Politicians Category
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George Galloway declares victory in Blackburn on twitter
GEORGE Galloway declares victory in Blackburn. Well, they look the same up north…
Spotter: Karen
Posted: 31st, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
George Galloway wins Bradford West for Iraq – in photos
MP George Galloway is Bradford West’s man in Westminster. The cat impressionist has landed on his feet. As he took the plaudits, shouted “All praise to Allah!” and “Long Live Iraq! Long live Palestine!”, he waved a ‘V’ to the crowd – whatever the race, language or gender, they always flash the British ‘V’ at moments of triumph.
This is George Galloway, who in accordance with the Oprah Winfrey school of slimming went to Iraq to meet with Saddam Hussein, one of the few men to make him look better, albeit a bit sparse about the moustaches, and then showed his hatred of totalitarian regimes and love of freedom by meeting Hamas reps.
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Posted: 30th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Apple’s Foxconn interns paid better than Lib Dem interns
SO there was this great big campaign, with petitions and plays and online sign ups and the usual ignorant outrage displayed on Twitter and Facebook about how appalling the working conditions and pay were at Foxconn. You know, the giant seris of factories in China that make everything for Apple and HP and Microsoft and all.
We’ve now got the results from an in depth investigation into those working conditions and pay.
The general finding is that poor people work long hours for not much money. Well, yes, that’s true, that’s what being poor means, working long hours for not much money. Shrug, that’s what poor people in poor countires do, that’s why we describe them as poor and that’s why we’d like them to carry on having an industrial revolution so they can become rich like us.
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Posted: 30th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Money, Politicians, Technology | Comment
Franklin Roosevelt is the young David Cameron – photo
WHEN we noticed that David Cameron is super sissy softy in the mould of Basil Fotherington-Thomas, a reader pointed us towards this photo of Franklin Roosevelt, the man whose New Deal saved the pastry industry and gave the battered sausage to the world. What pastry will Dave create? And will it be underdone..?
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Posted: 29th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
George Galloway is Bradford’s true Muslim Catholic candidate
GEORGE Galloway is standing for Parliament in the Bradford West by-election. He’s a terrific talker is Saddam Hussein’s old admirer. He’s a friend to Muslims, such Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his invisible suit, those in Hamas and at Iran’s biased Press TV. He wants locals to vote for him. They should. He is a rabble-rouser and give good telly. He says, “I am Labour.” He is also the true Muslim – although it appears he is also a Catholic:
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Spotter: Cranmer
Posted: 29th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comments (7)
David Cameron looking like Basil Fotherington-Thomas – a gallery
HOW in touch with the people is marketing man and miscreant David Cameron? VERY! Every society needs a softy and a sissy at its helm to steer it through frothy waters. It has not escaped our notice that Dave appears to have fashioned himself on Basil Fotherington-Thomas, the tennis-playing star of Nigel Moselworth’s St Custard’s diaries. So. Say “hullo clouds, hullo sky” to DAve as he skips about life looking like a milk-fed dish-faced man of the people…
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Posted: 29th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Cameron lies about his Leeds pastries
PASTRY-face Prime Minster David Cameron told us:
“I love a hot pasty. I think the last one I bought was from the West Cornwall Pasty Company. I seem to remember I was in Leeds station at the time. The choice was to have one of their small ones or their large ones. I’ve got a feeling I opted for the large one and very good it was too.”
It must have been a bit dry – that shop closed in 2007.
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Posted: 28th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Rachel Reeves delivers the most god-awful, creepy tweet of all time
RACHEL Reeves, the Member of Parliament for Leeds West and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will now deliver the most brown-nosing, god-awful, suck-up tweet of all time. Mondeo Man, Worcester Woman, Pebbledash People and the Bacardi Breezer kids, prepare to meet the Greggs Genration.
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Posted: 28th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
David Cameron’s pastry tax suits Eric Pickles
THE Hot Food tax now extends to McDonald’s, Burger King and Greggs. One way to circumvent the 20p-in-the-£1 surcharge is to buy your treats cold or else invite butter-faced David Cameron to eat hot takeaways at his Downing Street soirees, seats at which can cost upwards of £250,000.
Cameron could add another, say, £50,000-a head to the dinner by way of la evy for any influencers who get excited about watching the Prime Minister eating a sausage roll. For another £10,000, pie face and SamCam will start at opposite ends of a one-footer and race to the centre.
