Tag: bme
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Just a bit of housekeeping from my appearance on 18DS’ Vox Politix on Monday (it’s still available to view at the moment), to follow up on an issue that has been bugging me. Caroline Hunt took great exception to my reference to the various attacks that have been made about Boris Johnson’s views on black…
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Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott are having a pop at Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson: Ms Butler highlighted a 2002 article in which Mr Johnson referred to the Queen being greeted in Commonwealth countries by “flag-waving piccaninnies”. She claimed he also said that he expected, during a mooted visit by Tony Blair to the Congo,…
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This is my favourite leaflet from the campaign (click on it to enlarge). It was being delivered on the morning of polling day in particularly leafy part of Southall near the Grand Union Canal (for the record, I picked these two examples up from the street). Why is it in so-bad-its-good territory? Well, the message…
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Over at Lib Dem Voice, I have a rant about the Lib Dems’ continued failure to sort out its diversity and gender balance strategy. Just to remind you: this is what Ming said he’d do. It’s time to deliver Ming.
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You put your right leg in, your right leg out, in, out, in, out, shake it all about… There is a serious side to all this. The degree by which the Tory and Labour camps in Ealing Southall are attempting to manipulate the Sikh and other communities is truly breathtaking. More to the point, I’m…