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The body of a soldier from County Durham is due to be flown back home alongside two other British soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan.

Sapper Daryn Roy of 21 Engineer Regiment and Corporal Harvey Holmes of 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, died in explosions earlier this week. Lance Corporal Barry Buxton, also of 21 Engineer Regiment, died in a road accident.

The fatalities now number 284.

As the many of our troops deployed overseas have been denied their right to vote, we have this behaviour occurring. It angers me to think that anyone would give away their vote when so many struggled and even died for each and every one of us to have the right to vote. To give their vote to someone in another country should be illegal.

Frighteningly, the three main parties are declared warmakers. None considers invading Afghanistan is wrong even although history tells us differently. Even Nick Clegg supports the invasion of a 'failed state' provided there is the "right equipment the right resources." What does he mean by that? The military will never have the equipment they really need in the way the Americans do and as for resources, does he mean cannon fodder? I have no faith whatsoever in any political party which supports wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. These countries were of no danger to our home security yet, now they have been enacted, our security will be at risk for generations to come.

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Hootsmon Headlines

As Conan says "Imagine the disaster if the MSM had been against us."

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Well Done Pete

Pete Wishart has held my constituency of Perth and North Perthshire for the SNP with 39.61% The tories came second with 30.54% and labour trailed in third place with 16.41%. Well done Pete.

Congratulations also to Mike Weir who held Angus for the SNP with 39.57% of the vote. The tories achieved 30.82% and Labour 17.22%.

It's been an election like no other I can remember and still we have no idea who will hold the keys to No 10. One thing is certain, Gordon Brown won't move unless he's hauled out.

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Declaration Times of 2005 General Election

DECLARATION TIMES 2005 General Election

They can be found here.

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Election Night +++LIVE BLOG+++

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Relax and Enjoy Before the Long Night

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Good Old Gordon

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A Message for All Labour Voters

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Election Results - Live Blog

Owing to the success of the Leaders' Debates LiveBlog, I will be hosting an all-night one here from 10pm tonight. It will finish when the last Moderator drops from exhaustion, disappointment or the excesses of celebration.

Do join in anytime. You can dip in and out of it during the night and share your opinions with others.

As I've done previously, this is a joint LiveBlog collaboration with a host of super fellow bloggers:

All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdecombe, Tory Totty Online and myself.

Please do join us during the result programmes. I will be on Twitter on behalf of Perth and North Perthshire too so maybe a cup of full power may be required instead of my usual decaf!

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FMQs 5 May 2010

For a change I'm posting the BBC video of this week's FMQs. It was brought forward owing to polling day being tomorrow.

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Result Poll

GENERAL ELECTION RESULT POLL

Just for the next 36 hours I've placed an election result poll in the sidebar. It's a multiple choice poll so you can vote for more than one result.

Have fun!

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Education, Education, Education

Remember the calls of 'toff' and 'posh' issued by various labour politicians throughout the campaign and before? The following is a list of labour MPs who had the benefit of a private education. State schooling wasn't good enough for them it seems and many now send their own children to private schools.

Don't forget, labour are the party which insists those in private education are 'the privileged'.

• Ed Balls (Morley andOutwood)
• Hugh Bayley (City of York)
• Hilary Benn (Leeds Central)
• Bob Blizzard (Waveney)
• Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
• Stephen Byers (North Tyneside)
• Charles Clarke (Norwich South)
• Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
• Jim Cousins (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central)
• Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
• Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford)
• Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
• Natascha Engel (North EastDerbyshire)
• Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
• Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
• Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton)
• Paul Goggins (Wythenshaweand Sale East)
• Peter Hain (Neath)
• Patrick Hall (Bedford andKempston)
• Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
• Harriet Harman (Camberwelland Peckham)
• John Healey (Wentworth)
• Margaret Hodge (Barking)
• Geoff Hoon (Ashfield)
• Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley)
• Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
• Sally Keeble (Northampton North)
• Ruth Kelly (Bolton West)
• Jim Knight (South Dorset)
• Ivan Lewis (South Bury)
• Martin Linton (Battersea)
• Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
• Denis MacShane(Rotherham)
• Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
• Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley)
• John Mann (Bassetlaw)
• Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West)
• Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
• Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway)
• Michael Meacher (OldhamWest and Royton)
• Chris Mole (Ipswich)
• Julie Morgan (Cardiff North)
• Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West)
• Nick Palmer (Broxtowe)
• Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
• James Purnell (Stalybridgeand Hyde)
• Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich)
• Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
• Andrew Slaughter (Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush)
• John Spellar (Warley)
• Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West)
• Howard Stoate (Dartford)
• Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East)
• Mark Todd (SouthDerbyshire)
• Kitty Ussher (Burnley)
• Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
• Malcolm Wicks (CroydonNorth)
• Michael Wills (SwindonNorth)
• Rosie Winterton (DoncasterCentral)
• Shaun Woodward (St HelensSouth)

