Howard’s end
Friday, May 6th, 2005Michael Howard conceded defeat at 4.20am this morning.
Our work here is done - for the time being.
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Don’t forget…
Thursday, May 5th, 2005…polling stations are open 7am - 10pm today.
Vote wisely and keep Michael Howard out of Number 10.
Readers’ roundup
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
A quick roundup of our last minute pre-election reading:
- Nick Cohen’s Pretty Straight Guys
- Piers Morgan’s The Insider
- Christopher Hitchen’s Letters to a Young Contrarian
- The Liar
Hate Mail (part 2)
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
The Daily Mail peddles a despicable cocktail of hatred, bigotry and fear.
We’re delighted to learn that concerned citizens have knocked up a spoof.
It’s called - somewhat inevitably - the Hate Mail [PDF], and 30,000 copies are being distributed nationwide.
Middle England’s house paper is guilty of many crimes, not least supporting fascism in the 30s.
British fascist leader Oswald Mosley was praised beneath the headline Hurrah for the Blackshirts
The paper’s proprietor Lord Rothermere also wrote to congratulate Hitler months before the outbreak of war with Germany.
The rag continues to offer a daily diet of spite today, with immigrants bearing the brunt.
An anonymous ex-employee sums the paper up perfectly:
“The ideal Daily Mail story leaves the reader hating somebody or something”
Hate mail
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
Want to tell the right-wing tabloids how you feel?
Then download handy campaign sticker templates here.
Why 5 May matters
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005Many people have told us they won’t vote on 5 May.
Reasons vary; many are indifferent to Labour, others feel impotent to change anything.
We’ll give you one reason why Michael Howard must never be Prime Minister.
He was asked on 8 November 2004 how a Tory government would handle refugees fleeing an atrocity abroad.
He said that once a quota had been met:
“We would say ‘I am really very sorry, but actually there is a limit to the number of refugees we can take’.”
Howard is a Romanian Jew whose family fled Nazi persecution - yet he would refuse protection to those suffering in similar situations.
Read his full statement and vow to vote.
Tory typo tragedy
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
What’s the most trite political slogan you can think of?
Tough question - but we reckon ‘education, education, education’ must make the top three.
So spare a thought for Tory parliamentary candidate Ertan Hurer, who appears to have spent too long looking out the window when he should have been concentrating on his work.
The Hackney North hopeful used the headline on his leaflets - the same ones that misspell ‘parliamentary’ (spotted by Twistblog).
[Insert your favourite pot/kettle gag here]
It’s not just cricket
Sunday, April 10th, 2005
A group of self-styled ‘anarchitects’ plan to end parliamentary sleaze - by challenging MPs to to a gentlemanly game of cricket.
The match is scheduled for 2pm on 1 May in Parliament Square, opposite the House of Commons.
The Space Hijackers’ invitation reads:
[We] hereby challenge you and your fellow Members of Parliament to a game of cricket. We challenge you to show us that your morals and behaviour are fit to govern this country……A decline of our challenge will be seen by us and the entire British Public as acceptance that you are the morally and honourably corrupt government that we suspect. We shall see you at the pitch.
It was delivered to over 600 Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs at the House Of Commons on 4 April.
Observers are invited to bring tea, cucumber sarnies, Pimms, picnics, moral fibre and good sportsmanship.
We hope to see you there.