Category: politics

The ex-Safety Elephant seems a little confused. BBC News, 26th April: Number 10 said Mr Clarke had offered to resign on Tuesday when the scandal was uncovered. In interviews, Mr Clarke said he had offered to quit on an earlier occasion as well. Charles Clarke’s statement – 5th May: The prime minister, as is his… Continue reading Make Your Mind Up

The BBC is reporting that the Safety Elephant has lost the Home Secretary job in today’s Cabinet reshuffle. John Reid will replace him. Good job Gordon Brown gave Clarke his full backing earlier today. What an excellent piece of news.

Every vote for a Labour candidate in today’s council elections will be interpreted (by the government at least) as a vote in support for Tony Blair, his policies and the way he runs the government. Blair has been in a lot of trouble over the last couple of weeks. An announcement about his future can… Continue reading Save Blair – Vote Labour

Marina Hyde takes her turn in having a pop at the Safety Elephant. And a very fine pop it is too. As the member for Norwich, of course, one expects him to have a Partridgean grasp of irony, but perhaps also has to wonder from whom or what he is taking his lead. The answer,… Continue reading Marina Hyde on Charles Clarke

Polly Toynbee talks a lot of sense about the damage that Blair and his cabinet are doing to the prospective Labour Party vote in Thursday’s council elections. Awful, awful, awful,” one minister said just in from the doorsteps. “I felt we were holding on last week and then it just collapsed. Prescott was the last… Continue reading Blair Kills Labour Vote

Last week I got an email from the Labour Party proudly telling me about their new “Dave the Chameleon” campaign. I had seen the web site earlier in the day and, like any sane person, I had been appalled by what I saw. So I sent the following email in back to the Party: I’ve… Continue reading More on the Chameleon

It’s been a while since I wrote about politics. There’s been so much going on that it’s been difficult to choose what to talk about. So let’s ignore most of April and instead concentrate on the last week when we can watch the Labour Party spiralling out of control as it desperately tries to win… Continue reading Chameleons, Elephants and Liars