PMQs on 3 June 2020
In PMQs today, Reckless Boris (RB) was in defensive mood, despatching Starmer’s attacks with consummate ease. The PM – king of winging it – knew what was coming because Starmer’s [...]
Blairism and Borism
Saddo political anorak that I am, on what was a yet another gorgeous day (has the weather ever been better?), I cantered through – in awe – A Journey by [...]
Action
I’m a relatively new member of the Liberal Democrats. I was a Tory at school, because my parents were Tories. University broadened my mind: as Jordan Peterson states, conservatism is [...]
“Oven-ready” Fit-for-Covid Household Analogy
For as long as I can remember the Tories have argued, to huge effect, that a country’s economy is akin to a household budget. Simple, understandable, brilliant. Also, untrue. The [...]
Our Duty to Pummel Reckless Boris (RB) now
Our death toll is so extraordinarily high (now over 40,000) because we had ten years of needless austerity, coupled with the least suited candidate for PM in memory. Had the [...]
You must be kidding, right?
With the UK set to have the highest death rate in Europe – currently we have the third highest death rate in the world – any sane, dispassionate, thinking person [...]
The Government of National Blame
Regular readers to this blog may have spotted my prediction on 4 April here that Operation “Nail Starmer” had begun. I foresaw that Starmer would be invited into the General’s [...]
Show Me The Money: The CBIL Disaster
This week I was featured in The Yorkshire Post with an opinion piece on the CBIL Loan Scheme. It was featured online and also in the paper. Read the full [...]
99-year old Tom Moore shouldn’t have needed to do that
Today, legendary Captain Tom Moore opened – virtually – the new nightingale hospital in my hometown of Harrogate. By walking, very slowly, 100 times around his garden, Captain Tom has [...]
What is work? Enter: Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Before this crisis, most of us had some sort of work to perform. You might be thinking: what about the retired and the super-rich – surely, they didn’t perform any [...]