Thanks to Working Class Tory

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Election Special - Leaders Wives

Thanks to Gotty and Clever Pie (who plays the woman with the chicken)

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In the Interest of Fairness

In the interest of fairness let me introduce you to the Libdems campaign song.

The choir is perhaps the staff from libdem central office, the conductor is the Boy Wonder and the composer is unknown - or has left the country. Sensible person.

To my great relief the SNP haven't fallen for such a gimmick. Will it persuade more floating voters to vote libdem? Only if they're tone deaf.

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Where 'The Bell' Tolls

An innovative video from a Tory PPC.

Is this the future instead of endless tedious leaflets? It's certainly different.

Thanks to Dick Puddlecote

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All Stitched Up

David Cameron was frustrated yesterday to find his party is trailing in fourth place in Scotland. "Of course it is always frustrating when you are not always getting through," he said on only his second visit to Scotland during the campaign. Irritating Scots, refusing to listen to the next Prime Minister.

He won't be losing any sleep over us though because Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party MPs have indicated they will formally back hum if he protects the region from this year's public spending cuts. The move would cost up to £200 million.

The deal would give his party another 9 or 10 seats and according to current opinion polls, this would be enough for him to form a majority government.

During a visit to Northern Ireland yesterday David Cameron indicated he wished to give Northern Ireland politicians ministerial positions - and see the province play a key role in the 'mainstream politics' of the entire UK.

Ken Clarke opined: "In the end you can always do a deal with an Ulsterman, but it's not the way to run a modern, sophisticated society." Oh so true Mr Clarke.

So there we have it, it's all stitched up. I predict the Tories will get their majority, although it will be a very slim one.

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Postal Voting Must Cease

A few days ago I wrote about postal voting fraud so I'm not going to reiterate my opinion.

It has just been announced on BBC West Tonight that an investigation into postal voting irregularities covering Oldham, Greater Manchester, Rochdale and Preston have been initiated by Greater Manchester and Lancaster police.

Just in case some of you haven't seen the Express today a headline reads: 'Thousands affected by postal voting fiasco'.

The report suggests tens of thousands could lose their right to take part in the election after the system was thrown in chaos.

Having watched last night's episode of Dispatches, I now know we have international overseers brought here specifically to observer voting. Over the years the have said the UK system is more wide open to fraud than most.

Yet they will permit the corrupt practice of postal voting to continue (or not in the case of those who won't receive their papers in time).

Meantime, a journalist investigating postal vote fraud is beaten up in London.

That's British democracy for you.

Fitaloon has his take on the subject.

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Erasing David

The recent release of the film 'Erasing David' caused quite a bit of interest in the entertainment world.

The story is about a man who decides to 'vanish' in today's surveillance society and is being shown on More4 tonight at 10.00pm. More4 is on Freeview channel 14 and Sky channel 138.

One to record methinks. Could be useful in the early hours of Friday morning.

Thanks to microdave for the reminder.

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No Words Could Say It Better

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If you would like to read an analysis of the cartoon message there is a good one here.

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Not for the Faint Hearted

The soon-to-be-ex Prime Minister and his minder made an appearance on ITV's GMTV this morning. I didn't see it but heard about it on radio. Brace yourself for the luv-in.

He's still pedaling the lie that child credits will be removed by the other parties. Not one word about the debt we owe and that labour isn't going to start paying it off until next year, leaving us paying a massive amount in interest.

Seeing the man who wants to continue governing this country clinging onto his wife on daytime television and insisting he's the only person who can save us is embarrassing to say the least.

Listen to his reply about would he stand down if he didn't win: "If I couldn't make difference anymore I'd go off and do something else. Sarah and I might do charity voluntary work. I don't want to do business or anything like that. I just want to do something good and if you can't make a difference in the job you're doing, just my very thought, thought of what... is to go and do something else to help other people."

Gordon Brown knows he's finished. This interview is the start of the Browns' double act as charity workers. There will be a lot more to come in the future - be warned.

