subheaded 'Cock'.

To sum up: Yet more proof that the newspaper industry is out of touch, left behind by more modern media and desperately bigging itself up in an attempt to delay its' inevitable and in most cases deserved decline. All the name-dropping and fawning in the world can't stop Littlebrain's equally deserved fast track to oblivion.

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2075

Outside of those who get their news entirely from a single source, how many people can read that, then look at the output from Leveson, and honestly be fooled by this false victimhood routine? It just bears no relation to reality.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:16 am

I'd love to see Littlejohn at Leveson, he no more wants to go than he can fly in the air.

Q1: "Why are you such a lying shit?"

Followed by 20 minutes of erms, ums and bluster.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:31 am

All I got was "It's fun and terribly supportive if you're on the inside, and we don't give a shit about how we achieve our goals".

BTW "but that's how we've always done things" doesn't cut it as a defence in many other places...

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