Tag Archives: Harriet Harman

How the left loves to censor free speech.

By scrubber | Published: February 8, 2011
Daniel Hannan has written about this several times, and he’s right, the left does love to censor free speech. He writes here and here about the hypocrisy of the left, and the way it uses insults and spittle-flecked invective to sully its opponents. However, today I want to draw readers’ attention to an article in today’s [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Daniel Hannan, Jobsworth, Legal lunacy, Local Government, NHS, Nanny State, New Labour, Political Stupidity, Taxpayers' Money, Waste | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

MPs for hire! £3000-£5000 a day. Grab yours now!

By scrubber | Published: March 22, 2010
This scandal has already been covered all over the ‘net, so we won’t re-invent the wheel here. Suffice to say that the Times article is well worth a read. Our old friend Guido has an interesting slant on this, regarding Stephen Byers’ membership of the Privy Council. It is clear that his continued membership of the [...]
Posted in Corruption, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Harriet Harman roasted by William Hague at today’s PMQs

By scrubber | Published: March 3, 2010
It took me a while to find PMQs on the BBC website today, it seems to have been moved into a new section rejoicing in the title of “Democracy Live“. It can be found here. To be fair the the Beeb, it’s a cracking portal, and worth a bookmark. It was worth the search… Harridan Harperson [...]
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William Hague performs well in PMQs

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
William Hague destroyed Harridan Harperson today in PMQs (link to BBC iPlayer) where she was deputising for the Prime Mentalist. Vince Cable did a fair job as well. Watching HH was interesting, in a watching-paint-dry kind of way. She was poorly-prepared, wooden, perfunctory and lightweight. I’ve long been frustrated watching the Prime Mentalist blatantly not answering [...]
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