Category Archives: David Cameron

Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)

By DiamondGeezer | Published: May 5, 2010
Prevalent in the news today have been the riots in Greece. The country is now sufficiently unattractive to investors and ratings agencies that their bond markets have frozen, and due to this and their enormous deficit they are no longer able to service their debts. Greek workers’ unions hold enormous sway, and thanks [...]
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Local papers: should they be neutral?

By scrubber | Published: May 3, 2010
I believe they should be, but something that appeared a few days ago in my local paper, the Ipswich Evening Star, has me thinking. It betrays an hypocrisy and a bias I’ve long sensed, but which hasn’t been quite so blatant until now. I’m wondering if desperation is beginning to set in the closer we [...]
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Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
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Hung Parliament: can tactical voting save us?

By scrubber | Published: April 21, 2010
Back in late February, I wrote an article entitled “So, what chances a hung Parliament?” which was basically a pointer to an article by Daniel Hannan in which he claims that David Cameron is still on course to win. Of course, last week’s “debate” has changed things dramatically, and made a hung Parliament far more [...]
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UKIP: Country before Party

By scrubber | Published: April 14, 2010
UKIP launched its manifesto yesterday; I watched it on Sky News. I don’t know if it was broadcast on the BBC, I doubt it, but I can’t be sure as I hardly watch the BBC News these days; its leftward bias just infuriates me. Anyway, the manifesto, which can be downloaded, is just 13 pages long, [...]
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Euro-referendum: it might just happen…

By scrubber | Published: April 9, 2010
A bit late in the day, I know – we’ve all been snowed under recently – but I just picked this up from Daniel Hannan’s blog. My initial feeling, borne out by reading the comments after the blog, was that this was some CCHQ spin to try to counter the defections to UKIP by core [...]
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Lib-Dems fund advertising campaign on behalf of UKIP

By scrubber | Published: March 30, 2010
This is classic! The beautifully-named website Labservative (tag-line: More of the same) has appeared on the net with an excellent video released on youtube yesterday; the “Labservative General Election Manifesto”, presented by the Labservative Party’s leader, the delightfully-named Gorvid Camerown. Wikio Wikio
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Tories lose Poll lead after Budget!

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2010
After what was, at best, a non-budget, albeit hammering Middle England yet again, Labour has finally gone ahead in the Polls. Well, one poll; today’s poll for BBC2’s Daily Politics show by COMRES Naturally, even though this wasn’t a poll of voting intentions in the election, this is being trumpeted all over the left-wing press such [...]
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David Cameron; 10/10 for presentation skills

By scrubber | Published: March 16, 2010
Along with about 1.7 million viewers, I watched David Cameron interviewed by Sir Trevor MacDonald last Sunday (14 March 2010). Apparently, Gordon Brown’s interview blub-fest with Piers Morgan on the same network last month achieved an audience of 4.2 million. I don’t know if the difference can be accounted for by the car-crash effect, where ghouls [...]
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European Public Prosecutor: a jackboot too far on British Sovereignty?

By scrubber | Published: March 4, 2010
This is serious folks: please read and understand. It is very, very important… The more people read this the better. First, just what is (or rather, what will be) the European Public Prosecutor? The European Public Prosecutor is a proposed European Union post established by the European Constitution Treaty of Lisbon, and covered in Article 69E [...]
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