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UK Politics

US Deaths in Iraq at All-Time Low

June 1, 2008

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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Cherie Blair’s Take On Tony and Gordon

May 11, 2008

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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Red Ken Livingstone and Labour Take A Beating as Boris Johnson Paints London Blue

May 3, 2008

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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Harman vs. Hague: Pre-Thatcher Talking Point Thirty Years Too Late

April 13, 2008

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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Carla Sarkozy — International Babe

March 28, 2008

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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Update: William Hague Video

January 27, 2008

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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William Hague Mocks Gordon Brown

January 22, 2008

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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Worldwide Market Panic

January 21, 2008

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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Catholic Schools Too Catholic For Some

January 1, 2008

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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Forcefeeding the EU Constitution

December 15, 2007

I think I’ll break up this string of anti-Huck posts.
Gordon Brown signed the renamed EU Constitution the other day, and he is rightfully taking a lot of heat for it. The thing is, in the 2005 election, the Labour Party manifesto promised to hold a referendum before the UK would adopt the EU Constitution. The [...]

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Boris Johnson Imperiused

November 1, 2007

Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party candidate for Mayor of London, has been placed under the imperius curse by She Who Must Not Be Named.  Although Johnson has never been one to simply tow his party’s line, he has never actually gone off the deep end. Now, by his own admission, he is endorsing “a [...]

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Gordon Brown Chickens Out

October 7, 2007

Everything is falling apart for Gordon Brown. After weeks of speculation that there was a snap election in the works, Gordon Brown chickened out, deciding against calling the election. Brown’s about-face alone is a significant story, but was merely the culmination of what was a terrific week for Conservative Party Leader David Cameron.
The [...]

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William Hague’s Comeback?

September 29, 2007

It’s no secret that I’m a William Hague fan. His moral clarity would be an asset to the UK and the world, and his brand of political theater is rivaled by few.  For quite some time now, I’ve been hoping for and even predicting a Hague comeback in which he re-gains his position as [...]

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Conservatives Nominate Boris Johnson for Mayor of London

September 27, 2007

Boris Johnson has been elected as the Conservative candidate in next year’s election for Mayor of London. His main opponent will be current Mayor “Red” Ken Livingstone.
For those unfamiliar with Johnson, he is a Tory who looks like Doc Brown, writes like Ann Coulter, and is as entertaining as Bob Dornan. He [...]

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Pressure Building On Gordon Brown to Call an Election

September 24, 2007

Several Labour MPs are calling on Gordon Brown to call a snap election. With Labour riding high in the polls, many marginal backbenchers realize that their best chance of keeping their jobs is to fight an election battle before people remember why it is they were disaffected with Labour in the first place. [...]

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Margaret Thatcher Returns to Downing Street

September 13, 2007

Margaret Thatcher visited 10 Downing Street today, giving conservatives around the world a pleasant flashback and a momentary mirage of the way things ought to be. What a shame that Gordon wasn’t the one who was just visiting.
There is no consensus over whether Brown’s invitation to the Iron Lady was a shrewd political move. [...]

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Tory Health Care

September 4, 2007

This article should be a huge wake-up call to many in the United States who want to embrace national health care.  It is a simple principle that goes back to the Enlightenment:  the more the government does for its citizens, the less personal freedoms their subjects have.  When put in the hands of welfare state [...]

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The Tube Goes On Strike

September 4, 2007

Sorry Londoners, but Tube workers have walked off the job as part of their 72-hour strike. Having experienced the most recent NYC subway strike, I know how aggravated many of you are.  I truly feel for you.
I’m sure our London friends are familiar with this song about the frustrations of urban transportation, but most [...]

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Labour Revolt Over EU Constitution

August 27, 2007

For some time now, Gordon Brown has been risking his Labour party’s post-Blair bounce by arrogantly insisting that the UK adopt the EU Constitution without a referendum despite Labour’s most recent election manifesto promising one.  Until now, Labour’s worst case scenario resulting from their broken promise was the creation of an issue for the Conservatives [...]

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Brown’s Bubble Could Burst if Promise Is Broken

August 20, 2007

Gordon Brown has been riding high in the polls ever since he moved into Downing Street despite ignoring the source of the attempted terrorist attacks on his country. In fact, Brown is doing so well that many of our British friends believe that a snap election may be called sometime soon.  Labour should not [...]

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Gordon Brown’s US Debut

July 30, 2007

New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had his first joint press conference with President Bush at Camp David this morning and guess what?  They got along on all the foreign policy issues that matter, including Iraq, Iran and the overall War on Terror!  Brown sounded outright hawkish on the nature of terrorism and the will [...]

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The Right Honourable Ostrich

July 3, 2007

Just days after Islamic terrorists attempted to attack London and successfully attacked Glasgow International Airport, Gordon Brown has forbidden his ministers from using word “Muslim” when describing terrorism. This move comes despite the fact that every act of international terrorism in recent years in the UK and elsewhere has been committed by Muslims. I’m sure [...]

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Missing Tony Blair

June 30, 2007

Some American liberals sounded like this when Bill Clinton left office. And when Al Gore lost. And when John Kerry lost. They were adults though.

Hat Tip: The Spectator’s Coffee House

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UK Terror Plot Foiled!

June 29, 2007

Word has come out from across that pond that a loaded car bomb was found near Picadilly Circus in the heart of London outside of a popular night club, and on Park Lane, at the edge of Hyde Park. 60 liters of petrol, propane gas and nails were found in an abandoned car near Haymarket. [...]

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Tony Blair Leaves Number 10

June 27, 2007

Tony Blair stepped down as British Prime Minister today, ending his decade-long stay at 10 Downing Street. His term in office will go down as one of the most significant in modern history. As Prime Minister, he transformed the face of the Labour Party and strengthened the already sturdy special relationship between Britain [...]

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Sir Salman Rushdie

June 18, 2007

In another outburst of Muslim peacefulness and tolerance, effigies of the Queen and Salman Rushdie burned as the Pakistani parliament approved a measure today condemning the knighting of Salman Rushdie and calling for Britain to renounce the act and apologize.  Then, Pakistan’s “religious” affairs minister, Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, said:
“If someone exploded a bomb on his body [...]

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From Tony Blair to Tony Blair to Tony Blair to Gordon Brown

May 11, 2007

Yesterday, Tony Blair announced what everyone saw coming. He resigned as leader of the Labour party and will leave Downing Street on June 27. Since the Labour leadership contest is expected to be as suspenseful as our Democrat primary, Gordon Brown will shortly be crowned as the new Labour leader at which point [...]

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David Cameron and the Girlie Man

April 9, 2007

David Cameron is a big Arnold Schwarzenegger fan. In fact, Cameron is such a big fan that he invited the Governator to speak at this year’s Conservative party conference. According to Cameron:
“Governor Schwarzenegger led a dramatic revival of his party’s fortunes in California and as governor he has shown tremendous leadership – above [...]

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