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Labour’s bad boys – Part 25 The Outro

27th August 2026 well_chuffed 0

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…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 24 Eric Joyce

20th August 2026 well_chuffed 0

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…]

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Miatta Fahnbulleh

11th August 2026 Going Postal 0

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…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 23 Satan Blair

6th August 2026 well_chuffed 0

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…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 22 Cap’n Bob

30th July 2026 well_chuffed 0

Ian Robert Maxwell (NHRN) was born 1923 in Czechoslovakia as Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch. His birthplace is now Solotvyno in Ukraine. I believe it was Private Eye who christened him Cap’n Bob presumably based [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 21 Dan Norris

23rd July 2026 well_chuffed 0

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…]

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Starmer’s Resignation

15th July 2026 Godfrey Bloom 0

I watched unloved Starmer’s self pitying tearful resignation speech outside Number Ten & was struck by one sentence in which he referred to Britain as ‘the Country I love’. I was dumbstruck. The reason he [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 20 Rushanara Ali

9th July 2026 well_chuffed 0

Another import from the Sylhet District of Bangladesh. We’ve already had an article on Tulip Siddiq and an honourable mention for Baroness Uddin in the expenses scandal, now we turn our attention to Rushanara Ali. [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 19 Crayons

2nd July 2026 well_chuffed 0

If the PM and his Deputy are on the make then we can expect an epidemic of fiddling among their minions. Angela Rayner has been the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Having left school at [more…]

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