Tory Supporting Celebrity Fuckwits Poll

What no Kirstie of Phil and Kirstie fame?

Um, what are we voting for?

Worst? Most sympathetic? Do anyway? What?

I voted anybody else. To whit: Everybody else. See, those are the votes that'd get them in!

Tim Rice but no Lloyd-Webber?

No Emily out of Big Brother 8, no credibility.

Um, yes, we're voting for the worst.

Lloyd Webber is excluded for reasons CLEARLY STATED IN THE INTRO

Emily out of Big Brother 8, no celebrity.

Emily out of Big Brother will always be a celebrity in my pants heart.

Kirstie "I Am Not Your Darling!" Allsopp, that's a good one.

I have never knowingly seen her campaigning on the streets of RBKC versus extension of the congestion charge.

What about Gary Numan?

What a giant of towering intellect they all are.Why anyone would vote for a party because Bruno Brookes supports them is a question which needs to be answered.

Also is that Pete Murray the dj? Where did you dig that quote up from?

What giants even.

I'm assuming journos are excluded, because the first word that sprung to mind on seeing this poll was Littlejohn.

Yeah, and too many of them don't even believe the rubbish they write anyway!

Yeah, I didn't think it worth including the Rush Limbaugh (UK) contingent of shock jocks/columnists (hence no Jon "Gaunty" Gaunt, Kelvin "Kelvin" MacKenzie, Peter Hitchens &c).

Numan crossed over to New Labour some while back.

Pete Murray - '83 Tory election rally, the same one as "Let's bomb Russia."

Shame you didn't let us specifically vote for Lampard on his own.

I would so have voted for Allsop.

Can we be sure that Pete Murray is not lost to New Labour too?

I used to have the idea that Bruce Forsyth was joined with Tarbuck on a Tory-supporting dream ticket, but perhaps this was just an assumption.

You'd kind of expect Jim Davidson to win any "worst" poll in general

On that recentish Take That documentary Gary Barlow was being annoyingly "look at my big house and my beautiful daughter I have had the last laugh Williams look at meeeeeee", mind

Allsopp's pretty bad but she's not the worst.

My vote goes to Everett for (a) "Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away" and (b) subsequent protestations re. attempted subversion.

I'm sure Brucie's a Tory but I don't recall him ever formally coming out as one. Ronnie Corbett should be in there though.

Ken Dodd disqualified due to inability to make his mind up - has appeared at election rallies for Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major and Blair.

Few more mentioned of this award winning tory blog

he just liked a bung show!

On that recentish Take That documentary Gary Barlow was being annoyingly "look at my big house and my beautiful daughter I have had the last laugh Williams look at meeeeeee", mind

-- That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 14 March 2008 10:50 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, and he was so pleased about choosing family life over big sales/tours/success, he went out and reformed Take That! At least Robbie had the grace to admit "fair Play to yer".

'On' this...cannot tyoe this mroning

When did Cleese some out in favour of the Tories? I only remember him as Mr SDP.

ILX EATED MY POST! Hasn't Allsoporific done anti-HIPS quango time?

GMTV's E McV. Certainly not who one would ever expect to find in friend's back garden in Stokey with massive jazz cigarette, eh?

i should coco!

Indeed not (Suzy xpost).

Cleese expressed support for the Tories back in the seventies but switched over to the SDP once that got started and thence the Lib Dems.

Oh yes, and John Conteh.

Ned, I can't access Blogger at work; what interesting names has Mr Dale come up with?

and how...

how...

HOW...

...could I, of ALL people, miss out...

TOP TORY DRUMMER BEV "BEV" BEVAN??????!!!!!!??????!!!!!

(I'm not including Lemmy since he is beyond good and evil)

Still can't bring myself to dislike Bev though :

http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~elo/Basis-images/eloclopedia/Foto%20ELO%20basic.jpg

Uh that should have been a picture, Oh soddit everyone know what Bev looks like.

