The Prime Minister Karaoke Factor: Cameron gets a record deal

David Cameron loooks set to have this year's May 6th number one with his cover of 'Prime Minister' after he clearly won the audience vote in tonight's grand 'Prime Minister Karaoke Factor'.

His prize will be the poisoned chalice of taking over a buggered up country where the fascist current tenants of the top spot have left the country knackered.

So, go ahead and win, Mr. Cameron. On balance, you nudge it over the other pair. Just.

But we'll be watching every step of the way if you do go on to reign at the top of the political pops.

The BNP policy that discriminates AGAINST white British people?

There's a report in The Independent that the BNP will offer people £50,000 to leave 'overcrowded' Britain.

This would apparently be "a voluntary programme for those who were not defined as White British."

Now, hang on, just a cotton-picking minute!

Why on earth should people who are not 'White British' be the only people to gain from such a policy?

What about me?

Mr. Griffin, if you become Prime Minister next week (which is obviously unlikely), please will you reconsider?

For £50,000, this white British male would happily leave the United Kingdom, too!

While it's in it's current state, anyway.

I mean, come on, I'm a gay white British male! Surely my sexuality should count for something? How about giving me part of the money? How about paying me £40,000 to leave? I'd still take it.

Why should it just be non-'White British' people given a ticket to freedom?

The economy questions that we would like to hear tonight...

So, the last 'Sing To Become Prime Minister If You Look Good Enough' Karaoke Contest final takes place tonight.

Here are the economic themed questions we'd like to hear sung answers to...

1. Did Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg [make] a profit of €362,550 on the sale of his home in Brussels he bought while receiving thousands of pounds in accommodation allowances as an MEP?

2. Is it true that "Nick Clegg received up to £2.5 million of public money in salaries, allowances and expenses during his time working in Europe"..?

3. How many billions of pounds did Gordon Brown lose us when selling off our national gold reserves at rock bottom prices - just months before gold soared to an all-time record high?

4. How much has every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom contributed toward the European Union since May 1997? How much would every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom contribute towards the European Union over the course of the next full Parliamentary term?

5. How much has Gordon Brown's national debt amounted to for every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom?

They only ever ask a handful of questions. We'll stop with ours there.

Gormless and his 'bigot' remark: Are we surprised?

As the media circus around Gormless following his 'bigot' remark at a normal English (Labour voting) pensioner continues apace, the rest of us can stop and ask ourselves if we're really surprised.

Forget the accusations about Gormless privately bullying his staff.

But take climate change. The science is exposed as not-actually-science repeatedly and those of us who want to ask questions are denounced by Cabinet Ministers and Prime Minister alike as 'flat earthers' who should crawl back under a rock. We are labelled as 'deniers' in an attempt to draw parallels with the holocaust.

Those of us opposed to the European Empire - denounced and insulted.

Those of us opposed to excessive immigration - denounced and insulted, just as the lady in Rochdale today who dared to ask a question.

For this is how the leftie-socialists behave. They do not debate. They throw their weight and authority about and if you dare ask them to discuss anything, they resort to name calling, abuse, intimidation, and the unleashing of hired paramilitary thugs to repress political debate.

But that's all fine. We can all engage in name calling.

There is a quasi-fascist political organisation in Britain. It is called New Labour.

So, who are the English Democrats?

This blog is - as we keep making clear - currently supporting UKIP; not least in Westminster North where our friend Jasna Badzak is the candidate.

However, we do believe that people should be able to make their minds up for themselves and - to that end - we thought we'd share the election literature from the English Democrats with you. These are thumbnails, click to read full size:

When Gormless met an actual real English person...

Gormless Gordon met an ordinary voter in Rochdale today.

He was caught on microphone describing the lady from Rochdale as "a bigoted woman" after she raised concerns about Eastern European immigration.

No, Gordon, you great big clunking fist - that's not a bigoted woman. It's an ordinary British citizen living in a north of England region; a lady with eyes and ears who is entitled to her thoughts and opinions and observations of her own life experiences and expectations.

You know, those people you're trying to appeal to at election time. That she was a (presumably now former) Labour supporter makes it all the more humiliating for him.

But know what, Gordon? There's barely any people in any English region who'd consider voting for Labour. Which is why you're leading your party to it's biggest electoral humiliation in roughly one hundred years.

The BBC News Channel is currently playing this story over the airwaves - let's see if they interview the lady concerned and play the story out all night long as they did with David Cameron's 'heckler' yesterday.

UKIP threaten BBC with legal action over leader debates

The BBC News channel have announced that UKIP have written to the State broadcaster threatening a legal challenge to Thursday's leadership debate unless their leader, Lord Pearson, takes part.

UKIP have apparently given the BBC until midday tomorrow to respond.

UKIP have now followed that up by posting the full text of their letter to the BBC on their website.

The SNP's court case against the BBC's leadership debate is still ongoing.

Will we also hear from Caroline Lucas, Nick Griffin or anyone else in this regard ahead of Thursday..?

Pat Condell: Vote small, think big

Had to share this YouTube clip from Pat Condell with you all.

Agree with pretty much all of it... utterly brilliant. Fact.

Give the Cameron heckler clip a rest, BBC

The BBC News channel keeps playing a clip of David Cameron being confronted by the 'parent of a disabled child'.

The clip is billed as Cameron facing a heckler.

Cameron kept trying to tell the guy that the Conservatives were in favour of more choice when it came to specialist schools.

The guy concerned didn't seem to like the answer and kept forcibly saying: "...but I've been battling for two years."

Yes, well forgive us for pointing this out but...

The Conservative Party have not been in power since 1997.

...so, if any parent has been battling any aspect of education for the last two years, they have been battling... errr... the policies of Labour.

But hey - why let a little detail like that overshadow a 'Cameron got heckled' story..?

We're not a Conservative supporting blog, but we can spot left-wing media bias when we see it.

* The SNP should be congratulated for their legal action against the BBC in respect of the leader debates and their exclusion from it.

EU civil liberties tyranny backed by Labour

A number of mainstream media outlets - such as the Daily Mail - are reporting that the Labour Party is plotting to surrender more of our privacy and civil liberties to the fascist inspired European Empire.

Our bodily fluids, real-time communications and bank account details are all being targeted under plans to strengthen the European Arrest Warrant.

