Jackie Ashley, in her piece in the Graun this morning that’s basically a 1500-word moan about why-oh-why the Labour party is imploding and so many people are ‘abusing’ the party’s record in government, describes Mandelson’s new memoirs as “bank-swelling”. I’m not sure I agree with her about that. Beyond all the MSM political hacks who [...]
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Mandelson’s Irrelevant Memoirs
Posted in general election, Guardian, Labour, mandelson, memoirs on 12/07/2010 | 2 Comments »
Con-Lib Back On
Posted in fallout, general election, hung parliament on 11/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to Sky News sources, the talks between Labour and the Liberals have “failed”. After all that, who’d have thought it would be a few Labour MPs – a mixture of Scottish veterans, bitterly opposed to the SNP, and some promising young thrusters, who would inject some reality into Labour’s mad ambitions, themselves driven on [...]
The Liberal Left Take Over
Posted in fallout, general election, hung parliament on 11/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Having seen Simon Hughes, with all his suspiciously Bennite vocal characteristics (you’re telling me they’re not related!) on BBC News this morning, talking up the Lib-Lab pact, and then hearing Paddy Ashdown on Radio 4, he of the ‘progressive coalition’ obsession, talking about ‘his’ party entering a minority arrangement with Labour – (he had the [...]
Lib Dems In Process Of Signing Their Own Death Warrant
Posted in fallout, general election, hung parliament on 10/05/2010 | 6 Comments »
The Lib Dems have always been a pushmepullyou party with a ‘progressive’ wing (leftwing, that is), and what I would call a woolly wing of failed Tories like its current leader. Well, while the Clegg end has been talking to David Cameron, we now find that the Simon Hughes end of this most unnatural of [...]
Take Me To Your Leader
Posted in general election, humour on 08/05/2010 | 2 Comments »
Not sure how Matt manages to be so damn funny – and spot on – every day, but he’s done it again.
The Change We Need
Posted in Brown, cameron, clegg, general election, politics on 08/05/2010 | 5 Comments »
While the cuckoo Brown parasitically remains in the Number 10 nest, and the country’s real Prime Minister, David Cameron, gallantly waits and, with refreshing integrity, allows the defeated demagogue a window of opportunity through which he can choose to leave with some semblance of dignity intact, on the near horizon the storm clouds gather. The [...]
Satisfactory, Not Spectacular
Posted in general election on 07/05/2010 | 7 Comments »
Well, putting to one side all the nonsense for once, I’d say I’d pretty much got what I wanted, or very nearly: if not the end of Labour, then the end of Brown. A satisfactory outcome – just about. And a relief. You have to ask the question, though: why wasn’t this a spectacular victory [...]
Tory Win
Posted in general election on 06/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just bet my brother a brownie that the Sky News exit poll is a joke and this’ll be a Tory majority. Mind you, looking at the third world-style fiasco in Sheffield, I’m beginning to doubt whether this election is clean, (unless the Tories win it, naturally . Anyway, Tory win – I firmly believe it. [...]
Election Quote
Posted in general election, humour on 06/05/2010 | 3 Comments »
“One day the ‘don’t knows’ will get in and where will we be then?” Spike Milligan Hat tip: Inside Out: a jaxxland perspective
The Hopefuls – And One Other
Posted in general election, humour, satire on 06/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lol. Peter Brookes is a top ‘toonist.
