Simon Heffer is a fat fucking liar

[webofevil]

SIMON HEFFER IS A FAT FUCKING LIAR

Ed Balls, the Children’s Minister, has gone down in history—well, according to Hansard at least—as having ejaculated “so weak” from the front bench when, in his response to the Budget, Dave said, quite correctly, that we now have the heaviest tax burden in our history. He in fact yelled out “so what?” ... Hansard was spoken to and the so-called record now reads “so weak”. [Simon Heffer, Telegraph]

The Hansard reporters in the room heard “so weak”, the video footage catches the end of Ed Balls mouthing “weak” and, more to the point, Hansard does not change anything just because it is inconvenient for the government, or indeed for anyone else. Anyone who says otherwise is an ignorant poltroon or an opportunistic shitgiblet.

If this seems like an unnecessarily ad hominem attack on the crapulent unwitting falsehood-spreader [That's a bit better - Legal dept], it’s worth remembering that an attack on Hansard reporters' professionalism and integrity is pretty ad bloody hominem in itself. And nothing less than I would expect from that repellent [the rest of this entry cut for length].

Comments

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

All incoming links are welcome. If this were filtered, it might be a different story, but this deserves an airing.

[matgb]

I'm writing the post in between childcare stuff, but am struck by a thought. You can't make an amendment after the three hour deadline—when did Balls leave the chamber, and when would the deadline apply from—it was an interjection, so is it counted from when he said it, or from the end of Dave's speech?

If from when he said it, he'll have been in the chamber for a chunk of the following debate, can 'proove' he didn't get it amended. Any way of finding out how long he was in the chamber for?

We've definitely got Heffer on one complete factuall innacuracy though:

When Dave, again quite rightly, quoted Mr Balls's silly comment back at him, he did not deny it. The denial came only when the loudmouthed twerp was told of the hideous damage his idiocy could do to his party

Except he can clearly be said mouth "so weak" in the damn video, which is after Cameron said it but only a few seconds later, so regardless of what Hansard says, or what Balls said initially, Heffer is lying with that point anyway.

Post'll be later this evening though, I have a 4-year-old to entertain...

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> Heffer is lying with that point anyway

For the benefit of new readers, matgb and I have developed our very own code when discussing matters political. Here, crucially, he is using the word “lying” in our unique sense of “accidentally and innocently misrepresenting events”!