The twin specialities of the Righteous, the ‘emotive’ platform, and ‘oppressive’ legislation, will reach a crescendo today as Mrs Ball’s lays down her bear trap.
Continue reading →Mrs Ball’s Bear Trap.
Death rattles from the ongoing Colin Port saga…..
John Ozimek in The Register has an exclusive interview today with Jim Bates, the man firmly in the sights of Operation Ore Ire. I am reproducing it in full
Continue reading →Inexorable Choices.
So, the wrong kind of voters (pace Hain) have elected the wrong kind of MPs (pace Howard) under our great democracy that we seek to export
Continue reading →How to dress up a dickhead…….
BOYS as young as 12 are to be issued with condom “credit cards” allowing them to pick up free contraception at football grounds, barber’s shops and scout
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Hissing Sid and Young Minds…….
Amidst all the scurrilous gossip of the past few days, something profound has been overlooked.
Hissing Sid, the sibilant, slithery, Peter Mandelson, has done more than just reposition himself one
Continue reading →Le corps politique est une ‘corpse’ qui est ventilé artificiellement.
Labour MPs watched in silence as Gordon Brown was returned to 10 Downing Street after PMQ’s today.
William Hague said yesterday that the government are ‘a row of political corpses
Continue reading →Whither Scott? Will she be some time?
Liberal Deomocrat voice has some unhelpful advice if you are searching for news on their president Baroness Ros Scott. Those of you wishing to find out what Lib Dem party president Baroness Ros Scott has
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Lullabies for the colicy voters…..
European elections this Thursday, and apart from the Europhile FT, and its decidedly narrow readership, I can find no serious comment in national newspapers discussing the main issues.
Do you
Continue reading →Deconstructing an Erratic Compass
Listening to Gordon Brown going three rounds with the incomparable Evan Davis this morning was like settling down to one last Yuletide showing of ‘Escape to Victory’. You know exactly how
Continue reading →You’re a bad MP baby…
Told you once beforeAnd I won’t tell you no more
Get down, get down, get down
You’re a bad MP baby
I don’t want you ’round You give me the creeps
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Catch a pair of errant MPs
Catch a pair of errant MPsVast expenses hidden from all
In a mercenary coup –
Do not heed their mild surprise –
Having passed the Rubicon
They’re a pair of brazen clips;
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Fraud is fraud, is fraud, is fraud……
Bill Wiggin filled in 23 consecutive monthly forms nominating his constituency house as his second home for the purposes of his parliamentary expenses even though he and his wife owned it
Continue reading →Homoeopathic economics.
I’m grateful to Mr Eugenides for pointing me in the direction of this, I’d given up reading ‘ethical blogs’ since the dog days of Derek Draper……….(Mr Eumenides shurly? Far more appropriate.
Continue reading →Cold Turkey on Big Brother.
The Righteous do have a sense of humour……
…after all. This is the Police Station in Righteous Central, otherwise known as Sheffield. More precisely, Letsby Avenue, Sheffield. Courtesy of Google. Ask Gloria if you can’t figure it out. Continue reading → A Tale of Two Shanty Cities……
Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two
Continue reading →Sublimely Absurd – Police Force apply for Warrant for their Chief Constable!
The Colin Port saga gets better and better.
Matters hotted up last week as, according to one legal source close to these matters: “Last Friday the police applied for
Continue reading →Spawned by Damian McBride no doubt…….
Wikipedia have just admitted that a Labour apparatchik named David Boothroyd, councillor for Westminster’s Westbourne ward, has resigned after being revealed as the person behind the alias ‘Sam Blacketer’
Continue reading →Midsummer Maddieness.
Parliamentarians, Paedophiles and Doctors, at first sight seem to have little in common, in fact would be horrified to find themselves thrown in the same pot, but this week all have been hoist by the buzzing
Continue reading →The Dissolution of Modern Britain.
Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz’s holiday snaps of sunny Cardiff-by-Sea may have embarrassed us, but came as no surprise to those who have walked Britain’s streets after dark.
We may all
Continue reading →Why France? – part two.
I am always leery of writing of life in France, it sets off an utterly predictable rash of knee jerk comments from fellow bloggers who seem to think that because one lives in Europe one has no
Continue reading →Why France?
Leg-iron penned an interesting report from his local hostelry yesterday. One paragraph in particular caught my eye.
One of the other drinkers had been in for an operation on his hand. General
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Lego Cops in Wonderland…….
Any lingering vestige of faith that you had in the Great British Press should have been dispelled overnight. There are no journalists in the accepted sense of the word – as
Continue reading →There be ‘Ore’ in them thar Irish Hills.
They say if you stand still in Piccadilly Circus for long enough, eventually everyone in the world will pass by. Rummaging in the murky depths of ‘Operation Ore’ is beginning
Continue reading →Old Holborn caught Nappying by Shropshire Lass…….
Old Holborn is mustering a demonstration outside Parliament this Saturday. I wish I could be there to support him. However, whilst we were all digesting the inane words of one Gordon Brown inside Parliament, Continue reading →
The United Kingdom – a Failed State.
How fitting, how perfectly in tune…..
With the total disrespect this man has for the institution of Parliament, than that he should announce his resignation first to one of his political cronies rather than to Parliament and the MPs he has so utterly let down. Continue reading →
First the Speaker, now the Chief Constable…….
It is said of the Law that it is the glue which holds the fabric of society together – if that is so, we are in danger of unravelling fast.
Continue reading →Collusion and the Fees Office.
Following on from Iain Dale’s piece this morning, it would seem that Parliamentary Staff were well aware of the collusion between the Fees Office and MPs on the matter of expenses.
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