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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Is John Hutton the man to put Gordon out of his misery?

Paul Linford thinks there might be hope for our beleaguered PM. But...

"Were a minister to resign now on the grounds that he or she could not support Mr Brown's continued leadership, it would surely do for the Prime Minister."

My money's on the Business Secretary.

Labels: labour meltdown

Anyone but Murray

Says the Mirror's Tony Parsons.

"Unlike Murray, I would cheer Scotland in any football match they played, unless the opponents were England. Murray, of course, has gone on record as saying he would support, "anyone but England" the tip of a toxic iceberg of anti-Englishness."

Can it get any worse for Brown?

"At the moment, things are so bad for Brown that even if he turned water into wine he would be blamed for Britain's binge drinking crisis."

Labels: labour meltdown

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Cameron's 'Edward Heath on Ecstasy' strategy won't work

If Sham Cam wants to be more than a one term wonder he should read Matthew d'Ancona in today's Sunday Telegraph: 'The challenge facing David Cameron has changed'.

Labels: cloud cameron land

Grubby, grubby, grubby

Question: What does it tell you about the Tories when their Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury fails to declare £3 million of dividends and their Shadow Home Secretary is helping to prop up the dictatorship in Zimbabwe? Answer: Everything.

Labels: tory sleaze

Join the campaign

To reduce the number of MPs by half.

Labels: HoC gravy train

Friday, June 27, 2008

It's not just the winning that counts

It's the taking part.

Times: Labour finish behind BNP in election humiliation

Guardian: Labour finishes in fifth place behind Greens and BNP on Brown's first anniversary as PM

Polling guru Prof Anthony King: Gordon Brown is a drowning man

Labels: labour meltdown

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Tories considering windfall tax on energy companies

Those crafty Tories, what are they like! According to one well placed source the Tories could be about to embarrass Labour by calling for a windfall tax on the greedy energy companies. Good on the Tories. If Labour hasn't got the guts to rein in the fat-cat energy suppliers they aren't fit to govern.

And there's more. 'Tories promise NHS targets revamp'.

Memo to Labour:

Shape up or ship out.

Labels: tory comeback-labour meltdown?

Not enough hours in the day

And we all know what that means - no time to blog, no time to read other blogs. And we all know what that means - I miss stories like this.

Astonishing.

Labels: tory sleaze

Can Brown defy the polls?

No idea. But this suggestion from Paul Linford might help.

Labels: labour comeback-tory meltdown?

Monday, June 23, 2008

You can lead a Tory to water...

But you can't make it drink. It was only a week ago that Tory PPC, Alun Cairns, was forced to resign after referring to Italians as 'greasy wops'. Now Boris Johnson's right hand man has been forced to resign after this.

'BNP in suits'?

Related: 'Assembly rounds on 'hands-off' Boris Johnson'

Labels: Mayor Boris, tory dinosaurs

Total Politics

Or Total Bollocks? If the maestro himself, Paul Linford, is contributing it might be worth a look.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Are the Tories corrupt or just incompetent?

I don't. Honestly I don't. But if you'll allow me to indulge myself on this occasion I promise never to do it again.

Monday, June 09, 2008
Daily Pundit: Two more Tory frontbenchers facing sleaze allegations

"At least two, if rumours circulating the offices of one well known newspaper are anything to go by. With Caroline Spellman, Alan Duncan and two more as yet unnamed Tory frontbenchers also about to face serious sleaze allegations the Tories could be in for a bumpy ride between now and the party conference season. Fasten your seat belts."

Sunday June 21, 2008
Sunday Telegraph: Liam Fox at centre of new Conservative donations row


Whatever you do, please don't email me asking me to name the second as yet unnamed Tory frontbencher about to be embroiled in sleaze allegations. You'll know in good time.

Labels: cloud cameron land, liam fox, tory sleaze

Pressure on Brown to stand down

From his closest allies by all accounts. So is David Miliband preparing for a leadership contest? You bet he is. He has been for months. And is Ed Balls preparing to take him on? You bet he is. He has been for months.

Labels: miliband, the next Labour leader

Simon Mann could lose jail privileges

Says the Telegraph. Presumably his jailers are threatening to remove the bucket from his cell.

Fair Trials Abroad »

Labels: Bring back the Empire

Kay Burley's biggest mistake?

