You have to admire the Conservatives’ courage as they launch their annual get-together in enemy territory today. Manchester is a Tory-free zone. Not one of them sits on the council and the city hasn’t sent a candidate sporting a blue rosette to Parliament for nearly three decades. The party faithful won’t be rattled by a bit of […]
Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
Millionaires, bankers’ friend, no wonder we have the most right-wing government ever
Oct 4th, 2011 by Owen Jones.
If the Tories don’t budge, Labour must support strike action
Sep 15th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The unemployment figures are terrible – up 80,000 in the last 3 months to over 2.5m – and for Cameron lamely to call them ‘disappointing’ is an insult when his own government’s cuts are mainly responsible. And there is clearly a lot worse to come – with women’s joblessness fast approaching a quarter-century high, youth […]
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Cameron and Blair both muddle-headed on cause of riots
Aug 23rd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Well, well, well. Who said “there are deep problems in our society that have been growing for a long time: a decline in responsibility, a rise in selfishness, a growing sense that individual rights come before anything else”? Cameron. And where does he think the selfishness and fixation on individualism came from, if not from […]
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PM shows how NOT to respond to riots
Aug 13th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.Prime Minister David Cameron stood-up today and gave us an instructive lesson in how not to respond to the recent scenes we have seen on British streets. Unsurprisingly, his speech was laced with ‘broken society’ rhetoric and a law and order response. He dismissed those who wanted to talk about “resources” and outlined a now pending […]
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The catharsis to come
Jul 23rd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The Murdoch phone-hacking frenzy morphing into a far bigger picture of elite corruption in Britain is now in full spate. The country is ruled by a closed network between banks and international finance, mega-corporations, the small clique round No.10, an aggressive media, and an indifferent police/MI5 security system. Every one of them has now been […]
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Visit Cameron’s Kitchen
Jul 20th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Another great creation from Clifford Singer and the people at MyDavidCameron. Do visit (click on the pic). Very funny, but as always with a serious point. And do take your time — try clicking on things like the TV and light switches. There is much to be revealed.
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Hackgate: notes on political crises
Jul 18th, 2011 by David Osler.Westland didn’t bring down Thatcher, Major took on the Maastricht Bastards and lived. Not even the combination of illegal war against Iraq, the Kelly suicide and cash for peerages was enough to force Blair to quit. Prime ministers, it seems, invariably ride out a little local difficulty. I do not see anything in either the […]
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What the downfall of the Mafia State should tell us
Jul 18th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Amid all the reportage of the crumbling of the Murdoch empire, one important matter has been glossed over. Why did it happen at all? It wouldn’t have but for three events. The first is the tenacity of the Guardian, despite all the fob-offs from the police, the politicians and News International over a period of 5 […]
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Who governs?
Jul 15th, 2011 by Owen Jones.I’ll be honest. A couple of weeks ago, I was in utter despair with Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party. I bet many of you reading this were, too. He was stuck on repeat (literally) attacking public sector workers driven to strike by the government, leaving it to PCS leader Mark Serwotka and the BBC’s […]
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No end of a retreat
Jul 12th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Slowly but surely, inch by inch, Murdoch is being forced back. His withdrawal of his promise to hive off Sky News, which he had previously used as a device to avoid referral to the Competition Commission, was motivated solely by the pressing need to allow time for the present crescendo of anger over phone-hacking to […]
