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  • Dastardly Deviant David Sullivan’s Deserved Downfall Goes Dotty

    Dastardly Deviant David Sullivan’s Deserved Downfall Goes Dotty

    ‘Heretics’ interview by Andrew Gold with Matthew Steeples about sexual allegations against convicted criminal David Sullivan featuring scandalous stories about West Ham FC, Karren Brady and Ampika Pickston goes viral; watched over 207,000 times in just three days

    On Thursday evening an interview by Andrew Gold premiered on the Heretics YouTube channel at 6pm. By 9pm on Saturday evening, this 39-minute programme had been watched by well over 150,000 people and by Monday morning at 10am, it had attracted some 207,000 views; that’s more viewers than many a mainstream media show.

     

    Featuring the sordid and sleazy story of David Sullivan – the clearly not a ‘fit and proper person’ to be in charge of a football club at the very least given he hadn’t been allowed near women and youth games in years – this show delved into the history of a brash and brazen bullying billionaire whose tenure at both Birmingham FC and West Ham FC never ran smoothly.

     

    More importantly, Gold and Steeples delved into the recent allegations of sexual impropriety that Sullivan has been able to keep under the carpet for years and took a serious look at another pair of pantomime villains in this piece – David Sullivan’s gobby unfit-to-run-a-care-home wife-to-be Ampika Pickston and the David Cameron appointed to the House of Lords “associate of the dildo floggers” Karren Brady.

     

    Watch the 39-minute programme here; it certainly pulls no punches. Do you believe David Sullivan to be delusional and dreadful or do you think he’s fallen foul of what he labels “false allegations”?

     

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    What a repugnant specimen – David Sullivan; a diminutive dwarf and convicted criminal (1982) and coffin dodger.
    What a repugnant specimen – David Sullivan; a diminutive dwarf and convicted criminal (1982) and coffin dodger.
    Karren Brady and Sir Philip Green
    Mouthy Poundland muckspreader Lady Brady with another of her deservedly loathed job destroying mates Sir Philip Green. Karren Brady has been associated with David Gold for at least four decades and also worked for Sir Philip at his company Arcadia. Birds of a rotten feather.
    Karren Brady has no place in the House of Lords. Shame on David Cameron for putting her there alongside the PPE profiteer Michelle Mone also. Disgraceful.
    Karren Brady has no place in the House of Lords. Shame on David Cameron for putting her there alongside the PPE profiteer Michelle Mone also. Disgraceful.
    Karren Brady and David Sullivan
    Brady with West Ham co-owner David Sullivan in 1993. Mr Sullivan was mocked by fans in September 2017 when they bounced a giant inflatable sex toy around a stadium during a game against Huddersfield.
    West-Ham-dildo-David-Sullivan
    The aforementioned inflatable.
    Ampika Pickston
    Mouthy menace Ampika Pickston was declared by Ofsted to “not have the skills and experience to run” AP Care Homes in 2023; she no doubt took to a bathtub and drank her stupid self silly.

    In his own words… Self-declared “King of Porn” David Sullivan on…

    His diminutive stature…

    “I’m short, so I have the ‘hightism’ thing against me, which hurts… I was born short. I wish I had been like Brad Pitt, but I am what I am. I may not be black, I may not be Jewish, but I’m little… Perhaps I would prefer to be a black Jewish man than a small white man. So, I get ‘hightism’ remarks against me. You’ve just got to take it on the chin. It’s not very nice.”

     

    His claim that he’s a “moral man” during an interview in 2000…

    “We all live our lives by our own standards and what we believe to be right and what we believe to be wrong and by my rules, I lead my life. I’ve never taken a drug in my life, I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life… Erm, it’s pretty unusual in this day and age… I don’t think what I do is particularly bad.”

     

    The type of women he ‘goes for’…

    “I like ginger women, actually. I like redheads.”

     

    Sexual assault allegations against him…

    “After a lifetime spent building businesses in the adult industry in which I have met thousands of women, it is sadly inevitable that a small number of improper conduct claims are being made against me.”

     

    A 1989 newspaper interview, when asked about his sexual desires…

    “I can have up to three a day but some days I don’t have any – it depends how I feel and what else is happening… I have a desire to make love to most women.”

     

    What he got ‘upto’ with women…

    “What’s the point of owning a sweet shop if you can’t eat a few sweets?”

     

    Responding to claims in 2008 that he sexually assaulted a 25-year-old at his Essex mansion…

    “I’m a rich person so I’m a target for this sort of thing. That is the world we live in.”

     

    Being a pornographer…

    “I’ve made a lot of people happy. If I was an arms manufacturer or a cigarette manufacturer, and my products killed millions of my clients, I’d have a bit of doubt about the whole thing. I was a freedom fighter. I believe in the right of adults to make their own decisions.”

     

    What was in his smutty books, newspapers and magazines…

    “We feature fantasy and fun… We feature ladies in glamorous situations looking their best… All our stories, our books, are really the adult equivalent of comics that for the average factory worker in Wigan or the unemployed non-worker in Liverpool, they actually get a lot of fun out of reading our books and I think we do no harm whatsoever. We just put a bit of fun into peoples’ lives.”

     

    His desire to leave the porn business after his 1982 criminal conviction for living off immoral earnings…

    “I’d like to get out personally purely because I’ve done it for eleven years and in life if you do anything for eleven years, you feel like a change.”

     

    Why he was going to sell his shares in Birmingham FC in 2007…

    “I think deep down the public have had enough of us… Everybody says I should call it a day and ‘What do you need all that grief for?’”

     

    His ownership of West Ham in a 2017 interview with The Guardian…

    “I feel like I haven’t done well enough. Nobody’s done well enough. I work my socks off but sometimes it’s not good enough.”

     

    The woman he made managing director of Birmingham FC aged just 23 and then had working with him for four decades in football…

    “Karren is a good businesswoman but she doesn’t understand football.”

     

    Giving a loan of £1 million to “crime boss” David Hunt to aid a libel action against The Sunday Times…

    “[Just a] normal commercial transaction.”

     

    Of the style of business of him and cronies during a 2017 interview with The Guardian…

     “I think we’re the most honest, open people you’ll ever deal with… We’re not liars.”

     

    Football agents and negotiating with them…

    “Giving in to terrorists or kidnappers. If you pay the ransom, they will only come back for more.”

     

    His crony Karren Brady having a column in The Sun…

    “If I stop her doing it, the club would have to give her the money. And it’s a substantial amount of money, so I prefer for her to do it and the club not to give her the money… I’m confident Karren will write anything detrimental.”

     

    His clearly delusional self:

    “I am a private man, and those who personally and professionally know the real David Sullivan, not the caricature invented by the tabloids, know exactly who I am and what I stand for. I am absolutely not the person the media has decided to paint me as.”

     

    In her own words… “Overpainted Aunt Sally” Karren Brady on…

    Her destroyer of jobs and the high street mate ‘Sir Shifty’ Philip Green…

    “The most dynamic, the most energetic, the most relentless business-person I have ever come across, a whirlwind of energy and ideas.”

     

    The nearly as controversial businessman Mike Ashley…

    “I feel sorry for a guy like Mike Ashley… He tried his best… I feel tremendous sympathy for Ashley.”

     

    Her “precarious work-life balance”…

    “[It’s a] balancing act… [I feel] constant guilt over being a working mother.”

     

    “I live day by day. There’s no other way.”

     

    “Dead end jobs” (that she certainly wouldn’t herself consider taking)…

    “No one wants a dead end job, but at least it’s a start.”

     

    Sexism…

    “I always laugh I read about sexism cases in the newspaper.”

     

    “It’s rubbish to say you can’t be proper friends with the opposite sex.”

     

    Her own mistakes…

    “My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave.”

     

    Religion…

    “I am a faithful companion of Jesus.”

     

    Contradicting herself in spite of taking up a position in David Cameron’s government as Small Business Ambassador…

    “I have no interest in politics.”

