Tag Archives: General Election

À bas les Banques!

By scrubber | Published: November 19, 2010
The French, as we all know, are not exactly backwards in coming forwards on the civil disruption front. They do love a good old shindig, whatever the excuse, and make our home-grown student protesters look like a bunch of pussies. So it comes as some surprise that they should come up with an idea, somewhat [...]
Posted in Bank of England, Banking, Civil Liberties, Corruption, Economy, Eurozone, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , | 3 Comments

Goldsmith, Huhne and Balls; election expenses investigation started.

By scrubber | Published: July 23, 2010
I received an email today from the excellent Sunlight Centre for Open Politics, an organisation dedicated to transparency in politics. The blog entry behind the email can be found here and the full email including a “donate” button can be found here. I’ve reproduced the email below, but I urge readers to go to the email [...]
Posted in Corruption, Ed Balls, General Election, MPs Expenses | Also tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Zac Goldsmith: what a twat.

By scrubber | Published: July 20, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in David Cameron, General Election, MPs Expenses, Parliament, Political Stupidity, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Will Ed Balls have his “Portillo moment”?

By scrubber | Published: May 6, 2010
I stayed up, as I intend to again tonight, watching the election results in 1997. I saw Michael Portillo lose his seat to the odious, and so far ineffective Stephen Twigg. He lost his seat with dignity and honour, and has gone on to better things. He has written of the experience, and of life since [...]
Posted in Ed Balls, General Election, MPs Expenses, New Labour | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

Lisbon Treaty; will it need re-ratification?

By lsb | Published: May 6, 2010
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 , , | 1 Comment

Voting at 16? Good idea, bad idea or Trojan Horse?

By scrubber | Published: May 6, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in General Election, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Parliament | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)

By DiamondGeezer | Published: May 5, 2010
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 , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Hung Parliament and tactical voting

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
In the Daily Mail today are two articles which should be compulsory reading for anyone considering voting tactically either for or against a hung Parliament. In the “Do we really want to go down this road” corner, is an excellent article by historian Dominic Sandbrook in which he discusses the lead-up to, the creation, and the [...]
Posted in General Election | Tagged | 2 Comments

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 [...]
Posted in Corruption, Ed Balls, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

MPs sleaze, greed, incompetence and fraud: a timely reminder

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
Before you cast your vote tomorrow, take a look at these two films and remind yourself what and whom you are voting for… These films courtesy of Gary Walker, the Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Lincoln, are extremely well-made and powerful. In these days of high-paced media-action, we forget so much so fast. MPs expenses, the scandal and [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, General Election, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, NHS, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment