By Denis Campbell
In three months the UK will contest a general election. Wow! Can you feel the tension build… Zzzzzzzz.
Three months out from November of 2008, US candidate Barack Obama spoke before 85,000 people at the Democratic National Convention’s outdoor football stadium. Here? The three parties reluctantly and finally agreed to their set of televised [...]
What if You Gave an Election and No One Came?
Posted on 04 March 2010 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: anti-Muslim, David Cameron, Eton, Geert Wilders, General Election, George W. Bush, Gordon Brown, John Kerry, Labour, Nick Clegg, Pim Fortuyn, PMQ’s, President Obama, racist, Sarah Palin, The Netherlands, Tory, UK Election
Ti-ii-ii-ime’s on Gordon’s Side, Hold the Grand Coronation March
Posted on 23 November 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: David Cameron, General Election, Gordon Brown, Labour, MORI, Tory
By Denis Campbell
Fat Lady? Back to those wings and no humming! This opera is not over.
Those in the Conservative party already measuring drapes at Number 10 need to remember this will be a contested election vs. a Tory coronation. The display on the steps of the Welsh Senedd the morning after Conservative wins in [...]
As Japan Goes in UK Labour’s Summer or Discontent - Is a Tory Win Assured?
Posted on 31 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Afghanistan, Conservative leader David Cameron, Daily Kos, Danyl Johnson, David Cameron, demconwatchblog.com, Diet, Expense-gate, fivethirtyeight.com, Gordon Brown, ICM/Mirror poll, Japan, Labour, Lib Dems, MP expenses row, Nate Silver, Nick Clegg, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Susan Boyle, The Telegraph, UK media, X-Factor
Last night Japan’s ruling party lost control of the Diet by a 3:1 margin. Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown escaped the UK and spent the weekend in Afghanistan. Is this where we are? The PM must go to a war zone to get some peace? As Japan goes, so goes Labour in 2010?
Mr. Brown has [...]
Blood in the Hearing Room! Republicans Circle Ominously Over Speech Sentence!
Posted on 14 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Advise and Consent, Appeals Court Judge, Associate Justice, Confirmation hearings, Conservative leader David Cameron, David Cameron, Federal Appeals Court judge, hearings, John McCain, Judge Sotomayor, michael Buffer, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Jeff Sessions, Senator Lindsey Graham, Sonia Sotomayor, United States Senate, US Supreme Court
By Denis Campbell
Called the world’s most deliberative body, the United States Senate often more resembles a circus side show. 100 members can slow legislation to a crawl and demand that laws pass by a 60-40 super majority vs. a simple 51-49 majority vote. Failure to do that on important legislation such as climate change, healthcare [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
















































