Tory Pride, Labour Shame

Harriet Harman, the hooness whose dream to be Deputy PM has been dashed by the ascendency of Lord Mandelson, has gone on the ridiculously offensive, by backing up Ministers Ben Bradshaw (hoon) and Chris Bryant (hoon) on their ill-conceived tory homophobia...

A cautionary tale about election day

On this election day, as well as encouraging those in the UK to vote Conservative, in Northern Ireland to vote Conservative and Unionist and encouraging people in Ireland to wait until tomorrow, I am moved by the lovely and fragrant @sharonashambles on twitter to tell...

Libertas – An unfortunate shower of cretins

Just posted this over on the Libertas.eu website blog, guessing it won’t see the light of day. To put this in context, I’m responding to the ‘historic opportunity to vote for the ‘exciting and positive vision’ put forward by Libertas:...

Sod the 50% rate. Concentrate on the borrowing

This is not a soak-the-rich budget, and the portion of it which would actually tax the rich hard will raise just over a billion in revenue – that’s against a £650 bn borrowing spree. This is an attempt to sweeten the deal for the sort of people who trade...