Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

It seems the latest Conservative Party screw up over statistics has caused a bit of a stir. The current mess, which a Conservative spokesman claimed was caused by a decimal point being left out of a calculation, follows hot on the heels of Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling being sent a letter by the UK Statistics [...]

Unlikely Poster

This is a real billboard poster seen in Minnesota. Barack Obama’s popularity has plummeted in his first year as president, but surely he can’t be that unpopular! Update: A friend pointed me in the direction of this website. My fav is the “I Miss W” apron!

Terrible News

A friend of mine has just pointed me to an article on the Evening Echo website which claims the EON call centre in Rayleigh is to close with the loss of 600 jobs. Unfortunately my firend just happens to work there, and this is the first he has heard of it! Disgusting actions by management at [...]

Lord T Blogging?

Something tells me that Lord Tebbit’s Telegraph blog will become “must read”. Lord T writes thoughtful, insightful posts with a touch of humour too. Not only that, he is not frightened to air an opinion that might not go down well with the party leaders. In fact, in just his second post he may have [...]

Village for Idiots

The Times is reporting that the Olympic village being built for the 2012 games will be publicly owned. Apparently the site will include 2,800 flats. Reserve, say, 500 of them and we could have a solution as to what we could do about MPs who represent constituencies outside of London. The flats could be fully [...]

Well Done Boris

I’m not a great fan of the Daily Mail, in fact I hardly ever read it and certainly do not go out of my way to buy it. However, there’s a great piece in it today written by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on being English. Read the article here if you have a spare [...]

Arise Sir Ted

Gordon Brown has made some piss poor decisions in his short time as Prime Minister but this is one that will really stick in the gullet of many in Britain is an affront to those who have lost their lives as a result of the struggles (including Lord Mountbatten). Apparently the honorary knighthood is for [...]

Opposition for Opposition’s sake?

Jonathan Isaby at ConHome has taken up a post written by Iain Dale yesterday. Dale seems rather annoyed that the Conservative party have backed Jack Straw’s veto on publishing the minutes of the cabinet meetings that led up to the invasion of Iraq. Iain is also somewhat perturbed at the thought that Lord Mandelson’s hatchet [...]

Conservative Party Free Not to Speak

Today Geert Wilders, a Dutch Freedom Party MP, has been stopped from entering the country. Mr Wilders was due to show his controversial film Fitna, which links the Koran with terrorism, in the House of Lords. Mr Wilders has however, banned as his presence would ‘threaten public security’ and ‘community harmony’ I can not really [...]

Deluded Labour Supporters

During my daily perusal of the various blogs I read, I came across these little gems. They were on the Rochford & Southend East Labour website and made me pity the poor deluded fools who wrote them.               Well Thomas (he certainly is one); perhaps you seem to forget [...]