The French President can behave like a petulant teenager, yet the British press (and the British Bankers’ Association) seem to not understand that the best thing to do with a petulant teenager is to ignore it. The Times led today
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Category: UK Politics
ECR Group: the worst Twitter strategy I’ve ever seen (after no website for 3 months)
It took them 3 months to get a website together, and not before I had hit them with a bit of cyber squatting. Now the ECR Group in the EP is at it again with its catastrophic IT – this
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EU flood aid money for Cumbria (let’s avoid the errors from last time)
In June and July 2007 parts of the UK were hit be severe floods. The EU has a Solidarity Fund to help its Member States deal with natural disasters, yet in the months after the floods wrangling continued about whether
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Where we could have been this evening – Lamy/Freiberga/Miliband
I try to see the positives where I can, but I am really struggling this evening. Who actually wanted Barroso, Van Rompuy and Ashton to be running the European Union? It all strikes me as the lowest common denominator of
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Baroness Ashton for High Rep – really?
Rumours are reaching me via Twitter that Baroness Ashton, UK Labour politician and outgoing Commissioner for Trade is the individual the socialists are now backing to be the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy. I must say I am astounded.
Continue readingAtheist Bus Campaign – the sequel!
Launched today!
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The Nick Pisa example: get your attack in first and Google does the rest
One of the major frustrations about the UK mainstream media’s coverage of EU affairs is that even if an article is eventually corrected on a newspaper’s website, or a correction appears in the printed press, the damage is already done
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Cameron’s referendum travails make him look an idiot
David Cameron, as quoted on the BBC News website today: It looks like this treaty is no longer going to be a treaty, it looks like it is going to become part of European law and that is going to
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Nick Pisa, Daily Mail journalist, lazy f**kwit
It’s not often that something makes me angry enough to resort to language befitting of Devil’s Kitchen, but Googling for news of the recent European Court of Human Rights case about crucifixes in Italian schools brought me to this article
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The ECR Group in the European Parliament – not at ecrg.info
On 22nd June 2009 David Cameron announced that the UK Conservatives would form a new political group in the European Parliament, working together with reactionary and unpleasant parties such as Lijst de Decker from Belgium, Law & Justice from Poland
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Why every UK web savvy political activist should keep an eye on Iain Dale in Bracknell
I don’t support Iain Dale’s political ideology but he and I agree on one thing: we’re both advocates of use of the internet for politics, and hence the use of social networks and blogs within a political environment. For any
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There’s probably no pope (but there is a visit)
Apparently some grumpy old man with old fashioned ‘ethics’ has been invited by Gordon Brown to the UK next year. Time for another bus campaign? (Image: Bus Slogan Generator)
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