You'd kind of expect Jim Davidson to win any "worst" poll in general

Quite. He got my vote. To be the biggest prat on that list is quite the achievement.

When Craig Charles was cited in that rape case, Jim Davidson stood up as a character witness for him.

(I feel that sentence should just stand there for a moment.)

what does the fact that it is difficult to imagine any of the US posters posting a Republican Supporting Celebrity Fuckwits Poll tell us about the differences between the US and the UK?

that in the US, the fuckwits *are* the politicians?

I voted for Tom Jones, no particular reason.

that in the US, the fuckwits *are* the politicians?

but that's true here as well!

I don't think it's the case that there are no Republican celebs in the US, it's just that the Film Actors Guild tend to do all the shouting about politics. Mind you, I'm not American, so I'm probably not best qualified to comment.

Hello! Plenty of Republican celebrity supporters in the US. They have an embarrassing tendency to actually become elected politicians, howevs.

I know I should've voted Jim Davidson, but Paul Daniels' vanity was too big a draw not to acknowledge.

The relevant Wikipedia entry looks highly suspect.

Also: Cilla Black, Elaine Paige and Gloria Hunniford.

BRUNO BROOKES??!?!?!?!?!?!???!!!!!?!?

I believe his full name is BRUNO WIFE-BEATER BROOKES??!?!?!?!?!?!???!!!!!?!?

On the Friday morning following the 1992 General Election, Brookes opened his Radio 1 show with "Oh Happy Day" and explained exactly why he was playing it.

He was also involved in a public spat with ex-Radio 1 colleague Bob Harris, whom Brookes had lent money for a flat. When Harris lost his job and couldn't pay it back, Brookes laid an unsuccessful claim to his extensive and valuable record collection.

Oh hang on, are we voting for the fuckwittiest or the least fuckwittiest?

no it's BRUNO WE'LLKEEPTHEREDFLAGFLYINGHERE BROOKES??!?!?!?!?!?!???!!!!!?!?
hence dg's confusion

Bob Harris succesfully argued that his collection qualified as "tools of trade" and couldn't therefore be confiscated to pay back his debts.

Also suspect but never officially confirmed: Me Andy Peebles, who on his My Top 12 show in 1984 told Joanne Catherall of the Human League "I often wonder how hard the unemployed really try to find work"; and of course Dave Lee "Country Is Going To The Dogs/I Resign" Travis.

He was also involved in a public spat with ex-Radio 1 colleague Bob Harris, whom Brookes had lent money for a flat. When Harris lost his job and couldn't pay it back, Brookes laid an unsuccessful claim to his extensive and valuable record collection.

-- DG, Friday, 14 March 2008 11:39 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I never knew about this. Wow, what a hateful piece of shit this guy must be.

I can't even imagine BB being that interested in music, funnily enough!

probably wanted to melt it all down to make some kind of amulet

I've heard rumours that he doesn't take well to being called Trevor, which is his birth name.

Bruno Brookes who didn't even listen to music outside of his show

xpost x3

Ned, I can't access Blogger at work; what interesting names has Mr Dale come up with?

Kirstie Allsop, Glynis Barber, Cilla Black, Michael Brandon, Errol Brown, Janet Brown, Frank Bruno, Judith Chalmers, Joan Collins, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels, Jim Davidson, Ken Dodd, Lynsey de Paul, Julian Fellowes, Bryan Ferry, Freddie Forsyth, James Gaddas, Tony Hadley, Nicky Haslam, Matt Jay, Nanette Newman, Bruce Oldfield, Zandra Rhodes, Anneka Rice, Tim Rice, Phil Spencer, Peter Stringfellow, Jimmy Tarbuck, Marco Pierre White, Anthony Worral Thompson, Bill Wyman

Neil Adams, Mark Bosnich, Ian Botham, Trevor Brooking, Bob Champion, Tony Cottee, Garth Crooks, Susanne Dando, Steve Davis, Nick Faldo, Graham Gooch, Jimmy Greaves, Brian Jacks, Clive Lloyd, Terry Neil, Fred Trueman

Stringfellow for the win right there.

