So what did I miss?
Dear readers,
I have returned from my extremely sunny holidays to find that, somewhat to my dismay, that Britain still does not have sunny weather in November. Thankfully, I was glad to see that my ten predictions for things that probably wouldn’t happen while I was away all passed with flying colours. Having flicked through a few websites, I have also attempted to summarise the week’s news that I missed thus:
1. David Cameron dodged the bullet over his predictable retreat on the Lisbon Treaty referendum.
2. Some nutter in an American army base sprayed bullets at his fellow soldiers.
Anything else I should know about?
Witanagemot Blogs
This was quite interesting. Surely another clear case of gerrymandering for Labour to answer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226031/EXPOSED-How-Labour-depends-votes-Welfare-Britain.html
I always wonder how they get away with it, especially after the case in Westminster Council where there was a charge of £27M placed against the council leader for selling council houses to ‘potential tory voters’, ie anyone who owns a house. Surely this is the same thing, paying benefit to potential Labour voters, i.e. people who don’t work and sponge off everyone else!
There were also some interesting stories earlier in the week about Labour’s links to the Communist party and the Russians in the 80’s, involving Hewitt and Clarke, and ultimately the whole NuLab project.
They may get a big surprise – are these people likely to bother to vote at all?
Cameron didn’t really dodge the bullet, its arrival has just been delayed until after the election.
The nutter was a member of the religion of peace and there’s a concerted effort to make him out to be the victim and or disassociate him from said religion.
Labours still in a mess, the Lib Dems are still anonymous and the country’s still going to the dogs.
Oh and an Englishman is world heavyweight boxing champ.
Gordon Brown further diminished the office of Prime Minister by getting into a spat with Loius Walsh on X Factor last night. Very dignified…
You’re not anticipating the Benefits Recipient Duty To Vote (Citizenship) Act then? Which will be further helped by placing polling stations inside Job Centres and making *everyone* sign on during a Thursday morning….
Nah, not much.
The postmen decided not to strike until after Christmas when no one will care.
The Teurosceptics decided not to strike until after the election when no one will care.
The government dithered as long as it could about taxing finance, then picked the option that no one agreed with. The G20 agreed to postpone the decision until after the recovery when no one will care.
Alan Johnson did damage to his chances of becoming PM until after the election when no one will care. Mind you they didn’t care before.
Oh, we collectively bought another chunk of RBS.
The Banks printed another 25 Billion of monopoloy money.
Cameron saying that if the Treaty hadn’t been ratified by the time he came to power he would have a referendum got twisted by every single media outlet into ‘Cameron bottles out of referendum’.
Not a lot really, business as usual.
Gordon Brown suggested a new tax on financial transactions to the G20 meeting. His suggestion was met with a universal raspberry. Alexei Kudrin, the Russian Finance Minister, said, “I am a sceptic on such taxes. Gordon Brown is known for always raising taxes.” You see, he is internationally famous for it.
“after the election”? I think the bullet will arrive during it.
He hasn’t dodged it. Check my place. Things are moving.