Can you believe Labour’s latest plan - they’re supposed to be trying to talk Glasgow Airport porter John Smeaton into standing for Westminster against David Davis on a pro 42-day detention-without-charge ticket. They’ve already all but destroyed this poor, brave sap. They’ve pulled his head over the parapet. Gordon Brown has used Smeaton as a [...]
It’s not the right to detain for 42 days without charge nor the requirement to have an ID card that are the problems. The worry is what the Government would do with these rights once it had them. If they get these powers it’s you and me who’ll be locked up - to shut us [...]
The Ministry of Defence ordered eight Chinook military helicopters in 1995, took delivery of them in 2001 and have yet - in 2008 - to get a single one into service. Why? The reason given today is that ‘the wrong software was fitted’. Would it be misguided to wonder about the specifics of this ‘wrong’ [...]
Well - she voted for the Iraq operation (without reading the papers, she said - and how is that a plus?).
And she didn’t have the bottle - or the flexibility - to go for George Dubya-Tony-Blair’s-money at the half way mark, when there was both a need and an opportunity for a strong opponent.
Isn’t it interesting how much of a serious politician Henry McLeish sounds these days? Has he matured and grown in stature - or does he seem mouthwateringly informed and magisterial compared with the current fleet of Labour pygmies in Holyrood?
In all the hoo-ha after the publication of Cherry-picker Blair’s autobiography, Speaking for Myself, there’s another eye-opening piece of the Spinner’s art. It’s been leaked by ‘friends’ that the saviour of the Middle East (not), T. Blair, is “incandescent” at how the C-P has made public some of the intimacies of their sex life. Sorry? [...]
Anybody help? Can’t quite work this one out. Gordon Brown removes the 10p income tax band, leaving our poorest even poorer. Uproar. Rightly so. Will he reverse this single action and restore the 10p band? Hivvins, no. The budget is a seamless whole and you don’t monkey with any part of it.
But - after more [...]
So, when she flew the Saltire for an immediate referendum on Scottish Independence, Wee Wendy was only ‘flushing out’ the SNP. Right? And El Gordo says she managed it. Right? So tell me… What, precisely, did she flush them out of? What have we discovered about them we didn’t already know? They’ve hardly been disguising [...]
