Archive for May, 2008
When I picked up the Telegraph this morning and saw the picture of this murdered innocent 14-year-old kid on the front under the caption “From dirty looks to death in one hour”, I thought, ‘Oh not another one’. Then I remembered that there was a murder last year, a few months before the murder of [...]
How long can Brown limp on with headlines like this?
An opinion poll deficit of 24 points (which is larger than their 23% poll rating):
Con 47%; Lab 23%; LD 17%
And Labour doing particularly woefully on “economic competence”.
It’s time for Labour to call a general election and get it all over with. Two more years of this is [...]
See Conservative Home for my Platform article on this subject.
Local authorities, as the Telegraph also reports today, are spending much time chasing householders to prosecute them for putting the wrong waste out - the example of Labour-held Plymouth Council is given. These resources should be spent pursuing criminals, not law-abiding householders. As I posted earlier, knife and gun crime is now endemic, while the [...]
Last summer, moved by the murder of an innocent little kid, 11-year old Rhys Jones in Liverpool, I wrote that it was time for the Government to get a grip on teenage gun crime. Matt Sinclair hits the nail on the head with his analysis of family breakdown and the rise of teenage pregnancy and illegitimacy.
You [...]
… is to take a leaf out of Wakayama Electric Railway’s book and replace Gordon Brown with a cat.
We have to give Denis MacShane credit for his plea to Gordon Brown to rein back taxation and public expenditure. It is blindingly obvious hat the impact of taxation upon people’s quality of life (and the Government’s inability to get a grip on the economy, taxation, petrol prices etc) is the major reason for Labour [...]
It is now clear that the Labour vote has collapsed in Crewe, and a large section of it switched to the Conservatives, in a massive 17.6% swing.
A lot has been said about Northern Wreck, the 10p tax rate, and other Labour mistakes.
But a few evenings ago almost the entire parliamentary Labour Party (apart from a few [...]
Edward Timpson (Con) 20,539 (49.49%, +16.93%)
Tamsin Dunwoody (Lab) 12,679 (30.55%, -18.29%)
Elizabeth Shenton (Lib Dem) 6,040 (14.55%, -4.03%)
CON GAIN from LAB
Now Mr Brown, will you listen?
A superb blog that highlights how family people who voted Labour in the past, out of a once understandable conviction that the Government would deliver for their families, is A Diary of a Mother on the Edge: http://motheratbreakingpoint.blogspot.com who points out that:
Since I turned 18 ten years ago I’ve always voted … Anyway, I’ve always [...]
