One has to give it to the Tories, what they lack in even basic humanity and concern they make up for in sheer gall. For Shapps, the brash hard-nosed in-your-face Tory chairman, to declare that the Tories are now the Workers’ party is so preposterous and silly that one marvels they have the nerve to […]
Posts Tagged ‘Grant Shapps’
Osborne & Shapps: “screw the nation & say we’re the Workers’ party”
Feb 28th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Raquel Rolnik has hit the government on a sore point, and it really shows
Sep 13th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.I must start with a confession. I really don’t like Grant Shapps who for some reason is the Tory party chair. He comes across as a haughty up-market barrow boy who’d tread on his mother’s face if he thought it would advance his career or turn in a bigger profit. You know what I mean […]
How Grant Shapps is ‘tackling homelessness’
Sep 9th, 2011 by David Osler.‘Tackling homelessness and rough sleeping is what first got me into politics,’ Conservative housing minister Grant Shapps emphasised in a Department of Communities and Local Government press release just over a week ago. I’m glad to hear it, and it is obviously not for me to doubt the sincerity of a man who famously once spent Christmas […]