http://www.beltoday.com Social and political commentary from a conservative perspective Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:21:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A previously unheard-of Government Minister resigned today. David Cairns (for that is his name) is unhappy with Gordon Brown's leadership, and feels that he can no longer serve under him. I have just been reading his resignation letter, and, goodness me, what a frightening document. Here are some excerpts: "Dear Gordon, As someone who ... http://www.beltoday.com/200809472 It's been a while since I posted here. In all that time, not much has changed in UK politics. The hapless Gordon Brown is still seated uneasily on his throne, and things continue as they were. The cowardly Cabinet has still not found the necessary backbone to shove Gordon off ... http://www.beltoday.com/200809no-change Every morning, I check the latest UK news to see how things are going in the annual Labour leadership selection. Every morning, the news is the same as the day before. Much muttering and grumbling from "unnamed Cabinet ministers", together with angry rebuttals from "allies of the Prime Minister". This carried on ... http://www.beltoday.com/200808labours-cowardice Much talk in the press about Labour MPs and ministers plotting to unseat the hapless Gordon Brown. For some reason, they seem to think that he is the root of all their current woes. They do not realise, or choose not to realise, that the problem goes much, much deeper ... http://www.beltoday.com/200807labours-delusion I have just had the dubious pleasure of watching Harriet Harman blunder her way through Prime Minister's Questions. For all that, she still did better than Brown on his best day. http://www.beltoday.com/200807harriet-harman-on-pmqs So Gordon Brown is now lecturing us to stop wasting food? This from a man who, as Chancellor, threw away almost £2bn of taxpayer money every year on overpaid tax credits (see here and here). A man whose Government continues every day to create new ways to waste our money. (For ... http://www.beltoday.com/200807the-hypocrisy-of-gordon-brown Yeah, that'll show him. http://www.beltoday.com/200806mugabe-stripped-of-his-knighthood A follow-up to my recent post about our political journalists. I find it somewhat amusing the way Gordon Brown's downfall has been predicted again and again by the so-called 'analysts' and 'experts' that make up the UK political commentariat. Before the local elections, the consensus among this astute and discerning group of ... http://www.beltoday.com/200805more-on-our-political-journalists I don't know if I will ever understand the blinkered reasonings of the lazy political journalists that inhabit the UK. Obviously, there are exceptions, but most of them appear just to swallow Government propaganda and regurgitate it without thinking. I am thinking right now of Nick Robinson's reaction to Alastair Darling's ... http://www.beltoday.com/200805our-political-journalists While going through the UK news from last week, I happened upon an interesting story. A not-so-merry band of thieving women were up before a judge to be sentenced for their role in a robbery. In handing out his sentence, the judge described them as behaving like "a bunch of over-the-hill ... http://www.beltoday.com/200805judge-describes-three-women-robbers-as-over-the-hill-slappers