Dan Hodges Watch

[nino_savatte]

Dan Hodges has massive problems. Not only does he claim to be a "tribal Labour loyalist" (he isn't unless he means he's loyal to St Tony), he writes regular hatchet pieces for The Telegraph, a paper that has gone so far downhill that it's practically indistinguishable from the Daily Mail.

Perhaps worst of all, Hodges is pals with Lynton Crosby. Here they are celebrating Bozza's victory in the London mayoral election a few years ago.


Check out this headline

Labour modernisers like me wanted a new way to elect leaders. Good grief

Tell me, what's so "modern" about wanting to hang on to 20 year old policies that differed little from the Tories' 18 years in power under Thatcher and Major?

Here's the rest of the article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...d-a-new-way-to-elect-leaders.-Good-grief.html

The subtext of this article is "Democracy is great as long as we can rig the election to get one of our candidates elected".

Hodges is a bitter cunt.

 

[treelover]

Timely thread.

 

[sihhi]

how can a tribal Labour loyalist write this in a daily national newspaper immediately prior to a crucial mayoral election (with the possibility of denting central govt of your opponents)?

We’ve held our noses and voted for Ken again and again and again. Not this time. On Thursday hold your nose, and vote for Boris Johnson.

ETA: belboid's point perhaps a merge with the telegraph thread

 

[belboid]

pah, not important enough to merit his own thread. Just another passing windbag. Ignore

 

[Lo Siento.]

Over the past few days two different strategies have emerged, which have been dubbed the "Free French” and the "Maquis” strategies.

The Free French strategy involves effectively withdrawing all support from Corbyn. MPs will not serve in his shadow cabinet, they will not observe the whip, they will not be bound by any sense of collective responsibility to the official party line. Those advocating that strategy are being compared to De Gaulle and those French forces that retreated into exile in Britain, then returned to the French continent on D-Day to liberate their homeland.

The Maquis strategy involves “staying behind enemy lines and fighting”, according to one MP. Existing members of the shadow cabinet will organise slates, and stand for election in the shadow cabinet elections Corbyn has pledged to reintroduce. From here they will oppose Corbyn’s more radical policy initiatives and start to construct an independent base from within the PLP and the wider Labour party, which they will use to strike out against him when they judge the time is right.

Maquis, LOL.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-underground-to-resist-the-Corbyn-regime.html

 

[Lo Siento.]

Wonder when they'll work out that the Tories are the Nazis and they're Vichy?

 

[stuff_it]

Dan Hodges has massive problems. Not only does he claim to be a "tribal Labour loyalist" (he isn't unless he means he's loyal to St Tony), he writes regular hatchet pieces for The Telegraph, a paper that has gone so far downhill that it's practically indistinguishable from the Daily Mail.

Perhaps worst of all, Hodges is pals with Lynton Crosby. Here they are celebrating Bozza's victory in the London mayoral election a few years ago.
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Check out this headline


Tell me, what's so "modern" about wanting to hang on to 20 year old policies that differed little from the Tories' 18 years in power under Thatcher and Major?

Here's the rest of the article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...d-a-new-way-to-elect-leaders.-Good-grief.html

The subtext of this article is "Democracy is great as long as we can rig the election to get one of our candidates elected".

Hodges is a bitter cunt.

Which one is Dan Hodges? The one on the left looks like the unacknowledged love child of twentythreedom and a horsey woman.

 

[nino_savatte]

Which one is Dan Hodges? The one on the left looks like the unacknowledged love child of twentythreedom and a horsey woman.

The one on the left.

 

[nino_savatte]

ETA: belboid's point perhaps a merge with the telegraph thread

Like Toby Young (who also has his own thread), Hodges also writes for The Dictator Spectator and regularly appears on television and radio as a political pundit.

Here's one of his Spectator pieces.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features...ays-of-ed-did-ed-miliband-sacrifice-ed-balls/

 

[stuff_it]

The one on the left.

 

[Favelado]

Tell me, what's so "modern" about wanting to hang on to 20 year old policies that differed little from the Tories' 18 years in power under Thatcher and Major?

Exactly. It's pushing on for 40 year old politics now. Nothing modern about it.

 

[gimesumtruf]

Yes! and 40yrs ago these sorts of journalist would be doing horoscopes, today's lazy jorno's try to make the news with outrageous comments.

 

[agricola]

Hodges is a bitter cunt.

I wouldn't say that, his article about why he was leaving Labour is - if anything - even more hilarious now than it was at the time.

 

[cantsin]

he's a properly dodgy, slimey, boasty millionaire cnut...

the other day he started 'Vote for Yvette , no more white men ' type thread .....

2 mins search turned up : http://fw.to/YOlDRtD

 

[cantsin]

Which one is Dan Hodges? The one on the left looks like the unacknowledged love child of twentythreedom and a horsey woman.

Hodges is Glenda Jackson's son

 

[stuff_it]

Hodges is Glenda Jackson's son

 

[Fedayn]

Hodges is Glenda Jackson's son

Correct and the reason he has a wonky eye is because he was glassed when he tried to intervene to stop a fella being racially abused.

 

[cantsin]

Correct and the reason he has a wonky eye is because he was glassed when he tried to intervene to stop a fella being racially abused.

yeah, not sure why i splurged that up either, vague 'entitled Nu lab aristo bstard' thing i guess

 

[stuff_it]

yeah, not sure why i splurged that up either, vague 'entitled Nu lab aristo bstard' thing i guess

That's a horrible thing to say about another poster

 

[gimesumtruf]

Has he run naked through London yet?
A bet on tele about the election.

 

[cantsin]

That's a horrible thing to say about another poster

yeah i know, Feds alright really

 

[gosub]

Has he run naked through London yet?
A bet on tele about the election.

still stalling.



he did make a good point the other day, about how tories are changing the law so union members have to to consciously opt in to pay for the Labour party donation, and how the Leadership election is giving a fair indicator of the number of union members that will do that.

 

[nino_savatte]

he's a properly dodgy, slimey, boasty millionaire cnut...

the other day he started 'Vote for Yvette , no more white men ' type thread .....

2 mins search turned up : http://fw.to/YOlDRtD

Every time I see him on the Daily Politics, I can feel my skin crawl. Brilllo's bad enough but Hodges as well...

 

[treelover]

He will be quoting posters on here within the week.

 

[YouSir]

He will be quoting posters on here within the week.

Spunk bucket

... I hope it's me...

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

He will be quoting posters on here within the week.

Dan, we're all baby-eating anarchists, don't you know. Just ask Brian Paddick.

*definitely will be me he quotes.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Mickey Mouse wears a Dan Hodges watch

 

[moochedit]

voted lib dem in the euros as well...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...r-europe-and-against-ukip-so-hes-got-my-vote/

 

[moochedit]

He will be quoting posters on here within the week.

common google yourself dan. we need another laurie penny

 

[cantsin]

Simon Danzuk quoting Hodges fondly this avo :

Simon DanczukVerified account‏@SimonDanczuk
@DPJHodges excellent in @Telegraph today: "Labour letting a bunch of three-quid-dog-on-a-rope-rent-a-Trots lecture them on their own party"

that was after Dancuk had boasted of some anti migrant rant he'd made on the radio this morning .