Well, I asked him for a request at his club once, and he played it no prob. And it was our 'crummy' corporate do, so he was good enough to actually be there, so no.

That list is totally lol 80s.

Presumably BRUNO I'LL HAVE NO TROTS ON MY SHOW BROOKS????!!!! got a big slap down from the BBC for that 1992 thing?

Well, I asked him for a request at his club once, and he played it no prob.

Was probably quite into "Agadoo" himself too tho.

ha. It was actually "Some stone roses plz" -> Fools Gold. The set was somewhat conciliatory up to that point.

The BBC just gradually put Bruno Brookes on earlier and earlier in the day (i.e. 3.30 am hello to all you truckers out there) until he took the hint and left.

The Dempsey and Makepeace namechecks are at odds with what I've heard elsewhere.

There was a wacko site which unfortunately I can no longer find which listed assumed Tory supporters who had yet to come out of the closet - names included Charlotte Church, Graham Norton and...

Bob Mills
COMEDIAN

I believe, however, that
Paul Ross
BROADCASTER

is a Tory.

Well, that's the last time I play Tubular Bells

I mean he doesn't even try...

He said Britain had become too strict, with its "ludicrous" emphasis on health-and-safety rules and the increased use of CCTV and speed cameras

vs.

"Where I live in Spain, there are about 100 children who come out late on a Friday night and hang out," Oldfield added. "There's lots of laughter and noise, but no fighting, no drunken violence, no police sirens. I'm not whingeing - it is just a fact of life that the old Great Britain is gone."

"I don't want to live in a country where a little old lady has to wear a hard hat and a luminous vest just to look after the village green.

FUCK OFF THEN!!!

Sorry...

never understood why the police have to wear those silly bright jackets, we can all see them

they should all have predator-style camoflage so they can nick kids for scrumping apples etc

he has! (xpost) (xpost oh never mind)

I just fcking hate the way that people who are fucking off have to tell us about it. Just fuck off already you whining millionaire hippy who hasn't made a good record since 1975.

"Where I live in Spain, there are about 100 children who come out late on a Friday night and hang out," Oldfield added.

Possibly an incautious statement.

His recycling of TBells is kind of New Conservative I suppose same old bollocks in various new shiny covers.

"I don't want to live in a country where a little old lady has to wear a hard hat and a luminous vest just to look after like the village green people.

Bob Mills
COMEDIAN

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:01 (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Always assumed this was him playing at Paul Weller and trying to piss off/avoid being lumped with the alternative crowd

Vince Hill.

What is it with these Tory Scousers?

Special subset of this group: celebrities who have threatened to leave the country should Labour get into power, cf. boyish ball knocker Stephen Hendry.

He's gone New Labour now as well.

But that subgroup would include Phil Collins, Lloyd Webber, David Essex and Paul Daniels, all of whom publicly ranted about Labour getting back into power, 300% tax etc. at the time of the '97 election.

All destined for the innermost circles of hell then.

I thought Sir Mick was a labour supporter, sure you're not getting confused with Bill Wyman.

My vote is for Girls Aloud.

"Let's Work," Bill. 1987, three stages on TOTP, "no good sit on yer butt." "LAIIIIIIZY!"

Girls Aloud - sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. Depends on who's interviewing them.

It's a song. Did he believe it? Who knows. Poetic license. OK, it's still a crap record...

Bill Wyman's solo performances are much better, both in terms of chart performance and quality.

From Jagger's iMDB entry:

As his mother Eva was an active member, he has been a longtime supporter of the British Conservative Party.

Ah, fair enough. I thought that he'd donated to the Labour Party but it must have been my imagination.

As his mother Eva was an active member, he has been a longtime supporter of the British Conservative Party.

this is pretty weak shit rly. he's no lefty though.

