Geraldine Dreadful MP writes… A letter to Iain Dale on his interview with Nick Griffin MEP

Election 2010, politics, stupidity 9 March 2010 10 Comments

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digg_title = ‘Geraldine Dreadful MP writes… A letter to Iain Dale on his interview with Nick Griffin MEP’;
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Dear ‘Gauleiter’ Dale,
I write to you as a regular reader of your Total Politics magazine, to complain in the starkest, clearest, most sincere and least obscurantist way I know how about your recent well-publicised [...]

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Lisbon whataboutery

Europe, Ireland 3 October 2009 1 Comment

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/10/03/lisbon-whataboutery/’;
digg_title = ‘Lisbon whataboutery’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Note: regular readers of Slugger O’Toole will call this entire article whataboutery.  It is.  I’m predicting a possible future here, so don’t hate me if you don’t like the scenario I depict. Please don’t cry, and certainly don’t have nightmares.
I had three strange conversations about Lisbon today, from [...]

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Mandelson used to be much better at this

Uncategorized 27 August 2009 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/08/27/mandelson-used-to-be-much-better-at-this/’;
digg_title = ‘Mandelson used to be much better at this’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Peter Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Lord of the Realm, used to be much better at the smear-and-run stuff. This week he’s seizing on the opportunity to attack Tory backbench MEP Daniel Hannan as some sort of crypto-racist and crypto-facist. [...]

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The Devalued Prime Minister of a Devalued Government

commerce and trade, politics 24 March 2009 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/03/24/the-devalued-prime-minister-of-a-devalued-government/’;
digg_title = ‘The Devalued Prime Minister of a Devalued Government’;
digg_bodytext = ‘In which Dan Hannan, the very sound Conservative MEP for South East England tells Gordon Brown to his face exactly how godawful he is.

More from the excellent Mr. Hannan at his blog: http://hannan.co.uk
If you fancy a belly laugh, you could do [...]

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