Tag Archives: General Election

13 years of Labour: how much we have forgotten

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
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
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Local papers: should they be neutral?

By scrubber | Published: May 3, 2010
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 , , , | 3 Comments

Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Cause a political earthquake; oust the troughing Squeaker!

By scrubber | Published: April 22, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Corruption, General Election, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, UKIP, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Hung Parliament: can tactical voting save us?

By scrubber | Published: April 21, 2010
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 , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

UKIP: Country before Party

By scrubber | Published: April 14, 2010
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 , , , , , | 2 Comments

Lord Sugar gives £400,000 to Labour’s election campaign

By scrubber | Published: April 14, 2010
For a man who’s allegedly worth £800m, Alan Sugar appears to have very little nous. It’s hard to understand why a man who had an apparently hard start in life followed by what is by anyone’s criteria, a highly successful business career, would throw away the best part of half-a-mill of his hard-earned on a [...]
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Have a go at Votematch

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 13, 2010
Have just discovered this handy little website which claims to accurately compare your views (through a brief series of policy questions) with those of the main political parties. Mine happened to come out as BNP, narrowly followed by UKIP, with the Tories a fairly distant third. I’m actually never going to vote BNP, not least [...]
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Euro-referendum: it might just happen…

By scrubber | Published: April 9, 2010
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 [...]
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Gordon Brown ignores ‘heckling’ father

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 8, 2010
As reported in the Telegraph and in other national newspapers/broadcasts today, Gordon Brown was challenged by a father over why his children cannot get in to the schools they would like. I would highly recommend watching the video on the Telegraph article. Little amuses me more than seeing politicians (servants of the people?) [...]
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