http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/30/nmayor30.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article1909862.ece
Sunday, 19 August 2007
Monday, 16 July 2007
Gyles Brandreth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyles_Brandreth
Does he count? Should he be here? Like Sebastian Coe he was a celebrity before dabbling with the dark arts by becoming a Tory MP. Like Coe he was always a thoroughly unlikeable type (I was very much in the Ovett camp) before coming clean about his twisted outlook on life. And Coe is not represented here. I suppose it is because Coe is still technically a politician. And because Coe never came on like he was dressing as a Russell Grant tribute act, whilst gurning in an inexplicably self-satisfied way at the cameras and firing out an endless murky stream of fifth-form public school boy frippery. So Gyles, for your few years as a paid-up failed Tory politician, and your lifetime as a bit of a c#nt, you make the cut
(You wouldn't get that kind of lowest common denominator gimmickry from the Tories these days - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6900326.stm )
Does he count? Should he be here? Like Sebastian Coe he was a celebrity before dabbling with the dark arts by becoming a Tory MP. Like Coe he was always a thoroughly unlikeable type (I was very much in the Ovett camp) before coming clean about his twisted outlook on life. And Coe is not represented here. I suppose it is because Coe is still technically a politician. And because Coe never came on like he was dressing as a Russell Grant tribute act, whilst gurning in an inexplicably self-satisfied way at the cameras and firing out an endless murky stream of fifth-form public school boy frippery. So Gyles, for your few years as a paid-up failed Tory politician, and your lifetime as a bit of a c#nt, you make the cut
(You wouldn't get that kind of lowest common denominator gimmickry from the Tories these days - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6900326.stm )
Ted Dexter
Was pretty a awful England cricket coach too - http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,6903,1294841,00.html
Christopher 'Buster' Mottram
Nasty, very nasty - http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,6903,1294841,00.html
And he's still at it, promoting the 'acceptable' (and mercifully unelectable) face of bigotted racist hatred - http://ukipwatch.org/2007/03/ukip-election-buster.html
And he's still at it, promoting the 'acceptable' (and mercifully unelectable) face of bigotted racist hatred - http://ukipwatch.org/2007/03/ukip-election-buster.html
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Vinnie Jones
Ok, so he was a footballer and therefore doesn't count. But he went to Hollywood and became an, ahem, 'actor'. And his comments below are pretty brazen, you have to admit:-
'Now Jones has decided his future is in politics - and he wants to be a Conservative MP.
"I'm a Conservative and have given money to the party," he says.' - http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/columnists/tm_objectid=17851166&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=cam-s-crazy-gang--name_page.html
'Now Jones has decided his future is in politics - and he wants to be a Conservative MP.
"I'm a Conservative and have given money to the party," he says.' - http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/columnists/tm_objectid=17851166&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=cam-s-crazy-gang--name_page.html
Laurence Olivier
Dear, dear Larry - "was a lifelong Conservative. In 1983 he wrote to congratulate Margaret Thatcher following her victory in that year's General Election. He declined the offer of a peerage from Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1967, despite Wilson's insistence that it was not a political honour, but later accepted a peerage from Edward Heath's Conservative government in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1970" - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059/bio
Rick Wakeman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/10/08/082321.php
"The dapper "keyboard wizard" thought Michael Howard had had a good week.
In fact he was so enthused by the conference experience, he confessed that he wouldn't mind seeking a nomination himself, if the opportunity presented itself and he thought he could "make a difference". " - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3723202.stm
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/10/08/082321.php
"The dapper "keyboard wizard" thought Michael Howard had had a good week.
In fact he was so enthused by the conference experience, he confessed that he wouldn't mind seeking a nomination himself, if the opportunity presented itself and he thought he could "make a difference". " - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3723202.stm
The Spice Girls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
Except the scouse one, it seems. But she, like the rest of them, is back and they want your kids' money and lots of it. Whoooooooooooooo do they think they are?
"Posh admitted that she was a bit of a Tory" ( http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a63140/girls-reunited-too-much-spice.html ) but has consistantly denied countless other accusations of crimes against music, taste, the human race in general, the art of pouting seductively, and the art of riding shamelessly on the coat-tails of a more talented human being for years on end without ever once contributing anything remotely useful to the planet yourself
Except the scouse one, it seems. But she, like the rest of them, is back and they want your kids' money and lots of it. Whoooooooooooooo do they think they are?
