Friday, 24 July 2009
Thursday, 23 July 2009
What is the point of Liberal Youth?
James "little ginger runt" Harrison took the words right out of TB's mouth..."errrrh"
Painful to watch.
Just Tax
While TB is across the pond he feels duty bound to pick up on a little local news. This video has been doing the rounds here. It seems the GOP are finally getting with the program. After a series of dreadful attempts at getting down with the kids on the interweb, the right are finally errr.. getting it right - 100k hits so far. Yes the video is budget, amateur and camp as hell, but at least it will make people laugh and doesn't attempt to be anything other than a humorous look at what is going on right now.
If you didn't laugh you would cry.
Good Morning, it's polling day...
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
What's on your mind?
TB is enjoying his holiday. Lots of grilling and sipping ice cold brewskis in the New Jersey sunshine. His mobile isn't working and he is rarely at a computer. That's where you lot come in...
"I'll have what she's having..."
TB is having a wicked time in New York, but today's lunch deserves a post of it's own. You haven't lived until you've had a sandwich from
Enough said.
Coulson bitchslaps Watson
TB hasn't had the chance to watch the whole of Coulson's breeze through the select committee, but this cutting put down of the retired attack dog Tom Watson is fantastic:
Ouch.
Monday, 20 July 2009
Bear in the USA
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Dave and Tony
"Indeed, although from a rival party, Tony Blair actually supports many things that Conservatives cherish deeply - above all the alliance with America, the financial independence of the City and the importance of free markets in world trade."
Only one man can stop President Blair - but is Dave really so adverse to the idea?
Start spreading the news...
It's going to be a slow weekend here as TB is now very much on his way to New York. He will be catching up with an old buddy, doing a wee bit of fundraising and also working on something rather exciting. He should still have time to get the odd thing up here though. Will then be training it down to Washington to meet up with the
So time to crank up the English accent and attempt to recreate that wonderful scene from Love Actually.
Ed: PS - TB (pictured) has been on quite an adventure recently. After he was shamelessly kidnapped from a CF event by a young lady and ultimately only rescued by the coordinated hostage rescue efforts of Mark Clarke and Matt Richardson, the bear has been all over London it seems. Thank you to everyone who has contributed in some way to his wardrobe in the last few weeks - be it the Henley boater, the bikers leathers, or even the cool new trainers. Much appreciated and there is a fashion show to follow...
Friday, 17 July 2009
Wine + Email = Banter
After Guido's gentle piss take of Ed Vaizey
You can follow
Quote of the Day
"Jogging is for people who are not intelligent enough to watch breakfast television".
Via
#plot
Well it was pretty much inevitable that TB was going to spend his last day at work for six weeks feeling a little under the weather. Last night's drinks were a roaring success and was great to put names to new faces and sink pints with old ones. Thinking the karaoke might have to become a monthly thing...
Another morning sipping the diet coke eh.
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Drinkies...
The joke about Conservative Friends of Ireland seemed to go over quite a few heads but either way TB is sure much Guinness will be consumed.
If you want to join the big right-wing conspiracy drinks then ping over an email for the location and we will be there from six. TB will be the the handsome dark haired one with the harem of blondes on his arm.
TB has been made responsible for setting up the hash tag for the evening on Twitter -
Guest Post - Christian May
Having mentioned Laurie Penny earlier today, it seems she annoys someone else too:
Laurie Penny
Her article has the catchy headline: Undermining reproductive freedoms, sellotaping together unhappy couples and bribery - the Tory agenda for Happy Families, and it pretty much sets the tone for the rest of her rant. It’s littered with clever little phrases like “Torygeddon” and “evilly recalcitrant plans.” Honestly, you’d think we Conservatives were planning to slaughter the first born. (Mind you, this is the level of rhetoric and debate that we’ve come to expect from a dying Labour movement).
Let’s deal with some of the specifics in her “article” for a moment. Apparently, Conservatives want to see ‘men in the office, women in the kitchen.’ Not sure where she got this one from, but it just shows her out of date and out of touch she is. Moving on, we learn that “Cameron and his cronies simply do not LIKE women who live independent lives, or single parents, or gay people, or people with alternative notions of what a free and happy family constitutes." Is she referring to the same ‘cronies’ that support same sex marriage, favour equality and have today announced plans to make it easier for people to care for disabled relatives? It would appear so.
There’s absolutely no depth or focus to her rant. It’s just a collection of student union style debating points. Here’s my absolute favourite: Referring to the planned tax break for married couples, she says “that kind of logic is cargo-cultism, and it’s lazy, and it’s stupid, and it won’t work because it’s stupid.” In other words, “Toreez smell and I don’t like them because they’re smelly and they smell.” I think Penny should grow up. Her views are out of date, unhelpful and riddled with inverted snobbery.
The Centre for Social Justice has come up with more proposals for helping the worse off than a decade of Labour government has managed. The left simply don’t like the fact that the problems that they’ve claimed as “their own” (unemployment, deprivation, youth crime etc) are in fact best tackled with conservative policies, as opposed to quangos, targets, officers and committees.
Penny concludes that she doesn’t want live in a country run by Conservatives. Who is going to miss her?
Ed: On your bike love.
Go on...
Nothing like a Dale list to make it all worth while.
Shame...
Let the games begin...
On the street where you (don't) live...
Even with the sister’s tantrum edited out, the online video has managed to pull in over £8,000 worth of donations to Galley’s legal fees in just 24 hours.
Originally printed in the
Awkward Kodak Moment of the Year
Ed Balls is clearly on a bit of a charm offensive with the lobby pack.
No sign of Fraser Nelson at the party!