So its the day after the shit hit the fan for Blair and his missfits. Yesterday was the local elections in 176 of 388 regions and Labour lost 255 of the 1,768 seats it was defending while a resurgent opposition Conservative party under new leader David Cameron gained 250. Talk is now afoot within the […]
The UK will be hit by strike action by some 1.5 million people on March 26th. The action will take place by Council / Local Authority Staff. This is the biggest strike in the UK since 1926. The strike could have another twist is teachers also decide to join in with the planned action. It […]
Tony Blair has one the 2nd vote on the prgramme motion by 10 votes. Even though he has won the vote his days are numbered as leader. He has indicated for a while that he will step down before the end of his term, the votes tonight will make this sooner rather than later. 1 […]
Tony Blair has won the vote for the second reading of the new Education Bill, 51 of his own MP’s voted against it which is not good, therefore it was only with the help of the opposition that it was passed. We now await the vote on the progrmme motion which everyone is saying will […]
At around 7pm (GMT) today there will be a vote on a new education bill in the House of Commons which could decide how much longer Tony Blair stays in power. The bill itself is fairly important to the future of education over here but I won’t go into details as it does not effect […]
We have another leaked British memo showing even a larger history of problems with the Iraq War. The memo is being reported in the Guardian today: Senior British diplomatic and military staff gave Tony Blair explicit warnings three years ago that the US was disastrously mishandling the occupation of Iraq, according to leaked memos. John […]
Oh it’s such a good news day. Over the previous few days Tony Blair has been giving his support to Tessa Jowell over allegations of fraud that her husband is being investigated for in Italy along with the italian Prime Minister (see previous post for details). I think everyone but the PM believes Tessa Jowell […]
More comments are being made on this topic, I just wish someone would say what is actually happening, millitary sourses are saying there is a plan, No 10 is saying no there’s not…. make your mind up guys, one of you has to be right, time for you to bang your heads together and come […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The talk of British troops pulling out of Iraq rumbles on. Britain plans to pull out nearly all its soldiers from Iraq by the summer of 2008, with the first withdrawals within weeks, a top military commander said in an interview published on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Nick Houghton, Britain’s most senior officer […]
UK’s Culture Minister Tessa Jowell has split from her husband who is currently under investigation in Italy for fraud charges which also invloves the Italian Prime Minister. It seems her husband David Mills who is a Tax Lawyer used his connections to the Prime Minister to gain business. I have found an interesting report in […]