And if you think they’re bad, Mr Brown, have a read of the leading articles…
Heard the latest?: "Confidential details of 15 million child benefit recipients are on a computer disc lost by HM Revenue and Customs, the BBC understands… Chancellor Alistair Darling is to give a Commons statement on "a major operational problem" at 1530 GMT. BBC political editor Nick Robinson said he understood ministers had been aware for […]
So, who is Gordon Brown? The weak Clucking Fist of Chicken Saturday? The ‘Stalinist’ control freak who surrounds himself with yes men? The scheming sulker who plotted constantly against Tony Blair? The political calculator who nicks Tory ideas and does everything for political advantage? The untrustworthy guy who broke his promise on the EU Constitution? […]
Later today David Cameron will mark the day on which Gordon Brown had planned to hold a General Election with a big picture speech. There’s nothing dramatically new in it – just a skillful bringing together of key themes including the idea that we are seeing a change in the tide of ideas every bit […]
Following our post this morning Chris Grayling has been in touch and sent us a new document called Gordon Brown’s first month: the small print. It looks at Brown’s spin and then at the small print. It covers: Flood Defences Support for Flood Hit Areas Border Police ‘New’ Legislative Programme Aircraft Carriers Drug Strategy Consultation […]
Just received from CCHQ: "Parliamentary Questions, buried by John Prescott and yet to be published in Hansard, have today revealed that Prescott has spent £645 of taxpayers money on a new sign for his office – replacing the previous “Office of the Deputy Prime Minister” sign with a new “Deputy Prime Minister’s Office” sign. A […]
…for wasting billions on an NHS IT system that is billions over budget… for failing to reform welfare… for allowing Gordon Brown to impose a record tax burden… for presiding over massive family breakdown… for failing to build enough prisons to stem Britain’s rising violent crime… for incompetence in Iraq… for surrendering to Sinn Fein… […]
Labour Party Chair, Hazel Blears, has this morning been sent a letter and email by several bloggers regarding the cameraman her office hired without remuneration. This picture is taken from one of the videos he made, and shown at their Party Conference. If her office doesn’t respond by Monday the signatories have committed to paying […]
Ed Balls was one of four Labour MPs who legally appealed against boundary changes which would hurt their careers – his seat of Normanton will no longer exist. The High Court has rejected their appeals and awarded costs to the Boundary Commission. These changes are a modest attempt to address the fact that the Conservatives […]
Competitiveness. Britain has dropped from fourth to thirteenth in the international competitiveness league under Labour. Reading and Writing. Almost half of all 11 year-olds cannot read, write and add up properly when they leave primary school. GCSEs. Nearly 23,000 children left school last year without a single GCSE. NHS Deficits. The NHS in England is […]
Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes are doing great work highlighting Labour sleaze with their Little Red Book but will it be Labour’s endless incompetence that will be engraved on the tombstone of this government? Yesterday’s newspapers were full of more stories of Labour incompetence. The Mail highlighted overpayments to benefit claimants. The Sun spotlighted the […]