Category Archives: General Election

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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Gordon Brown ignores ‘heckling’ father

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 8, 2010
As reported in the Telegraph and in other national newspapers/broadcasts today, Gordon Brown was challenged by a father over why his children cannot get in to the schools they would like. I would highly recommend watching the video on the Telegraph article. Little amuses me more than seeing politicians (servants of the people?) [...]
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23 senior businessmen slate Darling’s NI rises.

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
The Telegraph has published a letter today from 23 Chief Executives and other similarly-ranked businessmen trashing Alastair Darling’s plans to raise NI next year. The Labour spin machine has gone into overdrive, wheeling out Mandleson, so they must be rattled. Anyone with half a brain can see that penalising employees earning over £20Kpa and their employers [...]
Also posted in Economy, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

TPA: Tax under a Labour Government

By scrubber | Published: March 31, 2010
Cracking video from the Tax Payers’ Alliance: Enjoy… Wikio Wikio
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Nigel Farage on BBC’s Hard Talk

By scrubber | Published: March 30, 2010
Further our earlier post, here’s the full 23 minute programme. Strapline is: “There’s a powerful strain of anti-EU sentiment in Britian – but is it enough to turn the anti-EU UK Independence Party into a credible political force in the looming general election? Stephen Sackur is joined by UKIP’s erstwhile leader – and now their most high [...]
Also posted in Economy, European Union, Nigel Farage, UKIP | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Is YouGov biased?

By scrubber | Published: March 30, 2010
Well, it’s a fair question. Peter Jon Kellner is President of YouGov. As can be seen from wikipedia (and a fairly superficial trawl of google) he was a left-leaning journalist and worked for the BBC. He is also married to Baroness Catherine Ashton, New Labour-appointed High Representative for Foreign Affairs. You can find out what [...]
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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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BBC’s Daily Politics Show’s Poll says 55% of Brits want to leave EU

By scrubber | Published: March 29, 2010
The only surprising thing here (which on reflection is not that surprising really) is the fact that the BBC is surprised! Good stuff in the video from Daniel Hannan along with Charles Clarke and Andrew Neil up to his usual… The full poll can be found here but for the impatient, here are the highlights: Full Results: Wikio Wikio [...]
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Nigel Farage explains UKIP’s manifesto on the BBC

By scrubber | Published: March 29, 2010
There’s only a small clip (4m:55) of this programme on the BBC website, but the full programme can be seen on Monday 29th March 2010 on BBC World News at 03:30, 08:30, 15:30, 20:30 GMT, and on the BBC News Channel at 04.30 and 23.30 BST. Watching this, I was struck by two things… Firstly, why [...]
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Voting intention poll results since 2005

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2010
Just a quick blog to bring this excellent site to readers’ attention. This graph, pinched from their site, makes interesting viewing. Wikio Wikio
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