There was once a time, hard as it may be to believe now, that the New Labour movement wanted the character above to exit the stage leaving the way clear for Gordon Brown. The coup came in September 2006 and brought forward an exit strategy which saw the champion of New Labour, it’s Martin Johnson [...]
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A terminal condition?
Posted in Clunking Fist, Conservatives, Economy, Elections, Kaiser Blair, Labour, Miliband on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t think TOO hard, the following can happen…
Posted in Boris, Clinton, Clunking Fist, Conservatives, Economy, Labour, Mayor of London, Obama, Polling, Red Ken on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Independent will see a poll from ComRes which has the Conservative Party 14 points ahead of the Labour Government. This is a bad poll for the government, not just because it is only four days before Londoners go to the Polls to decide whether RedKen gets to keep his job or whether they plump [...]
Things goin’ on…
Posted in Boris, Clinton, Clunking Fist, Conservatives, Economy, Labour, Mayor of London, Mugabe, Obama, Oval Office on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alright, so I haven’t blogged anything for a while…. a long while if I’m fair and even then it wasn’t exactly in line with what it says on the banner of the site. For this I apologise, I have frankly been far too busy, but I have set aside a few minutes now to get [...]
Anarchy in the D.N.C.
Posted in Clinton, Economy, Huckerbee, McCain, Obama, Oval Office, Romney on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having taken the G.O.P. nomination on Tuesday night and gained the endorsement of President George W. Bush this afternoon, John McCain’s campaign must now ensure that Hillary Clinton either wins the D.N.C. nomination or else ensure that the process continues through until the Democratic Party’s convention in the summer. The second thing on McCain’s todo [...]
Wishing I had bought Dollars…
Posted in Economy on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It appears the Pound Sterling is taking something of a battering, what with it being at an all time against the Euro, 75.86 pence per Euro and it isn’t doing so well against the U.S. Dollar, with $1.948 buying a pound, a reversal of fortunes, at least with the USD, from last years stunning high [...]