Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Public Good, Private Bad, Or T'Other Way Round?
Gail Rebuck, aka Lady Philip Gould is a publisher of some repute, being the head of Random House. A devout New Labourite, she's the ultimate champagne socialist, as she proved recently when she was unfortunate enough to break her leg. I'm told that her chauffeur called an ambulance - as chauffeurs are wont to do - but the ambulance took thirty minutes to turn up. Even worse was to come. Lady Gould was despatched to the local A&E where she lay in agony for some time. Eventually after much to do of the 'don't you know who I am variety' she was treated and her leg put in plaster, whereupon she was chauffeured instantly to a private hospital. I wonder whether she would care to take part in one her husband's NHS focus groups.
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What a minger !
She looks like an onion with a coal bucket full of cat hair stuck on with evo stick.
Its Kane Dingle with tits.
As a publisher, she might perhaps have read George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' ....
Peter is right - she has a face like a Snap-On toolbox with the spanner drawer open.
Definitely a 12-pinter.
Random House is owned by NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch's empire. No wonder she's a New Laborite.
You are wrong. Random House is not owned by Rupert Murdoch. It is owned by Bertelsman.
I'm sure I've seen her out in Doncaster
Very strange. I worked in Gail's department at Century Hutchinson in 1987 and I distinctly remember her having a broken leg then. As she was a breathtakingly unpleasant person to work for in those days, and I don't suppose much has changed, I wonder if her staff rebelled and threw her down the stairs. We always wished we had.
Iain, for a minute I thought you were going to say that we were wrong for blogging that she seems to have been hit full in the face by the ugly tree. Clearly you feel comments were fair...
What do you mean, Hitchens, I think she is a cracking bit of fluff.
RS
Oh, I don't know, Permex. I rather like mean-spirited personal attacks on lefties. For example, I felt Peter Hitchens's post was apt and most entertaining. I had been trying to think up something myself, based on her photograph, but when I saw the Peter Hitchens contribution, I realised anything I added would be de trop. Especially as geoff had such a zippy follow-up.
Anyway, they point up a well-known fact: in Britain, lefty women have hair that looks as though rats sleep in it.
Is she not Gail Roebuck. Too long in the sun. She could train up as Miss Whiplash Mk 11.
NHS is for the proles, don't you know. Another version of Do as I say and not as I do. Kids at The Oratory no doubt.
The reality of becoming an NHS patient can be a shocking experience. The problem is that no one tells you that they e.g. don't feed patients that cannot feed themselves, or allow anyone to be diagnosed with an illness. Broken legs are not easy to deny so at least she got basic level response.
Wealthy folk find NHS cattle class particularly distressing. Actually vets come out to your animal, arrive on time, diagnose fast and cure. If we could only get what cattle get, we'd be fine. Cows go private all the time, the lucky sods.
permanentexpat
To be fair to the lady, in her day she was probably very fit, as it is her day was june the 8th 1974.
Now all she is a typical New Labour hypocrite who along with the 22 carat shit she married seeks to inflict standards of service upon others that she wouldnt accept for herself ,all due to her warped Marxist theories.
I hope her leg falls off.
I think all champagne socialists are hypocrites. I welcome private wealth and couldn't give a monkeys about her using private medicine, but DON'T pretend to lecture us on the merits of socialised heathcare and the higher taxes to pay it. Especially when these champage quaffing super-rich socialists pay bugger all tax. All the readers here would be apalled at how LITTLE tax the super rich actually pay. If you can afford good lawyers and private bankers..............I recall Lord Sleazy (sorry Leavy) paying £5,000 in tax
Dear Peter Hitchens & Geoff
Language - Ladies and small children read this blog !!!
As Mrs Clay observed (Jane Austen - Persuasion), "Not all of us are born to be handsome"
Eagles are very sensitive about their appearance - after all, we only have the talons & the curved beaks that God has given us
It is bad enough (although witty & forgivable) to accuse an Eagle of being a Liberal - I had hoped to better disguise my superficiality of thought
but surely Gentlemen should not bandy a Lady's name or criticise her Appearance
What would Bertie Worster think ?
Your obedient servant
G Eagle
A 3 pinter. My alcohol tolerence is a lot lower then somepeoples, and my libido much higher.
