To read this entry, please ensure that: you appreciate literally hundreds of mixed metaphors you know who made your shoes you aren’t currently interested in giving me a job In 2009, during what was a worldwide recession (Gordon was right about that), the UK had six successive quarters of contraction. The economy slowed so badly [...]
The Labour Party’s Ed Balls has been arguing consistently since before the last election that the Conservative plan to cut the UK public sector deficit is wrong-headed and likely to lead to economic disaster. When he peddles his intellectually vacant argument that spending more on public services is needed to keep the UK economy ticking [...]
I am minded to seek an injunction to prevent the count on Wednesday. Your views? # It is heartening to know that the epithet 'Hoon' can be amended without much effort to 'Huhne'. # I would definitely have invited Blair. Wouldn't have invited Brown. But I don't get to choose who goes to someone else's [...]
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that he intends to return to Parliament as a golem to haunt the Labour Party, it has been revealed. The MP for Kircaldy and Cowdenbeath has let it be known through close friends that he aims to sit ashen-faced and scowling through the debate on constitutional reform when [...]
So here we are, in the process of creating a stable and responsible Government for the United Kingdom. The negotiations at the Cabinet Office between William Hague, George Osborne and Oliver Letwin from the Conservatives and a much larger group from the Liberal Democrats has broken for the evening, with each side returning to their [...]
A brief insight into the thinking of Labour Party activists on their leader and our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. I’m compiling these from online accounts and memory, and could do with more. Please send them to: “ben[at]nabidana.com” or drop them in the comments below. Alan Johnson, Home Secretary: “He’s not everyone’s cup of tea” Manish [...]
Britain is broken, but it can be fixed. Society began to decline when the state managed to convince the people that the state could solve their problems by intervention into their lives. Today, we’re told what to do by a Government which doesn’t know what to do with itself. A cabal of social workers and [...]
David Cameron is the man I’m delighted and proud to call my political leader. Last night, he showed to a fault how we were right to put our trust in him. Two weeks ago, in the aftermath of the first debate and public birth of Nick Clegg, I asked tories to ‘calm the fuck down’ [...]
Sat as I do on a Sunday with a cup of freshly brewed coffee and a slice of toast, tuned into BBC News 24, I was treated to the best recent example of how easy it is to prefer David Cameron to Gordon Brown. Brown was teed up to speak to first time voters in [...]
