He’s actually going!

Just seen on the BBC: Gordon Brown ‘stepping down as Labour leader’ The one eyed loon is actually leaving Downing street, of course it throws the horse trading with the LibDems wide open again and may yet result in Labour staying somewhat in power for a while at least. But I’ll take solace where I can find it and that the one eyed Scottish idiot is leaving is worth a drink in my book. +10

Beyond the valley of the blogs

Over at Charlotte Gore’s blog there’s a rather good article on political geekery, which makes two very good points. The first being that if you’re reading this blog (or hers or any of the political blogs) then I hate to say it but you’re probably at the moment either a friend of the blogger or a political geek – or as she more kindly puts it “People Who Are Into Politics.”. The other point picked up more in the comments is one I want to look at a bit closer is that blogging isn’t enough, talking amongst ourselves on blogs … Continue reading

Strange days indeed

The end of the world must surely be coming, that or I’ve fallen into some odd alternate reality, for today we have: Tom Harris saying Daniel Hannan is right (which he is) and elsewhere Peter Tatchell is defending homophobes (well their right to free speech). All these attacks on our liberties and sovereignty do make for some strange alliances. +1-1