Tag Archives: Tories

EU Referendum vote…

By scrubber | Published: October 28, 2011
I have a lot to say about this, none of it positive to Cameron and his acolytes, but as can be seen from the paucity of posts lately, no time to write it down. However, I can let Mr Farage say some of it for me: Wikio Wikio
Posted in Corruption, David Cameron, European Union, Lisbon Treaty, Ministerial incompetence, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Political Stupidity, Tories, UKIP | Also tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Tories “crowd source” for a Budget response.

By scrubber | Published: March 25, 2010
In what is, frankly, a great move (prompted by DizzyThinks), the Tories have decided to tap into the power of the ‘Net to pick apart Alastair Darling’s Party Political Broadcast Budget yesterday. For the full explanation on what crowd sourcing is, see wikipedia, but briefly, it’s tapping into the huge number of people on the [...]
Posted in General Election, Taxpayers' Money, Tories, Uncategorized | Also tagged | 1 Comment

David Cameron; 10/10 for presentation skills

By scrubber | Published: March 16, 2010
Along with about 1.7 million viewers, I watched David Cameron interviewed by Sir Trevor MacDonald last Sunday (14 March 2010). Apparently, Gordon Brown’s interview blub-fest with Piers Morgan on the same network last month achieved an audience of 4.2 million. I don’t know if the difference can be accounted for by the car-crash effect, where ghouls [...]
Posted in David Cameron, Economy, Education, General Election, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

So, what chances a hung Parliament?

By scrubber | Published: February 23, 2010
I think they’re higher than many people realise. Daniel Hannan dismisses the idea here, and Simon Wilson of MoneyWeek thinks it likely… He uses many of the arguments I did here. Interestingly, the vast majority of the comments on Daniel Hannan’s blog support and underline my current thinking on this… Wikio Wikio
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A pause in quantitative easing, but the rollercoaster has only just begun..

By Jackal | Published: February 5, 2010
It was announced last week that the Bank of England had spent the entire £200bn it had set out for quantitative easing (QE). This QE package was designed as a preventative measure, but also a tool for kick-starting the economy. The UK economy grew by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2009 and so the [...]
Posted in Bank of England, Banking, David Cameron, Economy, General Election, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Cameron and the CFP

By scrubber | Published: January 8, 2010
I’m indebted to a tweet for this one from James Delingpole. Here’s the final paragraph: “I’m afraid it’s precisely this kind of spinelessness which explains why some of us find it so hard to be enthusiastic about the prospects of a Cameron administration.” I mostly go along with JD, and this is no exception. I’m a life-long Tory, [...]
Posted in Climate Change, David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Parliament, Tories | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

Save Our Gordon

By scrubber | Published: January 8, 2010
I’m not sure that Guido Fawkes knows what he’s started here, but it’s taken on a life of its own! The basic premise of Guido’s post is amusing enough. As of writing, the LabourList “Save Gordon” campaign/petition has stagnated at a measly 152 respondents, not all of whom are actually supportive, whereas Guido’s “Save Our Gordon” [...]
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Disastrous tax receipts plunge Britain further in to the red.

By DiamondGeezer | Published: November 20, 2009
Consistent, depressing and unsurprising. Yet more horrific economic news under the stewardship of the economic retard that is our former Chancellor. I am, and always will be, in favour of low taxation to promote growth. However, things are now in such a dire state that I almost find myself thinking that higher taxes as [...]
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