"Posh admitted that she was a bit of a Tory" ( http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a63140/girls-reunited-too-much-spice.html ) but has consistantly denied countless other accusations of crimes against music, taste, the human race in general, the art of pouting seductively, and the art of riding shamelessly on the coat-tails of a more talented human being for years on end without ever once contributing anything remotely useful to the planet yourself
Michael Winner
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010523/ai_n14383105 - claims to have cleaned up his act - tough, he's Michael Winner, there are no rules
Shirley Bassey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4329132.stm
Diamonds are Forever. And so is the knowledge that Shirley came from a humble working class background, grew up and earned herself some cash, and stuck two fingers up to her roots by aligning herself with the Tories. Hardly unique, but it doesn't make it alright
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4329132.stm
Diamonds are Forever. And so is the knowledge that Shirley came from a humble working class background, grew up and earned herself some cash, and stuck two fingers up to her roots by aligning herself with the Tories. Hardly unique, but it doesn't make it alright
Joan Collins
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4329132.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
And, like fellow lovey Edward Fox, JC has dabbled with an even darker force, sharing a political bed with no less an excuse for a human being than the deranged Robert Kilroy-Silk - http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2004/05/31/joan-collins.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
And, like fellow lovey Edward Fox, JC has dabbled with an even darker force, sharing a political bed with no less an excuse for a human being than the deranged Robert Kilroy-Silk - http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2004/05/31/joan-collins.html
Patrick Moore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
And there's more - "In the 1970s, he was Chairman of the anti-immigration United Country Party, a position he held until the party was absorbed by the New Britain Party in 1980. He is an opponent of fox hunting and all blood sports"( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore ) - reach for the stars but keep those hobnail boots on the ground, Patrick
And there's more - "In the 1970s, he was Chairman of the anti-immigration United Country Party, a position he held until the party was absorbed by the New Britain Party in 1980. He is an opponent of fox hunting and all blood sports"( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore ) - reach for the stars but keep those hobnail boots on the ground, Patrick
Kirstie Allsop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/littleandlarge/feb07/laughaminute.htm
Perhaps not a huge turn-up for the books this one. Plummy Kirstie keeps herself occupied encouraging her fellow Britons to buy up 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes and make lots of yummy money on them. Sod the green belt, sod those of us who can no longer afford to climb onto the property ladder at the end of a hard day's honest graft, at least Kirstie is keeping herself out of mischief
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/littleandlarge/feb07/laughaminute.htm
Perhaps not a huge turn-up for the books this one. Plummy Kirstie keeps herself occupied encouraging her fellow Britons to buy up 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes and make lots of yummy money on them. Sod the green belt, sod those of us who can no longer afford to climb onto the property ladder at the end of a hard day's honest graft, at least Kirstie is keeping herself out of mischief
Cilla Black
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
Cilla denies it of course. Challenged by fellow scouser Ricky Tomlinson about selling out her working class roots she nobly blames her late husband for her soiled reputation as a Tory - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20021215/ai_n12669592
So I guess it was Cilla's deceased doppleganger Rod Hull who was spotted at this Tory do earlier in the year then? - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/littleandlarge/feb07/laughaminute.htm
Cilla denies it of course. Challenged by fellow scouser Ricky Tomlinson about selling out her working class roots she nobly blames her late husband for her soiled reputation as a Tory - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20021215/ai_n12669592
So I guess it was Cilla's deceased doppleganger Rod Hull who was spotted at this Tory do earlier in the year then? - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/littleandlarge/feb07/laughaminute.htm
Andrew Lloyd Webber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
"Made a Tory peer in 1997, he was ridiculed for 'doing a Phil Collins' by threatening to leave the country if Labour got in - he tells me he never said any such thing" - http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2082009,00.html - so he denies it? - tell you what, Andy, you retire and withdraw everything you ever wrote or produced from the public arena, and give 90% of your life earnings towards sustainable development projects in Africa, and I'll start to believe you
And I'll try to forget about the more damning aspects of this - "He wrote a piece to order for a Tory party political broadcast and was at Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday, but has distanced himself from the party in recent years" ( http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1795942,00.html )
"Made a Tory peer in 1997, he was ridiculed for 'doing a Phil Collins' by threatening to leave the country if Labour got in - he tells me he never said any such thing" - http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2082009,00.html - so he denies it? - tell you what, Andy, you retire and withdraw everything you ever wrote or produced from the public arena, and give 90% of your life earnings towards sustainable development projects in Africa, and I'll start to believe you
