This made me smile – amid the very sad chaos of London Bridge and the almost as worrying election… An Asda twat has a very specific price and given the recent ‘Which’ report and the fact that Asda originally invented Black Friday in the UK (owned, as it is, by American based, Walmart) it has… Read more
N. Ireland GE2019 (4) E. Belfast and Alliance
Introduction This is the fourth post in the NI GE2019 series. The previous three are on North Belfast and the DUP, Sinn Féin and Foyle and the SDLP and South Belfast. I visited Stormont in May 1968 on a Civics trip from my Dublin school to learn how NI governance operated and of course to… Read more
Egos ‘r’ us
Should really be the motto of the Conservative Party. Not only have they drawn up a ‘smearing manual’, full of falsehoods and half-truths to use against both Labour and the LibDems, but they also have threatened to review Channel Four’s broadcasting licence, because the Channel not unreasonably, chose to replace Johnson’s non appearance with a… Read more
The Magic Nurse Tree was queried in Penzance
It’s almost as if the Penzance nurses read Progressive Pulse! So Johnson was politely asked if he had a nurses tree… Indeed Johnson’s hospital visits are not easy. By comparison Corbyn had a rather well attended rally in Cornwall as this photo indicates: This is in former LibDem country and I think that the LibDems… Read more
State underfunding has consequences for justice
I don’t intend to write much about this but I think that this travesty in the short, linked article below is well worth highlighting: What public interest was there in prosecuting Supt Robyn Williams for possessing a video she never wanted? This is a black woman – just with 36 years of unblemished Police service,… Read more
N. Ireland GE2019 (3) – SDLP and South Belfast
Introduction. This is the third of the GE2019 series. The first two on the DUP and N. Belfast and Sinn Féin and Foyle are available by clicking on the links. Some History When Northern Ireland was founded in 1921 it had many advantages over the Free State, not least because it contained about 80% of… Read more
Labour’s dilemmas and how to resolve some of them
I have mentioned Russ in Cheshire before. He has proved to be an interesting if unconventional twitterer. What follows is no more than the truth and yet practically every media outlet treats Labour’s tax proposals as rampant Marxists stealing all of our income. Really? Labour’s tax plan only affects people earning more than 3 average… Read more
The Pothole Manifesto
Is, I think, an apt description of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. Even the IFS considers the manifesto to be devoid of anything of great consequence – indeed the £2billion pothole fund maybe its star spending plan and would have been completely unneccesary if the Tories had actually funded local authorities properly. They seem belatedly to… Read more
An advent calendar for our times..
Led by Donkeys has launched an Advent calendar: To celebrate the Johnson/Farage seasonal kinship, we’ve launched a Tory-Brexit Party electoral alliance advent calendar. Open a new door each morning between now and election day to see examples of lies, lunacy and hypocrisy from the Brexit Party and their new electoral allies, the Conservatives. In addition… Read more
N. Ireland GE2019 (2) – Sinn Féin and Foyle
Fig. 1. Featured Image Charles Stuart Parnell a Titan of the Home Rule movement. Introduction This is the second of the series on GE2019 NI. The first on the DUP and N. Belfast is available here. The Republican analysis evolved over the approximately 50 year period between 1870 and 1920. It was a time of… Read more
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