And another thing…

THE LIBDEMS have unveiled their general election slogan. I rather like it. It’s pithy, catchy and down with the kids…

A TRIUMPHANT – and yes, emotional – conclusion to the tenth Doctor’s reign.

THE headline says it all, really.

“I wish to respond to speculation in this morning’s newspapers that I vote Conservative. It has also been suggested that in 2001, when my husband, the Labour MP Tom Harris, first stood for parliament, I campaigned actively for his Tory, nationalist, Liberal and Trotskyist opponents. It is also reported that I tampered with the brakes on his car just before he drove to the council headquarters to lodge his nomination papers. This allegation, along with the allegation that I stood outside a polling station holding a placard reading “Anyone But Harris!!” and shouting into the faces of elderly voters cannot be proved.

“I will, of course, offer my husband the same level of support at this election that I have always offered.”

SOMETIMES a picture just doesn’t need a humorous caption to make it funny. This was taken by a Welsh MP at a local surgery venue.

TOGETHER with his distinctly amateurish call for an inquiry into allegations of bullying at No. 10, Dave’s assertion that it’s his “patriotic duty” to become Prime Minister probably ranks among his Top Ten Cock-Ups Of The Last Seven Days. It will return to haunt him, I hope fear.

Hat-tip to Charon QC for this:

PRESENTING a sneak preview of David Cameron’s speech to this weekend’s Conservative Spring Conference:

Conference, we find ourselves at a crossroads – a crossroads for change. Our society is broken – the “broken society”, if you will. And we need to change it. Because it’s broken, and only change can fix something that’s broken. That’s why I will be a Prime Minister for change. Because the country needs change because the country is broken – just like society, that I mentioned earlier: the broken society.

We can’t go on like this, with a broken society, always broken, never changing. We need a new government that will mend that broken society, that will bring about change – change in government, change in the country and, yes, change in our broken society.

Our critics say I’m not being specific enough about change. Well, here are some specifics: we will change the economy, we will change our schools, and we will change the health service. Because they’re all broken. And we need change, not broken-ness, and only change – change for the better – can change what we need to change, because (that’s enough “change” – Ed)

COLONEL Gadaffi’s rather odd outburst against Switzerland yesterday (but then, I suppose “odd” is a relative term when referring to Libya’s leader) reminded me of this post I wrote last year.

What is it about the Land of the Cuckoo Clock that so antagonises such a disparate group of people?