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You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…
Guido’s ears in the Cabinet Office report that a certain former Deputy Prime Minister isn’t very happy. Apparently Prezza rang in yesterday to rant about the fact that his government credit card expenditure had been released. A spokesman for Prezza told Guido that “he rang the Cabinet Office for clarification as to whether they would be publishing expenditure under £500 for every former Labour minister or just for him.” Oh to be a fly on the wall for that one…
http://twitter.com/#!/SkyNewsBreak/status/129952950712926211
It’s taken the best part of a week for the protestors at St Paul’s to realise that 54% of them leaving at the end of the day is an utter PR disaster. After being widely mocked by everyone except the Guardian, (who have taken to using as yet unnamed “scientists” to back up their copy) the occupiers have begun fighting back. Three days too late…
They have made a video that purports to show that one of the tents is particularly thick and therefore doesn’t let much heat through. They can’t have spent very long in it. Given the overlap with that the occupiers have with the eco-warriors do they really expect us to take what they say about science with anything other than a healthy pinch of salt? Maybe they could ask their friends at the University of East Anglia for some help…
John Mann may be a professional rent-a-quote but occasionally he hits the nail on the head. The left’s anti-semitism problem is well documented and acknowledged by everyone except the left, so it’s good to see someone finally standing up to their own side’s dark undertones:
Early day motion 2320
OCCUPY PROTESTS
Primary sponsor: Mann, John
That this House notes the `Occupy Wall Street’ and `Occupy London Stock Exchange’ protest movements; believes the right to protest is an essential tenet of democracy; further notes concerns have been raised in America about the anti-Semitic nature of some of those protests; further believes signs referring to `Hitler’s Bankers’ and `Google Jewish Billionaires’ are offensive and have no place at such protests; further believes the verbal or physical abuse of Jews by demonstrators is unacceptable; and calls on leaders of the Occupy demonstrations worldwide to condemn anti-Semitism and act to stamp it out whenever it occurs.
And all this comes on the day that the protesters demand show trials of bankers. Yes, they actually seem to be going down that road…
UPDATE : It seems OccupyWallSt LA also has an anti-semitism problem:
