E tu, Brutus?

With the resignation of Tom Watson, the Junior Defence Minister, along with six Parliamentary Secretaries Tony Blair’s position appears increasingly untenable. Whether he goes in the coming weeks or whether he is able to cling to power until 2007 is really now in the hands of Gordon Brown – the likely architect of today’s resignations. This will of course be the course of endless and mindless gossip amongst our ever fervent press. The real politics of the day though is what will come next.

Just How Bad a President Had George W Been?

Gary Younge is a very bright man and has written a brilliant article explain just how crap George Bush has been. Read it at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1864123,00.html

Over the past six years, George Bush’s performance, both in office and on the campaign trail, has often been less than stellar. But his packaging has, for the most part, been exemplary. He has been projected as a man of the people and a man of action. Never mind that he did precious little for the first 40 years of his life and that most of what he did achieve came courtesy of his father’s connections. Image was everything. This was the MBA candidate who would take care of business – literally and metaphorically; the blue-blood whose folksy affectations turned blue states red; the affable jock who created a softball team called Nads in college just so that he could make banners saying “Go Nads”.

Vote Blue, get Green (words)

George Osbourne, the Shadow Chancellor (the man accused by Dennis Skinner in the House of taking cocaine), has been making a policy announcement today. That’s good, as so far the Tories only have policies on sexy children’s clothing (against) and turning left at red traffic lights (for).

Today’s announcement was on the environment and boiled down to encouraging people to take greater personal responsibility, including simple things like flying less. Seems to make sense, except when you look at where this policy announcement was made… Japan. Now just how did Georgie boy get there? Maybe he used slimy Dave Cameron’s bike, or maybe just maybe he used the hot air that he and his colleague spew out at every opportunity to power an aircraft? Most likely I think he flew and in doing so will have produced about enough carbon to heat 5 average British homes for 1 year. Tosser