Labour is dead!

And so is this blog.

Our work has finished. No need to say any more.... well, until it all goes tits up.

No, really it'll be fine. You can trust the LibDems, can't you? Erm.....well, let's see shall we?

It's time to do something different. And, hey, I agree with Nick.

The end of Labour is in sight!

For those of you that have been looking on this site for my pearls of wisdom over the last month or so I apologise that I have not been active.

As we are now entering a general election campaign I will be even less noticeable as a blogger as I will be actively campaigning for the Conservatives in and around the area in which I live. I think this will be a better use of my time.

I hope you understand and join me in driving out this discredited and failed Labour government so that the Conservatives can begin to rebuild our country.

Mrs Dromey holds back

Phew! No backlash from Harperson about my previous post - yet!

But I reckon Donal Blaney may get a tweet or two about THIS. (For some reason I can't embed it.)

The boy George done good!

I don't know about you but George Osborne has always been a bit of a worry for me. The way he sits next to David Cameron at PMQs with his mouth open and head on one side makes him look like the slightly "challenged" friend we used to have to take the pub at the request of his mum and dad. (That is probably so politically incorrect that I will find Harriet Harman has twittered me even before I have finished this post!)

However, THIS piece in The Independent has given me some cause for reassurance. In fact, in the survey they report that 67% of respondents think Osborne would make a better Chancellor than Alistair Darling. And 67% 0f business leaders think Osborne understands business while only 27% say the same about Darling.

Combine all this with the fact that Michael White of The Guardian actually says he likes Osborne then I have had to reassess my view. I am expecting great things from him when he is our next Chancellor. But I just wish he would smile benignly like Darling!

Spinning into the depths of hell

If this report in the Daily Telegraph is true then it tells you all you need to know about New (and Old) Labour.

I can't believe that Brown would allow his wife to be used as an attack dog on the Conservatives. After all, she is not a prop, is she?

"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly."

Not often that I use a quote from the Bible to title a post but could not resist linking to this from Iain Dale.

"Take a second look at Labour"? - yep, OK done that. Still a pile of vomit. Next

"A future fair for all"? What, like bumper cars, coconut shies, helter-skelters? No? Oh, you mean a fete worse than death. (Yeah, I know that appeared minutes after the "new" slogan was announced but it's too witty to be lost on Twitter.)

Education, edukashun, ejukajon...oh sod it, I want me fags!

The furore over a Tesco store banning people wearing pyjamas seemed a little bit over the top until I heard THIS on the BBC.

What is happening to this country? Why can't we admit that we have a growing underclass who are going to bleed us dry.

Yes! We do have a "broken society" and the pity is that it will take several generations to change even if we start now.

Gordon: you can have your "Operation Cake" - but you can't eat it!

The second batch of fascinating insights from Peter Watt - the erstwhile general secretary of the Labour Party - in his book entitled "Inside Out" is now available in the Mail on Sunday.

What a shower of shit! Labour (New or otherwise) is not a political party. It is loose association of rival gangs that are intent on destroying each other.

You can't trust them. You can't believe a word they say. And you must vote them into oblivion at the general election.

Dr Who - so what?

This post from Archbishop Cranmer is a tour de force in the way it dissects and refutes the usual load of "Labour luvvie" stuff spewed out by a currently popular television actor.

It appears that David Tennant thinks his so-called 'political' opinions are important because he has played the leading part of 'Doctor Who' which is, at best, an amusing and diverting Saturday tea-time family fantasy/sci-fi extravangza posing as a moral story of our times. Most people have heard of at least one ardent Labour MP blogger who is such a fan that he reverts to references to it whenever things look bad for his Party - which at the moment is quite often!

But of course the main source of this twaddle is The Mirror. What else would you expect?

"He puts the oaf in dauphin" - another quote that characterises Labour's impending defeat?

What a terrible thing to say about the current Foreign Secretary! Not!

Loved this quote from Matthew D'Ancona's article in the Sunday Telegraph:

"Other than Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, who called on Wednesday for a leadership ballot, the chosen fall guy for last week's failed regicide has been David Miliband. "He puts the oaf in dauphin," as one of his Cabinet colleagues put it. And it was to Miliband that the Labour MP Eric Joyce was clearly referring on Thursday's Today programme when he said – devastatingly – that "there are one or two aristocrats at the top end of the Labour Party who think if they act coy, they may inherit the leadership of the party".

More please!

Labour: "This is not so much a government in crisis as a crisis pretending to be a government."

This must surely be the phrase that will epitomise the last days of this discredited Labour government.

