Quote of the Day

"It seemed incredible that the prime minister should use parliamentary time to congratulate a disgraced home secretary for founding kindergartens when most of us believe this smug professional nag should be in court charged with £100,000 worth of fraud."

-Lloyd Evans in the

Speccie

Donny Bear?

TB isn't sure whether to

laugh or cry

?

Textbook BBC Bias

You would think that a story starting with "Conservative chairman Eric Pickles will apologise..." is going to be a embarrassing, negative situation. But no, it's just

appalling negative framing

by the beeb of what is actually are very positive story.

Not surprised, but come on, try be a little subtle.

+++Student Life Meeting Postponed+++

The question time panel for London Universities that was scheduled to take place tonight has been postponed due to diary clashes.

Guess you'll just have to wait to hear TB's pearls of wisdom.

Chuffed!

TB is very chuffed to have been nominated for the

Eric Forth Award for Activism

:

"Eric Forth was one of the true characters of British politics. A House of Commons man to his core, Eric not only knew parliamentary procedure inside out but he knew how – and when- to use the rules to maximum advantage. Eric was a committed Thatcherite and an admirer of Ronald Reagan. As Chairman of Conservative Way Forward and an advisor and friend of The Young Britons’ Foundation, Eric championed limited government, traditional values, freedom and the Trans-Atlantic Special Relationship. A man of principle, determination and courage, Eric Forth knew how important it was to be an effective activist and advocate for radical change.

On Eric’s premature death in 2006, The Young Britons’ Foundation inaugurated an annual award to be given to the young conservative activist whose attitude, ethos and effectiveness best mirrors the values, beliefs and achievements of Eric – The Eric Forth Award for Activism"

There is

stiff competition

too.

TB's money is on a certain northern rose.

Those heading down to

YBF6

will also get to hear TB speaking after dinner on the Saturday night at the 6th Annual Margaret Thatcher Banquet. One liners and anecdotes in the comments please.

#PMQs

Blogging and tweeting will be light given TB is there this week.

Well exciting.

Dictators, Murderers and Labour

Labour’s online sheep certainly didn’t like it when their line of attack over who the Tories sit with in Europe was fired straight back at them on Sunday.

Dan Hamilton over at CentreRight

has exposed even more scum who Labour choose to sit with in the Party of European Socialists. Once again how can they dare attack the Conservatives when they are in bed with this lot:

The first is the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, a party which enthusiastically endorsed the Presidential campaign of Stjepan "Stipe" Mesic - a man who in many former eastern-blok EU member states would be constitutionally banned from holding office as a result of the positions he held during Yugoslavia's communist dictatorship. A former Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement of the United Nations, Mesic's predecessors in this role include Fidel Castro, Josip Broz Tito, Robert Mugabe and General Suharto.

Secondly, the Labour Party enjoys formal links with the Social Democratic Parties of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Both parties were formed in 1991 from the remnants of the two country's Communist Leagues which ruled with an iron-fist under the centralised leadership of Yugoslav "President for life" Josip Broz Tito from 1936 to 1980. At one point, Tito's favourite method of suppressing political enemies (there were, at one point, some 7,000 of them) was to exile them to the island of Goli Otok. Nobody will ever know how many thousands of malnutritioned and exhausted political prisoners died on Goli Otok, battered by the island's chilling winter winds and summer temperatures of more than forty degrees.

Inside the Party of the European Socialists, Labour is also tied to the Socialist Party of Albania. The party was formed in 1991 following the establishment of democracy in the country, yet is viewed as the successor party to Enver Halil Hoxha's Party of Labour. As First Secretary of the party, Hoxha presided over one of the bloodiest regimes in modern history and enforced the closure of each of Albania's 2,000 places of worship. On a lighter note, Hoxha also appeared to share eccentric former Turkmen dictator Saparmurat "Turkmenbashi" Niyazov's irrational hatred of beards, banning them outright.

Last but not least, we come to the Viktor Yanukovych's Party of the Regions (yes, he of vote-rigging, pro-Krelmin, anti-Orange Revolution fame). I do not need to remind ConHome readers that the tactics of Yanukovych's party during the disputed Presidential election were widely criticised by the British government with then Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw heaping criticism on their attempts to subvert the "democratic will of the Ukrainian people".

The line that “Oh it’s fine because we didn’t leave one moderate grouping to sit with extremists” is bullshit and frankly not good enough. Firstly the grouping that the Tories left were no saints and secondly Labour have very much choosen to sit with PES and continue to strengthen their relationships with it’s various unsavoury members. Spin and mud.

Obviously there is a simple solution to this problem. How do we avoid having to deal with fringe movements and unwanted European alliances? What can we all agree on?

Yep you guessed it correctly. We’d be better off out.

