Category Archives: General Election

13 years of Labour: how much we have forgotten

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
This film speaks for itself: it should be compulsory viewing for anyone tempted to vote Labour tomorrow. It wasn’t until the end that I realised who’d made it: powerful stuff. I wonder how they kept it so short… Wikio Wikio
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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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Gordon Brown and New Labour; more excuses than Roger the Dodger…

By scrubber | Published: April 30, 2010
Bigotgate again, I’m afraid. Today’s Daily Mail carries a story in which it is claimed that the Prime Mentalist called Mrs. Duffy a bigot because he misheard her. This has shades of Mandleson’s “chumps” claim. For those of you who don’t remember, back in September last year, during the Labour Party Conference, the Sun announced its [...]
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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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Cause a political earthquake; oust the troughing Squeaker!

By scrubber | Published: April 22, 2010
Hat-tip to Guido for this, which needs to be shared far and wide… Donate to Nigel Farage’s campaign to oust expenses-fiddling John Bercow from Parliament. Yes, the allegedly Tory, now allegedly neutral one with the wife who’s a Labour candidate for Westminster Council in the forthcoming elections… As Nigel says: “If I can topple the Speaker, I [...]
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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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Lord Sugar gives £400,000 to Labour’s election campaign

By scrubber | Published: April 14, 2010
For a man who’s allegedly worth £800m, Alan Sugar appears to have very little nous. It’s hard to understand why a man who had an apparently hard start in life followed by what is by anyone’s criteria, a highly successful business career, would throw away the best part of half-a-mill of his hard-earned on a [...]
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Have a go at Votematch

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 13, 2010
Have just discovered this handy little website which claims to accurately compare your views (through a brief series of policy questions) with those of the main political parties. Mine happened to come out as BNP, narrowly followed by UKIP, with the Tories a fairly distant third. I’m actually never going to vote BNP, not least [...]
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Labour MPs claiming legal aid to fight expenses claims (may) have to pay it back

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 13, 2010
Labour MPs on legal aid, I hear you cry? To fight the cases raised against them for fiddling expenses? I know, it’s absolutely unbelievable. Or at least it would be, if we weren’t being ruled one one of the most corrupt, despicable and totally immoral governments ever to disgrace the hallowed halls of Westminster. Gordon [...]
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