21st November 2023 We represent a range of organisations and individuals working on audit and accountability, local government and local democracy. We are deeply concerned about the current situation in local government audit. In October, a cross-party group of MPs and Peers wrote to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, asking him not...
We’re not fascists, are we, dear?Bring that bottle over here.Now. Where was I? Enoch Powell?Sod this irritable bowel!Do you play goff? Come down the club.Just a snifter, lovely grub……What, no blazer? Borrow mine.Chin chin. Maggie, ‘79!Now. Where was I? Nigel Farage?Dear! More bottles in the garage....Really don’t want to...
Whenever a neo liberal inequality and exploitation hungry centrist starts applauding New Blue Labour let them have a gander at how their arguments have been tattered by... history.
https://twitter.com/BenJolly9/status/1309445684966223873?s=20
And when they are struggling to get back up from the canvas knock them out with this
https://dorseteye.com/the-labour-leadership-facts-that-centrists-cannot-handle/
And this:
Douglas James
1) Representative Democracy is not really democracy A system whereby small numbers of people, in our case MPs, govern many millions of others, is not democratic. The extent of our self-government is a mere cross in a box every four or five years. Sometimes as many people do not...
In the home of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the birthplace of the trade union movement, Dorset is far from being the centre of radical politics some may expect. Generally, across the centuries, it has resembled the rotten borough of Dunny on the Wold from Blackadder, in which the public...
Dorset Eye's Ten By Six programme invited Simon Hoare, MP for North Dorset, on to their show to ask him about why he voted against the government when most of his colleagues complied with the three line whip handed down by the government. He very eloquently explained his position...
Voting Conservative is like voting for the school bully, that while he (or she) is ragging someone else, your arse is safe, but really you're just sweating, hoping to stay under his radar for another day. And, of course, part of appeasing the bully is picking on his victims,...
With the general election less than a month away, are you ready to cast your vote?
Elections for Members of Parliament for the five UK Parliamentary constituencies covering the Dorset Council area are taking place on Thursday 4 July 2024.
The candidates nominated will be published on our website by 5pm on Friday 7...
Dear Keir,
We, the undersigned, strongly oppose your recent repositioning of the Labour Party’s stance on the issue of the Kashmir conflict. This repositioning goes against fundamental values core to the integrity of the party and severely undermines the trust of voters and members who support and champion these values.
While...
In another week when a politician takes a giant leap backwards in the human evolutionary chain and reminds us why they are so unfit for any kind of power, the contaminated icing on the turd must be yet again Boris Johnson. The Boris Johnson IQ Test Courtesy of Tom...
