by nabidana | Jan 6, 2010 | Hoons, politics, stupidity
This may turn out to be an important and historically significant day. The Parliamentary Labour Party has been urged by former cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon to force a secret ballot on Gordon Brown’s leadership. We’re faced with the...
by nabidana | Nov 18, 2009 | Europe, Hoons, politics, stupidity
Gordon Brown, the king of wishful thinking, has just made the Queen read out some drivel in the House of Lords. Here’s the draft he sent up to Buckingham Palace before it was fixed up by an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters. “My Government,...
by nabidana | Nov 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, David Cameron announced the proposed response of the Conservative Party to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. He made it clear that that Conservatives would work within Europe, that the party sees no need to leave the EU, but, in line with our long...
by nabidana | Oct 21, 2009 | politics
This website is primarily about UK politics, and rarely forays into the politics of Ireland. There’s a simple enough reason for this; the blogger doesn’t feel that there’s a significantly developed school of political thought in Ireland with a...
by nabidana | Sep 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Today, Gordon Brown gave his last conference speech as Leader of the Labour party. It will not be enough to save his party from defeat, and it is not quite enough to get rid of him in advance of the general election, now widely considered likely to fall on May 6...