Alistair Cambell on Newsnight tonight

charlyt · Post by **charlyt** » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:08 pm

Good to see he is wearing a Clarets tie with the bottom crest

Jeffbfc · Post by **Jeffbfc** » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:16 pm

Was he talking shite though.

charlyt · Post by **charlyt** » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:19 pm

Same old stuff.
News, False News, Lies and Media power.

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:47 am

Jeffbfc wrote:Was he talking shite though.

Were his lips moving? If so, the answer is yes.

Murger · Post by **Murger** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:55 am

Even him being a claret is no saving grace. He's a cock.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:17 am

Murger wrote:Even him being a claret is no saving grace. He's a cock.

Is everyone left of centre a cock ?

Caballo · Post by **Caballo** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:32 am

joey13 wrote:Is everyone left of centre a cock ?

No! However, everyone that is a cock, is a cock.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:53 am

Was he still trying to be politically relevant and wittering on about Blair ?

Tall Paul · Post by **Tall Paul** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:16 am

Never heard of him.

RingoMcCartney · Post by **RingoMcCartney** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:30 am

Alistair Campbell being invited on the BBC to discuss fake news.

You couldn't make it up.

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:23 pm

I liked him better in UB40

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:46 pm

RingoMcCartney wrote:Alistair Campbell being invited on the BBC to discuss fake news.

You couldn't make it up.

Talking of cocks.......

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:04 pm

Let's get his name right first of all...he's pretty well known - Alastair Campbell.

Alastair Campbell will achieve 1000 times more in his life than any of the know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread.

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:25 pm

If Campbell represents achievement, I'm happy to under-achieve.

Stayingup · Post by **Stayingup** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:30 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:Let's get his name right first of all...he's pretty well known - Alastair Campbell.

Alastair Campbell will achieve 1000 times more in his life than any of the know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread.

Like you.

Murger · Post by **Murger** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:37 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:Let's get his name right first of all...he's pretty well known - Alastair Campbell.

Alastair Campbell will achieve 1000 times more in his life than any of the know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread.

I'd rather stay an irrelevant nobody than be part of a government that lied to take us to war.

Clarets4me · Post by **Clarets4me** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:53 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:Let's get his name right first of all...he's pretty well known - Alastair Campbell.
Alastair Campbell will achieve 1000 times more in his life than any of the know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread.

I suspect some of us on here are rather proud of our record of not defending to the hilt a convicted Liar,Thief and Fraudster .... ex-Labour MP Robert Maxwell , the man convicting of stealing hundreds of millions from Mirror Group's Pension fund...and that's without even starting on Campbell's questionable role in Blair's administration....

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:59 pm

gawthorpe_view wrote:If Campbell represents achievement, I'm happy to under-achieve.

As with most "politicians" there's some good and some bad.
Leaving aside Iraq, his achievements in Foreign affairs with the Good Friday agreement and Kosovo were significant, and - of course - everyone, irrespective of politics, should acknowledge the enormous contribution he is making in raising awareness about mental health issues.

claretandy · Post by **claretandy** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:01 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:Let's get his name right first of all...he's pretty well known - Alastair Campbell.

Alastair Campbell will achieve 1000 times more in his life than any of the know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread.

Why don't you get his cock out ?

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:10 pm

Because I’ll never be able to compete with National Champions like you.

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:13 pm

17.. the thread is about AC.

- wtf has Robert Maxwell got to do with it?

Stayingup · Post by **Stayingup** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:24 pm

A lying sod. Also wants to give away our soveriegnty to a lot of foreign unelected t0ssers. Worst of all a pal of the odious Blair.

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:50 pm

charlyt wrote:Good to see he is wearing a Clarets tie with the bottom crest

I have seen him take abuse, in front of his kids, at an away match. Not pleasant.

Disagree with a lot of his politics but he's a proud Claret and this is football FFS.

thomaspaine · Post by **thomaspaine** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:07 pm

HatfieldClaret wrote:I have seen him take abuse, in front of his kids, at an away match. Not pleasant.

Disagree with a lot of his politics but he's a proud Claret and this is football FFS.

Seems like a decent bloke to me. However, not surprised that the Tories on here don't like him - but then again who cares what they say.

