MR Alistair Darling, a profile:
Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him – Peter And Wendy, J.M. Barrie
Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Peter Mandelson Is My Pillock’s Neighbour
PETER Mandelson, celebrity milk drinker is newly enobled.
“IF I knew of any scandal I’d tell you because I think the guy’s a pillock” – Andrew Meek, owner of Peter Mandelson’s holiday home in Foy, Herefordshire.
But if we knew, Mandelson would only promoted. Might be best to keep quiet…
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Was Peter Mandelson Poisoned By Chinese Milk?
JUST nine days before falling ill with kidney stones, UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson drank Chinese milk.
Concidence?
On Sept 26, in Tianjin at the World Economic Forum, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson drank a glass of milk (click to see video) in front of the media to show his support for the Chinese dairy industry and said:
Shame he couldn’t have just fed it to one of his children. He goes on:
Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians, The Blairs | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
1983 And All That: Let’s Bomb Switzerland
IT’S not quite that bad yet. It’s more 1983 than 1984.
As Michael Foot predicted, we now have higher personal taxation, abolished the House of Lords, nationalised banks and achieved unilateral nuclear disarmament.
OK, we still have the bomb, but as soon as we’ve bombed everyone else bomb, we won’t need it any more. Or we could keep it and erect a statue to Foot in every major city in Europe..?
Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Labour Party, Money | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Meet The Deputy Leader Of The House Of Commons
CHRIS Bryant is Deputy Leader of the Commons – this is his photo he sent into gay dating website.
Gordon Brown - Is she serious?
Posted: 6th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mandelson’s Return Is Politics For The Institutionalised
PETER Mandelson is returned to Government. What hold does he have over Gordon Brown? Why back again?
It’s not enough unlike the Italians, who seem to play political musical chairs, the names only changing when someone dies or gets jailed.
Indeed, the political system seems to cater for those who have been away, either in jail or hospital, and might have missed the news.
Posted: 4th, October 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (19) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Peter Mandelson Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons
PETER Mandelson is to make his third come-back to the Cabinet. It’s a reshuffle on the deck…
Posted: 3rd, October 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Labour’s Michael Meacher Will Not Speculate On His Speculations
THE overarching reaction to the banking crisis is that so few of our elected representatives have a clue about the money markets.
It’s not just Sarah Palin who is utterly ruderless, but also ambitious Michael Meacher, our Labour MP for Oldham West & Royton. This is what he writes in the Times:
For Labour to have a fighting chance at the next election, radical demands surfaced at Manchester for significant policy change. Not just a crackdown on short-selling, but action against speculators in general.
We must cut down on speculators. Go it? Now read on:
Posted: 29th, September 2008 | In: Labour Party, Money, Politicians | Comments (18) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Free Chlamydia Tests At Labour Party Conference
THOSE party conferences are just an excuse to debate into the small hours:
Maybe it was something in my eyes, but as I wandered around the GMEX picking up freebies in the form of frisbies, screwdrivers, pens, paperclips and countless varieties of sweets, I was approached by an operative of the Terrence Higgins Trust who handed me a free chlamydia test.
What are Tories tested for?
Posted: 28th, September 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Margaret Hodges Bites The Blairite Bullet
IN The Telegraph Tim Walker says Margaret Hodge is planning to leave the cabinet…
Your thoughts as to why she should do so now…
Posted: 27th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Labour Party, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Miliband Gordon Brown Caption Contest
HAVING told Vladimir Putin in no uncertain terms that if Russia continued to roll guns and tanks into Georgia he would be very, very displeased, Foreign Secretary David Miliband is keen to show that their is no Cold War between he and Gordon Brown.
As DM says to the PM:
“Until such a time when Gordon Brown, should he, possibly, sort of, feel old and tired and useless, I will continue to honour him as the terrific leader he is, unless, of course, the man no-one ellected to be Prime Minister should see fit to answer the prayers of millions of backbenchers and step down immediately, sort of…
“In the meantime, Mr Brown should not lower himself to sack me, because as a strong man and a man of untold strength and courage he knows better than to listen to idle rumour and unsubstantiated articles in the national press that I Miliband want his inherit his job, his home, his children and his rare fortitude…etc.
Your captions please…
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sweet FA: Banning Things Is The Labour Party’s Competitive Sport
SINCE 1997, the Labour Government has created more than 3,600 new criminal offenses.
As it says, “Britons can now be charged with everything from importing Polish potatoes to holding an unlicensed concert in a church or community hall.”
