Open Letter to MPs on the EU Referendum Debate and Vote

To all Members of Parliament,
Please vote on Monday to allow the people of the United Kingdom to have a say in OUR future. We demand the right to a referendum on EU membership, denied for so long and promised by Labour and Tory.
The time is now. Please don’t believe the following two common misconceptions:
1) The [...]

Are MPs who tweet twits?

The Daily Mail thinks so, as they rename the House of Commons the House of Twits. I’m sure that the name is appropriate generally, but I happen to think that the new social media, like Twitter and Facebook, not to mention MPs’ blogs, are a handy way for us to communicate with MPs and replies [...]

Ed: a new era or more of the same?

Ed Miliband made his maiden speech to Conference yesterday as new Labour leader. Not “New” Labour leader, i.e. not new New Labour leader, just new Labour leader.
This is very important, because New Labour is dead. This Party is no more; it has ceased to be, etc…
But Mr Miliband is not a Norwegian Blue pining for [...]

My Twitter discussion with Ed Miliband

I follow Ed Miliband on Twitter. He is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
He Twittered,
pls #dontgiveup on a deal in Copenhagen.100pct determined to get ambitious,fair, effective deal…. see edspledge.com for more
So I did.
I tweeted back to him,
Are you absolutely sure that your facts about ‘climate change’ are correct before promising away billions [...]

This Government isn’t short-sighted, it’s totally blind

With the constant talk of ‘green’ issues and the need to reduce our carbon footprint and the removal of 100 Watt bulbs from the shops and the banning of the sale of patio heaters and wind turbines blotting the landscape, I somehow naturally presumed that we must have a healthy manufacturing capability in the UK [...]

Grinning traitors

David Miliband, brother Ed and Hilary Benn just don’t get it. Tony Benn does. Note that Ed Miliband obviously hadn’t even read the Reform Treaty when this We Are Change video was made early last year.
We cannot trust these people AT ALL! They pilfer our money and steal our freedom. The only thing they [...]