A couple of blog exclusives this week got followed-up by broadcasters and the Dead-Tree-Press. We revealed that the raging consultant who burst in on Cameron and Clegg during a hospital visit is now on “permanent leave”. Guido spoke with a member of the TV production pool team who was scathing, insisting that they did offer to scrub-up but the senior nurse said there was no need since they weren’t going to touch patients or anything else. He said the consultant was “grandstanding” and a few other more choice words.
A “Westminster village” only story was about the “Sack Gillan” PMQs question planted by Cheryl Gillan. As Greece slides down the euro-pan we took a moment to name the British Europhile “Guilty Men” who would have dragged Britain into the monetary mess, including a young Danny Alexander (pictured), even though he was only a boy at the time. He is now the Treasury Secretary…
We did ask this week “Why Did Luciana Chuck Her Man, Eh?“ However the most popular story of the week is a year old story which whilst not directly involving Luciana Berger was still relevant to her.
This week 77,945 visitors made 237,152 visits to view 357,720 pages. The top stories last week in order of popularity were:
- Keeping Up With Technology
- Exclusive: Cam Rage Consultant On Permanent Leave
- Black Rod Clamps Down on Boozed-Up Bag Carriers
- Why Did Luciana Chuck Her Man, Eh?
- Cold Calling Ed Told Where To Go
- Gillan’s Planted Shot at Dave
- Milly Dowler’s Family Call for “A Life for A Life”
You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…
His National Insurance number, mobile numbers of advisers and staff, as well as an odd-looking address book. Nothing too damning on first glance, but an embarrassing breach of security none the less. Lolz indeed.
While Palin begs for a meeting, it seems Republican front-runner Mitt Romney has skipped straight to emulating Maggie:
Worked for her. Saatchi and Saatchi should send an invoice…
UPDATE: Ben Brogan points out that
Mitt Romney’s rip off of Margaret Thatcher’s famous 1979 “Labour isn’t working” poster is quite funny. But while the image is still striking, he seems to have missed the point: “Labour isn’t working” is a clever bit of wordplay. “Obama isn’t working” isn’t.
Milly Dowler’s mother Sally says:
“The lengths to protect his human rights have seemed so unfair compared to what we as a family have had to endure. I hope that whilst he is in prison, he is treated with the same brutality he dealt out to his victim and that his life is a living hell. For a mother to bury their child in any circumstance is truly agonising, but to bury your child when you know she died in such an appallingly awful way is terrible.”
Milly’s sister Gemma put it succinctly and powerfully, the family won’t have seen justice without:
“An eye for an eye, a life for a life…”
A call for justice which has majority support in the country, but unfortunately not in parliament.
The political class complains that the public is disengaged, could that be in part because there are a number of issues where the political class refuses to carry out the wishes of the people. All polls since 1965 when hanging was abolished show that there is majority support for capital punishment, yet there is no majority for it in parliament. It is not even an issue for parliamentarians even though the incidence of homicide is higher now than it was before the abolition of hanging. The coalition has promised that there will be e-petitions legislation before the end of this year. If it passes Guido will put all the resources at his command into a campaign for a vote on the restoration of capital punishment for child and cop killers. Even if we don’t win the vote on the floor of the House, we shall at least see which MPs believe salus populi suprema est lex, and those that put the welfare of child killers above the wider community. Bring it on…
Sir Peter Westmacott has just been announced as the UK’s new Ambassador to the States. His wife’s brother is Hassan Nemazee, the multimillionaire Iranian-American investment banker. Nemazee is currently serving twelve years for defrauding Bank of America, amongst others, for an eyewatering $292 million. Much of which went on donations to the Democrats.
Should make for an interesting chat at the White House…
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