Tag Archives: Gordon Brown

Fire Sale!

By scrubber | Published: April 4, 2011
Ok, quiz time… What is the missing word, and when was the following written? “The ****** government in Britain is imposing budget cuts in the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) that will result in hundreds of job losses and compromise public safety. The Audit Commission, the unelected body used by the central government to impose market-based discipline [...]
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So, that’ll be a no then…

By scrubber | Published: March 30, 2011
In the unlikely event that any of you thought our dear old friend Jonah Snot-Gobbler was the only politician capable of totally obfuscating a non-answer to a simple question, here is proof positive that he wasn’t. Rejoice in watching Dave “cast-iron” Cameron totally failing to answer the somewhat important question (from Bill Cash MP) of [...]
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Rumpy-Pumpy: hypocrite? Moi?

By scrubber | Published: March 17, 2011
Second hat-tip of the day to Daniel Hannan. This time, for a great article, containing two excellent film clips. The first of the excellent Nigel Farage roasting Rumpy again, and the second of a Belgian MEP, Derk-Jan Eppink – of whom I have been in blissful ignorance, to be fair – who really does a [...]
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Richard Littlejohn’s Economics ABC

By scrubber | Published: January 11, 2011
Richard Littlejohn is always good for a laugh, and has a knack of being able to offend or upset people from all sectors of the political spectrum; it’s what he does. Today’s entry in the Daily Mail is a classic, and should be compulsory reading for all of us, especially Alan Johnson. I’ve noticed a concerted [...]
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Get me the Priority Boarding.

By scrubber | Published: December 8, 2010
We’ve all seen the sub-titled Hitler rants, and very amusing they are too. This one, courtesy of a subscriber (thanks PW) is by far the funniest I’ve seen, even better than the Gordon Brown ones here and here. Enjoy: Wikio Wikio
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Totally barking…

By scrubber | Published: December 8, 2010
Ok, quiz for the day. Who wrote the following in their recently-published book? “I am neither a finance expert nor a trained economist but fear of making technical mistakes (of which, I am sure, this book is full) should not silence us altogether when the task before us is so urgent.” Got it yet? Here’s a clue: [...]
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Daniel Hannan, Nigel Farage, and UKIP.

By scrubber | Published: November 30, 2010
Ok, voting intention/Party loyalty cards on the table (regular readers will know this anyway)… Here’s what I said on the matter back on May 5th: Here in Ipswich, as I’ve covered elsewhere, I’m urging everyone to vote for Ben Gummer, the Conservative candidate. Not because I support his policies, which in many cases I don’t, but [...]
Posted in David Cameron, European Parliament, European Union, General Election, Nigel Farage, UKIP | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Nigel Farage roasts Barosso again

By scrubber | Published: September 10, 2010
The day before Daniel Hannan launches his campaign for an EU Referendum -he makes his full case in the Daily Telegraph of 7 September – Nigel Farage again speaks for us all in the EU Parliament. Wikio Wikio
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The economic consequences of Mr. Brown

By scrubber | Published: June 29, 2010
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 , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Gordon Brown’s new job.

By scrubber | Published: May 12, 2010
He didn’t hang about finding his true role in life… Wikio Wikio
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