Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 10 Jeffrey Archer
The Jeffrey Archer affair was rather an odd one and it has been alleged that he took the rap while covering up for a colleague. He was an MP, left and wrote best selling books [more…]
Labour
Conservatives
When will the boats stop coming in?
So. Just to be (in the words of 2TierKeir) absolutely, crystal, clear……….. UsLabour has finally abandoned any pretense about “Stopping the Boats” or “Smashing the Gangs”. Such ‘policies’ have now been consigned to the spider infested, deep [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 08 Cecil Parkinson
One of Maggie’s blue eyed boys. Yet again another sex scandal. Cecil was a cad. He was the Tory MP for Hertsmere from 1979 to 1992, then they gave him the ermine and he moved [more…]
Conservatives
Another jumped up Mayor
To quote a certain newt-fancier named Leninspart “And I’ll tell you another PM who used to be a provincial mayor”. This of course refers to the much maligned Neville Chamberlain who had been Mayor of [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 07 Lords Lambton and Jellicoe
Two ministers in Ted Heath’s government who featured in sex and drugs scandals. If only they had known what Ted was alleged to be up to. This was exposed by the News of the World [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 06 Lord Boothby
Robert Boothby, often known as Bob, later elevated to Baron Boothby in 1958, was a Tory politician and not a particularly successful one but I remember him always being on political programs in the 1960s [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 05 John Vassall
Purists will argue that John Vassall was nothing to do with the Tories and in a sense they are right. John Vassall was a junior civil servant who spied for the Russians between 1954 and [more…]
Economics
Feelz and Squealz
Watching Bodybags making his first speech at Conference as leader I was reminded of a famous quote attributed to George Burns. “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”. [more…]
Democracy
New Realities in Old Holborn
Old Holborn Between 1983 and 2015, the Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras was northerner Frank Dobson. A railwayman’s son from York, Dobson was a grammar school boy and economics graduate. After leaving the [more…]