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None Deserves My Vote

We've had the 270 minute talent contest which told me nothing. We've had wall to wall media coverage of the election campaign during which I learned a little. The pre-arranged 'walks to meet the people' with supporters bussed in to surround their hero with screams of adoration. The wives supplementing their husbands' physical attractiveness has encouraged millions of words of type from journalists.

Yet none deserves my vote. I'm part of the generation politicians take for granted. The over 60s. We've been written off in this campaign. Perhaps it's because we're not pretty anymore and therefore unsuitable for photo shoots or is it because we're not so quickly enthralled by a pretty face and vacuous words?

All I've heard about is our population is ageing which unspokenly infers we're a liability to society. Then there is the argument in England about caring for those of us who are unfortunate enough to suffer poor health in their older years. Another liability.

Plenty talk of the young, the need to improve education, jobs for the young (or lack of them) for the young, the child credits, the money given to parents on the birth of their first child - the list goes on.

If our politicians led by example and showed respect for the older generations in society then some of the problems with youths may be resolved. Youths can be taught to respect their elders if their elders feel they can interact with them but we're not encouraged to do so. Families are so fragmented there is no longer a generation chain in many cases so good habits are not passed down.

Never mind though, once my generation is dead and gone the NWO's social engineering plan will be complete. Everyone will have some form of reliance upon the state, be it Westminster or the EU. The pride my generation has in its ability to think independently and act in a similar manner will be no longer.

None deserves my vote although one will get it and I can only hope I'll be a liability for some years to come. It seems I'm not alone. There are older voters with a similar opinion out there.

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Scotland's Latest Quango

Do you know about Scotland Excel? Its vision is: 'to be recognised, respected and trusted by local authorities and suppliers as the leading procurement organisation in Scotland'. It was created on 1 April 2008 as a non-profit-making organisation funded mainly by participating local authorities. Renfrewshire council is the lead authority for Scotland Excel.

I did not realise we had such an organisation in Scotland but I can understand having an umbrella structure to collate purchasing requirements for councils. This ought to save bundles of money because councils would not require the considerable staff they carry for the job.

So far so good.

Another question - have you ever heard of a country which tenders another country for the supply of of its school and library books?

A furious row has developed over moves, by Scotland Excel, which could see that occurring. The move would take £40m out of the Scottish economy over the next two years and seriously damage businesses in Scotland.

High Andrew, managing director of Birlinn Publishing in Edinburgh, is urging the industry to lobby the Government. He wants the SNP to intervene to prevent changes from the present system, whereby schools and libraries can purchase from local businesses, to being forced to buy from major suppliers.

He said: "The size of the contracts means there are only two realistic bidders, both are in England. Suppliers who win the contracts will be awarded a monopoly and could then turn on publishers to massively enhance the discounts they receive from them.

"This substantially affects our ability to operate successfully.

"The effects on the struggling independent bookshop sector will be substantial and negative."

Several local authorities are set to start receiving books through the process from August with others joining when current supply contracts end. Only four councils are not members of Scotland Excel, but are expected to join.

Robin Harper MSP, who was alerted by a librarian constituent, says it is "horrendous". He intends to put down a motion in the Scottish Parliament this week slamming the situation.

A Scottish government spokesman said: "This is a matter for Scotland Excel."

It is not a matter for Scotland Excel if there is such a serious dispute which cannot be resolved between the two parties concerned. It is a matter for government. Alex Salmond says he wants to discuss growing the economy. Is giving away £40m going to help with economic growth?

Whoever in Scotland Excel had the bright idea of changing the purchasing rules to the degree that no Scottish business was able to tender, should return to school and learn about economics. To deduct £40m from the economy to make a few millions in savings is nonsensical.

Many small bookshops survive only because their owners love books and want to share that with others, such as myself. Few, if any, make a living which could in any way be called luxurious. For some, without the stability of supplying local schools and libraries, their businesses will no longer be viable.

I will be keeping a close watch on the response to Mr Harper's motion.

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Take Your Pick

Veterinary Nursing and Life - Fire!

Mark Wadsworth - More VAT Fun

Cold Steel Rain - Remember the Fallen

The Cynical Tendency - Social Mobility

Not A Sheep - Where are the documents to do with Gordon Brown selling our gold reserves?

