Burnin’ Down The House

May 5, 2010 at 10:41 pm

It’s the night before the election. It’s Gordoom’s last night before his illegitimate and accursed premiership comes to an inglorious and miserable end. It’s the last 24 hours before he fights the first competitive election of his life…and loses. It’s the purging of the House of Commons; a record number […]

Election Night LiveBlogging

May 5, 2010 at 9:50 am

It’s almost here…the night that should see only the second change of a ruling party in the UK since 1979. We’ll be hosting another LiveBlog; this time starting when the polls close at 10pm and finishing when the last Moderator expires from alcohol poisoning in the early (or not so […]

In Defence Of Admirals

May 4, 2010 at 11:03 am

From yesterday’s Porstmouth News: “Clegg pledge to halve number of admirals” …He said: ‘I admire and want to support everyone who works selflessly in the armed services, but it’s hard to work out how to support people on the front line when money is tight. ‘We have to ask why […]

Seaside-Tsar: Shortest Government Non-Job Ever?

May 4, 2010 at 7:59 am

In a mind-numbing splurge of stupidity, Gordon Brown has apparently created something called a “Seaside Tsar” three days before an election. Duncan Bannatyne appears on television’s Dragon’s Den, which apparently is a capitalist version of Professor Heinz Wolff‘s classic show The Great Egg Race, and he’s been promised the new […]

The 3rd Leaders’ Debate LiveChat

April 29, 2010 at 6:15 pm

Tonight will be a live-blogging double-bill, starting with the second Leaders’ Debate and rounding off with Question Time and This Week. The Leaders’ Debate is a joint LiveBlog collaboration with a host of other splendid blogs; on Biased-BBC, All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat, Man […]

Leaders’ Debate and QT Liveblogging 29th April

April 28, 2010 at 3:49 pm

This Thursday evening again brings a double-bill of liveblogging….  “You lucky people”, as Tommy Trinder used to say. First up at 8.30pm we will be live blogging the 3rd Leaders’ Debate which is being broadcast on the BBC between 8.30pm and 10:00pm. Rather like the last Debate chat this promises […]

Ban The Bercow

April 23, 2010 at 4:19 pm

Vintage Nigel…

2nd Leaders’ Debate Liveblogging

April 22, 2010 at 5:16 pm

Tonight will be a live-blogging double-bill, starting with the second Leaders’ Debate and rounding off with Question Time and This Week. The Leaders’ Debate is a joint LiveBlog collaboration with a host of other splendid blogs; here on All Seeing Eye, and on Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, […]

Leaders’ Debate and QT Liveblogging Thur 22nd

April 20, 2010 at 7:29 pm

This Thursday evening brings a double-bill of liveblogging….  “You lucky people”, as Tommy Trinder used to say. First up at 8.00pm we will be live blogging the 2nd Live Leaders’ Debate which is being broadcast on Sky News between 8.00pm and 9.30pm. Rather like the Budget chat this promises to […]

Boris Lashes Cleggover

April 19, 2010 at 6:27 pm

Boris Johnson is on superb form in the Telegraph today: “What crouton of substance did Clegg offer last Thursday, in the opaque minestrone of waffle? He wants to get rid of Trident. Great! So Lib Dem foreign policy means voluntarily resigning from the UN Security Council, abandoning all pretensions to […]