Are they related?

Just over 400 years a after the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions, someone who looks an awful lot like him is trying to get in by more orthodox means. Old Holborn is standing as the Jury Team candidate for Cambridge – get the low down on his official profile here. Hopefully he’ll do better than the man whose visage he shares.

Last chance honest…

Can I interest you in 50 days to save the world? No? How about a nice last chance summit in Copenhagen then, lovely set of delegates? No? Ok then how about a hardly used next parliament last chance then? You won’t see many of them around I can tell you. Urgent decisions, lots of chances to look concerned (and raise the odd tax or two – know what I mean) plus wall to wall celebrity endorsement. Just sign here, don’t worry about the financing.

In other news…

Obviously the big story at the moment is four ministers taking cash for access the defence of which was that that they were variously lying or should not be given credibility (Guido has a petiton). So that’s reassuring then we don’t need to worry about ministers offering to take cash for access as they’re either mad or lying (or possibly both) – but still fit to govern whilst exceeding the government’s recommended weekly alcohol limit (which is much cheaper to do in the subsidised bars in the houses of Parliament). Whilst that’s been going on Gordon has re-announced plans to … Continue reading