A list of Cameron’s ‘dithering’

Seeing as it’s Gordon Brown who gets the dithering charge flung at him whenever he does anything, I thought I’d mention some of the things Cameron has dithered about recently.

My letter to David Davis via DD For Freedom website

Hello David (or Team David),

Good luck in your campaign but I do have a few questions:

Why does 42 day detention go against the Magna Carta but 28 day detention (typo! should read ‘doesn’t’ here), which you voted for?

Isn’t the death penalty an infringement on civil liberties?

If you are against ID cards, why did you vote for them in 2004?

What happened between following the Tory whip on ID cards in 2004 and resigning now in 2008 to change your mind so extremely?

Why were you against the repeal of Section 28 if you’re such a defender of Liberty?

Why did you vote against the equalisation of the age of consent for gay people?

Why did you vote to lower the abortion limit, which would infringe on the womans right to control her own body?

Why are you on record not asking for a reduction of CCTV, but saying it should be brought up to ‘evidential standard’?

I look forward to hearing from you as I believe these are the serious issues you have to face if you want to lay claim to being a true libertarian.

Many thanks,

New page - Good things Gordon’s done

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.

The ‘Greens’ disappearing act

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

Prime Minister’s Questions 23/4/08 - “Pre-Match Analysis”

My first post for the weekly sessions of Prime Ministers Questions, which Bruce Forsyth recently described as ‘pure vaudeville’. Not sure Gordon Brown would go for that but there you go.

23rd April 2008

 Since the last PMQ’s, pre-Easter recess, Labour and Gordon Brown in particular have got a right old kicking in the press. A few of the more sage journalists have pointed out that this often happens during recess as political hacks run out of things to say. Certainly the hysterical poll that said Gordon Brown is actually more unpopular than when Chamberlain appeased Adolf Hitler was a bit hard to take seriously.

The inspiration behind the blog - Nick Robinson and Mr’s Fawkes/Dale.

Ah, the inaugural first post. I better explain my reasons for this blog, such as they are:

1) I thought it would be therapeutic to have a blog to vent my frustrations on, rather than my friends/girlfriend/cat. This way I can post something and then forget about it (well that’s the theory).

2) There is something of a dearth of lefty/Labour blogs, so I thought maybe it would at least even up the balance against the might of the Mr’sFawkes and Dale.

3) I saw Nick Robinson the other day at Leeds train station! I realised no-one else would share my excitement and I thought to myself ‘If I had a blog I could post all about it’. So gather round and I shall tell ye a tale…

I saw Nick Robinson. He walked past me. Nothing much else to say really, his face was quite red and he looked annoyed/determined/constipated depending on how you look at it. I did an all too obvious double take and briefly contemplated telling him how much I enjoyed his blog, but then thought that, even though political commentators probably don’t get many fans on the streets, he looked too angry for me to pester him and I’d inevitably come across like an idiot. So I let him pass me by, like strangers in the night, except it was 7:30 in the morning, in Leeds.