http://www.beltoday.com Social and political commentary from a conservative perspective Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:47:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 According to the Daily Telegraph, Gordon Brown has appointed his eighth spin doctor of the year. I wonder if Gordon Brown remembers the following words; he uttered them during PMQs on 11 July 2007, in reference to David Cameron: "He can go for his PR—I will go for being PM, and ... http://www.beltoday.com/200804gordon-brown-appoints-spin-doctor-number-8-of-2008 On the news that the Government faces a revolt on the 10p tax issue, a 'Treasury source' attempts to explain that compensation for those hardest hit may not be that straightforward. Saith he: "The Chancellor hasn't any money," ... "There is no secret stash up his sleeve." Isn't that part of the problem? ... http://www.beltoday.com/20080410p-tax-rate-whose-money-is-it-anyway I must say, I'm rather surprised by the less than sympathetic response to John Prescott's revelation that he has been suffering from bulimia for many a long year (see, for example, here and here). Could it be that one man can inspire such loathing that even the revelation of his deep ... http://www.beltoday.com/200804john-prescott Beginning to stir from my long blogging slumber. And a deep slumber it has been. Nothing seemed to rouse me, not even the increasingly desperate state of affairs currently obtaining in the United Kingdom. However, the time approaches for me to return, even if gradually, to the world of political ... http://www.beltoday.com/200804finally-awake