Tag Archives: Gordon Brown

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

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

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

Gordon Brown and New Labour; more excuses than Roger the Dodger…

By scrubber | Published: April 30, 2010
Bigotgate again, I’m afraid. Today’s Daily Mail carries a story in which it is claimed that the Prime Mentalist called Mrs. Duffy a bigot because he misheard her. This has shades of Mandleson’s “chumps” claim. For those of you who don’t remember, back in September last year, during the Labour Party Conference, the Sun announced its [...]
Posted in General Election, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , | 5 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

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