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Thursday, 25 March 2010
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Hypocritical Labour Hack Laments
Thomas Graham, a prominent Labour hack and President of Edinburgh University Students Association has been forced to grovel after a stunning drunken outburst, as reported here first on Sunday. Edinburgh newspaper The Journal has
caught up with the story
:
"Witnesses say he became aggressive and made some “inappropriate comments” towards door staff before being forcibly ejected.
“I have apologised for my behaviour to the staff involved in this regrettable incident. I accept full responsibility for my actions; clearly my behaviour was not acceptable. I will ensure that it does not happen again.” Vice President of Services James Wallace said: "I cannot comment specifically on this incident. But I have full confidence in the staff and security who did an exceptional job on Saturday night.""Ouch. Sadly no mention of the assault witnesses confirmed to TB though.
One thing that had to make TB laugh is just how hypocritical, in line with his true colours, Thomas Graham has been about all this.
Another story
from The Journal from September aes for an interesting read these days:"The head of EUSA has criticised the university's student Conservative association following the chairman's run-in with the police last week for drunken misconduct.President Thomas Graham told The Journal: “It is clear that the Conservative Club have not changed their attitude towards Scotland’s drink culture and have let the Students' Association down.”
Thomas Graham, President of EUSA, expressed his disappointment to The Journal, saying: “He is an individual student in a position of responsibility and we are very disappointed he has decided to act in this way. “We feel sorry for the Conservative Club who have to begin the year dealing with this. It is a great disappointment especially after the success of Edinburgh’s Fresher’s Week which had such an emphasis on non-alcohol related events.""Well worth a
read
. Those who laugh last...Labour Dodging Purcell Questions
Why is Murphy running away from difficult questions about sleaze in Glasgow? What does he know?
Guy News Budget Special
Not sure about the social media guru look, but we knocked this out in an hour:
Why not check out the Drinkers Alliance.
What's in the Budget?
Well as
ConHome
notes, pretty much the whole thing has been leaked:Darling to freeze income bands in 'stealth tax' -Telegraph
Darling is today expected to steal another flagship Tory policy by scrapping stamp duty on homes worth up to £250,000 -Daily Mail
"Drivers will be clobbered with a 1p increase on the price of a litre of unleaded or diesel next month. They will face a further hike of 1p in October and a final 0.76p by the end of the year." -The Sun
Nuclear and wind power will be at heart of Alistair Darling’s Budget -Times
There will be "new bank taxes" -FT
The Budget will involve a new legal obligation for banks and building societies to offer a basic bank account -FT
"Drinkers will be clobbered with a 10 per cent hike in the cost of cider. All other alcoholic drinks will go up by two per cent. Smokers will be hit by a one per cent rise in the cost of a packet of cigarettes and tobacco." -The Sun
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
What Did Gordon Know and When?
Steven Purcell
as the candidate in the Glasgow East by-election in 2008. As the Screws reported
a 'Labour insider' claimed:"At that point, rumours about Steven had reached the party headquarters. So a discussion was had with him - and he was asked outright about the drug rumours. And after that, any idea of him being the candidate was ABANDONED immediately."Robertson asked:
AR: "Given that the Prime Minister will have looked closely at the tragic case. Will he confirm whether a Downing Street staffer took part in a conference in July 2008 which discussed the suitability of Stephen Purcell?
GB: I know nothing of what he says but I shall look at it.Always one for a dodging a question, what was Gordon so coy about? Why so subdued? Surely this was a great chance to attack the SNP for appalling smears, as they are so often, and tell them to put up or shut up. TB understands that at the post-PMQ briefing afterwards Scottish journalists were palmed off with: “There are more important questions”. For once someone doing the briefing was correct. There are some very interesting questions still surrounding this case indeed.
Could it be that Brown knows more than he is letting on? The story of Steven Purcell's resignation has led to a constant drip drip about just what was going on at Glasgow City Council and its relationship with big donors to the Labour party. The Scottish Sunday papers are having a field ay about big Labour donors and lucrative public sector contracts. Million pound
deals
, quango donors
and Purcell linked
to shady companies. And it goes further than that - blackmail and organised crime
.What TB can't understand is why the caledonian editors are so reluctant to get down and dirty and blow the lid of this story once and for all. It's not like they
didn't know
: "Politicians, journalists and lawyers alike, apparently, had direct or indirect knowledge for years about the personal habits of the leader of Glasgow City Council and chose to ignore it." Great.
Club 29
in Glasgow.Such links between the Scottish Labour party and the mob have been raising eyebrows for the
last few years
. Like the Red Rose Dinner attended by Labour First Minister Jack McConnell and John Reid. It was also attended by a drug dealer by the name of Justin McAlroy who ended up dead six days later. James Mortimer also attended that dinner.His father, Tommy McAlroy, who is a close friend of Labour whip Frank Roy, has also been
implicated
in drug baroncy. And it’s also not the first time John Reid – a former Home Secretary for goodness sake – has had family connections reported that raise eyebrows
- his father in law was arrested in a drugs bust.So you might be getting an idea why Gordon Brown was not exactly keen on drawing attention to the UK media about a story which has him and numerous senior Labour leaders wining and dining with people who have some seriously dodgy connections and backgrounds. If its full implications broke before the sixth of May it may not just destroy Scottish Labour but bring down Brown.