     

    Her being investigated in connection with corruption in football…

    “I was in a very dark place… It was gut-wrenching… I didn’t want to have to justify myself to people.”

     

    The East End of London…

    “A hotbed of racism.”

     

    Meeting the general public…

    “I have met people in the street who say: ‘You look like Karren Brady, but she is fat.’ But I don’t care.”

     

    Her nickname at school…

    “I was called ‘Fried Eggs’ and all that at school. Size does matter.”

     

    Eating cheese…

    “I’m a hard cheese person and I could have it with biscuits for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”

     

    Condoms in the Birmingham City boardroom…

    “I found [a condom] floating in the toilet… And it became this big whodunit. I mean, in the boardroom toilet of all places.”

     

    Her “wickedly indiscreet newspaper column”…

    “It’s what I leave out that would make your hair curl.”

     

    A desire to look like Sarah, Duchess of York…

    “Deep in my soul, I’m secretly a redhead.”

     

    Her dream man…

    “I prefer my men slightly overweight. Having said that, my ultimate dream man is Jimmy Nail and he’s skinny.”

     

    Comedian David Walliams…

    “Someone needs to tell him to calm down… Creepy.”

     

    Unsurprisingly getting abuse given her own vile tongue…

    “The abuse I get is vile. And so much worse now than it’s ever been.”

     

    Herself…

    “At 23, I had skin as thick as a rhino… I don’t have any fears.”

     

    “I dare to put my head above the parapet, to have a mind and a voice of my own and to plough my own furrow.”

     

    “[I am now] one of the most highly sought-after motivational speakers in the world.”

     

    “I look like a demented Rapunzel.”

     

    More modest than the late Mother Theresa, one is simply left asking: “What on earth was it about the very wealthy woman Karren Brady that David Cameron saw fit to elevate her to the House of Lords?”

     

  • Gordon The Gopher’s Gone – Phillip Schofield Quits ‘This Morning’; Will Further Scandal Follow?

    Gordon The Gopher’s Gone – Phillip Schofield Quits ‘This Morning’; Will Further Scandal Follow?

    As the queue-jumping puppet master of Gordon The Gopher Phillip Schofield quits ‘This Morning’, Matthew Steeples asks: “Will further scandal follow for this flogger of plughole-fit-only plonk?”

    This morning, The Observer asked: “Will the Phil and Holly saga put an end to the absurd notion of the TV couple?” and aside from examining the storm-in-a-teacup of the end-of-the-road being reached for the dastardly queue-jumping duo, referenced the likes of the ‘washed-up old soak’ Judy Finnigan and her ‘modern day Dorian Gray-esque’ husband, Richard Madeley.

     

    Whilst the married telly box duo of the alleged shoplifter Madeley – he still claims to have been falsely accused and even once pointed this out to President Bill Clinton – and his ‘mummy-like’ wife Finnigan remain together, “the silver soufflé” Phillip Schofield’s ‘sofa based’ relationship with Holly Willoughby is now finally toast.

     

    After several weeks of the story not being about This Morning itself, but instead swirling around Phillip Schofield’s policeman-turned-nonce brother, Timothy, being sent down for twelve years, Willoughby refusing to speak to him off screen and allegations concerning a runner whom the presenter met when he was just thirteen, this became an out of control juggernaut that just had to be stopped.

     

    Slammed even by the frankly nasty and noxious Tory twerp Nadine Dorries MP as someone “rather up himself” who “scared” her, the interesting question as we say goodbye and good riddance to ‘Pip’ is this: “Will further scandal follow for Phillip Schofield or will he simply left to fade away into the sunset along with his old mucker Gordon The Gopher?”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples polled his 10,600 personal followers of @M_Steeples. He asked: “Will further shocking stories about bitter bore Phillip Schofield emerge in wake of his departure from ITV1’s ‘This Morning’?” By 11:30am on Sunday 21st May 2023, the very clear majority of the 1,000 plus respondents took the view: “Yes; more scandals on the way.”

    Twitter reacts to Matthew Steeples’s poll…

    MS Twitter reaction 1
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mzqB6oQe8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPTahhXUxPw

    Twitter delights in the disappearance of Phillip Schofield from ITV1’s daytime screens…

    Wacky and weird Phillip Schofield’s worst moments…

    On himself (in spite of being condemned by everyone from Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford to Nadine Dorries MP):

    “I am only about 26 in my head.”

     

    “If I was a pig to work with, I wouldn’t get asked back.”

     

    “My dad was the archetypal charming man. If I’ve inherited even a small bit of what he had, that would be enough for me.”

     

    “I’m incredibly sentimental, although I’m not one of those people who doesn’t chuck anything out; I don’t keep used tea bags, just special mementos.”

     

    To his one-time ‘friend’ turned ‘runner’ (for a time) on This Morning, Matthew McGreevy (whom he met when the young whippersnapper was just 12 or 13 years old) asking him about what they might end up doing in three years:

    “Well, if I’m still getting away with it, I’ll be a happy man.”

     

    On the world in general:

    “We live in a world that has very sharp edges. It can be very bitter.”

     

    On Holly Willoughby (who subsequently has distanced herself from the crying cretin):

    “Holly is my rock.”

     

    On being gay (in spite of hidden such for years):

    “I thought maybe I was bisexual.”

     

    “If you ask anyone who is gay, they know, there is no confusion.”

     

    “You never know what is going on someone’s head when they think they are leading the perfect life.”

     

    As he cut off invited guests on ‘This Morning’ who he believed misgendered LGBTQX+ sorts:

    “We’ll get back to the show and we’ll get back to 2017 and not get back to medieval Britain in just a moment.”

     

    On his now ex-wife’s keenness to be rid of him:

    “My wife Steph never tells me to take on less work; she’s just glad to have me out of the house.”

     

    On birthdays:

    “I hate birthdays.”

     

    On putting wine ahead of family:

    “Wine is the biggest passion of my life without question.”

     

    “I don’t do anything by halves and wine is an expensive passion.”

     

    On preferring to travel alone:

    “In general, I’d say that I need to be with the right people in the right place, although one of the best holidays I ever had was alone.”

     

    On quitting Twitter:

    “I have another secret Twitter account.”

     

    “There’s nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid and who say the most ridiculous things.”

     

    On the people he’s interviewed:

    “I’m not being arrogant or blasé, but I got a bigger buzz sitting opposite Jean-Bernard Delmas at Château Haut-Brion than I did from interviewing Elton John, Liza Minelli or Whitney Houston.”

     

    “You can tell when you look at someone and think: ‘He’s on the brink of fainting’ or that certainly something’s not right.”

     

    On offending people:

    “I love the fact we do break taboos.”

     

    Asked why he and Holly Willoughby skipped the 13-hour queue to attend the lying-in-state of the late Queen Elizabeth II:

    “Have you got nothing better to do with your time? … Why should I apologise?”

     

    On ghosts and his past life:

    “[I have] a rule about never borrowing money… [I was] ‘murdered’ in a past life over a debt… I opened the door to silence and felt horror wash over me. Three steps in, and I saw them – two murdered bodies on the floor. knew they were my wife and small child. Horror turned to fury. I knew why they were dead. I owed money to two brothers who worked at the end of the street in a sawmill. The brother [then] found me, dragged me outside, punched me to the ground and, as my head hit the mud, he repeatedly stamped on it until I was dead!”

     

    “Our back garden is allegedly haunted by a ghost called the Grey Lady. When one of my daughters was three, she said she’d been speaking to a lady in the garden and we went running around trying to find this woman. There was no one there.”

     

    On refusing to go near churches:

    “Going into a church reminds of the terrifying vision of [past life] death… [I am] not willing to take the risk again.”

     

    To a flower pot that he felt got in his way on television:

    “Go back to where you were, go back to where you were… Only I can see them.”

