Why I'm fucking furious with David Laws....
A little history. One of the reasons why there has been radical political change in the UK in the last year is that the British people have finally started getting truly fed up with MPs on the 'gravy …
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Demonising Tories...or anyone...is so last century...
Now that the smoke of battle (and confusion) of General Election 2010 has cleared and we have a Coalition Government that hasn't yet been proven to be the spawn of Beelzebub, can I make a suggestion t…
The farce of the 2010 General Election
Less than 2 hours after the closing of the Polls in the UK's General Election, it's clear that there have been some cock-ups in the logistical management of the election that makes most developing wor…
Don't Panic! A Very British Coup or a Terribly British Compromise?
Over the last few days there's been some very strange stories emerging and then submerging again in the UK Media - the General Election has made the silly season come early this years. One story abo…
When slogans are not enough
I was 18 years old in 1979; people of a certain age will remember that year as being the start of the 'Thatcher Years' - the start of 11 years of Tory Government that was characterised by radical righ…
Mrs Duffy, the PM, and what politicians REALLY think of the voter...
For a senior politician to be filmed 'meeting the people' is a feat of great courage that is fraught on all sides with danger. The voter may hate your guts, may egg you, may tell you things you don't…
When can we have adults running the UK please?
Well, it looks like the Foreign Office have managed to confirm what I've felt about the majority of Civil Servants for some time. That is, they need to grow up, realise that they're on a pretty cushy…
The obligatory General Election Post
Some years ago, a joke did the rounds about the first Albanian astronaut. The main thing you need to know is that at the time the joke was told Albania was a head-bangingly totalitarian Marxist state…
Politically Correctly Dead
This story is desperately, tragically sad on a number of levels, and also makes me pretty angry. Read the story - unless you've had a very sheltered life (oh, working in the public sector or the hall…
You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.
You might have missed this. I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…