Clarets4me · Post by **Clarets4me** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:08 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:17.. the thread is about AC.
- wtf has Robert Maxwell got to do with it?

Campbell was the Political Editor of the " Daily Mirror ", under the ownership of Maxwell. He was known to be fiercely loyal to him, even launching into a physical attack on Michael White, the " Guardian's " Political Correspondant on being teased about his devotion. He worked for the Mirror Group over two spells from 1981-1993...

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:59 pm

thomaspaine wrote:Seems like a decent bloke to me. However, not surprised that the Tories on here don't like him - but then again who cares what they say.

Well I'm a proud Tory and a proud Claret. Like a stick of rock, Claret & Blue all the way through. However, I'll not slate him on here or at a football match.

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:00 pm

But Corbyn's a gooner so he's fair game

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:08 pm

I’m trying to watch the match !

25.. Re the alleged ‘loyalty’ to Maxwell.
I don’t know.
I suppose he was taken in by the lying, two- faced, duplicitous, conniving, hypocritical Maxwell like the rest of us. He’s not missed, good riddance to him.

Back to AC.
He was Blair’s right hand man in winning 3 General Elections with majorities of 179, 167 and 66.
They walked away unbeaten.
They left the UK in a much better place than they found it ( see majorities above).
Of course they made mistakes, every government does.

Before that he had a decent career in journalism and is still a highly respected pundit and author even if you don’t agree with his take on things.

This is against a background of serious health issues around depression which have been well documented.

Most important of all he bats for Burnley FC whenever he opens his mouth. He is an excellent Burnley supporter. We have all seen him at far-flung away grounds. I don’t need to provide examples do I of the positive manner in which he constantly backs and champions the football club...?

I don’t really get the nasty abuse and unwarranted flak that he always gets from a few on here... to me it’s small minded and unnecessary.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:17 pm

No they didn't leave the country in a better place.

I agree he doesn't deserve abuse if watching with his family and to be fair he does try to promote us ( as does John Kettley). The club however should not elevate him to some kind of official spokesperson or no1 fan when not everyone agrees with him being the former and when he isn't the latter.

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:28 pm

‘should not elevate him to some kind of official spokesperson’..

Well that is crazily vague.

Please tell... is he official or not?

Secondly..your initial statement is flawed and uninformed.

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:00 pm

Blackrod wrote:No they didn't leave the country in a better place.

I agree he doesn't deserve abuse if watching with his family and to be fair he does try to promote us ( as does John Kettley). The club however should not elevate him to some kind of official spokesperson or no1 fan when not everyone agrees with him being the former and when he isn't the latter.

To be fair, he and Blair left it in a slightly better place than when they found it.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:04 pm

That is undeniable

Oh hang on, it is on here because people refuse to believe the evidence of their own eyes.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:15 pm

So how many of you present day Blair/Campbell haters mocked the Stop the War Coalition and similar organisations ?
Did you oppose the war ? Why not ?
How many of you quite happily swallowed every damn lie that that Government - and the others since - have peddled about "just" conflicts, so, so eager to send "Our Boys" into yet another pointless war?
At least May and Co realise they can only get away with pretending to pi$$ about with Russia, trying to make it look as if they have some kind of clue about anything. Gone kinda quiet about the poisoned Russian agent "outrage", hasn't it ?
There's hope yet that the public aren't quite as stupid or as gullible as the Government think but not much, I fear.

Lordlucan · Post by **Lordlucan** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:50 pm

I really don’t get the hostility. He has always stood up for what he believes in. No one is any doubt as to his position. He is loyal to those around him and he was a success in his field. You don’t have to agree with him. You don’t have to like him. But frankly a few more with those qualities on both sides of the political fence would make life politics much better

Back in the 80s - when he had a bit on his plate- I bumped into him as the only other guy in a suit getting the train to places like Swindon for evening footy. A more charming man with his kids you couldn’t find.

RingoMcCartney · Post by **RingoMcCartney** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:01 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:Let's get his name right first of all...he's pretty well known - Alastair Campbell.

Alastair Campbell will achieve 1000 times more in his life than any of the know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread.

Spot on Mr Superior.

Not a single one of these "know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread," will be directly responsible for the deaths of 500,000 innocent Iraqi children. Not one of them I tell you! Not one!

