Archive for November, 2007
Is there really a need for The Wilted Rose any more? When I started this blog in the summer Labour were flying high - and I felt like having a real go at them.
The Labour Party is doing more than enough to bring its poll rating down to a ridiculous 27%. After 10 years, you’d [...]
While the Australians seem to have had a collective bout of political suicide by electing Rudd’s Australian Labor Party, the UK’s Brownian Labour Party is proving itself to be as sleazy as ever.
In fact, ‘Labour Party sleaze’ is now unnecessary. All one has to say is ‘Labour Party’.
We hear that a Labour man in the north east [...]
In the midst of this crisis of lost records, Northern Rock, and general Labour incompetence, the Labour Party is at an all-time low in the opinion polls.
A YouGov poll for C4 News on Thursday puts Labour at 32% (a 9-point Tory lead) and an ICM poll in tomorrow’s Guardian on 31% (only a 6% Tory [...]
And we hear that Labour MPs with children have lost their details too amongst the 25 million people’s records lost. Well, at least they will be ‘in touch’ for a change, and know how it is in the real world, as opposed to Westminster.
Off to Cardiff for a few days to the RENT Entrepreneurship conference, [...]
So what is it about Alistair Darling, that calamity seems to follow him like a stalker?
Not only is the hapless Chancellor of the Exchequer (reaping his predecessor’s mistakes, mainly) mired down in a scandal over Northern Rock, but now 25 million records have been lost by Revenue & Customs. Leading to the resignation of the [...]
What a way to celebrate my birthday - although I have managed to get my broadband re-connected after 3 months and I believe I have secured a new job in Belfast, the prospective buyer of my house has pulled out (ostensibly, due to scumbags in the media and press talking the housing market down). Then I learn [...]
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has been caught out trying to bury bad news about 5,000 illegal immigrants. She gave a robust defence in Parliament today and won some of the hearts (if not minds) of MPs.
However, Ms Smith, who Black Country parents will be pleased to know no longer is a teacher, is alas [...]
According to the Telegraph, Ed Balls did not declare employment as a fellow at the Smith Institute, after he became an MP. He worked for the Institute between 2004 and 2005. He has been a very naughty boy, especially since his mentor Gordon Brown promised no more sleaze after Blair.
I do hope that Balls will do [...]
What, then, is the biggest crisis facing Great Britain today? What irks the people of England, Scotland and Wales most strongly? Is it tax, especially inheritance tax? Is it the NHS? Or could it possibly be immigration? Or maybe crime?
All of these things are in some way irritants, and indeed they may cause temporary or [...]
Defeated by a vote of no confidence 15 to 8. You would think that anyone with one iota of honour would resign, as a result of such an overwhelming vote, but then who would describe Sir Ian Bliar as a man of honour?
After the despicable case of Jean Charles De Menezes’ murder, Bliar is too [...]
