This article complaining that the “compare the meerkat” ad is racist is possibly the ultimate Comrade Blimp article. There is some suspicion that it is a piss-take. Even the headline is too good.
Via Tory Bear.
With YouGov polling that the Tories are still seen as more trusted with the NHS than Labour, the Guardian/ICM poll has another glaring result:
Asked, regardless of individual party preferences, whether a Tory government under David Cameron, or a Labour one under Gordon Brown, would be best for Britain 37% of people who voted Labour in 2005 – now think Cameron would be best, only 31% back Brown.
The Conservatives lead Labour among all social classes and in all regions…
If those numbers were true in any other British political party they would just get rid of the leader. The Labour Party has lost the collective will to win and turned into a horde of lemmings…
As is traditional, most of the Friday Caption Competition entries were lame. Marginally less lame was this one
Gordon enjoyed wearing his gift fron J.K Rowling.
The spin-off on Ollie’s own Red Rag blog* deserves some reward, a copy of The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze will wing it’s way if Ollie emails his postal address. Don’t go to the blog without mind-bleach to hand…
*Guido is sure he has heard that name somewhere before.
It is the 40th Anniversary of the Libyan Revolution next week (Tuesday). This is a very big deal for the socialist dictatorship, invites have gone out from the Libyan Embassy to cabinet ministers and normally the foreign office would ensure that someone senior up to and including the Foreign Secretary was in attendance.
Tricky given current circumstances with all that untapped oil and those defence sales opportunities. Don’t forget the military training we provide to the Libyan dictatorship. A lot of money is at stake. Who from the government will risk the paparazzi? Guido is betting on Ivan Lewis…
Worth bearing in mind that Gordon Brown didn’t wish the team well for the Ashes. Do co-conpirators remember this:
It appears to have worked…