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Total Politics 2008-06-01 10:01:12 Iain Dale’s new political magazine, Total
Politics, is to publish its first copy on June 23rd. Some of the content has already been leaked, with the Telegraph’s Three Line Whip revealing that in an interview for the magazine, Gordon Brown revealedthat:
[H]e is not a good dancer, he would rather watch the new Indiana Jones film [...]
Illiberal Shit 2008-06-01 07:17:36 This government just keeps on plowing out illiberal shit. Anything to prevent us from being able to make our own decisions and take responsibility for our own actions.
First of all, they want to ban cigarette vending machines and packs of ten. To “prevent children and young people smoking”. They have already raised the cigarette purchasing [...]
What goes around, comes around 2008-05-31 05:52:07 I got a joke via text message in the past week. Well, several truth be told, but one I want to mention read as this:
The Labour Party has decided to change its logo from a rose to a condom, believing it more accurately reflects their policies.
This is because a condom allows for inflation, halts production, [...]
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Salesman Brown 2008-05-30 16:42:31 Gordon Brown
is cold-calling people at home on a regular basis. This is, apparently, part of a plan to “humanise” him. I assume that this is to go alongside his online PMQs. Seriously, what is he - a Martian?!
Rather than “humanising” him, cold-calling voters just makes him look like a salesman. No-one likes getting cold-called [...]
And He Isn’t Even Being Ironic! 2008-05-30 10:11:00 The man who first didn’t “do God”, said that those who talk about religion are regarded by the public as “nutters“, and then made a massive hoohah over converting to Catholicism is now going to devote his life to faith.
Yes, Tony Blair has proclaimed that he is going to “spend the rest of my life” [...]
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Two Good Polls 2008-05-30 07:13:00 Firstly, the news that Labour have slumped to what is claimed to be their lowest level of support since polling began - with them on 23, the Lib Dems only just behind them on 18, and the Conservatives leading on 47 [a lead of 24 points - which is larger than Labour's entire current support!].
Especially [...]
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, Two Good
Cluster Bombs 2008-05-29 12:46:00 They’re ahorrent. The very way they act is just morally unacceptable in the modern world. Their use in modern warfare just cannot be justified, especially considering that “normal” wars between massed armies no longer actually happen. So cluster bombs are just killing innocents [or at least non-combatants].
So this treaty signed by 109 countries to ban [...]
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Insurrection Is In The Air 2008-05-29 08:25:00 Nick Clegg is right that there is “insurrection in the air” and that the British people “are ready for change”. As Alice Miles explains:
An administration that everyone from backbenchers to truckers now dares to hold to ransom cannot manage a way through the next two years.
But they’ll keep on truckin’ trying.
The one thing Clegg is [...]
Tax Freedom Day! 2008-06-02 15:50:08 Today is Tax Freedom
Day. The day we finally stop working just to pay the State our taxes [unless you include government borrowing - which adds another 12 days].
We have to work 155 days of the year just to pay the taxes that they levy on us. 40% of our national income goes straight in [...]
Big Coke 2008-06-02 03:35:00 A 6m (20ft) high sculpture of Big Ben made from Coca-Cola cans has been unveiled in London’s South Bank to inspire more people to recycle…
The Big Ben tower is one of four sculptures being unveiled across the UK to raise awareness of recycling. (BBC)
Very artistic and quite clever. Though quite how it is meant to [...]
Volunteer! 2008-06-04 10:16:00 This week is Volunteer
s Week.
Volunteering is massively important, both to society and to individuals. Society as a whole benefits from it because those in need can be helped without government and taxes getting involved. Individuals - both those who receive and give - benefit from the contact and experiences.
Just think what we could accomplish if [...]
Not the most popular MP in the Commons… 2008-06-03 15:49:52 Somehow I doubt that Peter Lilley is the most popular
MP in the House of Commons
today after suggesting that MPs should get a pay cut as owers are passed to the EU.
If people receive more responsibility, they get higher pay - the same should be true of Parliament…
I don’t have a masochistic desire to [...]
No title 2008-06-03 03:05:00 42.
The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything .
Well, everything except as the answer to the question: “How long should we be able to detain suspected terrorists without charge.”
An answer that, surprisingly, even Mike Ion understands is the wrong one, saying “[s]ome say such measures are a necessary evil but I cannot help feeling that [...]
