Scourge of News Corporation Tom Watson gave his most personal account yet of the phone hacking scandal at GMB Congress yesterday. Referring to Rupert Murdoch’s regular audiences with British prime ministers, the West Bromwich East MP told delegates: “When it comes to secret liaisons in Downing Street, after only a year, David Cameron’s back passage is already well [...]
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
John Bercow: Children’s minister shouldn’t behave like child
UPDATE: Apparently the children’s minister concerned was not Sarah Teather, as stated here previously, but her junior, Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families Tim Loughton. This gives us the perfect opportunity to reprint the front cover of Community Care magazine, from which Loughton pleads pathetically: “I want to be your friend”! Though the prime [...]
Perils of the Parliamentary emails
As those familiar with the Parliamentary email system will no doubt know, if you are going to send out an insipid email to every MP and staffer, then you have to be prepared for people to respond by telling you exactly what they think in front of every MP and staffer. So spare a thought [...]
Quote of the day: Steve Coogan calls No to AV a “bunch of dicks”
It seems AV referendum celebrity endorsements have suddenly become more interesting than Professor Robert Winston (Baron Winston to you) and Colin Firth. While yesterday saw Peter Stringfellow come out for the ‘No’ camp, PoliticsHome report a rather, erm, pithy remark from Steve Coogan as to why he wants to change the voting system: “Cos those who [...]
Liverpool Lib Dem leader: keep Nick Clegg away from our campaign
The leader of the Liberal Democrats on Liverpool City Council has stated publicly that Nick Clegg will be toxic to the party in May elections since “jumping into bed with the Tories”. Warren Bradley will be banning the use of the Liberal Democrat leader on campaign materials: “We couldn’t possibly use Nick Clegg as part [...]
Throw Pickles to the sharks, says Lib Dem councillor
Terrible poll ratings, broken promises, grassroots unrest and an imminent scandal – things aren’t looking great for the Lib Dems. Until the scandal breaks, however, you’ll just have to make do with this Lib Dem councillor from Colchester, Nick Barlow, calling for a senior Coalition partner to be thrown to the sharks. Scrapbook thinks the [...]
Quote of the day: turning up the volume edition
Scrapbook’s favourite part of the Sunday Times isn’t behind a paywall and the rascals operating their newsroom Twitter seem to be doing so from the Commons press gallery this afternoon. When Iain Duncan Smith was asked asked if he’d give advice on an issue to the government, the former Tory leader and Quiet Man reportedly [...]
Sexist quote of the day: women can't mow lawns edition
That EU-funded feminism claptrap has clearly been vanquished over at ConservativeHome, where LGiU wonk Glyn Gaskarth outlines the division of labour in the Big Society: A healthy male can mow a lawn or clear a drive. A healthy female could form a neighbourhood watch; volunteer to assist at a local school, help at the local library or [...]
