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the bailey blog skip to main skip to sidebar the bailey blog well if i m going to the horn of africa to help the somali government you might as well come with me and see what s happening saturday 29 may 2010 coming soon a blog reporting from the horn of africa and the challenge of restoring hope to somalia posted by richard bailey at 4 24 pm no comments monday 7 may 2007 dear monsieur sarkozy many congratulations on your most exceptional victory i am in complete admiration and wish you the strewngth of samson in your endevour to modernise france please note do not throw the baby out with the bathwater our annual vacance en france would be ruined if you iron out all the most magnificent french quirks two days spent railing against the shops shutting at lunchtime and the impossibly slow pace of life and then pure relaxation don t ruin it however very grateful if you would kindly prevent illegal immigrants from eastern europe and africa from reaching let alone encamping at calais one has always wondered how these people are hosted and cared for with impunity on your side of the channel but suddenly become illegal immigrants by the time they reach dover in the back of or underneath whatever vehicle they can strap themselves to if they are legal at your end be so kind as to make them feel welcome if they are not please deport them before they make onward travel arrangements get a bloody grip yours rb posted by richard bailey at 9 50 am no comments sunday 6 may 2007 blair s contempt writ large to spend his final days in power deliberately skewering his own successor at the expense of the nation would tell you all you need to know about this pathetic little student we ve had for a prime minister these past 10 years posted by richard bailey at 5 30 pm no comments pr the death of government the scottish elections have really underlined for me why proportional representation is so bad not only is the voting system so totally incomprehendable but there is a fundamental disconnection between votes and candidates people don t vote for parties they vote for people a party dictated regional list is contemptuous of the voter these people do not take personal responsibility for their electoral platform they are secondary campaigners and yet based on nothing more than a proportion of the vote they get to sit in power and make decisions with no individual and answerable public mandate pr is often represented as being fair and equal but it is nothing of the sort it is a collection of robots controlled by an orwellian party dictatorship and i will do everything possible to prevent it spreading any further scotland poor sods are condemned to a lifetime of powerless coalition government managing social and economic terminal decline posted by richard bailey at 4 11 pm 2 comments bbc bias part 2 343 467 the election coverage of the bbc and for that matter many other outlets was as biased and dreadful as always blind to steady but evident advances the tories were making all night long the bbc did everything to portray the election as a disaster for the cameron project firstly there is no cameron project merely the resurrection of the conservative party as a whole and secondly winning control of 38 additional councils and 900 additional seats to control nearly 60 of the councils of england is impressive by any measure and a victory by all i am the first to accept that council elections do not wholly indicate national trends the tories made some pretty odd loses alongside their wins however people are now looking at and voting for the tories in a way inconceivable just 5 years ago the most appalling aspect of the media coverage however was their complicity in the labour line that the tories were making no ground in the north and had no councillors in manchester liverpool or newcastle it is indeed the case that these three great cities have no conservative representation but consider this labour have absolutely no representation on 90 yes 90 english councils as the map below shows labour are lost all across the country there are another 40 or 50 councils which have less than 5 labour councillors the media simply cannot bring themselves to accept the tory resurgence this is fine where media bias is well founded and well understood i will never expect the mirror or the guardian to be treat cameron fairly but that is a business decision and those publications live and die by their allegiance the bbc is very different it exists in the public interest funded by each and everyone of us through the most blatant and unreasonable tax it is very simple the bbc can become politically biased if they want to but they must face the same price and risk as all the others bias or license fee not both you decide posted by richard bailey at 3 15 pm no comments ashdown kennedy menzies campbell standby for another lib dem leadership campaign if you can bear it posted by richard bailey at 3 12 pm no comments hanging chavs last week scotland hosted the sort of election zimbabwe would have been distinctly proud of with people facing two separate elections involving three different election systems the result was a staggering 1 in 10 ballot papers spoilt spoilt by confusion and complication that is not apathy and anarchy the whole point about the simplicity of democracy is that everyone can understand it the act of marking a single paper with a single x is time honoured rather like bush and his ludicrous hanging chads one expected scotland to burst into a flame of legal contest as losers claimed that their victory was buried amongst the discarded papers those first in the queue should be the decent people of scotland whose honourable attempt to participate in the democratic process has come to nought through no fault of their own i myself have spent some considerable time trying to figure it all out and well done to all those who got it right i cannot be sure i would have myself the one group of people however who have absolutely no right to challenge the result are the scottish labour party under whose watch and with whose direction and compliance such an abomination was allowed to take place it is ironic that their own thoughtless flawed and pathetically equal system has brought about their own downfall mr allan wilson defeated labour candidate in cunnignhame north smarts at his personal loss not half as much as the 100 000 scots denied their right to vote posted by richard bailey at 2 21 pm 1 comment abandon