     

    To Lady Colin Campbell (whom he was interviewing about her latest book on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex):

    “For someone who allegedly moves in aristocratic circles, isn’t it all a bit tawdry and undignified? … Paul Burrell, who’d have thought we’d quote him, said of one of your previous books on the Queen: ‘You can only be a true, reliable witness to history if you are there. Lady Colin Campbell was none of these things.’ … You are a gossip. Well, you’re a gossip, but only when it suits you.”

     

    Whilst interviewing television personality Kim Woodburn (who responded by slamming his rudeness):

    “I know why people reacted in the way that they reacted to you. It’s because of the way you make me feel sitting on that sofa. You are already making me feel controversial. [You are] confrontational… We’re just asking you a question.”

     

    On dealing with problems (in spite of being the creator of many himself):

    “I’m a very good clearer-upper.”

     

    Whilst shockingly sharing a list of ‘names’ of Conservative politicians live on-air with then Prime Minister David Cameron of those he believed might be abusers (he was subsequently forced to apologise and pay £125,000 to Lord McAlpine, an innocent man):

    “I have those names there. Those are the names on a piece of paper. You know the names on that piece of paper. Will you be speaking to those people?”

     

    On the ‘work’ he has done:

    “I’m not a workaholic.”

     

    “I do have a rule about how much I will take on. The last thing you want is to be on TV too much and for people to be sick of you.”

     

    On being on television:

    “I am very conscious of the fact I am in peoples’ living rooms every day and they feel like they know me.”

     

    “I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV… Ghastly.”

     

    “I don’t want people turning on the telly and going: ‘Dear God, not him again.’”

     

    ‘Schofe’s’ extremely curious history… “What’ll come next for this raging ratbag?” is indeed the question…

    Gordon The Gopher Phillip Schofield
    Gordon The Gopher (also known as ‘Gordon T. Gopher’) was Phillip Schofield’s puppet ‘friend’ on ‘Children’s BBBC’ (‘CBBC’) between 1985 and 1987. The yellow puppet gopher with red pads – which were said to “represent lobster claws” – is amongst the many that the now former ITV ‘This Morning’ presenter turned upon. Of the puppet, Schofield once told ‘Heat’ magazine: “Gordon the Gopher is in rehab. It’s all gone horribly wrong for him. It’s a shame. I’ve got a restraining order against him and we don’t speak. He’s quite bitter and he has been ever since I got my role in ‘Doctor Dolittle’ in the West End and he didn’t get offered the part. It was the straw that broke the gopher’s back.”
    Phillip Schofield claims not to check Twitter anymore; he has also said he has a ‘secret account’ so most likely does monitor the many thousands of messages slamming his utterly reprehensible antics.
    Phillip Schofield claims not to check Twitter anymore; he has also said he has a ‘secret account’ so most likely does monitor the many thousands of messages slamming his utterly reprehensible antics.
    Phillip-Schofield-brother-Tim-Schofield
    Phillip Schofield with his now convicted and now jailed criminal 54-year-old paedophile brother Timothy Schofield in happier times. After the verdict earlier in April – in a case where the television presenter’s civilian police officer sibling was convicted of three counts of causing a child to watch sexual activity and three counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child – in a statement released by his lawyer, Phillip Schofield remarked: “My overwhelming concern is and has always been for the wellbeing of the victim and his family. I hope that their privacy will now be respected. If any crime had ever been confessed to me by my brother, I would have acted immediately to protect the victim and their family. These are despicable crimes and I welcome the guilty verdicts. As far as I am concerned, I no longer have a brother.” Timothy Schofield was also found guilty of three counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two of sexual activity with a child at Exter Crown Court and had told the television presenter that he’d “had time together” (including watching porn and masturbating) with a child whilst the ‘This Morning’ host was doing the washing up in his very own kitchen.
    David-Cameron-Phillip-Shcofield-This-Morning-abuse
    On 8th November 2012, Schofield handed the then Prime Minister David Cameron a list of names of alleged sex offenders in the Conservative Party which he had found through research on the Internet. That list was partially visible to ‘This Morning’s’ millions of viewers and as a result one person on it, Lord McAlpine, sued. Subsequently, the broadcaster was quite rightly forced to issue and unreserved apology and a statement that read: “ITV and Phillip Schofield have now reached agreement with Lord McAlpine to settle his libel claim, made in relation to the This Morning programme broadcast… ITV and Phillip Schofield apologise unreservedly to Lord McAlpine, have agreed the terms of a statement to be made in open court, and have agreed to pay him damages of £125,000 and his legal costs.” According to ‘International Business,’ “the ITV settlement [was] reportedly less than McAlpine was seeking. However, the peer’s lawyer, Andrew Reid, said he was ‘pleased’ with ITV’s admission that it was wrong and called the settlement ‘pragmatic.’ … Reid told the BBC: ‘The Schofield stunt added fuel to the fire that was already there and we had to take that into account.”
    Philip-Schofield-not-sorry-GB-News
    Now former ITV1 ‘This Morning’ co-host Phillip Schofield cringed and looked as if he was about to snap when approached outside his West London home by GB News presenter Ben Leo in November 2022 about the ‘Queuegate’ scandal that utterly disgraced him. Here is a mouse-not-a-man who wrongly assumes that he’s some kind of national treasure worthy of not a jot of criticism.
    Phillip-Schofield-wine-plonker-Matthew-McGreevy
    Instead of skipping queues and upsetting the nation on multiple occasions, the all-round-angry man and now ex ‘This Morning’ host and ex-sidekick of Gordon the Gopher should now focus on improving his deservedly slammed boxed wines (right). He thought his red “perfect with olives” whilst the public decided it “better poured down the plughole.” Alternatively, he could put some effort into ‘making up’ with his missing from our screens for quite some time now former close friend, Matthew McGreevy.
    Phillip-Schofield-Matthew-McGreevy
    The television presenter and all-round plonker with his supposed ‘former friend’ Matt McGreevy on another occasion.
    Matt McGreevy semi-naked swimming shorts Anthea Turner Ruth Langsford
    On one occasion, Matthew McGreevy – who has allegedly since been made to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) – was paraded around on an episode of ‘This Morning’ in a just a pair of swimming trunks. Ruth Langsford looked on sheepishly whilst ‘Princess Tippy Toes’ swung into action and covered skinny McGreevy in sun tan lotion. Phillip Schofield’s role in orchestrating this puff piece remains unknown.
    Simon Schofield
    In recent days, Schofield has supposedly come to rely on a man named Simon Schofield (who is not a relation, but whom the ‘Daily Mail’ this week most tellingly described as like “a rock” to the now ex ‘This Morning’ presenter). Here, the latter is pictured with the pair’s ‘friend’ Matthew McGreevy.
    Phillip-Schofield-Ferne-McCann
    The ‘This Morning’ host is known for being a very angry and bitter man. Like Ferne McCann (pictured right), a fellow presenter on ITV1 with a reputation for being an utter rotter and for having had a child with a monster who threw acid over innocent people in a London nightclub, he is also known for being incapable of owning his own mistakes.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YbI0TH6ij0
  • Gobby Monroe v Gobby Anderson– What Came Next In Promised Libel Action?

    Gobby Monroe v Gobby Anderson– What Came Next In Promised Libel Action?

    A year-to-the-day on Matthew Steeples asks: “Whatever became of the libel suit of gobby Jack Monroe v gobby Lee Anderson MP?”

    Exactly a year ago to the day, on the 16th May 2022, the nauseatingly noxious ‘food poverty campaigner’ Jack Monroe promised to sue the nauseatingly noxious Tory twerp ‘30p Lee’ Lee Anderson MP for libel.

