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  • A Labour Fiasco: Burnham After Reading

    Andy Burnham seems to think he’s pulling off the heist of the century, with a plot to get to Number Ten as convoluted as Oceans’ Eleven. So why can’t I stop thinking of Fargo, and who is going in the wood chipper?

    A Labour Fiasco: Burnham After Reading

  • Andy Burnham’s unhealthy flag wrapping claptrap

    I’ve written a response to Andy Burnham’s astounding Guardian article on the NHS on the SLF website: Given the choice between “national”, “health” and “service” the word that Burnham considers most key to the Labour approach is the former. Ignore “health”, never mind “service” – who needs a bandage when you can wrap yourself in…

  • Crashing and Burnham

    Poor old Andy Burnham. A few months ago I took him to task for aping the Tories and their proposed tax cuts for loveless marriages. Since then the boy has, improbably, gained a cabinet level post, but doesn’t appear to be doing any better. His performance on the Today Programme (which doesn’t appear to be…

  • Barbie boy calls for tax cuts for married couples

    God, Labour really are in a full scale rout at the moment, aren’t they? The tax system should reward married couples, a cabinet minister has said. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham told the Daily Telegraph: “It’s not wrong that the tax system should recognise commitment and marriage.” He did not advocate specific changes…