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For EU Sceptics

Thanks to Captain Ranty

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The Power of Purdah

Yesterday one of our soldiers was killed in Afghanistan - the first since 7 April, according to the Ministry of Defence. How many have been seriously injured since 7 April will not become clear for some time.

One of my friends asked if I thought there had been a ceasefire agreement with the Taliban. In the three months from 1 January to 7 April this year we lost 37 of our armed forces, yet from 8 April to date we have lost one soldier. It does make you wonder what has been going on under the cloak of purdah. But it also shows me that this war is nothing to do with security and everything to do with politics. Anyone who has ever doubted that government does not control our armed services and the military top brasses are in charge, must surely realise the truth.

Since the election was called reporting restrictions were put on all government department websites, including the MoD. Finding any information online has been virtually impossible which shows just how effective purdah has been, particularly concerning the war in Afghanistan. Is purdah relevant for a country at war? I think not.

The word itself is problematic, having old colonial overtones and relating to the controversial practice of women concealing their bodies with veils. A few years ago the Welsh assembly outlawed the term in favour of the less exotic 'pre-election period'.

During this campaign the responses from the three 'main' parties to questions about this war have been patronising to say the very least. Gordon Brown hasn't mentioned the fact that British troops could be the last to leave Afghanistan. None has mentioned a troop withdrawal timetable, with the exception of Alex Salmond in the Scotland debate yesterday. The soundbite of, "We shall stay until the job's done," echoes from John o' Groats to Lands End, but no one explains the job in detail, because they know the public are fully aware once troops are withdrawn from the country it will quickly revert to its natural power base.

Unfortunately, none of the parties has been questioned about the pension freeze for military veterans, who the government insist upon treating as ordinary civil servants. I say unfortunately because if the public were more aware of this treatment of our veterans, then they may realise Gordon Brown is certainly not doing everything possibly for our armed forces. I would much rather see my tax going to our war veterans than going overseas to countries like China and India to help them with their carbon emission projects.

NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan said recently that the foreign forces in Afghanistan could face another four years of hard combat. Mark Sedwell, a former UK ambassador to Afghanistan, also said that NATO and British soldiers could be expected to stay in Afghanistan for at least another decade.

Come next Friday reporting restrictions will be lifted. Will the 'new' government be more open and transparent with us about this war? No. They too will treat us as fools.

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The BBC and Its Climate Change Interests

Earlier today I wrote about climate change and in the past week the BBC has been much discussed in the Scottish (and English) blogosphere, mainly because of the SNP's attempt to show the BBC bias given to London based political parties.

It's seldom I promote individual blog posts, but my attention was grabbed today by fellow blogger Anna Raccoon, who has been honing her detective skills once again. Her post makes essential reading for those of us who pay a TV licence fee. For those who don't - then read it and gloat.

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Afghanistan

It was announced today by the MoD that one of our soldiers has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

He was with the 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, serving with 40 Commando Royal Marines Battle Group and was killed this morning.

He was providing protection to his fellow soldiers who were returning from a patrol when tragically he was killed in an explosion near PB Waterloo, in Sangin, Helmand Province. The death toll is now 282.

Another tragic and unnecessary death. My thoughts are with his family and friends.

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LibDem Policies At A Glance

With thanks to Fitaloon

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From A La Mode to Outmode in Six Months

Although I've been listening and watching reasonably carefully to election news I have yet to hear the words 'climate change' or 'global warming' pass the lips of any of the three men the media are insisting should be the next prime minister.

It's only six months since hundreds of believers poured over the North Sea to Copenhagen with the intention of ensuring the world's politicians signed up to the great carbon offset scam. They believed the evidence put before them.

Some will say climate change belongs to the Green party and they haven't had a national platform. I would disagree. Climate change is not only promoted by the Greens but by all political parties. All have promised to spend millions, maybe billions, of our money on climate change 'projects'.

As I've said before I agree with some of the Green party's policies; some are plain common sense but there are too many people who are sceptical of the claims of the massive climate change lobby and yet, during this election, the subject hasn't been mentioned.

Is the complete blackout on the subject of climate change because people may begin to investigate the carbon credits scam more thoroughly and realise how foolish we are to believe it?

It would certainly seem the three begging for the keys to No 10 have come to an agreement not to mention it at all. Rest assured, once Thursday is over, the subject will rear its head with voracity. Our political masters must keep that 'special relationship' with the Al Gores of this world.

By coincidence EUReferendum has a post related to carbon credits.