And I'll try to forget about the more damning aspects of this - "He wrote a piece to order for a Tory party political broadcast and was at Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday, but has distanced himself from the party in recent years" ( http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1795942,00.html )
Adam Rickitt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rickitt
Save your money sunshine, it's the only way you'll persuade any rational human being to vote for you - http://ridiculouspolitics.blogspot.com/2006/11/adam-rickett-might-pay-for-sex.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rickitt
Save your money sunshine, it's the only way you'll persuade any rational human being to vote for you - http://ridiculouspolitics.blogspot.com/2006/11/adam-rickett-might-pay-for-sex.html
Frederick Forsyth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
"One of the Conservative Party's highest profile celebrity supporters" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/25/ntory25.xml
"One of the Conservative Party's highest profile celebrity supporters" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/25/ntory25.xml
Bryan Ferry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
Oops, Bryan ups the ante- http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2449976.ece (I actually think that the crooning, lizard-like legend-in-a-lake-of-his-own-brylcreem was wilfully misquoted and misinterpreted by virulent, amoral, truth-averse elements in the British media - but fuck it, they're normally on the side of the likes of him - what's good for the goose is good for the ageing right-wing has-been)
And, of course, the issue of Bryan's loins are every bit as unpleasant as what comes out of his mouth - http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/X/x/what_can_i_do_about_it/the_young_ones/4.html
Oops, Bryan ups the ante- http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2449976.ece (I actually think that the crooning, lizard-like legend-in-a-lake-of-his-own-brylcreem was wilfully misquoted and misinterpreted by virulent, amoral, truth-averse elements in the British media - but fuck it, they're normally on the side of the likes of him - what's good for the goose is good for the ageing right-wing has-been)
And, of course, the issue of Bryan's loins are every bit as unpleasant as what comes out of his mouth - http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/X/x/what_can_i_do_about_it/the_young_ones/4.html
Frank Bruno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
And he meant it too - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1113968.stm (Eric Pickles looks like a top bloke, doesn't he?)
And he meant it too - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1113968.stm (Eric Pickles looks like a top bloke, doesn't he?)
Bill Roache
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200601/ai_n17186004
Friends with Neil and Christine - messy! - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970409/ai_n14118083 / http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/04/13/nele413.html
This one is getting too easy (I would say boring but he might sue) -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4505255.stm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200601/ai_n17186004
Friends with Neil and Christine - messy! - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970409/ai_n14118083 / http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/04/13/nele413.html
This one is getting too easy (I would say boring but he might sue) -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4505255.stm
American Republicans
Such is the twisted nature of modern life that our high-decibel, gas-guzzling, morbidly obese, cowboy-hat-wearing celebrity buddies from across the pond exercise much influence on our day-to-day lives, and benefit hugely from our financial patronage. It seems only right and proper, therefore, that they should get the treatment too.
For now - http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b140fd711ae.htm
For now - http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b140fd711ae.htm
Gary Oldman
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b140fd711ae.htm
Bit of a suprise to be honest, would have thought better of this talented thesp whose work tends to be left-field. The evidence is scant and I will happily retract if given good cause, but for now I feel a moral obligation to make assumptions and think the worst.....
On second thoughts, hung, drawn and quartered - http://www.hollywood.com/news/Gary_Oldman_One_Unhappy_Republican/313116
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001013_extra.asp#3
Bit of a suprise to be honest, would have thought better of this talented thesp whose work tends to be left-field. The evidence is scant and I will happily retract if given good cause, but for now I feel a moral obligation to make assumptions and think the worst.....
On second thoughts, hung, drawn and quartered - http://www.hollywood.com/news/Gary_Oldman_One_Unhappy_Republican/313116
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001013_extra.asp#3
Derek Laud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Laud
Neatly encapsulating the 'crisis of competence' that plagues modern-day Celebrity Britain, Del-Boy is famous for appearing on Big Brother some time ago, for thinking it's still ok in 2007 to rip the throats out of foxes with a pack of dogs, and for being pals with those champions of the sewer end of the Tory market, Neil and Christine Hamilton. Well done Del, you're great you are (so great indeed that you are "one of Britain's most famous Tories" according to Auntie Beeb - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4311070.stm - wow, Cameron and his chums are aiming high, aren't they?)
