David Cameron Channels Bob The Builder
MORE evidence that David Cameron is copying into Barack Obama.
Having lifted the new Tory website with the word “CHANGE”, the Sun says Dave can “FIX IT” and dresses him up as Bob he builder.
Can Dave fit it? “YES WE CAM.”
Posted: 2nd, October 2008 | In: Barack Obama, Conservatives, David Cameron, Politicians, Race For The White House | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Cameron Is Not Short On City Friends
DAVID Cameron says “You can bank on me”, at least this is the message the Independent relates to its readers from the Tory Party conference.
And it’s a good job that the Bank of Cameron is open, but not all that good, maybe, if Lady Louise Patten, wife of Tory education minister John, is running things.
Until recently she was a non-executive director of Bradford & Bingley, aka Bring & Buy, aka Boom & Bust etc.
And there is Christopher Gent, director of Lehman Brothers, who has given tens of thousands of pounds to the Tories.
Posted: 2nd, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Conservatives, David Cameron, Politicians | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Banker Aide: Britain Invests In Keeping China Sweet
BRITAIN gave China £38.6million in aid last year,” says the Sun. And that will stop, should the Tories get into power.
Says shadow international development secretary Andrew Mitchell, a man who proves that the longer the title the more insignificant the job:
“Many British taxpayers would be astonished to learn that we are still giving aid to China.”
The Sun says China is so rich it can spend more than £20bn on the Olympics and put a man in space.
Readers may care to recall that when landed, the Chinese astronauts were sat on Argos garden furniture and carried off by saluting removal men. It was more as the Victorians had landed in Guinea than evidence bleeding edge of technology and the future of mankind.
Posted: 1st, October 2008 | In: Conservatives, Money, Politicians, Tabloids, Terrible TV | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Andrew Neil Watches Andrew Duncan’s Back
POLITICAL insident of the day: Andrew Neil looks forward to look back…
“Shouldn’t you have had better hindsight” – BBC’s Andrew Neil to Tory MP Alan Duncan
With the economy shafted, the BBC in total control of the media and politics a game for failures and company men aren’t we due a revolution..?
Posted: 30th, September 2008 | In: Conservatives, Overheard On The TV And Radio, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Nadine Dorries Castrates The Recess Monkey
NADINE Dorries, the Christian fundamentalist in white, is on the hunt for a blogger. Run, Recess Monkey, Run:
Apart from the other 100 people in the room. Nadine Dorries is going to stop blogging. She said earlier that if she meets a nameless other blogger - /present in Brum today/, as I breeze shot with him - ‘he will father no children, I tell you’.
Nadine is the woman in white…
Christian Fundamentalists Aborted: Nadine Dorries Tagged
The Biggest Boobs In Westminster: Jacqui Smith’s Knockers
Posted: 30th, September 2008 | In: Conservatives, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Armed Courses: Sending The Troops Into Britain’s Schools
THE Conservatives have unveiled their “Troops For Teachers” scheme. “SEND IN ARMY TO SORT OUT SCHOOLS,” says the Express on its cover.
The Sun says servicemen and women “would be paid to re-train as teachers on leaving the forces in a bid to boost tough inner-city schools.”
Yeah, nothing like a few trained killers in the tuck shop to teach those cocky kebab shop knifers what’s what.
Posted: 29th, September 2008 | In: Conservatives, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Cameron’s Flawed Debt Story
DAVID Cameron has been quiet on the banking crisis. Want to know why? It’s because he and his party have nothing meaningful to add:
Cameron is then directly quoted, saying: “I think that we have had a failure of regulation and we have had a debt boom that went on for far too long and it reached into parts of the economy it shouldn’t have done. The whole thing has become infected and it has got to be dealt with.”
A propos our previous post, Cameron is playing with fire taking this line. For sure, it is generally agreed that that has indeed been a “failure of regulation”, but by far the bulk of regulation, and the regulatory structures, are of EU origin. They are not within the gift of Cameron to change, without taking on the European Union, which the leader of the opposition shows no sign of doing. But to pretend that they are “Gordon Brown’s” is a very silly strategy indeed.
