May’s Year in Numbers
Theresa May’s YouGov positivity rating has gone from just less than zero to minus 50 in the last 12 months. Last year IPSOS Mori gave her an impressive plus 35 net approval rating, she has swung 42...
View ArticleLabour Mayor Accused of Running Over OAP
Labour mayor of Middlesbrough Dave Budd has been accused of “running over” an old age pensioner in a row over a complaint about a cracked pavement. Great-grandfather Patrick McGill, 68, is said to...
View ArticleGun-Wielding RMT Union Boss Backs “Militants” to Take Out Blairite “C***s”
Readers will remember RMT union boss Steve Hedley, a Corbynista who ignored the kinder, gentler mantra to call fellow Labour members “careerist little sh*ts” and “right wing traitors”. Hedley had to...
View ArticleAbandoning Austerity Wouldn’t Increase Wages
Boris, Jeremy Hunt, Justine Greening and other MPs flirting with Torbynism should read today’s Centre for Policy Studies report ‘Abandoning Austerity is No Solution‘. Ireland’s significantly larger...
View ArticleMP Demands Ban on Anonymous Twitter Accounts
Last night’s Westminster Hall debate on abuse and intimidation during the election saw MPs tell horror stories from the campaign. The majority aired legitimate concerns about having to deal with angry...
View ArticleConstituent’s Open Letter to “Misogynist” Labour MP
Last month Guido reported how new Labour MP Jared O’Mara had been accused of calling a woman an “ugly b*tch” at a nightclub before he got elected. An unfortunate revelation given O’Mara’s previous...
View ArticleByline Fined For Defamation in First Impress Ruling
Try not to laugh too hard. The Leveson-compliant press regulator Impress has made its first adjudication, ruling against Byline Media, one of its most vocal defenders. Byline, the conspiracy theory...
View ArticleA-law-ha! Attorney General Holds ‘Summer Beach Party’
They’re cracking out the grass skirts and coconut bikini tops at the Attorney General’s Office: an email invite has gone round inviting staff to a “Hawaiian themed end of term beach party“. The joint...
View ArticleDon’t They Know Who She Is? Thornberry Turned Away From Speccie Party
To Old Queen Street last night for the Speccie party, the political society event of the summer. A full turnout of Tory players from the PM, Boris and Davis to their many, many ambitious, younger...
View ArticleCorbyn Clueless on Single Market and Customs Union
Corbyn has refused to say whether Labour is in favour or not of remaining in the single market and customs union https://t.co/zmPNsxfc9j pic.twitter.com/enl4grQ1Il — ITV News (@itvnews) July 13, 2017...
View ArticleWelsh Politicians Spend Thousands Chartering Planes to Watch Football
Welsh government politicians, special advisers, private secretaries and press officers have billed the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds to fly around the world on more than 30 foreign junkets in...
View ArticleFriday Caption Contest (Great Shape Edition)
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View ArticleEd’s Balls on Single Market
I don’t know why @edballs and the Remain side keep trying to rewrite the history of the referendum, you lost, get over it pic.twitter.com/zBGWf98k0r — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) 14 July 2017 Ed...
View ArticleTimes Journalist Claims Brexit Will Put Up Price of Prostitutes
The Times has been running a series of tendentious and tenuous Brexit scaremongering stories. Now one of the paper’s journalists has gone so far as to claim that “it’s going to have a calamitous...
View ArticleSecurity Concerns Over Assange Lawyer’s Access
Seumas Milne’s relationship with Julian Assange’s lawyer has raised security concerns about the confidential intelligence briefings received by Jeremy Corbyn. As a member of the Privy Council, Labour...
View ArticleIt’s our job to expose hypocrites, liars and cheats in any way we can
First published in The Times, September 27, 2011 When I’m not writing high-minded articles, it is the tabloid-style political gossip blog that I edit that pays the bills. Just like newspaper tabloids...
View ArticleSaturday Seven Up
This week 205,290 visitors visited 685,016 times viewing 1,081,506 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were: “Seumas, I’m Not Sure This Is a Great Idea” Anne Marie Morris Suspended Tory MP...
View ArticleMcDonnell: Grenfell Was “Social Murder”
.@johnmcdonnellMP says he does not regret saying Grenfell tower victims were “murdered by political decisions” #marr pic.twitter.com/GJe0E3rVVq — The Andrew Marr Show (@MarrShow) July 16, 2017...
View ArticleMcDonnell Backtracks on Vow to Write Off Student Debt
.@johnmcdonnellMP says Corbyn’s £100bn election offer to write off student debt is just “an ambition” adding “it’s very difficult” #marr pic.twitter.com/yG4uvx5qZ0 — The Andrew Marr Show (@MarrShow)...
View ArticleHammond Blames Brexiteers For Briefing By Remainers
Chancellor blames briefings against him on hard Brexiteers: “Noise is generated by people not happy with agenda I’ve tried to advance” #marr pic.twitter.com/9vEQU1OX3G — The Andrew Marr Show...
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