What Jeremy Hunt isn’t telling you about the junior doctors’ strike will shock you (James O’Brien show)


Yesterday’s James O’Brien Show on LBC was a classic for so many reasons, but mainly because unlike any other broadcast media outlets, doctors involved in the dispute with Conservative policy were given a platform for three hours to explain what … Continue reading

Grant Shapps: just how gullible does this lying crook think voters are? (video)


In November 2013, this blog expressed its dismay and disgust at the fact that, despite legal advice indicating that Grant Shapps may well be a fraudster, the police had decided to drop the investigation completely. You can read the full … Continue reading

The Maria Miller scandal: Exes, lies and damning tapes (video)


It has been a terrible week for truth and honesty in British politics.  First we had to put-up with the charade that was the Business secretary, Vince Cable, and his Tory co-conspirators explaining how losing the hard-working British taxpayer up to … Continue reading

“Mismanagement” and a “lack of transparency” – just an average day in coalition government


Hardly a week passes without another report of incompetent ministers mismanaging major governmental policy implementation.  Last time it was IDS’s £300m cock-up at the DWP and this week it’s Jeremy Hunt and £1.2bn of public funds (for the hard of counting … Continue reading

Do you want the truth from your government or just what a minister believes to be true? Part 3


In case you were wondering whether David Cameron lied to you about the evidence not being 100% to support the plain packaging for cigarettes policy – he did.  Read this from Cancer Research UK (some formatting modified by me for emphasis). … Continue reading