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Continue reading →: A video to promote THAT petition
THE CROWN BLOGSPOT: Video – petition for Gordon Brown to resign. Kudos to The Crown Blogspot. Now please urge everyone you know to click on this link and arm David Cameron with the best PMQ question ever:
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Continue reading →: You had to be there.
You had to be there to grasp the scale of Margaret Thatcher's revolution – Telegraph Can that brave new dawn have really been almost thirty years ago? So much hope, followed by so much despair. Simon Heffer is a grumpy old so-and-so and annoys as often as he pleases, but…
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Continue reading →: 20,000 sign “resign!” petition
20,000 sign petition calling for resignation of Gordon Brown – Telegraph. It seems like Guido's prediction was on the money. I wonder if he does racing tips?
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Continue reading →: Analysis as the precursor of action
nourishing obscurity: [education destroyed] one of the root causes. The 1970's were an exciting time in politics, because they were a turning point. The academics at my university were just as left-wing as today, of course, but they were despondent. "Progressive" thought was in retreat. Labour had trashed the economy…
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Continue reading →: The mash-ups of others
Do check out the original film. As I have blogged before, it's brilliant. h/t Iain Dale
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Continue reading →: Is there nothing so sacred that this oaf and his spin doctors will not try to exploit it?
Gordon Brown on emotional trip to Auschwitz – Telegraph. Gordon Brown is a bad man. He is a machine politician, hardened in the cockpit of the Scottish Labour Party; characterised by an amoral lust for power and the adoption of any means necessary to gain it, regardless of the cost…
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Continue reading →: Carry on wrecking, Gordon
Petition to: carry on leading this great country of ours. | Number10.gov.uk. After all, there are 46 cretinous loyalists who want you to.
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Continue reading →: Power to the People
Shades of Grey » Power to the People. Ian Grey has the answer to my question about Earth Day power consumption in the UK. It's quite a technical answer, as is his wont, but the upshot is – the Brits ignored it too. How do the media justify giving so…
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Continue reading →: Even the Guardian is laughing at him
Downing Street website petition asks Gordon Brown to resign | Politics | guardian.co.uk. Apparently the Downing Street website crashed because so many people were logging on at once to sign the petition calling for the feartie Fifer’s resignation. If only a few tens of thousands are enough to crash it,…
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Continue reading →: Petition to: resign. | Number10.gov.uk
Petition to: resign. | Number10.gov.uk. The Number 10 Online petitions are generally a waste of time. However, wouldn't it be fun if more than a million voted for this one? Go on. Head over there. You know you want to…
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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