Going to Ascot. I liked her before that. I felt sorry for her after her scrap with the pap. Not any more. Surly Burley can go to Al Jazeera TV for all I care. Which brings me on to serial loser Lee Westwood. He was there as well, at Ascot, in his daft top hat. What a loser.

"Third in the US Open! I've come third in the US Open!" Loooooooooser.

Labels: Ascot is for losers

Thursday, June 19, 2008

David Miliband's first Cabinet

Credit where credit's due (even though the Tory leader is clearly under the spell of several Svengali type figures in the British green movement) Sham Cam was highly impressive during PMQs yesterday. Brown looked thoroughly washed out. Done in.

In light of that I'm anticipating a handover of power to David Miliband within the next 6 months. I expect his top team to look something like this.

James Purnell: Chancellor
Ed Miliband: Foreign Secretary
John Denham: Home Secretary
Liam Byrne: Health Secretary
Jacquie Smith: Defence Secretary
Geoff Hoon: Justice Secretary
Alan Milburn: Communities Secretary
Yvette Cooper: Children, Schools & Family Secretary
Alan Johnson: Universities & Skills Secretary
Andy Burnham: Business Secretary
Ed Balls: Work and Pensions Secretary
Hazel Blears: Transport Secretary
Ruth Kelly: Chief Whip
Jim Murphy: Environment Secretary
David Lammy: International Development Secretary
John Hutton: Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland & London Secretary
Caroline Flint: Sports & Culture Secretary
Stephen Timms: Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Tony McNulty: Leader of the House

Labels: miliband, the next Labour leader

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Shadow Cabinet resignation expected over Cameron's Heathrow u-turn

It's well known that David Cameron is in the pocket of, on the payroll of, and under the spell of loony-tune green extremists. From Zac Goldsmith to the head of Greenpeace the Tory leader has fallen hook, line and sinker for the global warming hysteria pedaled by the drug-addled chattering classes.

But it's his newly stated opposition to a third runway at Heathrow that could finally lead to his downfall.

The majority of Cameron's Shadow Cabinet want a third runaway. The majority of Tory backbenchers want a third runway. And the tens of thousands of workers whose jobs rely on the continued expansion at Heathrow want a third runway.

This is Cameron's biggest mistake since Grammargate.

Labels: cloud cameron land, global warming hysteria, zac

Man overboard

Completely overboard. That's Dozy Sarkozy's plan for a British aircraft carrier to be placed at the heart of a new EU fleet.

Related: The EU is as much a threat to our freedom as the surveillance state »

Labels: eussr

Jack Straw: The criminal's friend

If Labour loses the next election Jack Straw will have played a major part in his party's downfall. He was useless as Home Secretary and he's even more useless as Justice Secretary.

Labels: Labour's law and order meltdown

Sunday, June 15, 2008

David Davis defection rumours

With all the speculation surrounding David Davis's motives for his well publicised stunt last week I'm surprised that no-one from the Westminster commentariat has asked the one question on the lips of every good blogger: When was the last time the former Shadow Home Secretary met privately with Paddy Ashdown?

Labels: DD

Tories show their true colours

"Words cannot express how foolish he has been." Who said it? Was it Tory MP and anti-social quad bike menace, Nicholas Soames, commenting on David Davis's shock decision to resign as an MP last week? Or was it my mate Guiseppe, commenting on the Tory Party candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan, Alun Cairns, who referred to Italians as "greasy wops" during a radio interview?

Labels: tory dinosaurs

Friday, June 13, 2008

25 per cent turnout predicted in Davis by-election

Twenty five per cent if he's lucky. And that's with the help of Shami Chakrabarti and Liberty who are reportedly preparing to campaign alongside Davis. Will they fund his campaign? After yesterday's events anything is possible.

Labels: DD

Tory plotters could force Cameron out

If, as the polls suggest, the Tories are dead certs to win the next election then why on earth would the majority of Tory backbenchers and at least six members of the Shadow Cabinet want a Conservative government led by David Cameron? The answer's simple - they wouldn't.

And that's why I'm more convinced than ever that David Cameron will NOT lead his party into the next general election. He not only lacks conviction and passion - you could write his political beliefs on the back of a fag packet - according to many senior Tories he also lacks the 'intellectual rigour' needed to lead the country.

