Posted by Sean Gabb
I won’t reproduce this disgraceful article. But here are the comments made so far on the Telegraph blog.
Guido Fawkes – principled advocate of the great concept of AngloSaxon Liberties.
Let’s hope Fawkes brings down Gordon Brown next. NuLabour are still obsessed with spin cycles and deceit. The truth will emerge, and everytime it does, British society becomes freer.Healthy Sceptic
on April 18, 2009
at 05:35 PM
Disgraceful article and three cheers to Guido! oldasiahand
on April 18, 2009
at 04:16 PM
Nice to read a newspaper so willing to smear the messanger , not once but twice! Disgusted Dorothy
on April 18, 2009
at 01:30 PM
I’ve subscribed to this (once) great newspaper for more years than I care to remember. Not any more. It has become an embarrisment, nothing more than a new labour mouthpiece. Very sad. David Spode
on April 18, 2009
at 01:27 PM
A foreigner once referred to Churchill as “the British Lion”. He replied in words to the effect that he was not the lion but had been for short while the voice of the lion. Guido is a hero and his website is that voice now. It’s a roar against the ghastly Sovietization of a once great country. I and thousands like me have stopped buying the Telegraph. George Lawrie
on April 18, 2009
at 01:27 PM
So….the telegraph continues the long standing msm tactic of the smear, no doubt prompted by your masters in government. Havent you lot learnt anything from the past week. It no longer works, times are changing.lobby fodder cosiness no longer works. WE WANT THE TRUTH. japstick
on April 18, 2009
at 01:26 PM
This article/hatchet-job has confirmed everything Guido has been saying about your paper being part of the lobby of Brown-nosing sycophants. I don’t buy newspapers anymore, so I won’t threaten not to buy yours in the future. However, I do browse through them when shopping at Marks. I won’t waste my time browsing your rag from now on. Shame on you!!! Seanyboy1000
on April 18, 2009
at 01:25 PM
Personally, I wouldn’t care of Guido had a history of strangling puppies. He’s doing what you useless clowns should have been doing for years – showing us exactly what sort of vermin are governing this once great land.
Good on you Mr Fawkes.Joe
on April 18, 2009
at 01:23 PM
I used to always buy the Telegraph in preference to the Times but not anymore – in fact I won’t buy any newspapers now.
You should be ashamed of yourself because the public need someone like Guido to find out what’s really going on in politics today. Your newspaper certainly isn’t doing that.
Where have all the so-called “journalists” gone? Into hiding I think. Tell the truth not what is fed to you by No 10.
As a former Tory newspaper I’m appalled at how low you have sunk.SYLVIA
on April 18, 2009
at 01:20 PM
After 40 years -goodbye Telegraph. Once upon a time you were a good and fearless newspaper.
This hatchet job (at whose behest?)has disgusted us.Rural Housewife
on April 18, 2009
at 01:08 PM
Only thirty four responses printed, whereby I suspect the response has been more like five hundred and thirty four. Censorship by omission, just like the other Nu labour lackies at the BBC. It is obvious that your so called journalists are completely at odds with your readership. Please add me to the ever increasing list of persons who will never buy a copy of the Telegraph again. Charles
on April 18, 2009
at 01:06 PM
Pretty shameful article. You guys are not getting this are you? You cannot pull these tricks anymore. You are not the only game in town. steven ward
on April 18, 2009
at 01:05 PM
It is so sad to see a once great newspapers reputation falling as fast as the Labour Party. And by Labour Party I do not mean the principled one that Mrs Mahon has resigned from in disgust but the one populated by thugs, liars and degenerates happy to attack grieving parents with lies and innuendos. I never thought I would see my beloved Telegraph join the gutter press. Pat
on April 18, 2009
at 01:05 PM
Well done Guido Fawkes. Who else would have exposed the nest of vipers at No 10, certainly not the Labourgraph! Corrupt NuLiebore
on April 18, 2009
at 01:04 PM
Does the Telegraph do sorry? Annikins
on April 18, 2009
at 01:04 PM
Oh dear Telegraph, hoist on Guidos’ petard! neil
on April 18, 2009
at 01:04 PM
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. Tacitus
on April 18, 2009
at 01:04 PM
This is a disgraceful article and bears all the hallmarks of sour grapes.
Holding Mr Staines to account is probably just about in the public interest if, on the basis of the past week, he is now a public figure.
However, naming his wife and putting where he lives in print is totally indefensible.
Paul/Guido- If your read this. Well done. Keep up the good work.Jos
on April 18, 2009
at 01:03 PM
You are now the only New labour supporting newspaper
From today i will be buying the Times
How many more readers do you wish to lose
Try asking George Osbornes wife or the Camerons who have just lost a child for an opinion on Browns smearsgordon
on April 18, 2009
at 12:35 PM
Thanks for the history lesson on about a blogger who uncovered the truth.
Now how about similar articles about all the so called “journalists” on your own paper who failed so spectacularly to report on all this before it was bought to our attention?