The Daily Mail quotes Conservative Shadow Justice Spokesman Dominic Grieve as saying: "Giving states which do not afford citizens the same legal protections as the UK the right to demand DNA samples, intercept communications or snoop on the personal data of British citizens is a worrying development. In supporting this proposal, Labour is yet again showing its relish for surveillance and disdain for civil liberties."

As libertarians know, the Liberal Democrats are fiercely pro-Europe and, in our view, are as much a danger to our civil liberties as the tyrannical Labour Party.

UKIP has long been warning British people about the perils of the European Arrest Warrant.

Back in October 2008, UKIP MEP Gerard Batten said: "The British courts have no power whatsoever to consider the prima facie evidence against the accused person and decide if there is a proper case to answer. [There are] dangers posed to our liberties by the EAW, which I have been warning against since it became UK law in 2004."

And - in agreement with our view on the LibDems, Batten noted: "If anyone is wondering how we came to be saddled with the EAW, then the best person to ask is Liberal Democrat MEP Graham Watson, who wrote the legislation for the EAW and pushed it through the European Parliament."

- The BNP recently launched it's manifesto which surprised many of us who are conservative libertarians by delivering a strong pro-civil liberties message.

Election 2010: How to not necessarily win friends, but how to influence people

Had to laugh at this evening's London newspaper the Evening Standard.

It's main headline screams in huge font:

CLEGGMANIA TAKES LONDON BY STORM

A couple of inches below in a much more moderate voice, the newspaper informs readers: "Tories have clear lead in the Capital says Standard poll".

So, you might ask, why did that make us laugh so much?

We imagine a fair few will have spotted it, but for those who haven't, the Evening Standard's Sam Leith interviews Nick Clegg today. Well, we say 'interview'. It's more like the longest love letter in the history of British political journalism.

But even he is letting readers know what's going on - and why we laughed.

He writes: "[Nick Clegg] is the beneficiary of political game theory, I suggest; if nobody thinks anyone else is voting Lib-Dem, they won't bother. But if they think others will, it ceases to be a "wasted vote" and suddenly you'll see a cascade effect".

So, let's go back to where we started.

Had to laugh at this evening's London newspaper the Evening Standard.

It's main headline screams in huge font:

CLEGGMANIA TAKES LONDON BY STORM

A couple of inches below in a much more moderate voice, the newspaper informs readers: "Tories have clear lead in the Capital says Standard poll".

Sunday Paper Review: 25th April 2010

The Sunday Times carries an interview with the LibDem leader, the now nauseatingly omnipresent Nick Clegg. However, while not normally giving a damn about him or any of his party's policies, we have to be rather pleased that he is suggesting he'll shaft Gordon Brown and refuse to keep the worst (and still never elected) Prime Minister in British history ever in his job. So, with that known, it's 'Pickfords van for Gormless'. And not before time.

But it gets better than that. The Sunday Telegraph claim that there is 'civil war' breaking out amongst senior Labour Party figures - as the party polls it's lowest rating for six months. According to their report, Lord Mandelson of Voldemort has been telling Harriet Harperson to "shut up" and that 'he did not want to hear from her again'. Well, who'd have thought we'd ever be on the same wavelength as Mandelson?

Gormless, meanwhile, is giving an interview to the Independent on Sunday in which he appears to have returned to God-bothering as his last hope of remaining in office. We're praying that the day of judgment when the British people are delivered their salvation from New Labour's tyranny is almost upon us. And we will sing 'hallelujah'.

Should they miraculously stay in office, the Sunday Express reports that New Labour will bring in MONTHLY bin collections. The story is probably a load of old rubbish and we needn't worry because the Labour trash will soon be dumped on the scrapheap. Groan.

The Conservatives have worries of their own. The co-editor of ConservativeHome has put pen to paper and told potential UKIP voters who read The Observer that a vote for UKIP will strengthen the EU... by letting Labour or Liberal Democrats win seats. There's no cast-iron guarantee (get it?) that a vote for UKIP should produce such an outcome. Hell, a few weeks ago, nobody knew that the Liberal Democrats wanted to scrap the pound and replace it with the Euro. Or that Norman Clegg was their leader...

The Mail on Sunday has a report suggesting that Greece could do the opposite to what the Lib Dems want... and leave the Euro. Their report is based on comments made by German politicians who think EU aid for Greece breaches the law of the European Union (what?) and the German constitution. Like breaching national constitutions has ever stopped the European Empire from ploughing ahead relentless, contrary to the wishes of the people. Memo to Greece - they're giving you the chance... escape while you can!

And Greek style financial crisis could come to Britain... if we end up with a hung Parliament. That's the warning being given by Fraser Nelson to News of the World readers. He states: "Either Cameron - or chaos. There really is no third way."

Or finally... you could read this story and find out why a headline about Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey's tackle didn't have the pictures we were hoping to see... pity, really.

BNP: The most libertarian manifesto statement of ANY party?

The BNP launched their manifesto today.

Just watched the ten minutes available on the BBC News website of Nick Griffin's launch.

We will read the manifesto properly later. However, the sole and only reason we're posting this blog post is to highlight these bullet-points from the BNP manifesto:

Freedom for All: The Restoration of Our Civil Liberties

• The BNP will repeal all legislation enacted by successive Labour and Tory regimes which have usurped the British people’s basic civil liberties.

• The BNP will circumvent the erosion of our liberties by the old gang parties under the guise of “fighting terrorism” by dealing with the root causes of Islamist extremism in Britain, namely mass immigration and Britain’s biased foreign policy.

• The BNP will repeal all laws aimed at restricting freedom of speech, including those relating to race relations and religion.

• The BNP rejects ID cards as an undesirable manifestation of the surveillance society.

• The BNP will repeal the 1998 Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, both of which are exploited to abuse Britain’s hospitality by the world’s scroungers.

• By withdrawing from the EU, the BNP will not permit British courts to be subservient to international bodies or courts which override the law of the British parliament.

Ummm... we had hoped someone somewhere would deliver a manifesto that really made a big song and dance on civil liberties. So, well done to the BNP for this...

Addendum: Pages 40-41 of the BNP's manifesto also show a clear recognition of the Bill of Rights 1689. Again, big thumbs up... On a quick flick through, the BNP's manifesto contains some very good things. Worth reading, anyway.

