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Media Lets Bald-Faced Lies Grow Under Fair & Balanced Umbrella

Posted on 22 June 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: Bob Schieffer, CBS Face the Nation, David Cameron, George Stephanopoulis, Gordon Brown, Iranian conflict, lies, Media, Meet the Press, MSM, President Obama, Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsey Graham

By Denis Campbell
We’ve fallen down a media rabbit-hole and there is no way back. Senators, Representatives and UK MPs say whatever they want and are assured their corporate media interviewer mouthpieces will not have the spine to pin them down or ask tough questions about the ridiculous nature of the partisan pronouncements. Why, because of [...]

Labour Party Implodes in Expenses SNAFU (Situation Normal All F***ed Up)

Posted on 04 June 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Conservative, David Cameron, EU elections, Gordon Brown, Labour, MP expenses row, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, The Telegraph, Tories

 
By Denis Campbell
Talking heads are having a field day over recent Cabinet resignations, prospects for yet another huge Labour loss this weekend in the EU elections and calls by many in Parliament (even some Labour back-benchers) for a no-confidence vote and immediate elections. You have to wonder if the Prime Minister relishes getting out of [...]

MP Expense Row Drum Beats On

Posted on 18 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Buckingham Palace, Conservative leader David Cameron, David Cameron, displeased, Gordon Brown, HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Lib Dems, MP expenses, Nick Clegg, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth, Tony Blair

 
By Denis Campbell
Her Majesty is “displeased.” 
Queen Elizabeth II normally stays above the fray, so much so that “displeased” is a cause for alarm bells across Westminster and the land. Most monarchs in Europe’s labyrinth of Constitutional Monarchies serve largely “ceremonial” roles. Although most can still take the Draconian step of dissolving a dysfunctional government, they [...]

Blah blah blah…

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: David Cameron, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Tory leader

David Cameron told off by The Speaker (about time!) From the 15th of April.

Budget Day in the UK

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Alistair Darling, Budget, capital allowance rate, car scrappage scheme, Chancellour of the Exchequer, David Cameron, fuel duty, ISA, Job Centre Plus Network, Pension tax, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Stamp Duty, Tory leader, UK Budget day, under 25s

A nation that stands on ceremony has once again made it through another budget day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, left Number 10 for the short drive to Parliament where he delivered the annual budget report message to a sceptical House of Commons.
The pregame festivities started with the usual snarkfest between the Prime [...]

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?

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

McCain’s Talking Deer Flatlines, Plans Coup?

Posted on 03 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 12-years of Blair/Brown rule, 8-years of a co-presidency with Dick Cheney as the most, Article 1 is very clear, blizzard of words, clear limits to VP authority, CNN snap polls, David Cameron, debate school up the creek in Arizona, did much better than expected, didn’t look like a deer in the headlights, does not change the dynamics of the race, does not change the electoral map, Drill baby drill!, his Achilles Heel, Joe Biden, John McCain’s record, Katie Couric, linked inextricably to George W. Bush, maverick image, McCain, McCain’s Talking Deer Flatlines, Mouseketeer Annette, out-classed on points, Plans Coup, pundit David Gergen, right is energised and oh so proud, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin planning for a 2012 Presidential run, Saturday Night Live parody, She didn’t throw up on herself, Snarkiness and dismissiveness work if you can pull it o, snarky, spits out the canned one-line stump zingers and platitu, stringing her banal aww shucks-isms together, suggested the Vice President needed more powers, talking away 20 shows a day on the wall of Disneyland’s, the best debate of his life, Tina Fey, UK has Labour Party fatigue, UK Tory Party, Walt Disney creation, zingers

 
by Denis Campbell
Could Sarah Palin really be a Walt Disney creation? At some point the comparisons between her and perky Mouseketeer Annette are hard to push out of consciousness. Annette learned her lines and recited them with real “Gosh, Shucks” authenticity in such a way that she became and old man’s and America’s sweetheart (not [...]

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 [...]

Buy a Car Get a Free Handgun

Posted on 02 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: $250 in petrol vouchers, 2010, BBC, Ben Verwaayen, bitter, British Telecom, Broadband, BSkyB, BT, business boost, Butler, car dealership, consultants, David Cameron, Ford, free handgun, General Motors, Gordon Brown, home communications platform, interactive, Keltec .380, Labour Party, live, Mark Muller, marketing opportunity, Max Motors, Midwest, Missouri, movies, obama, photon cannons, pollsters, pop-up video game array, PR, programmes, Radio 5, real-time, Rupert Murdoch, similar promotion, Sky+, telephony, Tesco, Tesco Supermarkets, UK, USA

The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]

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