Tag Archives: Ed Miliband

Exit Banana Boy and the Blairites, pursued by a dead sheep

November 15, 2010 – 11:36 am

A couple of posts ago, Thus urged anyone with a semblance of influence and common sense to choose Ed Miliband over elder brother Dave. Endorsements from Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell and ‘Lord’ Peter Mandelson confirmed what we’d been saying for some time – that Banana Boy was a puppet, determined to hold onto all the [...]

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What’s the difference between Mandelson and dogshit?

August 11, 2010 – 5:16 pm

You can get rid of dogshit. As I was picking up dog mess on Hampstead Heath recently – my own dog’s mess, I hasten to add – my thoughts naturally turned to ‘Lord’ Peter Mandelson and the current Labour Party leadership crisis. The image of this creature selling his interminable, self-serving, platitudinous and badly-written account [...]

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Climate change is too important to be left to politicians

November 26, 2008 – 6:24 pm

  Every now and again (actually most times) The Economist says something I wanted to say, better than I could. This week, the free market bible points out that posturing aside, the current UK government’s record on implementing effective climate change legislation leaves much to be desired. A new initiative, spearheaded by climate change Czar Adair [...]

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