Another disaster, another 'Downfall'

Hat-tip to Barking Spider.



If only!

The dislike that dare not reveal itself

I've just read another excellent blogpost from Dan Hannan or Dan the Hannan as Andrew Neil would probably call him. It concerns the treatment of UKIP byt the beeb in the Norwich North by-election. All the coverage from them concentrated on four parties, Tories, Labour, Libdems and the Greens. Now at the most recent electoral test, the euro and locals UKIP finished ahead of the greens in the norwich north wards. And yesterday they finished ahead of them again and only 800 votes shy of the libdems. What would the UKIP result had been had they been afforded the coverage of the greens. They compounded this by showing a bar graph of the result which showed the 3 main parties and the greens vote percentages but ignored UKIP completely.I'm not a UKIP supporter but feel they deserve a fair shake of the stick. They are clearly a strong political force now and are definitely the largest party outside the big three and at their current trajectory will inevitably win a seat in parliament in the future. And that's what the BBC hate. People have been quick to accuse them of bias before but they are making it possible for anyone sane to defend their stance. The real balance of politics will end up like this in future. You will have two parties of the left (Libdem and Labour) and two on the right (Conservative and UKIP) dominating the political agenda for the forseeable future. At the moment the state funded media monopoly is tring to live in some socialist utopian fantasy, (well, apart from Jeremy Clarkson.

The beeb needs to get it's act together or it will be signing it's own death warrant.

A Question

Have Labour carried out their threat to kill the fox? Or was it just hot air, like so much of what they spout these days?

Why I'm not joining Labour

Big hat-tip to Ollie Cromwell at the redrag. He's got a new gif going with reasons why people are not joining Labour. If you'd like to add your own reason, click here. Excellent work as alway my amigo, and I shall add the aforementioned gif to this site.

PS. Oh, Gordon. Whilst having more helicopters may not have prevented the deaths of soldiers in the last couple of weeks, don't even pretend that it wouldn't have helped prevent the steady dripfeed of deaths we have suffered from roadside IED's over the last couple of years. I have had family and friends serve in the army and find it personally offensive that soldiers have died because you wanted to piss the taxpayers money up the wall on Labour's pet spending projects. Blair may have led us to war but you were the one who wanted to fight it on the cheap.

Damp squib

All the fury from the left about Coulson and this select committee hearing has shown it to be a pointless waste of hot air. They didn't nail him, to be honest, most didn't try. One or two tried to bring his (irrelevant) present employer into play but didn't get very far. Coulson handled the questions well, even managed to have a few subtle digs at Tom Watson over his (alleged) role in smeargate.

So there you have it, he will not be sacked and labour will not get their sacrifical lamb.

Off-topic, just seen on Iain Dale's blog that Norwich North's Labour candidate has been admitted to hospital with swine flu. I wish him a full and speedy recovery though have a feeling he'll be feeling a bit sick on Friday come what may.