Orthodoxy of overspending - over...

After this weeks Prime Minister's Questions with repeat after repeat of the exact same LIES even "some of Gordon Brown’s colleagues know the game is up." With the disgraceful and lying Brownstuff continuing to flow Gordon Brown would do well to read Bagehot in the The Economist this week, in the print edition but online HERE: "The end of the New Labour orthodoxy on public spending".

"In fact Labour might do better to fight on Mr Cameron’s ground: yes, there must be cuts, it could argue, but only we can be trusted to make them humanely. That stance would help dispel the government’s reputation for profligacy, while chiming with a residual hunch that the party cares more about the public services than the Tories. For Mr Brown, that might be too humiliating and disorienting a reversal; but if he can’t manage it, his successor as Labour leader will probably have to. When that happens, British politics will have a new consensus—and it will be the opposite of the one New Labour intended."

Orthodoxy of overspending - over...

After this weeks Prime Minister's Questions with repeat after repeat of the exact same LIES even "some of Gordon Brown’s colleagues know the game is up." With the disgraceful and lying Brownstuff continuing to flow Gordon Brown would do well to read Bagehot in the The Economist this week, in the print edition but online HERE: "The end of the New Labour orthodoxy on public spending".

"In fact Labour might do better to fight on Mr Cameron’s ground: yes, there must be cuts, it could argue, but only we can be trusted to make them humanely. That stance would help dispel the government’s reputation for profligacy, while chiming with a residual hunch that the party cares more about the public services than the Tories. For Mr Brown, that might be too humiliating and disorienting a reversal; but if he can’t manage it, his successor as Labour leader will probably have to. When that happens, British politics will have a new consensus—and it will be the opposite of the one New Labour intended."

Oily obsession...

Undies ads going OTT? NO! We want more...I mean less...you know what I mean!

Below is another Eva CK ad from last year for Klein's Secret Obsession perfume...it was banned from US TV. Eva said,

'I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity....'We seem ok with violence, but nudity we race to criticise and censor. I'm not at all ashamed or frightened about showing my body.'

'We believe the commercial is exceptional and hits the mark for Secret Obsession.' said Tom Murry, president and chief operating officer of Calvin Klein Inc. no doubt happy with more exposure..oops!

Both images link to Daily Mail article "Are fashion ads going too far?" with more pics (including some with with Irish model Jamie Dornan - just to prove there's no sexism involved!)

Oily obsession...

Undies ads going OTT? NO! We want more...I mean less...you know what I mean!

Below is another Eva CK ad from last year for Klein's Secret Obsession perfume...it was banned from US TV. Eva said,

'I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity....'We seem ok with violence, but nudity we race to criticise and censor. I'm not at all ashamed or frightened about showing my body.'

'We believe the commercial is exceptional and hits the mark for Secret Obsession.' said Tom Murry, president and chief operating officer of Calvin Klein Inc. no doubt happy with more exposure..oops!

Both images link to Daily Mail article "Are fashion ads going too far?" with more pics (including some with with Irish model Jamie Dornan - just to prove there's no sexism involved!)

On offer...

With Gordon Brown's blatant public lies last week it seems appropriate that his financial support is drying up and leaving bearly a single source for Labour coffers...except the Unions; so no surprise today at their 2009 conference that Unison chirps up with the biggest threat: that of withdrawing their stuffed brown envelopes from anyone who doesn't toe their line. John McDonnell, Labour MP leading a group of MPs as The Campaign Group wants union rights increased and an end to privatisation of the public services.

"I welcome Dave Prentis's speech today at Unison conference. It is an indication of the revulsion within rank-and-file trade unionists at the government policies of privatisation."

I don't agree (except regarding the Post Office, in fact I am staggered that a Labour government - albeit faded rosé tinged instead of red - would even consider it for a second) but you have to respect the guy and that he stands up for what the Labour Party should be.

