Shame...

Seems chippy little Tom Miller is now stopping people reading his insane ravings on his "

Newer Labour

" blog. Presumably his border-line communist outlook and unwavering support for Chavez doesn't quite fit the

Game Changer

image where he is now a "consultant".

Quite what he consults on is a mystery, but it seems TB is going to have to find some new lefty bloggers to wind up. The irratating and batshit crazy

Laurie Penny

and tory-boy-thumper

Grace Fletcher-Hackwood

immediatly come to mind.

Let the games begin...

On the street where you (don't) live...

Net curtains twitched in Peckham last week when a camera crew turned up, yet again, outside Jacqui Smith’s sister Sara’s house. Jacqui’s “landlord” popped her head out of the window to establish the identity of the mysterious film-makers but didn’t have to wait too long to find out who they were. Sara hadn’t realised she was talking to her sister’s sworn enemy, Chris Galley, who is mounting a private prosecution against the former Home Secretary over her misuses of expenses.

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

Evening Standard

.

Awkward Kodak Moment of the Year

Ed Balls is clearly on a bit of a charm offensive with the lobby pack.

He posted

this picture tonight from his summer drinks reception at the Department for Kids and Families and Children and the most definitely not the Treasury (DCSF).

TB isn't sure who looks the most uncomfortable. Lansdale might just have it. Blinky is a tool of the highest order and this lot know it.

No sign of Fraser Nelson at the party!

Bring Jacqui to Justice

The

Sunlight Centre

desperately needs your help to raise the funds for their court action against Jacqui Smith. As revealed in this morning's

Daily Mail

they are privately prosecuting her for fraud.

Former Home Office mole Chris Galley is

leading the charge

. Having spent months working just metres from Jacqui Smith and having access to her diaries, he isn't convinced by her protestations that she spent more time in her sisters spare room than in her family home in Redditch.

Please donate to the Sunlight COPs

here

.

(Before the lefty tin foil hatters get stuck in, TB will declare at this point, as has been said many times, that he works for the

Sunlight Centre

, which is a non-partisan, not for profit organisation.)

Well at least someone is...

Rather embarrassing really.

H/T -

WCT

It's just a big right-wing conspiracy...

This Thursday, 6pm, will see the inaugural AGM of the CFI - The Conservative Friends of Ireland at a yet undisclosed location in Westminster. If you feel that you qualify to join such an esteemed society then do drop TB an email for an invite.

Joking apart TB is off to the states and France for six weeks so will be good to get some drinks in before he heads off. Would particularly like to put some faces to a few names - get in touch if you fancy joining us.

Dizzy, Guido, The Devil.. Could get turn into a heavy night.

Sam Tarry's Lies:

Seems nobody bothered to send the chairman of Young Labour the memo that pulled the plug on Labour's deceitful and malicious lies that only the Tories would be the ones cutting after the 2010 election.

Here is what was just mailed out to the members:

Subject: Campaign Weekend in Norwich North

Hi its Sam Tarry here, National Chair of Young Labour,

I'm asking you to come and get stuck into the Tory's [sic.] this weekend with Young Labour - We're fighting a close by-election this week and the dividing lines have been drawn. These are tough times indeed - but Conservative planned cuts will ravage our public services and decimate our communities - we know that only Labour will keep investing to help ordinary working people. So come and help deliver that message on the doorsteps on Norwich this weekend.

With bullshit like that Gordon would be proud but maybe Sam should look at little closer at the briefing notes from Victoria Street. Even

Wes Streeting

the NUS President, and fellow receiver of said briefings, has managed keep up to date and on message recently.

Labour are clearly getting desperate in this by-election to the extent that Tarry throws the kitchen sink at the tories by linking to the now infamous Don't Panic video and then has to resort to begging his rapidly declining membership to come along.

Not exactly the most positive of campaigns being run by Young Labour. What a surprise.

On that freedom all our other freedoms depend.

TB is very busy today. Big surprise tomorrow, but in the mean time stumbled across this old gem again:



Ahhh. Normal service resumes tonight.

Don't want to go school today...

Busy day. Too much wine last night. Grumpy.

Dizzy joins the Village People

Provocative headline aside,

Dizzy

is featured on Newsnight tonight talking about his sustained and noble campaign against No10 and their continued cover up of what exactly they sell in their gift shop. Surreal but hilarious, this three min clip is well worth a watch:

Mark Wallace

hit the nail on the head with his tweet: "

@dizzy_thinks

good performance on Newsnight! You even dressed exactly as the Westminster village imagines bloggers to!"

