Posted on August 13, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Seems to be a slow day for Swinton South Lib Dems, who’ve been reduced to trying to think up a campaign song for the Tory PPC for Worsley & Eccles South.
Regular visitors to this blog will know said PPC as my token Tory friend, so don’t expect any sniping from me.
However, while thinking about songs [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Lots of noise yesterday about George Osbourne’s claim that the Tories are carrying the ‘torch of progressive politics‘.
I’ve actually never been a big fan of the word ‘progressive’. I think it tends to be used in the Labour Party by people who don’t want to use the word ’socialist’. But what does it mean to [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Dan Hannan’s still off on his badmouthing-the-NHS-around-the-world tour, this time telling the Army & Navy Club in Washington that free healthcare (like what we’ve got) represents a ‘huge power grab by the state machine’. Someone give the boy a biscuit.
Hannan obviously departed this planet for MiltonFreedmanWorld long ago. Making sick people better, for no cost at the [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Someone from Blackburn Labour told me that all right-thinking bloggers were ignoring the silly Total Politics poll, so I didn’t vote.
Then all the other bloggers and Tweeters started listing the blogs they were voting for (ignoring Iain Dale’s instructions that we are not supposed to do this), and Tom Harris put Blackburn Labour at the [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Sorry, this post is going to be a bit massive. Like I said I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, and since I started it I’ve been delayed by swine flu and #freeBevaniteEllie and stuff.
In the couple of months since I was last regularly blogging, I have…
- been listening to a lot of Lily [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Sorry, loyal readership – this full-time-job lark doesn’t half take it out of my blogging time. Also I was in Edinburgh from Saturday to Monday (incidentally, Blackford Park/Blackford Hill is an AMAZING place to walk a dog. I don’t have a dog. But a lot of people there did and now I’m thinking of getting [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
I said this yesterday and I’m going to keep saying it: you know it’s a slow news weekend when ‘Damian McBride doesn’t like Tories, and Paul Staines doesn’t like Derek Draper‘ is on the front page of BBC News.
Just in case you’ve not been following this one (hi Mom), here’s the short version. In January, [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Go to Blackburn Labour for this week’s edition of Tory-mocking fun.
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Posted on March 13, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
I’m seriously behind schedule today, as last night my friends at Blackburn Labour (be careful, when you click on that link Jack Straw starts talking to you) pointed me in the direction of the Tory logo maker and I was up having very, very sad fun with it until about 4am. Read this post on the Blackburn [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2009 by Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
The Department for Communities and Local Government came in for criticism yesterday from the communities and local government committee, who said the DCLG had only taken ‘the first steps’ towards a reasonable performance, and that their eco-town programme was ‘clearly in some difficulty’. Well, fair enough. Must be a somewhat difficult department to run what [...]
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