Diane Abbott called it right. According to Paul Waugh on Twitter: As well they might. But do not be mistaken, although Liberal Democrats with narrow majorities over Labour MPs will be rueing the day they lined up for such a shafting, it is all of us who will be getting fucked. Royally, in fact. While [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Tories’
Monday 14 June 2010
Why Labour lost
Following a defeat or set back it is natural to contemplate what went wrong, human nature having developed this tactic to avoid repeating mistakes forever. One of my favourite and oft-quoted pieces of wisdom is that one, sometimes attributed to Einstein, about the definition of insanity being expecting a different result from the same action. [...]
Thursday 10 June 2010
Miliblogging*
If it is true, as H. L. Mencken suggests, that ‘no-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public’, perhaps it is equally true that no-one ever lost power in the UK by underestimating the stupidity of our electoral system. The Tories attempt to win an election with a leader who is their [...]
Friday 14 May 2010
Tory mix-tape: the anti-fun edition
Continuing our theme of Tory era mix-tapes, here’s one to take you back to the good old days when the Conservatives got the anti-fun bug to such an extent that they decided to try and ban an entire genre of music. In case you haven’t seen it in all its glory before, ladies and gentlemen, [...]
Thursday 13 May 2010
The Clegg and Compo show
Here we all are then, the Dave ‘n’ Nick show opens with the release of the initial and snappily titled ‘Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition negotiations agreements’ on how we are to be governed. You can read the whole thing here. The agreement does demand close inspection, because there are at least a couple of hopeful messages for the future directed at those [...]
Wednesday 12 May 2010
We’ve been here before
A short musical interlude for all ten minutes hate readers who don’t remember what this was like last time around. Listen carefully, this could be valuable survival advice: And if things get really tough, there is always this beauty: Good luck, everyone.
Saturday 8 May 2010
A new England
Right, I have slept on it and I think I have come up with a workable solution. Here is what we are going to have to do: I appreciate that this leaves a few people on the wrong side of the line to people who agree with them. So, in the interests of fairness, we [...]
Friday 7 May 2010
Hang ‘em high
So… I bet you are glad you paid attention in constitutional law now, right? In case, like 80% of the people being interviewed across the media this morning, you have next to no idea what comes next, here is a brief outline of The Rules. First and most important, it is the incumbent who gets [...]
Wednesday 5 May 2010
E-Day minus 1
Some good things for you to read as you wait for tomorrow to make your mark. First, I could probably have written every word of this piece by Gary Younge, just nowhere near as well: I don’t have a phobia about Tories. That would suggest an irrational response. I hate them for a reason. For lots [...]
Tuesday 4 May 2010
May madness
So it is decision time. Not for me, of course, mine has already gone in the post which means, as it does for Mr Vowl, that I can ignore all the wittering and squarking of the next two days in favour of (hopefully) more meaningful discourse. But in case you are not so fortunate as to be able to [...]
