Uncategorized
15 March 2010 1 Comment
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/15/gordon-brown-labels-unite-strike-deplorable-unjustified/’;
digg_title = ‘Gordon Brown labels Unite strike ‘Deplorable, Unjustified’’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Gordon Brown says the British Airways strike being proposed by Unite is coming ‘at the wrong time’. Wrong time how, exactly? Wrong for all the Easter holidaymakers desperate to briefly escape the UK for a week, or wrong for all those [...]
Tagged in British Airways, gordon brown, Holiday Plans, Labels, labour party, Spat, Wrong Time
Election 2010, politics
8 March 2010 1 Comment
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/08/the-result-of-the-general-election-of-2010/’;
digg_title = ‘The Result of the General Election of 2010′;
digg_bodytext = ‘Conservative victory
The Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, won the 2010 General Election. The party secured a majority of 23 seats in an election contest which turned out less close than had previously been predicted.
Controversy over election night count
Polling day for the [...]
Tagged in Buckingham Palace, conservative party, Conservative Victory, david cameron, Election Contest, Election Night, Electoral Pact, Hm Queen Elizabeth, labour party, Margin Of Error, National Opinion, National Swing, Polling Companies, Polling Day, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth Ii, Returning Officers, Scottish National Party, Ukip, Ulster Unionist Party
Bbc, commerce and trade, politics
3 March 2010 2 Comments
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/03/03/proposed-cuts-to-the-bbc-should-worry-tories/’;
digg_title = ‘Proposed cuts to the BBC should worry Tories’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The announcement of proposed cuts to BBC services has been overwhelmingly welcomed by commercial broadcasters and judged as too timid by many conservatives. Yet the proposed changes and the timing represent serious challenges for the Conservatives as a party, and we [...]
Tagged in Adaptations, Asian Network, Bbc Services, Commercial Broadcasters, Common Ground, Daytime Schedules, Dividing Lines, Educational Content, Enormous Tax, Enthusiastic Audience, gordon brown, Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, labour party, Literary Classics, Mediocrity, National Broadcaster, National Radio, Nature Documentaries, Public Broadcaster, Regional Stations, Tories, Welfare State
Uncategorized, politics
22 February 2010 0 Comments
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/22/bullying/’;
digg_title = ‘Bullying’;
digg_bodytext = ‘First, a confession. It seems I am in some circumstances a bully. Unfortunately, in order to explore the phenomenon, I shall have to resort to the language of the military. Analogies will be stretched, nokias will be hurled, and it may help you if you imagine me naked on [...]
Tagged in Ad Hominem, Analogies, Assault Weapon, Beasting, Bully, Communist, Confession, Dictation, Downing Street, Foible, gordon brown, Hominem Attacks, Hotel Room, Key Point, labour party, Loyalty, Onlookers, Opponent, Prick, Room Chair, Tactic, Target
tweets
7 February 2010 1 Comment
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-07/’;
digg_title = ‘Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07′;
digg_bodytext = ‘
Nadine Dorries has finally lost it. Again. #
Heading into a nicely complex meeting. Hope to emerge alive. #
Just emerged from the meeting. Frustrating. Very frustrating. #
Off to the Irish premiere of Invictus. Just has to better Escape to Victory to be [...]
Tagged in Cojones, Constituency, david cameron, Dorries, Electoral System, Football Coach, Gaelic Football, Giving Blood, gordon brown, Greatest Sport, House Of Commons, incidentals, Invictus, Labour Mps, labour party, mewling, Movie Premiere, Nadine, Persecution, Rebuttal, Tory Peer, tweets, twitter, Weekly Updates
Uncategorized
7 February 2010 1 Comment
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/07/hello-margaret-goodbye-sdlp/’;
digg_title = ‘Hello Margaret, Goodbye, SDLP?’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The decision to elect Margaret Ritchie MLA leader of the Social, Democratic and Labour Party is the decision which will destroy the party.
To be fair, the choice was between a political operator at turns smooth and utterly unsophisticated whom many in the party couldn’t bring themselves [...]
Tagged in Alastair, Charisma, Chimpanzees, Disastrous Attempt, Durkan, Executive Round Table, Fluid Dynamics, Intellectuals, labour party, Lunch, Middle Class, Mla, Money Mark, Politician, Politics In Northern Ireland, School Teacher, Sdlp, Second Language, Shinners, Vote
politics, stupidity
17 January 2010 2 Comments
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/17/weekend-contumely-16012010/’;
digg_title = ‘Weekend Contumely 16/01/2010′;
digg_bodytext = ‘This week has been dominated by the Iraq Inquiry, the phoney war precursor to the 2010 General Election and continued political fallout from the apparently unstoppable vagina of scandal surrounding Iris Robinson, MP MLA.
The Iraq Inquiry has begun to become interesting. Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair’s spin doctor, was [...]
Tagged in Alistair Campbell, Autobiographical Account, Daily Mail, david cameron, Dodgy Dossier, Election Posters, Gobshite, Hand Grenade, Independent On Sunday, labour party, Liberal Democrats, opinion-poll, Peter Watt, Phoney War, Political Fallout, Political Genius, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Serialisation, Tony Blair, Vince Cable
Hoons, politics
9 January 2010 0 Comments
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/09/weekend-contumely-8-january-2010/’;
digg_title = ‘Weekend Contumely 8 January 2010′;
digg_bodytext = ‘
A new section of the blog whereupon we kick the tyres on the stories of the week and work out what lessons we can learn.
Labour ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Launch
Labour are rather keen on launching dossiers, aren’t they? As if their intelligence dossier on Iraq’s Weapons of [...]
Tagged in 4 January, 8 January, Alistair Darling, Breaches, Budget Deficit, Codes Of Conduct, Credibility Gap, david cameron, Deadly Sins, Draft Manifesto, Extra Marital Affair, First Minister, Infidelity, Intelligence Dossier, labour party, Launch, Peter Robinson, Poster Campaign, Serious Thing, Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Uncategorized
7 January 2010 7 Comments
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/07/an-open-letter-to-comrades-hoon-and-hewitt/’;
digg_title = ‘An open letter to Comrades Hoon and Hewitt’;
digg_bodytext = ‘
Dear Comrades Hoon and Hewitt,
Let me first say that I am shocked, dismayed, disgruntled, flabbergasted, confused, angered, humbled, incensed, overwhelmed, overjoyed, under-impressed, reddened and outraged by your actions of the last few days.
Like you, many years ago I was a bedwetting communist, [...]
Tagged in Accursed, Admonishment, Comrades, Constituency, Daley Dozen, Delusion, Eleven Years, Glorious Leader, gordon brown, Jeffrey Dahmer, labour party, Lickspittle, Manse, Megalomanic, Messianic, Misogynist, National Union Of Students, Nephews, Selfish Act, Tories, Winning Elections
Hoons, politics
6 January 2010 0 Comments
digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/06/labour-party-constitutional-provisions-for-the-leader-labour-opens-leadership-to-mandelson/’;
digg_title = ‘Labour Party Constitutional Provisions for the Leader: Labour opens leadership to Mandelson’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Clause 7:
1 Party officers
1A Leader and deputy leader
(a) There shall be a leader and deputy leader of the party who shall, ex-officio, be leader and deputy leader of the PLP.
(b) The leader and deputy leader of the party [...]
Tagged in 1a, Constitutional Provisions, Deputy Leader, Ex Officio, labour party, Leadership, Mandelson, Members Of Parliament, Parliament, Party Officers, Plp, Procedural Rule, Provision, Respect, Rule 4b
