Monday, January 05, 2009

(Return of) The Daley Dozen: Monday

1. Cicero's Songs becomes an Old Git, railing against the coarseness of British TV.
2. Sam Coates explains the Conservative ringfencing strategy.
3. Donal Blaney reports on the progress of his complaint to the IPCC regarding Damian Green.
4. Guido seems gagging to work for Derek Draper.
5. Dave's Part explains the preconditions for a settlement in Palestine.
6. Adam Macqueen says 'come on darling, do it for Daddy'.
7. Valleys Mam says councillors should pay for their own refreshments.
8. Danny Finkelstein (at his best) asks if Israel should talk to Hamas.
9. Tom Harris has a copy of a letter to the PM from his wife a constituent demanding that he is give his job back.
10. Red Box on why the lobbying industry (and ex Ministers) need not fear change.
11. Devil's Kitchen explains why charities can whistle for his money.
12. Richard North on the two faced Brits.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't think Tom Harris will get much joy from his wife's letter! Since when has Gordon Brown listend to voters?

Infuriati said...

Completely off topic, but this is so, well peculiar, I had to tell someone!

I live in a row of terrace houses and my neighbours and I share a driveway. Our houses are on the route from the Co-Op to the local posh estate. As me and a neighbour happened to leave for work at the same time we spotted a bunch of flowers that looked like it had been dropped on the way home from the shops.

I suggested she take them into the house and shove them in water. Being old school, she said she’d leave them by the wall and then whoever had lost them had a chance to find them. If they were still there when she got home then she would take them in.

When she got home there wasn’t her bunch of flowers…oh no…there were around 12. With cards saying ‘Sorry for you loss’, ‘With deepest sympathy’ and so on. Even though we live in the middle of a village where a thing like a road traffic accident might have been noticed, people took it upon themselves to lay flowers.

I just don't understand people sometimes! :o)

Anonymous said...

Infuriati - Sounds like a cracking business opportunity to me! I will go down to the local graveyard tommorow get some flowers and then multiply them and sell them outside the railway station!

Only joking! Now if I was a Liberal Democrat.........

Ted Foan said...

Iain, why do you keep giving the oxygen of publicity to that famous Doctor Who nerd, Tom Harris MP?

Not only does he spell his wife's name in two different ways, he insists on calling David Cameron "Do nothing" as if by constantly repeating it will be accepted as the truth by his readers. (But, then again, he is a Labour MP so he is obliged by the party spin machine to follow the orders of the Great Leader. The Daleks would be proud of him.)

Fortunately, we have you to thank for pointing out the very long list of proposals that the Conservative Party have made to ameliorate the damage that is being done by Brown and his Dalek-like followers.

I hope you only put him in your Daley Dozen so that we can see him for what he is....?