Of course some would say that, being black and gay, Laud is the acceptable face of the modern, inclusive Tory party. But a face is skin-deep; scrape beneath the surface and the marauding massed hordes of spiteful middle England are still there, jostling occasionally for space with the odd Asian businessman or 'pink entrepreneur', but generally ensuring that the Tory party remains the purest white, and that any sexual 'oddities' are kept well and truly repressed. Which leads me to wonder, Derek - "Do you really hate yourself so much?".
Neatly encapsulating the 'crisis of competence' that plagues modern-day Celebrity Britain, Del-Boy is famous for appearing on Big Brother some time ago, for thinking it's still ok in 2007 to rip the throats out of foxes with a pack of dogs, and for being pals with those champions of the sewer end of the Tory market, Neil and Christine Hamilton. Well done Del, you're great you are (so great indeed that you are "one of Britain's most famous Tories" according to Auntie Beeb - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4311070.stm - wow, Cameron and his chums are aiming high, aren't they?)
Of course some would say that, being black and gay, Laud is the acceptable face of the modern, inclusive Tory party. But a face is skin-deep; scrape beneath the surface and the marauding massed hordes of spiteful middle England are still there, jostling occasionally for space with the odd Asian businessman or 'pink entrepreneur', but generally ensuring that the Tory party remains the purest white, and that any sexual 'oddities' are kept well and truly repressed. Which leads me to wonder, Derek - "Do you really hate yourself so much?".
All Modern-Day British Professional Footballers
A bit of an anti-post this - with their lifestyles of extreme conspicuous consumption, and the occasional ill-advised and inarticulate comment on a subject matter outside the footballing box, it is has long-since been accepted wisdom that 'blue is the colour' for most of our ball-kicking brethren. And I, like all left-leaning football addicts, hypocritically turn a blind eye as I pay my money and get my fix. There are, of course, honourable exceptions to the 'footballer = Tory' rule but frankly I'm struggling to muster much evidence to date. For now:-
- Sir Alex Ferguson - fairly loathsome on most counts (though strangely less so now that Chelsea have bought their way into the big time) but has always, to his credit, been a consistant supporter of the Labour Party, and witnessed by this recent event - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6896760.stm.
- Graeme Le Saux / Pat Nevin - reputedly had the piss taken out of them by other pros for reading the Guardian (sic), so we'll give then the benefit of the doubt
And that's it.......
- Sir Alex Ferguson - fairly loathsome on most counts (though strangely less so now that Chelsea have bought their way into the big time) but has always, to his credit, been a consistant supporter of the Labour Party, and witnessed by this recent event - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6896760.stm.
- Graeme Le Saux / Pat Nevin - reputedly had the piss taken out of them by other pros for reading the Guardian (sic), so we'll give then the benefit of the doubt
And that's it.......
Mike Oldfield
I had it in the back of my mind and then I found this - http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b140fd711ae.htm (ironic, a right-wing site outing it's own people - like the Peter Tatchell of the right). We haven't totally nailed him yet but there's still time.....
Lynsey de Paul
I quote - "was a true Tory artist .... who composed the forgettable ‘Vote Tory, Tory, Tory, for election glory’ " -
http://www.fandmpublications.co.uk/pages/maggieandmusic.htm - succinct, to the point, and incredibly damning - nothing more to be said, other than "Sorry, but who were you again?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://www.fandmpublications.co.uk/pages/maggieandmusic.htm - succinct, to the point, and incredibly damning - nothing more to be said, other than "Sorry, but who were you again?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
Gary Numan
Reknowned for expounding the virtues of Th#tcher in the 80s. Of course everyone is entitled to a clean slate, a second chance (apart from Jonathan King). Gazza puts the record straight here, well kind of -
http://www.threedworld.com.au/content/view/13/43/
http://www.threedworld.com.au/content/view/13/43/
Jonathan King
An interesting case, this one - the convicted paedophile has had a tendency to dance with Satan throughout his life. Before it came to light that he had a predilection for the young folk, he spent 30 years foisting tasteless and pointless aural abominations on the British public under the guise of being a musical entrepreneur, and trousered a lot of our cash along the way (pity that not everything stayed in your trousers, eh JK?). Of course his sexual peccadilloes are extreme, even by the standards of your average Tory, but it should come as no surprise that once he entered the voting booth (pity that's not all you entered, eh JK?) he harboured another dirty little secret.
