Watch: was this the best expenses scandal video?
The cartoonist and animator Beau Bo D’Or has taken a short break from his work and left a short round-up of his top work.
Via Political Scrapbook I’m reminded of this video which was brilliant when I first saw it, and is just as compelling now.
The best expenses scandal video ever? I think so.
His best speech ever? Jon Cruddas on how Labour needs to reinvent itself
At the Compass annual conference yesterday, Jon Cruddas MP gave this speech and received a standing ovation. It is perhaps his best speech ever
Its been a cracking day. Vibrant. Open. Optimistic.
In contrast to a sour right wing noise around Labour since the election. That goes something like this: We lost the vote of those working class people. So lets prioritise the ‘indigenous folk’, hit those newly arrived and get stuck into the welfare mothers swinging the lead, hoovering up benefits.
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What would you ask the Labour leader candidates?
After two Labour leadership hustings I have a rough idea of the main themes as well as many policy positions of all the five candidates.
I plan to write more on that soon.
But I am also planning to do interviews with some or all of the candidates and would like your thoughts on what questions they should be asked.
As a guide, there’s no point asking broad questions like: ‘do you believe in socialism or capitalism’, or rhetorical ones: ‘do you think Tony Blair was (a) rubbish, (b) a war-criminal?’ etc.
I think policy related questions that specifically ask then to address tightly defined issues would work best.
So… what would you like to ask the candidates?
Ashcroft’s “devastating” attack on Cameron
Lord Ashcroft, who has given the Tories more than £5m, is writing his own version of the inside story on the General Election campaign. And the News of the World has learned the former Conservative Deputy Chairman and Treasurer will slam Mr Cameron.
Friends say he will accuse the Prime Minister of being the worst leader for decades – and will blame him for throwing away a 20 point lead in the Polls.
One told the News of the World: “We may have a Conservative Prime Minister, but Lord Ashcroft believes the election campaign was a disaster and that the blame lies with David Cameron and his coterie of advisers.”
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A senior Tory close to Lord Ashcroft told the News of the World: “There was a tight circle around David Cameron and George Osborne who made decisions which were totally out of touch with what potential voters wanted to hear.
…more at the News of the World
Complete tits
A nice young man known as @Article_Dan turns up on Twitter today to say that some old bag abused his wife in a Sainsbury’s cafe for breastfeeding her (Article_Dan and his wife’s) baby.
“My wife – the mother of our five month old daughter and four year old son – just spent the morning shopping in Sainsbury’s with the kids hanging of each arm.”
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How bad is the feline obesity crisis?
I’m shocked. Shocked and appalled. David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS, earns more than £250,000 a year. What’s that about, eh? All he does for it is manage an organisation with 1.4 million employees and a budget the size of Bangladesh. Bloody layabout.
Or what about Christine Gilbert? Chief inspector at Ofsted, only responsible for the education of a few million poxy kids, and they give her £195k a year. Pathetic. You just wouldn’t get that kind of waste in the private sector, would you?
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Why don’t MPs pay back tuition fees instead of increasing ours?
contribution by Neil Boorman
Earlier this year, David Willets released a book called The Pinch, in which he argued how the Baby Boomer generation has mortgaged its children’s future to pay for it’s own instant gratification.
If our political, economic and cultural leaders do not begin to discharge their obligations to the future, the young people of today will be taxed more, work longer hours for less money, have lower social mobility and live in a degraded environment in order to pay for their parents’ quality of life.
It all seemed to make sense, except that the book offered no real solutions to the long-term prospects of Generation Debt.
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Obama is right to slam BP – and why capitalists should too
Put aside the environmental impact of the BP oil spill for a minute – massive as it is – because right-wingers don’t really care for little things like that.
Instead they’re whinging that Obama is slamming their favourite oil company far too much. It hurts their pride you know. Oh and it hurts our pensions! Damn that Obama, does he not care for our goddamn pensions?. Who cares for those people whose livelihoods have been lost thanks to the obscene amounts of oil that is about to hit their shores?
Why does Phillip Blond see civic cohesion as a security issue?
Things are looking rosy for ResPublica, the Conservative think tank led by official enemy of Paperhouse and original Red Tory Phillip Blond.
There’s now a government that’s broadly sympathetic to ResPublica’s aims (Red Toryism occupies the same sort of self-help space as Compassionate Conservatism). And it’s received a hefty injection of support – enough to be recruiting for six new positionsoffering “competitive + bonus” salaries.
One of the roles it’s looking to fill is “head of the security and civil cohesion unit“. Wait, what? Why does “security” go with “civil cohesion”?
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So what if the Labour candidates went to Oxbridge?
There seems to be a fair amount of grumpiness and sarcasm going on around the Labour party leadership election.
Much of this is for sensible reasons (broadly “the only one of the candidates who isn’t a dull clone has no experience of managing anything ever, and David Miliband is a war criminal”).
However, there’s also a fair amount that’s come for the stupidest reason possible: “they all went to Oxbridge, so they aren’t representative”.
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