Dear David Cameron:
Take careful note. Real numbers don’t lie. US unemployment rate, 8.1%. 651,000 jobs lost in February. 4.4 million US jobs lost in this recession. Poll numbers may have more wiggle room and yet the REAL POLITICAL cost of lock-step, mindless, herd bleating No?, Obama latest approval rating 72%* and “Do the Republicans even [...]
Tag | Conservative Party
Steep Price to Mindless No
Posted on 07 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 4.4 million US jobs lost in this recession, 651000 jobs lost in February, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Do the Republicans even have a plan - 58% said NO!, May 2010, Mr. Clegg of the Lib Dem Party, Newsweek Magazine poll 6/3/09, Obama latest approval rating 72%, PM Brown, prize of residency at Number 10, REAL POLITICAL cost of lock-step mindless herd bleating, Steep Price to Mindless No, the Tories, US unemployment rate 8.1%, what truly comes first party or country?
Oh Canada! (Parliamentary Kerfuffle Expertly Explained)
Posted on 13 December 2008 by admin | Comments (1) | Tags: aid to the auto and forestry industries, Bloc Quebecois, Coalitions are a rarity in Canada, Conservative Party, cut to government funding, Gayle Furr, Gilles Duceppe, Governor General, House of Commons, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Michaelle Jean, multi-billion dollar economic stimulus package, NDP, New Democratic Party, Oh Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prorogue (suspend) the government, Stephane Dion, strongly opposed, Three points of the upcoming budget, three year ban on civil servants' right to strike
by Gayle Furr
(Ed. Sometimes the comments here are so good and well thought out, they deserve their own byline.) You don’t have to tell us our Parliament’s a mess, eh! We’ve having to live through it, eh? As a Canadian I feel I must correct a couple of points, and offer some further explanation as to the events.
First [...]
Let Get Ready to Ruummbblleee!
Posted on 12 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: 04 November electoral finish line was known for years i, 22-month campaign cycle, a man with the rumpled but somewhat pitiable if not lov, both parties, British politics are even bloodier than in the US, Brits think he is the steadier hand, called out, Cambridge, Conservative Party, could reverse this tide and win, David Cameron, David Cameron already has a transition team together fo, day after elections, Denis Campbell, element of surprise, Eton, Gordon Brown, have tea with Her Majesty, heavy underdog, highly entertaining, House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time, I love my job, If you liked the US election, Joe Biden, keep his mouth shut, leading us capably through the credit crisis, least photogenic man on the Isles, Les Miserables, Let Get Ready to Rumble, London Mayor Boris Johnson, London’s West End, May 2010, McCain, Missouri, my Electoral Vote prediction in the US general election, not this 75-day transition period, not yet ready to make a prediction, obama, only one state missed, Palin went from front-runner to cocktail joke faster th, PM Brown can dissolve Parliament at any moment, PM Brown turns the economy around, polls favour Mr. Cameron, pre-measuring the White House drapes, pride of British public schools, Prime Minister, Sarah Palin, seize the spotlight, she calls for elections, the man you would least likely want to have a pint with, The Mousetrap, the once and future PM in waiting, Tony Blair's Chancellor, Tories Leader, unfortunately following a legend in his own mind, viewed as a steady hand on the tiller, who never met a camera he didn’t like or a group he cou, whose one great speech 4-years ago he hopes will lead h, Wicked, with possibly the most distractingly smarmy and sing-so, you’re gonna love the upcoming steel cage PPV match in
By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]
Welsh Farming Community Dumbfounded By Palin, Supports Obama
Posted on 25 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: "not trustworthy", "this woman [Sarah Palin] scares me", "two-faced", 1383, 38-residents, Alistair, Americans will vote for a change from Bush's party, bought a copy of Obama's book, Chicago stories, clearly Obama, confuse sailors, Conservative Party, definitive word, deliberately crashed on the rocks below, Dumbfounded By Palin, Gareth, Gayle, he seems to have stronger character than the old guy, holds little respect for politicians, I can relate to Barack Obama he seems to speak a bit mo, I just don't understand it, I work, initially suspicious of Obama, it was a mystery to us as well, It's all so peculiar, It's just bizarre, known as Miv, Landowners tied lanterns to sheep necks, local recruiting business owner, make sure I have my [cell] phone topped up, Margaret Thatcher, McCain seems to go strictly by the book, microcosm of rural Great Britain, Monknash, no one here can understand the choice of Palin as VP, not a better place on earth to discuss American politic, obama, Old South Wales, one could understand having grown up in the apartheid r, only Yank in the village, Philippa, Plough and Harrow pub, politicians have lost touch, pub's newspapers, seem so far away, shipwreck bodies were stored in the bar until coffins c, sitting high above the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, South African transplant, stone and timbres of ships, Supports Obama, surf as much as I can, Thatcher's Black Rat Ale, the behavior of calling each other piggies and things?, the old guy is just scary, the pub haunted, the pub's owner, to be honest the whole thing has just been bizarre, Welsh, what do I know, with the history of her country, woman Prime Minister
As appeared in The Huffington Post Off the Bus Page
For decades I prayed for a woman Prime Minister, then we got Margaret Thatcher,” said Sam(antha) dismissively at a local village store, “this woman [Sarah Palin] scares me.”
Here in the village of Monknash, 38-residents strong and sitting high above the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, is a microcosm [...]
The Brown Mutiny, Chapter One
Posted on 04 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2012, 48-hour media blitz, Alistair Darling, BBC, Beijing, Blair memo, blood sport, Chancellour of the Exchequer, Conservative Party, courageous, David Cameron, David Miliband, Deputy Party Leader, Foreign Secretary, General Alexander Haig, Glasgow, Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman, John Prescott, Ken Livingston, Labour, London, London Mayoral, Margaret Thatcher, Number 10, Number 11, Olympic Closing Ceremonies, over/under bets, President Reagan, Prime Minister’s holiday, Scottish National Party, Shirley MacClaine, shot in 1981, Sir Humphrey Applegate, Sir John Major, SNP, State Secretary, The Brown Mutiny, The Telegraph, Tony Blair, Tories, White House, Yes Minister
It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]
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