New page - Good things Gordon’s done
May 31, 2008
I decided to write a page listing some of the good things Gordon Brown and his government have done since coming to power. It’s by no means comprehensive but have a gander here.
Giles Coren - Also a big hypocrite too!
May 31, 2008
Well one of my more popular posts is a piece I did on Giles Coren, a food critic for the Times who also likes writing scathingly on the working class part-time in his articles.
You can imagine my surprise then when I opened an issue of The Sun and found his grinning mug, taking part in a taste tester on…tinned beans. In his original article I wrote about, he quotes a biologist lamenting fried breakfasts because they contain things like baked beans, so I was surprised to see Giles Coren now taking money to review them in the newspaper most widely read by the working classes.
Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne has come out and claimed Labour are now the new ‘nasty party’ in a reference to the reputation of his own party for the past few decades.
While I’m not going to defend Labour’s campaign in Crewe & Nantwich, which was peurile at best and at worst did have some uncomfortable echoes of xenophobia with the lines about foreign nationals carrying ID cards, is it on a par with the things the Conservatives did to earn them the reputation in the first place?
Following the election blog in Crewe & Nantwich yesterday, which was relatively pointless given the sporadic updates, I made a comment about the Tories and to my surprise Andrew Sparrow replied! Not only that but he agreed with my point (to a degree). So I replied to him and got another reply.
Today it’s been announced the government are going to have to reveal the comings and goings of all visitors to Downing Street, specifically during June 2005 when Tony Blair was in charge.
Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat MP, said this would provide a breath of fresh air through the corridors of power. But would it?
The ‘Greens’ disappearing act
May 21, 2008
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed as Gordon Brown and the Government have taken a battering lately over the backdated car tax issue, where older vehicles pay more tax according to how unenvironmentally friendly they are, it’s the absolute silence from the environmentalists who have been campaigning for policies like this for the past few years
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21/05/08 - PMQ’s - Brown edges it for me but he must try answer at least a couple of questions!
May 21, 2008
Well, I expected Brown to get a mauling today in an attempt by the Tories to really cement the momentum going into tomorrow’s by-election in Crewer & Nantwich. I hadn’t considered the issue of Burma and just expected Cameron to go straight into a 10p tax assault.
Read it here. It’s genuinely funny and makes him sound very human, knowledgeable and likeable. Many of the things he didn’t come across as during the campaign to be Mayor of London. I geuinely feel sorry for him after reading that, and the Lib Dems certainly don’t come out of it well.
That said, it was still pointless for him to vote for Left List as his 2nd pref.
My favourite entry is the flirting between him and Will Self, very funny. And Will Self sounds like a right slag. Good on him.
Political celebrity spotting pt. 2
May 16, 2008
Bizarrely, last week I saw my second political celebrity in Leeds train station in a month.
This week’s luminary was none other than the Secretary of State for the Environment and all round legend, Hilary Benn.