This is sometimes usefull as business women are often very "energetic" in the sack. She looks to me like she has been useing a lot of energy and alcohol far to often for her own good.
I see m'lady Gould has borrowed the Clare Short wig again...
So we all agree,
we wouldn't?
What is it with socialist politicians that they all seem to end up marrying and/or are Gorgons?
Probably something to do with being rejected that makes them jealous bitter twisted gits who want revenge on the rest of us.
Conservative people tend to be far more shagable
The term "Blairs Babes" always makes me laugh, almost as much as when I read some pissed up old hack referring to the sexual allure of clare short, personally,if I hadnt seen her myself I wouldn't have thought it possible for a woman to be that ugly with only one head.
How did ZaNuLab get away with calling that fat, polyester-suited, nylon-bloused bunch of women MPs with bad hairdos "Blair's Babes"? I was amazed that no one complained at the very unPC usage.
What happened to them, by the way? Did any of them ever catch the Speaker's eye? Are they still there? Eating? They looked as though they were eaters.
I met Gail Rebuck in a professional capacity not so long ago, and feel obliged to come to her defence. So far as her looks go, she has a sensational body for a woman of her age (she was wearing a belly top to prove it too). She was tough but intelligent, and I rate her very highly.
Everyone has a right to be ugly, but she's abusing the privilege!
Rrufff!
I rather like the look of her. And many of the personal comments are churlish and ungallant. Of course I agree unreservedly with those about champagne socialists and the NHS and the monstrous tax burden to pay for nothing worth having and that the elite don't use the NHS (for the proles) and hardly pay any tax.
I think the phrase is "ridden hard and put away wet"
permantexpat
To quote another great Englishman
"Never hit a man/woman when they are down, kick them ,its easier"
Bernard Manning
Verity, I believe the phrase was invented by Campbell , having seen his "partner" I think he must have a bit of a thing for harridans in flammable pants.
Takes allsorts I suppose.
Permex - Well, I don't care. Perhaps she can't help her face, but she can help her hair.
You try to prove your point with a malapropism: "Unless you are a master of the physical 'putdown' it..." Winston Churchill did not put his foot out and trip her up as she was coming back from the ladies' loo. His 'putdown' was not physical, but verbal. And quite mean.
I don't blame her; if we were honest with ourselves, if we had her money we would do the same.
The Tories are missing a trick - it should be on the side of the little people (and I use the term non-perjoratively), and should re-focus the state to help the poor to do what the rich can do; namely to make the system give them what they want.
Good on her!
It is always a mistake, when a ladies face catches fire, to attempt to extinguish the blaze with a heavy shovel.
Gareth
Question. What is a collective noun for a group of 'Blair's Babes'.
Answer. F*****g useless
Bertelsmann have in the pqst 2 yrs become 'partners' in a partnership with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, which is, as our lib dem opponents clain, Tory Controlled!
East Riding is Tory led rather than Tory controlled. That may or may not happen next year.
Like some others I'm a bit shocked and disturbed that so many posters think it OK to attack someone for their looks. Makes us look mean and unpleasant about something that is, largely, not in the control of the person concerned.
So I think it's quite wrong to comment on someone's looks... and, actually, I think she's quite attractive.
Hear, hear Permantex...
PS
If she were a Tory party donor would her looks be criticised as much?
This is an example of the absolute sweetness of Iain's nature. Rather than reprimand anyone who slagged this lady off, he went back and tried to pretty up her photograph.
That is so sweet, Iain! What a lovely gentleman you are!
This is an example of the absolute sweetness of Iain's nature. Rather than reprimand anyone who slagged this lady off, he went back and tried to pretty up her photograph.(Verity)
No, Verity, that's Nigel Farrage.
Iain - she can never ever be Lady Philip Gould or even Lady Gail Gould. She is Gail Rebuck or Lady Gould. (Boring post but at least I didn't slag off her appearance.)
I was at school with her - the lycee if you must know - and she was the first one of us girls to go under the knife for the sake of beauty. She had a wonderful big hooter which disappeared in the summer between school and university. Sadly it's a bit harder to do the same job to your bum, and there's not much between her and Cherie in acreage. Maybe it's a new labour thing?
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