http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/iraq-war-inquiry-2011-chilcot
“Opposition politicians expressed renewed doubts about the scope and approach of the Iraq inquiry today after its chairman Sir John Chilcot confirmed that he may not be able to report until 2011”
(EDITOR: That'd be the first disaster for Brown, then...)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/30/chilcot-iraq-inquiry
“Now the Iraq inquiry has bite, it will hound Gordon Brown to the polls”
(EDITOR: Good. And beyond, it is to be hoped)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/sun_says/2564820/The-Sun-Says.html
“AT last, the Government seems to be waking up to the scandal of compensation payments to injured troops. Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth returns early from holiday promising an immediate review of how we provide for wounded heroes”
(EDITOR: There's another one! Fred Kite knows enough to give up his holiday. Why doesn't Brown?)
“It would be better for our boys if Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth stayed on holiday”
(EDITOR: A different take by Andrew Roberts who wrote: “Rarely can a Cabinet Minister have proved himself so unworthy of office so quickly as the new Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth. He took over only on June 5, but already it is clear that his penny pinching disdain for British forces in Afghanistan has had a devastating effect on morale. Even in the midst of Operation Panther’s Claw in Afghanistan, which finished this week with countless British casualties, the minister who famously said he was ‘busting a gut’ to help soldiers in Helmand province has been undermining them back home” I think Andrew Roberts makes some good points on old Fred Kite)
“Gordon Brown is 'John Major in 1996', according to new poll”
(EDITOR: Many people place Brown much lower than that)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/identity-cards-union-flag-uk
“The union flag has been left off the final design for the British national identity card unveiled today in order to respect the "identity rights'' of Irish nationals living in Northern Ireland”
(EDITOR: And there's Alan Johnson, holding his own ID card. Even though he told us the whole plan had been scrapped. Apparently not...)
http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/fallenhero/Brothers-in-arms.5505736.jp
“AS thousands lined the streets of Castleford to say goodbye to fallen hero Rifleman James Backhouse, the town learned another of its sons had been killed in Afghanistan”
“Gordon Brown's equipment pledge in letter to Afghanistan troops”
(EDITOR: But does anyone believe Gordon Brown? It is doubtful)
“Donations to Scottish Labour fell by 90% in just one year”
(EDITOR: Quite clearly former Labour Party supporters in Scotland don't)
“Lord Mandelson performed a dramatic Labour U-turn on spending cuts last night -on Gordon Brown's first full day on holiday. The Business Secretary, who has become deputy Prime Minister in all but name, made it clear the recession will force the Government to rein in spending even in areas it wants to protect”
(EDITOR: Oops. That's a nice one to leave him with)
“Labour has a lot of work to do before the general election”
(EDITOR: Duh... No shit, Sherlock?!! How about reducing that workload by calling a General Election whilst Brown is on his holidays, Lord Mandelson?)
“Labour ministers have rubberstamped the sale of more than 200 school and community playing fields, official figures have revealed. The party came to power in 1997 promising to protect the green spaces and bringing the then Tory Government's "policy of forcing schools to sell off playing fields to an end." But statistics published in the Commons Library show 203 pitches have been lost in England and Wales under Labour, with ministers approving 49 sales in the four years since London became the host city for the 2012 Olympics”
(EDITOR: Lord Mandelson is right. Lot of hard work to get rid of all those school playing fields)
http://www.burnleycitizen.co.uk/news/4515710.Hyndburn_Labour_leader_to_boycott_meetings/
“Hyndburn Labour leader to boycott meetings He was in turn accused of ‘letting down the residents of Peel and Barnfield’ by Independent Coun Malcolm Pritchard, who also claimed that Coun Jones had sent ‘misleading emails’ to him claiming that the meetings were cancelled. Coun Pritchard said: “I’ve had emails and text messages saying the meetings were cancelled and not to go and I’ve reported it to the Standards Board.”
(EDITOR: Same as the old boss, eh? Labour just cannot change its spots, can it?)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/jul/27/vestas-wind-plant
“Labour's green rhetoric is hollow unless it acts now to protect Vestas”
(EDITOR: Brown's idea of addressing environmental concerns is to generate hot air)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203347/Recession-force-unemployment-toll-4m.html
“Recession 'could force the unemployment toll to 4m'”
(EDITOR: Yes, but this is wholly different to the mass unemployment under the Conservative government of the 1980s. Well... isn't it?)
“Furniture restorers, tree planters, museum guides and cooks will be among 47,000 'socially useful' jobs created by Labour to tackle youth unemployment. The taxpayer-funded posts - branded 'non jobs' by critics - will also include dance assistants, sports coaches, and solar panel engineers, under £1billion proposals unveiled yesterday”
(EDITOR: What's wrong with providing real jobs rather than short term 'nonjobs'?)
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/letters/What39s-Labour-frightened-of.5504722.jp
“What's Labour frightened of? UNLIKE most of your correspondents on Thursday, July 9, on the letters page, I have been in the public gallery of the council chamber and witnessed the behaviour of Labour Mayors and Labour councillors when people like Allen and Jane Branley speak up for the residents of the borough. Most Labour councillors never say a constructive word, but they are ready to shout and yell at anything the Branleys say.”
(EDITOR: The public are noticing what Labour are up to...)
“No place for party politics”
(EDITOR: Unless, of course, you are Labour)
“After 12 years of Labour, the poor pay more tax than the rich”
(EDITOR: Well done, Brown)
“Bill for Assembly ministers’ overseas trips prompts calls for more openness”
(EDITOR: Hard to tell Plaid Cymru and Labour apart, these days. PC might as well do what the Co-Operative Party did. Allow itself to be subsumed into the Labour Party)
“Decision due in extradition case of Asperger's Syndrome hacker Gary McKinnon”
“Mother arrested after confronting child who 'bullied daughter' A mother, Anisa Borsberry, was arrested after confronting children who were allegedly bullying her 11-year-old daughter.”
(EDITOR: GBB: Gordon Brown's Britain)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5941578/Corbys-toxic-waste-the-families-speak-out.html
“Corby's toxic waste: the families speak out As a judge rules that Corby Borough Council was negligent in its dumping of toxic material, Bryony Gordon goes there to meet three of the children suffering from birth defects”
(EDITOR: Did you know Corby was Labour controlled, then? “Jobs, not health” what a spiffy little motto.)
And that's it for the moment. Though I dare say there'll be more of this and other stories before the end of the day)
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