Category Archives: Gordon Brown

Sunlight Centre roasts Ed Balls

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics sent out an email last night drawing our attention to their new video, dubbed an “attack ad” about Ed Balls. The Centre is “committed to helping voters, bloggers, and journalists be their own watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitising new information, and by using new website [...]
Also posted in Corruption, Ed Balls, General Election, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

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
Also posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, General Election, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in General Election, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Climate Change, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Immigration, Legal lunacy, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 [...]
Also posted in David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Lord Pearson, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Parliament, Tories, UKIP | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

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, [...]
Also posted in David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Lord Pearson, Nigel Farage, Parliament, UKIP | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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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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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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?) [...]
Also posted in Education, General Election, Tony Blair | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

I am an Englishman.

By scrubber | Published: April 2, 2010
I am an Englishman. We’re allowed to say that now without being accused of being a Little Englander and a racist, according to Lord Tebbit in his latest blog. The Prime Mentalist started it last week with another U-turn. After years of Labour’s covert-but-now-admitted policy to change our country by means of unlimited, uncontrolled, uncounted, unwarranted, [...]
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