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Labour Says BBC Is Soft On Cameron
“LABOUR accuses BBC of going soft on Cameron,” says the Mail.
Labour has lodged an official complaint, claiming Radio 4’s Today programme has given David Cameron an easy ride in recent interviews.
In a letter to Sue Inglish, the BBC’s head of political programming, Labour’s vice- chairman Dawn Butler says presenter-Sarah Montague avoided any “unexpected questions”.
Says Miss Butler: “On the last five occasions Mr Cameron has appeared on the Today programme, dating back to November 1, his interviews have lasted less than eight minutes, they have been exclusively on a subject of his own choosing, and no questions have been asked by the interviewers on any other topical issues.”
The BBC denies any bias. And we wonder if this is less the fault of the BBC than of its star interlocutor Jeremy Paxman, whose hectoring, smirky-style of interviewing is what we expect our politicians to endure.
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Posted: 4th, March 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment
British Drunks Offered Acceptable Behaviour Contracts
NO more “STREET DRUNKS”, says the Mirror.
Know that people caught with alcohol where drinking is banned will “see fines rise from £500 to £2,500 if they refuse to stop”.
“Regular trouble makers” will be given “acceptable behaviour contracts” which “could ban them from specific areas”.
The Government’s MBA approach to life, with its blue sky thinking to the booze road map sees drinkers offered a contract, like those given to professional footballs and assassins.
Drinkers are advised to read the small print, lest it also bar them from eating cake mix, inhaling dog shit and smoking in the “common air zone”…
Posted: 4th, March 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comment
Pig Famers March On Parliament, Pig Aid
HEADLINE Of the day: Pig farmers march on Westminster
Oh, the irony…
Hundreds of farmers are to hold a demonstration at Westminster to protest against falling pork profits.
Farmers’ leaders say the industry is in “meltdown”, and some warn that so many farmers are quitting that there may be a pork shortage by the end of the year.
Pig Aid: Stand By Your Ham
Posted: 4th, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Richard Hammond’s Organ Recital: Daily Mirror Wins
NEWSPAPERS love little more than a campaign.
It gives their columnists something to write about other then their children, and allows the paper to quote itself a source of irrefutable and expert fact.
In today’s Mirror readers learn that the paper’s No To The Toll Tax campaign has won the day. The “controversial” pay-as-you-go toll tax is to be “axed”. Satellites will not track cars and charge by the mile.
Says the Mirror’s boy racer Richard Hammond: “This is a great victory.”
“REAL CAMPAIGNS,” says the Mirror. “REAL STORIES. REAL RESULTS.” The Hammond Report gts results.
Nothing fake here. No pictures of a British squaddie urinating on his Iraqi captive. No fiction. The Mirror newspaper sticks to the real.
And the real news is that the petition Richard Hammond handed to outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair last year has had a real impact.
Not only did Blair leave power soon after, not only did Blair get to meet another celebrity, but now the Government says it has listened to the real people and the plan for an unworkable and expensive satellite tracking for all cars will not be made real.
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Posted: 4th, March 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (2)
UK Libertarian Party
THE new UK Libertarian Party want to abolish income tax. Policy No.1…
Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment
Johna Goldberg and Liberal Fascism
LIBERAL fascism.
Just following orders.
Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
The Clinton White House Timeshare
THE Clinton Whitehouse Timeshare:
Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Democracy And Theocracy In Race For The Whitehouse
SAYS Barack Obama in the NY Post: “I am a devout Christian. I pray to Jesus every night and try to go to church as much as I can.”
Hillary Clinton says: “Obama Not Muslim ‘As Far As I Know’…”
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Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Yvette Cooper’s £12million Scheme to Save You Money
OVER tyhe Goverment newswires: “Yvette Cooper launches £12m pathfinder for new money guidance service”
Up to three quarters of a million people will get free money guidance on matters like managing debt, planning for retirement or saving for a mortgage deposit, under a new £12m pathfinder Yvette Cooper, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has today announced.
Taxpayers can apply for a cashback scheme by…
Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment
Alan Duncan Announces
NEWS from the Telegraph’s Court & Social pages that ALAN Duncan, the Conservative’s shadow business secretary, is to enter into a legal partnership with a same-sex partner, James Dunseath.
An Anorak readers responds:
Sir,
What a shame that Sir Edward Heath is not leader of the party and so able to see this…
Name and address supplied
Posted: 3rd, March 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (3)
Let’s All Have A Saturday Night Laugh At Hillary Clinton
HILLARY Clinton has been on Saturday Night Live. She’s here to make you laugh. She might laugh along. And you might like to send the children from the room, lest they get scared.
Politicians are judged on their sense of humour as much as their policies. Forget the soundbite, we demand a pun.
It was the third consecutive “SNL” episode featuring a presidential contender. Republican candidate Mike Huckabee appeared on “Weekend Update” last week. On a November episode of “SNL,” the last before the Writers Guild of America strike, Obama played himself as a guest at a party thrown by Hillary and Bill Clinton.
John McCain needs to work on his material. Can he do a silly walk?
Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
The Obama-A-Likes Are Coming
BARACK II: “Waiting for the Obama-a-likes”
The rise and rise of Senator Barack Obama is an epic event in the history of political marketing. Politicos everywhere should watch and learn.
Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
President Chelsea Clinton
At campaign meetings on university campuses across the country, student audiences have been gasping at the confident, articulate, personable spokeswoman who has been singing her mother’s praises in more than 20 states...She turned 28 last week and won’t be eligible to run for the White House until she’s 35. Yet despite anything you may have heard about Americans being sick of family dynasties, there are plenty of Democrats who are already fantasising about President Chelsea Clinton – and her delighted parents are doing nothing to discourage the idea.