     

    In the time since, using crowdfunding platforms and most likely the ‘tip jar’ ‘she/it’ continually bangs on about, Monroe has supposedly raked in funds to ‘support’ such an action. In one way, that would be understandable as Anderson – now quite ridiculously elevated to the position of deputy chairman of the Conservative Party – is quite frankly one of the deservedly most hated politicians in Britain; in another way, it most definitely isn’t given Monroe is equally grating and grim. Here is a case where, most definitely, both sides deserve to lose.

     

    As she trended this morning on Twitter, I asked: “Exactly a year ago, gobby campaigner Jack Monroe promised legal against gobby Tory MP ‘30p Lee’ Lee Anderson. She supposedly crowdfunded to aid her in this ‘endeavour’ but no filing appears to have been made. Should she come clean and return funds raised?” By 11:30am on Tuesday 16th May 2023, the very, very clear majority of the 536 responses to date, 65.1% in fact, were unsurprisingly: “Yes; outrageous behaviour.” Another 25.7% took the view: “Yes; it was just a stunt.”

     

    I’m left with just one question: “Isn’t it time Jack Monroe explained herself and isn’t it time ‘she/it’ explained what has happened to money given in good faith towards a libel action against Lee Anderson that has still failed to materialise?”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Exactly a year ago, gobby campaigner Jack Monroe promised legal against gobby Tory MP ‘30p Lee’ Lee Anderson. She supposedly crowdfunded to aid her in this ‘endeavour’ but no filing appears to have been made. Should she come clean and return funds raised?” By 11:30am on Tuesday 16th May 2023, the very, very clear majority of responses were unsurprisingly: “Yes; outrageous behaviour.”
    In a video uploaded to YouTube on 20th May 2022 by the media outlet ‘Tortoise’ featuring an interview with her, Monroe enthusiastically declared: “I have instructed libel proceedings. I am limited to what I can say in public about that whole situation now… It is on the record… I am, I am sending a legal letter letting him know that what he said was libelous and defamatory and has contributed to the downfall of what I have, what I have of a ‘reputation.’ And that he might want to reconsider his stance publicly and to all the agitators and instigators of that… I have instructed lawyers and we are in touch. Unfortunately, my lawyer decided to go off and get married this week; it’s a bit rude. Yeah, it’s been being planned for a few years, but he could have timed it better.”
    Criticism
    Social media users reacted to the threat of the libel action issued during the ‘Tortoise’ interview by making comments that included: “So, Jack Monroe has initiated legal action against Anderson and Daubney? (11 min) Yet they confirm receiving no letter before action. She’s a complete fraud and should run out of the charitable sector, as well as the media.” Others added: “What a charlatan” and “I hope Lee Anderson wipes the floor with her.”
    Questions Lee Anderson legal action
    Yesterday, ‘GB News’ presenter Martin Daubney stated: “Jack now needs to answer questions about the missing funds for her non-existent legal case against us.” Within two minutes, Monroe had responded: “They’re not missing; they’re exactly where they’ve always been, and I’m doing exactly what I said I’d do with it. (I’m quiet because I have a very full and pleasant life outside of Twitter!)
    Suicide potato Jack Monroe
    Is there anyone Monroe doesn’t want to have a pop at? Her own family even are ‘fair game’ for her bile, it seems. In July 2020, ‘she’ declared: “My brother was in the RAF last time we spoke, a couple of Christmases ago, when he described Iain Duncan Smith as the best thing to happen to this country and told me I had chosen to have a baby outside of marriage so deserved everything I got. It’s fair to describe us as ‘estranged’ these days” in a bizarre rant about potatoes and their link to suicide.
    Tin Can Cook spaghetti
    In August last year, a Monroe recipe that involved rinsing canned spaghetti hoops of their accompanying tomato sauce, microwaving, microwaving a bit more and adding butter, oil, cheese and a pinch of pepper trended on Twitter. It was hardly revolutionary, helpful or intelligently thought out and though the mouth of the south thought it amusing to call it the work of a ‘Tin Can Cook,’ all it did was make her look like a buffoon and a berk.
    Michael-Portillo
    Michael Portillo very effectively shut down the ‘Thrifty Kitchen’ author in May 2019 when he forced her to step down from supporting ‘milkshaking’ right-wing politicians by asking if she’d do the same to centrist and left-wing figures. She had to pathetically concede: “Oh, OK… I condemn it.”
    Thrifty-Kitchen
    ‘Thrifty Kitchen’ was torn to shreds when it was published in January 2023 and mocked as “complete drivel.” Ideas for using fluff and water from tumble dryers – devices that anyone cutting back on costs would have already have stopped using during the cost-of-living crisis given how expensive they are to operate – were slammed as were Monroe’s thoughts on towels. To save money, the whack job stated: “Both me and my son can dry our entire bodies after a shower with a hand towel and a bit of vigorous application.” She laughably then added: “I have actually already perfected this down to the humble flannel.” Quite frankly, this nonsense was called out for the gibberish it truly was and will forever remain.
    Jamie-Oliver
    “Cooks cook” Jamie Oliver has done more to help those struggling to feed their families than most. That he has been repeatedly attacked by a self-declared acid tongued “freelance food-and-politics-gob” who once crassly had a pop at David Cameron after the death of his son – she shockingly claimed “he uses stories about his dead son as misty-eyed rhetoric to legitimise selling our NHS to his friends” – is indicative of the lowbrow tendencies of the person making such attacks.
    Keith-Floyd
    If the Southend-on-Sea born daughter of David Hadjicostas MBE and Evelyn Hadjicostas wanted people to like her a bit more, why doesn’t she adopt the humour of the late, great council house estate born Keith Floyd. Here was a legend – from the very same humble beginnings she claims to be from – who enjoyed life to the full and who cooked simple yet delicious food that brought joy to millions. Some positivity and joie de vivre might actually get her somewhere.
    Julia-Child
    Equally, the late, great Julia Child could also inspire better things of Monroe. This Pasadena, California born ex-Office of Strategic Services worker once stated: “I believe in cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food.” Reading the works of a true cooking legend like this might provide the Moaning Minnie former call handler for Essex County Fire and Rescue Services with something to actually enthuse about.
    Big-Zuu-Zuhair-Hassan
    If the author of ‘A Girl Called Jack’ would only pay attention to the words of the wonderful young man that is Big Zuu, she might be more widely appreciated. In 2020, this rapper turned inspirational cooking sensation remarked: “’Big Zuu’s Big Eats’ is the show for people who don’t live near a Waitrose or who can’t afford to go to one. I’m a massive fan of all cooking programmes, but I think this show stands out as we’re sourcing the food from local shops rather than big chains. I’m hoping it proves to people, especially in my generation, that cooking can be a fun and affordable experience. A lot of people I know can’t be bothered to cook and think it costs too much so they’d rather just get fast food. Hopefully, ‘BZBE’s’ can change that for some people.”

    Jack Monroe likes to pick fights; amongst those she’s had a pop at are…

    When ‘she’s’ not living-it-up with I’m A Celebrity bestie of Stanley Johnson, Georgia Toffolo, aside from myself, Jack Monroe has variously kept herself busy launching warbling words of war against:

     

    • Lee Anderson MP.
    • The Right Honourable David Cameron and his deceased child.
    • The Conservative Party – with their members in Bath being particularly high up on her list of ire.
    • Germaine Greer.
    • Katie Hopkins.
    • The Labour Party.
    • Jamie Oliver.
    • Michael Portillo.
    • The late The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher LG OM DStJ PC FRS HonFRSC.
    • The Right Honourable Liz Truss MP.
    • And many members of the Twitterati… And many, many others elsewhere.

     

  • Oakeshott’s Career Is Shot – Poison Pen Isabel Oakeshott Is Headed To Nowhere But A Slurry Pit

    Oakeshott’s Career Is Shot – Poison Pen Isabel Oakeshott Is Headed To Nowhere But A Slurry Pit

    Matthew Steeples suggests “poison pen” Isabel Oakeshott’s career prospects now belong in nowhere but a slurry pit; he highlights an encounter with her and argues she has disgraced the journalistic profession

    In September 2019, I called out Isabel Oakeshott as “a woman who is best known not (as she claims) as a ‘journalist’ but instead as a ‘lobbyist who carries a poison pen.’” Now, in the wake of this mouthy menace breaking an NDA and releasing Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp messages, I again repeat this suggestion.

