Posts Tagged ‘ Guido Fawkes ’

1902 slaps

Though the site has now been taken down, slapnickgriffin.co.uk, as featured on Guido Fawkes, provided an amazing amount of procrastination potential yesterday. I myself managed a modest 1902 slaps, one for each of the Polish servicemen killed fighting for the UK in WW2 – who under BNP specifications would have been roundly expelled from the [ READ MORE ]

The new line of attack

Guido has long been an exponent of the “Gordon Brown is insane” line of argument, which he argues is and should be the Conservatives’ main attack method between now and whenever the election is held. Sure enough, the latest Conservative party-political broadcast underlines the fact that the PM is now well and truly isolated where [ READ MORE ]

The Conservatives’ new best friends

The Conservatives appear to have completed the switch from the EPP-ED faction within the European Parliament, and created a new bloc called the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, with a total of 55 MEPs from 8 member states (26 of them the Conservative MEPs elected in the UK earlier on this month). Much has been [ READ MORE ]

PM-in-waiting?

Guido is reporting that James Purnell, the minister who resigned when the European and council election polls closed at 22:00 on Thursday, has told a “drinks reception for North West Labour Party parliamentary researchers” that he intends to challenge Gordon Brown for the leadership of the Labour Party if no other candidate puts themselves forward [ READ MORE ]

Some EU election titbits

Two pieces, courtesy of Guido. One, in which he wavers between Fine Gael and Libertas in Co. Wexford on the basis of the fitness of their young lady candidates (classic Guido), and another, in which he appears to have rooted out early signs of Labour campaign teams (for Alan Johnson and one of the Milibands) [ READ MORE ]

Are we in for a Summer election?

Guido just had the following piece of General Election gossip, courtesy of Tory Bear: Nick Brown MP, whose Twitter account has subsequently been deleted, tweeted at Austin Mitchell MP that “the new Speaker will only have a few weeks to get settled in before the election is called”. There’s nothing I would like more than [ READ MORE ]

The Speaker resigns

The BBC has the story here, the Times here, the Telegraph here,  Guido here, Iain Dale here, Devil’s Kitchen here, and Wikipedia here. Some of my main news sources, you see… Here’s the text of his speech: Since I came to this House 30 years ago, I have always felt that the House is at [ READ MORE ]

Tory sleaze

I’ve had a fair amount of private criticism from readers of this blog that I have a tendency to focus too much on Labour errors and misdemeanours, and thus implicitly give the Conservatives an easy ride, while completely ignoring the other parties. The latter is merely a function of Westminster being what is called in [ READ MORE ]

MPs expenses

When it isn’t smear emails offering some hard evidence of endemic Westminster sleaze, it’s what the blogs have called “troughing” – elected representatives from all shades of the political spectrum not only making one set of rules for the country and another for themselves, but also lining their pockets with multiple layers of the taxpayers’ [ READ MORE ]

Fleecing the taxpayer

Just back from winning (for the first time) the jackpot at the pub quiz at the Old Black Horse pub down St. Clement’s, Oxford. Depending on whether anything got won last week, myself and my team are either due £30 or £400. Either way, it’s a couple of pints gratis, and a sum that NO-ONE [ READ MORE ]

Getting Brown out

The perfect antidote to an afternoon of exams: an official 10 Downing Street online petition calling for Gordon Brown to resign. Guido makes an impassioned plea for a million people to sign up, along with Iain Dale. I just did. Do feel free to follow suit… Meanwhile, Dizzy Thinks has a wonderful little video clip [ READ MORE ]

Broken Labour

I feel sorry for Labour. Well, almost. Actually, no I don’t, not at all – they’ve been screwing over the country for the last 12 years, and it’s time for a change. There is pretty much nothing now that can reinvigorate their electoral prospects – even if the entire Cabinet are canonised, they are and [ READ MORE ]

Change we need?

The recent turmoil involving Damian McBride, Derek Draper and Guido Fawkes is obviously the big story of the moment, and I was rather expecting matters to quieten down before I came up with a value-judging assessment of the whole affair. As it seems, however, the revelation by Guido, prefaced by this cryptic (and possibly in [ READ MORE ]

Twitter

Just the teensiest of mentions that I’ve now also jumped on the Twitter bandwagon at http://twitter.com/mariusostrowski. Funny thing, Twitter – it’s like Facebook status updates but without the entire rigmarole of Facebook attached. Plus you can ‘follow’ people who probably would never touch Facebook with a bargepole – Stephen Fry, Richard Hammond and the like. [ READ MORE ]

Day 34 (30.vii.08)

I’m feeling very pleased with myself today. Nothing new there, you might say, I’m normally a mobile bundle of smugness. But I believe I have good reason this time, though to be fair, I always have a good reason for my high levels of smugness radiation. To be specific, I decided spontaneously early this afternoon [ READ MORE ]

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