Category Archives: Tories! Tories! Tories!
Nadine Dorries misleads Parliament about her relationship with Andy Rayment
Short and sweet, folks. This is the tangled web one weaves… Nadine Dorries in a statement to the Parliamentary Standards Committee on 15 October 2013: “My business partners, who have nothing to do with me personally-he is just a business … Continue reading
Changes
Hi everyone. I am sorry about the extended absences before and after Christmas. I’d like to begin today with a belated review of this very important book by Bob & Sue Firth: I Made My Excuses and Stayed (buy here) … Continue reading
Grant Shapps is invited to explain recently-deleted text by ‘Sebastian Fox’ of HowToCorp
We begin today with a hat-tip to data spotter @jolyonjenkins. I urge you to listen to his highly relevant report for BBC Radio 4; Jolyon has been looking into exactly the kind of ‘get rich quick’ spivvery that HowToCorp has … Continue reading
HowToCorp’s Michael Green & The 20/20 Challenge
I’ve just watched Michael Green Sebastian Fox Grant Shapps on #BBCQT and I find myself awe-struck by his chutzpa. I mean, I knew he’d have no choice but to lie to some extent, but to pretend that some irrelevant edits … Continue reading
Kelvin MacKenzie and the 1988 ‘Brighton: Town of Shame’ editorial
There is a major discussion pending about collusion between police/authorities and the tabloid element that brazenly exploits and corrupts them. I speak not just of Hillsborough but a variety of instances in recent times (example). However, today you will have … Continue reading
Grant Shapps is still a sock-puppeting loser
I blogged about Grant Shapps a few years ago. Back then, he sought to silence some serious questions about sock puppetry by claiming his YouTube account was hacked, and his final line in the sand was a claim that the … Continue reading
Barely-literate passive-aggressive bigot WLTM xenophobic mob. Object: acrimony
I found this letter (embedded below) pinned to the wall of a bus stop shelter in Shalford (Surrey, UK). Further examples have been posted to local community messageboards that are unmarked, suggesting that the ‘pikey’ changes are by someone who … Continue reading
To: Detective Chief Inspector Steve Vesztrocy, Bedfordshire Police
The following is the full and unedited text of an email sent to the named officer and the media department for Bedfordshire Police in response to their repeated failure/refusal to take action against false allegations made by the Conservative MP … Continue reading
Sir Douglas Morpeth & the corruption of Shamley Green Conservatives
In late 2006, two Conservative activists including an executive with a local fundraising group Guildford Conservatives sought to anonymously smear an opponent as a paedophile, and me as an unfit parent and an undesirable alien with commercial interests in pornography. … Continue reading
Ed Miliband, Nadine Dorries, and office burglary etiquette
There’s been rather a lot of fuss in recent days about an apparent break-in at Ed Miliband’s Commons offices. Police are investigating and speculation is rife. Personally, I think everybody should calm down and take a leaf out of the … Continue reading
