Well said, Bernard in the face of the determined BBC agenda - they would have been so disappointed that you didn't roll in the mud.

The vile BBC is failing to control its employees intent on disrupting coverage. Transmission of George's speech went off air and now World At One is spinning as though there is no deficit issue. Truly pathetic that we are all frog-marched and forced to pay for this socialist tripe.

Calm down everybody - there is an election coming and the BBC will be inviting every discredited politician of all hues to exercise their spite. The Witless-Ones are not exactly first-rate politicians are they? He - a former officer that reached the dizzy heights as a second-lieutenant and then became a salesman. His partner a former grammar school girl with a penchant for jokes in bad taste - hence losing the whip. It could be imagined that a Cameron victory might not be what they want to see. Et tu and all that. Witless-One is not only entitled to his views no matter how offensive but will find many with their own agendas to promote them. Not a coincidence that it swamped Cameron and that the mid-day BBC news carried the detail - as a main item - of Brown's election gambits. The BBC are banking on stopping the Tories getting a majority as they feel threatened. Be calm - the public will take it in and then put it in perspective. The tories should take heart and get the gloves off. This will be an election to be fought.

It should be noted that the report does not contain the following words: fraud, criminal, lying or betrayal. The only single use of the word 'dishonesty' is in the context of an Independent MP who used the wrong form. In all other cases the committee does not refer to members of their own parties with any such reference to conduct whatsoever.

A nod and a wink from the inner sanctum - go on Julie - give it a run! Old friends, principles that are bendy, immaturity - greed over party - a gift to Gordon. As the media would have it a pig is a pig if it's a pig - male or female, whatever rosette. No votes for nepotists, the 'self-rewarding' cliques, pumped-up done-nothing egotists. The electorate is waiting for you and they are going to have their day - facts, stories, intepretations for every electoral constituency courtesey of the media. People will not vote for candidates that they despise from parties that they love. Get real, Tories!

Sometimes I hate my own intuition, my own instinct, the rationales that I foresee. Obama will lead the world to war as surely as the yellow brick road took Dorothy. Clinton hatched the eggs that took down the towers. Obama is back at that game. Is he dithering or seeking revenge on McChrystal - who may well resign. Time will tell. Some faiths, particularly those faiths that have not fashioned an accommodation with the 21st century, place immense strains on believers. Give those types of fanatic a knife - when they snap - they'll use it, a gun, they'll use it, a bomb, they'll use it - no matter how big it is. Neville Chamberlain was respected by Churchill for the good man that he was - a good, well-intentioned but naive man dealing with and duped by evil dictators. When the evil fanatic sees the good father put his arm around his much-loved family - he only sees weakness. It can be a sad, bad world, Mr Obama.

Some bloggers should take note of the fragmentation of the media. With the exception of the BBC most media outlets are positioning and taking lines according to the demographics of their subscribers. They are also trying to inject drama to their audiences. No self respecting Tory would want pure media propaganda - say Russian or Italian style. The Tories are on track despite the total distrust of politics and the political system among the electorate in general. However Tory policy is still too much the doppelganger of new labour and will need to have more courage in its real convictions if it wants the country to get behind it.

There are so many but given that we have general elections apparently to vote in those who will govern us, it is simply a snub to the voter and confirmation to those that do not vote that come-what-may an unelected man runs most of the government of our country. Surely this Labour low-point is a truly scandalous one. It is completely unacceptable that a prime minister who has not himself won an electoral mandate should be able to populate the people's government with unelected, unaccountables who are also not mandated by the electorate. What further indignities are there to inflict on the average citizen of this country?

Scribblers still underestimate the ability of Gordon Brown. Oh, we all like the Punch and Judy of it but the substance is that he has dealt with all the bumbling Blairites and ineffective opposition could bowl at him. Guido Fawkes considers Brown bonkers and ready for medical intervention. Again this is not credible. Brown is pushing the envelope and playing the media spin as manically as a professional gambler can. A man of extreme complexity playing to win. Hitchens does make a good question as to what is Brown doing it all for. In my view at this stage of his premiership, he sees it as his duty to steer this country out of this storm. Quite simple. He believes in himself and anyone who takes him on needs to understand that. Additionally the public has to learn lessons from allowing their prime political leader to be so without an electoral mandate - that needs reform.

As I posted earlier on a theme also taken by Janet Daley in the Telegraph, the BBC is busily trying to rehabilitate people like McBride and other good socialists to clean up Brown's blackened image. (Henry II and the murderous knights - let's forgive the knight and in consequence his master) The BBC is following a political agenda in that it is trying to take any momentum out of controversial issues before the election. It is running very scared of a major licence fee revolt and/or a political sacking of their fat budgets.

It is not the current tax that is the issue - as bad as it is - it is the taxes to come. Labour is taking us all back in time - Life On Mars style - to the 70's with high corporate tax regimes and marginal rates of tax. Brown is a broken-down Healey and Cameron will be Heath. Where oh where is Maggie?

