Miliband Treats Voters Like Subjects | Alex Wickham
How Much Did the 2012 Air War and Ground Game Matter? | The Monkey Cage
Clegg’s Cynical Double-Dealing and Back Stabbing | Quentin Letts
Poll: Ed Balls Most Likely to Win a Fight | Sun
German Euro-Skeptic Party Gaining Ground` | Spiegel
Legal Embarrassment For Left-Wing Blogger | Douglas Murray
Hilary Clinton’s Benghazi Moment of Truth | Rand Paul
Will There Be Justice For Daniel Morgan? | Staggers
ONS Suggest There Was No Double Dip | Telegraph
Lembit’s Student Night | Cherwell
Boris Could Be the British Reagan | Iain Martin
How Much Did the 2012 Air War and Ground Game Matter? | The Monkey Cage
Clegg’s Cynical Double-Dealing and Back Stabbing | Quentin Letts
Poll: Ed Balls Most Likely to Win a Fight | Sun
German Euro-Skeptic Party Gaining Ground` | Spiegel
Legal Embarrassment For Left-Wing Blogger | Douglas Murray
Hilary Clinton’s Benghazi Moment of Truth | Rand Paul
Will There Be Justice For Daniel Morgan? | Staggers
ONS Suggest There Was No Double Dip | Telegraph
Lembit’s Student Night | Cherwell
Boris Could Be the British Reagan | Iain Martin
SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013
Saturday Seven Up
This week 114,455 visitors visited 348,949 times viewing 582,091 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:
- Tory MP Nigel Evans Arrested on Suspicion of Rape
- WATCH: Dave Trashes Chukapedia
- Full Page Times Advert Whacks Dave and George
- WATCH: Nigel Evans Denies Rape Allegations
- Ed Screws Up Fergie Tribute
- This Won’t Be on Labour Leaflets
- Compare and Contrast: BBC v Public Newspaper Consumption
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013
Glass House Prices
The fact that Tory MP Stewart Jackson hasn’t even sold his house will make his battle with IPSA’s expensive legal team, Cherie Blair’s Matrix Chambers, all the more interesting. Especially since he isn’t even considering selling up. Guido is however more amused by Jackson’s claim that house prices were falling in his area, so the value of his property couldn’t possibly have increased by 20% as IPSA claim. Which is somewhat ironic given that Jackson’s wife is none other than Daily Express property hack Sarah O’Grady, known for headlines such as “House prices rocket to a three-year high”, “Biggest house price rises in a year”,“House prices surge for second month in a row” and “House prices on rise again”. And many, many more. Stewart obviously isn’t a reader…Clock Ticking For MacShane
Some good news to end the week on: police have handed a file of evidence against Denis MacShane to the CPS.
Decision time…
Read all Guido’s stories on expenses cheat MacShane here.
Vaz Spins Out of Control
Keith Vaz’s masterclass in a photo op gone wrong on a playground roundabout this afternoon.
“I liked the roundabout a lot. It was fast and you could sit down on it. The problem was I fell off a couple of times because it was a bit too fast. I think it’s probably designed for people smaller than me.”The rough and tumble of politics…
Via This is Leicestershire, @Kulganofcrydee
Labour Owe Downgraded Co-op Millions
Bad news for the Co-op today as Moody’s downgrades their debt rating to junk status. Labour’s bank of choice has been battered by bad debts over recent years, one of their major debtors is – surprise, surprise – none other than the Labour Party themselves. Of the £3,580,000 borrowed in 1999, only £189,000 has been repaid, meaning Labour still owe their troubled lender £3,391,000. Maybe they could pay them back to help them out a bit…Des Lynam Endorses UKIP
Celebrity endorsement of the day: Des Lynam has come out for UKIP. Casting his vote for Team Farage in Sussex obviously wasn’t enough for Des, who has of course rewritten the lyrics of Send in the Clowns to mark the occasion:
To be sung at UKIP conference. Obviously…We used to be rich
Now we are not
But here at last there’s a chance
To stop the all rot
Send in the Clowns.
Isn’t it bliss
Don’t you approve
They just kept tearing around
But they wouldn’t move
We need the clowns
Send in the clowns.
They’d never stopped
Opening our doors
Now you are learning
The vote that we wanted was yours
We’ll make our entrance again
With unusual flair
Sure of our lines
Well be right there.
We’ve had the farce
Their fault I fear
We know that you want what we want
No need to fear
They call us the clowns.
So send in the clowns
And give us a cheer.
What a surprise
Who could have thought
You’d come to feel about things
We felt you ought
Only now will they see
You’ve drifted our way
No surprise now
It’s no cliché
Isn’t it strange
Now they have fear
They’ve lost their timing this late
In their careers
And where are the clowns
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don’t bother were here.
WATCH: Chuka Feels the Pinch
Clearly Chuka has been told he needs to learn how to laugh at himself afterWednesday. These will never get old…
UPDATE: Chris Pincher’s powers of prediction are second to none:
UPDATE: Chris Pincher’s powers of prediction are second to none:
Town Hall Rich List
The annual Taxpayers’ Alliance town hall rich list is out this morning. An 11% fall in council staff earning over £100,000, but thousands still on the gravy train in our rotten boroughs…
At Last! A Spending Cut From Labour
Later today Shadow Media Minister Helen Goodman will promise Labour’s first cut in public spending:
DCMS sources enthusiastically point out that they are already spending £150 million doing just this. Finally, a firm commitment to cut from Labour…
Building One Digital NationHelen Goodman MP will announce today (Thursday 9 May) that Labour would invest £75 million in a new programme that would focus on getting more people online and improving people’s digital skills. This new programme would be funded by halving the size of the government’s current super-connected cities programme.
Helen Goodman MP said:
“There are about 10 million people in the UK who don’t know how to send an email and around 16 million who don’t have other basic digital skills. A Labour government would invest £75 million to ensure that people in Britain are able to get online and are able to perform basic tasks like sending an email.
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