Thursday, 27 June 2013



Seen Elsewhere


Crick Goes Digging For Farage Secrets | Speccie
Pickles Gets Revenge on Osborne | Speccie
Theresa May’s Extremism Double Standards | The Commentator
Red Len Threatens Legal Action Against Labour | Staggers
Did Unite Use Entryist Factors in Falkirk? | Labour Uncut
Osborne is Right, Posh Burgers Are Best | Speccie
The Real Tory Divide | Douglas Carswell
Gillard: What Goes Around Comes Around | The Commentator
News UK Writes to All MPs | MediaGuido
LibDem Youth Wing Ban Bonking | Blue Guerilla
Labour Falls Into Osborne’s Trap Again | Dan Hodges

THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013

Graph of Everything That’s Wrong with BBC Question Time

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Appearances on BBC Question Time between since the General Election.
Via Martin Robbins

Cabinet Food Fight

Revenge is a dish best served healthy for Eric Pickles. A masterful response:
Do some work George.

Guidogram Going Out Shortly

The Guidogram round-up of the week is going out shortly.
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WATCH: Neo-Guido v Owen Jones Spending Review Debate

Via Sky/Yahoo.

Ed Balls Photobomb at Hamleys Toy Shop Shoot


Never work with children or animals…
Via Telegraph/Getty.

Fabian Gala Dinner Survival of the Richest

Tickets are on sale for the annual Fabian Society gala dinner, a red-letter day for any Labour luvvie. This year the festivities are taking place at Whitehall’s exclusive National Liberal Club, in what looks like a coalition overture. With an auction of items from the Fabians’ colourful history, gourmet champagne socialist menu and after-dinner speech from Harriet Harman, prices are steep at £100-a-ticket.
Then again the evening is being held held in association with the Trade Union Fund Managers group, which has a City portfolio of some £75 million. It’s all a bit much for one senior figure on Labour’s NEC:
Not very One Nation is it?

Labour’s Favourite Think Tank Say Eds are Wrong

IPPR made a living out of producing pleasant reading for Labour, though even they couldn’t spin these figures in Ed’s favour. A YouGov poll commissioned by the Labour wonk-shop finds massive public opposition to the party’s position on welfare. 76% say the system is too soft on people who could work that don’t, with just 10% taking up Ed’s line backing those on benefits. Who is the type of person the public is most sympathetic to protecting? Pensioners, the very group that Balls has targeted for pension cuts if Labour win in 2015. With friends like these…