Tag Archives: David Cameron
Zac Goldsmith: what a twat.
I’m in catch-up mode after a couple of weeks working away and quite over-whelmed with the sheer volume of crap falling around our ears worthy of a blog or two. This one stands out, and although a few days old, needs wide dissemination…
We’re all well used to politicians not answering questions, their evasion tactics, obfuscation [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, Technology, Tories Also tagged Broken Britain, Fiscal incompetence, Gordon Brown, Minsterial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Tony Blair, Wasting taxpayers' money 2 Comments
Lisbon Treaty; will it need re-ratification?
My thanks to Fausty’s Libertarian Blog for reminding me of this issue, and providing a link to this youtube video:
Almost a month ago I wrote this sceptical article based on one of Daniel Hannan’s blogs. Two things have changed since then. Firstly, we have the crisis in Greece having reached serious proportions, and secondly this [...]
Posted in David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Lisbon Treaty Also tagged European Union, General Election, Lisbon Treaty 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 [...]
Posted in David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Lord Pearson, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tories, UKIP Also tagged European Union, Fiscal incompetence, General Election, Gordon Brown, Taxation, UKIP, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
Local papers: should they be neutral?
I believe they should be, but something that appeared a few days ago in my local paper, the Ipswich Evening Star, has me thinking. It betrays an hypocrisy and a bias I’ve long sensed, but which hasn’t been quite so blatant until now. I’m wondering if desperation is beginning to set in the closer we [...]
Posted in David Cameron, General Election, Local Government, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Tony Blair, Tories Also tagged General Election, Gordon Brown, New Labour, Tories 3 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Climate Change, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Immigration, Legal lunacy, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP Also tagged Corruption, Daniel Hannan, EU, Euro, European Union, Fiscal incompetence, General Election, Gordon Brown, Minsterial incompetence, MPs Expenses, Nanny State, New Labour, Nigel Farage, Quangoes, Recession, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
Hung Parliament: can tactical voting save us?
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 [...]
Posted in David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Gordon Brown, Lord Pearson, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Parliament, Tories, UKIP Also tagged Ben Gummer, European Union, General Election, Gordon Brown, Hung Parliament, New Labour, Nick Clegg, UKIP 7 Comments
UKIP: Country before Party
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, [...]
Posted in David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Gordon Brown, Lord Pearson, Nigel Farage, Parliament, UKIP Also tagged European Union, General Election, Gordon Brown, Lord Pearson, Nigel Farage, UKIP 2 Comments
Euro-referendum: it might just happen…
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 [...]
Posted in David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Tony Blair Also tagged Daniel Hannan, European Union, General Election, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
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