Comments on: Resignation and the power of the blogs http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/ Incisive and topical campaigns and commentary on today's issues and tomorrow's problems Thu, 24 May 2012 17:19:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul Cohen http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14107 Paul Cohen Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:09:55 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14107 Why was Mc Bride allowed to resign instead of being sacked? It probably allows him to keep a pension! Why was Mc Bride allowed to resign instead of being sacked?
It probably allows him to keep a pension!

]]> By: APL http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14106 APL Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:22:30 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14106 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169350/Transport-Secretary-Geoff-Hoon-hit-new-70k-rent-row.html Oh, Lordy! What a surprise. Geoff, what a Hoon! If this is so above board and 'honest' (in a New Politics spin sort of way), why don't politicians come out during the election and say, "Look you lot, I've promised you loads of stuff if you elect me, you know, 'ospitals 'n schools, all sorts of extra stuff. Now all those goodies are going to cost you, ooh, lets see, about £70,000 per year for the next five years. Now, run along and stick your x next to my name." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169350/Transport-Secretary-Geoff-Hoon-hit-new-70k-rent-row.html

Oh, Lordy! What a surprise.

Geoff, what a Hoon!

If this is so above board and ‘honest’ (in a New Politics spin sort of way), why don’t politicians come out during the election and say, “Look you lot, I’ve promised you loads of stuff if you elect me, you know, ‘ospitals ‘n schools, all sorts of extra stuff. Now all those goodies are going to cost you, ooh, lets see, about £70,000 per year for the next five years. Now, run along and stick your x next to my name.”

]]> By: APL http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14105 APL Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:46:25 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14105 Adrian Peirson: "They should Serve not Govern, that’s the problem." Yep, and they should get domestic servant rates too. Adrian Peirson: “They should Serve not Govern, that’s the problem.”

Yep, and they should get domestic servant rates too.

]]> By: mikestallard http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14104 mikestallard Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:20:25 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14104 I am always intrigued by stupidity. Why is the Labour Party in power that stupid? Releasing lies and innuendo about other people always leads to other people's disgust. It never works in the long term. I think the reason must be that they honestly think that progress depends on the good guys (that's them) telling the bad guys (Tories) or people who are too thick to know better (the proles) what is good and what is bad. And, if you believe, like Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Woodrow Wilson or Oswald Moseley that you really do know best, then, surely, it is justified to launch into personal attacks. After all, the bad guys are the bad guys and that is what you would expect. So my question is this: have we nearly seen the very last of the Labour Party and socialism in UK? I do hope so. I am always intrigued by stupidity. Why is the Labour Party in power that stupid? Releasing lies and innuendo about other people always leads to other people’s disgust. It never works in the long term.
I think the reason must be that they honestly think that progress depends on the good guys (that’s them) telling the bad guys (Tories) or people who are too thick to know better (the proles) what is good and what is bad.
And, if you believe, like Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Woodrow Wilson or Oswald Moseley that you really do know best, then, surely, it is justified to launch into personal attacks.
After all, the bad guys are the bad guys and that is what you would expect.

So my question is this: have we nearly seen the very last of the Labour Party and socialism in UK?
I do hope so.

]]> By: Mike Wilson http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14103 Mike Wilson Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:18:01 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14103 A completely bankrupt government - morally and financially. They know they are now done for - they know they have made an even bigger mess than the Labour party of the late 1970s. They are now truly beneath contempt. Brown came into power promising an end to spin! I never thought I'd find myself thinking 'bring back Blair' but Brown has achieved that much. They are now, surely, unable to be taken seriously - even by the BBC. While the country falls apart around them, they sit and plot and dream up lies to spin about their opponents because they know they cannot go to the country on their record! What is to become of us. Those of us that are older are fearful for our pensions and the prospect of working until we are put into a box - but what is to become of young people. Saddled with debts taken on in our name by a feckless and USELESS government. A completely bankrupt government – morally and financially. They know they are now done for – they know they have made an even bigger mess than the Labour party of the late 1970s.

They are now truly beneath contempt. Brown came into power promising an end to spin! I never thought I’d find myself thinking ‘bring back Blair’ but Brown has achieved that much.

