After PMQs saw David Cameron level a “baldemort” jibe at Liam Byrne yesterday, Paul Goodman over at ConservativeHome has reimagined some senior Tories, minus the hair. Surprisingly given the folklore of his blonde mop, Boris doesn’t look too bad as a shiny slaphead. Osborne and Cameron, however, don’t seem to fare so well. Given the [...]
After Scrapbook wondered out loud as to the progress of CCHQ’s investigation into the Nazi stag do attended by MP Aidan Burley, the Birmingham Post reports that the prime minister will take sole responsibility for disciplining the “honourable” member for Cannock Chase: “David Cameron will personally decide the fate of Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley, once an [...]
The government tried to snatch benefits from disabled children yesterday, just three weeks after David Cameron schmoozed with celebrities such as Gary Barlow at a Number 10 charity party for Children In Need. The coalition faced revolt in the House of Lords over reforms to welfare that would take £1,400 per year from kids with conditions such as [...]
A “Doncaster” doctor used by David Cameron to promote his health reforms yesterday has quit his commissioning group and doesn’t even live in Doncaster. The prime minister attempted to embarrass Miliband at PMQs by quoting a medical worker supposedly from his own constituency: Speaking as acting chairman of the Doncaster pathfinder CCG he said this: [...]
Following David Cameron’s apparent agreement to Michael Gove’s proposal for a new royal yacht, an Early Day Motion (EDM) has been put forward by MPs supporting the idea. Having already gathered 19 signatures, predominantly from Conservative MPs, it will continue a debate which wiser Tory hacks would have buried. The EDM calls for: “the Government to appoint a Minister [...]
We seem to be in the business of stealing stuff from Alex Andreou (@SturdyAlex) today. Scrapbook couldn’t resist reposting this which was captioned as follows: “How nice! Our PM visited an enclosure of ethnic children today.” But we wondered if our readers could do any better? Responses in the comments.
The antidote to the tedium of annual current affairs round-ups, here is the March installment of Scrapbook’s Top 12 Political Cock-Ups of 2011. The BBC’s teatime magazine programme The One Show isn’t famed as a forum of hard-hitting interviewing, but when David Cameron appeared on it in March he was taken a little by surprise. [...]
How’s that “New Politics” working out for you, Nick?
