Tag Archives: Corruption

Is this man too stupid to be an MP? (or what!)

By scrubber | Published: February 6, 2010
I am indebted, again, to Guido Fawkes for this gem. Readers are heartily recommended to go and look at the video of an interview with Jim Devine. It is utterly, utterly staggering. The interviewer is sometimes stuck for words, he is so taken aback… Wikipedia says of Devine: Wikio Wikio
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Ex-Editor-in-Chief of the Mirror demolishes New Labour.

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
Well, here’s a turn-up for the books… Mike Molloy, ex Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People (he left in 1990), has utterly demolished Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and New Labour in an article in today’s Daily Mail. My old chap always said that Socialism was a disease that a little money and [...]
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Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Really?

By scrubber | Published: January 18, 2010
Our gratitude to the Telegraph for this one; something to worry us all… According to the article, the delayed £224 million ContactPoint database, which contains personal details of all 11 million children in England, has suffered at least 3 ’serious’ security breaches, in London, Staffordshire and Surrey, according to details obtained under the Freedom of Information [...]
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Gordon Brown just doesn’t get it…

By scrubber | Published: January 11, 2010
The Grauniad just tweeted this, and intrigued by the tweet, read the article. Just what, exactly, is this man on? Apparently: ‘In what aides described as a sign of his commitment to “aspiration”, the prime minister said he wanted every household to have broadband access to the internet.’ I’m at a loss as to how providing “270,000 low [...]
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Blair’s millions: is the mystery solved?

By scrubber | Published: December 17, 2009
Well now, here’s a thing. I always thought the Grauniad was a friend of all things lefty, especially New Labour and “our Tone”, but it appears not always. At the beginning of December, the Guardian set up a competition which they described as “an experiment in crowd-sourcing“, to find the best explanation for Blair’s complex financial [...]
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