Bias, bias everywhere (and not a policy to get excited by anywhere)

According to The Guardian, lots of Liberal Democrat supporters are complaining of bias against Norman Clegg in Sky's Prime Ministerial X Factor contest.

Now, that's interesting.

Joking apart, we were thinking of complaining that the broadcast was biased in his favour.

We base that assertion on the editorial decisions as the three wannabe successors to Will Young and Leona Lewis delivered their final swansong.

The camera shots selected by the director during Cameron's closing speech barely focused on his face. There was a shot of Gordon Brown shaking his head. There was a long, protracted shot of the studio audience which seemed to last for half the duration of Cameron's closing statement. Then, right at the end, they remembered to show David Cameron for a few seconds again.

This compared to the camera selections for Clegg's closing statement. An incredibly slow zoom in to Clegg's face, allowing him to appear serious and authoritative. He was no different from Cameron - it's just the editorial decisions being made in the studio gallery artificially injected that impression. The first cut from this close shot was a reaction - almost instantaneous - to a wide shot of Brown and Cameron when Clegg slagged off "these two parties". A quick glimpse then of the studio, before back to Clegg and a serious close-up again.

Bias takes many forms and, using the imagery created on screen as a basis for analysis, this blogger thought the bias in the coverage of those closing statements was incredibly obvious - in Clegg's favour.

Watch out for differences in the treatment the three get in the use of camera shots during the third and final song contest debate type thingy... if you can tolerate watching yet another.

'Police State 4': The new Alex Jones film - in full

As promised, here is 'Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA' - the new film from Alex Jones - in full.

Much of the content centres on the U.S. so we're not going to feature it as prominently as we've featured the Jason Bermas film 'Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined'...

...but it is well worth civil libertarians everywhere watching.

The direct link to buy a DVD copy is HERE.

Note: The film-maker urges members of the public to help spread the content of his films. Please support the film-maker by also purchasing a DVD copy for yourself or for friends.

And singing for their chance to be Prime Minister tonight is...

Mr Bean!

To find out more about Comic Relief, click HERE.

Memo to Conservative HQ: Embrace UKIP policy or lose

Good afternoon, Conservative HQ.

Know that General Election you wanted to win?

That you were on course to win?

But now it looks likely will be a three way tie?

There's still time to turn things around.

You could still win.

Keep and increase your message on civil liberties.

Adopt UKIP policies on the European Empire.

Result? The UKIP vote collapses and the Conservatives win the General Election.

Everybody knows it. Everybody sees it.

Except for Conservative HQ.

The silly TV debate is on international matters tonight. Go on. Announce a dazzling change of policy position and sweep into Downing Street.

Or lose the election in a damaging three way split.

Why protest the Nazi label, Mr. Clegg?

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has been protesting after the Daily Mail accused him of making a 'Nazi Slur' against Britain.

He is quoted by the BBC as protesting: "I must be the only politician in the space of a week to go from Churchill to Nazi."

But is the Nazi label so outrageous? That question may seem a bit low-hitting, but look at it this way.

We know that Nick Clegg quit as an MEP with the stated mission of coming back to Westminster to make the British people surrender to the delights of being governed by supranational government - primarily in the form of the European Empire.

We know - from John Laughland's brilliantly researched book Tainted Source - that the European Empire almost exactly follows the models envisioned by top Nazi ideologists and their fellow fascist European leaders. Buy Laughland's book, read it and be amazed.

We know that Nick Clegg reneged on his party's manifesto promise to offer a referendum on the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty. He and his party were complicit in Labour's undemocratic betrayal of the British people's sovereignty.

For what? For a love-in with a form of Government originally proposed and envisioned by top Nazi ideologists.

We're not making any conjecture. It is all detailed in John Laughland's book.

So, that Nick Clegg should slag off Britain and any proud patriotism that the British people may feel doesn't shock us - we feel Nick Clegg's real interest is dragging our country into further forms of supranational Government.

We do not feel he should have any opportunity to enact or even assist in further treachery against the British people or our national sovereignty.

We know, for example, that the LibDems want to take us further into Europe - including scrapping the pound for the Euro.

Clegg might not like what the newspapers are saying this morning - but the Daily Mail's headline only picks Clegg up on his own written opinions.

If he doesn't like people's conclusions about what he has to say, maybe he should do us all a favour and just shut up.

And if anyone is thinking of voting for the LibDems, they should start asking tough questions about British national sovereignty.

New Alex Jones film - Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA

The new Alex Jones film, 'Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA' is out now.

As is always the case, Alex will no doubt encourage the spreading of his film in viral fashion over the next day or three and you can also buy a DVD copy for yourself and friends via his website.

For those subscribers watching it on the streams on PrisonPlanet.tv, you may be wondering what the theme song is. Here's a clue... it's Shooter Jennings with 'Summer of Rage' and you can buy this on Amazon UK or I-Tunes amongst others.

As soon as the film is available to embed, we'll post it up.

A few reservations about UKIP, too

Now, you may have noticed that we're in the middle of an election campaign and yet this political blog is actually quieter than usual.

Simple really - we still haven't heard anything from anybody that even remotely excites us.

Ahh, but what about UKIP? You're a UKIP supporting blog!

Yes. We support UKIP. They're the pick of a bad bunch all round and they will get our vote.

But we have some reservations about UKIP, too.

It's all well and good Nigel Farage, Godfrey Bloom and Lord Monckton going onto the Alex Jones radio show and talking about liberty and freedom...

...so why then produce a manifesto that barely mentions a single civil liberties issue, is backed by a photograph of a police car and talks of doubling the prison population? That sounds and looks authoritarian, not libertarian.

So, we're no longer thrilled or excited by UKIP either.

Their libertarian promise seems as every bit 'Push-Me-Pull-You' as the not very liberal, not very democratic Liberal Democrats.

UKIP could have done absolutely amazing if they'd come out with a strong civil liberties message in this election - just as their senior figures suggested to Alex Jones that they were representing.

Instead, we get the promise of doubling the prison population.

Oh, joy. Oh, rapture.

Perhaps we should send their manifesto to Alex Jones and see what he thinks?

As we say, UKIP could have done amazingly. As they chose to ignore civil liberties almost completely, they'll battle to retain deposits all over the place - except in Buckingham where they have probably their strongest hope of winning.

* The version of Vote Match accessed through the Daily Telegraph website says that this blogger's best match is UKIP with 63%.