Where as good old Alastair.......

charlyt · Post by **charlyt** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:56 pm

All I wanted to point out was that Campbell was on TV and sporting a Clarets tie.
All the rhetoric and bilge spouted by the would be political commentators and detractors, is, it seems to me to be totally irrelevant.

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 12:45 am

Yes that started less than ten minutes after you made your original post...look at post 2..and that got support..?

At least half a dozen of these tragic gets, sit by their keyboards all day waiting for such an opportunity.

They are beyond support.

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:13 am

RM..post 35...Not a single one of these "know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread," will be directly responsible for the deaths of 500,000 innocent Iraqi children. Not one of them I tell you! Not one!

Where as good old Alastair.......'

- that's a cowardly post isn't it RM [quelle surprise..

] - you appear you want to accuse AC of something heinous.

Then you shy away from that with a pathetic childish [barely educated] form of words, which accuses nobody of anything..pathetic..even for you.

Let me try and out you though..

You are [lazily and clumsily] trying to suggest that A. Campbell was directly responsible for the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children.

Proof please..?
Evidence?
Some links surely?
Anything...which vaguely resonates with the words you have typed in post 35..?

When you have completely failed to do this because of your obvious personal limitations, please retract your stupid post, STFU for a while, and consider how you can lose the title of this forum's most ignored,desperate, and unaware poster.

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 6:29 am

nicely put hampers, but he'll stink up the board with his gormless bile for many a moon to come i fear

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 6:56 am

Ah good old Alastair. The man who ranted endlessly on Twitter about Trump when he was accused of being a sex pest yet wouldn't utter a word when asked for his views on Brendan Cox when he admitted to being one. And as for calling him a politician, to my knowledge no one has ever voted this guy into any office. The ex author of made up stories for a w**k mag just slimed his way in alongside his pal Tony.

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:29 am

Herts Clarets wrote:Ah good old Alastair. The man who ranted endlessly on Twitter about Trump when he was accused of being a sex pest yet wouldn't utter a word when asked for his views on Brendan Cox when he admitted to being one. And as for calling him a politician, to my knowledge no one has ever voted this guy into any office. The ex author of made up stories for a w**k mag just slimed his way in alongside his pal Tony.

did you read any of the stories herts?? were they really awful?...sorta..well...like humping pigs heads and stuff??

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:58 am

If Campbell was a Tory would it change your opinion of him?

Bfcboyo · Post by **Bfcboyo** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:59 am

hampsteadclaret wrote:Let's get his name right first of all...he's pretty well known - Alastair Campbell.

Alastair Campbell will achieve 1000 times more in his life than any of the know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread.

Get lost Alastair!

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:04 am

I cut any Burnley fan a shed load of slack just because they are a Burnley fan.

Must a memory of when we were utterly rubbish and there were not so many of us I guess.

RingoMcCartney · Post by **RingoMcCartney** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:26 am

hampsteadclaret wrote:RM..post 35...Not a single one of these "know-nothing ignorant gobsh1tes on this thread," will be directly responsible for the deaths of 500,000 innocent Iraqi children. Not one of them I tell you! Not one!

Where as good old Alastair.......'

- that's a cowardly post isn't it RM [quelle surprise.. ] - you appear you want to accuse AC of something heinous.

Then you shy away from that with a pathetic childish [barely educated] form of words, which accuses nobody of anything..pathetic..even for you.

Let me try and out you though..

You are [lazily and clumsily] trying to suggest that A. Campbell was directly responsible for the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children.

Proof please..?
Evidence?
Some links surely?
Anything...which vaguely resonates with the words you have typed in post 35..?

When you have completely failed to do this because of your obvious personal limitations, please retract your stupid post, STFU for a while, and consider how you can lose the title of this forum's most ignored,desperate, and unaware poster.

Lots of huff n puff. Lots of sneering. Lots of I'm the most intellectually superior being the world has ever seen.

Here you go you political giant. You font of all knowledge.

https://youtu.be/RM0uvgHKZe8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's Madeleine Albright admitting live on, prime time, tv in the USA, that 500,000 innocent Iraqi children had been killed during the invasion of said country.

Hampstead claret on a football message board, desperate to defend his left wing hero says "no"

The former Secretary of State of The USA says, "yes"

Interviewer - Do you think it ( the death of 500,000 children) was a price worth paying?

