Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has
Continue reading →Gordon the Impotent.
So much doom and gloom around in the blogs this morning. The media are no more of cheer.
I, however, in my usual contrary way, find plenty to cheer me.
Continue reading →The Transfer of Power.
Morning Campers! A very relieved Raccoon is back behind the keyboard again. Five long days and even longer nights during which the only sniff of a keyboard that I got was a
Continue reading →Allo Vera, Bye-bye Vera…….
'Don't you know who I am Vera….?' -The electorate fights back!
One of the most controversially extreme feminist Labour MPs has lost her previously extremely safe seat in
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This is the EU!
Alastair Darling: Listen carefully, Juan Manuel Barroso. Gordon Brown conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. He leads an army of civl servants
Continue reading →Parasites that are very difficult to dislodge
An out-voted Labour parliamentarian, earlier
Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shrubs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. Physical contact
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Icelandic Men.
I’ve been to Reykjavik and I think I
Continue reading →Dispatches from the front line…
Delicious scenes of chaos here in Cambridge Just as we arrived for the count at 10pm, the theatre next door to the council offices emptied – 500 “Frankenfurter’s” disgorged from the Rocky Horror show – Continue reading → Browntaxer’s last “stand and deliver”
BROWNTAXER was a Money Cat, with funds that he would “merge”;
fact, he is the most imprudent cat that ever had the urge
to tax from farthings
Prescott John: the transport cat
There’s a whisper down the line at oh-six-thirty-nine
when the busy day is just about to start
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A Greek tragedy
"Drive the corruption from the land … "
And so it has come to pass that the EU has agreed to bail out the Greeks:
To the people of Cambridge.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The last time a maverick thundered across the Cambridgeshire fens and requested the support of the
Continue reading →The Royal Society – going downhill fast
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It seems to me this once august and revered institution is having its feet greased again. Fresh from its contentious and uncritical (and remarkably un-skeptical) adoption of IPCC dogma on “anthropogenic climate
The power of the Count
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Tormented electorate : time to take revenge,
tomorrow’s the day we can finally avenge
many years of wrong-doing and being ignored.
What’s at stake ? Dracula can be fatallyQuote of the Day
Alastair Campbell recognises the reality of 13 years of Labour rule…..! The Conservatives:“had the best imaginable playing field going into an election. A parlous economic state. Politics reeling from an expenses scandal.
Continue reading →Fishboney Blur: the mystery cat
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Fishboney Blur’s a Mystery Cat, he’s called the Hidden Flaw
For he’s the Primal Minister who redefines the law
He’s the bafflement of electors, and Westminster’sThree Men and a Quote.
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I adore the hilariously jingoistic tone of the Express headline.
“UK faces massive bill to bail out Europe’s collapsing economies.”
Perfect, it is a very
Continue reading →The Weakest Link?
Oh to be a Civil Servant now that Spring is here….
Especially in the Electoral Commission.
They mosey along from week to week, answering the odd phone call, overseeing an occasional by-election.
Then every five years they have an intense burst
Continue reading →I’m gonna make him an offer …
Any human activity that generates huge amounts of money becomes attractive to criminals. Gambling, retail banking and, of course, any illegal activity involving cash will all attract the eye of nefarious types. And Continue reading →
Has it come to this?
An observer – with quick yet antique mind –
has said a vast and useless bust of stone
stands in the House. Of a similar kind,
power-drunk, his shattered visage born frown
and Continue reading →The Wolf of Kabul
In my long ago childhood The Wizard had a character called The Wolf of Kabul.
Bill Sampson a British Army officer and his trusty sidekick Chung were the scourge of
Continue reading →The Times can’t see the dead wood for the trees.
A fine example of media manipulation. Worthy of the BBC in fact.
THE BBC will have to divert licence-fee money into its pension
Continue reading →No More Tripe!
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I swear Mrs Duffy is my Nana re-incarnated. I saw her buried with mine own eyes, but she lives on, slightly diluted.
Nana was a seamstress in Liverpool for the Cunard
Continue reading →What am I?
A concentration camp in the Middle East? The Russian gulag? An American High Security Prison?
Nope, this is the 17.5 Kilometre ring fence, topped with 5,000 volt electrified wire and 900 CCTV cameras
Continue reading →The teat reserved exclusively for Glasgow.
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That Glasgow is a curiously dependant city existing on the hand outs of industrious citizens way south of the Reiver line is beyond doubt now. The inhabitants have been hand reared in the
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Subrosa on electoral fraud. The Cynical Tendency on the money-go-round. Tami Hoffman on the hand of history. Mr Eugenides Continue reading →
Lazy Journalists?
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The National Union of Journalists has voted to go on strike across the Johnston Group which encompasses such ‘must reads’ as the Scarborough Evening News, the Hemel Hempstead Gazette,
Continue reading →Women in Labour Too Posh to Push?
Some months back I wrote to every female MP I could think of, inviting them to address this blog, and explain why my many female readers should vote for their party.
Last week I published the
Continue reading →Honest employment for ex-MPs?
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An enterprising job hunting firm MyWorkSearch.co.uk have compiled a list of recommended jobs for MPs should they not be re-elected next week.
Gordon Brown as a
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