Some might say Lord Sugar and his underlings have too much time on their hands, but to be fair they did manage a funny with the last of their alternative Christmas carols this afternoon:
Get into the Yuletide spirit by singing the full set around the fire…
H/T @ontablets
Last week’s belated caption contest winner is Chooky with this effort, the best of a very mediocre set of entries:
“After Cameron tells Leveson where to put his report, the Lord Justice regrets writing the 4th Volume.”
Get in touch for your copy of Geoffrey Robertson’s “Mullah’s Without Mercy”. Let’s try harder this week…
Last night’s Newsnight panel on free schools was made up of two headteachers, a former teacher and the suspiciously anti-Tory Lucy Reese, billed as “a parent governor from Camden where primary schools have the best Ofsted outcomes in the country”. What they didn’t tell you is that Reese is actually a Labour activist, touted earlier this year as a potential council candidate for upmarket Primrose Hill. A writer for Left Futures, when Reese isn’t helping out at her local primary school she knocks on doors telling people to vote for Ed. Must have slipped their mind…
£53,000 expenses cheat Margaret Moran’s lawyer has delivered a withering rant about how terribly out of order the press are for reporting her crimes:
“The more vengeful press, who hound her at her front door, seem to think that the only way someone can be demonstrably mentally ill is if they are in a straitjacket in a padded cell. The reports back in April all agree that she suffers from this mental illness. Hounding a mentally ill woman is a dangerous and vile thing to do, at any time, particularly post the Leveson conclusions. It could have led to an increased risk of suicide. There will always be sections of the media who believe it’s a huge con. But they’ve not read all the evidence.”
At least Craig Oliver did it subtly…
Via @SophyRidgeSky
Of all the MP Christmas cards Guido has laid eyes on so far, this effort by Austin Mitchell is surely the most disturbing. This week’s best entry will win a copy of Fred Metcalf’s “Dictionary of Humorous Political Quotations”. Make them funny…
Ed Miliband called on immigrants to integrate and learn English. Under Labour we were told that immigrants will have to reach a minimum standard in English language by the Home Secretary David Blunkett in 2004. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in September 2007 said immigrants “need to integrate into our country, learn English and use our language.” In 2009 Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said “Immigrants must learn English.” They didn’t have much success in government with this policy…
UPDATE: Press released text to “check against delivery”:
We talked about “shared citizenship”.
But we did too little to tackle the realities of segregation in communities that were struggling to cope.
So Labour has to change as well.
What does a strategy for integration look like?
What he actually said verbatim:
We talked about “shared citizenship”.
But people said what does that actually mean in practice.
So we’ve got to change as well.
What does a strategy for integration look like.
Ed didn’t quite ‘fess up to one of Labour’s failures on immigration…
