French Socialists at war

Evil g brings good news from France: the socialist party is in disarray.  

Lille Mayor Martine Aubry, the former Minister who masterminded the legendary 35-hour week, won 42 votes more than her bitter rival, 2007 Presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, in the Socialist Party leadership battle.  

Royal, whose allies claim her rival cheated, won 49.98% of the 134,784 votes cast, and is now demanding another ballot.  

According to Julien Dray, an MP and Royal backer, “The only possible solution is another vote.” Manuel Valls, another MP and one of Ms Royal's top lieutenants, claimed there was fraud, and called for the membership to "rebel."

The Socialist Party has not won a Presidential election since 1988.  

The café where French socialists come to bicker after doing their 35 hours of work

Labour tax bombshell: "buy now pay later" budget

On the basis that there is excellent analysis of the mess Brown and Darling have landed the UK in, and their “solution”, evil g will not post detailed analysis on this blog, other than to say, as he commented here:

It is pathetic. They don’t live in the real world - prices are down 20-30% in shops - what difference will another 2.5% make?

The only people affected will be small shops who have to waste time and money, at the busiest time of the year, changing all their prices.

I suppose an income tax cut would have been more difficult for the leftists to take back.

I wander whether the duty on petrol, tobacco, and alcohol will come back down in 2010…fat chance.

To lighten the mood of the nation, evil g promises better news, with a sophisticated continental flavour…

Green activists exposed as BNP members

It emerged today that prominent members (as prominent as a "Greenies" can be) of the Green Party are on the list of BNP members that has been circulating on the internet this week.

The list includes Keith Bessant, a two-time Green parliamentary candidate, and a former local party chairman, Rev John Stanton.

The Green Party today defended Keith Bessant, claiming that he was not a racist, and had joined purely because he felt the BNP environment policy was "more radical" than that of the Green party.

The other Green activist that was this week forced out of the BNP closet, Rev John Stanton, insisted that “I am not a racist,” adding merely that “It’s Islam I don’t like, not Muslims."

Former local Green Party Chairman Rev John Stanton is a shining example to us all to get politically involved. Rev Stanton has been so involved that the BNP is the fifth political party he has been a member of since the 1970s.

This shining example to us all was first a Conservative, and then a Liberal councillor, then a local Green chairman, and did a stint in UKIP before joining the BNP.

Rev John Stanton below, doing his best impression of a chameleon

More "change" from Obama

Sources close to the Obama transition team have confirmed that former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle will be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Daschle, a "special public policy adviser" at lobbying firm Alston Bird, is the latest in a long line of appointments that have left voters bemused at the "change" in Washington.

The Obama team have been busy recycling operatives from the Clinton administration. Among the list of corpses brought back from the dead, Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff was a political aide in the Clinton White House, and Greg Craig, incoming White House counsel. was President Clinton's lawyer during his impeachment.

Change has come to America.

Barak Obama, below, taking a break from putting his new team together

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/19/transition.wrap/

Labour feminists continue war on men

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today announced plans to criminalise men paying for sex with "a person controlled for another person's gain". She has not yet announced any plans to help those women trapped in prostitution, or alternatively to criminalise the whole industry.

It seems the entire raison d'etre of many of Labour's female ministers is their war on men. Harriet Harman, Jacqui Smith, and Vera Baird seem to live in a parallel universe, unaware of womens liberation, and unaware of the fact that the vast majority of law students and medical students are female.

Perhaps the chips on their shoulders are due to the sexism in the Labour Party, in stark contrast to the Conservatives, who had a female Prime Minister for 11 years.

The picture below of Solicitor General Vera Baird has not been doctored in any way. She really is this pretty.

Diva Minister issued civil servants with Demand List

While Labour ministers are often accused of breathtaking incompetence, for example after loosing the confidential data of 20 million people, or after selling the UK gold reserve at record low prices, it seems that there are some things they are good at organising.

Like their coffee breaks for example. Liam Byrne, the new cabinet enforcer, has issued an 11 page diktat to his civil servants, in which he demands a cappuccino when he arrives, soup at 12.30-1pm, and an espresso at 3pm.

In the document, modestly entitled "Working With Liam Byrne", the diva minister also insists that size 16 point font must be used for his briefing notes.

Liam Byrne is the same Labour Minister who, while working at the Home Office, was fined £100 and given 3 points on his driving license for illegally using his mobile phone while driving.

Liam Byrne attached to his 3pm espresso

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1086162/Gordon-Browns-control-freak-enforcer-cappuccino-soup-instruction-manual-civil-servants.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5163749.ece

Saint Obama

Obama is in fashion at present. We all want change. And so there has been change.

A new President has been elected. US soldiers will remain in Iraq, a few more will go to Afghanistan, and the banks are still going to be bailed out.

Change has come to America.