Tag Archives: Liberal Conspiracy

Of Fluffy Kittens and Dead Bunny Rabbits

23Feb09 – 14:09

Over on LibCon, our CE comrade Paulie has written an article (and can I just say Paulie, it's fantastic) about the narrow populism and it's relationship to liberty. It's come in for a few bits of criticism such as this from cjcjc:
Paul Evans well demonstrates the liberal hatred of the masses…how very dare they have [...]

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Morning roundup, Monday 23rd February 2009

23Feb09 – 09:21

Like the Taxpayers' Alliance, we at Common Endeavour were really relieved when Lord Ashcroft hoved into view to save the Conservative Party from having to rely on the vastly increased wads of Short Money (TAXPAYERZ MONEY!!11!!!) that the evil Labour Party granted them in order to prevent them from going bankrupt following the 1997 election. Triumph of democracy, innit? But it appears that the man that many within the Tories almost certainly refer to as "the good Lord" might be facing some tasty questions about some of his companies (Chris Paul has an excellent roundup here). Ho hum. Whilst we wait for the Electoral Commission to investigate, why doesn't the Taxpayers' Allowance investigate the estimated £4.5m the Tories received from the beleaguered public in Short Money in this year alone? No, thought not.

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Morning roundup, Tuesday 10th February 2009

10Feb09 – 10:54

Ed Balls makes a comment to his local Labour Party about how this recession thing is going to be pretty bad, and before he knows it he's being splashed all over the front of the dailies in the same sentence as the word "gaffe", poor bloke. Still, he should have known better; as my one time office manager exclaimed whilst reading about how an MP's infidelity came to light, "He boasted to his Labour Group about it? Why didn't he just hand over the photos the the News of the Screws himself?"

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