In case the dear old Telegraph doesn’t publish my letter, here it is.
Sir,
It is a pity that your headline of yesterday (3rd. November) accused David Cameron of ‘reneging’ on his commitment to a referendum on Lisbon, when in fact he had no choice in the matter.
The pledge he gave in 2007 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Labour’
November 4, 2009
LisbonTreaty: letter to DT
October 31, 2009
Sunset for ‘NuLabour’ – please!!
Readers of this blog must be wondering where I’ve got to. Real devotees will realise that I’ve been very much tied up with http://surbitonhillcllr.com and some may even have spotted me on Ellerton and Bond Road.
I must say that I had hoped that by now we would have had the general election the country is [...]
May 28, 2009
Euro-elections 2009 Part V: Labour
For some reason this logo has made my Firefox crash four times! However, here goes with the literature from the Labour Party.
The front cover of the glossy leaflet shows a hardworking, casually dressed, four person heterosexual family. The photo surmounts a blurb about ‘Labour’s massive cash injection onto the NHS’ and tells the family that no [...]
May 27, 2009
Euro-elections 2009 Part IV: Conservatives
The Conservative literature arrived only yesterday, some five days after my postal ballot paper. This was disappointing and might have cost the party some votes as many postal voters will have returned their papers already, without having read much from the Tories. This is a shame because, as a presentation, it’s the best and most [...]
May 25, 2009
The last refuge………….
It used to be said that the last refige of a scoundrel was patriotism. Now it is fast becoming Proportional Representation.
We are now told that Alan Johnson, who presides on behalf of G. Brown over an unreformed Health Service, is now proferring the prospect of PR as part of a constitutional ‘reform’ package. For ‘reform [...]
April 14, 2009
Dirty tricks
Many people have asked me what I think about McBride and his foul insinuations in emails about leading Tory politicians.
Of course these are the tactics of a politician in despair, and the fact that he was once a civil servant working for Brown at the Treasury, does not mean that he isn’t (and wasn’t) a [...]
