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Osborne chokes on his own budget

3:22pm Wed March 20th

After nearly choking at the despatch box, it didn’t get much better for Osborne, who was then delivered a slapping around from an in form Ed Miliband.

Miliband on fire here (not literally). #Budget2013

— Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) March 20, 2013

Miliband making most of negative case. Now personalizing his tax cut for millionaires theme on Cameron and Osborne.

— Adam Boulton (@adamboultonSKY) March 20, 2013

Miliband very strong today – strikingly better than Balls was in autumn statement #budget2013

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) March 20, 2013

As for the detail, the econo-wonks at Left Foot Forward have already been delving into the distributional analysis provided by the Treasury.

With the exception of a wealthy minority, the larger your family income, the less you stand to lose from this budget.

How the Lib Dems U-turned on Lord Rennard ‘sex pest’ claims

8:56am Mon February 25th

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It’s not the ‘crime’ that gets you: it’s the cover up.

Ashamed: Former Lib Dem member slams Nick Clegg on radio phone-in

7:06pm Thu January 10th

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He’s sorry, he’s sorry. He’s so, so, sorry.

Biden ‘swears small child into Senate’

3:08pm Fri January 4th

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At 39, new senator Chris Murphy is the youngest on Capitol Hill. But the show was stolen by an even more ‘junior member’ at his swearing in.

Clearly not wanting to be left out of proceedings Murphy’s one-year-old son Rider raised his hand at the request of vice president Joe Biden.

Cute.

Via: Byron Tau

ABC News ask leading Republican ‘are you too fat to be president’?

9:40am Thu December 13th

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New Jersey governor Chris Christie rose to global prominence in late October and early November after his constant praise for Barack Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy led to accusations he was trying to skewer Mitt Romney. Christie fancied a crack at the GOP nomination in four years, his critics argued, which would be almost impossible with a Republican in the Whitehouse.

It was down to ABC News’ Barbara Walters to pop the question which persists in much discussion of Christies’ prospects, however:

“There are people that say you couldn’t be president because you’re so heavy”

Christie is thought to weigh in at around 330 pounds, making him the approximate equal of William H. Taft, the fattest US president ever.

Taft had an oversize bathtub installed in the Whitehouse after he got stuck in a normal sized one.

‘Wind turbines hurt birds’ says Tory MP (after admitting there’s no proof)

2:35pm Thu November 15th

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This video from Greenpeace shows Conservative MP, and leader of the anti-wind turbine brigade, Chris Heaton-Harris telling an undercover journalist that he hadn’t “seen any half decent research” on the negative effects of turbines on birds. Heaton-Harris goes on to tell Greenpeace two weeks later that, erm, “there are international studies pointing at this“.

Perhaps Heaton-Harris can enlighten us as to which “international studies” he read in the intervening period.

RSPB hit out at Heaton-Harris »

Kenyan witch doctor predicts Obama will win election

12:05pm Tue November 6th

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A witch doctor from Obama’s ancestral home of Kogelo village in western Kenya has used his mystic powers to predict that the president will secure a second term. Scrapbook could not confirm rumours that “115 year-old” John Dimo is now working on a full breakdown of the electoral college.

Doubtless Donald Trump approves.

Croydon North candidate raps: rhyming frenzy from UKIP’s McKenzie

1:35pm Thu November 1st

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Winston McKenzie, standing for UKIP in the upcoming by election for Croydon North, doesn’t seem to have been knocked back by his 2005 rejection from the X-Factor though, as three years later he appears rapping about his electoral appeal.

The video dates from McKenzie’s 2008 London Mayoral bid, then standing as an independent. Though initially fluent in monosyllabic rhyme, McKenzie soon descends off message:

“Just look at me and Ken, look at Boris, tell me who would the women fancy? Me or them? I’m the man!”

Clearly a fan of rhyme, McKenzie wrote his 2008 mayoral policy in rhyming couplets. His tough, zero-tolerance stance on crime is as follows:

“Knives and guns,

Are fun for some,

Check my Policy,

It’s no fallacy.”

Scrapbook can only hope that all of the Croydon North candidates will reach out to the electorate in the same way.

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