Lord Mandelson

Shocking Pinkoes…

December 13, 2009

Happily in the pink myself, feeling tons better; shocked to return home to find that our illustrious Justice Minister has joined a campaign to ban ‘being in the pink’. What is she thinking of? Half the Labour Cabinet is pink. Is this really what Government has become all about? Jumping on one fast moving news [...]

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The ‘Go Fourth and Multiply’ Bandits.

May 3, 2009

Over on Plato’s blog I caught up with her piece on the ‘typo’ in Alistair Campbell’s blog. It rang bells, ‘Go fourth and multiply’, I’d heard that phrase before. It wasn’t until I got round to reading John Prescott’s defence of the Prime Minister’s YouTube performance, that the penny dropped. How slow am I? John [...]

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What every young McBride should know before marriage……

April 19, 2009

It won’t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that ‘cooking up’ stories with ‘tough as old boot leather’  Balls, he was liable to get his fingers burnt. The Sunday Times today is printing ‘heavily denied’ allegations that Ed Balls was the mastermind behind the  “dark arts” operation [...]

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McMysogeny and Gynophobic Politics.

April 17, 2009

Who can forget the colourful outburst by Sir Richard Mottram, the permanent secretary at the Department of Transport, in response to news that special adviser Jo Moore had suggested 9/11 was a good day to bury bad news. He said: “We’re all fucked. I’m fucked. You’re fucked. The whole department’s fucked. It’s the biggest cock-up [...]

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McBride, McCann, McSpin and McSmear

April 16, 2009

There has long been speculation regarding the high level of support the McCanns received from within the government when their daughter Madeleine disappeared. It has been defended as ‘normal government support’ for a family in distress – but was it government support or Labour Party support? The recent revelations of a high level ‘dirty tricks campaign’ [...]

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EU officials warned to be careful about email content

April 13, 2009

New rules on public access to EU documents have prompted the European Commission’s to warn officials to be careful what they write in emails and advising them to ‘narrowly’ interpret requests for information. The 15-page handbook was circulated in January to officials working in the commission Directorate for Trade. It reminds employees that all documents, [...]

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The McBride who Bolted from the Altar of Spin.

April 12, 2009

We listened respectfully to the vows as dispensed by Harriet Harman. “In future, under a Gordon Brown regime, we need to have no spin, no briefing, no secrets and respect for parliament,” We believed, we had faith. No spin? No briefing? No secrets? The very charms with which she had wooed her way into the [...]

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