If she can marry Prince Harry, what a dynasty it would be…
Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Has The UK Declared War On Liechtenstein, Andorra and Monaco?
HAS The UK declared war on Liechtenstein, Andorra and Monaco?
And if it has, has Prince Harry got his skis ready packed?
In “Alistair Darling chases rich in tax-free haven of Monaco – Chancellor tightens screw on wealthy Britons and their Riviera refuge”, the Times talks of “hostilities against Britain’s super-rich” and “sanctions against Monaco, the Mediterranean tax haven”.
“So far the attention has been on Liechtenstein, but Monaco is the goldmine,” says a Whitehall official. “Germany has got the bit between its teeth now and Monaco is where they want to go next – and we’re right with them.”
We learn that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) expects to obtain £100m in unpaid tax from 100 Britons who bank in Liechtenstein. “It paid £100,000 to Heinrich Kieber, a former bank employee, for clients’ names and bank account details. In the past few days it has begun sending them letters referring to their account numbers”.
This is the Heinrich Kieber who “has made millions of euros by selling stolen bank records to the world’s tax authorities. He is now Liechtenstein’s ‘most wanted’ man.” He is undoubtedly Liechtenstein’s most famous man.
On one had, news that the HM Revenue and Customs is buying stolen data must cause the banks to worry. And given the security around HMRC’s data reserves, foreign powers, domestic banks and the curious can expect to be offered the same information on a couple of discs any day now.
But it is the talk of sanctions that shocks? It all sounds so heavy-handed, putting Monaco on a par with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
The wonder is what Liechtenstein will do about it? Will it link up with Monaco and Andorra and form a mini-me Axis of Evil? The Snowy Peril could consult with the Duchy of Grand Fenwick on a military strategy.
The invasion is coming…
Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Money, Politicians | Comments (5)
Pick A New Middle Name For Barack Hussein Obama
BARACK Hussein Obama. Can we find a new middle name for the presidential challenger? Yes we can!
Your suggestions please.
Suggestions already made:
JEFFERSON – Barack Jefferson Hussein.
CHE – Barack Che Obama. Ther is much in a name.
HITLER – Barack Hitler Obama
BIN – Barack Bin Obama
OSAMA – Barack Osama Obama
BOB – Barack Bob ‘The Builder’ Obama
JFK – Barack JFK Obama
Keep them coming…
Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (39)
The Russian Election Thriller
THE RUSSIAN ELECTION at Siberian Light. Who’s gonna win..? God it’s tense…
Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Cameron Says Politicans Are The Trouble With Politics
SAYS Tory leader David Cameron:
To describe this disengagement and cynicism as a ‘mood’ is to underestimate both the depth and the intensity of the breakdown in relations between the government and the governed.
To do that, we need to understand why this political breakdown has happened. A lot of it is to with behaviour. The behaviour of a minority of individual politicians, in all parties. Behaviour in the House of Commons.
Ban the politicos and clean up politics…
Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Joan Collins On John McCain
FROM Joan Collins’ diary in The Spectator…
“John McCain really needs to do something about his pallor. His complexion is more translucent than Nicole Kidman’s”.
Posted: 1st, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Hussein Obama Osama’s Word Association Game
BARACK Obama is in the news. That’s Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Or is it Barack Hussein OSAMA?
So they say…
Michelle Obama on the use of her husband’s middle name by his opponents:
Michelle Obama, who often has decried “the fear bomb” that opponents have used against her husband for his middle name — Barack Hussein Obama — said in Canton, Ohio, today that it is happening again and shows why it’s so important that he wins election as president.
“They threw in the obvious, ultimate fear bomb,” Obama said today of her husband’s 2004 Senate race. “We’re even hearing [that] now. … ‘When all else fails, be afraid of his name, and what that could stand for, because it’s different.'”
The name means…
“Hussein” is the ultimate fear bomb? I thought the international community had him contained; isn’t “Osama”, Ted Kennedy’s formulation of “Obama”, much scarier?Whatev. Speaking of scary, let’s just call the Senator from Illinois “He Who Must Not Be Middle-Named”.
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Posted: 1st, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Angelina Jolie Beats Obama
Angelina Jolie Plays The Battlefield in Iraq
Posted: 1st, March 2008 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment
Departmental Visits Abroad
YOUR tax money: “Departmental Visits Abroad”:
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many overseas visits by officials in his Department took place in each of the last 10 years; which countries were visited; and how much was spent on such visits in each such year. [181612]
Dizzy tots it up a bill of £1,436,939. And the coutries visited to appraise their teaching methods are:
Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korean Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA.
No, we can’t see Fiji , either. No small shock, given the weather and Gordon Brown’s support of the country’s tourist industry…
Posted: 1st, March 2008 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment
Should Sex Offenders, Tagging And ID Cards
IN the Derry Journal: “Sex offenders ‘should be tagged and forced to show their faces'”
CONVICTED sex offenders should be electronically tagged and have no rights to anonymity, says Strabane SDLP Councillor Eugene McMenamin.
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Posted: 1st, March 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Banish The Bag With Gordon Brown And New Labour
BANISH the bag. Banish the wind bag. Peter Hain is banished…
Posted: 29th, February 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Ron Paul Endorses Murray Sabrin
SAY Ron Paul ofr Dr Murray Sabrin: He “has devoted his entire career to promoting limited government and personal freedom, and I am proud to have known him and worked with him for more than 25 years,” said Paul. “He will not only be an outstanding representative of the people of New Jersey, but the greatest advocate of liberty and constitutional principles the US Senate has seen in decades. I am delighted to endorse him and encourage all Americans who believe in freedom to support him enthusiastically.”
Vote Sabrin for US Senate..
Posted: 29th, February 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
