Advice To MPs

Food banks are no laughing matter!

Advice To Politicians

Don't hang on to the coat tails of the recently departed.

Tories Try To Erase History

In a bizarre and Orwellian attempt to erase history the Tory party has tried to delete its speeches and policies of the last 10 years from the internet.

As per ComputerWeekly:

"The Conservative Party has attempted to erase a 10-year backlog of speeches from the internet, including pledges for a new kind of transparent politics the prime minister and chancellor made when they were campaigning for election.

Prime minister David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne campaigned on a promise to democratise information held by those in power, so people could hold them to account. They wanted to use the internet transform politics.

But the Conservative Party has removed the archive from its public facing website, erasing records of speeches and press releases going back to the year 2000 and up until it was elected in May 2010.

It also struck the record of their past speeches off internet engines including Google, which had been a role model for Cameron and Osborne's "open source politics".

And it erased the official record of their speeches from the Internet Archive, the public record of the net."

In one massively misjudged move, the Tory party has focused everyone's attention on its past rather on the country's present/future. How can that possibly benefit the Tories?

Advice To David Cameron

Slagging off Blue Peter, by associating it in a derogatory manner with Miliband's economic policies (or lack thereof), was a mistake given the positive image and "brand value" of Blue Peter in many people's minds.

Huhnegate

It appears that Chris Huhne is trying to blame the media for his speeding in 2003 and for perverting the course of justice.

How can one ever trust a politician if they never accept responsibility for their own actions?

The "Special Relationship"

Those who are paranoid about the demise of the so called "special relationship" between the USA and the UK, especially in the light of last night's defeat of the British government's plans to launch punitive strikes with the US against Syria, should have no fears.

The "special relationship" is only ever invoked by the USA or UK when one or both governments wants something from the other or the people of those two nations (usually backing for a war). On other occasions, non military, it is rarely invoked or used for emotional blackmail.

The UK gave no direct military backing to the USA during Vietnam, and the US gave no support to the UK during Suez; yet the "special relationship", or rather the invocation of the "special relationship", has continued.

Poor Old Mr Ed

The Huffington Post states that No 10 and the Foreign Office think Ed Miliband is a fucking c**t and a copper-bottomed shit.