Archive for September, 2007
Amidst the very conference in which Brown declares the end of spin, up and rising new Labourite James Purnell gets caught in a doctored photo scandal.
The worst about this is not that the photo was faked, but that Purnell has changed his story, lied, claiming no knowledge, which is the new Labour way of doing [...]
Here is a classic from Croydonian here:
“And we are making progress: Violent crime at its lowest for a decade”.
JACQUI SMITH
Posted by Mountjoy 8.29pm
Ken Livingstone is one of the most disastrous things that has happened to London in a long time. His congestion charge, as well as a lot of other ill thought out policies, have not helped London to develop to its full potential. Yes, it is a successful city but it is one that is blighted by [...]
On a day when it emerges that Peter Mandelson won’t after all suck up to Gordon Brown, but instead attacked Brown’s speech, another tiresome speech is given on the stage in Bournemouth.
Ed Balls made his first speech at the Labour Party conference as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (i.e. the DCSF). Brown, in [...]
The Sun summed it up pretty well today, that it is certainly “not Gordon Brown’s finest hour”, in that only 12 seconds of his boring hour-long speech was about the EU referendum.
This is a man who is supposed to be experiencing a second “Brown Bounce” but, after all, how inspiring is a boring Prime Minister? [...]
I don’t have much time to write this post, as I’m at the Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin Airport waiting for my flight. But, whilst I thought I could have a go at David Miliband’s laughable “ten more years” of New Labour claim, which I discovered on the front of a copy of the Observer (one of [...]
Not political this post as such, but many politicos do use Facebook to network. Many city banks having banned Facebook, which is shortsighted and may have partly contributed to the financial crisis - as bankers rushed out to internet cafés to see whether clients had been in contact with them today.
I have been in Poland now for a [...]
Having finished my ‘my stats are terrible’ sulk, I have had a good think about Brownian economic policy and the gathering economic storm.
Basically, New Labour’s original election victory in 1997 was built on the character - and supposed charisma - of Tony Blair. Neither it, nor the 2001 and 2005 re-elections, were based on policy. Very little useful [...]
A few days ago, a bit stressed about work and worried about the effect of Brownian economic policy on the prospects of selling my house in Wolverhampton, I posted the following:
It is, with a heavy heart, that I close this blog. I apologise to regular readers, but traffic has been very poor in the last [...]
Posting has been and will be light for the next week as I am in Warsaw but here’s one I made earlier…
There has arguably not been two-party politics in the UK for some time. Since 1992, Labour has been well ahead in opinion polls and was the only contender in general elections and in elections [...]