It is reported elsewhere that Germany, Australia and the US have shelved their plans for signing any agreements for the time being.

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To Help You Decide

Courtesy of David Forward who may remember next time we have a minority SNP government here in Scotland. I'll forgive him though but only because he can make me smile on bad hair days.

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A Few Facts About Gordon Brown

Sent to me by a person who was a life-long labour voter but says he will never vote labour again:

A few interesting facts about Gordon Brown

We used to have 6 independent regulators to regulate the different divisions of the financial services industry, including our Banks.
(Margaret Thatcher knew what the Banks were like and in the 1988 Finance Act she bound the Banks up in regulation to prevent them from being reckless!!!)

Then Gordon Brown became Chancellor on 6th May 1997

1. Gordon's banker friends said "We want all these regulators to go, we don't want regulators watching everything we do" AND GORDON SAID OK

So, Gordon announced on the 20th May 1997 (2 weeks after becoming Chancellor) that the six regulatory bodies would be broken up and a new Financial Services Authority would replace them. The FSA had virtually no powers over the Banks and he also took away the powers from the Bank of England to enforce regulation on them. The result is the devastation we are all suffering today.

2. We used to have a Monopolies and Mergers Commission

Then Gordon's banker friends said we don't want the Monopolies and Mergers commission telling us who we can and can't "Take Over" AND GORDON SAID OK

So, in 1998 Gordon scrapped the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and created a replacement called the Competition Commission, with very much reduced powers and different ideas of what used to be regarded as a "Monopoly".

The result is the Massive Corporations we have today who are ruling and shaping our lives for their own benefit and profits. Not to mention the massive Monopolies held by some of these corporations through the forced purchases of all their competitors.

3. We used to have pension regulations, which included something called "The Pensions Cap".

The pensions cap set a limit on how much pension any scheme member (including directors) could get from an occupational pension scheme, irrespective of how high their earnings were. It was there to protect the ordinary members pensions. To prevent Directors paying themselves obscene salaries and then draining the pension funds with huge pensions.

Then Gordon Brown's banker friends said that they wanted the pensions cap removing so that they could get pensions related to their obscene earnings.
(The whole Pensions industry gave him warnings of the effects it would have. Even the Inland Revenue put forward objections) BUT GORDON SAID OK
Because Gordon never likes to disappoint his banker friends.

So Gordon took away the Pensions Cap in 2005 and then some of his friends were able to leave their boardroom positions with huge pensions!!!
For example Fred Goodwin was apparently entitled to a pension of over £700,000
If Gordon had left the pensions cap in place that would have been a mere £125,000
Well done Fred and your mates!!!

(The Superannuations Division of the Inland Revenue have kept a record of what it should be, in readiness for when we get a new chancellor who sees fit to re-instate it. George Osborne has pledged to do that). The record of Pensions Cap limits are available to view on the Revenue's website.

4. The result of this is that along with Gordon's "Tax Raid" on pension funds starting July 1997, over four thousand UK company pension scheme's have closed their doors to new members and many of them have had to close down altogether, leaving millions of workers without any pension provision. This man Gordon Brown "professes to be a socialist and "for" the working man.

The working man's main form of long term financial security had for many years been his company pension scheme, something to look forward to at the end of a life of hard work, his reward, light at the end of a long dark tunnel. Gordon has put an end to that by destroying the most valuable asset of the average British worker.

5. It is one of the greatest travesties of justice that this man, who pretends to be 'for the working man' has in fact been his worst enemy for the last thirteen years and will leave a legacy that we will be clearing up for man years to come.

The real injustice is that it's all been done in areas which are totally out of sight to the general public and beyond the understanding of many.

GORDON RELIES ENTIRELY ON PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE TO GET AWAY WITH HIS INDISCRETIONS.

GORDON'S MOTTO: "DENY EVERYTHING AND ADMIT NOTHING" SEEMS TO WORK QUITE WELL!

6. LASTLY, WHAT GORDON LIKES TO CALL THE "GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS"

Have you noticed that we were the first to be in it and are the last to be out (and whether we are out is very speculative!)

As he has openly admitted, The Royal Bank of Scotland was the world's biggest bank.
So when RBS and HBOS were about to go BUST in October 2008 and they had to be bailed out overnight so they did not take the entire country down with them, (that by the way was almost certainly a decision made by the hierarchy in Whitehall for which Gordon loves to take the credit).