I expect Cameron to be ousted in a bloodless coup before the next general election.

Labels: cloud cameron land, the next tory leader

First Hilton, now Davis. Who's next?

The Tory big guns are deserting Cameron. But who's next? If you're thinking John Bercow, forget it. He's more of a pea shooter than a big gun. Oliver Letwin, however, is a different matter altogether.

Labels: tory splits

Thursday, June 12, 2008

David Davis and George Galloway: Strange bedfellows

It's a well know fact that George Galloway and David Davis go way back. Just how close they are is anyone's guess, although in 2006 while broadcasting for TalkSport George did let it slip that a year earlier during the Tory leadership contest Davis had sent him "half a dozen" text messages "slagging off" his opponents in the contest.

So after today's stunt by Davis you'll forgive me for thinking that George is secretly advising the former MP for Haltemprice and Howden. In the interests of democracy you understand.

That aside, Cuban Dave is right in one respect - 42 days is totally out of order. But to showboat and grandstand as he's done today is equally out of order.

Then again, maybe he's a sleeper? Too conspiratorial? Praguetory's the expert on these things.

Labels: DD

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Obama hires top bloggers to counter top bloggers

Am I waiting by the phone? You bet I am!

Labels: Barack Obama

Tories set to be overwhelmed by sleaze allegations

More MEPs, at least two more frontbenchers, several backbenchers and even David Cameron's office are set to be embroiled in some of the most serious sleaze allegations to date. The Telegraph is trying to play it down by concentrating on Tory MEPs. But you know what they say - you can't kid a kidder. More soon.

Labels: HoC gravy train, tory sleaze

Monday, June 09, 2008

Two more Tory frontbenchers facing sleaze allegations

At least two, if rumours circulating the offices of one well known newspaper are anything to go by. With Caroline Spellman, Alan Duncan and two more as yet unnamed Tory frontbenchers also about to face serious sleaze allegations the Tories could be in for a bumpy ride between now and the party conference season. Fasten your seat belts.

Labels: abuse of parliament, HoC gravy train, tory sleaze

Alan Duncan can run but he can't hide

Dinky Duncan facing the chop? You bet he is. This one is going to run and run until Sham Cam is left with no other option but to sack him. The Dinkmeister's frontbench career is over. Meanwhile, Caroline Spelman looks set to hold on. For now.

Labels: abuse of parliament, Dinky Duncan, HoC gravy train, Spellers, tory sleaze

Sunday, June 08, 2008

This is your captain speaking... Charles Clarke is on board

More deselection rumours coming out of Norwich South today after Clarke's latest outburst against Gordon Brown - a booze-fuelled rant in a Damascus pub. It's just as well Clarke is being tipped for a top Trade Union job after the next election. I'm reliably informed the blustering buffoon no longer has a future at Westminster.

Labels: charles clarke

Tories may do this... and may do that

More weasel words from the Tories today as David Davis announces that the Tories may reverse Labour's 42-day detention plans... then again they may not. Which fits rather nicely with David Cameron's announcement earlier this month that he may call a referendum on the EU Treaty... then again he may not.

Word is, the Tories may cut taxes, may increase spending on the NHS and may build more prisons... then again...

Related: Telegraph - Britons want looser ties with EU

Peter Hitchens, MoS: Like a gold coin on a dunghill, the truth about the EU

Labels: cloud cameron land, eussr, weasel words

Did Mayor Boris give the order to whitewash Banksy mural?

If he did I salute him. The man's a menace.

Labels: Mayor Boris

Friday, June 06, 2008

Free swimming for all: Verrucas and Legionnaires Disease optional

You go first, Andy. If your rash clears up within thirty days we'll consider it.

Labels: Andy Burnham

Sham Cam admits to being a sham

'DAVID Cameron has admitted he may never be able to fulfil his promise of a referendum on Europe.' No surprise there then.

Labels: cloud cameron land

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Hillary concedes... that it was all Bill's fault

The Mail agrees: 'The unexploded bomb at the heart of this year's American presidential election finally went off yesterday, with a vicious assault on former President Bill Clinton.'