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_King
And breaking news!, as JK proves that he hasn't exhausted his near-unique capacity for plumbing the absolute depths just yet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itu9o7iT8SY / http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6896298.stm
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_King
And breaking news!, as JK proves that he hasn't exhausted his near-unique capacity for plumbing the absolute depths just yet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itu9o7iT8SY / http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6896298.stm
Busted
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/10/08/082321.php
'The trio - whose hits include Year 3000 and Air Hostess - bashfully owned up to their political leanings in an interview with Tatler.
"I don't really like politics but I've always grown up with their views - the Tories' way of doing things. I just prefer their way of doing things," said 21-year-old Matt Jay, a former public schoolboy. ' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3723202.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/10/08/082321.php
'The trio - whose hits include Year 3000 and Air Hostess - bashfully owned up to their political leanings in an interview with Tatler.
"I don't really like politics but I've always grown up with their views - the Tories' way of doing things. I just prefer their way of doing things," said 21-year-old Matt Jay, a former public schoolboy. ' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3723202.stm
Jim Davidson
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#High-profile_supporters_of_the_Conservative_Party
But oh dear, Jimbo, what's this, you lovable, bigotted, cockerney lug? - "party managers have now banned comic Jim Davidson, whose sense of humour offended some delegates at the Tory conference last year" - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010311/ai_n14522174 - basically even the Tories find you offensive. Ouch!
Never mind son, Maggie still loves you - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#High-profile_supporters_of_the_Conservative_Party
But oh dear, Jimbo, what's this, you lovable, bigotted, cockerney lug? - "party managers have now banned comic Jim Davidson, whose sense of humour offended some delegates at the Tory conference last year" - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010311/ai_n14522174 - basically even the Tories find you offensive. Ouch!
Never mind son, Maggie still loves you - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
Paul Daniels
It's the man who repels, not a little but a lot:-
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
Jeffrey Archer
Where the hell do you start? Could technically be excluded on the grounds that he briefly pretended to be a Tory politician but you sense that, more even than with your average Tory politician, this was nothing more than a calculated career move.
How great that Jeff's Wikipedia entry alone suffices to encapsulate all you need to know about the Tories and their ethos. The blot on his copybook is that he got found out. And found out. And found out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
How great that Jeff's Wikipedia entry alone suffices to encapsulate all you need to know about the Tories and their ethos. The blot on his copybook is that he got found out. And found out. And found out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer
http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/
Kenny Everett
Deceased, yes. And often quite amusing, I grant you. But the general public can still buy his DVDs and other merchandise, so the general public deserve to be told.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#High-profile_supporters_of_the_Conservative_Party
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010311/ai_n14522174
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Everett - mates with Michael Winner? Michael Fucking Winner? I rest my case:-
"In the 1983 election campaign, the Young Conservatives invited Kenny to their conference in an attempt to attract the youth vote. Egged on by film director Michael Winner, Kenny bounded onto the stage, wearing the enormously oversized foam rubber hands familiar from his mock-evangelical character Brother Lee Love. He shouted slogans like "Let's bomb Russia!" and "Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away!" (Michael Foot was the elderly leader of the Labour party.)
His support for the Conservatives dated back to the late 1960s when the Conservatives, then in opposition, criticised the Labour government's treatment of the 'pirate' stations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#High-profile_supporters_of_the_Conservative_Party
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010311/ai_n14522174
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Everett - mates with Michael Winner? Michael Fucking Winner? I rest my case:-
"In the 1983 election campaign, the Young Conservatives invited Kenny to their conference in an attempt to attract the youth vote. Egged on by film director Michael Winner, Kenny bounded onto the stage, wearing the enormously oversized foam rubber hands familiar from his mock-evangelical character Brother Lee Love. He shouted slogans like "Let's bomb Russia!" and "Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away!" (Michael Foot was the elderly leader of the Labour party.)
His support for the Conservatives dated back to the late 1960s when the Conservatives, then in opposition, criticised the Labour government's treatment of the 'pirate' stations."