the brown ship labour s new strategy cut and run survive to fight another day a the end of a very bad day for the labour party in the country it is the news that charles clarke has publicly announced that he will not run for the labour leadership and john reid s news that he will resign from teh cabinet when brown takes over that really gives us the meaning of it all and describes just how bad things are clarke with his cohort milburn has always had that glint in his eye that just told you he was going to go for it but even one as slightly deranged as he has taken one look at today s political landscape and has pulled out everyone now knows that the game is up and that brown must face the music alone it will be immensely painful but thankfully it will be brief and that is precisely why all the other potential candidates will sit on their hands they prefer a survival strategy the sooner brown takes over the sooner they lose and the sooner brown can be dispatched and replaced that is the time to rescue labour not now if you are around 50 ish that is by far a better option than challenging now after all even if you win what is the prize the vile legacy of blair and iraq the economic pensions black hole of brown a failing nhs the torment of the scottish nationalists and the collapse of the union a revived and attractive conservative challenge no thanks mr brown its all yours and you deserve it brown has made his bed and he must now lie in it he will fulfil the single ambition that has driven him for two decades and in sweet revenge for his bitterness cowardice stubbornness and failure it will be a short living nightmare if you have ever wondered what it is like to be governed by a very vicious nasty man with a bunker millwall supporter mentality you are about to find out it pains me to realise that i am living the best years of my life under some of the most despicable political leadership i can imagine famously millwall supporters chant everyone hates us we don t care posted by richard bailey at 12 28 pm no comments wednesday 21 march 2007 cut in haste pay at leisure if i can adapt the much loved phrase marry in haste repent at leisure to this budget i would say cut in haste pay at leisure this budget and indeed the political activity of the last few days provides all the evidence you need that cameron is now running the country cameron leads on environment gordon turns green cameron leads a doctors rally gordon tony hold tortuous press conference on public services cameron looks for tax cuts gordon delivers but just to out flank cameron gordon s mistake is that everything he is currently doing is designed to destroy cameron he can t help himself he is the ultimate class warrior the trouble is that twisting and turning to outwit cameron is a world apart from leading the country and his obsession will be seen for what it is i admire the loyalty of those who love gordon but even they must smart at some of the things he has and will do to win the votes of middle england he is betraying his principals the poorest in society and his supporters but gordon s destiny is more important than good or principalled leadership i may not like the policies they hold but i do respect socialists such as tony benn who stand up for what they believe argue with passion and honesty and take the rough with the smooth brown is the epitomy of true scottish socialist communist conviction but he has done nothing for the poor if anything he has made their lives vastly worse by complicating the benefits process beyond their intellectual capability failing the education system and standing by while crime and disorder in our poorer communities becomes endemic i despise his conceit i despise his class warfare and i despise his cynical deceitful approach to government admirable chancellor disastrous prime minister in waiting pretty much sums it up for me update did i really say admirable should read abominable posted by richard bailey at 11 00 pm 2 comments wednesday 28 february 2007 the scottish handgrenade history is about to repeat itself and once again scotland plays a leading role in 1990 thatcher was driven from office by her own party after 11 great years in absolute power scotland delivered the final blow in its reaction to the trial of the infamous poll tax heseltine the big noise of the then tory party had previously dithered over the assassination trying all manner of underhand tactics to prompt revolt the departure of such a powerful leader exposed the shallowness of spirit in those left behind and the complete absence of talent or leadership in the end the apparently dominant heseltine failed to secure the leadership as the party chose to play safe behind the featureless charisma vacuum that was mr major the government and frankly the country descended into unseemly decay scotland did for thatcher and the tories haven t managed to win more than one seat north of the border ever since in the next few months scotland will once again provoke political chaos and albeit in a slightly different way the outcome will be the same power will be usurped a talentless inner lining will be exposed and the dominant figure will stumble in the final straight as a divided and rudderless party loses its nerve scotland gordon brown s personal fiefdom is set to go to the polls in 60 odd days to elect msp s to a parliament that only exists because our current government made it so the polls suggest however that they will express their thanks by voting labour out of office in favour of the nationalist snp thanks indeed scots were never known for their sense of humour this time scotland will do for the prince regent at the moment of transition and the labour party will panic and play safe this time however the opposition are ready and waiting and there will be no extended death throes gordon brown broken and furious will never understand how his own people conspired to use the liberty he helped to give them to betray him the moral of the story if that is what you are looking for is that politics is a ruthless business not for the fainthearted power must be acquired and retained by fair means or foul most of all if you don t take control of your destiny your destiny will crumble to dust before your very eyes oh yes and scotland may be very beautiful but its residents are a political liability i feel the onset of a new metaphor alongside the trojan horse perhaps we should have the scottish handgrenade 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