They are now, surely, unable to be taken seriously – even by the BBC. While the country falls apart around them, they sit and plot and dream up lies to spin about their opponents because they know they cannot go to the country on their record!

What is to become of us. Those of us that are older are fearful for our pensions and the prospect of working until we are put into a box – but what is to become of young people. Saddled with debts taken on in our name by a feckless and USELESS government.

]]> By: Rob http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14102 Rob Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:14:02 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14102 Those rules are only meant to be for the little people. Those rules are only meant to be for the little people.

]]> By: james barr http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14101 james barr Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:27:02 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14101 Liam Byrne's attempts to downplay this story are quite pathetic. He repeated ad nauseam that Draper and McBride had decided that it was inappropriate to publish these fabrications. In other words they are the good guys and Guido is the bad guy. Pathetic. That's a little bit like a drunk driver having run over a pedestrian on the pavement claiming that the pedestrian had no right to be there! The exchanges between these two horrible individuals clearly show that they wished to develop a strategy to smear the Tories. Labour have hugely impoverished the political process with their addiction to spin. Byrne's explanation this on the news this morning was a classic example of this. Blair and Brown have debased politics to the level of reality television. Civil servants are employed to enact the policies of the government. They are paid by the taxpayer and should not be indulging in this type of activity. If any of the Labour Cabinet were in the private sector they would have been sacked a long while ago. It's time for a change of government. It's also time for a radical change in the way Government conducts its business and spends our taxes. Liam Byrne’s attempts to downplay this story are quite pathetic. He repeated ad nauseam that Draper and McBride had decided that it was inappropriate to publish these fabrications. In other words they are the good guys and Guido is the bad guy. Pathetic. That’s a little bit like a drunk driver having run over a pedestrian on the pavement claiming that the pedestrian had no right to be there! The exchanges between these two horrible individuals clearly show that they wished to develop a strategy to smear the Tories. Labour have hugely impoverished the political process with their addiction to spin. Byrne’s explanation this on the news this morning was a classic example of this. Blair and Brown have debased politics to the level of reality television. Civil servants are employed to enact the policies of the government. They are paid by the taxpayer and should not be indulging in this type of activity. If any of the Labour Cabinet were in the private sector they would have been sacked a long while ago. It’s time for a change of government. It’s also time for a radical change in the way Government conducts its business and spends our taxes.

]]> By: Derek W. Buxton http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14100 Derek W. Buxton Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:01:06 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14100 Wasn't this the reason Mandelson was recalled to the fold, get the dirt rolling. I suspect that this whole thing originated from the evil duo, Brown and Mandy, their fingerprints are all over it. Having said which, it is past time for the conservative party, if it wants the top job, to stand up and be counted. You, Mr. Redwood seem to know your way around, maybe due to your business training, but I am not so confident of the party or it's central office. Too much is missing from the information coming from there. Derek Buxton. Wasn’t this the reason Mandelson was recalled to the fold, get the dirt rolling. I suspect that this whole thing originated from the evil duo, Brown and Mandy, their fingerprints are all over it.

Having said which, it is past time for the conservative party, if it wants the top job, to stand up and be counted. You, Mr. Redwood seem to know your way around, maybe due to your business training, but I am not so confident of the party or it’s central office. Too much is missing from the information coming from there.

Derek Buxton.

]]> By: Emil http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14099 Emil Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:47:46 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14099 How ironic for Draper to be bleating about people reading private emails when HIS party and government are fully in favour of all our emails, and website visits, being divulged to them How ironic for Draper to be bleating about people reading private emails when HIS party and government are fully in favour of all our emails, and website visits, being divulged to them

]]> By: elizabeth http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/04/11/the-power-of-the-blogs/#comment-14098 elizabeth Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:56:29 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=3368#comment-14098 There is something rotten in the heart of Gordon Brown's Downing Street. (Post continued to allege that this bad practise is spreading out into a leading charity, through Draper's friends). There is something rotten in the heart of Gordon Brown’s Downing Street. (Post continued to allege that this bad practise is spreading out into a leading charity, through Draper’s friends).

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