There’s a few of your own who undoubtedly qualify…let’s see you tell your own readers about the pasts of your own reporters.Rinse & Repeat
on April 18, 2009
at 12:34 PM
I would say your readers – including me – are now going elsewhere, partly down to poor journalism such as the above. Paul Staines has had his ups and downs, but surely for the good of the body politic you should be doing attack pieces on Watson, Whelan, Smith et al? They after all have responsibility for the issues we face. J Stephenson
on April 18, 2009
at 12:34 PM
Why is the DT continuing its pro Socialist agenda? Guido Fawkes is doing what the DT should be. The DT seems to be following the same line as “Dave”, i.e. to point in the direction that the vile far left Guardian/BBC wish. David
on April 18, 2009
at 12:34 PM
Did Gordon Rayner copy and paste from McBride, Draper or the other Gordon.
What a waste of time, better to do a proper job of reporting the menace of the N0 10 spin machine as Guido than this twaddle!Steve
on April 18, 2009
at 12:34 PM
For God’s sake Telegraph, pull your act together. How can a once-great paper descend into this utter drivel in the space of a couple of years? Chris Morriss
on April 18, 2009
at 12:33 PM
I have stopped reading the Telegraph this week after 20 years of loyal/misplaced custom. Your conduct around this whole story has been despicable. Stephen GIllespie
on April 18, 2009
at 12:33 PM
Shame on you! This story is rife with inaccuracies and partisan irrelevances. Moreover you conveniently fail to mention the DT’s sorry contribution to this story.
I’m afraid that I’ll be cancelling my subscription to your paper hereafter to change my allegiance to a less biased publication.
So long.Dale
on April 18, 2009
at 12:33 PM
Well I won’t be buying the Labourgaph again in a hurry. You can’t complain about his style and then repeat those unfounded smears about the funding of his website. Rob
on April 18, 2009
at 12:33 PM
Guido, well done! Parts of this article seem like a hatchet job to me, why? Perhaps frustration at not having the bottle to stand up against a nasty spin machine and now you all look weak and unworthy perhaps? Most of this article has come from the Wikipedia entry for Paul Staines aka Guido. Hardly real work. Guido has exposed some serious failings in this Government and should be thanked rather than pilloried by an increasingly spineless lobby press. We face the worst recession for 50 years, the kitty is bare and our gold reserves sold off for a song by Brown yet Government critics are being attacked. Too many free lunches/subsidised drinks in Parliament? Free press means free to speak the truth not do the Government’s spin machine work for free. fed up with spin rather than solving problems
on April 18, 2009
at 12:33 PM
I have bought the DT for years and I found it astonishing that you would even stoop so low as to print this article, which would have been more suited to the gutter press.
I will never buy your newspaper again.Liz
on April 18, 2009
at 12:32 PM
Yawn, please wake me up if anyone comes up with new and interesting information about my blogging superhero.
Did read the Telegraph once, a long time ago though. Read Guido every day 🙂Donald
on April 18, 2009
at 12:11 PM
Wow, sour grapes or what. Guido should be highly commended for having the courage to poke the den of vipers at No. 10 with his blogstick. Austin Barry
on April 18, 2009
at 12:11 PM
So just how would you know what the alledged texts were on Damien McBride’s mobile phone. That’s a reliable source isn’t it ! Alistair McGregor
on April 18, 2009
at 12:11 PM
Is someone at the Telegraph reading these comments? Are you going to acknowledge how badly you have got this wrong in writing such an ill-disguised hatchet job on someone who did something you couldn’t? Or wouldn’t. James Doran
on April 18, 2009
at 12:11 PM
Editor’s Choice!!??
Hardly a choice Editor.
GoodbyeMike O’Hare
on April 18, 2009
at 11:52 AM
This is utterly appalling. What has happened to this once great newspaper?
Amongst all the completely irrelevant rubbish and borderline lies written, you say that McBride wanted to ape Fawkes’ website, implying that order-order just smears people and their families. If you cannot see the difference between revealing hypocrisy and abuse of power in public life and making up lies about people’s families, then you have gone wrong somewhere.
When did you lot become the mouthpiece of Nu Labour? Disgraceful.John Halstead
on April 18, 2009
at 11:52 AM
Hatchet job. What are you frightened of?. Goodbye. Dr, Normal
on April 18, 2009
at 11:51 AM
Gents (one must use the salutation you’ll be familiar with from the heart of Labour’s darkness) –
Your efforts to denigrate Staines for doing what you should have been doing were badly miscalculated. The role of Labour lickspittle demonstrates how dramatically a once-great newspaper can degenerate under the wrong leadership. I now go on-line to read Booker and Heffer, but will not purchase the paper again until it returns to what it was in better days.
Sincerely,
Jim HooperJA Hooper
on April 18, 2009
at 10:54 AM
I’m a recent convert to Guido. He tells me the political background to stories that I don’t get in the Telegraph unless they’ve been fed via the lobby system. When are you going to realise that being so complicit with the politicians is not in the interests of your wider readership? Geordie Tony
on April 18, 2009
at 10:54 AM
I’ve been a Telegraph reader for about thirty years. Guido Fawkes shines a light into the darker corners of government, unlike yourselves. bruce
on April 18, 2009
at 10:53 AM
The Telegraph’s flight from quality continues apace.