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Posted: 28th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
The Conservative Teen: the magazine that saves America (and draws Obama)
THE Conservative Teen is a magazine for Conservative teens. For $19,95, you get four issues a year. The magazine supports marriage, protects the “innocent unborn” while harmonising rules, religion and law all with the defence of “individual liberties” – although not abortion, obviously, nor the right to be liberal. Other liberties. All of them. Mostly.
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Posted: 27th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Ken Livingstone will teach about Islam and the rich Nazi Jew
IS Islam to be a factor in the London mayoral elections? Ken Livingstone wants it to be. He wants to educated non-Muslims about the religion. Ken was at the North London CEntrl Mosque, foemrly yhr Finsbury Park mosque, where Abu Hamza used to knock about. When police raided the place they found chemical warfare suits, false passports, a stun gun, gas masks, handcuffs and hunting knives. It as there that Islamists practised with Kalashnikov AK-47s.
Andrew Gilligan writes in the Telegraph:
Ken Livingstone has promised to turn London into a “beacon” for the words of the Prophet Mohammed in a sermon at one of the capital’s most controversial mosques.
Mr Livingstone, Labour’s candidate for mayor of London, pledged to “educate the mass of Londoners” in Islam, saying: “That will help to cement our city as a beacon that demonstrates the meaning of the words of the Prophet.” Mr Livingstone described Mohammed’s words in his last sermon as “an agenda for all humanity.”
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Posted: 23rd, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
David Cameron fiddles with your ice-creams
DAVID Cameron has it licked:
We need to tackle regulation with vigour both to free businesses to compete and create jobs, and give people greater freedom and personal responsibility. Of course we need proper standards, for example in areas like fire safety and food safety. So where regulation is well-designed and proportionate, it should stay. But it is hard to believe that we need government regulations on issues such as ice cream van musical jingles, or the display of bed prices. We know we have inherited far too much costly, pointless, and illiberal government red tape.
That’s why, since coming to office, the Government has pursued an ambitious deregulation agenda. – August 11, 2011
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Posted: 21st, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Rich Kids for Romney – Youth activism in action
RICH Kids for Romney:
Posted: 19th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Asma Al-Assad is the power behind Bashar’s throne
ASMA Al-Assad’s biggest mistake was to have been born a woman. While Bashar al-Assad approves use of extreme violence against his countrymen, the press guns for his British-born wife.
Having read Vogue’s hagiography to the Asma slender ankle (with apology)- no GQ repot on Bashar’s preference for the sack, crack and back – the Telegraph looks though the couple’s apparently leaked emails and notes that “Mrs Assad, 36, displays no misgivings about the regime’s bloody crackdown, which has accounted for most of the estimated 8,000 lives lost”.
Well, quite. As Asma’s wedding vows might have gone: “In sickness and in health, in times of mass murder and State-sanctioned rape, when you can’t find the remote control or your Right Said Fred LP and blame me, I do take thee to be my lawfully wedded wife.”
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Posted: 19th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Don’t Re-Nig Obama – Bigots get Old English bumper stickers
THE anti-Barack Obama bumper sticker tells drivers who can read it: “Don’t Re-Nig In 2012.” Adding: “Stop repeat offenders. Don’t re-elect Obama!”
You can buy it on Stumpy’s Stickers.
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Posted: 15th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
When David Cameron met Obama it was all showbiz all of the time
Glittering the White House dinner will be, but what stars will be there?
To reflect the astounding success in the US of the TV series Downton Abbey, Hugh Bonneville is said to be on the guest list. Sir Jonathan Ive – Apple’s British design supremo – is said to be attending, too, along with Damian Lewis, the British actor who shone as a US special ops soldier sprung from prison in Iraq in the Showtime hit, Homeland. Impressive? Attendees at a White House dinner for Tony Blair in 1998 included Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and Barbra Streisand.
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Posted: 15th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Cameron says Obama will look at the 2003 extradition treaty
DAVID Cameron says Barack Obama will look at the 2003 extradition treaty that steamrolls British justice and has sent Christopher Tappin to a US prison.
Says Cameron:
“I raised this issue with President Obama today and we had a good discussion. We will be following this up with further talks between our teams. We have carried out an independent review of the treaty which found that it was balanced but I recognise that there are concerns about how it is implemented in practice and that’s what our teams will look at.”
Teams. What a hateful word that has become. It defers all power to the group. It’s an enlargement on Tony Blair’s calls to “join the debate”. We all got invited to join the debate. And while we chatted Tony signed an extradition treaty that makes the UK America’s lickspittle and went there on a speaking tour.
