Politics (409)
Just a Spending Party? Featured
Bricks and mortar, continued spending caps and continued reviewing of the benefits system. Contrary to their general depiction, Ed Miliband has presented Labour as realising they cannot continue to be the ‘spending party’ if they were elected, such are the times we’re in. Much to the chagrin of the cost-cutting coalition as well, with Clegg knocking Miliband for apparent hypocrisy, describing Labour of ‘flip-flopping’ the issue - alas the continued degradation of a fine shoe. The opposition leader said his party would allow councils to negotiate lower rents with landlords…
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Patrick Mercer – A Good Bloke Featured
The recent BBC Panorama / Telegraph sting on UK politicians willing to lobby for money is still unfolding, with Panorama due to air a programme about it on Thursday 6th June 2013. Prime Minister David Cameron was right to point out in a speech three years ago that lobbying was a scandal waiting to happen and a statutory register of lobbying interests is surely just around the corner now. Caught up in the latest sting is one of the Conservative MP’s I used to advise, back in 2006, Colonel Patrick…
Mercer Resigns Featured
Conservative MP for Newark Patrick Mercer has resigned from the Conservative Parliamentary Party over a planned BBC Panorama report filed as part of an investigation led by BBC Panorama and the Daily Telegraph, which will allege that Mercer was in fundamental breach of House of Commons Lobbying Rules. In a statement given to the press outside his office today Mercer said: "Panorama are planning to broadcast a programme alleging that I have broken Parliamentary rules.
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The Joy of Hay Featured
‘The Glastonbury of the Mind’ is how Bill Clinton described the Hay Festival and while I would loathe to describe Glastonbury as mindless, the overt selling point of Hay is its intellectualism. Authors, philosophers, poets, ecologists, anthropologists, and some musicians as well, were among the headline acts here as part of the - in fact - two simultaneous festivals occurring in marquess either side of the Britain’s bookshop, Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh-English border (just in Wales, alas it is a British festival). These are the eponymous Hay Festival (the one…
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Disgraced Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock could be suspended from his position in the Liberal Democrat Party on the grounds of “very serious allegations”, surrounding several homosexual assaults which allegedly took place among MPs. Written by Chris White The Right Honourable Member who emphatically denies claims that he raped other male MPs inside Westminster Palace, was arrested over the allegations in 2010 however, at that time the Crown Prosecution Service stated that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute.
A Terrorist Act? Featured
The Woolwich attacks and murder of Drummer Lee Rigby has shocked Britain and rightly so. Any attack like this is shocking in its nature and the consequences are abhorrent. For a man to have survived Afghanistan and then to lose his lives in the supposedly peaceful harmony of south London is obviously greatly upsetting for his afflicted family and for the grieving nation. The difficulty with this grief is that the attack can also become an emotional attack upon our reason and the threat of overreaction is worrying. In…
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Tenth Woolwich Suspect Arrested Featured
There has been a 10th arrest in connection with last Wednesday’s Islamist murder ofFusilier DrummerLee Rigby in Woolwich. Written by Chris White The suspect who is a 50 year old male was arrested in Welling on Monday Police are also currently searching two addresses in Southeast London and one address in South London. Meanwhile the two Nigerian killers of Lee Rigby, 28 year old Michael Adebolajo and 22 year old Michael Adebowale, remain under arrest in hospital under suspicion of murdering the infantryman. The Metropolitan Police have said that the…
BBC’s Grave Error: Asghar Bukhari Featured
Only hours after two Nigerian Islamists ambushed and hacked a serving British soldier to death in the streets of Woolwich as he was walking back to the Royal Artillery Barracks yesterday, the BBC made a catastrophic error by inviting on its World News channel one of Britain’s worst Islamist terrorist sympathisers - Asghar Bukhari of the vile MPAC(UK), in the guise of a so-called “expert on extremism”. Let’s remind ourselves of who Bukhari really is: In 2006, Bukhari had sent David Irving a £60 cheque and a letter headed with…
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Alex Salmond: Marxist Featured
The ‘79 Group’ was an internal faction within the SNP, named after the year that it was formed. The group sought to persuade the SNP to take an active leftwing stance, arguing that it would win more support, and were highly critical of the established SNP leaders.
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Loony Left Inflames Feeling Featured
The Loony Left Town Council of Radstock Somerset angered and alarmed the town’s English residents yesterday after the Council banned the English national flag from being flown on the grounds of the publicly owned Town Hall there.
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