Fred Trueman
Great cricketer, miserable reactionary curmudgeon (RIP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://taxcutter.blogspot.com/2006/07/death-of-great-tory.html
"the rebel Yorkshireman was also a Tory of deepest dye" - http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WORLD-OBITS/2006-07/1152361140
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)
http://taxcutter.blogspot.com/2006/07/death-of-great-tory.html
"the rebel Yorkshireman was also a Tory of deepest dye" - http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WORLD-OBITS/2006-07/1152361140
Anthony Worral-Thomson
Greasy, gnomic tv chef. Makes his living by telling us how to boil an egg. Should have known it, you can see it in his eyes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1333000/1333327.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1333000/1333327.stm
Monty Panesar
A painful for one, this - he's English cricket's most talented and consistant spin bowler in 30 years, he has treated the clumsy, patronising attitude towards his ethnic background by much of the British media and some cricket fans as so much water off a duck's back, and his wide-eyed, gentle appearance and infectious enthusiasm for what he does make it impossible not to like him. If ever there was a case for exemption from this site then this is it - but sorry, Monster, it just doesn't work like that.
This alone is not enough to condemn the man - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2745137.ece.
However this is a cause for very real concern - http://blog.charlesbarwell.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/12/3017662.html.
So come on Monty, the ball is in your court - prove me wrong, please
This alone is not enough to condemn the man - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2745137.ece.
However this is a cause for very real concern - http://blog.charlesbarwell.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/12/3017662.html.
So come on Monty, the ball is in your court - prove me wrong, please
Tony Hadley
We know this much is true - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) - and we don't like it, not one little bit
Sunday, 8 July 2007
Welcome to Celebritories Outed
Homepage - http://celebritories-outed.blogspot.com/
Key words - celebritory, celebrity tory, celebrity tories, famous tories, famous tory, celeb tory, celeb tories, famous conservatives, celebrity conservatives
Hello there fellow people of conscience and principle; seekers of truth; those disillusioned and in despair in this messed-up, mixed-up world; and folks who, like me, may appear to have too much time on their hands of a rainy Sunday, and plenty of venom and bile to offload.
I recently found this - http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/ - fairly self-explanatory and, as far as I could tell, surprisingly unique and isolated on the web in its noble attempts to expose that most grubby of all British vices, the tendency amongst some of the more wealthy, privileged and higher-profiled in our society to vote for the damn Tories.
We live in an age where many of us worship without much thought at the altar of celebrity, where mediocrity is no bar to fame and fortune, and where many of the more important issues of the day are drowned out in a sea of banal trivia generated by talentless, attention-seeking buffoons who have been elevated into the public gaze for no other reasons than that that's what they desperately wanted to happen, and they didn't care how low they had to stoop to get there. With every CD, book or gossip magazine which we purchase; with every concert or theatrical production which we attend; and with every t.v. programme which we vacantly consume we help to line the pockets of our chosen semi-adequate demi-gods. But what do we really know about the shadowy hinter-life of many amongst this privileged, posturing, elite community? As they luxuriate, fornicate and self-obsess in a gently-undulating ocean of our cash what are they thinking and how do they view us, their benefactors and fellow inhabitants of the planet? Do we not have a right to know?
If they believe that tax cuts and and the hacking to shreds of our once-proud public services are a necessary evil, a price worth paying as long as they can keep a tight grip on their piles of filthy lucre, should we not be told?
If, beneath the orange perma-tans, the tell-tale pockets of botox tautness, and the enhanced toothy smiles-to-camera, there lurks a sinister, paranoid, ignorance-fuelled attitude to "those tax-guzzling Eurocrats" and anyone who is not a 'true Brit', should we not be kept in the loop?
If they think that the steady and relentless creation of a have-not underclass is an inevitable, unfortunate, unavoidable by-product of their right to choose the path of conspicuous consumption, and that crapping on those less fortunate than themselves is an expression of their inalienable right to live in a 24-hours-per-day cocaine snowstorm, to climb knickers-free and publicity-hungry from limousines into a maelstrom of paparazzi, and to undertake regular carbon-heavy trips to exclusive, soulless, purpose-built holiday islands off Dubai, should they not at least be open about this?
And if they honestly, truly, sincerely, hands-on-heart believe that vacuous, principle-free, patronising, privately-educated, power-hungry, hairstyle-changing, soulless greaseball android David Cameron is the best man to lead our country should they not at least be up front about it?
