Archive for June, 2009

Boris and Expenses

It’s been a tough week this week. I was angry and disappointed to learn that my former deputy had made some very serious errors of judgement when it came to expenses. He rightly stepped down and we must now move on.
I won’t gloss over my own issue with expenses. Despite being a fanatical cyclist, I [...]


Michael Jackson: the man that Beat It

“…and Gordon Brown will probably moonwalk into Prime Minister’s questions.”
To understand the cult and martyrdom of Michael Jackson, we need to go back to Thriller, the 14-minute masterpiece directed by John Landis in 1982. Jackson hired Landis after seeing An American Werewolf in London and he told him: “I want you to turn me into [...]


Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

“the world has heard so much about duck houses and lame duck prime ministers that they must think we are all completely quackers”
If the BBC’s chiefs have an ounce of common sense they will seize the moment, cut Jonathan Ross’s salary in half and use the money to hire another 20 Farsi-speaking analysts. [...]
There is [...]


Wealth creation and public spending

So here we go again. The battle lines are drawn, and how numbingly predictable it is. For the next 11 months we are fated to endure a necrarchy, a zombie government – and a brain-dead argument about public spending. [...]
I want to hear politicians talk less about themselves and their priorities and more about the [...]


BNP Protest – Nick Griffin pelted with eggs

He really did get a good egging – see here
 
Here is a further timely Dungeekin rendition in a wonderful ‘Oliver’ spoof
 
In this life, one thing counts,
Tolerance in large amounts,
But when you see the BNP,
You’ve got to taunt a Fascist or two.
You’ve got to taunt a Fascist or two, boys,
You’ve got to taunt a Fascist or [...]


Hanging on to jobs and power

If Labour backbenchers want to remove such suspicions, their only choice is to revolt. Will they? Don’t hold your breath.

What a shower. What a farce. [...]
The past few days have reminded me of the climactic scenes of one of those Pink Panther films, when the world’s supposedly most ruthless killers are converging on their [...]


Gordon’s Reshuffle Song

See the latest brilliant offering  here
The Cabinet Reshuffle in tune to ‘Oliver’!
By Dungeekin


Jackie Smith to step down as Home Secretary

MPs’ expenses and restoring trust in politics
Thanks to Dungeekin for his excellent satire.

See here
(Apologies to Doris Day)


Simon Heffer for Chelmsford

He actually has a world view…He actually believes things, and he believes them with a volcanic sincerity
..a withering reproach to all the temporising anaemic difference-splitters of this Parliament.
We want the Heff, as we affectionately call him, and we want him now.
David Cameron is said to have received 1,000 letters from assorted headcases who believe [...]