Archive for October, 2007
Reading Ellie Seymour’s post on Milipede’s adoption, I thought to myself, here’s more Labour double standards. It was also a convenient excuse for Milipede to absent himself from the visit of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah. Is Milipede really Prime Ministerial material when, as Foreign Secretary, he can’t even be bothered to attend an important function, but [...]
Is it any wonder that Labour is languishing on 33% to the Tories’ 41% according to today’s ComRes poll for the Independent? Gordon Brown’s lack of leadership and vision has awakened the electorate to 10 years of Labour policy non-delivery against a backdrop of apparent economic buoyancy.
And yet if there is one issue that Labour [...]
In Gordon Brown’s Labour Britain, even Airports fail to put the clocks back.
This would not have even happened under Tony Bliar, for all his faults.
Posted by Mountjoy 9.44am
At PMQs the Speaker asked Gordon Brown to use ‘temperate language’. On this subject I’m afraid I will have to refrain from temperate language.
Yesterday, Brown made a speech about his commitment to liberty, which is a joke given his commitment to increasing the detention limit from 28 days to something like 56 days. It is [...]
One simple fact that is overlooked by Labour in its taxing of entrepreneurs (i.e. increase from 10% to 18%), which Professor Dylan Jones-Evans has an excellent post on today, is that as he points out:
“Small businesses are the lifeblood of the local economy, creating wealth and prosperity, employing thousands of people, and delivering products and [...]
Labour pretended that it was the friend of animals, to get the ‘animal lover vote’, by implementing the unenforceable ban on fox-hunting.
But we all know that Labour does not care about animal welfare when it will not ban the torture of animals in laboratories for “medical research” etc, which is bad science because the physiology [...]
The BBC is reporting that Matt Ridley, the beleaguered Chairman of Northern Rock, has resigned. Hopefully, it will not be too long until Adam Applegarth, the unfortunate chief executive of the Rock, goes too.
But more pertinently, are Messrs Ridley and Applegarth as bad as a man who has scurrilously, in a trade-union-pleasing attempt to get [...]
The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), which was only formed in 2004 by Andrew Allum, Matthew Elliott and Florence Heath “to represent taxpayers and to fight for lower taxes”, has won the argument on taxes. The old consensus, which formed some time in the 1990s, that taxes should not be cut but in fact should be raised [...]
The first victim of the “Brown Bounce”, Sir Menzies Campbell, has sadly resigned as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats. Not only did the Lib Dems find that their vote was squeezed by Labour - Brown not being Blair - although I have argued on this blog that such voters must be deluded, since Brown [...]
Rose Gibb, the former Chief Executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, has taken the honourable action and resigned. The appalling cases of around 90 people dying as a result of C Difficile in her hospitals is an indictment not only of the Trust - given that the hygiene issues were identified by [...]