The Guardian's Michael Tomasky wasn't impressed by Hillary's speech, calling it: "the most abrasive, self-absorbed, selfish, delusional, emasculating and extortionate political speech I've heard in a long time. And I've left out some adjectives, just to be polite."

Over in the US, leading right wing blogger Michelle Malkin gives her readers the chance to 'Vote for your favorite Hillary campaign moment.' While leading left wing blog, the Daily Kos, explains why Clinton was so reluctant to concede: "Money."

Labels: 2008 Presidential race, Barack Obama, Hillary

Could Danny Finkelstein be the next Barry Cryer?

It's all about timing...

Labels: comedians, Jacqui Smith

Cameron winning over Guardian readers

....and assistant editors.

Monday, June 02, 2008

Pressure grows on Brown's 'Scottish mafia'

When I suggested last month that three Scots cabinet ministers face the axe I was careful not to turn it into an anti-Scots rant. It appears that anonymous Labour MPs are less squeamish about these things. One Labour MP 'who asked not to be named', told the Times over the weekend:

"We live in a world where there is a quota for women MPs and there may soon be quotas for black MPs. Why should there not be quotas for the English too? The Scots mafia have dominated Brown's team for too long."

Harsh words. But whose words?

By Gove! how tickled I am

'Leevy him alone,' appears to be the consensus on ConservativeHome after it was reported that Tory Education spokesman, Michael Gove, has held secret meetings with controversial Labour Peer, Lord Levy, at the Turkish Baths on Ironmonger Row.

Was I there? Of course I wasn't. But they don't call him Milk Bottle Mike for nothing. Get a sun bed, Mike!


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Labels: Gove

Nice work if EU can get it

Times Online: MEP in £500,000 allowances probe

'The leader of the Conservative MEPs, Giles Chichester, has channelled almost £500,000 in parliamentary allowances through a family firm founded by his father, the yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester.'

Only £500,000? Must try harder...

Labels: eussr, fortress europe

Sunday, June 01, 2008

MOD: 'One of our Nuclear Submarines is missing'

Update: Panic over. The MOD has just announced that Prince William borrowed it for the weekend and forgot to return it. Malta, apparently. Quite a jolly by all accounts. No real harm done though. The paintwork's a bit scratched and the periscope's bent in half but other than that HMS What's My Line is fully operational.

Labels: celebs, royal family

Cameron can never be PM

Does Steve Hilton know something we don't know? Are the Tory leader's chickens coming home to roost? And what about those 'establishment figures' who still insist that David Cameron "can never be Prime Minister"? Why? The reasons, the story goes, are known only to a select few. And I'm not one of them.

But is the Tory worm turning? Steve Hilton certainly is.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Brown could step down within weeks

I can't see it myself but several Labour bigwigs, earwigs and smallwigs are said to be urging Gordon to step down as soon as possible. This would allow the leadership contest to begin in early July with the new leader in place by the time of Labour's conference in October.

My first instinct when I heard this ridiculous rumour was to dismiss it out of hand. However, given that my instincts are usually wrong I've come to the conclusion that Brown really could be gone in a matter of weeks.

Labels: the Brown is Doomed campaign

Guinness Book of Records editor seen entering Downing Street

Labour support has slumped to its lowest level since records began. Which surely makes the Labour Party a record break-errrr! Altogether now...




Education Dedication, education dedication
Education Dedication, that's what you need
If you wanna be the best
If you wanna beat the rest
Oh-oh dedication's what you need;
If you wanna be a recorrrrrrrrd break-er!

Labels: labour meltdown

Unions split over secret meetings with the Tories

Trouble at mill.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Boris Johnson's 'one term' bombshell

Rumours are rife that Boris Johnson isn't a happy chappy after being forced by the Tory leadership to give up his plum Westminster seat of Henley. 'One term' Boris was quick to react to the edict issued by David Cameron last month by swiftly announcing that he would be returning to his old job at the Telegraph as a columnist on a reputed £250,000 a year.

I'm reliably informed the next bombshell for the Tory leadership won't be Johnson's rumoured return to the BBC's Have I Got News For You as a guest presenter - it's expected to be the newly elected mayor's announcement that he will only serve one term.

