The Daley spin (revisited)

It seems this time around Iain Dale has managed to spin himself out of control…
Guido claimed in yesterday’s BBC Daily Politics show that he had evidence that Damian McBride had given the line to Derek Draper on how to trash Dale on the Carol Thatcher golliwog remarks (though Guido promised to put the evidence up on his site [...]

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The Daley spin

Sometimes I just don’t know if Iain Dale simply loves spinning or he writes the most outrageous posts just to fill in his blog more than once everyday…
Either way have a look at his post yesterday:
‘Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington’ – President Obama, 21 January 2009 
Can you imagine Gordon Brown saying anything similar? No, thought [...]

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I don’t like you but I need you: Cameron’s reshuffle revisited

Not did they just run against each other for the Tory leadership in 2005 and disagree on Europe, VAT cuts and their approach to the economic crisis, Cameron’s new found pal, Kenneth ‘big beast’ Clarke, was also responsible for the firing of the current Tory leader in 1993 from his post as special advisor to [...]

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Heathrow’s expansion: some thoughts

As the expansion is given the green light by the DfT I cannot but amaze myself at the colourful coalition of people opposing it: John McDonnell, Boris Johnson, Emma Thompson, Zac Goldsmith…. So I thought that Forgesian Thinking should also add its two pence to the debate. So here we go…
I am supportive on the [...]

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Campaigners buy land where Heatrow’s third runway was to be built

A coalition of green activists has bought the piece of land that was to be the site where the third Heathrow runway was to be built. Oscar winner Emma Thompson, new Tory posterboy Zac Goldsmith and NGOs such as Greenpeace have teamed up to buy the land before the government gave the project the green [...]

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A clear choice…

My friend Liliane has received today this email from Labour HQ,
Dear Liliane
I’m sure you’ve already seen reports about our employment summit on the news today and I wanted to contact you directly about the unprecedented challenges that this summit is helping to address.
Let’s be clear – we are facing the first crisis of the global [...]

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The tables have turned

I just watched Paxman interviewing Tony McNulty and Alan Duncan on the economic crisis and it’s curious how the tables have turned in British politics since 1997. In 1987 and 1992 Labour lost two general election mainly on the electorate not trusting them with the economy. Tax and spending was the Tories’ electoral forte for [...]

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Osborne is feeling the heat

George Osborne must be cursing the day he chose Corfu as his holiday destination last summer. Everything was great for the shadow chancellor before that, but then he got himself entangled in a very silly but also very damaging political situation.
The Osborne-Deripaska affair became the first nail in the coffin. Boy George thought he could [...]

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Cameron’s tax credit is a total shambles

With ideas like this one understands why they are reluctant to put more policy substance out there…it would just be embarrassing.
The argument against brilliantly put by Hopi and Chris here and here.
Enjoy!

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Boris’ transport nonsense

The most worrying thing about having Boris as mayor isn’t that he´s pretty much inactive, going around the city giving vacuous speeches, being embarrasing in Beijing and managing to lose two deputy mayors in as many months. Crime is on the up and so far Boris’ only decision on that area is to sack Sir [...]

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