     

    TalkTV tittle-tattler Oakeshott, who just happens to be in a relationship with the man who’d have the nation eating chlorinated chicken that is the Waitrose Belgravia shopper, fellow TalkTV host and Reform Party leader Richard Tice, is someone I’ve only ever encountered once and that was back in September 2019.

     

    On the evening in question, I found myself invited by the charming folk at Quiller Publishing – a house whose owner once told me his firm was more used to publishing books on ferrets and fox hunting than pomposity and politicians – to a rather ritzy party at Carlton House Terrace for the publication of the now late Stuart Wheeler’s excellent autobiography, Winning Against The Odds: My Life in Gambling and Politics.

     

    Gathered for the occasion, aside from the tycoon’s glamorous daughters, were, amongst others, members of the Aspinall family and the ever vivacious Neil and Christine Hamilton. I was perhaps a ‘rarity’ in being a Remainer in a room crammed to the brim with Brexiteers and on arrival I found the then Sky News presenter Lewis Goodall outside and not even allowed in.

     

    As the nemesis of Boris and Carrie ‘Princess NutNut’ Johnson that is Dominic Cummings – himself a little less known than he later became after his COVID-19 lockdown breaking Barnard Castle jaunt in March 2020 – interviewed Wheeler on stage, one person caught my eye. There before me, amongst a room of ‘party appropriate’ outfits, stood a little blonde number in her clearly grubby gym kit.

     

    I asked the friend accompanying me: “Did the Lycra-clad woman think she’d been invited to Barry’s Bootcamp?” and after being met with a curt: “She clearly takes style advice from Katie Price” in response, saw the woman concerned turn. Realising it was Isabel Oakeshott, I guess neither of us should have been surprised.

     

    Oakeshott, it has now become incredibly clear, is a woman who doesn’t do ethics as much as she doesn’t do fashion. A journalist is not a journalist if they don’t do all they can to protect their sources and though Matt Hancock is a man truly and very much utterly deservedly loathed, the fact that Oakeshott has betrayed her source is beyond contemptible.

     

    Pompous to her core, as was illustrated when she threw a hissy fit and stormed out of an interview with Cathy Newman for Times Radio yesterday, Oakeshott will now find it very hard to continue in the profession she claims to be a leading figure in. She is, I’d argue, nothing but a traitor and a disgrace.

     

    Why anyone would want to talk to the fake news muckspreader who told porky pies about David Cameron’s sexual shenanigans with a pig was already in question prior to what Oakeshott has been touting as the #lockdownfiles, but today – rather like her boyfriend Tice’s political ambitions – it’s this Gordonstoun educated gobshite who will find her career prospects deservedly headed nowhere but to pigsh*t.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Pictured Top – The ‘poison pen’ not a ‘journalist’ with the Health Secretary turned ‘I’m A Celebrity’ contestant she opted to so outrageously betray.

     

    Jacqui Smith
    Recently on the BBC’s ‘Daily Politics,’ former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told Isabel Oakeshott to “shut up” during a discussion. The TalkTV host then banged on about “civility in politics” and raged: “In eleven years of live TV, nobody has told me to ‘shut up’ and you can get worse than that. I get worse online, but it isn’t setting a high standard.” Smith responded: “I apologise, I apologise for telling you to ‘shut up,’ but I don’t think I spat.” Whilst Smith could have been more dignified in her communication, the ultimate ‘shouter-downer’ was most definitely the Brexiteer bore.
    Bad Boys Of Brexit
    Pictured here with the ‘Bad Boys of Brexit’ she has been so enthusiastic about – Aaron Banks, Richard Tice and Nigel Farage – here is a mother of three who has been deservedly called out for her inappropriate antics whilst writing about David Cameron and countless others.
    John Whittingdale
    In September 2019, ‘The Steeple Times’ condemned Oakeshott as a “fake news creator” and shared a reader submitted photograph of her next to the “lapdance loving MP” John Whittingdale.
    Richard Tice Waitrose Belgravia chlorinated chicken yellow sticker
    In August 2019, ‘The Steeple Times’ shared an image of Brexiteer Richard Tice buying yellow stickered salmon at Waitrose in Belgravia. We asked: “What next? Chlorinated American chicken?” and suggested he find another yellow sticker… That yellow sticker? ‘Bollocks to Brexit.’
    David Cameron pig
    Oakeshott’s ‘story’ about David Cameron having “allegedly perfomed a sex act involving a dead pig” unsurprisingly “caused controversy on publication.” She was subsequently forced to concede “her source could have been ‘deranged.’”
  • Tracey Emin: “Narcissistic, Deranged, Screaming Banshee”

    Tracey Emin: “Narcissistic, Deranged, Screaming Banshee”

    Serial party goer Tracey Emin CBE, RA bizarrely claims she doesn’t like parties but gets it spot on when she states she is treated as a “narcissistic, deranged, screaming banshee”

    On Saturday, Tracey Emin told The Guardian’s Miranda Bryant: “You cannot be an artist hanging out a giant party, it’s never going to work” in spite of the fact she’s been constantly pictured at parties for decades.

     

    In July 2012, of the attention seeking artist’s very own parties, Tatler’s ‘Bystander’ gushed: “When Tracey Emin throw’s a party, it’s always brilliant. Always amazing. Hip hip hooray” and added: “Tracey Emin: great party host.” Strangely, that pearl of wisdom didn’t get a mention in The Guardian.

     

    Known for hanging out at ritzy joints like Annabel’s and the GQ Awards with everyone from Prince and Princess Michael of Kent to Sir Elton John and his titleless husband David Furnish, super-connected, moaning multi-millionairess Emin used Saturday’s interview to bleat about how her life as an artist is “really lonely.”

     

    Going further, this 58-year-old Turner Prize nominee bizarrely bleated of one of her works exhibited at the rather prestigious Royal Academy in 2020:

     

    “I think I’ve been overlooked. I think they just thought I was some sort of narcissistic, deranged, screaming banshee.”

     

    Self-absorbed Emin seems to forget she leads a life that is slightly more privileged than most of her struggling contemporaries. Aside from having taken up a CBE in spite of threatening to quit Britain for France over tax and her appointment as Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy, this motormouthed harpy has benefitted from an education at the Medway College of Design, Maidstone College, Royal College of Art and Birkbeck University. Not many artists get that lucky.

     

    In addition, exhibited at the likes of the Saatchi Gallery, National Gallery of Scotland, Tate Britain and La Biennale di Venezia, here is someone who cannot accept how fortunate she truly is. It’s time for Tracey Emin to do one thing: Finally learn the art of good grace and thankfulness.

     

    Pictured top: Artist who allegedly doesn’t like parties (and claims not to be taken seriously) Tracey Emin CBE, RA at various parties.

     

    Tracey Emin drunk Vivienne Westwood
    Tracey Emin – whom once claimed: “I’m simply not willing to pay tax at 50%… I’m seriously considering leaving Britain” – with fellow fruitcake Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI, a woman who curiously based her companies in Luxembourg and got turfed out of the Green Party as a result (left) and slumped drunk in a car after a night out, um, er, partying.
    Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ (1999).
    Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ (1999).

    Tracey Emin on…

    Life:

    “I found that life has to be edited to continue.”

     

    “I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of 13, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty and I could not live with both.”

     

    Gender:

    “A man doesn’t know what it’s like to be a woman. It’s that simple.”

     

    Her childhood:

    “I never grew up.”

     

    Her birthday and bodies in the Thames:

    “My New Year’s Eve is always 2nd July, the night before my birthday. That’s the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it.”

     

    “My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I’m just being realistic.”