Europe becomes a 'country'...

What do we make of the following sentence, uttered by the unelected Prime Minister and unelected Labour Party leader, Gordon Brown..?

Speaking to Andrew Marr this morning on the BBC, Gordon Brown asked:

"Who's best for Europe and our relationships with that country?"

(23 seconds into the clip on this page)

Best for Europe? Well, the Labour Party and the Lib Dems are best for Europe. Both are treacherous parties who would flush the last bits of our national sovereignty down the bog.

And they must not be allowed anywhere near the trappings of 10 Downing Street in order to execute the termination of our nationhood.

As for Europe being a country, to all intents and purposes, is it? Do the former nations of Europe have any self-determination? What is the definition of a country? Is Europe now becoming a country?

Oh Gordon, you've given us so many things to think of there.

Europe as a country? Now, that really is a head-scratcher...

Sunday Paper Review: 18th April 2010

The Sunday Times has a report stating that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is "is now the most popular party leader since Winston Churchill."

On this blog, we cannot do other than admit that the response to Cleggy has been pretty amazing... but you could see what the mainstream media was doing, building him up long before that TV debate of last week. For how long have the mainstream media been telling us that he will be 'kingmaker'? Long before the TV debate.

Now, we didn't mention Churchill. The Sunday Times did. Churchill fought the fascist threat from Europe. The European Empire is directly traceable back to fascist ideology of the 1930's (see LAUGHLAND, John, 'Tainted Source, The', (London: Warner, 1997, 1998).

Nick Clegg is publicly on record saying that he resigned from his job as a MEP with a primary aim of get into the British Parliament and making the British people come to accept supranational Government from the European Empire and elsewhere.

We are not making an unfounded accusation. Read it in his own words.

The Mail on Sunday has the results of it's "Historic MoS poll" which "puts Liberals in General Election lead for first time in 104 years." The paper also starts examining some of the many and varied international links that they call the "United Nations that make up Nick Clegg."

This blog has seen a large rise in the number of people coming here in the search of "Nick Clegg" and "Bilderberg". We know Bilderberg is real and not a conspiracy theory - Norman Tebbit told us explicitly. We haven't a clue whether Clegg is a former or current attendee or not, however. And we think it unlikely that he'd admit it... if anybody ever got the chance to ask.

Meanwhile, the man who has never been elected Prime Minister and who was never even elected leader of his own party - Gordon Brown - tells the Sunday Telegraph that he is going to fight to the end. Why bother, Gordon? You gifted the British people's sovereignty to the European Empire without our say-so after the lies in your party's election manifesto about a referendum. Your only agenda seems to be 'trans-pair-ency', 'global governance' and a 'New World Order'.

...but if the British people really do want those things, they'll get all of the above from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg who is, let's face it, at least not as annoying a messenger.

The Independent on Sunday gets brave and starts sniffing around global banking organisation Goldman Sachs and the scandals swirling around it. Well worth a read. We make no assertions, but we're sure readers know all of the American broadcasters to turn to for opinion...

...or, for a more domestic slant on the same story, one could turn to The Observer where Will Hutton has turned in an amazing article which starts by announcing to the world that the global "financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – it was a con". An amazing read.

And amazing that such a prestigious left-leaning newspaper as The Observer should now be concluding in the same way as American 'conspiracy theory fact' broadcaster Alex Jones concluded long, long ago.

And finally: the News of the World has a story about Spurs and England footie star Jermain Defoe allegedly receiving a bit of fellatio while in a parked car. They don't say 'fellatio'. Or even 'BJ'. They say: "You could then see her head move up and down".

Nodding in agreement, perhaps?

There is a photograph with the story. Not that it illustrates the story particularly well...

We like... Big Brother Watch

In case you were similarly unable to access any news other than volcanoes and the 'Nick, Dave and Gordon' show this week...

...you may have missed Big Brother Watch's 'manifesto' launch - here in pdf format.

We've read it.

We support them.

We think they're the most on our side of anyone.

So, how do we elect them? They've so got our vote...

Our voting system really is rubbish...

Did you watch Newsnight on BBC2 just now? They were discussing the huge bounce in the polls for the LibDems and talking about the latest which has Labour in third place.

Now, what the Newsnight team assert is that, based on their analysis, if the LibDems come second to the Conservatives on the vote percentages of tonight's controversial poll...

...then Labour will have the most MPs elected.

So... you come third but win..?

We thought it was bad when all polls were showing Labour would come second but win.

How far down the list do the electorate have to place Labour before they lose?

Utterly bizarre.

What did we think of the 'Nick, Gordon and David' show, then?

Didn't watch the leader debate live - had something more useful to do last night. But just finished watching it on ITV Player.

The Sky News reports keep telling me that the British public think LibDem leader Nick Clegg did best.

On the specific qualities of style and delivery, I think I'd probably go along with that consensus.

How painful was Gordon Brown's scary fixed gerbil grin to endure?

In terms of party policies, is anybody really any the wiser?

Almost exactly halfway through, Clegg said of Brown and Cameron: "The more they attack each other, the more they sound the same."

Which is exactly what this blogger thought of all three would-be leaders on show.

We keep being told how 'historic' these debates are. Not really. It's a dull version of PMQs on tour - dull, because the time limits mean nobody really gets chance to develop an argument or train of thought.

Explain quantum theory in ten seconds - go! Buzzzz! Time's up! Next topic - the evolution of men's formal wear from the court of Henry Tudor to the bad pants arse bearing phenomena of the noughties - go! Buzzzz! Five seconds are up.

We exaggerate.

However, we have already seen leader debates on TV in this exact same format - when Boris Johnson defied the odds and became Mayor of London, defeating 'Red' Ken Livingstone.

When in TV debate, Boris Johnson demonstrated what was completely missing from all three people on screen last night - big personality.

It was difficult to find much very distinguishing between the three unless you looked really hard - apart, that is, from Gordon Brown's aforementioned gerbil grin.

In their current form, the leader debates between Brown, Cameron and Clegg really aren't working. They will be talked about by many and commentated upon ad nausea (guilty!)...

...but how many of those watching really want to sit through that again next week?

...and again, the week after?

It was not just lacking in any entertainment value - which would be reasonable enough considering these are the potential decision makers for the nation effectively attending a job interview.

But the fact is, did anybody seriously learn anything about policy that they had not heard already elsewhere?