Of course Tories, celebrities or otherwise, are not the only bad guys. Plenty of loud and proud Labour voters, celebrity or otherwise, are slurping from the trough marked 'Me-Me-Me' and harbouring impure thoughts about anyone who looks a little different to them as soon as they close the front door. And in these increasingly apolitical times many people are far too busy looking after numero uno to have the time to formulate anything so broadminded as an actual opinion on how the world works and how Man plays a part in this (such passive apathy being perhaps the most political act of all but that's another story). But my point is this - some of our celeb friends out there have let slip their dark and dirty thoughts and their sordid electoral secrets along the way. So in the interests of consumer choice, the power that comes with the accumulation of knowledge, and the rights of the downtrodden to be as vindictive and bolshy as they like, lets name, shame and nail the bastards. And if their careers and income were to suffer just the tiniest little smidgeon along the way then, oh well, so be it, that would be a bonus, them's the breaks.
Naturally in these media-savvy times most celebs and their advisers are alert to the fact that nailing your colours to the Tory mast is bad PR, and brands you for all eternity as an unpleasant, self-centred shit of a person who lacks any soul or compassion. When, for example, James Blunt (basically David Cameron with a guitar, peddling a similar lumpy porridge of smug, grating, empty nothingness - Cameron calls it politics, Blunt calls it art, I call it naked, vacuous greed) or one of his pals has seen through to completion his latest futile endeavour to save the planet, end all poverty, or reincarnate Diana, and garnered lots of fluffy publicity and product placement along the way, he knows that whingeing about his tax bill or "all the bloody Poles and Africans, they're taking over you know" is not the done thing; it just doesn't look very nice. So rooting out modern-day offenders is not an easy task, and can take some perseverance, vigilance and a highly focussed vindictive streak; not a problem.
In this blog are a series of entries dedicated to people who have had at least some claim to the tag 'celebrity', and who are alleged, now or at some time previously, to have indulged in that shameful and dangerous practice known technically as "Voting For The Fucking Tories". There are even a few who have gone that further mile and aligned themselves with organisations on the extremist 'lunatic fringe' of right-wing politics (as opposed to the 'dumbassed epicentre' that is the Tory party itself). Those whose fame came solely as Tory politicians are excluded, whilst those who found fame elsewhere and then sought to 'serve the public' (regardless of what much of the public thought) as an afterthought find themselves in the happy position of being eligible for exposure. I have tried to provide proof in the form of web links as much as possible whilst acknowledging here that such proof is not always totally cast-iron; but the Daily Mail have built an entire newspaper empire upon the foundations of printing spurious, twisted, pernicious, agenda-laden gibberish as though it were indisputable fact, so why the hell shouldn't I? Please feel free to add evidence, comments, or violently indignant protestations as you see fit.
If you know a celebrity with a dirty voting habit then please add a comment in the New Suggestions section ( http://celebritories-outed.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-suggestions.html ), ideally accompanied by some evidence and a link - if, however, these latter are not forthcoming then I say "Sod it, guilty til proven innocent". Get exposing!
Key words - celebritory, celebrity tory, celebrity tories, famous tories, famous tory, celeb tory, celeb tories, famous conservatives, celebrity conservatives
Hello there fellow people of conscience and principle; seekers of truth; those disillusioned and in despair in this messed-up, mixed-up world; and folks who, like me, may appear to have too much time on their hands of a rainy Sunday, and plenty of venom and bile to offload.
I recently found this - http://www.toryscum.com/category/celebrity-tories/ - fairly self-explanatory and, as far as I could tell, surprisingly unique and isolated on the web in its noble attempts to expose that most grubby of all British vices, the tendency amongst some of the more wealthy, privileged and higher-profiled in our society to vote for the damn Tories.
We live in an age where many of us worship without much thought at the altar of celebrity, where mediocrity is no bar to fame and fortune, and where many of the more important issues of the day are drowned out in a sea of banal trivia generated by talentless, attention-seeking buffoons who have been elevated into the public gaze for no other reasons than that that's what they desperately wanted to happen, and they didn't care how low they had to stoop to get there. With every CD, book or gossip magazine which we purchase; with every concert or theatrical production which we attend; and with every t.v. programme which we vacantly consume we help to line the pockets of our chosen semi-adequate demi-gods. But what do we really know about the shadowy hinter-life of many amongst this privileged, posturing, elite community? As they luxuriate, fornicate and self-obsess in a gently-undulating ocean of our cash what are they thinking and how do they view us, their benefactors and fellow inhabitants of the planet? Do we not have a right to know?