     

    Herself as an artist:

    “I think I’ve been overlooked. I think they just thought I was some sort of narcissistic, deranged, screaming banshee.”

     

    “There’s a part of you that has to go deep inside, like I say, ‘inside the cave’, and if you don’t go inside the cave, you’re never going to make any art. You need to be able to stand and see yourself to be able to make the art.”

     

    Beds:

    “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.”

     

    Her friends:

    “I have hardly any friends who aren’t gay.”

     

    “I really love animals. My little cat is my little soulmate. He’s not just a cat, he’s my friend.”

     

    Having children:

    “My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.”

     

    “I’d make a good friend, not mother. I’m too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don’t want to put some tiny small person through that.”

     

    Failure:

    “I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist… I had to find a way for myself.”

     

    Art and commerce:

    “I’m not opposed to commerce, even though I’m an artist.”

     

    Success and censorship:

    “One thing that success has taught me is censorship.”

     

    Truth:

    “What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist.”

     

    “Maybe I don’t believe things myself… Truth is such a transient thing.”

     

    Revenge:

    “People don’t remember. Revenge is sweet.”

     

    The art world’s opinions of her:

    “I’ve been slagged off completely by the art world.”

     

    Her mistakes:

    “All the mistakes I’ve ever made in my life have been when I’ve been drunk. I haven’t made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.”

     

    “Me and my mum were in Margate, sitting on a bench eating some jellied eels, when the scout person came and asked us if we would be extras [in the BBC’s Only Fools and Horses]… I thought I was too good to be an extra in Fools And Horses. How deranged was I?”

     

    Asking for an apology:

    “I don’t ask for an apology because it’s only tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper.”

     

    Brexit:

    “It isn’t pushing people away, it isn’t pushing the whole of Britain away, it isn’t about Britain being demoted to some tiny demented island in the North Sea. It’s about people like me saying I’m very proud to be British.”

     

    “If we leave Europe and it turns out OK and we’re happy eating our cabbages and we’re happy living on an island with our island mentality then fine, I’ll go along with that.”

     

    Tony Blair and David Cameron:

    “Both of these men, who are fine politicians and essentially good people, will be remembered in history for doing the most terrible things to our political system and I don’t understand why they fell for it; I don’t understand why they did it.”

     

    “It really aggrieves me to know that I supported both of these men. All I know is that with both of these actions, we are in such a mess.”

     

    Boris Johnson:

    “I saw twits like Boris Johnson run when it actually dawned on him what he was doing.”

     

    What she thinks of other people:

    “People try constantly to use me and I hate it.”

     

    What she thinks of herself:

    “I’m better than all of you.”

     

    “I’m such a nice person and I have a couple of drinks and I’m really good fun and then I’m really not fun.”

     

    What she thinks other people think of her:

    “They look at someone like me and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.”

     

    Tracey Emin selfie
    When she’s not out partying, Tracey Emin focuses on taking selfies and self-promotion. She clearly just cannot help herself.
  • Bailey Bombs to 84/1

    Bailey Bombs to 84/1

    Nikolay Kalinin reports wannabe Conservative Mayor of London Shaun Bailey has sunk to 84/1 on Oddschecker; he suggests voters back outsiders such as Max Fosh, Count Binface and Niko Omilana as a sign of protest against the ineptitude of mainstream candidates

    Shaun Bailey – the man who once promised to give London “a fresh start” – is once again facing a massive decline in support. This is far from surprising given some newly unearthed remarks he has been found to have made.

     

    If you thought this Conservative Mayoral candidate would stop going after women – whether they be pregnant teenagers of female MPs – then you would be seriously wrong as now this misogynist dullard has gone one stage further and decided to go after female domestic abuse victims too.

     

    In a post found on the website of Conservative Women’s Organisation, Bailey claimed: “If you could get girls to accept less of men’s rubbish then men would have to change because ultimately men are after a girl.” In doing so, all he achieved was invoke the idea that it is the fault of women if they find themselves getting abused. I would love to hear him say that to the faces of the thousands of women who were trapped in hostile environments with abusive partners during the COVID-19 pandemic.

     

    It’s perhaps not surprising then that Bailey’s odds of winning the election on the betting site Oddschecker plummeted to 84/1 yesterday – another 20 points lower than he was 3 weeks ago. Commenting of this news, the Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, Rupa Huq, stated: “Someone with Bailey’s hard right attitudes should simply never have the opportunity to lead a city that counts more than 4 million women and girls among its population.”

     

    Bailey’s campaign spokesperson responded to the criticism, not by saying that he has taken accountability for his statements – or even better that he would be dropping out of the Mayoral election – but by accusing Labour of “taking old comments out of context.” The spokesperson added that they believed his point was that “the only way to end domestic violence is to change the behaviour of men.” This, I’d argue, is a blatant lie.

     

    It should be mentioned that Bailey has a history of speaking before thinking about many matters. In 2017, it was reported that he called the region of North Kensington where he grew up in a “ghetto” – which hugely contrasts with the high house prices in the region, as well as the fact that the very wealthy ex-PM David Cameron is a resident of that very same area.

     

    In the meantime, the mayoral campaigns of YouTuber Max Fosh and Count Binface – both of whom The Steeple Times have endorsed (given there’s little to nothing else on offer) – have been expanding greatly, with Fosh continuing his crusade against blockhead Laurence Fox, calling out his ex-fellow Old Harrovian for failing to debate with him.

     

    Fosh has also created a website where he has written out his election policies. They include a pledge to “put Laurence Fox on the call back list for every acting job in London” and another to build Jurassic parks across the city.

     

    Count Binface has also released a campaign manifesto of his own on Twitter, where he has pledged – amongst many other ingenious things to banish Piers Corbyn to the Phantom Zone, finish Crossrail and get London to go it alone and join the EU.

     

    I would like to encourage readers to vote for Max Fosh as your first preference on 6th May, and Count Binface or Niko Omilana – who has stated he wishes to deport all EDL members to Poland and ban Prince Andrew from going within a 4-mile radius of all London schools as your second preference.

     

    These three people, unbelievable as it may seem, are way more appealing than the three leading clowns Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey and Brian Rose, so let’s show them that on 6th May. It’s time to give the Conservatives and Labour especially the kick they well and truly deserve.

     

    Bailey Bombs to 84/1 – Shaun Bailey no chance to be Mayor of London – Nikolay Kalinin reports wannabe Conservative Mayor of London Shaun Bailey has sunk to 84/1 on Oddschecker.com; he suggests voters back outsiders such as Max Fosh, Count Binface and Niko Omilana as a sign of protest against the ineptitude of mainstream candidates.
    Bailey Bombs to 84/1 – Shaun Bailey has been endorsed by the pretty awful Priti Patel. If that’s the best he can do, God help the guy.
    Bailey Bombs to 84/1 – Shaun Bailey no chance to be Mayor of London – Nikolay Kalinin reports wannabe Conservative Mayor of London Shaun Bailey has sunk to 84/1 on Oddschecker.com; he suggests voters back outsiders such as Max Fosh, Count Binface and Niko Omilana as a sign of protest against the ineptitude of mainstream candidates.
    Bailey Bombs to 84/1 – Even ‘King of Tory Sleaze’ Boris Johnson appears to be distancing himself from Shaun Bailey’s flagging campaign. Frankly, this bombastic bozo might as well give up.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ItPJWU6QQ
    Bailey Bombs to 84/1 – ‘The Steeple Times’ urges readers to back independent candidates to send a signal to the mainstream parties that their campaigns in the London Mayoral elections have been dreadful in 2021. Contributor Nikolay Kalinin suggests Niko Omilana as one such option.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcy5V4JwfnA
    Bailey Bombs to 84/1 – Max Fosh is the favoured first choice of ‘The Steeple Times.’
    Bailey Bombs to 84/1 – We also rather like Count Binface and urge choosing him as your second choice.
  • Picture of the Week – Cesspit Street

    Picture of the Week – Cesspit Street

    Protestors brandishing envelopes of ‘taxpayers’ money’ sum up the state of Boris Johnson’s rotten government as ex-minister Johnny Mercer quite rightly brands it a “cesspit”

    If you’re the pro-Brexit billionaire Sir James Dyson or the diplomat killer Mohammed bin Salman, you get the right to have the British Prime Minister on ‘speed-text.’ If you’re an ordinary taxpaying citizen, you get sweet Fanny Adams.

