Tag Archives: New Labour

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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Tony Blair up for another award…

By scrubber | Published: October 15, 2010
Ah, good old Tony… His mantelpiece must be groaning under the weight of all these awards. He is, truly, a man blessed with the bounties of life on earth… Money, fame, fantastic job, accolades and adulation, a lovely wife. Oh, perhaps not. I mean, would you? No, nor would I. Wikio Wikio
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Ecotards overstep the mark again.

By scrubber | Published: October 2, 2010
I hardly know where to begin with this one. I think I’ll work backwards on it, and start with the 10:10 website. 10:10? Who he? No, I hadn’t heard of it either. It seems that the 10th of October is going to be a “Day of doing”. The aim, apparently, is “Cutting carbon 10% at a [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Nanny State, New Labour, Quangoes, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Give us loyalty and dignity, not the empty vanity of Ed Miliband’s ‘new politics’

By DiamondGeezer | Published: October 1, 2010
A superb piece on the Telegraph blogs today from Peter Oborne, which accurately describes much that I feel is wrong with the vacuous celebrity-esque politicians that we have to tolerate ad nauseam in this country. I like it so much that I have reproduced it in full: Like the outpouring of grief following the death [...]
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HMRC: All your dosh are belong to us

By scrubber | Published: September 7, 2010
Sometimes I ponder on this blog, its future, the direction it has taken and will in future, and not just because the rest of the writing team seems to be permanently on holiday. We originally set out to expose institutional stupidity, but during the Election campaign wrote much from our joint perspective of EU-scepticism, broadly supporting [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Civil Liberties, David Cameron, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Hey hey Tony hey, how many kids have you killed today?

By scrubber | Published: September 4, 2010
Sky News reports that Tony Blair has been pelted with eggs and shoes at his book-signing in Dublin today. The following video is worth a watch, if only to wind yourself up listening to arse-licking turncoat Shaun Woodward’s sycophantic drivel: Unfortunately, the missiles thrown after he had emerged from the back of a car surrounded by a [...]
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It’s official! Our children are even cleverer than last year

By scrubber | Published: August 19, 2010
Firstly, apologies for the paucity of posts lately. I’ve been away a while, and the back-up team seems to have gone AWOL as well. Anyway, I popped home today for lunch and caught the local BBC News. The piece I saw was the usual short clip about how more A levels have been passed at higher [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Political Stupidity | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Coalition Government launches “Your Freedom” initiative.

By scrubber | Published: July 1, 2010
Today, as has been widely reported in the MSM, Nick Clegg launched the Coalition Government’s “Your Freedom” initiative, where they are asking us to tell them what laws we want repealed, where the Government is snooping too much, strangling us in red tape, and so on. All to the good on the face of it. [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Civil Liberties, Legal lunacy, Nanny State, New Labour, Police | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment

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

Andrew Neal ambushes Diane Abbott

By scrubber | Published: June 25, 2010
I happened to catch This Week last night on the Beeb, and noticed that Diane Abbott had re-appeared next to Michael Portillo on the sofa. She’s been off campaigning for the Labour leadership, apparently. Speaking personally, I have no major feelings either way on her, or her chances of winning the leadership. Frankly, I don’t care [...]
Posted in Ed Balls, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , | 3 Comments