As anticipation mounts for tonight’s Iowa Caucus, Scrapbook’s attention has been drawn to a campaign claim by the gaffe-prone former Republican frontrunner Michele Bachmann that is as spine chilling to lefties as it will be hubris to British Conservatives. Pledging a raft of policies which would make her idol proud and with an expression of [...]
Margaret Thatcher could be given a state funeral but the former prime minister does not want members of the public to pay their respects while she lies in state, plans briefed to The Sunday Times (£) have revealed. In what would be the first state funeral for a commoner since Winston Churchill, the plans, which were [...]
Having this week prompted an EU Commission spokesman to storm of Newsnight by repeatedly calling him an “idiot in Brussels”, charming Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne has once more covered himself in glory by attempting to convince an audience of Scousers that Margaret Thatcher showed “compassion” as Prime Minister: “I think she was a great woman but whatever she was [...]
While Michael Gove tried yesterday to use his participation in industrial action as something of a cautionary tale, Conservatives didn’t always take such a jaundiced view of organised Labour if these remarks by Margaret Thatcher from 1975 are anything to go by: “As you well know, for over 100 years, ever since Disraeli’s day, since [...]
After the media was put on obituary alert by a false rumour of Margaret Thatcher’s failing health, word has reached former Sun political editor turned Portland PR man George Pascoe-Watson that the Irony Lady is, in fact, well enough to entertain guests. Fanboy-in-chief Conor Burns MP, pictured above at Thatcher’s 85th birthday, posted on Facebook that he [...]
In a new feature for Scrapbook, “Doctor Dave” looks back at Cameron’s keynote speech yesterday. Anyone who has managed to retain some sense of optimism at an impending five years of Tory rule would surely have had that hope vanquished yesterday, as David Cameron revealed the full horror of the situation to the nation during [...]
You think Daniel “scrap the NHS” Hannan is unhinged? It has emerged that David Cameron may be more or less obligated to entertain a divisive foreign figure aligned with the nutjob right of his own party. That’s right, Sarah Palin is lining up a trip to the UK! Her Facebook note entitiled “Concerning a possible trip to the [...]
On this historic day (blah blah) Scrapbook thought a look through the archives YouTube would be in order. Got to love the BBC News theme tune in 1990! Harold Wilson (1976) Jim Callaghan (1979) Margaret Thatcher (1990)
