Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
While Nadine Dorries has settled her claim for libel against Damian McBride (with Damian having to pay legal costs including for Guido’s time spent serving him with the papers) she has not yet settled her claims against HM Government. She has until April to commence proceedings, just in time for the whole Smeargate saga to be [...]
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I see that Matt Davies is reporting that Tory PPC for St Austell and Newquay Caroline Righton has issued an unpology . If fails to apologise for the email she sent in response to the Tweet that was reported to her but adapted somewhere along the way from Stephen Gilbert's original. All this while pledging to fight a clean and positive campaign. What I do find strange is that this A-Listista PPC should...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
To get this week’s Guy News broadcast, click on the link in the Guidogram. It is a Halloween special and we have a Westminster shaggy dog story. Guido also has a surprise word with one of the political living dead – Damian McBride. Well it was a surprise to him. Listen in… Subscribe to get the [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
MP for Mid Bedfordshire says former No 10 spin doctor has settled with her for unconfirmed sum A Tory MP who was targeted by the so-called "smeargate" emails has said that she has been paid damages by the Downing Street adviser who resigned over the scandal. Nadine Dorries welcomed the decision by Gordon Brown's former spin doctor Damian McBride to settle and expects it to strengthen her...
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Nadine Dorries , that noted flag carrier for lying and libel, has managed to wring a whole £1,000 from Damian McBride over the supposed libels he sent to Derek Draper while they were considering the setting up of the now infamous "Red Rag" website. McBride, fairly enough, decided it wasn't worth the potential cost of going to court, even though these remarks about the sainted Ms Dorries...
John Ward in Medway (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Nadine Dorries MP, who was smeared in the Damian McBride activities earlier this year, has been awarded damages of (according to Paul Waugh) just over a thousand pounds. There will be legal costs on top of this, apparently around £2,500.One down two to go: there are two other "legal letters" (rather than writs) cases outstanding, against Derek "Dolly" Draper and No. 10 Downing...
Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
So, the utter tool Damian McBride has decided to avoid the litigation risk of testing his disgraceful Guido Fawkes / Paul Staines alike smearologist behaviour in the libel court and has paid an undisclosed sum (£1,000 we're told) to Ms Nadine Dorries MP, report sSky News . Rather as Murdoch's The Sun has joined The Mail in settling undisclosed damages on Tom Watson MP after a cartoonist and...
Jailhouselawyer's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Nadine Dorries is so cheap This idiot is claiming that Mad Nad has won substantial damages against Damian McBride. According to the BBC Mad Nad accepted an out of court settlement for £1,000. That is not substantial damages. It is peanuts which monkeys are paid.
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
There was a lot of speculation when Guido personally served papers on Damian McBride on behalf of Nadine Dorries that it was merely some kind of publicity stunt (yes, that means you Mr Brogan). What Guido knew, and many ill informed commentators did not, is that the smears about Nadine were placed with journalists and some [...]
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
This blog post might seem a little strange to some but its a question that I have always wanted to ask Mr Staines, I think now is the time to ask him the question so here goes. Who do you think you are? It seems that Guido on many occasions just posts a post like: +++ McNulty Says Sorry to the House : Paying Back £13,837 +++ or another one of his from today is: ++ Damian McBride Pays Nadine Dorries...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
More to follow…44 CommentsDick ScratcherI wonder if she’s still got her nurse uniform….Dr_ProctorHopefully she’s lent it to her daughter…Obama is a twatYes please!38Randy Old ManI hope they both have nurses outfitsWhifflerHooray, and the same (in the cause of sex equality) to the male member (not) involved'Lizzieoooh!Ken LorpThat’s a real shame as I was looking...
OberonHouston (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Yesterday Tom Watson , the former Minister for Digital Engagement and close ally of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, received £50k in damages from the Mail on Sunday (MoS) and The Sun Newspapers over an article written by top political blogger Iain Dale. In the MoS article written by Iain Dale it was asserted that Tom Watson had been cc'd on the Smeargate emails between Damian McBride and Derek...
The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
There are some obvious answers to that question. He's very funny, for a start. In a scary way. And he's a mix of Alastair Campbell and Damian McBride , although arguably more monstrous yet competent than either of those. And he is a stunning indictment of British politics in that such an outrageously vile character can be seen not just as believable, but an accepted (and, for some, essential) part...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
By Floyd Millen There is no doubt that since 1997, New Labour has changed the language of politics and has indelibly changed the relationship between the citizen and the state. Under New Labour, there have been significant achievements, such as the National Minimum Wage; action on child poverty; investment in healthcare and education and the 1.5 million people helped into work by the New Deal. Society...
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Yawn. Over at the New Statesman, James Macintyre, desperate to prove that someone somewhere considers him a journalist, even a remarkably poor journalist, or even just talks about him a little teeny weeny bit, is trying to whip up enthusiasm for the idea that he has been 'smeared' by a Conservative Central Office press officer. The offending alleged 'smear' by Will Hutton to the Daily Telegraph's George...
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