Peter Watt, the ex-General Secretary of the Labour Party, who was sacked after the 'Donorgate' scandal a couple of years ago which involved dodgy financial transactions by the Labour Party (nothing new there) has written a book about his experiences in the job. Already he is being described as a man with a grudge just trying to get revenge on those who kicked him out. Maybe so.

However, the Mail on Sunday's serialisation is likely to make for very interesting reading. Read the first part HERE.

Our children's legacy

I last posted this in February 2009 and it is still relevant today.

The real Gordon Brown revealed by Marr's incisive interviewing technique

Just have to have this in my collection:



And this too!

Are you prepared to upset people?

If you haven't got the stomach for it, turn away now.

THIS article by Neil O'Brien of Policy Exchange contains some brutal language which might upset those of you with a delicate disposition. For example,'..we need to end "nice to have" items of spending. Would you notice much if the Department for Culture, Media and Sport had its budget halved?"

OK, that was a rather mild example. Try this instead:.."the next government is still going to have to upset a lot of people. It will have to raise taxes a little at first and cut spending a lot."

Read the rest of the article and learn why tough love will be the motif for the next five years.

Read, inwardly digest and then vote Conservative!

Who can dispute that Brown is the Wrong Man to lead this country for another five years?

Just read this to remind yourself why he has been an unmitigated disaster and why he and his discredited Labour Party should be cast into oblivion at the General Election.

They have done more damage to this country than Adolf Hitler ever achieved.

Enough is enough!

According to the Telegraph the Government scheme to help protect householders who can't pay their mortgages from repossession has cost £2.5 million. Doesn't sound much, does it?

Except that only 15 households were saved. That's a massive £165,000 per case!

As Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps said: “These figures will be a slap in the face for the 1,000 families who are being repossessed every week. It’s unbelievable that during the deepest recession since records began the Government is spending millions on a scheme that has been mired in uncertainty and helped just 15 families"

Surely, no one has the stomach for another five years of this singularly incompetent Labour government?

Just remember that it's yours, your children's and your grandchildren's money that they have been wasting for the last 13 years. Don't be fooled by their class-based attacks on the Conservatives or their desperately pathetic attempts to pretend they are competent to run the economy. They are not. Vote them into oblivion.

Politics - New Zealand style

This is the way it should be done.

Trafigura Newsnight film that Carter Ruck has tried to ban

When Ian Dale asks you to do something, you do it, don't you? If you give a "Carter Ruck" you do!

The Thick of It? Who gives a f**k?

So, what has Labour really done to help business?

We are all used to hearing the Great Lord Protector of All-of-Us announcing schemes to save British business from the effects of US sub-prime bank lending-induced recession. And we are used to hearing how successful these have been in reducing the numbers of people that would have become unemployed if they had not been introduced.

But have they really been effective?

Lobbydog has been passed some interesting information by the Conservative Party which sheds some interesting light on what has really happened.

Capital for Enterprise Fund
A £75 million fund to invest in small businesses needing equity, announced on January 14th 2009. Only seven businesses have received money from the fund in its eleven months of operation.

BIS Working Capital Scheme
A scheme pledging £10 billion in guarantees to cover credit to businesses with a turnover of up to £500 million a year, announced January 14th 2009. The Government provides banks with guarantees covering 50% of the risk on existing and capital projects worth up to £20 billion. It was delayed for months, and then agreements were only signed with three banks (RBS, Natwest and Lloyds) for £2 billion, a fifth of the scheme’s original allocation. Rosie Winterton recently announced that the remaining funding for this has been reallocated.

UK Innovation Investment Fund
A £1 billion scheme to invest in innovative business, announced 6 months ago. No investments yet made. It has not appointed a fund manager.

BIS Trade Credit Insurance Scheme
The scheme allows suppliers which have seen trade credit reduced to buy taxpayer-guaranteed ‘top-ups’ worth up to £2 million, announced in April. Some £5 billion in insurance was pledged, but only 72 firms have benefited. Only £13 million – or 0.4% of the £5 billion allocated to the scheme – has been handed out.

BIS Automotive Assistance Programme
The programme involves two forms of help for car manufacturers. One involves guarantees to unlock loans of up to £1.3 billion. The other involves loans or loan guarantees to support up to £1 billion of lending. No loans have been made. A loan was offered to one car firm, but the company rejected because it thought it could get a better deal elsewhere.

So, how credible is it for Brown & Co to claim that they have done more than any previous government to help business ride out this recession? Remember that this a recession that they told us we were in a better position than other countries to survive because of their brilliant management of the economy.

Never trust a Labour Government with your money!