William Hague tells us there is a better future with the Conservatives.

I'm going out tonight, so I haven't time to post anything of my own. Therefore this is a part of William Hague's excellent speech (lifted straight from Iain Dale's blog):

"When Gordon Brown took over, this, our great country, was the 4th largest economy in the world. Now it is falling behind and forecast within 5 years to be the 11th, behind not just growing giants like China, but behind our neighbours France and Italy. We were ranked 7th in the world for the competitiveness of our economy. Now we are 13th. We were 4th in the world for our tax and regulation. Now we are 84th and 86th. We are the last G20 country to emerge from recession. We are borrowing almost as much of our income as Greece, but the Greeks have more plans than Gordon Brown, like everyone else in the world, to do something about it. We are telling the British people the truth: we cannot go on like this. We say to them now: it is time, it is time to make the break. We cannot go on just borrowing money from China so that we can buy their goods and then borrow some more.

Gordon Brown is like a credit card company who will always send you another letter saying it would be so easy when in debt to borrow even more. Every family, every small business, everyone except this Government knows it is the road to ruin.

Last week Gordon Brown said the election should not be a verdict on the Government's past record. Let me tell him this: we will ensure that a country that wants to look to the future is fully aware of his record. He may not want to discuss his pension destroying, gold selling, golden rule-breaking, national debt-doubling, money wasting, tax raising, colleague rubbishing, pledge betraying, election bottling record but, oh boy, we do.

He says voters should give him a second chance. Look here Gordon, you've had 13 years now. You've had your second chance and your third. No one in Britain can afford to give you a fourth chance: no one in this country can afford another 5 years of Gordon Brown. So it is time for change. And if we do not take this opportunity, grasp this hour, to set a new direction for Britain, then I tell you in all frankness that it will be too late. It will be too late in 5 years' time to say we should have got rid of them, too late to reverse the decline: the debt will be too big, the bureaucracy too bloated, the small businesses too stifled, the slope Britain is sliding down will be too steep.

So to every voter listening to us now we say solemnly, if not now it will be too late. It is time, time to say we can rescue our country, time to refuse to get poorer and more indebted, time to say Britain is not doomed to decline, time to let the Labour party fight its squabbles out of power where it can do no harm, time to invite the forces of hell to get the hell out of Downing Street."

Best John Terry Joke?

Wayne Rooney gets home from football practice with the England squad and says to Coleen:

"John Terry says that he's shagged all our birds except one"

Coleen replied:

"I bet it's that Posh Spice the stuck-up cow".

Best ever Blonde Joke?

A blonde calls her boyfriend and says:

"Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started."

Her boyfriend asks:

"What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"

The blonde says:

"According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster."

Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle.

She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over
the table.

He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to
her and says:

"First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to
assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster."

He takes her hand and says, "Second, I want you to relax. Let's have a
nice cup of tea, and then (he said with a deep sigh) ..........



"Let's put all the Corn Flakes back in the box."

General Election Poster: Gordon Brown is splitting Labour.

Don't forget to vote Conservative so we can get rid of the Bullying, backstabbing, lying sod.

p.s I love this ringtone:


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Why Gordon Brown is not fit to be Prime Minister - Bullygate

I have followed the story of Gordon Brown's alleged bullying very closely over the last few days and I'm dismayed at some of the excuses being made for him. We have had people like Mandleson and Prescott claiming that while Gordon Brown does have a temper, and can fly off the handle, he is not a bully. The media seem to be taking this opinion on face value and no one has questioned whether Brown's angry outbursts are acceptable. The excuse is that Brown is in a high stress job and that gives him the right to rant, rave and throw office equipment about. Well I'm afraid it is nowhere near being acceptable. It shows a pathetic level of leadership and man-management.

I was in the Royal Navy for 16 years, reaching a reasonably senior position among the ranks. During my service I picked up the most important rule of leadership: respect must be earned, it is not something that you take from those who work for you, it is given. I used to pride myself with the fact that I never had to tell anyone to do anything, I would ask, and it got done. It was respect. I treated those who worked for me with respect and in return they gave me respect and loyalty back. I did have to hand out the occasional bollocking, but it was done in a quiet office, in a measured and reasoned manner. In the modern workplace shouting at someone when things go wrong just shows a lack of leadership and poor communication skills.

I've been out of the RN seven years now and even in that short time I have seen the drive for respect at work improve. I'm lucky to work for a large company with a great training system and determination to get the best out of its workforce. Every single person in my company must attend a "Dignity at work" course. The title of the course is self explanatory and its main theme is to treat others as you would hope to be treated by them. I work in a power plant and things can get pretty tense when machinery fails, but I could never imagine my line manager ever running into the control room, shouting and bawling. You do not get the best out of a workforce by intimidating it. And this is why Gordon Brown has struggled so much during his leadership of the country. The man has poor leadership skills.