Make no mistake the BBC is biased to the left-of-centre establishment politicians in much the same way as media is biased in Italy or Russia. Recently the BBC policy socialists are trying to rehabilitate - incredible as it may seem - poor hard done to but he's so sweet Damian McBride. King Henry would not have had to scourge himself, Brown probably calculates, if the BBC could have interviewed Thomas a Beckett's assassins. Tell me dear knight, when you hack at flesh for a living what a terrible cost it must be to your conscience. Oh indeed it is, says the honest knight looking warily at the camera - villainy has its price. So! There we have it viewers - now get back to supporting the King! The BBC has put it all right - the deed is atoned for! From a few weeks ago until the election, the BBC will visit each of Labour's policy or governmental failures and put the polish on to clean them up for election day.

This by-election will be an interesting test for the Cameron team. Can they connect with an electorate that has shown itself able to shift allegiances in the past? I am still of the view that the overall policy impact is too fragmented and tantengial to the electorate. Hence the Labour return to chalk and blackboard spell-it-out, spin and spin again. Brown, I am sure, views a lot of Tory positioning as low flying pheasants to be shot out of the sky with lies and blunt, crude policy statements - British workers for British jobs, local people for local council houses, benefits not benefit cuts for the unemployed and so on. New Labour tactics resemble more and more the 1930's National Socialist Party in Germany. Just make sure the sprinklers work in the H of P.

Maybe your powers of comprehension are at fault - report back to your service centre.

Very well said, Mr Cameron. And a pat on the back for your team too!

The "Vote Not for Tory, Labour or Liberal!" campaign may well get real momentum by the time the general election comes around. The public really has had enough of this.

Sorry, RichardJ. It's time now to get out of the short trousers!

Watching Brown and Darling trying to run a retail shop would be funnier than repeats of Barker and Jason in "Open All Hours".

The BBC loves a tainted damaged politician.

And the voting public will not want to pick up the tab. Brown's restaurant will be offering further freebies and frothy fantasies while claiming that its competitor offers inedible and unhealthy Tory cuts. The public booted out Churchill, they could shoe-in Brown.

In the marketing profession one of the things you learn early on is that the problem with going toe-to-toe with a clever competitor is that they rip your balls off. Senior tories wander around the minefield picking their favourite daisies .... Brown is still a very clever politician - after all he eventually saw off Blair and has survived situations that would have sunk others many times over. He is already fighting the next election. He will not call it but he is already fighting it. Several tactical errors already by the Tories. For example, it was not the fault of Labour voters staying at home that gave us the BNP - it was voters driven to desperation by the failure of Labour and who did not vote Tory. The Labour posters will be quoting the Tories to say that the only way to stop the BNP is to vote Labour again. Think it through.

If 75% of UK legislation is being produced in Brussels then MPs should be spending any spare time ensuring that they read and follow the debate before it whistles across to the UK - only need to recall a Minister for Europe who had not read the Lisbon Treaty. The idea that the bricklayer put down his trowel, washes his hands and wanders down to the House of Commons or that the plumber tightens his stop-cock and then retires for the day to legislate is farcical. More likely the lawyer having briefed and been briefed wanders off to parliament to comply with the fig-leaf legislation over conflicts of interest - better called 'primary interests'. More likely the rich men and women pottering about in parliament. More likely the union official with his second job in parliament - plus ca change, c'est tout la meme ... Tories need to tread carefully near Brown's elephant trap.

And you appear to be such a good man ... No mention in your item about immigration and yet that is precisely the driver for the BNP. An interview on C4@7PM last night showed not only the inability of Margaret Hodge to articulate an honest interview but also the interviewer who was made to sound simply rude and himself inarticulate. These are comments made to me on the street today. There is no doubt in most voters minds that the failure of the politicians to conduct the simple business of expense claims and allowances - addressed daily by businesses large and small - is symptomatic of their inability to control the borders and social management issues. Incompetence and criminality in every party and headless chickens a-plenty.

"Who says we shouldn't piss in the soup, Gordon?"

In Denmark it is the law that a German national may not buy a seaside holiday home. Is that racist? Throwing the word 'racist' around as though it were a rotten tomato will not win over too many minds. Ordinary people are responding through the ballot box to the imposition on their living standards by groups of people who are choosing not to integrate but to occupy. That is a key difference. Of course the same charge can be laid against Brits on the Costa in the holiday sun who do not and never will learn to habla espagnol or cook a good paella. The surfeit of empty coastal properties in Spain and their strict rules regarding benefit entitlement have provided the means to alleviate the pressure on ordinary Spanish people. Our current situation is arrived at through political parties being too narrow and intolerant. They have also failed to address the concerns of real people - you know - families that send kids to school, pensioners who would like to go out at night but are too afraid, sick-people needing urgent medical attention who are parked by ambulances in car parks, victims of petty officialdom that stalks the streets spitting our fines like venom and on and on.