Mind you, this is funny enough to be worth blogging. The TUC’s report into the drunken brawl at the ASLEF barbecue is out. “After about half an hour the general secretary physically removed the president from the decking on which the bar becue had taken place,” says the report. “The general secretary was in the…
Read More Official – ASLEF president hit woman, thumped gen secThe US Department of Agriculture is obviously in mourning for Ronald Reagan, as they have acquired a federal judge’s ruling that chips – in fact, chips in *batter* – may be considered a vegetable. It seems, sadly, that despite the Reagan nostalgia (when ketchup was officially a vegetable for school dinners) this only applies to…
Read More Chips are a vegetable17% of a 40% turnout equals a thick 6.8% of the electorate. Get real.
Read More That UKIP surge in fullHow much worse can it get? Seymour Hersh, who broke the torture scandal in the first place, has this to say(via Brad DeLong): “He said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said,…
Read More It only gets worse. Much worseTo my horror I see I was very, very wrong about the local elections, specifically the BNP contribution. Looks like I spoke too soon. Poor Bradford will have to put up with some four fascists. Worst of all, one of them was elected for Keighley West! This is a shocker, as back in the riot…
Read More When Voters AttackGuardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Election blow for Labour Still the horrors pour in. A good example of the rare case when Field Marshal Haig was wrong about “the situation never being as good or bad as first reports indicate”. The whipping is now up to 330 seats lost. Ouch! Pleasantly, though, it…
Read More Reports from a funeral. Not that oneOn my way to Big London yesterday, sitting in a slow train (and on South West Trains that’s really slow). About Hounslow way a school trip of girls was loaded into the carriage. Or should that be poured? I feared the worst and prepared to go into mindless tube mode, eyes blank, brain emptier, but…
Read More Popular creativityThis is the text of my resignation from the Labour Party, more than a year ago today. Alexander Harrowell (address here) 08/05/03 Party No. B045893 Dear General Secretary, One week ago I decided to destroy my Labour Party membership card and cancel my subscription. This letter is intended to be a formal statement of resignation,…
Read More TBI – Resigning from the partyWell, they’d been plotting it for a while, but now the mobilisation order has come through. Tony Blair is no longer a viable option. The Labour Party is now the third placed party in Britain. The people have spoken and they have comprehensively dished the myth that Blair is still an election winner. If we…
Read More The Big Intervention – Time for Blair to go!