     

    Summing up the present government’s attitude to the public and taxpayers’ money, our picture of the week – shared by the @WinstonCProject on Twitter – shows a protest outside the entrance to Downing Street by individuals sporting masks of amongst others Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and David Cameron.

     

    Featuring also envelopes stuffed with £50 notes emblazoned with ‘Taxpayers’ Money’ in red, the message attached also reads: “To Tory chums, Dodgy contracts, Jobs for mates… If found please return to The Conservative Party.”

     

    Elsewhere yesterday, after resigning from Johnson’s rotten government, Johnny Mercer remarked:

     

    “I think it’s pretty clear that not everyone tells the truth up here do they. I mean, I told people, I was resigning as a courtesy to government. You know, three hours later, it’s in the press. And, of course, they all denied they ever leaked it.”

     

    “This is the most distrustful, awful environment I’ve ever worked in, in government. Almost nobody tells the truth is what I’ve worked out over the last 36 hours.”

     

    “And, you know, I don’t think anyone really can get on their high horse about trust and ethics and all the rest of it in politics, because as far as I’m concerned, most of it is a bit of a cesspit.”

     

    #JohnsonOut

     

    Picture of the Week – Cesspit Street – Protestors brandishing envelopes of ‘taxpayers’ money’ sum up the state of Boris Johnson’s rotten government as ex-minister Johnny Mercer quite rightly brands it a “cesspit”
    Cesspit Street – This morning, the ‘Guardian’ shared this cartoon by Nicola Jennings that accurately sums up the relationship between Sir James Dyson and Boris Johnson.
    Picture of the Week – Cesspit Street – Protestors brandishing envelopes of ‘taxpayers’ money’ sum up the state of Boris Johnson’s rotten government as ex-minister Johnny Mercer quite rightly brands it a “cesspit”
    Cesspit Street – On Monday, it was revealed that leaked emails showed that the Conservative Party WAS fully aware that £58,000 in donations was to be used to refit the Downing Street flat occupied by serial shagger Boris Johnson and his wine chucking latest baby mama, ‘Costly Carrie’ Symonds.
    https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1385116534805303296
  • Theresa’s in the Trough

    Theresa’s in the Trough

    Matthew Steeples highlights that it is not just David Cameron who has been sticking his piggy fingers in the trough; Theresa May also ‘pocketed’ over £1.2 million in the last year alone

    Whilst the media are busy banging on about David Cameron’s bungled attempts at lobbying for Greenshill Capital and the ensuing sleaze scandal that has followed, the majority have missed what his immediate successor has been upto since she was turfed out with the trash by her fellow Tory turncoats.

     

    Yesterday afternoon, however, Guido Fawkes shared news of the ‘Jobs for the Boys and Jobs for the Girls’ ex Tory leader – and don’t forget it’s bins for Sir Philip May and wandering in the wheatfields for his weird wife, the new ‘Lady T’ – when they suggested that the hapless Conservative MP for Maidenhead has pocketed over £700,000 from speeches since standing down as Prime Minister.

     

    Going further this morning, after analysing the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as of 15th March 2021, The Steeple Times can reveal “Brexit means Brexit” Lady May’s latest declaration to be an astonishing £1,075,706 in total – and that’s before adding in her £81,932 MP’s salary and office expenses.

     

    Of this sum for outside earnings, all but one payment is for work for foreign entities and the only payment for ‘work’ in the UK came from JP Morgan. That totalled £160,370 for “two speaking engagements that were cancelled” and this accounted for just 15% of the total ‘earned.’

     

    Whilst we’re at it, let’s not forget ‘MayBeNot’ also managed to secure herself life membership of the Carlton Club and ‘VIP’ perks at Heathrow Airport and Amanda Wakeley and this is all before we get onto her hubby’s no doubt not-too-shabby salary from Capital Group also.

     

    Today we politely enquire: “Why isn’t anyone in the mainstream media wagging a finger at the greedy grubber Theresa May yet or asking her: ‘How on earth do you find the time to serve your constituents?’”

     

    Theresa’s (mostly overseas) trough since February 2020 – £1,075,706

    • 19th February 2020 – Dubai Women Establishment, UAE
      • Speech – £115,000 for 19 hours work (including travel).
    • 26th March 2020 – Structured Finance Association, USA
      • Speech – £115,000 for 25 hours work (including travel).
    • 6th March 2020 – Brown University, USA
      • Speech – £115,000 for 14 hours work (including travel).
    • 6th March 2020 – Trinity University, USA
      • Speech – £115,000 for 26 hours work (including travel).
    • 22nd April 2020 – JP Morgan Chase, UK
      • 2 speaking engagements – £160,370 for zero hours to date (will be rescheduled).
    • 25th June 2020 – World 50 Inc, USA
      • 3 speaking engagements – £101,169 for 7 hours work “to date.”
    • 17th September 2020 – Telmex Foundation, Mexico
      • Virtual speaking engagement – £46,750 for 6 hours work.
    • 18th September 2020 – World Knowledge Forum, South Korea
      • Speaking engagement – £136,000 for 30 hours work (including travel).
    • 9th November 2020 – Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry, USA
      • Virtual speaking engagement – £45,500 for 6 hours work.
    • 20th January 2021 –The Richmond Forum, USA
      • Speech – £48,245 for 3 hours work.
    • 20th January 2021 – TPG Communication, France
      • Speech – £39,000 for 2 hours work.
    • 4th February 2021 – Society of the Four Arts, USA
      • Virtual speaking engagement – £38,672 for 5 hours work.

     

    What else has Theresa been pocketing lately from her ‘Magic Money Tree’?

    • An MPs salary of £81,932 plus expenses “to cover the costs of running an office, employing staff, having somewhere to live in London or their constituency, and travelling between Parliament and their constituency.”
    • An £85,000 per year salary from the Office of Theresa May Limited “until further notice” for just 24 hours work per month or just 288 hours work per year.
    • Honorary life membership of the Carlton Club.
    • ‘VIP treatment’ at Heathrow Airport, valued at £4,200 a pop, at least 14 times totalling at least £58,800.
    • Substantial rental income from a flat in London owned jointly with her husband.
    • A discount card from Amanda Wakeley, “which has the potential to be of registrable value.”

     

    Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Theresa’s in the Trough – Theresa May MP’s £1.2m in 2020 – 2021 – Matthew Steeples highlights that it is not just David Cameron who has been sticking his piggy fingers in the trough; Theresa May also ‘pocketed’ over £1.2 million in the last year alone.
    Theresa’s in the Trough – Theresa May may go down in history as one of the very worst Prime Ministers ever, yet she and her hedge fund tin banger husband Philip have pocketed titles and are set to receive multi-millions of pounds in future income.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc9tToN5XGk
    Theresa’s in the Trough – Sir Philip May’s employer’s, Capital Group, are regularly quite rightly criticised over the legitimacy of their potentially unethical investments. Plainly and frankly, he and his wife don’t give a damn.
  • A Call To Clegg

    A Call To Clegg

    Matthew Steeples calls on Sir Nick Clegg to listen to the 36,500 people who’ve signed our Change.org petition seeking giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe being banned from Facebook

    Former leader of the Liberal Democrats turned head global PR man for Facebook The Right Honourable Sir Nicholas Clegg has been getting a lot of stick of late.

