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Lord Monks and the lady with the tattooed bottom

Michael Crick | 15:46 UK time, Monday, 13 September 2010

I bumped into John Monks just now - the former TUC general secretary and soon to be Lord Monks (as he was recently nominated to the Lords).

Like me he's a big Manchester United fan, and he was telling me that he'd persuaded the United manager Sir Alex Fergusson to sign a photograph for a female friend of his in America.

The lady concerned is such a fanatical United supporter that she even has the mapping coordinates of the Old Trafford football ground tattooed on her bottom.

I was tempted to ask Lord Monks how he knew that.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    nice chav culture circles you move in cricky.

  • Comment number 2.

    What do you Jaunty#1 about what chavs have tattooed on their bottoms?

  • Comment number 3.

    You know you have arrived at the TUC conference when conversation turns to monks, tatooed bottoms and football.

    i.e. real people connected with the real world y'know, the ones who pay 95% of TV license fees.

    Tally ho eh Crick.

  • Comment number 4.

    Wow ! Big hot news !

  • Comment number 5.

    There's one group of people that are so dispicable, they are beyond contempt. They are the ones that PRETEND to to stand up for the everyday working class people of this country....yet they only care for their own self ambition.

    John Prescott is one example.....John Monks is another.

    I hear that the top TUC officials 'EARN' as much as their private sector counterparts these days...OH!, how times have changed!

    I sincerely hope he chokes on that ermine.

  • Comment number 6.

    Since the 1980s, The Unions have become an an integral component of the Corporate Nazi machine which pulls the strings on our puppet politicians. They rely on the continued dominance of members of the Corporate Multinational Cartel to provide the incentive for their members to join. Without the corporate multinational the unions would have been marginalised in the workplace by now.

    Over the past 15 years the unions have actively promoted policies directly aimed at putting up administrative costs for small companies. Now they would appear to support the " low carbon future " despite the fact that following the 2008 Climate Change Act many of their members are going to lose their jobs due to carbon taxes. Really small firms are already excluded, but only for the time being, yet those small companies who subcontract from the CMC are being forced to do carbon audits. Its all extra cost for no benefit, no actual jobs are created, small business people just have to work more hours for the same margin.

    It would appear that the primary focus of the Unions is to retain the Corporate Nazi status quo, even if they were bleating about a Robin Hood Tax today, its too late now the Tories are in.

  • Comment number 7.


    I reckon he was fibbing to give Alex a reason for signing the photo FOR HIMSELF.

    How many women do you know who even know what a map is let alone mapping co-ordinates...surely a pretty red devil emblem is a more likely option than astring of numbers..thats a bloke thing surely..


    Get on the case Crick dig deeper...could it be that it is really Lord Monk with the tatooed bottom and a desire for a signed photo of Sir Alex Fergussan for his bedroom wall?

    '' Alex..can you sign this for a lady friend in the states..she has the ground's co-ordinates tatooed on her bum''

    Yeah right!!

    You political reporters will believe anything...geeeze I make no wonder the nation is in such a state.




  • Comment number 8.

    'My guiding rule is that in any story there's usually something the politicians would prefer the world not to know. My job is to find that out.'

    Sterling...er... 'work'. Sterling.

  • Comment number 9.

    not John Monks...not him...took ermine...well, I never...and all the things he said about that discredited place....well, I'll go t' foot of our stairs....

  • Comment number 10.

    Haha, good one:). I wonder did he really looked at her bottom and did she really was a fan ;)

    can be very tricky ;)

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