If they believe that tax cuts and and the hacking to shreds of our once-proud public services are a necessary evil, a price worth paying as long as they can keep a tight grip on their piles of filthy lucre, should we not be told?
If, beneath the orange perma-tans, the tell-tale pockets of botox tautness, and the enhanced toothy smiles-to-camera, there lurks a sinister, paranoid, ignorance-fuelled attitude to "those tax-guzzling Eurocrats" and anyone who is not a 'true Brit', should we not be kept in the loop?
If they think that the steady and relentless creation of a have-not underclass is an inevitable, unfortunate, unavoidable by-product of their right to choose the path of conspicuous consumption, and that crapping on those less fortunate than themselves is an expression of their inalienable right to live in a 24-hours-per-day cocaine snowstorm, to climb knickers-free and publicity-hungry from limousines into a maelstrom of paparazzi, and to undertake regular carbon-heavy trips to exclusive, soulless, purpose-built holiday islands off Dubai, should they not at least be open about this?
And if they honestly, truly, sincerely, hands-on-heart believe that vacuous, principle-free, patronising, privately-educated, power-hungry, hairstyle-changing, soulless greaseball android David Cameron is the best man to lead our country should they not at least be up front about it?
Of course Tories, celebrities or otherwise, are not the only bad guys. Plenty of loud and proud Labour voters, celebrity or otherwise, are slurping from the trough marked 'Me-Me-Me' and harbouring impure thoughts about anyone who looks a little different to them as soon as they close the front door. And in these increasingly apolitical times many people are far too busy looking after numero uno to have the time to formulate anything so broadminded as an actual opinion on how the world works and how Man plays a part in this (such passive apathy being perhaps the most political act of all but that's another story). But my point is this - some of our celeb friends out there have let slip their dark and dirty thoughts and their sordid electoral secrets along the way. So in the interests of consumer choice, the power that comes with the accumulation of knowledge, and the rights of the downtrodden to be as vindictive and bolshy as they like, lets name, shame and nail the bastards. And if their careers and income were to suffer just the tiniest little smidgeon along the way then, oh well, so be it, that would be a bonus, them's the breaks.
Naturally in these media-savvy times most celebs and their advisers are alert to the fact that nailing your colours to the Tory mast is bad PR, and brands you for all eternity as an unpleasant, self-centred shit of a person who lacks any soul or compassion. When, for example, James Blunt (basically David Cameron with a guitar, peddling a similar lumpy porridge of smug, grating, empty nothingness - Cameron calls it politics, Blunt calls it art, I call it naked, vacuous greed) or one of his pals has seen through to completion his latest futile endeavour to save the planet, end all poverty, or reincarnate Diana, and garnered lots of fluffy publicity and product placement along the way, he knows that whingeing about his tax bill or "all the bloody Poles and Africans, they're taking over you know" is not the done thing; it just doesn't look very nice. So rooting out modern-day offenders is not an easy task, and can take some perseverance, vigilance and a highly focussed vindictive streak; not a problem.
In this blog are a series of entries dedicated to people who have had at least some claim to the tag 'celebrity', and who are alleged, now or at some time previously, to have indulged in that shameful and dangerous practice known technically as "Voting For The Fucking Tories". There are even a few who have gone that further mile and aligned themselves with organisations on the extremist 'lunatic fringe' of right-wing politics (as opposed to the 'dumbassed epicentre' that is the Tory party itself). Those whose fame came solely as Tory politicians are excluded, whilst those who found fame elsewhere and then sought to 'serve the public' (regardless of what much of the public thought) as an afterthought find themselves in the happy position of being eligible for exposure. I have tried to provide proof in the form of web links as much as possible whilst acknowledging here that such proof is not always totally cast-iron; but the Daily Mail have built an entire newspaper empire upon the foundations of printing spurious, twisted, pernicious, agenda-laden gibberish as though it were indisputable fact, so why the hell shouldn't I? Please feel free to add evidence, comments, or violently indignant protestations as you see fit.
If you know a celebrity with a dirty voting habit then please add a comment in the New Suggestions section ( http://celebritories-outed.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-suggestions.html ), ideally accompanied by some evidence and a link - if, however, these latter are not forthcoming then I say "Sod it, guilty til proven innocent". Get exposing!
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