Brown's attitude is not one of a strong and passionate leader - it is the attitude of a man who is unable to deal with the pressure of office - a man with a blatant disregard for the dignity of those working for him. He is unfit to be Prime Minister and the sooner he goes, the better.

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Video: David Cameron: A new, progressive force for everyone

This is a fantastic video from David Cameron. It explains why I, an ex-Labour voter, will be voting Tory at the General Election.



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General Election Poster: Have you met the Gordon Brown Twins?

Chris Bryant MP tweets a lie about Tory PPC Rory Stewart.

You may have seen that on last night's Question Time the panel were ask to discuss whether Jan Moir's offensive Stephen Gately article should have been published. The general consensus of the panel was that while the article was grossly inappropriate it should not be illegal to publish it. However after last night's show Labour MP Chris Bryant posted the following on twitter:


This is simply a lie. Rory Stewart specifically said that when he said that satire should be allowed he was NOT talking about the Stephen Gatley article. Rory did not defend the article, he - like the majority of the panel - defended her right to publish it.

When I replied to Chris Bryant that his tweet was a lie, he did not apologise, or say "sorry I misunderstood what Rory said". No, he said this instead:

@Daily_Ref @TheRedRag So remind me of a single word he used tocondemn jan moir's grossly insensitive piece?

I despair that some Labour MPs think that it is OK to use Twitter smear the opposition for pure political advantage. Judge for yourself whether you think Chris Bryant lied about Rory Stewart's comments on the Moir article: Click HERE to watch the show (56 minutes in).

EXCLUSIVE! Gordon Brown announces Labour General Election Slogan.

Gordon Brown is to lay out a four point election strategy on Saturday (leaked by himself today), but here is the slogan the party will run with:

*This is not an official Labour party poster.

Sir Nicholas Winterton should be disowned by the Conservative party.

I've just listened to Sir Nicholas Winterton on 5 Live's Steve Nolan show. The man is a complete and utter arse and I hope that David Cameron apologises for this dinosaur's comments and totally disowns the pompous fool. His comments on travelling first class on the train were shocking, as was his whole attitude to the way he claimed his expenses.

The problem here is that Winterton thinks that being an MP somehow makes you superior to the general public - a view shared with MPs of all parties. Luckily Winterton is stepping down at the election along with a load of other scroungers who are up their own backsides.

I hope that this man's idiocy does not put people off voting Tory.

Some of my favourite tweets from David Wright MP

Labour MP David Wright is trying to say that he didn't write the tweet calling Tories "scum sucking pigs" well that is utter rubbish and I'm 100% positive that the truth will come out. If the fool had put his hands up and apologised straight away, it would have blown over by now. But because he chose to lie is way out of this, it will just keep running until he is proved to be lying. He is now claiming that his laptop was stolen from the house of Commons in December and that the thief waited three months to edit just one of his tweets - yeah right.

David has previous for posting nasty tweets. Here are a few of my favourites from his twitter history (there are many more):

Dc is simply a hypocritical vicious leader of the nasty party. Jeopardising justice while taking millions from Ashcroft #Toryscum

Georgey Porgey looks like he is holding in a big fart

Out of recession and Nick Robinson says they are bad economic figures. Is he DC's stooge or what?

oh and apologies for telling it like it is. Cameron IS an opportunist tosser. Or should I have said the Rt Hon gentleman?

Some say scrappage scheme, some say fiscal stimulus, others argue Eric Pickles & services to pie industry. I couldn't comment

quite. Dc is a horrible opportunistic scumbag

Oops DC. Looks like another FU:

@SkyNewsPolitics utter shit but an easy to read story

Paxman is a sneering tosser sometimes. Was clear straightaway Peter M got better of him

Remember John Smith's Social Justice commission - Tories had nothing to say then either #Toryscum

Good article on young Tory toffs in Conservative Future (racist, dumb and cocky):

Poor dc. Petty and spiteful to point out the Tories are a bunch of toffs or just plain true!!!

Think dc is on the back foot (the Eton toff)

I said Nadine was Fruit and Nut. Surprised she is "allowed" to speak such guff.

Poor old Georgey Porgey. Bet dc wished he had listened to GB on economy not gp. You gotta feel for the oik

Madine Dorries. Fruit and nut or fruitcake - which is better?

