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Out Demons Out
Rising Tory star Philippa Stroud ran prayer sessions to 'cure' gay people. Should be able to secure a job alongside Chris Grayling if the Tories were to gain office: A high-flying prospective Conservative MP, credited with shaping many of the...
"This latest idiocy from Tory HQ..."
Letter in The Guardian... The abrupt addition of same-sex civil partnerships to David Cameron's categories of those select couples who would gain tax advantages under any future Tory administration reveals a cynical last-ditch effort to offset the damage caused by...
The left have won the battle
I don't say this very often, and let's face it, there aren't that many chances to say it, but, here goes.... IAIN DALE IS RIGHT. No, I don't mean as in extreme right, but as in correct. When he says...
The Church Taliban get their way again
When Tony Blair and his small band of 'New' Labour modernisers swept into power in 1997 they had all sorts of wild and wonderful plans for Britain. In one area though, Tone and the Gang were decidedly conservative in their...
Slimeball
When the Daily Mail engaged in a thinly-veiled homophobic attack on Iain Dale, he was quite rightly upset about it. I presume he will be equally upsetaboutt this piece of snide innuendo from the slimeball Tory Bear. Does anyone imagine...
10 things John Redwood should apologise for
John Redwood is suggesting the Prime Minister should be apologetic. Perhaps Mr Redwood would like to join in. He could apologise for:1. Voting for the Maastricht Treaty 2. Trying to give the impression that he voted for Maastricht because he...
All boys together
Clearly the Young Briton's Foundation (a sort of brainwashing organisation for today's young Neocons and Bullingdon Club members) doesn't want to upset the boys at its activist conference by exposing them to members of the opposite sex. Frank Owen's Paintbrush...
What goes around...
Iain Dale is absolutely correct. The Daily Mail is a hateful Tory rag, and the disgusting homophobic piece about Dale's sexuality in the Ephraim Hardcastle column seems designed to deliberately damage his chances of winning the Bracknell selection by appealing...
Bottom Feeders
Nadine Dorries is the Edwina Currie of the 21st Century. A middle-aged woman who hangs around with a lot of faded elderly men and as a consequence thinks she is some sort of sex symbol and spokeswoman of her generation....
On The Back Foot
Today, two of the most vitriolic and childish point-scoring right wing blogs complain about... This whole row illustrates the problem we have in this country. It is impossible to have a rational debate... and It astounding what can actually pass...
One last shot - bring back Ramps!
He will be 40 years of age next month, but there is still time for the England selectors to swallow their pride and give us a chance of winning the Ashes at the Oval, by bringing back one of the...
Let's give them all a good spanking!
Anyone who has had to deal with some of the behaviour in some of our secondary schools will be comforted to know that Phil Hendren (dizzy thinks) has identified the cause of the problem. You may have wondered why teachers...
God save the Queen
Victoria Coren in The Observer on celebrating a big win in Las Vegas: It feels big here, especially with the new tradition of playing each winner's national anthem to a crowded room. But there is a scandal brewing over Kabbaj's...
Bitter and Twisted
If there was only one good reason any Labour MP could think of for voting for John Bercow to be the Speaker of the House of Commons, it would be to rub the nose of the likes of the obnoxious...
Round the (West) Bend
Don't you just hate these right-wing political correctness types. In the US a bunch of Christian wingnuts are suing the City of West Bend because four of them read a novel about a boy, struggling with his homosexuality who is...
Men in glass houses in stone throwing competition
Before throwing stones from the comparative insecurity of their glass houses, perhaps the Daily Telegraph, How Labour let the BNP flex its muscles and the Daily Mail, Labour vacuum let in the bigots, should start asking some different questions, including...
Previous
It must be a something in the drinking water that affects West Midlands Tory councillors. In Sandwell we had the sad case of Councillor Burkett. He was pimping his partner, a woman with learning disabilities, whilst he counted the money...
Hit me with your rhythm stick
If Mr Paul Staines is as independent from the Conservative Party as he and his toy boy commenters claim, presumably we can expect the fearless bull-gored blogger to really go to town on this one... or not... Vice madam to...
And they allow them to breed, too.
Dizzy thinks... apparently. However, a lot of what Dizzy thinks is complete tosh, and now we find he may be influenced by some woman who is equally dotty. This is what Dizzy's 'other half' said to him this morning over...
To Adrian from Attila
The following was left as a comment on the Adrian Mitchell R.I.P. post by the legendary Attila the Stockbroker, but it deserves its own piece:On Sun 21st December around 1am, I got back from a 600 mile round trip to...
