by nabidana | Oct 5, 2010 | politics
All political parties do strange stuff at Party Conference season, but it’s important that we keep an eye on the soundness or otherwise of our own. Here’s a miniature guide, which we shall start using tomorrow.
by nabidana | Oct 3, 2010 | politics
Basil McCrea made a lot of enemies in his early Assembly career, mostly by being reasonable, collegiate and friendly; this is rarely the way anyone seeking to be elected UUP leader would like to be introduced to the casual onlooker, but so it was that he fought and...
by nabidana | Sep 7, 2010 | commerce and trade, Ireland, Ireland, politics, unstupidity
Dublin, Ireland Ireland’s economy took another turn for the worse today when it was revealed that the country has not paid the electricity bill, gas bill, rent or home insurance for the past two months. The day to day management of the national accounts, carried...
by nabidana | Sep 3, 2010 | politics
Defence Secretary Dr. Liam Fox MP has insisted that there was nothing sexual in the now scrapped proposal to share an aircraft carrier with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. After months of speculation that the Royal Navy would be forced to bunk up with the French...
by nabidana | Sep 3, 2010 | Labour Leadership, politics
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...
by nabidana | Aug 31, 2010 | Labour Leadership, politics
Lord Mandelson, former First Secretary, has warned that the Labour Party risks slipping back into being ‘a party with policies and positions based on principles and political convictions’, should members elect Ed Miliband party leader next month. Speaking...