Sorry, but there's an underwhelming sense of none the wiser.

Is this the most monotonous, boring and out-of-touch General Election ever?

A fair bit of change for everybody in the politics club together.

That's seems to be the aggregated message of goo emanating from the three main LibLabCon establishment stitch up parties.

The other message of this election appears to be that we have an electoral system that, no matter how many people vote 'Conservative', they will not win an overall majority. It is designed to make Labour win. Possibly because there are about 590 constituencies in Scotland. Possibly.

(We're only joking, people of Scotland)

But how ridiculous a political system is it when - according to the graphics just shown on Sky News - if today's polls are to be believed, Labour will come second but win more seats. And we won't ever get rid of 'global governance', 'New World Order', 'Trans-pair-ency' Brown ever.

A plague on all their houses anyway. And in that, we do mean all of them.

Absolutely nobody seems to be saying anything remotely appealing to this blogger - apart from fellow blogger Old Holborn who *is* running as an Independent, but not round here. Anyway, vote for him if you can.

Apart from that - this election campaign is seriously tedious.

Let's cut through the crap and get to the finale, huh?

Here's what will happen.

You will go into a polling booth, minus the high hope in heart that might once have been stirred by a D:Ream record. You know that things will not get better. They will, at best, remain exactly the same.

With that established, can we move on from this election now? It is seriously dull.

What the political class are saying touches on nothing about my life whatsoever.

Only one person has so far ever given the British people part of the election we need and deserve - and he was only able to make it a referendum on himself. Thankfully, he won...

Election 2010: UKIP manifesto coverage

UKIP's manifesto launch has just taken place in front of the TV cameras.

In the battle to demonstrate impartiality, the points go to the BBC this morning. They covered the UKIP launch for almost 45 minutes compared to the roughly 20 minutes coverage afforded by Sky News.

Detail?

The UKIP launch was completely free of razzmatazz. Many might see that as a good thing.

We're sure UKIP won't mind us engaging in a bit of straight talking, but in presenting themselves to the public, UKIP do need to work a little harder.

Nigel Farage is incredibly charismatic, but he cannot carry all of the UKIP personality forever.

But then, on the other hand, maybe people prefer their political representatives to be slightly dull..?

Of course, UKIP launched it's manifesto several weeks ago and was the first party to engage in straight talking with the electorate - setting out it's policies in detail in documents on the UKIP website.

What we learned today is that UKIP will not stand against six Conservative MPs and one Labour - due to their belief that those candidates are singing from the same hymn sheet on the key policy issue of the European Empire.

One of the six who will not only be unopposed but also supported by UKIP is, as we predicted, the genuinely marvellous Douglas Carswell.

Nice to see our friend - Westminster North's UKIP PPC Jasna Badzak - speaking on TV, albeit briefly.

Civil Liberties Election 2010: Mark Thomas writes for Power 2010

Comedian Mark Thomas has written a guest piece for Power 2010. We're sure they won't mind us sharing it with you here:

Last I checked, I wasn't above the law. The same rules that apply to you also apply to me. And I'm a celebrity!

So it seems rather obvious that the people who often set these rules - our MPs - should also live by them.

But they don't - especially when it comes to how government treats our personal information. And it's time we put a stop to it.

Tell every would-be MP standing for election in your area that you'll no longer accept one rule for them and another for all of us.

All our children are now documented on the government's ContactPoint database, but MPs can get their children "shielded" for the sake of their privacy. What about our privacy?

Hundreds of MPs voted in favour of each and every one of us being fingerprinted for the ID database and having an ID card. Yet I'm sure I don't have to tell you that very few MPs have chosen to get one, even though they're now available to those who volunteer.

But what should we expect? After all, dozens of these same MPs voted to exempt themselves from the Freedom of Information Act, all in the name of their "privacy" of course, whilst passing laws that erode all of our privacy.

I've had enough of these hypocrites, haven't you? Join us in demanding that all candidates commit to scrapping the ID card scheme, and to defending our privacy - and that of our children - as fiercely as they defend their own:

http://www.power2010.org.uk/privacy

Thank you,

Mark Thomas

Who's cider you on? Now the Conservatives get Wurzel-ed over Cider Tax

Labour's Alistair Darling incurred the wrath of key English counties such as Somerset and Herefordshire when he proposed a bizarre huge and disproportionate tax sting on cider - a proposal that, if carried through, would have led to many traditional cider makers being forced out of business.

But this is Labour. You'd expect them to single out cider... and leave whiskey well alone.

The apple tax was ditched in the undemocratic 'wash-up' process which saw controversial legislation like the Digital Economy Bill allowed through on a nod and a wink.

The Conservatives have tried taking some of the applause, kudos and credit for the ditching of the disproportionate tax on cider.

Indeed, we've just watched David Cameron live on Sky News saying that the reversal of the cider tax was a Conservative victory.

However, that is not the full story.

Over to Allen Hogan, chairman of the Three Counties Cider and Perry Association and an executive member of the National Association of Cider Makers.

He tells the Birmingham Post: "They were proposing this back in October so they can't come out and claim its their work that has reversed it."

Is that so, Mr. Hogan?

So, the Conservatives are two-faced little liars who depend on the fact that some information is only big enough to be carried by local newspapers and not made national news in order to get away with it?

Well, we're happy to give the Conservatives a damn good Wurzel-ing over the cider tax, too.

So, it seems that only UKIP have policies to defend and enable traditional English cider producers, the Great British Pub industry, and the British agricultural industries to prosper - unfettered by the corrupt octopus of Brussels.

Don't want to vote Lib-Lab-Con? Your name's not down, you're not coming in, say TV 'leaders debate' organisers

Have you noticed that we haven't said much about UKIP since the General Election was officially announced?

Despite this being a UKIP supporting blog?

Well, let us explain. This blog normally gives opinion on mainstream news and reports. With the exception of one or two special interests, we don't go looking for things to get needlessly bothered and annoyed by.

We must give credit to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show which featured UKIP's leader Lord Pearson this morning - giving him an almost full ten minutes. And for that, as we say, credit where credit's due.

You can watch the interview - where Lord Pearson calls the European Empire "a corrupt octopus" - by clicking HERE.

UKIP are not the only non-LibLabCon party struggling to get their message out. We haven't seen or heard much from the Greens, the BNP, the English Democrats, the Libertarian Party, the Pirate Party, the SNP, Plaid, the Monster Raving Loony Party... or Esther Rantzen.

