Category Archives: Parliament
A steaming, confected, self-polishing jobbernowl.
So says the excellent Quentin Letts of our over-promoted, self-important and out-of-his-depth Squeaker John Bercow.
I didn’t know what a jobbernowl was either, so I looked it up. Excellent! What a cracking choice of word.
Quentin’s article was inspired by the Junior Health Minister Simon Burns’ behaviour in the House of Commons yesterday during Health Questions.
It seems [...]
The economic consequences of Mr. Brown
My thanks to our blogging colleague Old Holborn for bringing our attention to the following youtube clip of a speech by Professor Stein Ringen, and thence, by extension, the rather longer version below it. The subject is a book by Professor Ringen called “The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown”: quite a subject…
The good Professor is [...]
Also posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money, Technology, Tories Tagged Broken Britain, David Cameron, Fiscal incompetence, Gordon Brown, Minsterial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Tony Blair, Wasting taxpayers' money 2 Comments
Andrew Neal ambushes Diane Abbott
I happened to catch This Week last night on the Beeb, and noticed that Diane Abbott had re-appeared next to Michael Portillo on the sofa. She’s been off campaigning for the Labour leadership, apparently.
Speaking personally, I have no major feelings either way on her, or her chances of winning the leadership. Frankly, I don’t care [...]
Also posted in Ed Balls, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money Tagged Diane Abbott, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Wasting taxpayers' money 3 Comments
Will John Bercow get his comeuppance?
The new Parliament sits for the first time today. The first job will be to confirm, or otherwise, John Bercow’s continuing role as the Speaker. The motion proposing this traditional vote, will be laid before the House by Sir Peter Tapsell, the new Father of the House at around 14:30. The members all shout “Aye” [...]
Voting at 16? Good idea, bad idea or Trojan Horse?
Both Labour and the Lib Dems have said that they favour lowering the voting age to 16. Why would they do that, I wonder, and is it a good idea?
My father used to say to me: “There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure”, but it was [...]
Also posted in General Election, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg Tagged General Election, Gordon Brown, Nanny State, New Labour 1 Comment
Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)
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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13 years of Labour: how much we have forgotten
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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Suffering from election fatigue?
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!
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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Zac Goldsmith: what a twat.