As the world's leading banks now all lend money to each other on a collosal scale, isn't it obvious that the worlds biggest bank going down would have a devastating effect on all the others it dealt with. This "world's biggest bank" had also sold bad mortgage books to other banks.

Most of the Banks in Europe which ran into crisis were dragged into it because of the crooked dealings of our big banks. A fact that both Germany and France were quick to remind Gordon Brown of at the G20 emergency meeting shortly after the crisis.

There are many other of Gordon's indiscretions, far too many to list here, but perhaps the few biggies shown above will give some insight into how Gordon operates.

By the way have you noticed how he has suddenly become interested in Social Issues now an election is looming and seems to be able to promise the world when, as Alistair Darling put it a few days ago, there is not a penny left in the bank!!!

Think very carefully before casting your vote for this man who is probably the most extreme capitalist of the past century while pretending to be "for the working man".

GORDON WORSHIPS THE SUPER RICH AND POWERFUL AND CANNOT SAY NO TO THEM.

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"I Fight Every Day for My Future"

Iain Dale's title on his blog, post showing this video, was 'Brown Shows His Inner Weakness (Again).

As you can see mine is "I fight every day for my future"(1:11). That says it all to me.

Another party faithful meeting when labour remove a heckler from the room. For all his years in politics I would have thought Gordon Brown was capable of handling one single heckler, but alas no.

He sounds utterly desperate, but of course he is. For so long his desire was for the electorate to endorse his prime ministerial appointment. There's no doubt his support is slip-sliding away.

(I have removed the note that was here originally as Julian informed me that the information was incorrect).

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Thank You Very Very Much Mick O'Leary

Why did Mr O'Leary change his mind? One day he's refusing to pay compensation for more than the ticket value, then next day he'll pay it all. Surely the EU couldn't have been involved in his decision...



AT THE RYANAIR CHECK IN
I WAS STRANDED IN SPAIN
THE VOLCANIC ASH
HAD GROUNDED ME PLANE
AND RYANAIR SAID
WE’D BE WAITING A WEEK
I WAS IN SHOCK
I COULDN’T SPEAK
SO I HIRED A LIMO
AND SAID WHAT THE HELL
I WAS CHAUFFERED DIRECT
TO A FIVE STAR HOTEL
I CHECKED IN AND SWAMPED
DOWN CHAMPAGNE
SAID CHARGE IT TO RYANAIR
O’LEARY IS PAYIN
SO I SAY THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O’LEARY
THANKS FOR THE CHAMPAGNE AND CAVIAR
THANKS FOR THE MASSIVE FREE MINI BAR
MICK O’LEARY
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O ‘LEARY
POOR MICK WENT BANANAS
ALL OVER THE NEWS
YOU CAN NOT CHARGE RYANAIR
I FLATLY REFUSE
BUT HE CHANGED HIS TUNE
THE VERY NEXT DAY
HE SENT OUT HIS SPOKESMAN
TO SAY HE WOULD PAY
SO I SAY THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O’LEARY
THANKS FOR THE SLIPPERS AND DRESSING GOWN
THANKS FOR THE SERVICE TO TURN MY BED DOWN
MICK O’LEARY
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O ‘LEARY
HOTEL BILLS ARE FLOODING
TO RYANAIR
AND POOR OUL O’LEARY
IS PULLING HIS HAIR
HE WENT MAD WHEN HE SAW
THAT A CASTLEBAR GIRL
HAD RICE KRISPIES FOR BREAKFAST
AND CORN FLAKES AS WELL
SO I SAY THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O’LEARY
THE FANTASTIC ROOM SERVICE DESERVES A MENTION
AND THAT MASSAGE RELIEVED ALL MY TENSION

MICK O’LEARY
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O ‘LEARY

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No Smoke Without Fire

Baroness Ashton has been forced to deny rumours that she is poised to quit following widespread criticism of her performance as the EU's foreign affairs supremo.

Brussels sources said the Labour peer, appointed to the new £328,000-a-year job six months ago, was on the verge of resignation after opponents claimed she was not up to the job.

Some suggest Lord Mandelson, who long harboured ambitions for the job himself, has been spearheading a campaign to undermine her.

Surely the UK Business Secretary wouldn't behave so shabbily against one of his own? On the other hand, we all know that he enjoys forward planning. Where better than the arms of the EU to spend his senior years and accrue another few million to add to his already substantial pension pot.

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