Isn’t it all the failure of capitalism?
Posted: 28th, September 2008 | In: Conservatives, David Cameron, Money, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
It’s Time For Change: Cameron Wants To Be Obama
THE new Tory website boasts “IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE”.
Change… Like Obama…
Posted: 27th, September 2008 | In: Conservatives, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
AmericaInTheWorld And British Stupidity
KNOW that AmericaInTheWorld has commissioned a poll to check how ignorant the British are about America. How ignorant? Very.
A poll of nearly 2,000 Britons by YouGov/PHI found that 70 per cent of respondents incorrectly said it was true that the US had done a worse job than the European Union in reducing carbon emissions since 2000. More than 50 per cent presumed that polygamy was legal in the US, when it is illegal in all 50 states. . . .
The survey showed that a majority agreed with the false statement that since the Second World War the US had more often sided with non-Muslims when they had come into conflict with Muslims. In fact in 11 out of 12 major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims and secular forces, or Arabs and non-Arabs, the US has sided with the former group. Those conflicts included Turkey and Greece, Bosnia and Yugoslavia, and and Kosovo and Yugoslavia.
Asked if it was true that “from 1973 to 1990 the United States sold Saddam Hussein more than a quarter of his weapons,” 80 per cent of British respondents said yes. However the US sold just 0.46 per cent of Saddam’s arsenal to him, compared to Russia’s 57 per cent, France’s 13 per cent and China’s 12 per cent.
David Cameron wants us to understand Americans better…
Via Andrew Bolt.
Posted: 19th, August 2008 | In: Conservatives, David Cameron, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Cam Shafted: White Van Man Guns For David Cameron
SAYS David Cameron:
“I turned down a road I don’t normally go down and I slowed down.
“As this van drove by, this hand came out and just bashed me in the back with the aim of pushing me in front of the car.
“Luckily I managed to put the brakes on. He gave me a hell of a shock.”
The perils of laying hands on Dave…
Picture: Beau Bo D’Or Website
Posted: 18th, August 2008 | In: Conservatives, David Cameron, Politicians | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Michael Gove On How The Guardian Media Group’s Zoo, Nuts And News Corp Corrupt Minds
SAYS Michael Gove, the Conservative’s education spokesman, and Times hack:
“Titles such as Nuts and Zoo paint a picture of women as permanently, lasciviously, uncomplicatedly available.
“The images they use and project reinforce a very narrow conception of beauty and a shallow approach towards women. They celebrate thrill-seeking and instant gratification without ever allowing any thought of responsibility towards others, or commitment, to intrude.”
Nuts and Zoo, the Argos jewellery section of the magazine shop.
Here’s a thought, Mr Gove: boys who buy Nuts and Zoo do so because they can’t reach the topshelf magazines.
Mr Gove’s thoughts are published in the Guardian. (The words hereunder are scored through because of the comments below, and a note to Anorak from Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Strategy and Development, Guardian Media Group):
In March 2008 Emap plc was acquired by Eden Bidco Ltd, a joint venture between Apax and Guardian Media Group plc.
Emap publishes Zoo. The Guardian is run by The Scott Trust - “As the sole shareholder in Guardian Media Group the Scott Trust measures the return on its investment in terms broader than pure financial performance.”
The Scott Trust values are:
- honesty
- cleanness (now interpreted as integrity)
- courage
- fairness
- a sense of duty to the reader and the community
We put these principles into action and fulfil our responsibilities primarily through our day-to-day business conduct and the editorial content of our newspapers, websites and other media.
Cleanness - all the girls on Zoo are scrubbed ready for your inspection.
Michael Gove writes for The Times, owned by New Corp, publishers of How to Make Love Like a Porn Star (Jenna Jameson), The Sun (Page 3 Girls) and the News of The World, which contains adverts for readers to call dirty college girls live.
Anorak feels dirty just writing about it…
Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Conservatives, Politicians | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
DAVID Cameron says teach the kids to drink at home. Says Melisaa Kite:
If the answer to alcoholism really is to teach children how to drink, then why don’t the Tories propose giving away free Dubonnet and soda in schools during break time, or perhaps little bottles of vodka and red bull at lunch.
