Cut out and keep guide to new labour
It’s May 4 – time to get out and vote if you’re fortunate enough to have the privilege. The power of Geoff compels you! For those considering a cross in the red box, here’s a handy guide to the last nine days and the last nine years (an amalgamation of this list and this list plus a few choice bonus items), in no particular order:
- The Ricin ring that never was
- “Blair saw legal caveats a year before invasion“
- “Tony Blair privately committed Britain to war with Iraq and then set out to lure Saddam Hussein into providing the legal justification“
- “Children ’starving’ in new Iraq”
- “Tube PPP ‘cost public purse £1bn’”
- Cooking the books
- Lobbygate
- “Blair broke code to keep war advice from Cabinet”
- “Almost a third of the government’s arms sales machine is dedicated to selling to a single regime, Saudi Arabia.”
- “Several hundred people plotting”
- MRSA deaths double in four years
- 700 hours to ban fox hunting, 2 days to ban habeas corpus
- Outflanked on the left by Michael Howard
- “Hard choices”
- “It makes you wonder what the other ministers are hiding.”
- 700 hours on foxhunting, 7 hours on Iraq
- Torture flights
- Tuition fees
- Diego Garcia
- Lakshmi Mittal
- Foundation Hospitals
- Bernie Ecclestone
- Creationism in schools
- Ozzy Osbourne but not injured soldiers
- Our Culture of Fear
- Imprisoned without trial
- Straw wants to sell guns to China but Blair has no time for Dalai Lama
- “We are asked to accept Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.”
- Privatisation of the air
- “I have no doubt that he will be exonerated.”
- Mandelson
- Mandelson
- Jackie Milburn
- Blair the Stowaway
- Turning unaccompanied asylum-seeking children away
- Making corporate bribery easier
- “Reforming” the House of Lords
- Holidays with Big Tobacco
- Democratic only when it suits
- London Underground privatisation
- Paul Drayson
- Half-arsed Freedom of Information
- Alastair Campbell
- Alastair Campbell
- Alastair Campbell
- Alastair Campbell
- Minimum Wage = Poverty Wage
- “Tony Blair repeatedly intervened in a bid to deport asylum seekers to Egypt despite being told that they might be tortured and sentenced to death”
- “Well, Britain gave its support but I did not see anything in return.”
- Hawks to India
- Craig Murray
- Pervez Musharraf
- Uzbekistan
- ID Cards
- PFI Hospitals
- Outsourcing hospital cleaners
- PFI Schools
- A golden future. For some.
- 45 minutes from Doom
- The Dodgy Dossier
- Ken Bigley
- Margaret_Hassan
- Iraq
- Why aren’t they counting the dead?
- “Putting King Herod in charge of a maternity wardâ€Â
- Astroturfing
- Tax credits
- Basra: “a mini-Iran-come-Sicily”
- “Several hundred” terrorists was actually only 11
- John Reid: Firebombs are better than napalm
- Margaret Hodge to Rover workers: Get a job at Tesco
- Stifling protest
- UK arms sales to Africa reach £1 billion mark
- Pisspoor computer system #1
- Verah Kachepa
- Walter Wolfgang
- Memorandum of Understanding #1
- Charles Clarke: “I welcome the decision” on allowing information extracted under torture.
- Memorandum of Understanding #2
- Sent back to Iraq by mistake
- Pisspoor computer system #2
- Innocence is no defence
- The Respect Action Plan
- Pisspoor computer system #3
- The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
- Olive Mukaraguwiza
- Pisspoor computer system #4
- ID cards
- The treatment of the July 7 bombings survivors
- “A decent and honourable man”
- Cash for peerages
- “Here we are not tortured physically but mentally we are tortured.”
- “Get away from me, I will not be insulted by you, this is an insult“
- “Hoon plans curb on MPs’ questions”
- “If this was anything to do with trying to appeal to the electorate, he wouldn’t be so excruciatingly honest”
- Pisspoor computer system #5
- Pisspoor computer system #6
- A slight miscalculation
- Maya Evans
- Extraordinary rendition: ignorance is bliss
- Pisspoor computer system #7
- Pisspoor computer system #8
- Sally Cameron
- Pisspoor computer system #9
- Immigration cells ‘like kennels’
- John Reid: Be slow to condemn
- The politicisation of the police…
- …or maybe not
- 28 days
- The Politics of Fear
- No inquiry into 7 July bombings
- Project Allenby-Connaught
- Charles Clarke
- Charles Clarke again
- Siding with torturers. Again.
- Charles Clarke. Again. Again.
- “…at worst an unacceptable disdain by the Home Office for the rule of law, which is as depressing as it ought to be concerning.”
- £100m PFI windfall
- RAF pilots ‘asked for tank foam’
- Save Blair: Vote Labour
Update: Jamie writes:
And when you go to vote, you also get the kids who attend the primary school you vote in the day off. When you’re young, school is like death and taxes. Then you get a free day because the adults want your school for their bizarre civic rituals. I like the idea that civic life should have some institutional generosity built into it. Can there be a better citizenship lesson than that?
Of course, a gratuitous day off for primary school kids can’t be expected to please the current government. But it’s not something they can easily stop happening. So, when you go to vote, think of the mean, thwarted look in their piggy little eyes.
Read the whole thing, it’s really very lovely.
Posted on May 4th, 2006 at 8:44 am
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MOTD…
Vote Lib Dem; vote Green; vote Tory, even; vote for a promising independent candidate. Spoil your ballot if you have to. But please don’t vote Labour. Update: You want reasons? We have reasons. And I’d add this: minimum wage……
It was always the other local primary that got election day off when I was young. Grrr.
In my ward (West Midlands area), since there were no LibDems, Tories or Greens standing, I had a ‘crook or fascist’-type choice. I’ll let you work out which one was NuLabour and which one was BNP.
PS: Anyone fancy sending a biohazard suit to Polly Toynbee?
I’ve read over it twice now – which number is Jean Charles de Menezes?
Vashti: It did cross my mind but can we lay that cock up at the door of this particularly Blair?
What about BlairT and his mates standing by watching while money was STOLEN from our pensions and endowment policies?
City bonus recipients used our money to buy themselves £250,000 boats which they then carelessly sank in the first week? Never mind, easy come easy go eh?
This is a national scandal that is barely mentioned and has rightly lost them millions of votes.
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Justin: I think you could make a possible case along the lines of “no Iraq war, no 7/7, no Stockwell shooting”. It’s one of the consequences of a horribly sticky mess that’s dripping down from the top, IMO.
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