And guess what? Our main broadcasters are unlikely to let supporters of non-LibLabCon parties anywhere near their 'leaders debates'.

Ian Kirby, the Political Editor of the News of the World, has a blog post explaining the stitch-up between broadcasters and the establishment parties to exclude supporters of smaller parties from attending the studio debates...

...just as civil liberties and our relationship with the European Empire do not seem to be forming any part of the political 'debate' taking place in this General Election, either. They are the political issues that dare not speak their name, it seems.

Sunday Paper Review: 11th April 2010

The Sunday Telegraph has an interview with Conservative leader David Cameron. It's hardly the most exciting and inspiring read you'll ever encounter, but at least with Cameron, seeing and hearing from him doesn't create the pure revulsion which Gordon Brown provokes. He also tells the newspaper that "legal moves to trigger a referendum in Britain if the European Union sought to take significant new powers away from Westminster would be included in the Tories’ first Queen’s Speech if the party wins power on May 6."

Can we have that as a written contract, please Dave?

The Observer have an interview with LibDem leader Nick Clegg. Clegg - who once quit as an MEP and, at that time, wrote of his mission to make the people of Britain fall in love with the idea of supranational government - has had his crystal balls out. And he makes a prophet of doom prediction that "Britain will be hit by waves of 'Greek-style unrest' if a Tory or Labour government narrowly wins the election and then tries to push through draconian spending cuts".

If that's the case, Cleggy, then will you be urging people to vote Conservative to make sure they get a clear mandate to sort the economy out? No? Cool. Greek-style unrest it is, then. Except that no-one in Britain gives a toss about anything more substantial than 'X Factor'. So, no Greek-style unrest after all.

The Sunday Times places the man charged with getting to the bottom of Labour's dodgy dossier war in Iraq - Sir John Chilcot - at the centre of a wind turbine lobbying storm. Their report alleges that he "successfully lobbied the Ministry of Defence to drop its opposition to a lucrative £150m wind farm project of which he is a director." The report also alleges that Chilcot "has not declared his business links" with North British Windpower in which, it states, he has "a 1.1% shareholding".

We'll forgive him his alleged business links, his alleged non-disclosure, his alleged connection with damned ugly windmills on sticks everywhere... provided he nails Brown, Blair and Straw over their dodgy war - this side of the General Election.

Fat chance, one strongly suspects.

The Mail on Sunday has a story suggesting that there is a dodgy cover up going on of legal advice given over the marriage of Prince Charles to the marriage wrecking Rottweiler woman. It says question marks over the "legality of the wedding have long persisted, with some constitutional experts arguing that legislation prevented the couple from taking part in a civil ceremony." In the latest development - here's a surprise (not) - "Justice Secretary Jack Straw [has] blocked a Freedom of Information request to make public the advice given to the then Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer before he gave the wedding the go-ahead."

Anyway, who cares? That 'third person in the marriage' woman will never be Queen in people's hearts.

We have a perfectly good Queen of Hearts and she is the biological mother of the future widely-loved King. And nobody can ever deny our wonderful Diana that role. She will be mother of the King and nobody can ever change that. So there!

The Independent on Sunday states that Labour activists in Nottingham "threaten rebellion" after "Gordon Brown took almost an hour out of the fight for his political future, to help secure a safe seat for one of his closest allies". According to the report, the imposition of a non-local candidate has gone down rather badly. Ooops!

And finally, the News of the World makes a big deal over Corrie star Bev Callard's battle with depression and suicidal feelings. Hardly ground-shattering, one might think... but we support the actress on going public with discussion over depression. The stigma of such a state of turmoil stops people seeking the help that is available to them (though a bit thin if you want something more meaningful than a handful of pills). We'd support any move to make discussion of depression an everyday discussion that no-one was too scared to have. For initiating such a dialogue, Bev Callard has our admiration.

Civil Liberties Election 2010: All Blackburn Candidates - please consider standing aside

The mother of Gary McKinnon - the Asperger's sufferer who could face forever in an American prison for having gone looking for evidence of aliens - has announced that she is standing for Parliament as an independent... against Jack Straw.

Janis Sharp explains in an interview over on the BBC website that she holds Jack Straw responsible for the one-sided extradition treaty which is being used against her son.

"Jack Straw led us to believe the extradition treaty would only be used for terrorists, but it is not being used for this. Once these things are brought in, we don't know where they will go next. It's very frightening," she says.

Couldn't agree with you more.

And Ms. Sharp then explains that the issue of civil liberties is extremely important to her campaign.

"I don't expect to get in but I feel civil liberties need a voice," she said.

Again, couldn't agree with you more, Ms. Sharp.

And to that end, we hereby ask anybody connected with the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens, the BNP and any other independent candidate to consider standing aside in the Blackburn constituency.

Allow Janis Sharp a free 1-v-1 fight against Jack Straw.

And in that, campaign FOR Janis Sharp collectively AGAINST Jack Straw - both locally in Blackburn and, as a result, on a national level.

The Labour Party which Jack Straw represents is the biggest danger to freedom and liberty in Britain since... the seventeenth century witch-hunts?

We've seen the nasty and insidious way that the Labour Party operates.

But a big name candidate like Jack Straw is unlikely to lose in a wide spread of candidates.

Stand aside and unite behind Janis Sharp - and put civil liberties onto the agenda, all in the one stroke.

The Labour Party is a disease, a virus, a vile plague on libertarians the length and breadth of Britain.

We must put personal political profit aside and let a civil liberties defender enact a delicious hand of karma.

Cor! 'F*** U!' - TalkTalk tell Labour Govt. of tyranny and free speech oppression to take a hike

The main reason that our civil liberties have been eroded on a grand scale and why every tiny aspect of our lives is regulated, controlled and spied upon by an overbearing state is... our collective willingness to go along with and put up with it all.

We have been terrorised, tyrann-ised and oppressed for thirteen years by the most corrupt Government in the most corrupt Parliament in the history of Britain.

And we have been unwitting accomplices in the destruction of our liberties for going along with it all.

The peaceful way to end tyranny is very simple.

Just say 'no'.

'No' is a very powerful word.

And we take our hat off to the UK ISP 'TalkTalk'.