Trying to do a hatchett on some one who’s made a monkey of the lot of you in general and your lobby correspondant in particular reeks of sour grapes of the worst kind.I wasn’t inclined to believe Guido’s accusations about the DT at first but after you’ve run this rubbish thats all changed.
I’m not interested in mistakes he may hve made in his youth, who hasn’t.
He’s rendered a great service to this country and Democracy whatever his motivation. Lets hope its the first of many and it forces the tories and the DT to up their gameLouis Paterson
on April 18, 2009
at 10:53 AM
Well done to Guido for exposing the hypocrisy of the politicians and mainstream media which the Telegraph and the BBC are part of. Luke
on April 18, 2009
at 10:34 AM
This is an excellent attempt at trashing a man who has done much to expose the supine nature of your newspaper’s political team. He has, in fact, exposed the pandering to the labour spin machine of many / most political msm “journalists”. Parrots.
The fact is that all these personal revelations are completely irrelevant. He writes a blog. He exposes sleaze. He does not stand for office or pretend to be anything other than that which he is. “Whiter than white” never drooled from his lips.Paul Hughes
on April 18, 2009
at 10:34 AM
What a shame that the Telegraph still seems to be hawking the lines of Brown’s inner cabal. Where did it all go wrong. Even the Guardian is a more balanced read on this topic Richard
on April 18, 2009
at 10:34 AM
Come on! Any person or media that exposes the blatent corruption carried out by the the “Government for the People” (yeh right!) is to be welcomed.
Some of this corruption is legally right but morally wrong and any MP who cannot see the difference should not be doing the job in the first place.
Politics attracts this type of person anyway.
Lets face it most of the high flying (soon to nose dive) politicians began their politically motivated carreers by being anti-establishment.
Carry on Guido. Wish there were more like you.
You have my support and many others I know too.Dek Crossingham
on April 18, 2009
at 10:33 AM
Good hatchet job, pity the Telegraph wasnt so diligent in covering the story of Labour smears. How many political staff do you have and you couldnt get the story – of this governments campaign of lies against innocent people. Hmmm wrong target surely. neil
on April 18, 2009
at 10:30 AM
The guy may be a loose cannon in some ways but he has achieved something very important for British democracy and it is odd that the DT of all papers praises him in such muted terms and fishes in his fairly distant past. As regards “the tone” of the language on his blog…well is he alone in his shortcomings? David
on April 18, 2009
at 10:30 AM
GUIDO HAS OPENED MY EYES TO HOW THE LABOURGRAPH OPERATES.JUST OF TO THE NEWSAGENTS.”THE TIMES “PLEASE steve olding
on April 18, 2009
at 10:30 AM
Strange only three comments.
If you look on Guido’s blog dozens of people say they have left comments for you about this article. I don’t suppose this will get on either. You article was just a tad biased after all.Peter
on April 18, 2009
at 10:30 AM
Why is the Telegraph doing a hatchet job on Paul Staines aka Guido? I’ve no axe to grind in his favour but he’s been the most effective journalist in the last year.
Are you jealous of his success? If so that’s pathetic and not what I expect from the Telegraph. Ad hominem attacks on the messenger are a sign of weakness…John K
on April 18, 2009
at 10:29 AM
I used to believe The Daily Telegraph was a fair minded reporter of the news but it seems to lend support to an unelected and hapless Prime Minister who has spent these last ten years in the company of people like Whelan,McBride and Draper.So sad. Chris
on April 18, 2009
at 10:29 AM
You really ought to pull this piece before you lose any more readers. Ian Aldcroft
on April 18, 2009
at 10:28 AM
I’m not sure if this article is positive or negative towards Guido. However, it must be remembered that Guido is not an elected representitive taking money from the public purse and therefore is just like the rest of us, we have the right (or did have) to hold our government to account, and the supine BBC and ‘dead tree press has been somewhat tardy in that regard, so that’s why GF blog is so popular, despite what Mr Balls says it’s not racist, anti women etc. Mr Staines has a good record in the area of human rights activities, which is not mentioned here, and has been involved in exposing extremists. British public life is woefully lacking in regards colourful characters, Mr Staines is an echo of a more exciting age, before the nanny state and stuffy corporatism.
Order-Order.com is top of my favourites list now, and long may it be so.Essex Boy
on April 18, 2009
at 10:28 AM
We need more Guidos to expose the dodgy deals and behaviour of political practitioners at all levels! The more certain that what goes on behind the scenes will be brought into the public domain the better we will be served – and this applies to local government as much as national affairs. Jerry Latham
on April 18, 2009
at 08:51 AM
He may be a buccaneer,so was Guido Fawkes.His site is informative,hilarious and growing daily.We need bloggers like this….it is ‘staggeringly enjoyable!!’ Tithonus
on April 18, 2009
at 08:33 AM
In March 2009 I didn’t know that “Guido Fawkes” existed. Now in April he is my hero. The breathtaking rise to fame for both himself and Susan Boyle should be carefully supervised by someone such as…. Derek Draper! Hee hhe.
Guido Fawkes: the colourful life of the man who brought down Damian McBride – Telegraph
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