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Posted: 14th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Rick Santorum is a meme – denies raped underage teen a life-saving abortion
RICK Santorum is overcoming his anal issues by adding a silent P to his first name. Rick says that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances – even if his raped wife needed one to dave her life., Rick is all about compassion…
Posted: 14th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
Hammersmith and Fulham Council says thanks for your obedience
THE staff at London’s Hammersmith and Fulham council just want to say thanks.
While we wait to know whose idea this was, look out for the woman who was once in Boney M typing with no broken nails and then offering Ricky Groves the chance to pull her cracker.
Thank you very much for paying your par-king ti-i-i-ickets…
Posted: 14th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Norman St John-Stevas: his homosexuality and merchant banker
YESTERDAY, a friend of mine expressed a degree of shock when I passingly described the recently dead Norman St John-Stevas as ‘gay’ – what proof had I? I laughed. Now I see the grown-up Economist has got straight to the point in its excellent capsule obit: ‘Entering politics in the 1950s, St John-Stevas had little choice but to conceal part of who he was—a gay man—albeit beneath a carapace of campness, a form of hiding in plain sight. Today four Tory government ministers are openly gay.’
The Telegraph‘s entertaining obit heads in the right direction but then takes a deter into nudge-nudge-land: ‘He had a close friend who was a merchant banker, but claimed to be “celibate” or “chaste”.’ Ah, yes.
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Posted: 13th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comments (7)
Eric Joyce MP banned from every pub in Britain
ERIC Joyce MP has been appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. He has been found guilty of head-butting a Tory rival in a House of Commons bar brawl. Conservative MP for Pudsey, Stuart Andrew, was injured during a rumpus in the Strangers’ Bar.
Joyce has escaped a custodial sentence, being handed to a 12-month community order, fined £3,000, ordered to pay £1,400 in compensation, barred from any pub for 3 months and has a Fri-Sun curfew from 8pm-4am.
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Posted: 9th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Tory Minister Chloe Smith tells Bolton women to make 280-mile daily trip to Sunderland for work
CHLOE Smith, a Conservative Treasury minister and MP for Norwich North, is in touch with her region:
David Crausby MP introduced a woman from his Bolton constituency who complained that her hours as a care worked for the Care Association had been reduced from 28 to 20 per week. One problem is that couples must now work 24 instead of 16 hours per week to be eligible for tax credits.
Crausby asks Smith: “What advice would the minister give to my constituent other than stop work and go on benefits?”
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Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
David Cameron’s wolf whistle politics – making saucy whistling a crime
DAVID Cameron is out to ban the wolf whistle. Well, so says the Sun. The less sensational story is that Cameron is to sign the country up to Council of Europe’s convention on violence against women.
The Guardian writes:
Among the pledges in the convention, which has already been signed by 18 countries including Germany, France and Ukraine, is one to pass legislation or other measures to criminalise or impose other sanctions for “unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment”.
Unwanted? How do you qualify unwanted?
Better to rebrand the wold whistle to something less predatory, like the frog whistle or the teddy bear whistle. Wolves don’t whistle. But rabbits might.
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Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Rick Sartonum is a social lubricant cocktail
RICK Santorum’s anal issues have inspired a new cocktail.The Brooklyn Paper reports:
“People really like it even though it’s named after something gross — both the person and the Dan Savage meaning,” said John Rauschenberg, co-owner of Pacific Standard. “It’ll be an election fixture at least until primary season is over.”
The duo behind the beer hole near St. Mark’s Place often put out cocktails with suggestive names, such as the Corn Holed Fashioned or Mike Gallego’s Cup.
But the Santorum, a milky mixture of Baileys, orange vodka, bitters and chocolate flakes, seems to be sticking.
We won’t explain how the drink matches up with an alternate definition of the word “Santorum,” as The Brooklyn Paper is a family publication — but the bar’s liberal proprietors are certain it’ll satisfy any boozy desires.
The “social lubricant” will go down well…(fnar)….
Spotter: Joe.My.God
Posted: 7th, March 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment
Ed Miliband says boycott the Sun – so David Miliband writes for it
SAYS Ed Miliband:
“News International have sullied the character of reputation of British journalism” – March 3, 2012
All good and true Labour supporters must boycott the Sun, says Ed.
“Sunk by a wave of freedom – David Miliband writes why Russian election could be end of Putin” – March 4, 2012
Posted: 7th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
