I’ve just watched the second episode of Tower Block Of Commons and I was amazed that MPs would agree to go onto it. It sounds like a good idea in principle but when you’re in a job that gives you lots of excessive money and you put yourself with people struggling to pay their own rent, you’re not going to look good no matter how nice you are. Here are the scores:
Nadine Dorries – 6 – She was polite and came down to earth with a rather large bump. Obviously a classy lady who has a financially comfortable lifestyle, why she appeared on this show I have no idea. She made a rather true statement that council estates have improved – they may not be able to buy food but they all have the latest gadgets, TVs and mobile phones.
Austin Mitchell – 0 - Absolute tit. Came across as a typical ‘tory snob’. Except he’s an MP for the Labour party, you know, the one that represents the working class. He couldn’t every bare to sleep with them and his wife had a rather poisonous, sneering tongue. I would expect this from an old, typical Conservative MP that David Cameron is trying to kick out, but not from Labour. Champagne Socialist.
Tim Loughton – 6 - One of the only MPs on there who seemed to genuinely care. Cynics will say he’s doing it for the cameras and my partner is sure he’s going through a mid-life crisis but I felt he did care about the welfare of the people and their children. When he sat down with the father who had a drink and drug problem, going through his issues and how he was brought up, I was very moved, as were both of them.
Mark Oaten – 5 - Very similar to Tim in that he was friendly and did his best to fit in with the people he was staying with but his own expenses scandal and the ‘holier than thou’ attitude was highly irritating, especially when he was berating the mother for spending £42 a week on cigarettes, when he claimed over £100 for two irons. “I try to buy the cheapest items”. Bollocks and everyone knew that.
It should be renamed ‘See MPs brought down to earth and humiliated on TV’.
Liberal Democrat Mick Bates was admitted to a Cardiff hospital after falling over in the street and banging his head in the early hours of the morning following a lengthy night’s drinking.
His party has also launched an internal investigation.
Montgomeryshire AM Mr Bates, who had already announced he was stepping down at next year’s election, said last night: “I give an unreserved apology if I abused anybody.”
It is believed he has no recollection of the night’s events.
How old is he? 62, that’s how old! I’m shocked that someone of that age would get so drunk that they’d fall over.
A reliable source has given me a rather exact date on when he is expecting the election. He has heard that Brown is fearing a double-dip recession so wants to get the election out of the way, should this be the case.
Sorry to startle/worry any campaigners out there but you might want to get your skates on – it’s exactly 2 months today.
Previous information I have had from the source have been correct so I think this is a certain possibility.
This was a trial podcast we did nearly 3 years ago. We had a great time making it and if you like it, maybe we will do some more. Let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks!
They’re now yellow and aqua, as opposed to black and orange. Changing the colour so close to an election is rather risky, that’s a lot of new ‘Lib Dems winning here’ signs to go up in the new colours! I’ve never been a big fan of the ‘Orange and Black’, this one is better but I think this would be better:
UPDATE: Alan from LibDem HQ has messaged me to say that the colours are ‘in addition to’ the orange and black, not as a replacement. That would make more sense.
Call me cynical, but what odds would you get on Gordon Brown and Alastair Campbell breaking down on national TV? I would have thought there would be a bigger chance of the pope coming out as gay than that happening. The no-nonsense Malcolm Tucker teary-eyed over the Iraq war and Gordon ‘I don’t use my family for electoral gain’ Brown discussing the death of his child born prematurely 8 years ago.
Of course, I imagine Gordon and Sarah are both still horrified about the death of such a small baby, it’s hardly surprising if they are. I just question the time to talk about it when they’ve kept their silence for so many years. Just think if it was the other way around – if Cameron had done it, Labour would be accusing the Tories of everything under the sun to gain votes.
If it wasn’t intended to get more support, then the timing of it is appalling. Looking at comments on various news sites including the Daily Record, the majority of people think this is done to get the sympathy vote and I think it will do more harm than good.
For whatever reason it was done, Gordon is either treating us as idiots or is an idiot for talking about it so close to an election.
The ex-mayor of a Lancashire village who got “sexual kicks” from breaking into women’s homes to steal underwear has been jailed for two years.
Ian Stafford, 59, who admitted three counts of burglary, resigned his post in Preesall after his arrest last year.
Preston Crown Court heard how he would creep into their bedrooms and search drawers for the underwear, before carrying out a sex act.
He was caught after one victim set up a hidden camera, catching him in the act.
The Sun claims he was spotted semi-naked, putting on the woman’s underwear and performing a sex act upon himself. Lovely chap, he doesn’t look like a weirdo at all, does he?
It is my belief that euthanasia should not be legalised. I understand that the majority of cases will all be legitimate and the person in question does want to end their life but there are many issues that need resolving:
What if someone is pressured into killing themselves by a relative who has something to gain?
What if they are not of the right state of mind – mental illness could cause swings where sometimes they want to die, sometimes they don’t?
Life should be preserved at all cost when the patient is conscious or has a possibility of recovery
Even if 99.9% of all cases are legitimate and the victim really did want to die and was not pressured or had any chance of recovery, the fact that one or two cases could result in unlawful death doesn’t bare thinking of. We should be injecting money into dementia sufferers and those with debilitating illnesses – not providing an easy way out.
That’s my view anyway, turning off a life support when there is no chance of recovery is a different matter. Nothing will change for them.
I know I’m probably in a minority but let me know what you think in the comments.
Gay refugees from Africa should be granted asylum in the UK, David Cameron has said.
The Tory leader suggested homosexuals should be allowed to stay in Britain if their life would be in danger if they were sent home.
At present, under Labour’s immigration rules, gay men are often sent back to countries with homophobic regimes – and advised simply to keep their homosexuality under wraps in case local police attack them.
But in an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, he said rules should be changed to give further protection to people fleeing persecution because of their sexuality.
He promised to do more to stop homophobic rappers from coming into the country, and said he would force faith schools to teach their pupils there was nothing wrong in being gay
Wow, that’s really going to irritate the typical Daily Mail reader. Supporting gay rights AND asylum seekers. I can’t wait to see the comments! let’s hope he acts on these and isn’t full of hot air.
Reading the article, he also announces that gay men shouldn’t be banned from giving blood too and said the Church of England should move towards gay acceptance.
Strong stuff! I’m sure a few old fuddy-duddies will be opposed to that on the Tory backbench but it shows that he’s leading the party away from the past.
As posted on a previous blogpost, I blog a couple of times a week for YourCardiff, part of WalesOnline. The first blog has bene published, here’s an excerpt:
In First Minister’s Questions today, FM Carwyn Jones was boasting about Baden Powell’s Primary School in Cardiff being the 1,000th school in Wales to sign up to the ‘free breakfasts in schools’ initiative. However, you have to question the amount of money being pumped into it – £8.3m last year!
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