Monthly Archives: April 2008

Too busy securing a Labour victory in Bearwood to post much tomorrow, so, in case I don’t get the chance… May Day greetings to Comrades everywhere I kept the faith and I kept voting Not for the iron fist but … Continue reading →

If there is a journalist in Sandwell who is not so idle-arsed to be spending all their time hanging around the Magistrates Court picking up tit-bits for a story… they could do worse than investigate this by the Ministry of … Continue reading →

Grandad takes a trip. As Roger McGough wrote in his Poem for National LSD Week…. Mind, how you go.

Double trouble for blogger Paul Staines (a.k. Guido Fawkes) as he has been up before M’lud for his second drink driving offence. Not only will the judge be considering a custodial sentence… but Gordon Brown has intervened to freeze his … Continue reading →

Kevin Maguire gives us an entirely unbiased Cut Out and Keep Guide to the winners and losers in the Mayoral election.

The shit has really hit the van for Birmingham City Council’s Tory Cabinet Member with responsibility for Transportation and Street Services, Councillor Len Gregory. Councillor Len Gregory, you see, is the Cabinet Member with responsibility for ensuring the council’s bins … Continue reading →

Lib Dem Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick tells The Independent that he was approached by the Tories and they… “promised me the Earth, all the money I could spend and professional back-up” Given the way he spent last night’s Sky News … Continue reading →

Hat tip to Stephen Newton for this piece on Joe Anderson, the Leader of Liverpool City Council, who has registered the website domain, Lib Dem Liverpool: The worst council in the country on which he highlights and references the disasters … Continue reading →

Now here’s a prize worth winning…. fingers on your buzzers! How about… Nobody’s Watching! (Keep the bloody prize though) PS – Has anyone got any suggestions for where Iain should go?

The Guardian are asking, Were you there in 1968? Now, I realise a good many of my readers were not even born back in ’68 (I don’t mean you, Harry) but I can claim a presence at two of the … Continue reading →