Related: Tories prepare to choose candidate for Henley

Labels: Mayor Boris

George Monbiot: He means it most sincerely folks

Opportunity knocked for multi-millionaire George Monbiot yesterday when the ban-the-bomb/stop-the-war/save-the-Loch-Ness-monster campaigner was nearly arrested after nearly arresting former US ambassador John Bolton.

Grow up George. You're in danger of giving Disco Dad's a bad name.

Labels: no marks

Darling's last stand

...could be on Talk Sport next Monday (2nd June) after the Chancellor agreed to a live interview with Jon Gaunt, the former 'Guardian reading leftie liberal' turned right-wing shock jock.

Coming soon - Electoral Reform: Are you with me or agin me?

The Independent's Steve Richards is with me: 'New life and new voices must be brought into politics. And that means electoral reform'

Labels: electoral reform

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

What would life be like under a Tory government?

By the looks of it just as bad as life under a Labour government.

If you thought Zac Goldsmith's crackpot idea to tax supermarket car parking was bad enough you aint' seen nothing yet. The Tory policy supremo has proved yet again that his influence over Cameron's Conservatives is far reaching and all consuming, stretching as far as the Tory-run council in Plymouth.

Daily Mail: Bin police force residents to hand over personal medical details
'Officials in Plymouth, Devon, are to send a questionnaire to every household asking them to give intimate personal details about their family. Householders are also being asked to nominate one person who will take legal responsibility for anything put in their bins.'

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Labels: global warming hysteria, zac

Is Darling snarling over crock Rock shock?

'Alistair Darling - are you sure about Northern Rock's assets?' asks Jim Pickard over at the FT blog.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Knife crime eh? Terrible isn't it. But enough of that nonsense, we've got a leadership contest to sort out

Not a word. Not a peep. Another senseless death over the weekend and all Labour ministers can find to talk about is themselves. What a bunch of w******.

Labels: Labour's law and order meltdown

Will you be up for Jacqui Smith?

Let me make it quite clear, the Tories don't do a lot for me. Cameron in particular. But come the next general election I'll be glued to the TV set in the early hours to witness the moment Jacquie Smith loses her seat.

How this smug, arrogant, incompetent no-mark came to be Home Secretary I'll never know. Violent crime is out of control and she's got absolutely nothing to say on the matter. Nothing new to offer. No words of comfort for the families that have lost loved ones over the past few years.

So will you be up for Jacqui Smith? If you are you won't be alone. I suspect the entire country will.

Labels: Labour's law and order meltdown

Has Alistair Campbell defected to the Tories?

'JOBLESS young layabouts will be sent to "boot camps" under a Tory benefits crackdown'

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Labels: tory policies

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Mekon Miliband breaks ranks

'Everyone hates Gordon. Gordon is a moron. Gordon wets the bed,' says the Sunday Times.

What a bunch of cowards. What a complete shower. Labour ministers hiding behind the cloak of anonymity. Weak, weak, weak. The Tories deserve to win the next election if this is the way cowardly Labour ministers want to carry on.

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Labels: cabinet infighting

Cabinet Scots face axe

Margaret Beckett hits out

...in favour of Gordon! Hasn't she read the script? Mind you she's looking a lot younger these days. The break from the frontbench must be doing her good.

Labels: the Brown is Doomed campaign

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Huhne set for top EU role

Failed Lib Dem leadership candidate Chris Huhne is being tipped for a top EU job when he leaves British politics at the next election. A dead cert to lose his Eastleigh seat (majority 568) to the resurgent Tories, Westminster sources are predicting a return to the corridors of EC corruption for the multi-millionaire Home Affairs spokesman.

Commissioner? "It's a possibility," one source said. "Unless Nick Clegg beats him to it."

To be continued...

Labels: eussr, huhne

Doom and gloom for Broon

But questions still remain over David Cameron's plans for government. The Independent calls on the Tory leader to raise his game:

'It will not be enough, over the next two years, simply to proclaim that he is not Mr Brown. It will not be enough simply to disagree with Government policy without setting out in detail what the Conservatives would do instead. Time for Mr Cameron to move up a gear.'

'PM isolated as ministers decide: 'Brown can't win', insists the Guardian's Nick Watt after speaking to 'authoritative sources'. Nick doesn't name the authoritative sources so allow me. John Hutton, Alan Johnson and Hilary Benn.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph is talking up the prospects of a "palace coup".