Albright - yes.

Hampstead "the superior" Claret - And despite "sexing up" a document on which the British army was sent into Iraq, my hero Alistair Campbell had absolutely nothing to do with it. He and my other hero Tony Bliar had zero to do with a illegal war. No blood on their hands. I'm having non of it.!

Get over your self.

And while you're trying to do it. Why don't YOU, "STFU for a while, and consider how you can lose the title of this forum's most" self righteous, supercilious, self-awareness lacking, king of self aggrandizement poster.

Why not starting posting on the New Statesman message board or contributing the weekly news letter of Islington branch of the Alastair Campbell fan club, or war criminal monthly? You'll be amongst like minded apologists, and I'm sure your lofty pronouncents and pontificating would be far more appreciated than wasting time, throwing pearls of wisdom to those far less superior than your eminence.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:24 am

RingoMcCartney wrote:Lots of huff n puff. Lots of sneering. Lots of I'm the most intellectually superior being the world has ever seen.

Here you go you political giant. You font of all knowledge.

https://youtu.be/RM0uvgHKZe8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's Madeleine Albright admitting live on, prime time, tv in the USA, that 500,000 innocent Iraqi children had been killed during the invasion of said country.

Hampstead claret on a football message board, desperate to defend his left wing hero says "no"

The former Secretary of State of The USA says, "yes"

Interviewer - Do you think it ( the death of 500,000 children) was a price worth paying?

Albright - yes.

Hampstead "the superior" Claret - And despite "sexing up" a document on which the British army was sent into Iraq, my hero Alistair Campbell had absolutely nothing to do with it. He and my other hero Tony Bliar had zero to do with a illegal war. No blood on their hands. I'm having non of it.!

Get over your self

When you say political giant ,don’t you mean an unelected civil servant

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:26 am

You call it sneering..whatever..you're just very easy to take the p*ss out of RM because of your obvious deficiencies.

Thanks for the 23 second link showing Madeleine Albright....I didn't think she looked very much like Alastair Campbell, so I don't get your confusion..

- she can say what she likes I guess, she is outside my gaze.

You can put up as many YouTube videos of American politician's as you like, I thought the thread was about a prominent BFC supporter..

- and you still can't spell his name properly [just rude] even though I did the hard work for you in post 13 - it's Alastair.

Keep up.

RingoMcCartney · Post by **RingoMcCartney** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:32 am

hampsteadclaret wrote:You call it sneering..whatever..you're just very easy to take the p*ss out of RM because of your obvious deficiencies.

Thanks for the 23 second link showing Madeleine Albright....I didn't think she looked very much like Alastair Campbell, so I don't get your confusion..
- she can say what she likes I guess, she is outside my gaze.

You can put up as many YouTube videos of American politician's as you like, I thought the thread was about a prominent BFC supporter..

- and you still can't spell his name properly [just rude] even though I did the hard work for you in post 13 - it's Alastair.

Keep up.

Why don't YOU, "STFU for a while, and consider how you can lose the title of this forum's most" self righteous, supercilious, self-awareness lacking, king of self aggrandizement poster.

Why not starting posting on the New Statesman message board or contributing the weekly news letter of Islington branch of the Alastair Campbell fan club, or war criminal monthly? You'll be amongst like minded apologists, and I'm sure your lofty pronouncents and pontificating would be far more appreciated than wasting time, throwing pearls of wisdom to those far less superior than your eminence.

When somebody is so desperate as to focus on an auto spell mistake you know it's game over for them.

Have a great day being far far superior to most mortals and apologising for a lying war criminal!

Lord Beamish · Post by **Lord Beamish** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:37 am

This message board is populated by utter wanchors of every political stripe, all of whom could start an argument in an empty house. There’s more willy-waving on here than in all the toilets on Hampstead Heath.

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:56 am

joey13 wrote:When you say political giant ,don’t you mean an unelected civil servant

Does that stop him being a political giant?? (For good or for bad).
A lot of our political giants are appointed rather than elected, aren't they? Or they are simply important influential political figures in their own right.
(How about Samuel Pepys? His diaries are more famous and widely read than those of Campbell. He was never elected to a post).