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Now for something completely different
- 2 Nov 2024
The Tory party has always been a broad church, but until today the puritans snake handlers and fake miracle workers have been running a freak show. Now it’s time for something different. And you won’t get more different than Kemi Badenoch. Feisty, principled, authentic and d...
What is the point of reporting a crime if it takes 4 to 6 years to get to court & there might be nobody to prosecute or defend?
- 19 Oct 2024
All credit to the Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, in refusing to accept 20% cuts to the MOJ’s budget. Whether she will succeed is another matter. There will be a time when she will realise that her department is a dysfunctional mess and that she will have to get grip. It wi...
If the Tories think that an old fraud like Jenrick is the answer it must have been a bloody stupid question
- 12 Oct 2024
The two phrases that are hilariously linked to the Conservative Party which desperately need revision are, ‘our secret weapon is loyalty’ and that backbenchers are the ‘most sophisticated electorate in the world’. There is nothing new about the not so subtle, duplicitous cleve...
It’s time the Tories woke up & smelt the fuckoffee
- 6 Oct 2024
It really is time for the Tory party to wake up and smell the fuckoffee. The public didn’t care if you were replaced with baby eating Satanists provided you were thrown out of office, publicly whipped, humiliated & thrown into the dark recesses of hell, never to return. Th...
Government is about tough choices, but to carelessly throw aside the plight of pensioners for political point scoring is wicked. Starmer has become a political calculating machine devoid of emotional intelligence. Labour will win tomorrow but it will be a defining moment
- 9 Sep 2024
I can understand why Starmer is desperate to show fiscal responsibility by being tough. I can appreciate that in politics it is a tactic for the new regime to pin the blame on an outgoing and discredited government for every painful decision that has to be made. It’s politics....
Time to send Braverman & Jenrick off to Rwanda on a one way ticket.
- 17 Aug 2023
It’s that exciting time of the year when the nation holds its breath for the reshuffle. The time when the Prime Minister refreshes his government and presents his winning team to the party conference. Well, that’s what party managers spin to a press that is desperate for stori...
The real loser of the Uxbridge by election was Johnson. He would have won it with catastrophic fall out for Sunak. But his cowardice has relegated him to loser status. He will hate that
- 23 Jul 2023
The one lesson that I have learned in decades of politics is that people do not vote for parties who are divided. It is a mantra adopted by Sunak & by Starmer. And it is good sense. The other blindingly obvious lesson from history is that government’s lose election...
Thursdays by elections will be a disaster but not a catastrophe. Sunak must hold his nerve
- 17 Jul 2023
I haven’t blogged for a while for two reasons. Like the majority of the criminal bar we spend most of our weekends preparing cases for Monday which we have usually just been parachuted into. And these tend to be back to back trials which are physically and mentally draining. ...
If this ghastly little shit had a political grave I would dance on it. Sunak must be tough & ruthless
- 10 Jun 2023
Just as the nation returns from counselling after the heartbreaking psychodrama of Phil and Holly our emotions are in turmoil over the resignation of St Boris Our Saviour. ‘Are you OK?’ you might ask me. Too bloody right I am. And if this ghastly little shit had a political gr...
Starmer gives the impression of running for cover rather than for office. ‘We are less shit than the Tories’ doesn’t lift the soul
- 30 Apr 2023
Let me predict what will happen at the local government elections on Thursday. The Conservatives. ‘Obviously this is a disappointing result for us and we want to thank all of our hardworking candidates for their hard work. Their seats are on loan. But it was not the wi...