Yeah, perhaps…
Posted: 31st, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Conservatives, David Cameron, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
DID you know that only 7% of Conservatives approve of the BBC - PoliticsHome
Posted: 28th, July 2008 | In: Conservatives, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hair It Is: Scientists Return David Cameron’s Bike
WHAT did David Cameron says when his bike was stolen?
The Times says he “had his bike pinched while he popped into his local Tesco supermarket in north Kensington to ‘buy some salad’”.
Anorak was certain Cameron said he had popped out for some “salmon”. On such things common touches are established and lost.
But there was one fact: Cameron’s bike has gone. He left his bike outside, and when he returned, there it was, gone.
But the bike is now returned. And it’s all thanks to the Sunday Mirror and its contacts on the street.
Posted: 27th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Conservatives, David Cameron, Police Log, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Shaun Bailey On The Ego Of Knife Crime
CONSERVATIVE candidate Shaun Bailey on knife-crime:
I know what it’s like to come from a poor background, growing up in a tough area, north Kensington. But it’s no excuse. Much has been made of the link between poverty and crime: it’s often used as an excuse for seriously anti-social behaviour. But few of these stabbings are motivated by robbery. They are much more about bullying and simply inflicting injuries upon others to exert power.
Another commonly held belief is that young people who get involved in knife crime have low self-esteem. I’ve been a youth worker for more than 19 years and I’ve found that many of those involved in these types of crimes actually have a very high opinion of themselves - this is part of what allows them to justify their actions to themselves.
They mug and stab and bully because they think they are better than you…
Posted: 17th, July 2008 | In: Conservatives, Police Log, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Summer Holidays With Cameron And Brown
CLASS war in the Mirror where hackette Julie McAffrey is given the task of visiting “posh” Padstow, Cornwall, and “sophisticated” Southwold, Suffolk, where, respectively, David Cameron and Gordon Brown and spending part of their summer holidays.
When he wasn’t prime minister, Brown was a regular visitor to Cape Cod in the US; now he’s in charge he stays in the UK, offering us no respite and him no rest.
(Picture: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
Posted: 17th, July 2008 | In: Conservatives, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Money, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Guardian On Ignorant Climate Sceptics
AND we thought scepticism was healthy: Says the Guardian’s the paper’s RSS feed:
‘Many Tory MPs still climate sceptics’: Poll suggests up to a fifth of all MPs do not understand, or choose to ignore, the science behind global warming
Only a fifth…
Posted: 16th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Conservatives, Global Warming, Politicians | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Johnson’s Sir Simon Milton
NEWS all around that Boris Johnson has appointed his new Number 2, following the departure of Ray Lewis, who as the Mail says, “resigned earlier this months over accusations of sleeze”.
That’s Ray Lewis, Justice of the Peace, or not:
Ray Lewis is not, and never has been, a magistrate. On Thursday both he and the mayor said he was.
Johnson’s new No.2 is Sir Simon Milton, as pictured…
Posted: 15th, July 2008 | In: Boris Watch, Conservatives, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
News Of Margaret Thatcher’s Death And The End Of Terror
“ULTIMATE HONOUR FOR LADY THATCHER,” announces the Mail on its front page.
What’s it to be? An Audience With Maggie, live on ITV, with the Iron Lady fielding questions from other 1980s stars, like TV’s Dirty Den, radio’s Kid Jensen and laughs with Freddie Starr, culminating in a duet in which Mike Yarwood plays Ronnie Renee-gan to Maggie’s Renato?
“Lady Thatcher to be honoured with State funeral,” says the paper, “but Palace fears there might not be enough troops to line streets of London.”
Posted: 13th, July 2008 | In: Conservatives, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (23) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Davis Is A Monster Raving Loon
DAVID DAVIS wins! What exactly he won is open to debate, but he won it in the strongest possible terms:
Monster Raving Loony Party candidate, Mad Cow Girl, tells the BBC: “I may be a loony but I’m not mad enough to want dangerous people to be walking the streets.”
Posted: 12th, July 2008 | In: Conservatives, Politicians, War On Terror | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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