Tory Leadership – Who Next?
The last few days have seen Home Secretary Theresa May giving her leadership credentials to a ConservativeHome Conference, disgraced former Defence Secretary Liam Fox outlining his hard-right,...
View ArticleThe Bedroom Tax
I have to flag up a point raised on BBC Question Time last night. I only caught the last 10 minutes, but it was long enough to see Theo Paphitis of Dragon’s Den fame taking Francis Maude, the Minister...
View ArticleBoJo en France
Having posted recently about Boris Johnson’s leadership ambitions once David Cameron has shuffled off this political coil, pulled back the curtain and joined the great big private sector in the sky, I...
View ArticlePromoting the EDL
I’ve recently heard about a new organisation called EDL – no, not the fascist scumbags who spread hate on the streets, but English Disco Lovers – “One World, One Race, One Disco”. At the time of...
View ArticleNick Clegg vs. Jo Shaw on Secret Courts
On his weekly radio call-in show on LBC (London’s Biggest Conversation), Nick Clegg speaks to members of the public every Thursday morning. Last Thursday he spoke to “Jo from Islington”, who turned out...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne Joins Twitter
At the time of writing, the Chancellor had tweeted 13 times. 2 were about the budget. 1 was about banks. 1 was about trapping people on benefits, and 1 was about how everyone in a Morrisons canteen...
View ArticleThe UK stands in defence of Freedom, Democracy & Human Rights. Except in...
Uzbekistan is nominally a Republic, and was referred to as such by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond in his statement to the House of Commons on 13th February 2013. There are “elections” periodically,...
View ArticleThe Wrong, Dishonourable Michael Gove MP
In a speech delivered at Brighton College (a cracking read, thank you www.politics.co.uk) Michael Gove treated his audience to his often bizarre take on the education system. He has a list of...
View ArticleGove: “I am compassionate. Also, I want to be Prime Minister.”
“Thanks to the leadership shown by David Cameron, our party has a social philosophy imbued by the spirit of Sir Keith’s great work – consciously in the tradition of compassionate conservatism he...
View ArticleStop the Press! Nick Clegg in ‘lopsided cuts’ revelation
In a Guardian article published on Monday we were treated to a video of Deputy PM Nick Clegg in all his glory, under the headline – “Tories making ‘monumental mistake’ with lopsided cuts”. Well now, I...
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