But there are three important questions that still remain unanswered over two weeks after these events broke. So TB will have to ask them publicly in order that the media in London do what Glasgow news editors have been too afraid to do.
1. Who is paying for Steven Purcell's bills? Public relations, top media lawyers, stays in rehab clinics and lengthy trips abroad cost money and Steven is now unemployed - his whereabouts still unknown. Most of his money went up his nose so how is he paying his way. Why did he turn down the help the council's media officers offered?
2. Under Steven Purcell's leadership of Glasgow City Council what deals have the council,
City Building LLP
and any other arms length organisations set up by the council done - particularly with major Labour donors like James Mortimer, Brian Dempsey and Willie Haughey?3. Who was sitting at the top table with Gordon Brown and Steven Purcell at the Labour party fundraiser the night before Steven Purcell's announcement to his colleagues and did anything happen at the dinner to hasten his departure from the council?
Dig dig dig.
Monday, 22 March 2010
2,000 Speak Out Against Byers
The Sunlight Centre have had 2,000 people sign their petition since this morning:
We believe, in light of these revelations that his membership of the Queen's advisory body, the Privy Council, is wholly and utterly inappropriate.
We, the undersigned, call on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to strip Stephen Byers MP of his membership of the Privy Council due to his involvement in offering to sell access to the British Government for personal profit.
SIGN
Bun Fight!
Beware of geeks. There is always some teccy out there who doesn't like you. The lefties, on realising they couldn't actually discredit the tory Crash-Gordon site, decided to attack in and divert the address to the Labour Party website instead. All very mature.
The problem with the supposed "e-election" is that bun fights and attacks like this are going to become the norm. TB would love to have seen the incandescent rage that would have spilled across the world had a tory activist hacked the "Save our Sure Start" campaign or the like. Nothing like a bit of double standards though.
Not one voter will have changed their minds about this attack. Cash Gordon was an effective way at branching out to eleven million Facebook users. The jealous left, who can barely afford to run this general election campaign throw a tantrum. Thirty odd lefties have had a field day... welcome to the online campaign!
It's going to be a long six weeks.
Labour Planted Story Falls Flat
The hysterical lefties have finally found a way of attacking the Tories
Crash-Gordon
site. After a weekend of jealous silence, finally Political Scrapbook
has a err, neatly packaged, story claiming that because the people that built the site for CCHQ have worked for some right-wingers in the states then the whole project can be instantly poo-pooed. Does he really want to go down this ridiculous line of attack? 
No didn't think so.
UPDATE: Like with so many tech stories, Dizzy has the
last word.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Another Labour President in Drunken Nightclub Assault
Thomas Graham
is President of the Edinburgh University Student's Association. He is also a Labour Party pole climber and holds office in Labour Students. Hilariously with his recruiter hat on he once tried to get TB to join Unite. Like so many in careerists who would not be able to survive in the real world, Graham now has his eyes set on an role within the National Union of Students. His chances of election next month took a big hit last night though.Despite the fact Graham and his other sabbatical Vice-Presidents have just announced a restructuring of the students association model, with inevitable redundancies, nobody was expecting a tired and emotional President to start swinging the axe in the later part of Saturday night.
A paralytic Graham was escorted out of the student run Potterow venue last night by bouncers who found him behaving aggressively and very, very drunk. Instead of taking it on the chin and getting in a cab he decided to throw his weight around a bit. Not only did he declare, at the top of his voice repeatedly, that the bouncers in question would be fired on Monday morning, reports that he assaulted a fellow student are being investigated. Not only an embarrassment, Graham has completely abused his posistion and made himself a laughing stock. Needless to say the bouncers who were doing what they are paid to do are safe in their jobs. Things aren't looking good for the wayward President though.
Labour hacks have a track record of this sort of thing. Nottingham's Labour President was lucky to get away with head-butting someone outside a club, and who could forget when Manchester Labour's poster girl Grace Fletcher-Hackwood punched a student, while elected to a role responsible for "student welfare". She had to
resign
her sabbatical position at York. TB can see little reason why the precedent set in York isn't applied to this situation. If he does end up going and loses out at the NUS elections, it sounds like Thomas Graham would be most at home with the rest of the thugs at Unite.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Friday, 19 March 2010
"Maggie's"
An intriguing spot in the Standard
diary
. This sounds like a laugh:Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch Maggie’s, a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher. David Cameron may be reluctant to embrace Thatcherism but London’s hip and trendy young things certainly aren’t.
The club, on Fulham Road, will pay homage to the decade of kitsch, and Lady Thatcher, who lives within walking distance, has been invited to the opening night next month.
Lucky club-goers will hear famous speeches from the Iron Lady playing in the loos.
Thatcher memorabilia will vie for space on the walls, along with such paraphernalia as A Team action men and A-ha platinum discs. Timmy Mallet, John McEnroe and Bananarama will be depicted in a giant mural.
It will apparently be open in time for the election, but more importantly, will it be in time for TB's birthday?
UPDATE: Check out the
website
:
Tweet o'the Day
Looks like TB jumped the gun there. Andrew Rawnsley's scathing
put down
of Kerry McCarthy would have qualified for QotD:
Brilliant.
Guy News Preview
It was a long night in the Guy News edit suite, but check out TB's musical finale:
Rest of the episode out later to
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