DEMOCRACY? WHAT DEMOCRACY?
The local election results are in. Nationally, the share of the vote is , according to the BBC , as follows:
Conservative - 38%
Labour - 23%
Liberal-Democrats - 28%
Others - 11%
The total Tory share was 38% and the total ANTI-TORY vote was 62%.
Given those figures how in the hell can the Tories, in a REAL democracy, win so many seats?
The average national turnout was less than 40% so the Tories only got 38% of that pitiful figure.
Published Date:
05/06/2009
Modified Date:
05/06/2009
DIDAR KUNDI - 10/10 FOR EFFORT
Didar Kundi - there's a name to conjure with. For quite a time he was a local Labour Councillor then,suddenly, things didn't go the way he expected and - lo and behold ! - Didar became a Conservative.
In the last local elections the Conservatives put him up as their candidate in Willes Ward. What happened ? Didar did an impression of a coconut at a fun fair and got knocked off.
Now Didar is standing as a Conservative in the by-election in Brunswick Ward. There really seems to be no stopping Didar's "keeness" to become a "somebody" again after throwing his toys out of the pram.
I can't wait to see his latest impression of a coconut on June 4th.
Published Date:
23/05/2009
Modified Date:
23/05/2009
DIDAR KUNDI - 10/10 FOR EFFORT
Didar Kundi - there's a name to conjure with. For quite a time he was a local Labour Councillor then,suddenly, things didn't go the way he expected and - lo and behold ! - Didar became a Conservative.
In the last local elections the Conservatives put him up as their candidate in Willes Ward. What happened ? Didar did an impression of a coconut at a fun fair and got knocked off.
Now Didar is standing as a Conservative in the by-election in Brunswick Ward. There really seems to be no stopping Didar's "keeness" to become a "somebody" again after throwing his toys out of the pram.
I can't wait to see his latest impression of a coconut on June 4th.
Published Date:
23/05/2009
Modified Date:
23/05/2009
BNP - Cynical Opportunism
I see the British National Party are fielding a candidate in Brunswick Ward - a Martin Smallwood who lives in Leek Wootton.
So concerned is Mr Smallwood about the concerns of the Brunswick residents that he is sacrificing the chance to stand in the Leek Wootton area (if there were an election there) to place himself at the service of Brunswick Ward.
But wait!
Another Martin Smallwood from the same address in Leek Wootton is standing in Warwick West Ward for the British Nazi (SORRY) National Party.
Obviously not the same Martin Smallwood who is so keen to represent Brunswick Ward ?
Surely members of the Master Race couldn't be such cynical opportunists ?
Surely they couldn't be that similar to the main political parties ?
Published Date:
23/05/2009
Modified Date:
23/05/2009
Full of it
I'm sick of hearing pathetic excuses from rich Conservative MPs about how justifiable their expenses were.
They're so full of sh.t they should be renamed lavaTories !
Published Date:
17/05/2009
Modified Date:
17/05/2009
"The Expenses System Is Rotten"
Isn't it strange how so many MPs have suddenly decided that the Expenses system is rotten and needs immediate change.
While so many of them were milking it for all it's worth they never said anything of the sort.
Only after they were found out did this miraculous conversion occur.
Published Date:
17/05/2009
Modified Date:
17/05/2009
Bank Holiday Madness
A friend went to Tesco in the Parade at 2 pm on Good Friday afternoon to get some bread.
All the crates were empty!!
Is there a war on? Is there about to be a bakers' strike? Is there a flour shortage?
No - it's the normal British Bank Holiday insanity.
I feel sorry for disabled and elderly people who are unable to get to the shop any earlier.
I feel angry about Tesco who,in their pursuit of profits don't appear to give a thought for their customers.
To them it's a case of "first come,first served" and to hell with those who, because of age or infirmity, are unable to sprint to the winning line in time.
Published Date:
10/04/2009
Modified Date:
10/04/2009
Sir Fred
The self-righteousness of politicians is sickening isn't it?
Fred Goodwin gets a pension of £650,000 a year after driving RBS into virtual bankruptcy and the Government are demanding legal action to get it stopped. When that looks unlikely to succeed they start talking about introducing an Act of Parliament to ensure that it can be done!
Gordon Brown,Harriet Harmen and the others all push their way to the microphone and the television cameras to condemn Fred's "greed".
Are these not the same Ministers in the same New Labour Government that proposed Fred Goodwin for a Knighthood in 2004? Was the Knighthood not awarded for "services to banking"?
Bloody hypocrites!
Published Date:
02/03/2009
Modified Date:
02/03/2009