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The kind of political chutzpah that “Prime Minister’s Questions” junkies have experienced for years on C-SPAN finally made it to the floor of the EU. British MP Daniel Hannan wrecks on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a classic Tory beat-down of bad Labour policies, this time on an international forum which everyone could see! Check it out:
“Brezhnev-era apparatchik [...]
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The full extent of the Obama Administration snub of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has fully come to light with an article in today’s U.K. Telegraph. While much criticism had been heaped upon Obama administration surrounding his seemingly thoughtless gift of 25 DVDs of American Movie Classics, it is reported that Brown was genuinely moved [...]
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The British government is considering a proposal that would establish a minimum price for certain alcoholic beverages. According to the proposal’s proponents, the law would be justified because underage drinking is putting a strain on the government-run National Health Service. The proposal is flawed for all of the personal liberty reasons most of us cherish. [...]
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Legitimate pollsters readily admit that the true value of a poll is not the main horserace number, but numbers on related questions that give a poll reader a more accurate reading on the dynamics of a race. One of these related questions is intensity.
It’s no secret that the British Conservative Party has been consistently leading [...]
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With the Conservatives consistently leading in the polls, political intrigue is at a fever pitch in the British Labour Party. As recently as this week, there were reports that the relationship between Gordon Brown and Deputy Labour Leader Harriet Harman (think Hillary Clinton without the people skills) has deteriorated to the point where Brown is [...]
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Ivan Cameron, son of British Conservative Party leader David Cameron, passed away on Wednesday at the age of six. His parents were at his bedside as he lost his battle with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. After learning the tragic news, Gordon Brown delivered condolences to his political opponent on the floor of the House of [...]
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Four hundred BBC employees have signed a petition to overturn the BBC’s recent decision not to broadcast a pro-Palestinian propaganda special “Gaza Humanitarian Aid Appeal.” The employees argue that by not airing the special, the BBC is effectively taking sides in the conflict. Apparently, the BBC would never dream of broadcasting one-sided coverage in the [...]
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The American Spectator ran an article yesterday which mixed two things I really love, combining contemporary politics and clever 1980s British satirists through poking fun at Obamanomics using the work of the late Douglas Adams!
Here are a few lines Joseph Lawler draws from Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
On the Presidency:
As the alien Ford Prefect explains to the human protagonist Arthur [...]
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Gordon Brown’s Labour Government threw a political Hail Mary yesterday when it proposed raising taxes in a slew of areas, including a 60 percent rate on top earners, coupled with borrowing levels Britain has never seen before. With his party badly trailing the Conservatives in the polls, the idea was to copy Barack Obama’s [...]
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According to this article citing a YouGov (accurate British pollster) survey, British society appears to “condemn” children, with a majority of Brits seeing their children’s behavior as “like animals.” On the bright side, maybe the British public is now immune from the childish political argument that a particular government program must be implemented “for the [...]
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Gordon Brown has drawn up an interesting proposal that would allow Catholics to sit on the English throne for the first time in over 300 years. Presumably, people from other currently excluded faiths would also be eligible to wear the crown as well. Given the decline of Anglican Church attendance, the increase in Catholic Church [...]
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Gordon Brown addressed the annual Labour Party Conference earlier today (or yesterday if you’re over there) and even though he delivered an OK speech, the Conservatives should be very happy when reading between the lines. Badly trailing the Conservatives for about a year now, it is hardly news when Brown attacks David Cameron as [...]
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Over the past year, many sharia court decisions in the UK have been backed by the force of law. The legal justification is an Act of Parliament which permits courts to enforce arbitration decisions. On the surface, this justification is nothing extraordinary. Many legal systems, including our own, look favorably upon and [...]
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This piece in the Daily Mail is quite a sad read, but definitely worth a look. Written by Carol Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher’s daughter, it offers a glimpse into the Iron Lady’s ongoing battle with dementia while also providing a personal look into her life by someone who obviously loves her dearly.
Hat tip: Conservative Home.
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One thing that bothers me even more than wasteful government programs is the way government often wastes money advertising wasteful government programs. Actually, what really bothers me is being caught off guard by a photo of an oversized vomiting sea cow. Thankfully this masterpiece advertising the fact that government will clean up your [...]
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The Anglican Church is in crisis. Britons are moving away from it in droves, many of whom are dropping religion altogether or becoming Roman Catholics, like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (I bet he has private health insurance too!).
The recent dilemma wreaking havoc over the Anglican Church is what to do about homosexuals. Many traditionalists [...]
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Kudos to Ireland for rejecting the EU Constitution in Thursday’s referendum. Although the rejected document was actually titled the “Lisbon Treaty,” voters realized that it was nothing more than the previously-rejected Constitution under a different name. How do we know this? Angela Merkel admitted it last year.
The main question on everyone’s mind at this point [...]
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As the headline indicates, May 2008 saw the lowest monthly death toll for US troops in Iraq since March 2003 when the war began. Nineteen soldiers lost their lives last month. We hadn’t seen numbers that low since 21 soldiers died in the month of February 2004. This is a testament to the successes we’ve [...]
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It’s funny how bias can work. Back when Tony Blair was a slick socialist in the mode of Bill Clinton posing a threat to John Major, I thought Cherie Blair was an insufferable *itch. After what Tony Blair did for the U.S. and the civilized world against a terrorist-harboring regime however, I now find Cherie [...]
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Our British friends went to the polls in a series of local elections in England and Wales on Friday and the results were an unmitigated disaster for Gordon Brown’s Labour Party. In fact, it was the Conservatives’ best election result in years. The icing on the cake however, was that Boris Johnson defeated [...]
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One classic line of attack from the liberal playbook is the false charge that conservatives are threatened by powerful women. You’d think conservative admiration for powerful women such as Margaret Thatcher, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and Condoleezza Rice would have dispelled this notion, but facts never got in the way of a good liberal talking point [...]
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We all love Nicholas Sarkozy for single-handedly making it OK to like the French again, and giving the Republicans here in America a model to win in November. But, we didn’t know much about his wife Carla until her recent trip to the UK this week.
Carla Sarkozy, formerly Carla Bruni (supermodel, poet, musician, actress, trysty lover of [...]
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I posted this a few days ago but I know some of you had trouble with the Sky video so here is the Youtube version.
Youtube video Hat tip: RedState
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This video (about 3 minutes) at CentreRight of William Hague mocking Gordon Brown reminded me why Hague is my favorite foreign politician. It’s geek humor, but if you know British politics, especially the Blair-Brown feud, you will laugh at loud. Even Labour leaders did. If you decide to click through to the [...]
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American economic woes drove world markets down considerably today, making today the worst worldwide market plunge since 9/11!
They’re even calling it “Black Monday” in London, as the FTSE (”footsie” as they say), lost 5.5% before recovering to a 4.3% loss by day’s end. London markets haven’t had a worse January since 1936. The drop is being [...]
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UK MP Barry Sheerman apparently isn’t very fond of Roman Catholic Bishops who seek to teach Roman Catholic doctrine in Roman Catholic schools. Reacting to Lancaster Bishop Patrick O’Donoghue’s call for abstinence education and crucifixes in Catholic school classrooms, Sheerman has requested that the Bishop appear before his Parliamentary committee because according to the [...]
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