I haven’t blogged much lately; it is a busy period for the flag industry, which deprives me of time, but fills the coffers for a few months. Business is considerably quieter later in the year.
In case you missed it, the Love Police interrupted a photo op and press conference for George Osborne, the new Chancellor [...]

How bad must the “Conservative” Party be not to have wiped out Labour?
If the Tories learn anything from this failure then it must be that people who want liberal socialism will vote Labour or Liberal, so there is absolutely no point in the Tories offering the same thing. That’s all.

Just a reminder (for those who need one, such as troglodytes and anyone who has just emerged from a thirteen year coma) about what you get when Labour are elected. My old website – thelabourparty.org – lists just a few of Labour’s crimes and misdeamenours over approximately a one year period from the Spring of [...]

I’m not sure why I hadn’t been to a hustings meeting before last week, but anyway, this was my first. One of the local Church of Scotland ministers here in the Dumfries and Galloway constituency acted as a capable Dimbleby figure, a position he has held in previous GE hustings. The questions had all been [...]

In another scary incidence of Tory Party control freakery and discrimination against anyone with a mind of his own, Philip Lardner, their candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran, has been suspended by the Party.
His crime? Writing on his website that he believes homosexuality is not normal and that it should not be promoted to schoolchildren.
We [...]

On Monday, I noticed another two shops in town had closed and lie completely empty. They are adjacent and in a street facing three other empty shops, right in the centre of town. Visitors would be forgiven for thinking that we are trying hard to win Ghost Town of the Year 2010. Instead of tumbleweeds [...]

In my last post I discussed just how awful the Lib Dems’ ideas are. I hadn’t heard of this one which the Telegraph has just warned about: Nick Clegg’s plans for VAT on new homes attacked.
The tax of between five and seven per cent would add up to £14,000 to the cost of buying an [...]

The Leaders’ Debate on the telly has prompted huge support for the Lib Dems. Not only does a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times suggest that Nick Clegg is now the most popular party leader since Winston Churchill, but a BPIX poll for The Mail on Sunday puts the Lib Dems in first place: a [...]

I was in town with a friend yesterday evening and we bought a Chinese takeaway and started walking back to my place. We passed New Labour’s constituency office and spotted our MP/candidate, Russell Brown, heading there from across the street.
As you can probably imagine, I was seething with anger just at the sight of him. [...]

Just before the 1983 General Election, Neil Kinnock uttered these ominous words,
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.
He could equally have been warning about the state of the [...]