Campaigners from the UK Uranium Weapons Network and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament today expressed their growing alarm at the possibility that highly toxic and radioactive depleted uranium (DU) weapons have been used in Libya. The inhalation of DU particles, spread when the weapons hit their target, is thought to be linked to the sharp […]
Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
What’s the Exit Strategy, Dave?
Mar 24th, 2011 by Dan McCurry.Overnight he was transformed from Mr Bean to Stalin. In the same way that Thatcher had her Falklands, Cameron had his Libya. But then it didn’t go according to plan. At the first site of a cruise missile, Gaddafi didn’t throw down his weapons and put his hands in the air. Nor did he try […]
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Don’t underestimate Cameron’s attempted coup d’état
Mar 15th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.It’s fashionable to deride Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ as being either vacuous rhetoric (as most Tory MPs think it is) or a thinly veiled cover for massive public expenditure cuts (as the Left thinks). But his article in the Daily Telegraph of 21 February pre-viewing the long-delayed White Paper on public services tells of a much more […]
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How does David Cameron sleep at night?
Mar 10th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Courtesy of Political Scrapbook, from last night’s One Show, has credits were cued to roll, Matt Baker smiles icily before asking the Prime Minister: ‘Just very quickly, how do you sleep at night?‘ Baker clearly meant it as a barb — just listen to co-presenter Alex Jones’ shocked gasp.”
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AV could bring long-term Tory-led coalition
Feb 2nd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.The suggestion by Andrew Grice in the Independent this morning that David Cameron might be planning to assist the Lib-Dems over electoral reform — just as he did in the Oldham East & Saddleworth by-election — changes the whole nature of the AV referendum debate. Many of those Labour MPs who have backed AV see […]
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Day of shame on NHS
Jan 31st, 2011 by Michael Meacher.We were told by an airbrushed David Cameron in a Tory election poster just 8 months ago: “I’ll cut the deficit, not the NHS”. We now know there will be £15-20bn cuts within 4 years. He also pledged repeatedly “to stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS”. Just 2 months after the election we were […]
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Oldham East – about truth & honesty as well as the cuts
Jan 10th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Having just done a day’s campaigning on the knocker in the Oldham East by-election, I was struck by two things. One is that Labour is beginning to pull away (on today’s showing I would predict a Labour victory of some 2,000-3,000), partly because its opponents are tying themselves in knots. The LibDems are hoist on […]
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Amidst lies and midwinter madness, the VAT bombshell strikes
Jan 4th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Today, VAT rises from 17½% to 20%. Nick Clegg warned of a “Tory VAT Bombshell” back in April but then made it happen anyway. In the same month, David Cameron denied it, telling Jeremy Paxman “we have absolutely no plans to raise VAT.” As he’d said of VAT rises a year earlier: “it’s very regressive, […]
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Want To Know What Is Really Happening in Britain? Read the US Press!
Oct 30th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.Here is a huge UK domestic political story, with major ramifications for the future direction both for nuclear defence and foreign policy. It goes to the heart of Britain’s relations with the United States and with Europe. Had this been taking place against the backdrop of a Labour Government, you can guarantee that much of […]
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Cameron is a housing benefit scrounger
Oct 27th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Thanks to Hopi Sen for pointing out that David Cameron is himself a housing benefit scrounger. David Cameron believes that housing claims of over £20,000 a year are unfair. He has a point. I can think of one benefits scrounger who has repeatedly claimed more than this, despite having a perfectly adequate home in London. David […]
