This is a few days old but kudos to Tom Harris for this one. A regular party election broadcast? Just wait 30 seconds.
Tag Archives: transition 2010
Quote of the day: Boris' bizarre bazaar
Barely hours after its inception, BoJo was regaling the press with his colourful metaphor for the coalition: “They’ve created a mongrel breed. It’s a kind of cross between a bulldog and a Chihuahua. And like all mongrel breeds I think it will have a great deal of hybrid vigour and strength.” And it seems his imagination [...]
Civil Service memo airbrushes previous government from history
“There has to be someone to carry on government, even if everything else stops”, Sir Humphrey Appleby told Jim Hacker in Yes Minister. It seems latter day Permanent Secretaries have wasted no time during the election and its aftermath in preparing an emollient Whitehall for possible new inhabitants. An internal government memo sent to civil servants and seen [...]
You heard it here first: Philippa "cure the gays" Stroud is new adviser to Iain Duncan Smith
You heard it here first … well, the rumours at least. The Mirror reports the Tories’ failed PPC for Sutton, Cheam and Worcester Park has made her way into Westminster through the back door: as a publicly-funded special adviser to Work and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith. Stroud’s role heading up IDS’ Centre for Social Justice left [...]
Has Caroline Spelman broken the Ministerial Code?
New Secretary of State for Farms ‘n’ Stuff, Caroline Spelman, has become the first member of the new administration to be Guido’d. The Right Honourable Member for Meriden cut her teeth as a food and bio-technology lobbyist and was – until less than twelve months ago – director and shareholder of a company responsible for lobbying the [...]
Sack "homophobic" Theresa May Facebook group clocks up 32,000 supporters
Just want to join the group? You can do so here. “What do you mean? Of course she’s suitable for the equalities brief – she’s a woman!” One can only assume the discussion of Theresa May’s appointment as Minister for Women and Equality went something along these lines. Perhaps they should have looked at her voting [...]
A new dawn (or those cabinet posts in full)
The first broken promise has been notched up in this regard.
Bookies balk at five-year government plan
A five-year parliament? The bookies beg to differ! This dropped into Scrapbook‘s inbox from William Hill a few minutes ago: WITH THE NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT arranging for the next General Election to be held on the first Thursday, 7th, of May, 2015, William Hill are offering odds of 5/1 that it WILL be, and 1/9 [...]