The challenge is to find more things to ban. You want more? You can’t handle more:
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polly Tonybee Wants Gordon Brown To Be As Consistent As She Is
POLLY Toynbee is a Guardian columnist and president of the Social Policy Association. She is a solid and clear voice, an opinion former:
“A cabinet of minnows and spineless backbenchers include many - perhaps most - who want Brown gone, but lack the nerve to act. They wait for someone else, for Brown to walk away or for a proverbial bus to save them from the task” – Polly Tonybee, Sep 6, 2008
Not to be confused with this Polly Tonybee:
“…as they stepped into No 10 yesterday, here was as decent and clever a team of ministers as ever graced the cabinet table. Two Milibands, Ed Balls, Jackie Smith, Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson, Douglas Alexander, Peter Hain and Hilary Benn - with the likes of John Denham and Yvette Cooper in attendance - present a good front. It’s certainly the most genuinely united government in living memory” – Polly Tonybee, June 29 2007
Consistency is what we’re after…
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Media Bitch, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lancashire Mafia Wants Gordon Brown Out
“LANCASHIRE MAFIA SPRING HIT ON BROWN,” says the Mail on Sunday’s front page.
No, no Gordon Brown’s not got his own death cult. He’s not that exciting. It’s just the tabloids love to talk of Mafia when MPs are revolting: Tafia (Welsh MPs), Rafia (Ex-forces MPs), Fifafia (Football mad MPs), Dafia (Duck-faced Mps), Jafia (MPs Biscuit and Snacks Select Committee) and so on…
So here’s the Lancashire mafia. “Ta-ra-luv,” say the Lancashire mafia as they dispatch their mark with a rogue Eccles cake.
And the Laffia the are getting rid of the capo, wher is Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn, Lancashire:
Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Time To Whip Off Gordon Brown’s Head
DUST off your tired suit and secretary, it’s the party political conference season. Gordon Brown’s career is under consideration. Says Nick Robinson, the BBC’s ace politics reporter:
“Gordon Brown no longer appears to be under threat. The cool political climate of the Autumn has replaced the heated frenzy of the Summer… The PM, it seems, has been saved for now at least not by anything he’s done but by an atmosphere of weary resignation that has taken over much of his party.”
Reports the BBC:
A junior member of the government has broken ranks to call for a challenge to Gordon Brown as party leader.
Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Gives An Eye For his Country
WHY should we back Gordon Brown?
Because he lost an eye when he was younger and a baby when he was older.
He was also frustrated in his career by a man who reneged on a deal for a job and has holidayed in Suffolk.
Posted: 8th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mail Readers Respond To Ivan Lewis’s Apology
IVAN Lewis is the 41-year-old Health Minister apologising for sending loads of text messages to 24-year-old Susie Mason, an assistant who worked in his private office in Whitehall.
Yeah, that Ivan Lewis, the one who teaches us to hate ourselves.
The Mail illustrates the images with shot of Ms Mason dressed in jeans and cut-away top. The image is removed from her Facebook profile - Facebook: the sensation-seeking hack’s first port of call.
Posted: 7th, September 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How To Be A Gangster, By Jacqui Smith And New Labour
DO you know how to spot is your child is in a gang? The Mirror hears Home Secretary Jacqui Smith offers her tips, and notes:
“Key indicators include…coming home late, using drugs, drawing tags on books, wearing bandanas, using strange slang or hand signals, cutting themselves off from the family and having extra cash.”
Let’s consider the evidence:
Coming Home Late:
Alone, like Jacqui Smith.
Accompanied, like Jacqui Smith.
Taking Drugs
Like Jacqui Smith.
Posted: 2nd, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (14) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: Foreigners Are All Potential Terrorists, Says Government
CREDIT Crunch Watch: Anorak’s look at credit crunch in the news…
“CREDIT CRUNCH WILL SEND CRIME SOARING,” screams the Daily Mail.
Says the FT:
Those walking the streets of London late at night may soon be at risk of being mugged by gangs of investment bankers, driven to acts of desperate violence by the travails of the credit markets.
Posted: 1st, September 2008 | In: Immigration, Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids, War On Terror | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
BOMBS. Planes. Queues. Queues. Queues…
Have just read an interesting little factoid from 2006. Remeber the transatlantic liquid bomb plot? Well apparently, on the day that John Reid made a statement about it (August 10th), he was accompanied by the hten Transport Secretary “wee” Dougie Alexander.
Alexander didn’t really say much, but was there thanks to his use of the Queen’s Flight (also known as 32 Squadron) by helicopter. That flight only cost the taxpayer £13,895.55. Had he used a scheduled flight (and enjoyed the chaos other travellers were facing) it would have been a mere couple of hundred, a train would have been as effective too.
Those who can do. What would you have done?
Posted: 1st, September 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians, Twitterings, War On Terror | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
