Category: New Labour
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
April 20th, 2010, No Comments
Openess, New Labour style: a Times reporter “stalks” Gloria de Piero not to talk about her massive norks, but what she could actually do for her chosen constituency, but isn’t recieve gratefully: “What on earth are you doing here?” she asks. I tell her I thought I’d come and see how things were going. “But [...]
Hoon, Hewitt and Byers walk into parliament…
March 23rd, 2010, No Comments
Oi, you’re barred says the bartender chief whip: Three former cabinet ministers have been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over claims they were prepared to influence policy for cash. Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon were secretly filmed as part of an investigation by the Sunday Times and Channel 4′s Dispatches. [...] Mr [...]
p.c. babble, or the only honest man in this is Gaddafi
August 24th, 2009, No Comments
So then Megrahi was freed, went home to Libya and got a heroes welcome, in the process providing us with yet another opportunity to witness how much political news is route, ritualised scripts. Was anybody surprised that the White House condemned the release? That the then director of the FBI as well as the American [...]
Nero fiddles
July 24th, 2009, No Comments
Penny Red went to the launch of the Demos’ Open Left project: Purnell believes that left ideology necessitates ‘choice in public services’, which is a tad rich coming from the man who single-handedly purged the welfare state of its last remaining shreds of compassion earlier this year with his intricate schemes for lie detector tests, [...]
Condom credit cards!?
June 11th, 2009, No Comments
One NHS doctor’s opinion on Labour’s latest badly thoughtout health proposal: Don’t get me wrong. I am strongly in favour of providing any young person of any age with free contraception. But why do we not just give them the condoms? Why must they first have a “condom credit card”? Probably because, in the finest [...]
A Very Lucrative Victory
June 8th, 2009, No Comments
[Pic from Adventures In Historical Materialism] If it wasn’t grim enough up North before it certainly will be once that odious prick Nick Griffin and his sidekick, former politics lecturer and National Front leader Andrew Bron take office in Brussels – but not for them. No credit crunch for Griffin and Bron. They’ll be doing [...]
What about Tessa Jowell?
June 7th, 2009, No Comments
Alex remembers some inconvenient facts: A question, though. Tessa Jowell is Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office as of last night. Really? Blears bites the dust for using taxpayers’ money to speculate in property while avoiding capital-gains tax; has everyone forgotten that Jowell did much the same, but with the crucial distinction that she [...]
Oh Sugar, Sugar.
June 5th, 2009, No Comments
I thought Sirallun famously abhorred bullshitters but he seems to be pretty good at it himself. One minute I’m listening to The Apprentice’s Alan Sugar telling us BBC listeners how utterly fantastic and in control Gordon Brown is (but only after Gordo promised to ennoble him in pursuit of temporary glory while The Apprentice is [...]
Alas Smith & JonesMcShane
May 26th, 2009, No Comments
I really must stop starting my morning paper-reading with the Guardian, if only for the sake of my health. I was already feeling a bit nauseous and then I read this gobmackingly crass opinion piece from Joan Smith: I am sick of my country and this hysteria over MPs Until now, I have not written [...]
Golden Shred
May 19th, 2009, No Comments
Given their historic ability to maximise opportunities for optimum personal benefit, it seems unlikely that Tony Blair would have failed to take the full quota of parliamentary allowances whilst in the Commons and at Downing St. Cherie wouldn’t let him. No doubt when they claimed expenses it was entirely within the rules. Both Blairs are [...]
