Tag: George Osborne
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Jeremy Corbyn
I’ve heard a lot of crap about Jeremy Corbyn recently…he’s got an uphill struggle against the Murdoch press machine, as well as the spiteful Blairites who bailed on him (I have one phrase: ‘Bye Felicia!’ for Chuka U-Turn Umunna and Jamie ‘Who?’ Reid) and the mostly ambivalent Guardian (who interestingly is benefitting from gentrification as…
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Emperor’s New Clothes
I wish the TV debates had gone like this interesting cutup from Cassetteboy…And I’m curious about that film, the one that caused the ‘lunchgate’ from a freelancer who couldn’t go eat on a park bench (as I would), and just moaned about Russell on behalf of his employer, who would drop you in a heartbeat!…
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Police Put the Kettle On, Protesters say no thanks
Via the excellent BunkerKRS blog is this video of the protests yesterday…I saw some of the protest and despite what the news outlets say it was peaceful if noisy, the bits I saw anyway. Similar picture in Bristol apparently with protesters avoiding the police’s kettling tactics and spread out, as with London lead the police…
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Pay your Taxes Vodafone!
…and while we’re at it, US embassy and others pay your congestion charge bills! One of the reasons I didn’t go with Vodafone with my new mobile phone contract is that they recently avoided 6 BILLION POUNDS in UK taxes – a decision by George Osborne, typical for the Tories to protect their own, big…
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Who exactly is breaking Britain? Tories ‘Big Society’ has a hidden agenda
From this report in The Independent on the Conservative council of Hammersmith & Fulham, which “George Osborne says the work they have done since then will be a “model” for a new Conservative government, while Cameron has singled them out as a council he is especially “proud” of”. it seems like the Conservatives are the…
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RC 179: Is he a Yankee? Naw I’m a Londoner – UK Hip Hop with Ian Fondue
Original image by Tim Cayne – used under Creative Commons – cheers Tim 🙂 Keeping it real with a strictly UK thang, myself and Ian Fondue explore the world of UK hiphop, which despite being dissed at various times by the music industry is currently on fire like a bad boy. BRAP! BRAP! BRAP! Just…