Labour
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary. This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing [more…]
Labour
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 23 Satan Blair
Our first Prime Minister, or First Lord of the Treasury, was Robert Walpole in the earlyish 1700s. His motto was “every man has his price and I know it bar a few” and some of [more…]
Labour
No. 10 o’t North won’t cost anything
During the Knob’s first week he announced Number 10 o’t North and stated confidently it would actually cost nothing because it would come out of existing Cabinet Office budgets, around £1.75 billion. He finished off [more…]
Democracy
Manchester Mayoral Election Fiddle
Our Markerfield correspondent has been in touch again, this time regarding the Manchester mayoral election which took place yesterday. However, the count doesn’t take place until today. Based on previous Greater Manchester mayoral elections and [more…]
Elections
The Knob, a caricature of a northerner
After a week of the Andy Burnham show what have we let ourselves in for or to be more precise what has the Labour Party let us in for. True to form Labour has done [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 21 Dan Norris
Dan Norris was the MP for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010. In 2021 he was elected as Mayor of the West of England until his arrest in April 2025. In the 2024 GE he defeated [more…]
Conservatives
Burnham’s Bee Bus Bollocks
A Multi-Million Pound Illusion Funded by Tories and Paid for by You Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham never misses an opportunity to boast about his socialist transport “revolution.” To hear him tell it, the Manchester [more…]
Animals
A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; Birds Of A Feather
I’ve learned to kind of expect the unexpected where the greenhouse is concerned. There’s rarely a day goes by when there aren’t at least one or two (feathered) birds in there, struggling to find its [more…]
Elections
Continuity Rodney
It’s all over then, Spanner has done the off, or will have in a week’s time, and the Knob o’t North will be taking over. From what I can see very little will change, it [more…]