When Cameron and Maude started going on about the big society the closest we could get to working out what they meant was that some functions of the public sector would be done by ordinary citizens and/or charities. We presumed it meant things like parents running the after-school club at the local primary. It turns […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tories'
The magic of Henry Smith
August 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on The magic of Henry Smith · Politics
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a little about our MP, Henry Smith, and his ‘hyperactive abstention’. One of the local papers mentioned this and managed to get a response from Henry which was a masterpiece of political answers, showing a level of misdirection that a stage conjuror would be proud of.
Tags: Idiots·Local Papers·Tories
Henry Smith and his hyperactive abstention
July 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Henry Smith and his hyperactive abstention · Politics
Does our MP, Henry Smith, support the increase in IMF lending capacity? Well the answer is yes. And no. At the vote in Parliament he voted for it and also voted against, effectively abstaining. Personally I don’t have a problem with abstention as such. If you don’t have enough knowledge of an issue to form […]
Thin ends of the wedge
May 12th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Politics
Just how many thin ends can a wedge have?  In one day we have two examples of how the Tories are starting their attack on what few certainties there are in life as they try to reverse all the positive things achieved by the Labour party and indeed the Labour movement that Thatcher never quite […]
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The inevitable Mark Hammond announcement
September 29th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Politics
According to the County Times the county council has announced that the chief executive is ‘formally leaving the post’. It goes on to say that the council say Mr. Hammond is leaving on ‘amicable terms’.  Everything about this is a bit vague - necessarily, since the council leader forbade any of the councillors from talking […]
At last: a chance to agree with the Lib Dems
August 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
Since the elction in May, or rather since the formation of the coalition I have been increasingly disenchanted with the Liberal Democrats, though many of my colleagues in the Labour party will say I was foolish to be giving them the benefit of the doubt in the first place.
They think it’s all over…
May 12th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Politics
Quite an eventful evening apparently. I missed the events because I was over in Horsham for a constituency meeting.  Somebody with a BlackBerry or iPhone or some other gadget let us know the main points so we were not completely in the dark, but I had to wait until getting home to find out any […]
Fantasy cabinet
May 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Politics
I do hope Gordon decides to withdraw and let the Tories and Lib Dems come to some sort of arrangement. Personally I think the Lib Dems would be silly to have any formal coalition: better for them to let the Tories form a minority government. With any luck they would be prevented from carrying out […]
Both the Tories?
April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Political parties don’t have the membership they once did, but I didn;t know things were this bad…
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A week is a long time in politics
March 5th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Politics
If a week is a long time in politics then several weeks is long enough for an almighty u-turn. Or is it called a flip-flop these days? David Cameron on Feb 8th: For years all parties have taken the same view that someone’s tax status is a matter between them and the Inland Revenue. That […]
