Monthly Archives: March 2008

Don’t know…

Letter in the Guardian: The alternative vote, as Polly Toynbee advocates, would be a welcome step towards real proportionality. But there is a current election where we can take half a step. On May 1, Londoners will mark a first … Continue reading →

Send him for trial, I say, and they can have his bloody mother too if they want!

Luke has done it, and he’s one of those rule book fetishists, so I had better do it too. Legal Notice: Anything from now until polling day that is published here and seeks to influence people to vote Labour is: … Continue reading →

Do you bank with HBOS? Well, the Methodist Preacher wants your support to stop them giving your money to the Tories without your consent. I’ll drink to that. Your round, David?

The Beat…

Last night we went to Andy Hamilton’s 90th Birthday bash. Andy is a legend in these parts and he has run a jazz club in the Ward for over 25 years. Although he is often described as ‘Birmingham’s Andy Hamilton’ … Continue reading →

Kevin Maguire writes about the decline in Labour’s membership in Scotland and suggests that: Labour has fewer than 300 (members) in 15 seats with Westminster MPs. Militant Tendency entryists could easily take over constituencies now without a struggle and if … Continue reading →

How nice to see the private sector showing us how efficient they can be.

Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.) The Iraq hydrocarbon law would take the majority of Iraq’s oil out of the exclusive hands of the Iraqi government and open it to international oil companies for a generation or more.