We should have an inquiry into Iraq
William Hague at PMQs today apparently called for an Independent Inquiry into the events leading up to the war in Iraq. I didn't hear it, but I did catch Grant Schapps re-emphasising the point on Radio 5 when he said...
Exclusive: There will not be a February election
I'm not sure Iain fully gets the point here. In response to a suggestion on Labour Matters that Tories are 'sexing-up' a February election in order to try to make Brown look indecisive if he doesn't call one, Iain responds...
When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through...
Via The Guardian Letters Page: Re the Damian Green affair (Politics, December 9): "Now all the authorities they just stand around and boast/ How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post ... " (Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Bob...
Another day, another Rial
It just had to happen. Iain Dale joins the holocaust deniers and the other Tories on the Iranian Government sponsored propaganda machine PressTV. Oh well, one door closes...any port in a storm, eh?...
Why the Tories persist with trivia
At the end of this piece by Melissa Kite in The Telegraph, she makes a really good point: Why do Tories bother with lads' mags? First though, she savages Michael Gove, which is always a bit of fun: Rarely does...
In and out of Beds
I was intrigued by a new blog to me by a Bedfordhire Tory councillor Andrew McConnell. He is asking people to vote for Bedfordshire's sexiest politician, which surprisingly doesn't feature Andrew himself. Rather a modest chappy I would have thought,...
Healthy advice
Some useful advice for teenagers. "Alas, it would seem most boys would rather have herpes than a new train set."...
Pompous fool
Why do Tories get all sanctimonious and full of pompous self-righteousness when one of their number is caught 'at it'? just read this drivel from Iain Dale. Pathetic, isn't it? Most of the criticism from the left has been about...
Spotless reputation - the purest treasure?
James McGrath, a senior adviser to Boris Johnson was shown the door by the new Mayor after suggestions that his comments advising black people who didn't want to live in London they could "go back home" were considered to be...
Expenses claims, my arse!
There has been a tremendous fuss going on over the last few weeks about the right of people to have information about the expenses payments claimed by our politicians. To winkle the information out of the MPs has been like...
Choice. What bloody choice!
A Guardian Leader today emphasises just how complete the Blairite victory has been... We are all progressives now. To read a Guardian Leader praising David Cameron for accepting all of the things that Tony Blair created as New Labour demonstrates...
Johnson may yet do us a favour
Bruce Anderson on Boris Johnson in The Independent. It will not be enough to see him through the next four years. Mayor Boris has two assets: the ambition - he will not want to fail - and a brain. Narrowly...
Sex and drugs and senior Tories
A top Tory funder, a man who donated 25,000 pounds to Boris Johnson's Mayoral campaign, is exposed as participating in cocaine-sniffing orgies, and what does a top Tory blogger have to say about it? Well, it's all Harriet Harman's...
Nadine Dorries is barking!
I know I said I would attempt as a general rule not to be personally offensive about individuals, but sometimes people like Melanie Philips and Nadine Dorries (oooh, sexist!) would try the patience of a saint. Hysterectomy....now which nasty male...
The Daily Heil overlooks its support for fascists
My old mate David Hallam, the Methodist Preacher, posted something earlier in the week about Max Mosley that drew my attention to some sort of sex scandal which had been exposed in some Murdoch comic. As someone who finds Formula...
Britain in 1945...
Via the Occupied Country.... "Britain in 1945. No supermarkets, no motorways, no teabags, no sliced bread, no frozen food, no flavoured crisps, no lager, no microwaves, no dishwashers, no Formica, no vinyl no CDs, no computers, no mobiles, no duvets,...
Spreading democracy...
Foreign Secretary David Miliband today makes the argument for military intervention to 'spread democracy'. So, according to The Guardian (although it is less than clear in the text) Britain and its partners have a 'moral imperitive' to use force to...
Give us a break
What connects Aston Villa, Portsmouth, Reading (twice), Middlesborough (twice), Watford and Chelsea? Well, the answer is two things, actually. Firstly, they were Manchester United's opponents in last year's FA Cup. Secondly, every one of those games was shown live on...
Dave's dilemma
Now, hold your breath, I'm only going to say this once. I agree with every sentiment David Cameron uttered in his speech today on the issue of rape. Having said that... it is easy to come up with sweeping generalisations...
Harking back
A couple of days ago Tory blogger dizzy was whining here because he thought he was being asked to accept the responsibility for the actions of the Conservative Party towards homosexuals when he was still in short trousers at the...
A big mouth or a calculated Tory move for the BNP vote?