National Union of Labour

When David Lammy, the government's hilarious Higher Education spokesman, opens an envelope the NUS send out a press release congratulating him with Pyongyang style praise for his most excellent of ideas. They are also dangerously quick to bash the Tories for being meanies and drowning kittens in wells. Given that this chaotic and semi-redundant Labour controlled organisation could potentially be cut adrift under an incoming Conservative government that will have bigger things to worry about than pacifying their training corp, some might suggest it could be wise if they start strengthening their relationship with the blue team.

David Willets yesterday put out some fantastic ideas about

university access

:

"Shadow Universities Secretary David Willetts wants to see a government-sponsored website which will enable current students to help inform prospective students making decisions about university applications."

And yet last time TB checked the

NUS website

:

Yep. Not a squeak. Just dustballs and crickets.

Don't let anyone ever tell you the NUS is a non-partisan organisation.

Reshuffle Day Strikes Again

They all deny it is accurate in public, but the Labour triumvirate of former Cabinet ladies must have found the Westminster village screening of the first episode of the new series of The Thick of It brutal watching. Would recently dismissed/disgraced Hazel "the mortgage"Blears, Jacqui "porno film" Smith and Caroline "window dressing" Flint have turned up if they had known the episode showing was based around over promoted women on reshuffle day? Whoever sent the invites out definitely has a sense of humour.

Cast your mind back to that heady summer day! Smith made a hasty exit having sat through what must have been uncomfortable watching. Flint who quit in spectacular style, mid a Brown press conference apparently over the government's views on women, at least stuck around long enough to dismiss the show as inaccurate on the basis that "it's not really like that, there is a big board with postit notes getting moved around on reshuffle day, not that I was in No10, and when you speak to the PM there a three other people listening". Take note script writers!

In fairness there was a poignant moment, when the spinmeister general breaks the news to the new Minister that she is owned by the state, a mere puppet in a grander plan, at the mercy of the watchful press, none of the threesome were laughing.

The event was quite the who's who of closet Thick of It fans. A particularly strong showing from the CCHQ press office. TB's favourite Mr-Rent-a-Quote Parmjit Dhanda succeeded admirably at strengthening his well earned nick name by declaring the real reshuffle day was "much worse!" to the assembled crowd.

The new season of the show looks fantastic. TB was in stitches and it seems the new Saturday night slot is going to make for compelling viewing. Get use to seeing these guys a lot:

We have the Tory Flatmate, then Sam - who is really in the thick of it rather than.. oh you get what TB means. The new Minister of State, and of course good old Glen.

TB managed to have a quick natter with Armando Iannucci, the director and a long-term hero, who thankfully assured the bear that there was a blog/twitter related episode coming up and in true Thick of It style was conceived months before anyone had ever heard of loving the NHS or Kerry McCarthy.

Was a cracking night and TB is eternally grateful to

TV's Shane Greer

for the ticket. Sadly Jacqui politely declined the chance of a photo with the bear, but Mr Ianncci, despite pulling is best politically neutral face, was much more obliging.

Funnily enough given the last line of the episode, Nick Robinson was otherwise engaged!

The Thick of It

Apologies for the radio silence today. After Sister Bear's book launch last night it was a full on day of filming. Nearly getting arrested outside Blair's house was a particular highlight.

TB, thanks to the legend that is Shane Greer is at the Westminster screening of The Thick of It. Ah so excited.

Amusingly he is also right this very second sitting metres from Jacqui Smith.

Teehee.

Bear on Tour

After a successful event on Friday night in Cambridge, it's London's turn. The next

CF Student Life Tour stop

takes place this Wednesday evening at the Old Bank of England at 7pm.

Come along.

Tweet O'the Day

TB has a busy afternoon but will leave you with this fantastic tweet from The Telegraph's Bryony "The Breasts" Gordon (ⓒPrivate Eye):

Think someone is a little too excited about the new season of The Thick of It. Tweet O'the Day might have to become a regular feature. Back later.

Dizzy Got Cross Too

"This whole "Michal Kaminski is a jew hating gay bashing Neo-Nazi baby eater" stuff is patently absurd. The guy was 15 and for two years he was in an illegal underground anti-Communist movement in a totalitarian state. What that party does now is as irrelevant as the Pope being in the Hitler Youth at the age of 14."

Visit Dizzy

for one hilarious image.

Shock! Top Lib Dem is a Socialist

Well

he's

hardly liberal...

How's this for "freedom"?

Alex Salmond is really beginning to let the all things to all Scots mask slip and has shown his ruthless authoritarian lefty streak shine through by approving

this dependency encouraging move

by the property snatcher, the "snapper":

Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish health minister, said right to buy has “had its day” and blamed a shortage of affordable rented housing in Scotland for her decision to scrap it.

In a speech to the SNP conference in Inverness, she said the move would mean 18,000 fewer council and social housing tenants buying their homes over the next decade.