"if his mother's a tory, he must be one" = weak shit, i mean.

Fuck a bunch of Tony Cottee; as Graeme Sharp said in his book, "The sort of player who'd score in a 3-1 defeat and be quite pleased with himself afterwards."

As if Phil Collins isn't already massive enough a cunt. Oh god I have to throw out Wind & Wuthering now.

for years I wasn't aware of the existence of Mike Read and assumed that all talk of him (I guess I never read about him) was actually of Mike Reid. Hearing that Frank Butcher would sing at the end of the Conservative party conference every year - WTF.

Phil Collins, as it happens, claimed that he is not and has never been a Tory when he appeared on Room 101.

for years I wasn't aware of the existence of Mike Read and assumed that all talk of him (I guess I never read about him) was actually of Mike Reid. Hearing that Frank Butcher would sing at the end of the Conservative party conference every year - WTF.

-- Merdeyeux, Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:03 PM (1 minute ago)

broadcasting live from Frinton-On-Sea

SWEET NEO CON
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

You call yourself a Christian
I think that you're a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of shit

And listen, I love gasoline
I drink it every day
But it's getting very pricey
And who is going to pay

How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con.... Yeah

It's liberty for all
'Cause democracy's our style
Unless you are against us
Then it's prison without trial

But one thing that is certain
Life is good at Haliburton
If you're really so astute
You should invest at Brown & Root.... Yeah

How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con
If you turn out right
I'll eat my hat tonight

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah....

It's getting very scary
Yes, I'm frightened out of my wits
There's bombers in my bedroom
Yeah and it's giving me the shits

We must have loads more bases
To protect us from our foes
Who needs these foolish friendships
We're going it alone

How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con
Where's the money gone
In the Pentagon

Yeah ha ha ha
Yeah, well, well

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Neo con

Phil Collins, as it happens, claimed that he is not and has never been a Tory when he appeared on Room 101.

-- Merdeyeux, Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

lives in switzerland to avoid paying tax.

As do many alleged supporters of New Labour.

Yeah, but this is the TSCF thread, not the Tax Avoiding CF thread.

I left out the ones so obscure that even I couldn't remember what they did, e.g. Monty Modlin.

Didn't he used to be on the Today programme, mainly outdoors in towns in the rain, and go up to old ladies and go "Hello love!" and they'd all go "oooh!"

Wasn't that Fyfe Robertson?

are you making people up now? I am envisaging some kind of random Tory name generator.

Fyfe Robertson was 4 REAL.

So was Monty, Fyfe being the scortash version of same...
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/33632

I always thought that patti Boulaye's fame was because she was a black woman supporting the conservatives.

I can't actually remember anything that she sang.

Oh she sang *anything*!

Disco mainly, even appeared on Pebble Mill at one, I remember, singing "You made me love you (I didn't want to do it)" for all the old ladies and gentlemen...

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Patti Boulaye's big claim to fame was the Grauniad running an interview with her claiming she supported apartheid and then, after she complained, the journo re-listening to the tape and realising she was talking about "a party" i.e. the Tories.

BRUNO BROOKES??????????

1. Where is Lulu singer, I hope there isn't any bias because she pretends to come form Glasgow, besides, shes really from the bit of Rutherglen that votes Tory.

2. I voted for Adrian Juste.

I slipped Trevor Wife-Batterer Brookes a vote just for you, DG.

No voting in this poll because I cannot bring myself to vote for a tory.

Wasn't Paul Weller going to do a track with Lulu, until he learned the truth?

She's not a natural ginger?

This is all true about Lulu.

At the '79 rally she sang "Hello Maggie" (to the tune of "Hello Dolly") with Vince Hill.

With Weller she angrily asked: "So you'd put politics above music would you?" Weller: "Yes."

Also, James Blunt: named Thatcher as his personal hero in an interview.

