US election fever, plus diva

Telegraph:
"McCain is in trouble. He has started to pull undignified stunts, such as appearing on a segment of a popular cookery show stirring a pan of sauce and wearing an apron demanding you "Kiss the Candidate" (he reportedly spent $5,000 on a professional make-up artist to put his slap on)"

Wow, look at this...

McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere (New York Times)

"WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “country first” will take the country down with him if that’s what it takes to get to the White House."

Why Harry Potter author JK Rowling donated £1milllion to Labour

Daily Mail:
"The Harry Potter author - a close friend of Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah - claimed the Tories would leave 'poor and vulnerable' families worse off."

"Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, was one of those unimpressed. She said: 'JK Rowling has written so much fantasy it has entered her brain.

'She might as well have given the money to Lord Voldemort.

'At least the Prime Minister won't have to use the money to buy an invisibility cloak. He has already got one.' "

Comment - The money would have a better use if it went to a children's charity, not down the drain.

Gordon is not the person they want to lead the country..

Telegraph:
"Gordon Brown has sacked the Labour Party's vice-chairman amid a growing revolt from Labour MPs who want to force a leadership election."

FIRST CROSS PARTY GROUP ON IMMIGRATION CALLS FOR “BALANCED MIGRATION”

Website of Frank Field MP:
"..The new group’s Co-Chairmen are the former Labour and Conservative Ministers Frank Field MP and Nicholas Soames MP. This will be the first time in British political history that people from the two main political parties have come together to tackle this immensely sensitive and difficult issue."

Comment - Blair/Brown govt. is useless, thank goodness for someone having the guts to sort this mess out, 83 percent of the UK population want immigration controls.

We must put a cap on the number of immigrants coming to Britain, says rebel Labour MP Frank Field

Daily Mail 7/09/08:

"Labour maverick Frank Field has joined forces with senior Tories to call for a cap on the number of immigrants who settle permanently in Britain.

The cap is expected to be the centrepiece of a report being published tomorrow at the launch of a new cross-party parliamentary group on balanced migration."

Drivers face postcode lottery under pay-as-you-drive scheme

Telegraph 3/09/08 :
"The Government is considering using the electoral roll to set charges for drivers, which could be as much as £1.30 a mile."

"Trials of the "pay as you drive" system are due to get under way in 2010 and the details, including using the electoral roll, are set out in a consultation document sent out to those firms tendering for the contracts. "

Comment - can our Government, if you can call them that, sink any lower ?.

'The Labour party is heading for 'utter destruction,' says Charles Clarke in new attack on Brown

Daily Mail 3/09/08

Just does what it says on the tin. Makes you proud to be British.
Roll on the next General Election.

The Government is now making it up as it goes along

Telegraph :

The Government is now making it up as it goes along
"...The measures are not enough to ‘rescue' the housing market but will put another hole in Britain's economic reputation because the government now appears to be making it up as it goes along."

Gordon Browns cunning plan unravels?
"At the morning Lobby briefing, No. 10 has just been asked how the Government will find the £600 million needed to fund the tax cut. The answer, in summary: "Er, we dunno."

Recession and the disturbing lesson of history from a Prime Minister in denial

Daily Mail 29/08/08: .."Following this week's sobering news that economic growth in Britain has once again ground to a halt, and that the pound has suffered its worst monthly fall since we left the ERM in 1992, it can be stated with reasonable confidence that we are now entering a fourth economic recession, with all that means in terms of sheer, grinding human misery."
"He (Brown) must have declared hundreds if not thousands of times that, thanks to his policies, there would be 'no more boom and bust'."

"Of course we now know that he had done nothing of the sort. As the British people are about to discover to our cost, the economic cycle remains as potent, as unpredictable and potentially as destructive as ever.
The recession will claim many hundreds of thousands of jobs and send numerous businesses reeling towards bankruptcy before it is done."

Darling warns of economic crisis

BBC: "The UK is facing its worst economic crisis in 60 years, Chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted.

He told the Guardian newspaper that the economic downturn would be more "profound and long-lasting" than most people had feared.

Using strong language, Mr Darling acknowledged voters were angry with Labour's handling of the economy".....

"He said that voters were "pissed off" with Labour's handling of the economy, a key issue at the next election." (yes, on the BBC ! )

Final pieces in jigsaw of doom drop into place

Telegraph 26/08/08 : "...or be forced to admit that Gordon Brown's stewardship has done for our economy what the crewmen on the bridge achieved for the Titanic."

"With disposable incomes falling for the first time since 1997 (mortgage payments, taxes, fuel costs and food bills are rising sharply), the Prime Minister's private prediction that the corner will soon be turned looks even less credible than his Chancellor's assertion that taxpayers will get all their money back from Northern Rock."

"Mr Brown's moment came and went last autumn, with the election that never was. From here, not only will he fail to achieve gold (victory at the next election), he's long odds against even completing the race."