Category Archives: New Labour

Multi-culti, middle-class, left-wing, prickocracy

By scrubber | Published: July 5, 2011
Step forward the BBC and the Guardian. Yes! You! Pat Condell, no wallflower he, is really on form here (and a new word too). I challenge a Guardian-reader to listen all the way through and accept that he has some valid points… How apposite is that: “Prickocracy! Love it. Wikio Wikio
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Is it Ed that’s the idiot, or is it the MSM? Or is it us?

By scrubber | Published: July 1, 2011
Earlier today I posed the question “Is Ed Miliband an idiot?“, and I did so in all sincerity, and not without a fair deal of amusement. However, a “proper” lunch with an old mate of mine has thrown a new light on things. I’ve re-watched the video concerned, and it is clear that whatever the question [...]
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Is Ed Miliband an idiot?

By scrubber | Published: July 1, 2011
Sometimes, I just can’t believe my luck. This video is a gem! Just WTF is Ed Miliband on? How this man ever became Leader of the Labour Party, I will never know, and will never understand. Will the rest of the world ever take this clown seriously? I may be way off-base here, but reading between the [...]
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Dave? Ed? It’s all the same to me, mate.

By scrubber | Published: June 30, 2011
Sometimes, something delicious comes along when researching material for a blog. Here is one such, a cracker. The Independent has published a poll in which 2,000 punters were shown pictures of members of the Shadow Cabinet and asked to identify them. For your delectation I have copied the info over, identified the individuals concerned, and saved [...]
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10 more reasons Socialism can’t and will never work.

By scrubber | Published: June 3, 2011
William John Henry Boetcker. Who? Born in Hamburg in 1873, he migrated to America as a young adult, becoming a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival. Wikipedia says that he “is perhaps best remembered for his authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots. Originally published in 1916…”. Personally, I would argue that most people, certainly outside [...]
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Socialism encapsulated

By scrubber | Published: May 26, 2011
Here is a picture (thanks to Old Holborn for posting it) which shows clearly why Socialism doesn’t, and will never, work. As Margaret Thatcher once said: “The trouble with Socialists is that eventually they run out of other people’s money”. Click the picture to enlarge it, which is well worth doing, but try not to be [...]
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Fire Sale!

By scrubber | Published: April 4, 2011
Ok, quiz time… What is the missing word, and when was the following written? “The ****** government in Britain is imposing budget cuts in the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) that will result in hundreds of job losses and compromise public safety. The Audit Commission, the unelected body used by the central government to impose market-based discipline [...]
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Bankruptcy, the Euro, and us

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2011
Let me start with a couple of quotations from an article in the Daily Telegraph of March 24th, 2011: “Portugal has defaulted on its national debt five times since 1800, Greece five times, Spain no less than seven times (and 13 times in all since 1500). By contrast, Anglo-Saxon countries rarely, if ever, default. In this country, [...]
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How the left loves to censor free speech.

By scrubber | Published: February 8, 2011
Daniel Hannan has written about this several times, and he’s right, the left does love to censor free speech. He writes here and here about the hypocrisy of the left, and the way it uses insults and spittle-flecked invective to sully its opponents. However, today I want to draw readers’ attention to an article in today’s [...]
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Eric Illsley MP pleads guilty to three counts of fraud

By scrubber | Published: January 11, 2011
As reported everywhere, Barnsley Central’s sitting Labour MP has pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud. I say “Labour”, but to be fair, he has already been expelled by Labour and is technically an independent. Sentencing is expected in a month, and if David Chaytor is anything to go by, he should be looking at [...]
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