The Sun sets on New Labour

TODAY's front page of The Sun newspaper will send shudders throughout Labour's high command. Its mocking of Gordon Brown over the migrant workers miscounting, plus the refusal to hold a referendum on the Lisbon reform treaty-***-constitution...

Populist soundbite, fantasy politics, or sheer unadulterated hypocrisy? No, it's a truth that must be spoken

DAVID CAMERON today risked the wrath of the liberal left, the BBC's Facebook crew, and the so-called thinkers who make up The Guardian's editorial staff, by raising the risky subject of immigration. The Tory leader warned that the current rate...

Brown's sauce

WE'RE heading for a bruising devisive battle in the Commons on the EU reform Treaty "not a constitution" parliamentary ratification "not a referendum." The only way Gordon Brown can be defeated in the Commons is if a significant number...

Trust is a five letter word

  GORDON Brown declares he wants to put trust back into Government decisions and his dealings with the voters. But in almost the same breath, he insists he won't countenance holding a referendum on the new EU reform treaty because he has safeguarded...

Wake up, the Lib Dems are having another leadership contest

SO the starting gun has been fired in the two month marathon to reach the Liberal Democrat finishing line in the great struggle to become party leader. It beats me that anyone wishes to lead a party which seems to be inhabited by a shady bunch...

Exit Ming into the Scottish mist

THE most popular corner shop in Westminster is the one that sells knives - long handled sharp daggers which can be plunged into the backs of politicians of whom colleagues have found dispensable. To the cast list in a Wagnerian marathon which started...

Fixed term parliaments the only answer for Brown's tawdry behaviour

AN increasing number of people I speak to were so appalled at the disgraceful attempt by Gordon Brown to manipulate our unwritten constitution by considering an unnecessary General Election that they are backing my long held belief that we should...

This bankrupt Scottish duo

WHAT a pathetic spectacle in the Commons yesterday as Chancellor Alastair Darling and our Cheshire Cat Prime Minister Gordon Brown brazenly lapped up Conservative indignation that they had stolen Tory ideas on taxation in an obviously panic move to staunch...

Gordon bottles it

SO after all the hints and winks, Gordon Brown is not going to call an election,. according to the BBC.  With the economy said to about to go belly up, it had been expected that Brown would go to the country. Apparently, the Tories are surging ahead...

The big loser is Blackpool

PITY poor old Blackpool, a tired and rundown resort which need far more than TLC. This once proud holiday town is dominated by trashy topless bars, table dancing clubs, and down at heel bed and breakfast establishments. The latter is why all political...

Some final reflections on the conference season

THESE past three weeks have been dominated by Gordon "will he or won't he call an election" Brown. I'm certain all the speculation was deliberately intended to destabilise the Tories and panic them into publishing key details of their manifesto. In part...

This weekend's polls will be crucial

WITH the generally good reception the Tories’ tax plans have been received by the national media, and the coverage it was given on television last night, the Conservatives seem to be convincing themselves that they’ve called Gordon Brown’s bluff. If...