Archive for November, 2007

Jacqui Smith, quite frankly my dear, that’s not good enough

It may have worked with the media, once again, but a cover-up is a cover-up (or should it be now called - a concealer?)
The lame excuse
“There was no fiasco, there was no blunder, there was strengthened and improved action.”
is not an excuse at all, it is in fact an indignation of how by copy spin […]

Jonathan Aitken, now you can lie again

Jonathan Aitken seems to be very fortunate, just like David Blunkett. Disgrace yourself in a position of trust and then get paid to be a Chair.
Just as David Blunkett has managed to get himself the Chair of a commission for bringing more US yellow buses into the UK by his friends at FirstGroup, now […]

Jacqui Smith, if the truth hurts, hide it?

Once again the Home Office is in the news for the wrong reasons.
It is now obvious that the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is proving herself and her department completely inept at doing the job asked of them by the British taxpayer.
Jacqui Smith is being accused of trying to cover up yet another Home Office […]

Why Barclays should be boycotted

After this weekend’s revelation that Barclays bank is bankrolling President Robert Mugabe’s very corrupt regime in Zimbabwe, I have decided to boycott their services.
The British bank has reportedly lent £750m to the country’s new landowning elite in the first part of this year.
Barclays is under pressure to state whether it has broke European Union […]

David Blunkett and his big yellow buses

It was a surprise to see David Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside, on Sky News yesterday.
The strange part to begin with was the caption below his face, ‘Former Home Secretary’
It could be argued that the caption could also have read ‘Former Work & Pensions Secretary’, but I believe that ‘Former’ should always be replaced […]