As the Digital Economy Bill has been rammed through by this tyrannical Labour Government - as they ram through whatever they damn well like, irrespective of the British constitution or the will of the people - finally, we have an organisation who have stood up and said to the Labour totalitarians...

Errr... no, actually.

We'll be looking to move our custom to 'TalkTalk' after reading this from Andrew Heaney, Executive Director of Strategy and Regulation at the TalkTalk Group:

It looks like much of the Digital Economy Bill will make it through to get Royal Assent by the end of the week.

The Bill is now in much better shape than when first tabled by the Government last year – the ability of the Government to impose disconnection at will has been checked and the Henry VIII clause that literally allowed the Government to do anything else to reduce copyright infringement has been removed.

However, many draconian proposals remain such as the responsibility on customers to protect their home networks from hacking at a collective cost of hundreds of millions of pounds a year, the presumption that they are guilty unless they can prove themselves innocent and, as in China, the potential for legitimate search engines and websites to be blocked.

This is made all the more appalling by the ability of big music and film companies to influence government and the absence of any proper debate or scrutiny by MPs – only 5% of MPs turned up for the brief debate yesterday and the other important Parliamentary stages will be bypassed in the wash-up process.

TalkTalk will continue to battle against these oppressive proposals – they will require ’secondary legislation’ before they can be implemented.

After the election we will resume highlighting the substantial dangers inherent in the proposals and that the hoped for benefits in legitimate sales will not materialise as filesharers will simply switch to other undetectable methods to get content for free.

In the meantime we stand by our pledges to our customers:

* Unless we are served with a court order we will never surrender a customer’s details to rightsholders. We are the only major ISP to have taken this stance and we will maintain it.

* If we are instructed to disconnect an account due to alleged copyright infringement we will refuse to do so and tell the rightsholders we’ll see them in court.

For more background on our campaign against the disconnection aspect of the Digital Economy Bill, please visit www.dontdisconnect.us You might also like to check out our tongue in cheek response Home Taping is Killing Music.

Bravo! Now, just in case the point is missed, this nasty little piece of legislation isn't about stopping people ripping CDs and sending the tracks to each other. That's not the main concern we have.

This is about legislation that will be abused to prevent free speech.

If TalkTalk are on the side of we, the people, then we should give them a huge round of support and encouragement.

And also be brave enough to say 'no' once in a while.

Hat-tip: Boing Boing

38 Degrees respond to the Digital Economy Bill

We're sure the team behind 38 Degrees won't mind us reposting this here. Just into The Talking Clock's inbox...
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Dear XXXX,

We fought a hard fight, but the Digital Economy Bill has now been forced through its crucial third reading in the House of Commons. 189 MPs voted in favour and 47 against. It will now almost certainly be law within days. [1]

Our adverts, and our people-powered avalanche of emails and phone calls caused a stir in Parliament. But the government was determined to ignore public opinion to force the Digital Economy Bill through.

Why did this happen? Music industry lobbyists have their fingerprints all over this law. The government's position can be traced back to a shadowy meeting between Peter Mandelson and Music Industry figures on a yacht in Corfu last summer. [2] And music industry lobbyists appear to have played a key role writing sections of the law. [3]

Right now, it's perfectly legal for corporate interests to lobby the government in secret. We can only guess how much the music industry spent to get this law passed. 38 Degrees members are campaigning for new rules to ban secret lobbying. If the public had a right to know who was lobbying whom, and what about, corporate lobbyists would find it a lot harder to pull strings behind the scenes. That would help stop stitch-ups like this happening again.

There's a general election in 4 weeks. Our next set of MPs will have to further debate small parts of the Digital Economy Bill. It's more important than ever that secret meetings with lobbyists are banned.

Will you write to your election candidates now and ask them to pledge to support new rules to ban secret lobbying?

Click here to take 90 seconds to email your local election candidates:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/ban-secret-lobbying

We may not have won, but we showed that by working together we are powerful. Politicians now know that they can't just force through draconian internet laws without anyone noticing. Our people powered uprising scared the music industry so much they rushed out their own adverts to fight ours. We forced the bill up the political and media agenda, and created a real controversy.

38 Degrees is a people powered movement that brings you together with other people to take action on issues you care about. Over the next few weeks we'll be working with our partners on this campaign, Open Rights Group, to work out if there is more we can do together. We'll stand ready to get involved again if there's another chance to challenge this law, or if new draconian internet proposals rear their head. Our partners on this campaign, the Open Rights Group, will stay more focused on just this issue, so for more regular and detailed updates please join their action list here:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/get-action-updates

Thanks for being involved,

Johnny, Hannah, David, Nina and the 38 Degrees Team

NOTES

[1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/08/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading

[2]http://www.politics.co.uk/news/culture-media-and-sport/mandelson-s-filesharing-corfu-link-denied-$1321086.htm

[3]http://boingboing.net/2010/03/12/leaked-uk-record-ind.html

Conservatives play a vote winning blinder... by putting civil liberties on the election agenda

When a letter from CCHQ arrived through the gates of the Clock Tower today, we groaned a little and thought 'more election guff'.

How wrong we were.

This blog maintains that we will be voting for UKIP.

However, the campaign letter which came in today really might prove to be a huge winner for the Conservatives... as they place civil liberties firmly on the table as an election issue.

And, while the Conservatives are not our party, we did give a huge 'hurrah' for this move. The image of the Conservatives has been massively boosted in our mind.

It's such an important issue, it seems, that they've attached the signature of David Cameron himself to the letter.

Sure, they'll need to put more details onto the skeleton of their pro-liberty agenda, but have a read of what they sent us today. (Click the image to read full screen size)

Difficult not to be slightly more tempted to vote Conservative, huh?

Would anyone in UKIP's head office like to issue something we can highlight on this matter?

Naturally, anyone with civil liberties as a concern will NOT vote for the Labour totalitarians, so it's a waste of time them saying a word on the matter. Nasty people.

And, we'll say it again - bravo Conservatives.

PMQs: 7th April 2010

So, thank goodness that's all over then. The final PMQs of the most corrupt Parliament in the history of Britain.

Hopefully, when the new Parliament convenes, the next Prime Minister will give us something more worthwhile to listen to than the constant reeling-off of tractor production statistics.