The Sun are just scum. Discuss

The Corrigan Brothers - There's no one as Irish as Dave Cameron

The Corrigan Brothers - There's no one as Irish as Dave Cameron. Excellent:

Thought things couldn't get any worse? Gordon Brown to co-chair climate change funding panel

From Friends of the Earth:

Commenting on the formation of a United Nations High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, which British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will co-chair with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Asad Rehman, Senior International Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said:

"$10 billion a year might sound like a wave of new money for poor countries to tackle climate change, but in reality it's a drop in the ocean compared to what is required.

"What's worse is that most of this money from rich countries will be plundered from existing aid budgets - what is really needed is new public money to ensure developing countries can grow cleanly and adapt to the impacts of climate change which are already putting the livelihoods, homes and families of their people at risk.

"Gordon Brown has a chance for genuine leadership this year in pushing the international community to adopt a tax on financial transactions, which would provide billions of dollars of new money to governments to tackle climate change head on - now is the time for him to grasp it."

God help us. At least Brown has got a job lined up for after the Election.

David Cameron Video: Why you should consider voting Conservative.

If you haven't voted Conservative for a long time (or ever) then please take the time to watch this short video from David Cameron. I'm a new Conservative, never having voted anything but Labour during my adult life. I was brought up on a Barnsley council estate during the 70s and 80s - a time and a place when people would vote for a donkey if it wore a red rosette.

So why have I now joined the Conservative Party and why do I spend my time and energy fighting to get rid of our Labour government? The answer is quite simple, back in 1997, New Labour came in with some great ideas, they have thrown money in all the right places, BUT they have totally and utterly failed to manage how that money has been spent. And that's it - they've spent billions, got us into massive debt (even before the crunch) and I, like many others, believe the country is a worse place to live than it was before they started. That's what happens when you give money and power to people with good ideas, but no experience in the world outside of politics.

But it's not just how they have wasted our money, they have done far worse. They have been responsible for the social and moral decline we have all seen since they came to power. When accused of this, a Labour minister, quick as a flash, pops up on our TV screens to spew out tractor production figures that none of us believe. We don't need dodgy figures. We can all sense and see how far the standards in this country have dropped.

Anyway, please watch the video and keep an open mind:

Is Gordon Brown the most financially incompetent Chancellor of all time?

I was reminded of Gordon Brown's Mansion House speech of 2007 by John in the comments of my previous post about Gordon's dodgy moral compass. This speech was given JUST before the world's economy fell around our ears and it shows just how incompetent Gordon Brown was as Chancellor:

"So I congratulate you Lord Mayor and the City of London on these remarkable achievements, an era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age for the City of London."

"And I believe it will be said of this age, the first decades of the 21st century, that out of the greatest restructuring of the global economy, perhaps even greater than the industrial revolution, a new world order was created."

Golden Age? only it was to be Fools Gold.

General Election Poster - Gordon Brown's dodgy moral compass

I really don't care if I get abuse for posting this picture. I have the deepest sympathy for Gordon Brown's loss, but I do think that he is being badly advised by Alastiar Campbell and Piers Morgan. Team Brown had plenty of time to pull the tears for Piers show if they wanted to prove that this is not dirty electioneering.

General Election Poster - Gordon Brown's Death Tax.

General Election Poster - Gordon Brown's Death Tax.


This is not a official Conservative poster,

New General Election posters, One Gordon Brown, two faces.

New General Election posters, One Gordon Brown, two faces.

Public Service Announcement: How to survive Gordon Brown.

You must watch this if you are worried that Gordon Brown may be coming your way during the General Election campaign:

General Election Poster - Labour Party Funding Explained

From my post in Jan 2008:

Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Alan Duncan is calling for the Union Modernisation Fund to be scrapped. Alan believes that the Unions have Gordon Brown over a barrel, because his party depends so desperately on Union donations. Alan points out that 610,000 working days (20 times last year's number) have been lost this year due to industrial action.

However the government are still giving the unions millions of pounds of the tax payers' money under the guise of the Union Modernisation fund. Some see this as a money laundering scam as the Unions in turn donate millions of pounds to the Labour Party. If the unions are so desperate for tax payer's money, why are they donating millions to the Labour Party?

I agree with Alan, it's well beyond time that this suspect practice was stopped. I do not pay my taxes for a proportion of them to be given to Unions who are financing the Labour Party. Either the Modernisation fund must be scrapped, or the Labour Party must stop taking donations from the Unions.

See John Prescott's Battle Bus - Next Stop Oblivion!

You have got to laugh. John Prescott travelling around in his battle bus is going to win Labour the General Election? I don't think so.

Troughing Labour MPs send a message to their voters.

Why am I not surprised that the only three Labour MPs who are to face criminal charges are to claim Parliamentary Privilege?

Climate Change - BBC Poll shows Sceptics now the majority.

