Another bad week for Gordon. New Labour routed at the polls and rumours rife of a leadership challenge. New Labour having much more in common with the Conservative Party than old Labour, they are almost certain to stick the knife in the PM’s back if fortunes do not turn around quickly.
It’s that time again.. Hobson’s Choice politics - when you can get any political party to represent you that you would like.. As long as it’s right wing.
Ken, Boris and Brian were all on the show this week, bickering away as though that is what people wanted to hear from the leading candidates for Mayor of London. But while it was very entertaining I’m not sure that’s what people were really looking to them to do. As a footnote: I was a bit disturbed to see that them turn up in the same colour suits as I’d painted them in - even though I completed the piece the day before.
The Politics Show has returned after the Easter break and this cartoon hopefully reflects the present economic worries of the nation which continues to carry the fat cats who continue to cream of the profits from banking where rates are lowered for them but raised for the rest of us, and ever greater price hikes from the privatised utilities and food giants - but we’ll keep on paying and they’ll keep on getting richer because that’s the British way.
Poor old Alistair Darling, I wonder if he’s glad he got handed the poison chalice of stewardship of an economy in decline? In his first budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had to announce lower than expected projected growth, so perhaps he needs a new suit to fit this change?
It would seem to me the only people who think the 24 Hour licensing laws had been a succes are the New Labour government, while the rest of us see drink related violent crime becoming ever more prevalent in our society. Anyone who ventures out in the centre of any medium sized town and larger at the weekend in Britain cannot fail to see the effects that cheap booze and liberal licensing laws are having on our society. I want a country where no one is ever afraid to walk the streets and what the government have really said in announcing that 24 Hour licensing is here to stay is that they couldn’t care less about our safety nor right to be left alone to go about our business without fear of harassment or physical attack.
The knives were out for the Speaker again and this time he looks as though he may be on his way following revelations about unreasonable expense claims including one for thousands of pounds to cover his wifes taxi fares.
It looks like Alastair Darling is in a bit of a spot with economy still looking decidedly shaky and now with the Northern Rock monkey on his back. It’s not looking good for the ‘dead man walking’. Another bad week on world markets could be spark the end for the chancellor.
The Archbishop of Canterbury caused a real hullabaloo when he appeared to suggest that the adoption of parts of Sharia Law into the UK criminal justice system was inevitable. For a clever man, which Rowan Williams is, it would seem careless in the extreme not to see what the reaction would be to his speech. So what if he wasn’t foolish at all? What if the furore was the real reason behind his ‘conclusions’?
Jack Straw was in a bit of a mess - his civil servants are caught bugging MP’s without his say so nor knowledge. Not only that but he also makes it clear that he thinks that MP’s should retain the right to privacy when dealing with their constituents, just as he announces that the rest of us are about to lose the right to privacy in legal matters. One law for us and another for you eh Jack?
