Third day in a row on Boris’ bad behaviour. Just received the bi-monthly report from my good friend John Biggs, London Assembly Member for City and East. In it he reports more bad behaviour from Boris Johnson: “Another Boris Moment (or two) There have been no big problems with Mayoral Advisers, for a change, since [...]
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OR ANOTHER TITLE - VOTE LABOUR TO HONOUR PRINCE ANDREW’S BIRTHDAY? The Guardian’s London blogger Dave Hill has covered the Lewisham Downham by-election under the thread Labour, Lewisham and the BNP here, here and asked me some questions here. I had covered this campaign before and after the election. I am clear that Labour did not [...]
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Readers will remember that I blogged on the sexist Tory councillor in Nottingham who put up a calender with pictures of naked women in his council office. Well now I’ve just been told of THIS racist behaviour by Tory councillor Bob Allen in Bolton, who been using his blog (which is now nowhere to be seen) to put [...]
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Curious comment from Iain Dale on my post on Boris Johnson yesterday: “You clearly didn’t read the subsequent post which questioned whether the Conservative Party knew how to spell the word ‘opposition’.” I hadn’t – here it is: “It’s Spelled O-P-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N “So the Tories are backing the government’s plans for the Post Office and Jack [...]
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Good to see Keith Vaz MP calling for Rapelay to be banned following my previous posting. I qtotally agree as it still seems that it is being sold on Ebay. There are a lot of very offensive comments and opinions on this site which advises people how to buy from Ebay, so be aware when you click [...]
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Now you would have thought that after contacting his friend Damien Green and trying to clear him whilst there was a Metropolitan Police inquiry, that Boris Johnson would be paying more attention to doing his job as Mayor of Lonndon properly. Yet in his statement yesterday he deliberately avoids accurately describing the reports findings. Key [...]
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I read Andrew Copson’s obituary of Harold Blackham founder of the British Humanist Association with great interest. I was discussing it with a Liberal Democrat friend who gave me an inspirational insight into Harold’s commitment to trying to make the world a better place. In his retirement Harold lived on the side of a hill overlooking [...]
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06:14 Only 11 percent of MPs blog and less than 1 in 4 use social networking sites. Am I ahead of the game? # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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CZECHMATE TO GLENIS
Great post by new European Parliamentary Labour Party leader Glenis Willmott about Vaclav Klaus’ speech to the European Parliament. Glenis has vast energy and in addition to all her new duties as Leader she has launched a blog. I am pleased to see her allowing comments. Too many senior politicians can opt out of this. [...]
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