'The rulebook contains both consolations and threats for Mr Brown. Allies point out that the deadline for a leadership challenge to be considered at this year's conference has now passed, meaning a special, unscheduled conference would have to be called, setting an even higher bar for a challenge. But enemies point to another section of the rulebook. It states that if the prime minister becomes "permanently unavailable" then the Cabinet may appoint one of its members to take the job. That rule is the centre of speculation that Mr Brown could be persuaded or forced by colleagues to declare himself unsuitable to continue as premier, perhaps citing health reasons.'

Labels: the Brown is Doomed campaign

Friday, May 23, 2008

Is it too early to write off Labour?

Bearing in mind it's only just gone 9 o'clock and I haven't had my breakfast yet.

In other news, Mike Smithson has stuck his neck out and, as always, puts his money where his mouth is by predicting a Tory majority at the next general election.

The Guardian, meanwhile, says Brown is facing 'the gravest crisis of his premiership'...

'Brown will want to make sure he does not suffer the same fate as Margaret Thatcher after the October 1990 byelection in Eastbourne, a solid Tory seat that fell to the Liberal Democrats on a swing of 20.05 per cent. Within six weeks she had been overthrown.'

The Telegraph reports on the real hero in Crewe - Lord Ashcroft - the so-called 'mastermind' of the campaign. (My source at Tory HQ informs me that Eric Pickles was only there to make the numbers up.)

Nick Robinson believes the Crewe result could be the fabled 'tipping point' but has a crumb of comfort for down hearted Labour MPs: "Neil Kinnock was pretty good at winning by-elections but still couldn't win a General Election."

The Mirror's Kevin Maguire reminds David Cameron that every good Opposition leader should carry a spare pair of crampons: "The Tory leader might be well up that mountain he talks about climbing but as someone who trekked to Everest Base Camp I know the going gets harder the higher you go."

My own opinion on why Labour lost this previously safe seat is quite straightforward: Their candidate was crude, vulgar and looked every inch the commoner.

Labels: by elections, by-elections

Charles Clarke: Stalking donkey

This post will be updated every Sunday for the foreseeable future.

Labels: charles clarke

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Did Nick Clegg really say he expects "a well hung parliament"?

We know he loves himself - Tory culture spokesman Ed Vaizey confirmed the fact after their recent Arctic trip together. We also know he fancies himself as a bit of a stud - he said so himself in an interview with GQ magazine last month. But is the Lib Dem leader a shallow braggart to boot?

I hope for Nick Clegg's sake this is one of those rumours that defies logic.

Labels: clegg, cleggie, clogg

Cameron ditches the quiff

"Buddy Holly on a bad day", whispered one of London's top hairstylists recently after spotting the Tory leader at a fund raising dinner. Not anymore, Trevor. Not anymore.

Because the Tory leader has finally ditched the quiff that is said to have plagued him since he started losing his hair more than five years ago. Appearing at PMQs today a relaxed and confident David Cameron proudly showed off his new combed-forward-slightly-swept-to-the-right look that his aides hope will see him sweep to power at the next election.

A big improvement I'm sure you'll agree.



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Labels: David Cameron's hair, the human face of david cameron

Clegg denies Gypsy Rosa Lee story

Tory boy Clegg is reported to have denied claims made in the Telegraph earlier this week that he would support the Tories in the event of a hung parliament.

Even though I was initially sceptical of the claims made in Rosa Prince's story, Clogg's denial now gives me reason to believe that her claims are accurate. Influential Lib Dem blogger, Paul Walter, has the news of the Lib Dem leader's climbdown/denial/u-turn.

Labels: clegg, cleggie, clogg

It's all over in Crewe... but neck and neck in Nantwich

A commentor has responded to Adam Boulton's post on the news that "Ladbrokes have closed their book on the Crewe and Nantwich by-election because the Tories have become unbackable dead cert winners."

'SJ of Gloucestershire' writes: "Rest assured, when Labour get a kicking in the by-election Gordon will be trawling the TV channels listening and learning. Feeling our pain. If I thought for one minute he was feeling my pain, I would happily stick red hot pokers in my eyes all day!"

I do hope he means the Torch Lily, that old reliable herbaceous perennial also known as Red Hot Poker.

Labels: flora and fauna

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