To be fair (and why I'm being fair to an Old Harovian ex-marine I have noooo idea) didn't he just tell Dermot O'Really that Thatcher was the inspiration behind his latest songs and then later said he was joking?

I wouldn't be surprised if he was a Nu-Tory though.

Back when he was called James Blount he was one of the guards who stood guarding the Queen Mother's body when she was lying in state. If he is a Tory, it would hardly be surprising.

"Squaddie is Tory" - News At Ten.

one of the guards who stood guarding the Queen Mother's body

why this make him tory? surely she already ded?

I'd assume that a typical Household Cavalry officer would be pretty damn conservative; and that the officers chosen for the Queen Mother's funeral ceremonies were considered to be ideal Household Cavalry officers.

as opposed to Billy Bragg who "joined the British Army as a trooper destined for the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars of the Royal Armoured Corps. After a few months, he bought his way out of the army for £175 and returned home having never finished his training or joined his regiment."

I read an interview with him about that recently - he said that when he became top of his training course, he thought it might be his last chance to get out easily, so he bought himself out.

I would have thought that the guarding of the QM (or anyone) would have been done on a rota system not by volunteer?

I assume they were vetted to make sure none of them fancied banging the corpse.

Sean Connery = Tartan Tory Supporting Celebrity Fuckwit

Who lives in the Bahamas.

Or wherever the fuck he lives.

He doesn't live in Scotland?

Was that sarcasm? I thought he'd been a tax exile for decades.

That wash sharcashm. I'm hardly one to talk, I'm a tax exile in Holloway after all.

Sh-N-P. Rather more left than Scottish Labour, though.

Hail top SNP supporters Proclaimers, Pat Kane and Fish!

Pat Kane? He's not even a household name in his own house, these days. Sorry, Pat.

Remember the days when "Labour Of Love" was A BOMB BEING DELIVERED TO ENGLAND, BUT IN A POP SONG?

Indeed and why exactly did Linda spend "£35 on one packet of ciggies"? Silly cow.

NEWSFLASH:
Hue and Cry object to above description. Quipped Kane, 47, yesterday: "Our new image is as soulful, passionate and honest as ever."

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/images/TGSB00391_m.jpg

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only two for our bruno :(

4 ppl must die

Sh-N-P. Rather more left than Scottish Labour, though.

Correct.

4 ppl must die

Why, big fan of Jim are you?

no, they just reminded me of him by putting him at the top. I had tried to erase my memory of him.

So much comment, so few actual votes!

yeah, because, nobody here wants to vote for a tory

apart from the 20 who did obv

James Blunt would have smashed up this poll.

Sh-N-P. Rather more left than Scottish Labour, though.

These days.

I might have voted for Arthur Lowe or Leonard Rossiter had they been in the poll and if it had been for "Tory celebs you still like (as they are now safely dead)".

My dad never seemed too bothered by the Tory leanings of some of his heroes (Sykes, Rossiter, Dodd, etc) - "well, they've got enough money, I suppose". As if you could buy into or aspire to Toryism. But I still remember him falling out with my Chester-dwelling brother when my brother dared to suggest the Tory-controlled council were "doing quite a good job". He was quick to point out that he would never vote for them for ideological reasons, but my dad was still upset. My brother was no Reggie Perrin, I guess.

Also, Les Dawson, Russell Davies and Gawd bless 'er Dame Vera Lynn.

and Ned Sherrin.

And max r

Russell Davies

The radio 2 chappie? Is he a tory? I am surprised.

Where Is Bev Bevans?

James Blunt would have smashed up this poll.

-- Matt DC, Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

rly tho

Sorry, my mistake, I meant Russell Grant the astrologer.

I hit myself over the head re. omission of top Tory drummer Bev "Bev" Bevan some way upthread.

He was one of the first to say "If Labour get elected, I'm leaving the country" - as if the drummer of ELO leaving would be lead to a crisis in confidence from which the country might struggle to recover

sharron davies: robbed

The Traveling Wilburys just had to make do without him (xp).

botw