Sayeeeda Warsi, former special adviser to Michael Howard on Community Relations (are you thinking what I'm thinking) has done what the Tories so often do when they are backed in to a corner. On Andrew Marr's programme this morning Cameron...
What is the world coming to?
First it was Digby Jones becoming a Labour Lord... but not joining the Party. Then the Tories recruited Tony Lit, who had been photographed cuddling up to Tony Blair and the Labour Party, as their candidate in Ealing Southall... and...
Modern Tories, like military intelligence, a contradiction in terms.
So, how modern are modern tories. Via Recess Monkey we discover that: 33% Tories would refuse to go to their friend’s civil partnership. 49% Tories oppose the right of a woman to end her pregnancy. 65% Tories think immigrants have...
Cameron continues to search for that Clause 4 moment
There is clearly a strategy within the Conservative Party to try to find a major plank of party policy that David Cameron can throw overboard and 'take-on' the party grassroots to show that the nasty party is no more. He...
Three in a bed sex romp MP
OK... the title of this posting may be designed to increase traffic during a quiet holiday. However, I find it remarkably chivalrous of Iain Dale to come to the rescue of the honour of two young women who had a...
Too sexy for that shirt.
To return to Barnet Tory Councillor Brian Gordon who I mentioned a couple of days ago had apparently got himself in trouble with people who did a PragueTory by expressing fake angst about him dressing up as Mandela. At ConservativeHome...
Finding his marbles
Scott Davis writes an absolutely tremendous blog, a survivors guide to mental illness called Finding Your Marbles. As you can read in his candid profile here, Scott was violently sexually assaulted at the age of 13 and has suffered from...
The Tosspot Oscars
I'm sure every football supporter in the country has got their own club's nominees who could make the final shortlist for The Top Tosspot Award (known as The Hodge's at Villa Park). I have to say I think Craig Bellamy...
The Glass Ceiling
More than thirty years on from the Sex Discrimination Act, we find that it is not just political parties that have trouble with female representation... "Progress on women's representation across a wide range of professions is painfully slow, and in...
Apologise for slavery? It's still hapenning!!!
Can someone possibly explain how these people can be prosecuted for running something which was so explicitly running as a brothel in my Ward as well as running a disgusting trade in human trafficking... and yet the same establishment opens...
Lack of respect
Iain Dale in an outrageous piece on his blog questions the courage of British soldiers in Iraq. How easy it must be from the comfort of your computer in Essex to question the bravery of people who are risking their...
The "little fat geezer" is dead
For people of 'a certain age' the notion that George Best was football's first superstar never really rang true. The fabulous Real Madrid side that slaughtered Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 in the European Cup Final in 1960 contained at least two...
It's a question of balance
Apparently, sex on TV doesn't appeal. I blame those flat screen televisions....
A proper choice
Despite the enthusiasm of those delegates who would walk over hot coals for Blair, and those who want a coronation for Gordon, I get the feeling the Party itself is up for a contest based on ideas. Not "Old" Labour...
Home Truths
Radio 4 is deeply ingrained in my psyche. It dates back to childhood memories of the Home Service with, De Manio, Timpson, and Redhead on Today, Yesterday in Parliament and, of course, the bloody Archers (which as someone once said...
The Urban 75 site is
The Urban 75 site is a peculiar mixture. It contains some good photos of Brum, such as this one of what was my favourite statue before some swines vandalised it and set it on fire. On another part of the...
The LibDem Twelve Days of
The LibDem Twelve Days of Christmas “On the Twelth Day of Christmas my True Love sent to me…… Twelve Lords imbibing, Eleven rent boys telling, Ten gays denying, Nine journos digging, Eight hit men missing, Seven Mayors exposing, Six MPs...
As we left for work
As we left for work this morning the road was packed with police and the woods opposite the house were sealed off with 'scene of crime' tape. I went over to ask the police what was happenning to be met...
With God On Their Side
I can remember the ridicule heaped on the head of busy-body Mary Whitehouse when she wanted Python's Life of Brian banned on the grounds of blasphemy. Well frankly, these people deserve the same. There are so many people who want...
The stars are beginning to hide
The WMD argument rapidly descended into farce as it became obvious to everyone that the reason Scott Ritter and Hans Blix had such doubts was because Hussein did not actually possess any WMD. Determined to justify the war on humanitarian grounds,...
At least Tom knows where it is!
Thanks to Tom Watson for pointing out that one of Sandwell´s two leading Liberals (the other one´s his missus) doesn´t actually realise the election is in Hodge Hill. The poor sod has been desperately searching the map for Hidge Hill....
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