But the Conservatives said it was a sad day for thousands of Scots who want to better themselves by realising their dream of home ownership.

Since its introduction by Margaret Thatcher’s Government in 1980, the right-to-buy policy has proved hugely popular in Scotland.

About 450,000 families have taken advantage of the scheme to purchase their homes at a discounted rate from their local council or social landlord.

Freedom for who exactly?

You probably missed it...

TB wouldn't expect you to read The Observer, but

this profile

of the legend that is Quentin Letts is not to be missed.

Lad.

Cartoon - Leaping Salmond Edition

Comments

Seems they were broken all yesterday. Now they are fixed. Sorry.

That is all.

Labour's Evil Friends

TB is getting sick to the back teeth of Labour, and their

stooges

, attempting to create scandal around who the tories sit with in the European Parliament. The audacity that they have in these attacks can quickly be exposed with Google and rather appropriately given today’s attempt at journalism from the Observer – Wikipedia.

The Labour Party sit with the

European Socialists

grouping (PES), a bunch of nuts lefties that make Blair and Brown look slightly to the left of Hannan. Labour can try have a half-hearted smear attempt at the tory groupings, but it is a national embarrassment that the governing party of the day consort with communists, terrorists, murderers, anti-semites and 9/11 deniers.

Oh you didn’t know this? Well it’s not like it’s reported by the main stream media.

Dan Hamilton

wrote a great piece a few months ago and TB would like to share some of what he exposed. Lets just have a quick peek at a couple of Labour’s friends in Europe shall we...

First up we have former Italian Communist Party officer holder and Josef Fritzel look alike

Giulietto Chiesa

. A member of the Communist Party until 1991 Chiesa has since made a name for himself not only blaming Russia’s invasion of Georgia on European countries but more significantly as an extremely vocal 9/11 denier. His documentary Zero, as well as various essays and TV appearances have suggested that the US government was behind the planning and execution of the attacks. This lunatic is now the official European spokesman for the

9/11 Truth Movement

.

Who else are close allies of the Labour Party in Europe?

How about

Proinsias De Rossa

, ever heard of him? Well he is a murdering terrorist who is linked to the killing of six British Policemen. This former IRA man originally joined the Communist and Allies group before transferring to the PES and taking an active role in the drafting of the European Constitution. What do you expect from a Labour Party who didn’t bat and eyelid when their guest Martin McGuinness was allowed to stroll around the Grand Hotel in Brighton almost 25 years to the day the IRA had murdered so many there.

So many loons to choose from, but TB’s absolute favourite scumbag has to be

Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper

the leader of the Polish Self-Defence of the Republic Party, who Labour sit hand in hand with in Europe.

Where to start with their leader and the sleaze, the criminal activities and the general insanity of the man. Another former communist, he has done time for assault and even demanded sexual favours for jobs in his office. Famed for throwing hecklers onto piles of manure

according to the BBC

, the "chorus of his party song is: This land is your land, this land is my land, we won't let anyone punch us in the face.”

Perhaps most worrying is Lepper’s honorary degrees from the anti-Semitic Interregional Academy of Personnel Management. To give you an idea where these guys are coming from, their honorary professor is the white supremest

David Duke

.

So next time you hear some Labour tool having a go at tory allies, tell them to go take a long hard look in the mirror and then behind their own shoulders.

The hypocrisy is sickening.


UPDATE 19.11: Not one Labour hack has been able to successfully defend this, or at least have the decency to condemn the facts. Kerry McCarthy, an official spokesman for the Labour Party online resorted to name calling instead of defending her MEPs. Says a lot. Arguments have ranged from the surreal - apparently it's fine as they weren't sort out, to laughable from those who should know better - it's ok because they are pro-Lisbon.

Maybe time to ditch the mud strategy guys.

Non Story of the Day - Part 2

Keep Right Online have taken an extremely blunt axe to the Guardian story TB wrote about this morning.

They point to

this edit

by an anonymous, unregistered user, which removed an accusation that Kaminski was a member of the National Revival of Poland. The problem is that said edit was actually Wikipedia policy, under the very strict policy towards

b

iographies of living people

, which require sources for all controversial issues to avoid libelling the subject. The statement was unsourced, and, thus, to quote Wikipedia policy, ’should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion’. An anonymous user followed Wikipedia policy: what a scandal!

So, in the short, the Observer thinks the Conservatives have appointed two people to whitewash Kaminski’s page, despite those two editors doing nothing except undoing each other’s work. Please, not even CCHQ is that hapless. And, what’s more, there are now five paragraphs in the Wikipedia article now dedicated to the accusations against him! If anything, the Observer’s been trying to blackwash Kaminski’s reputation from day one, and this is just another desperate attempt at that.

Read the rest

here

.

And so lets leave it at that shall we.


PS. For those who read Non Story Part One:

Smirk.