Brown vs. Cameron

Brown gave the same old, same old performance. Cameron seemed the more Prime Minister-ial. Once Cameron got onto what named business leaders were saying about Labour's National Insurance 'tax on jobs', he floored Gordon Brown.

Brown completely flat and in denial, with nothing more to say than 'Lord Ashcroft'.

Our verdict: Cameron victory

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Brown vs. Clegg

For the last ever PMQs, Clegg bizarrely chose to go with electoral reform and accused Labour and the Conservatives of colluding. All he did was allow Gordon Brown scope to repeat his 'Lord Ashcroft' mantra. Indeed, the best line of Brown's performance at PMQs today was a rebuttal of Clegg's charges, dismissing them with the line: "It seems like a speech in search of a question."

Our verdict: Pointless draw.

So, there we go. Bye bye Gordon.

Be off with you, forced to orchestrate your New World Order agenda with a lack of trans-pair-ency from elsewhere. It wasn't nice knowing you...

Join the campaign to make Labour history

So, the worst kept secret of all time is confirmed as a reality - the General Election will take place on 6th May.

Now, this blogger would love it if everyone voted for UKIP.

However, to those who will not or cannot vote for UKIP, we say this - we really do not care who you vote for.

However, when you listen to the debates, please try to remember the reign of tyranny we have lived under with Labour.

Every tiny aspect of our lives has been controlled and regulated, our privacy and liberty have been severely compromised...

...and OUR sovereignty - that of we, the people - was sold out to a foreign Government without our say so.

We are the 'great ignored'... we, the people.

Do not vote for Labour.

No matter who you vote for, get Labour out and keep them out. Forever.

Labour have proven themselves to be treacherous freedom hating control freaks.

Labour must never be allowed anywhere near the positions of power ever again.

Will Greenpeace make a statement condemning threats?

As the whole world is reading about how threats of violence have been posted by a member of Greenpeace directed at those of us who do not buy the 'climate change' Armageddon scenario, the silence from Greenpeace itself is deafening.

The original post threatening violence read:

"The proper channels have failed. It’s time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.

If you’re one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let’s talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.

If you’re one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:

We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.

And we be many, but you be few."

Now, putting this in perspective, this is one lone activist... probably.

That said, the comments have been picked up as representative of the attitude of the Greenpeace organisation and relayed around the globe.

See: James Delingpole, Guido Fawkes, UKIP's Godfrey Bloom (excellent article), Alex Jones, and across indie blogs such as this from Devil's Kitchen.

Now, if this had been any other political organisation - and Greenpeace is a political organisation - they would have been hounded by the mass media to issue a statement condemning such voices.

As yet, there is resounding silence.

Silence, too, from Greenpeace. We have just checked both the UK and international Greenpeace official websites. Not a word.

Now, imagine the fuss if the BNP had said anything remotely like this. Look at the fuss over Chris Grayling and his views about gay folk and B&B's (why would gay people want to give money to homophobes anyway?).

Forgetting our views on climate change for a second, the main organisation of Greenpeace must come out publicly and condemn these comments and do so now.

Failure to do so will be taken as implicating that such comments are endorsed... and we're sure Greenpeace wouldn't want people to believe that is what the organisation represents... would they?

If the comments are not publicly condemned by the main organisation of Greenpeace by the end of this week, then we all need to raise this matter with Parliament.

We cannot have 'science' decided on the basis of threats and intimidation.

That is NOT science.

It is, however, a serious criminal offence to go around threatening people.

It also indicates a feeling that the debate has been lost and violence is all one has left to resort to. However, people must not be allowed to go around threatening violence against those who disagree with them... not on any end of a polemic debate.

Sunday Paper Review: 4th April 2010

Apologies for the lack of updates over the last week. Haven't had much to say, to be honest. How many variations on "we believe in British national sovereignty and hate New Labour for their constant attacks on our civil liberties" can we post?

Anyway, here's what's in the Sunday papers...

The Sunday Times appears to want to scare a few UKIP waverers into voting for the Conservatives. It reports that David Cameron will "unveil a £1 billion tax break for married couples" later this week, while a poll has the party stretching it's lead over Labour to ten points. With the positive spin put on the Tories, it's time for the Sunday Times to attempt to tarnish UKIP. Allegations of undercover reporters and donations through intermediaries are the wannabe root of the 'scandal'.

Countering that, in many respects, are The Observer who place Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling at the heart of a row over whether there is "Tory backing for ban on gays". The sensational headline revolves around whether B&B owners should be able to turn gay people away.

The Sunday Telegraph claims that journalists (well, those people who read out New Labour press releases) at the BBC are all in a tizzy... because their bosses have told them they "must interview representatives of the BNP, UKIP, the Green party, SNP and Plaid Cymru" after the 'leader debates'. This blogger would like to praise the head BBC bosses for issuing this welcome decree - if the report is accurate. Those BBC journalists who do not like the fact that there are more opinions in the country than those issued by Labour HQ could always quit the taxpayer funded organisation and let someone else have their job. Just a thought.

The Independent on Sunday, meanwhile, is launching it's campaign to make sure that as many people entitled to vote do so. They call their endeavour the "One Of The Above" campaign.

The Mail on Sunday is having fun with Labour's ridiculous poster portraying Conservative leader David Cameron as DCI Gene Hunt. They report on how the Conservatives LOVE the poster and how "Labour-supporting websites have been flooded with complaints from activists regarding the poster."

The Sunday Express has a report on how "Barking mad eurocrats want to ­rename the English Channel the ­“Anglo-French Pond”." The report is actually a lot more detailed than the attention grabbing headline suggests, but pretty much mirrors what has been well known amongst those who read 'conspiracy theories' for quite some time... the Chief Political Editor of the News of the World has the same story on his blog, too.

And on that note, no news on when our troops might be brought home from Afghanistan. Odd that.

Not crap election literature: Conservatives

This blog has been running a series looking at the crap election literature being pushed through the door of the clock tower.

Today, we depart from that series to bring you... shock... some surprisingly non-crap election literature.

While the Labour Party want to cast Shadow Chancellor George Osborne as the 'weakest link', he - and the Conservatives - have outflanked that one here.

For the first time in memory, we've received some unsolicited election literature which is reasonably intelligent and does not seek to patronise us as if we have the mental comprehension of a infant school pupil.

So, see whether you agree. Here's the literature, click the thumb to read the text.

More reasonably intelligent literature like this would be very welcome.