Unacceptable in the 80’s
Satirical genius from Political Scrapbook, based on the Tories’ current poster campaign. This deserves to win the internet for today, tomorrow, and much of this week!
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MyDavidCameron: Round 3
Amidst talk of changed strategy to duck the virtual and physical graffiti that’s dogged the Tories’ election posters so far, three new billboards have been unveiled today, detailing why people might like to consider crossing the floor and voting Tory for a change. None of them have the easy-to-deface looming face of Dave, but there’s …
How would you vote on voting?
Here’s a new toy for Friday. The TUC has been working on electoral reform issues again, after a break of 50 years. A motion at Congress this year called for the TUC to restart debate in the movement on a fairer voting system for UK elections. There’s a new ToUChstone report out today on the …
Peter Viggers: Gone for a duck?
Back to my roots in the Solent town of Gosport this weekend. It’s a quiet sort of place, 80,000 or so inhabitants, neighbouring and utterly overshadowed by Portsmouth. It’s one claim to fame of recent years is probably one it would rather forget – the town MP Sir Peter Viggers got caught out attempting to …
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…
Today’s Torygraph front page (look, I had to buy it for work, okay!), left me pretty speechless. The nasty party is well and truly back. Redwood and Osborne plan a new policy direction to launch on Friday, but it seems to be too juicy a story to keep wraps on. The idea is that we …
A very brave Tory
At the NHStogether lobby today, where health professional union members were gathering to give their MPs a co-ordinated earbashing on NHS matters such as deficits, privatisation and consultation on change. Wandering around with his dinky camcorder was none other than toryboy2.0 Sam Roake, trying to get vox pop interviews with health professionals for webcameron. He …
Well, that’s sorted then…
Still a lot of speculation about who will get the union votes in a Labour leadership contest – Amicus are cheering for Brown, and the non-affiliated RMT declared for McDonnell – Everyone else seems to be waiting to see the final cut, and maybe see what they might get from any of the candidates. Whoever …