News International today savoured revenge on Vince Cable in the form of The Sun’s attack on the business secretary for dumping unshredded personal documents outside of his constituency office. Approached for comment yesterday, Scrapbook wonders whether Vince’s team recalled their own high-horsery over data security. Laying the blame for the loss of 25 million tax [...]
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Vince didn’t predict a riot
As North London smoulders, Vince Cable should probably take his crystal ball for a service. Here’s what he said the day before the Tottenham riot: “Britain is an oasis of calm” — Vince Cable Not that we would ever take a quote out of context. Hat-tip: Huffington Post’s Dina Rickman
The cabinet of the living dead: who will expire first?
The growing scandal around Ken Clarke’s disgusting remarks on rape brought the following observation from Fraser Nelson earlier this afternoon: “By my count, this is five Cabinet members now in ‘dead man walking’ category: Clarke, Cable, Huhne, Spelman, Lansley. #zombiecabinet” Will someone please put them out of their misery?
Vince Cable's top five cock-ups
Vince Cable’s near-death-experience today marks the end of a startling transformation. It’s hard to imagine that at the start of this year this same gaffe-prone curmudgeon was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a “saint” (how’s that for irony, eh?). Here is Scrapbook’s round up of his top five cock-ups: 1. Being wooed into showing off [...]
Tweeting about Christmas trees: Vince Cable's PPS Jo Swinson is in denial
With Vince Cable’s engulfed by a scandal that could end his political career, one would assume his bag carrier Parliamentary Private Secretary Jo Swinson had more pressing concerns than Christmas trees on the parliamentary estate: Perhaps Swinson should take a leaf out of her boss’ book with some injudicious honesty: “La, la la! This isn’t happening!”
Vince Cable says he would quit government as "nuclear option"
So hats off, once more, to the Telegraph. Having already skewered a government adviser with a tape recording, they have now turned their undercover attentions to a minister in the form of Vince Cable. The business secretary told reporters posing as constituents: They know I have nuclear weapons, but I don’t have any conventional weapons. If [...]
Vince Cable Facebook profile hijacked
With five images now displayed across the top of the new-style profile, French artist Alexandre Oudin exploited the new Facebook design to tag a series of images which had him peering out as if trapped in the screen. Pranksters today used the same trick to display “Vince Cable ♥ COCK” on the Facebook page of the [...]
Quote of the day: unintended irony edition
Having previously claimed that the Liberal Democrats “didn’t break a promise” on tuition fees, Dr. Cable continues to make a fool of himself. Opposition benches guffawed at the unintended irony of his introduction to the fees debate: “I will take interventions when I have developed an argument.” This is a man who couldn’t decide whether [...]
