Quote of the Day: Chairman Edition
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by RK in Features, Quote of the Day, United Kingdom
“Gordon Brown avoided a leadership election, bottled a general election and now wants to fiddle the electoral system,”
Eric Pickles
Quote of the Day: Judicial Bitchslap Edition
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by OHC in Quote of the Day
The Supreme Court today struck down two orders in council that allow the government to freeze financial assets of terrorist suspects. Passed without Parliament’s approval and contrary to umpteen acts of Parliament, they were clearly unconstitutional, and the decision was the right one: another indication that the Supreme Court works.
In striking it down, Justice Hope said:
Even in the face of the threat of international terrorism, the safety of the people is not the supreme law. We must be just as careful to guard against unrestrained encroachments on personal liberty.
Personal liberty is the supreme law? We’ll take that.
Quote of the… century!?
Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by RK in Features, Quote of the Day
The Times, Wednesday December 23 2009, Page 2, Leading Articles
“Only a Local Hero” – The SNP has no place in a debate between potential Prime Ministers
Credit to a certain ToryTattler.
Quote of the Day: Non-Radio Edition
Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by OHC in Quote of the Day
Today’s Quote of the Day, and surely the entire festive period, is pretty straight-forward. Well, here are the nine most liberating words in the English language:
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
- Rage Against the Machine
Reagan said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” But, hell, Rage’s message is a teeny bit more powerful. I hope the government gets it loud and clear…
Friday Propaganda: Optimistic Edition
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by OHC in Friday Propaganda
We were down listening to the Pre-Budget Report: recession deepening, debt mounting, taxes accumulating, politics of envy returning. But you know what cheered us up? The realisation that the government won’t get a chance to implement everything they want.
They’ve got to hold an election in the next six months, probably before the next Budget. So take heart from this incredibly simple poster the Conservatives put out in 1978, and look on the bright side of life.
Friday Propaganda: Class War Edition
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by OHC in Friday Propaganda
Bare of any substance, the government’s been preparing to unleash the whole class machine that is the Labour grassroots. That despite though Old Etonians may actually be the best people for government, as the Daily Mash exclusively reveals.
But despite that new research, perhaps a healthier message is the one used by the Conservative Party in 1992, to help promote their non-Etonian leader:
Kinda makes you wish you were rejected as a bus conductor, if it means you’d get to be PM. The only problem is you’d have to be John Major…
Friday Propaganda: Storm Warning Edition
Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by OHC in Friday Propaganda
When our government claims to have saved the world, but has actually doomed the nation, we need some economic cheering up. You know, something like “We’re seeing some green shoots of recovery”. Maybe “We’re best-placed to recover from this global crisis”.
Kinda similar to the recession of the early 1980s. Like Brown, Thatcher called it a global economic crisis. Like Brown, Thatcher said we were best placed to recover from it. But unlike Brown, Thatcher actually had facts on her side. Here’s a poster from the 1983 election campaign.
And the electorate gave Thatcher a landslide victory in return. What are the odds on Brown achieving that?
Friday Propaganda: Army Edition
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by OHC in Friday Propaganda
In a week of more abject failures and insults to our service personnel by the government, the press (Ed: don’t tell me… you?) is focusing ever more on the ill-equipment of our service personnel fighting overseas, and the breach of the Military Covenant, by Labour.
It’s not a failure due to budget deficits. It’s not a failure due to special unforeseen circumstances. It’s a failure due to Labour. See this damning condemndation of Labour commitment to defence from the 1987 election, during the Cold War. Some things never change!
Vote Labour – Get Failure. Vote Conservative – Get Honour.
Friday Propaganda: Foreboding Edition
Posted on 07. Nov, 2009 by OHC in Friday Propaganda
Imagine what Britain would be like in five years if Labour get in again. We’d be up crap creek without a paddle, having our heads beaten in by Nikolai Valuev (Ed: yeah, but would we have our keys?). Our economy, our Union, our freedom: all gone the way of the dodo.
Sounds familiar, right. Conservatives’ embrace of the civil liberties started with David Davis’s moment of madness, right? Wrong. After five years of Labour misgovernment, check out this election poster the Conservatives ran with in 1979.
Thank goodness Britain didn’t get them.
Quote of the Day: Treason Edition
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by OHC in Quote of the Day
A ’senior’ EU official has said:
It has been a long road with French, Dutch and Irish referendum rejections along the wayside but at last nothing lies between Europe and its destiny.
Wait a minute. I thought the French and Dutch rejected the European Constitution. But… this is a different document, isn’t it? Oh, so that would explain why we’re not getting a referendum. Thanks for clarifying, senior EU official.