Quote of the week

From Douglas Carswell….

I fear the notion of the Coalition as Whig radicalism re-born, or as Edmund Burke dot com, which really would change Britain, might not have made it into this evening’s script.

So, the BBC is still trying to find a distempered right wing Tory to attack the Coalition. So much for impartiality.

The Eleutherophobia vote

I’m afraid Iain Dale’s got this Chris Grayling bed and breakfast thing completely arse about face.

One particularly scholarly commenter sums up the matter perectly, I think….

Sorry, Iain. You’re way south of the mark on this one.

As I said over at The Groan….

Private property.

Personal choice.

Anathema to leftists.

If the way forward for the brand of Tory thinking you represent is to legislate on matters of conscience, and that represents the majority view in the party, then one of us, Iain, is no longer a Tory.

I should perhaps also reiterate my further comment that if it were my own establishment gay couples would be more than welcome.

Iain couldn’t possibly be angling for the Son of Campbell post, could he?

Oh, and Old Holborn (for whom you should be voting if you live in Cambridge)….

and Al Jahom….

….are very naughty boys.

Justify this, Labour supporters

Are 30% of the electorate on drugs? Are they victims of mass hypnosis?

This is the only explanation I can find for the fact that they are willing to re-elect a government that is hell-bent on leading us, like lemmings, over the precipice.

Today, four men were convicted of armed robbery, after being found guilty by a judge in the first serious criminal trial to be heard without a jury.

There are those who will argue that this case was only heard by a single judge in extremis, as a result of three collapsed trials and allegations (of which no evidence was made public due to its “sensitivity”) of jury tampering. Whether that is or isn’t so is, quite simply, irrelevant. Why do we have a police force police service) if not to protect jury members from interference by potentially violent defendants?

The 400-year-old tradition of trial by our peers is, or rather was, a bulwark against the power of the state and part of the fabric of our society, and the legislation that did away with it was politically motivated, ill-conceived and downright dangerous. One of the first acts of the next government should be to end it, and the thousands of other restrictive laws and regulations introduced since Tony Blair’s Year Zero, 1997, which drive a coach and horses through our individual freedoms.

It is stupefying that, if we are to put any trust in the polls, 30% of the electorate believe this, our most authoritarian government since the death of Cromwell, deserves another five years in power.

Or perhaps they just don’t care, in which case, as the saying goes, they will get the government they deserve, as will we if we don’t strain every sinew to consign the Labour Party to decades in opposition.

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In other news, it is illegal to sell goldfish to children.

My will to live is ebbing by the second.

Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! Insincerity Sucks!

The Hughie Green (Green Hughie?) of politics is back….

Ummmm....Yeah....What he said. I think. Don't I, Charlie?

Back to remind us of twelve years of spin, authoritarianism, lies, greed, war, hubris, vanity, vaulting ambition, catastrophic social experiments, waste, control freakery, attacks on democracy….

Just what is it that he has against McRuin?

For Cleveland, Ohio, read Hackney, Maryhill….

….Birmingham Ladywood, Peckham, Shoreditch, Manchester Central, Liverpool Riverside….

How do we save our most depressed inner city regions?

• By encouraging inward private sector investment and making it easier for companies to function, giving schools and teachers the flexibility to make their own decisions, and improving services and civic pride by introducing commercial rigour into moribund, union-dominated municipal assets?
• Or by burdening these areas with ever greater levels of regulation, taxation, red tape and bureaucracy, while allowing doctrine, political orthodoxy and self interest to trump common sense and results-driven public services?

Watch this great series of shorts from Drew Carey’s excellent Reason TV and decide for yourself….

No brainer? You would have thought so, wouldn’t you?

Official – Gordon Brown less important to “Company” readers than Robert Pattinson, clogs and blow jobs

Labour über groupie, Ellie Gellard, A.K.A. @BevaniteEllie, has been touting this in-depth interview with McRuin in Company Magazine for weeks.

Imagine her disappointment, then, when she checked the Company website this morning, only to find that her cozy chat with our nation’s Prime Minister….

….which is tailored to fit an audience of young women who need to be pulled back into politics.

….was considered by such an august journal’s editors to be less worthy of a front page spot than….

Robert Pattinson in pictures! See sexy shots from Remember Me!

Emma splits with Brit love.

10 of the best clogs!

And perhaps most riveting of all….

Read our Blow Job Masterclass!

Your best orgasm ever? Just follow our top 10 tips!

Pucker up, love

I’ve read the interview and frankly I couldn’t agree more.