William Hill are offering odds on the next leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party. At time of posting, Gordon Brown is the odds-on favourite (something like ten to one on) to win leader, but the next closest at six to one is John Reid. I am not enamoured by the latter possibility. The [...]

Matt Sinclair refers to Ekklesia’s pacificism as ‘ugly’. His argument is that wearing a red poppy is not political. The red poppy is sold to raise funds for the Royal British Legion. Their ‘what we do’ page includes this:
CampaigningThe Legion is the major voice for ex-Service people, campaigning on issues such as Gulf War Related [...]

Well, good.
Perhaps not massively surprising as he twice offered to resign before the elections. It would appear that he was the fall guy. He does bear a lot of the blame, though; he said that 15,000 troops could take Iraq. There are currently 120,000 troops there. I won’t go over the litany of what the [...]

Pending a recount, I should think. The Senate is now 49 GOP to 50 Dem (as Sanders and Lieberman are both caucusing with the Democrats). Depending on the result in Virginia, Cheney might be a busy man…
xD.

…from a fairly uninformed observer.
Firstly, the myth that Nancy Pelosi is some sort of pinko; she voted for the Patriot Act, for instance, as well as privatising the San Fransisco Presidio Park, although she is strongly liberal on most other issues. Pelosi is apparently going to be the first female leader of either house [...]

I’m sure a million and one people have posted this, but I’ve just seen it and I found it funny. I hope the poor guy doesn’t have too much flak thrown at him.http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e1336748NgyMqyG
It’s worth watching all the way through.
xD.