Sound and Slick...

Is it just TB or has anyone else noticed how slick the CCHQ videos are getting? It's looking good for the election. Such a shame we can't buy airtime and get this sort of thing viewed by millions instead of thousands. Allowing political parties to buy advertising would destroy the stranglehold the media and lobby have over our politicians, who have to creep round them and vica-versa. But that's a debate for another day...



In the meantime the new approach to aid has some fantastic ideas and is a fantastic video.

Harperson finally goes round the bend...

"LABOUR is riding to the rescue of another down-trodden minority group - Northerners.
Harriet Harman is drawing up plans to stamp out discrimination against Scousers, Geordies and people from Yorkshire.
Labour's deputy leader wants to get more people from the regions on to the boards of major public bodies.
Ms Harman is planning to impose special quotas to boost numbers - just as she has done for women, gay people and ethnic minorities.
She fears too many organisations are run by executives from London and the South East."

Oh lordy, she's really

scraping the barrel

now. What the hell is wrong with this woman?

Anyone hear the one about the Scouser, the Geordie and the person from Yorkshire who walked into a bar?

Exclusive: Ed Hallam has poked Lucy Roblin

There has been much speculation about whether or not Lucy Roblin the Vice Chairman of

CLWCF

had received a poke from Ed Hallam, the Chairman. Well TB can reveal once and for all Hallam has poked Roblin:

Smirk.

Boris Saves the Day

Great little story from PR Week

about Boris and his Twitter feed coming to the rescue of the some irate bus passengers. Not sure what is more shocking - the fact Boris apparently knows what is happening on his Twitter account...

...Or the fact

David Singleton

managed to write a positive piece about someone who wasn't Labour.

Monday Morning Totty Watch:

TB is not sure that this is the right reaction to be having to an

article from The Guardian

, of all places, about the under-representation of women in the Conservative Party, but he thought it deserved some coverage. To be fair they started it by including

a whole gallery

. Before you sniveling lefties get all emotional, TB is a big fan of this charge by the ladies through the party ranks... who wouldn't be:

It has to be said that CF's very own Liza Chantelle and Anna Fazackerley from Policy Exchange are looking particularly fine.

Weekly Cartoon from Posh Tory:

Can but hope and pray it happens for real soon.

Dinner?

So anyone fancy being wined and dined by Tory Bear? All you have to do is be the 1000th person to

follow him on Twitter

...

The winner has to be able to get to central London, will have to be in early September too. Numbers can fluctuate a little from day to day so just be the first person to email TB with a screengrab of you being the 1000th follower. Sixty odd to go.

Who will the winner be?

Male or female? Lads- TB will get the beers in and then something manly like curry. Ladies... well it will be a slightly more civilised evening. See above.

Follow TB on Twitter

here

. Good luck.

Summer Reading

TB finds himself reading fewer and fewer books these days so it's always nice to reclaim that forgotten sense of satisfaction you just don't get online. He has a couple of reads to recommend as thoughts turn toward packing bags and beaches. One fun, one slightly heavier.

A Useful Fiction

is a must read for anyone who has ever looked at devolution in the United Kingdom and thought, hold on.. what about little old England? Broadcaster Patrick Hannan gives a fairly comprehensive look at the last ten years of the little devolution project and doesn't hold his punches. In the way that only the SNP can, the celebrations of the last few weeks over the ten year anniversary were highly politicised and it's rather refreshing to finally hear someone put a well justified dampener on it all.

With the dust still settling on the expenses scandal it didn't take long for some entrepreneurial types to get the handy guide book to the whole saga out in just weeks.

The Little Book of Big Expenses

does exactly what it says on the tin. If you don't like to see political types savaged in a brutal and irreverent style then TB wouldn't recommend reading. If however you want to take the piss out of the troughing bastards and want a handy comedy index of what went on then go grab a copy now. The comedy redactions got TB some very funny looks on the tube the other morning. Think there were a couple of snorts.

Would cry if he didn't laugh.

Who dunnit?

Got a rather interesting text message:

"An unsuccessful attempt has been made to access your Voicemail
account. If this attempt was not made by you, please contact Customer
Care on 191 immediately."

Give TB some credit, he's not that silly. Not sure what

the thug

is still moaning about not being told about having his phone "hacked".

Why can't he just retire gracefully?

Totty Watch: QT Special

TB didn't catch Question Time last night, but there was much post-boozy lunch excitement when a rather inebriated co-worker returned having remembered he had fallen in love with this rather lovely lady from the audience last night. About 13 mins in

here.

Anyone know who she is?