The Oliver of the blog title is Oliver Letwin: I've bigged up Michael Howard and Peter Lilley before, on their warnings about Crash Gordon, but here Mr Eugenides adds Letwin to the long list of seers warning about the Brownstuff. The post is nigh on perfect, the comments are good too."I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who is getting a little bit sick of Vince bloody Cable and the unending waves of guff about his supposedly uncanny powers of prediction and prognostication."
I say, that fruit bowl isn't really very appealing although lovely Liz is doing her utmost to help with the arrangement. And... Right, that's my vote sorted. Anything for Liz. Trouble is, and knowing that nobody can have everything, I've heard Cheryl is a leftie!"Oh, I love David Cameron, I've had lunch with David and Samantha a few times and found them both extremely charming. I think he’s gorgeous. Super-sexy!"
Well, it's everywhere: Darling, "Cuts tougher than 1980's" [Link]; "Labour cuts would be tougher than Thatcher's" [NR's Newslog] Liam Byrne admits "cuts will be deeper tougher than Thatcher era" (prompted by Dimbleby); "We will cut deeper than Margaret Thatcher" [Link] etc...Now, my point isn't that this contradicts Gordon Brown on spending etc (incidently, he's caught out
For fuck's sake. Unbelievable? No, totally believable...Dispatch the lot of them. (more: click on image). Not to seem partisan [moi?]: In the 'cash for questions' scandal of the mid-Nineties, Mohamed Fayed was famously told that you "rent an MP like you rent a London taxi".[Link] Then came Blair, whiter than white...the most corrupt UK politician ever? Probably not. And, lest ye forget: [chickyog]The first 'Lobbygate' scandal back in 1998 featured none other than 'Smeargate' star Derek Draper. That one of the last scandals of the New Labour years features three of its stalwarts – Byers, Hoon and Hewitt – is utterly fitting.
For starters.What about Brown's globe-trotting, sun-loving, yacht-tripping, directorship-acquiring, wealth-accumulating, fund-shifting, fee-taking, lecture-delivering, teeth-brandishing, dossier-fixing, war-starting predecessor? Let's suspend Blair!
Well, one of two teams I wanted Arsenal to avoid, but hey, if both teams decide to play to win (and I take that for granted) it should be the best football anywhere...it certainly won't be messi (haha...see what I did there?).
This wouldn't be the first time Obama has got a way round the accepted democratic channels [see Obamachart HERE] and the Slaughter Solution could well cause a spark to further problems. Certainly that's what Glenn- this-is-equivalent-to-Pearl-Harbour Beck thinks! A tad OTT Glenn but I know what you mean!House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill...
Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.
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The offending adverts had presented predications as fact, made exaggerated claims, distorted the evidence and - cheap trick - had tried to instil fear in their audience.
Then the person ultimately responsible for these adverts was wheeled on. He was as evasive as you'd expect a person in that position to be...
And he's not actually selling us anything in the traditional sense - we've got no fucking choice. He's just advertising why he's helped himself to our money, after the event. We paid for the adverts, and we'll pay for whatever Climate Change-related bollocks Ed wants us to.
I've mentioned this before but no harm in reiterating things: I seriously think that the stampede* of MPs stepping down is an intentional effort to thwart the Conservative gains in the marginals: Labour MP Laura Moffatt is quitting in UK's most marginal seat leaving just weeks to find a new candidate before the general election....but I think this is a ploy to enable Labour voters and waiverers (probably far more of those) to give the new entrant a chance rather than 'punish' the incumbent.
Certainly he is right about the great Margaret and of course he is right about delusional Brown; he could even be right about the big transition but one thing is for sure: this week he has been playing both right and left!"I recognise now something I did not at the time: that [Margaret Thatcher's] victory over a vested interest, the trade unions, was immensely significant. I don’t want to be churlish: that was an immensely important visceral battle for how Britain is governed."
"What I find so striking is that the spirit — dare I say it — of the battle against the dominance of one vested interest, the trade unions, is exactly the same spirit we need now."
"David Cameron and George Osborne are stoking up fears in the markets, actively trying to destabilise the pound and reduce the Government's ability to borrow... "It's like a protection racket: vote for us or our friends in the City will lay waste to your economy, your savings and your job."
"There is nothing positive in the Conservatives' election strategy..."It's a strategy that is completely negative and without hope, and it's becoming increasingly obvious that people aren't going to fall for it."
"I mean this is a man who seems to repel most people who worked closest with him in his own party. I know Gordon has persuaded himself that this recession has nothing to do with him. It is the biggest sleight of hand in modern British politics. Talk about living in denial. It's almost delusional."
"Am I going to soften my language and views that Gordon Brown is personally responsible for a lot of the economical anxiety and heartache in this country? No."
"This election is part of a big transition from rigid 20th century duopoly, to something different. We don't know what that is, but it's already different, that's the point."
This is simply unbelievable* - literally i.e. methinks it must be more lies - and I await with interest to hear the budget."This contract says we will more than halve the deficit over four years, and we will also reduce the size of the structural deficit by two-thirds over the same period."
"Two years ago, he forecast no deficit at all by 2014. Now he's projecting one of 5 percent of GDP - simply mammoth - and still makes out that this is something to be proud of... ...[see] chart showing that even Italy (a G7 member) will have wiped out its deficit by the time Britain will - under Brown - have halved it.
You'd be amazed how many journalists, even financial journalists, don't know the difference between the two. [debt and deficit] The BBC news routinely mixes the two up. Where there is financial illiteracy, Brown sees a chance to mislead the voters."
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Well, I've been away for a week - missed the polls narrowing, the death of Michael Foot etc...- and catching up on the news; I'm ALREADY fed up with the desperate Labour spin and especially the cheek and unbelievably hypocrisy shown by Harpie and Mandy in the Ashcroft saga. Especially galling when the name 'Mandelson' is now almost a byword for lying, sleaze and spin.