Oh what a wonderful day! The BBC have conducted a poll into public opinion on Climate Change - and guess what? man made climate change sceptics are now in the majority! So the science is not exactly settled after all is it? The figures show that while 75% of people still believe that global warming is happening, only 26% are convinced that it is man made - a majority, 38% are not convinced. 25% believe that it is not happening at all.

From the BBC:

"It is very unusual indeed to see such a dramatic shift in opinion in such a short period," Populus managing director Michael Simmonds told BBC News.

"The British public are sceptical about man's contribution to climate change - and becoming more so," he added.

"More people are now doubters than firm believers."

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) chief scientific adviser, Professor Bob Watson, called the findings "very disappointing".

"The fact that there has been a very significant drop in the number of people that believe that we humans are changing the Earth's climate is serious," he told BBC News.

"Action is urgently needed," Professor Watson warned.

"We need the public to understand that climate change is serious so they will change their habits and help us move towards a low carbon economy."

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Cameron taking Gordon Brown apart during PMQs over AV

You have to laugh at Gordon Brown's inability to realise that the public are not as thick as he thinks they are. He's been against Electoral Reform all along and now he wants us to believe that he is the great reformer. No shame.



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Video: Green Day, Holiday.

Green Day, Holiday, enjoy:

Video: Stiltskin, Inside.

An absolute classic: Stiltskin, Inside:

Video: Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day.

In 1989 Hazel wrote - "I ran away from my home in Coventry when I was 16.....made and sold clothes in Amsterdam, picked grapes in France, joined a dance troupe that went to Tokyo then onto Beirut (escaping the start of the civil war by one month!) travelled West Africa, crossed the Sahara, sang with a dreadful singing trio for the U.S. troops in Germany and came home to "settle down". Through all this experience of life and the world I realized that singing always cheered me up. I decided to be a singer. Through strange turns of fate I ended up in a film called Breaking Glass I also ended up writing all the songs for the movie" Wikipedia.

David Bowie - Sell me a coat.

When Bowie was fifteen years old, his friend, George Underwood, wearing a ring on his finger, punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl. Bowie was forced to stay out of school for eight months so that doctors could conduct operations to repair his potentially blinded eye.

Doctors could not fully repair the damage, leaving his pupil permanently dilated. As a result of the injury, Bowie has faulty depth perception. Bowie has stated that although he can see with his injured eye, his colour vision was mostly lost and a brownish tone is constantly present.

Each iris has the same blue colour, but since the pupil of the injured eye is wide open, the hue of that eye is commonly mistaken to be different. Despite the fight, Underwood and Bowie remained good friends, and Underwood went on to do the artwork for Bowie's earlier albums. Wikipedia.

Video: Linkin Park, Crawling

I could have picked any Linkin Park song, this will do: Crawling

Louder the better.

Video: My Chemical Romance - "Welcome to the Black Parade"

One of my favourites: My Chemical Romance - "Welcome to the Black Parade"

Play it loud.

Strip MPs of the title "Honourable" for one year.

The last year has not been a glorious period in our Parliament's history. MPs have disgraced themselves by abusing their position to line their own pockets. The fact that MPs still use the title "Honourable" in parliament to address each other makes me angry to say the least - very few warrant such a title.

I suggest that the title "Honourable" should be taken away from MPs for one year to signify the disgrace brought on by the expenses scandal. It will also provide an historical reference to this shameful period so that it is never forgotten, or repeated.

Poster: Gordon Brown denies knowledge of his secret £50,000 slush fund.

Gordon Brown was caught on the hop in today's PMQ's when he was asked to explain why he had not declared his secret £50,000 personal slush fund. Unbelievably he said: ‘I know nothing about what he [the questioner] is talking about.’ He might as well have said "I take the Fifth!". I don't know about you, but it reminded me of Manuel from Fawlty Towers.

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Go Clare Short Go - Chilcot Enquiry

Listening to Clare Short's evidence to the Chilcot Enquiry this morning has got to be excruciating for Labour and Blair in particular. Clare is not pulling any punches and seems, if anything, that she is out to tell it the way it was, warts and all. Who do we believe? Blair, Campbell, Goldsmith and Straw - all who have to defend their actions - or do we believe Short who resigned over the conflict and has nothing to lose? I'm sure Clare has an axe to grind, but I can't help feeling that she is telling us the truth.

Here are a few lines from her evidence:

"We asked for a briefing... This just didn't come and didn't come."

"It became clear there was some sort of block on communications."

She told the Iraq inquiry the cabinet had not been a "decision-making body" and called Parliament a "rubber stamp".

Clare is still giving evidence live, and you can watch it by clicking HERE.