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Showing posts with label George Osborne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Osborne. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 November 2016

What have George Osborne, Theresa May and Tom Holland got in common?

George Osborne

Theresa May

Tom Holland, cricket bore and classical historian

My, hasn't Donald Trump - not standing with his legs apart - got large hands!


Future social historians will ask themselves why the political classes of a degenerate liberal democracy are standing with their legs apart.

Can you imagine a real man like Donald Trump resorting to such a pathetic attempt to convey masculinity and command?

We now talk of fake news. There is now fake masculinity, fake femininity and fake displays of leadership and authority.

The less you have of something you want, the more you want to pretend you have it by adopting ridiculous positions of display.

I'm warning Michael Gove not to adopt that stance if he is still hoping to salvage his political career. It is pathetic that he's trying to get people to like him by appearing to angle for a gig on Strictly Come Dancing. It's only for retired and fallen politicians who need something to top up their income, rather like footballers whose careers have come to an end wanting compo from the Football Association for being sexually abused as a child when they never complained at the time, not even to their parents. If he wants to angle for a position, he should be up to challenging and discussing my ideas, or even more daringly, agreeing with them.
































Sunday, 11 January 2015

Who would take over if David Cameron falls under a bus in Paris?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/28/david-cameron-killed-nick-clegg_n_4356376.html

It seems Peter Bone MP is saying that members of Cameron's cabinet who are also Conservative MPs have an order of succession as proposed at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/peter-bone/david-cameron-prime-minister-replacement-bill_b_4356323.html?1385659767

As things stand, I have a better idea, because I really really don't want Theresa May stepping into the shoes of David Cameron.

I therefore propose that the Shadow Cabinet Conservative MPs choose a rule a leader under the Papal Conclave rules.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19475248

Sadly, for Michael Gove, who is the cleverest member of the Conservative Party, he is not actually a member of the Cabinet though he can attend cabinet meetings.

I imagine under these rules George Osborne would end up getting the job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_ministry

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Why are Tory men afraid to criticise Andrea Leadsom's spectacular act of disloyalty?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/10/george-osborne-should-apologise-ed-balls-andrea-leadsom_n_1660915.html?view=print

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18778111

Andrea Leadsom, a Tory, pronounced that the Tory Chancellor should apologise to the Labour Shadow Chancellor for saying he "had questions to answer".

" For 25 years before becoming an MP, I worked in finance, including 10 years from 1987 with Barclays, first in the dealing room and then as a Financial Institutions Director running the Banks team. This latest banking scandal takes me back to my experiences of the 'culture' that started post-Big Bang...


What the Chancellor said was hardly controversial, you would have thought.  Labour was in government during the time when the LIBOR was being manipulated, and certainly have questions to answer.

Yet no Tory has criticised this woman who by any standards would be considered guilty of the most breathtaking disloyalty.  If she was not being incredibly disloyal then it was the worst case of foot in the mouth-ism ever suffered by a politician.

Mrs Leadsom used to work for Barclays.  Does getting Ed Balls off the hook get Labour off the hook?  Does getting Labour off the hook get Barclays off the hook?  What would be it in for Mrs Leadsom if she got Ed Balls,  Labour and Barclays off the hook?

Is it impossible that Barclays could be offering Mrs Leadsom a nice little backhander to get Ed Balls, Labour and Barclays off the hook by humiliating the Tory Chancellor?

I do hope there are investigative journalists worth their salt in this country left.

Or perhaps the matriarchy has destroyed their careers.  

Saturday, 7 April 2012

George Osborne prepared to give up politicians' privacy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/07/george-osborne-ministers-tax-returns

I have just realised that George Osborne was such a coward he changed his name from Gideon Oliver to George, because he thought it would make his life a little easier.  

Now he wants to sacrifice the privacy of politicians to appease the politician-hating voter who will never be appeased if they remain the stupid, cowardly hypocritical shits they are.  

Once this happens even more fools and knaves will enter British politics.  

I like to think Ken Livingstone has enough chutzpah to get away with not revealing his tax affairs even if he was the one who goaded Boris the Buffon into revealing his.  

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Tebbit's Game

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8195000/8195302.stm
A Taste of Tebbit: video of Tebbit doing his Jamie Oliver thang

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8198000/8198821.stm
Tebbit talking politics - very interesting.

Gordon Brown is a good man but wrong. Blair is a bad man.

He says if there were an election tomorrow, the BNP would win.

Disgruntled Tories are now in UKIP and disgruntled Labourites have defected to the BNP.

His nightmare guests would be the Notting Hill set, ie Cameron and Osborne, who thinks he is part of the nasty party who used to win elections. These people aren't my friends, he says.

He also points out that the sheer professionalism of political campaigning can lead politicians astray. (Politicians are basically told to dump all their core values in pursuit of a few swing voters in marginal constituencies.)

Expediency over conviction is the road to perdition.

The electorate will have no choice when all the mainstream political parties spout the same liberal PC claptrap, ie "Compassionate" Conservatism AKA Socialism AKA refusal to cut any public spending no matter how wasteful for fear of unpopularity, resulting in the following:

1) They will become cynical and apathetic.

2) They will hold politicians in hatred, ridicule and contempt, and want to string them up to the nearest lamp-post.

3) They will vote BNP.

What part of any this do the Big 3 not understand?

Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Bon Voyage and Happy Holidays, dear dashing Lord Mandelson!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079169/Osborne-criticised-David-Davis-Corfu-meeting-Mandelson.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/04/mandelson-holiday-corfu

May you return rested and refreshed, ready to resume the burdens of state on your broad and browned shoulders!

I shall miss you and think of you often.




The cover of Private Eye No 1242, 7-20 August 2009, raised a cackle:

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Brown: "Why have you booked me a holiday in Switzerland?"

Mandy: "Ha! Ha! Ha!"

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