The Return of the Cluster Bombs 2008-06-05 09:55:00 Only a few days ago I wrote about the government brokering a deal to ban the use of cluster bombs. A treaty, signed by 108 other countries, which I applauded because cluster bombs are abhorrent.
Yet it appears that all cluster bombs haven’t been banned. Gordon Brown has actually negotiated a loophole for Britain to continue [...]
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, Return
English Men Are “Hopeless” 2008-06-05 03:13:00 So claims a Canadian writer, saying that English
men are “repressed homosexuals, drunkards or woman haters” after her experiences. And so is making a television drama out of it.
Well, maybe, Leah McLaren, it is you that’s the problem. Either:
(a) you have terrible taste in men, or
(b) the good men just don’t like you.
Or both.
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The Government Says: 2008-06-06 10:15:00
“Blah”
Well, the so-called Scottish “Government
” does, anyway.
Not exactly a well-though-out and articulate response to a query about drug finds in prison. Or indeed to anything.
Nevertheless, it does bear quite some resemblence to most press releases from this Labour governemnt, though they do kinda go on a bit. Maybe “blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah̷
What is it with elected representatives and expense fraud? 2008-06-06 03:02:00 I mean seriously. They’re elected to do a job. To represent the people. Whether that be in Westminster, Bruseels/Strasbourg, Holyrood, the Senedd, or even at the local town hall.
So why do they keep fucking fiddling their expenses?! They get paid to do a job. If they don’t think that they get paid enough and want [...]
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The changing face of celebrity? 2008-06-07 04:57:16 Yet again, the ‘celebrity drug culture’ is in the news.
Jurors should be allowed to decide if celebrities caught on camera snorting white powder were taking illegal drugs, the Met police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, claims.
Blair referred to a recent case when Kate Moss was pictured in a newspaper snorting lines of white powder but no [...]
How To Relieve Stress And Achieve Inner Peace 2008-06-09 03:10:00 Stressed and full of worry?
How to achieve inner calm.
I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and weall could use more calm in our lives.
By following the simple advice I heard on a medical TV show, I have inally found inner peace.
A doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace [...]
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Captain Conception and Cash Gordon 2008-06-08 14:14:39 Fathers 4 Justice campaigners, dressed up as superheroes - named CaptainConception
and Cash Gordon
- have climbed on to the roof of Harriet Harman’s house, and unfurled a banner saying “A father is for life, not just conception”.
Harman was presumably selected because last month she stated that marriage was irrelevant to government policy, undermining [...]
“Don’t Blame Gordon” 2008-06-08 09:22:00 Says Tony Blair.
It’s tough for all leaders at the moment right around the western world because they’ve got things that are happening that, to be fair to them, is not really their individual fault… If you take the financial crisis or fuel prices, these are things that are being driven by world events. I said [...]
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, Gordon
Understatement Of The Day 2008-06-08 06:04:39 From the BBC:
ID cards ‘could threaten privacy’
What do you mean could threaten privacy? They most certainly do! And beyond that, it is also possible to cliam that they don’t just “threaten” privacy, but they breach it.
ID cards are simply wrong. They are a massive - and completely unnecessary - intrusion in to our lives. Our [...]
Cameron’s Hair 2008-06-10 02:59:00 It was the talk of Westminster.
Why? No-one knows. It just was.
This truly shows that politicans don’t think about policies - just appearances. Theirs or someone elses.
Forget 42 days, 10p tax, knife crime, or anything else that actually might affect us plebs in some way. It’s all about The Hair.
Which was, actually, caused by a cycle [...]
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Where? 2008-06-09 17:02:19 Garfield Minus Garfield
The Day Our Freedoms Died 2008-06-11 14:56:31 11th June 2008 will be remembered. As the day when our elected representatives decided to remove our freedoms.
As strong as it may sound, our freedoms have died today. Because now we can be held for 42 days without charge if “terrorism” is mentioned as a reason. And we get £42,000 compensation if then released without [...]
How Tight? Very. 2008-06-11 07:32:00 The vote over 42 days is said to be “very tight“. It may end up that you need a magnifying glass to see the difference between them.
But in the end it is going to come down to a very simple choice for Labour MPs:
Option A: Vote for the motion and try and bolster up a [...]
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