Cleggover scores again

Congratulations to Lib Dem leader Nick ‘Cleggover’ Clegg and his wife, who has announced she is pregnant with their third child.

If you were guessing that I don’t really care but wanted to use the cleggover pun, you’d be right.

We’re going too far in the quest for Freedom of Information

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?

Prime Minister’s Questions - 07/05/08

I didn’t bother writing a blog entry for last week, the PMQ’s was quite boring (relative to any large ‘incidents’) but I figured I’d better this week as I expected Cameron to give Brown a right battering.

As it happens I didn’t think it was too bad today.

PMQ’s 23/04/08 - Opportunism Knocks

Prime Minister’s Question Time is probably one of the few times when it can be good to be a Leader of the Opposition. You can stand up, crack a few jokes, have everyone laugh sycophantically with you, insult the Prime Minister (and who gets to do that, to his face, every week?) and pretend to care about issues you have absolutely no history of taking an interest in.

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.