Elections
A bandwagon minus its wheels
The wheels are coming off the Bodybags bandwagon already; they may actually be off already and if not, probably will be by the time this gets published. In a mere couple of weeks our Andeh [more…]
Labour
Conservatives
Kier Starmer, The Wilderness Years?
Earlier this week, to lob a grenade at his successor Andy Burnham’s first day in the House of Commons after the recess, Keir Starmer announced his resignation from Parliament. Speaking via his local newspaper, the [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – the Intro
Conventional wisdom used to be that Labour’s scandals always involved money and Tory scandals were always of a sexual nature. The last few decades have blown that out of the water. All sides, including those [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 25 The Outro
Well we reach the end of our squint at the misdemeanours of our elected representatives of the socialist persuasion. This is far from an exhaustive list or there would have been hundreds of names. I [more…]
European Union
The promises of Bodybags
One of the reasons Bodybags Burnham gave for not needing a General Election when became Prime Minister was that he was going to stick to Labour’s 2024 manifesto. You know, the manifesto that Rodney Spanner [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 24 Eric Joyce
Stickypedia’s first line says it all really. Eric Stuart Joyce b. 1960 is a British politician, former military officer and convicted child sex offender. The only thing missing is his party affiliation and of course [more…]
15th Century
A View From (A Harbour Some Miles Away From) The Greenhouse; On “Northerner-Ness”
When I was at school, many moons ago now, history was something that was taught to us without the strictures surrounding Colonialism, White Supremacy, Racism and the usual “phobia”. When I discovered that a replica [more…]
Labour
A dastardly deception
Have we all misunderestimated the Knob o’t North. There we are ridiculing him for apparently having no plan when it is possible he does have a plan but is reluctant to let on what it [more…]
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…]