Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Adams Takes the Queen’s Shilling

He was happy to take the expenses, but now someone’s taking the mick. They say all political careers end in failure, but this has to be a new low:

There is some debate about whether Adams applied or had the constitutional position forced upon him. Hardly the point though when the crown is on the press release


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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…

“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”



magic_otter says:

is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?


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