The case for Labour (if you give your brain the day off)

Tom Harris has posted this video of Gordon Brown listing New Labour’s “achievements”.
I imagine it sounds very convincing – to those who allow themselves to be drowned in the sea of grand ideas and emotion.

This is what I told Tom:
Any thinking person would question almost everything on this list of ‘achievements’. I don’t have the [...]

Gordon spews forth in Coventry

In a very unbelievable and silly speech in Coventry today, the Gorgon set out his vision for a fairer Britain. It sounded well done, actually, so that millions of gullible folk will fall for it yet again, in a sort of “fair-for-families” Groundhog Day way.
I left the following comments on Tom Harris’s blog:
Oh, Tom, it’s [...]

Conspiracy theories

I left a long comment on Leg-iron’s post, The Tory vote-losing technique, which I am reproducing here. He is talking about the modern phenomenon of shouting down your opponents and calling them names rather than engaging them in intelligent dialogue. He asks whether those, like climate change ‘atheists’ and those warning about mass immigration, were [...]

Final proof, were it needed, that you won’t notice the difference with Cameron as PM

Like Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, Dave will just not be able to leave people alone to live their lives free from government interference. When millions of people are crying out for an end to control, monitoring, form-filling, targets and political correctness, The Times’ Ruth Gledhill reports on Dave’s interview with ‘gay’ magazine Attitude…
Cameron tells [...]

SNP looking to have Blair tried in Scotland

A group of SNP MSPs has called for Tony Blair to be tried in Scotland for taking the UK to war in Iraq, Scotland On Sunday reports.
A parliamentary motion calling for Blair to be prosecuted has been laid down at Holyrood and has been signed by eight MSPs. It cites the verdict of a Dutch [...]

Our wonderful Home Secretary

I’m being sarcastic. Obviously.
Obnoxio the Clown offered up a link on Tom Harris’s blog to this article about an asylum seeker in Alan Johnson’s Hull West and Hessle constituency. He initially helped Emmanuel Njoya and his family stay in the UK by “making an impassioned “life and death” plea not to send Emmanuel back to [...]

Gordon has a new catchphrase to win back the middle classes

At the Fabian Conference today, Gordon Brown unveiled his catchphrase to win back the middle classes:
Social mobility for the majority.
But the Prime Minister has a problem with “social mobility for the majority”. New Labour clearly despises the middle classes, so it just looks like he wants more people to hate – and tax. Or have [...]

Clegg: faith schools must teach that homosexuality is “normal and harmless”

Such a statement proves that everyone should have a problem with the Liberal Democrat leader, because he is certainly not normal or harmless. His statement is factually incorrect (a lie) and illiberal (fascist).
Firstly, homosexual behaviour is not normal for the very obvious reason that the human anatomy is designed for sex between a man and [...]

Flu News

The picture is of Ukrainians in Kiev burning a replica of an anti-flu mask in a protest against what they call government-inspired hysteria about swine flu that distracts the public from political issues.
Indeed. Last year, the WHO redefined what constitutes a ‘pandemic’ and removed the important factors that there must be a high morbidity and [...]

New Labour: cold as the temperature outside (plus caption competition)

Cranmer is reporting on Mandelson’s latest wheeze as Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills. He wants to turn the screw on charities, churches and community halls by abolishing their music licence exemptions. That ought to be worth a few favours from his friends in the ‘biz’ (unless he’s had them already).
His Grace writes,
It is Cromwellian [...]