However, the Conservative Party should beware, and the excellent Letters from a Tory tells us today how they have been given a slight reprieve because the government was defeated (in the House of Lords) over it's attempts to thwart the Conservatives by banning donations to political parties by tax exiles. Apparently 46 Labour rebels "(the biggest rebellion since 1997)" swayed the vote Labour still desperate to stop Ashcroft donations:

Labour’s desire to attack the Conservatives on any grounds, regardless of how spurious they are, should not be underestimated. Electoral reform, MPs’ second jobs, party donations – they can and will try everything to hurt the Conservatives. Labour will never reform trade union funding as this would bankrupt them overnight so I see no reason why the Conservatives should bug [Lord Ashcroft about his] donations, but with Labour in charge of the legislative agenda I would brace yourself for a barrage of attacks as Labour try to undermine the Conservative Party’s credibility and honesty because they have no policy debates to concern themselves with.

On offer...

With Gordon Brown's blatant public lies last week it seems appropriate that his financial support is drying up and leaving bearly a single source for Labour coffers...except the Unions; so no surprise today at their 2009 conference that Unison chirps up with the biggest threat: that of withdrawing their stuffed brown envelopes from anyone who doesn't toe their line. John McDonnell, Labour MP leading a group of MPs as The Campaign Group wants union rights increased and an end to privatisation of the public services.

"I welcome Dave Prentis's speech today at Unison conference. It is an indication of the revulsion within rank-and-file trade unionists at the government policies of privatisation."

I don't agree (except regarding the Post Office, in fact I am staggered that a Labour government - albeit faded rosé tinged instead of red - would even consider it for a second) but you have to respect the guy and that he stands up for what the Labour Party should be.

However, the Conservative Party should beware, and the excellent Letters from a Tory tells us today how they have been given a slight reprieve because the government was defeated (in the House of Lords) over it's attempts to thwart the Conservatives by banning donations to political parties by tax exiles. Apparently 46 Labour rebels "(the biggest rebellion since 1997)" swayed the vote Labour still desperate to stop Ashcroft donations:

Labour’s desire to attack the Conservatives on any grounds, regardless of how spurious they are, should not be underestimated. Electoral reform, MPs’ second jobs, party donations – they can and will try everything to hurt the Conservatives. Labour will never reform trade union funding as this would bankrupt them overnight so I see no reason why the Conservatives should bug [Lord Ashcroft about his] donations, but with Labour in charge of the legislative agenda I would brace yourself for a barrage of attacks as Labour try to undermine the Conservative Party’s credibility and honesty because they have no policy debates to concern themselves with.

Ode to odious overspenders...

From: The Guardian: "Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate. New poem Politics makes a passionate commentary on corrosiveness of politics on politicians".

How it makes of your face a stone

that aches to weep, of your heart a fist,

clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue

an iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right hand

a gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your laugh

a dry leaf blowing in the wind, of your desert island discs

hiss hiss hiss, makes of the words on your lips dice

that can throw no six. How it takes the breath

away, the piss, makes of your kiss a dropped pound coin,

makes of your promises latin, gibberish, feedback, static,

of your hair a wig, of your gait a plankwalk. How it says this –

politics – to your education education education; shouts this –

Politics! – to your health and wealth; how it roars, to your

conscience moral compass truth, POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS.

Politics by Carol Ann Duffy

Ode to odious overspenders...

From: The Guardian: "Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate. New poem Politics makes a passionate commentary on corrosiveness of politics on politicians".

How it makes of your face a stone

that aches to weep, of your heart a fist,

clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue

an iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right hand

a gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your laugh

a dry leaf blowing in the wind, of your desert island discs

hiss hiss hiss, makes of the words on your lips dice

that can throw no six. How it takes the breath

away, the piss, makes of your kiss a dropped pound coin,

makes of your promises latin, gibberish, feedback, static,

of your hair a wig, of your gait a plankwalk. How it says this –

politics – to your education education education; shouts this –

Politics! – to your health and wealth; how it roars, to your

conscience moral compass truth, POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS.

Politics by Carol Ann Duffy