     

    Once considered a “great communicator” but a bit of a poodle to his coalition government partner, David Cameron, Clegg was meant to turnaround Facebook’s reputation in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but instead last week was branded: “Clegg, the pampered prince of PR” by The Times and “the Prince Harry of politics” by the Daily Mail.

     

    Now, today, I have an idea for Sir Nick Clegg that could help reverse his bad fortune of late and that is to listen to the 36,500 people who’ve signed our Change.org petition seeking to ban Merelize van der Merwe, a wicked woman whose husband bought her the ‘opportunity’ to massacre a giraffe as a Valentine’s Day present, from posting her gruesome content on the pages of the social media organisation he works for.

     

    That van der Merwe was even able to share graphic images and a video even of this ‘kill’ on Facebook is frankly outrageous and today I ask Sir Nick:

     

    • Is publishing barbaric actions of this nature something that you think is acceptable on a site used by millions across the globe?

     

    • Don’t you think it is time to ban this wicked wench and those like her from using Mark Zuckerberg’s medium for their personal pleasure and profit also?

     

    Elsewhere on Change.org, 19,100 people have signed our petition seeking to ban the bear slaying barbarian Larysa Switlyk from Instagram, a company bought by Facebook in 2012 for £760 million ($1 billion). Perhaps Sir Nick, couldn’t you have a word there too?

     

    Sign our Change.org petition seeking Facebook ban Merelize van der Merwe by clicking here.

     

    Sign our Change.org petition seeking Instagram ban Larysa Switlyk by clicking here.

     

    Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    A Call To Nick Clegg 2021 – Ban giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe from Facebook – Matthew Steeples calls on Nick Clegg to listen to the 36,500 people who’ve signed our Change.org petition seeking giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe being banned from Facebook and bear slaying barbarian Larysa Switlyk from Instagram
    A Call To Clegg – Sir Nick Clegg pictured with Facebook founder and Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg.
    A Call To Nick Clegg 2021 – Ban giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe from Facebook – Matthew Steeples calls on Nick Clegg to listen to the 36,500 people who’ve signed our Change.org petition seeking giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe being banned from Facebook and bear slaying barbarian Larysa Switlyk from Instagram
    A Call To Clegg – Sir Nick Clegg once posed next to the logo of a charity called Millie’s Trust. It featured a giraffe and though he plainly wanted to show support for that, now he should show support for living giraffes and support the 36,500 people demanding giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe be banned from the pages of the social media company he is currently paid £2.7 million per year to work for.
    A Call To Nick Clegg 2021 – Ban giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe from Facebook – Matthew Steeples calls on Nick Clegg to listen to the 36,500 people who’ve signed our Change.org petition seeking giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe being banned from Facebook and bear slaying barbarian Larysa Switlyk from Instagram
    A Call To Clegg – Merelize van der Merwe has 99,000 followers on her “public figure” Facebook page. On it, she shares images of herself massacring amongst other animals elephants, hippos, lions and leopards. How is it acceptable that she is allowed to post such on a social media website, Sir Nick?
    A Call To Nick Clegg 2021 – Ban giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe from Facebook – Matthew Steeples calls on Nick Clegg to listen to the 36,500 people who’ve signed our Change.org petition seeking giraffe slayer Merelize van der Merwe being banned from Facebook and bear slaying barbarian Larysa Switlyk from Instagram
    A Call To Clegg – Larysa Switlyk has 99,000 followers on her Instagram page. On it, she shares imagery of herself massacring amongst other animals alligators, bears, goats, hippos and peacocks. She even once posed in a field in the UK with a blood covered sex toy and the body of a sheep she’d shot. How is it acceptable that she is allowed to post such on a social media website, Sir Nick?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhqeZ0vYJ4&feature=emb_logo
    A Call To Clegg – Viewer caution advised: Merelize van der Merwe posted this video of herself slaughtering a giraffe in Limpopo, South Africa on 24th February. It has been viewed by over 3,000 people and unsurprisingly resulted in international outrage. It is now time that Facebook put a stop to this deranged deviant profiting from her sickening activities and it would do the social media giant utterly no harm to send her to social media Siberia.
  • Moron of the Moment – Shaun Bailey

    Moron of the Moment – Shaun Bailey

    Pontificating pillock Shaun Bailey proves himself unfit to be Mayor of London after curiously claiming impoverished homeless people can and should save £5,000 to get a home

    As we pointed out last March, Rory Stewart would have made a great Mayor of London. Sadly, since he’s no longer in the running, the “inept banger-on about being the son of a bus driver” Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan is getting the bloody easiest ticket-to-ride.

     

    Aside from an especially creepy looking American YouTuber and fan of David Icke named Brian Rose as an independent, all the opposition have managed to put up is a pontificating pillock named Shaun Bailey. This self-declared “different dude” is standing for the Conservative Party in spite of bizarrely previously branding himself “gobby and dangerous.”

     

    Having declared a pointlessly ear-piercing policy of giving free burglar alarms to 300,000 Londoners aged 65 plus and shown himself as a “foolish man with pockets plainly as large as China” in 2020, bombastic Bailey has returned to the fray this week. This Tory twit has now ludicrously stated that he believes 62,670 “homeless people in the capital would be able to save up for a £5,000 deposit to buy a share in a newly-built affordable home.”

     

    Reported on this morning in the Guardian and Mirror, Bailey’s off-the-wall remarks to Inside Housing included:

     

    “I don’t think the £5,000 [deposit to secure a mortgage] will [be a problem for those currently in temporary accommodation]. The mortgage application thing might be a bit tougher … They could save for it, yeah.”

     

    Going further, the Guardian reported that this “man of gimmicks” and “malicious” moron continued with his gibberish:

     

    Pressed by the interviewer on whether he was suggesting a homeless family in bed and breakfast accommodation could afford a deposit, Bailey replied: “Not all of them, but some people could. A full proportion of people could.”

     

    He added: “I know about that situation, I sofa surfed for years. You’re right, I definitely couldn’t have come up with £5,000, but those people I’m not expecting to or asking to. We’ll provide social housing for them.”

     

    Reaction to this nitwit numbskull was unsurprisingly that of “widespread bewilderment” and of him, Lambeth Labour councillor Ed Davie tweeted:

     

    “Famously, people living in poverty usually have at least £5,000 lying around – it’s amazing that it hasn’t occurred to them to simply buy a London property, which are well known for being really cheap. Thank God senior Tories are here to give out this good advice.”

     

    Whilst Sadiq Khan’s policies – such as the extension of Boris Johnson’s bonkers bike lanes – have been equivalent to driving a bus into a brick wall, Shaun Bailey has yet again proven something else: Here, indeed, is a berk who shouldn’t be allowed to be in charge of a bus ticket, let alone Britain’s capital. It’s time, instead, that Bailey was just put back in his box.

     

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    Moron of the Moment – Shaun Bailey – Out-of-touch Tory wazzock – Pontificating pillock Shaun Bailey proves himself unfit to be Mayor of London after curiously claiming impoverished homeless people can and should save £5,000 to get a home.
    Birds of a Feather – Shaun Bailey with Boris Johnson. The fact that the pair “get on well” is proof enough that the loopy wannabe Mayor of London is unfit for office.
    Moron of the Moment – Shaun Bailey – Out-of-touch Tory wazzock – Pontificating pillock Shaun Bailey proves himself unfit to be Mayor of London after curiously claiming impoverished homeless people can and should save £5,000 to get a home.
    Birds of a Feather – Shaun Bailey with now former Prime Minister David Cameron. The smug look on this duo’s faces sums up the “f**k the rest of you” attitude of these opportunists; here is a pair whose involvement in politics has caused nothing but disaster for everyone whilst their own pockets get deeper.
    Brian Rose’s decision to stand as a candidate to become Mayor of London was understandably greeted with mockery by ‘Coffeezilla’ and described as “some form of joke” by ‘From The Hornets Nest.’