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London’s Fourth Statue of Simon Milton

Last week Boris Johnson unveiled a statue of the late Simon Milton at One Tower Bridge, a fitting tribute to his former deputy mayor. At least it would be, except Milton has been immortalised in statue form three times already. First there was the ‘decorative frieze’ erected in Piccadilly in 2013:

Then there was the sculpture unveiled in Merchant Square in Paddington in 2014:

On top of that, a bust was commissioned to reside at City Hall:

Meaning the new statue is the fourth Milton graven image in London. By contrast Lady Thatcher has one and Wellington has two. Dowding, who saved London from the Blitz, only has one. Milton however has the same number as Churchill. Surely nothing to do with his former partner Robert Davies being in charge of planning for Westminster council. While in the job Davies was responsible for taking down statues of Newton and Hogarth in Leicester Square. Perhaps he has plans for the free slots?

April 15, 2016 at 4:55 pm

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David “The Jews” Ward Mounts Comeback

David Ward, the disgraced MP who was booted out of parliament at the election following his rant about “the Jews“, might have done the decent thing and disappeared forever into a dark hole of his own anti-Semitism. Instead, the LibDems’ answer to Mel Gibson is running to be a councillor in Bradford in next month’s local elections. Oh, and the cretin is still comparing Israel-Palestine to the Holocaust, this tweet is from a few weeks ago:

When you go to #Auschwitz it becomes clear – hatred of others is the great sin of mankind – be it a #Jew or a #Palestinian

— David Ward (@DWard) February 17, 2016

He will be the LibDem candidate, the party is still happy for the old nutter to stand under their name. The only surprise is that he hasn’t tried to join Corbyn’s Labour…

April 15, 2016 at 4:17 pm

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Campaign Day 1

Leave message: Leave and spend the money on the NHS.

Remain message: Alistair Darling says there is no economic upside to leaving.

Leave social media count: 321,465 likes, 34,440 followers.

Remain social media count: 351,104 likes, 22,989 followers.

Cut through: Nigel Farage going to Downing Street to hand back government leaflet.

Odds: Leave 2/1, Remain 1/2

Last poll: ICM Leave 45%, Remain 42%

April 15, 2016 at 3:18 pm

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Friday Caption Contest (Bob ‘n Totty Edition)

Entries below…

April 15, 2016 at 12:59 pm

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McDonnell and Momentum Seek “Labour Consensus”

Corbyn allies note with interest that both John McDonnell and Momentum chief Jon Lansman attended the launch of a new group called Labour Consensus on Tuesday. The group is a soft-left attempt to unite the far-left of the party with amenable moderates, the likes of Stephen Kinnock and Angela Eagle are involved. Speculation has grown in recent weeks that McDonnell is working on a “succession plan” and has ambitions to lead the party after Corbyn. “He has been attending every event under the sun,” observes a colleague, forging increasingly close links with Momentum in particular. Certainly interesting that the old, revolutionary, grab-the-mace McDonnell has suddenly been replaced by a friendly, cooperative, consensus-seeker…

April 15, 2016 at 12:16 pm

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EU Funded Tata Spin

Despite the evidence that EU taxes and regulations contributed to the decline of the British steel industry, the Remain campaign are spinning hard that Brussels actually helped Tata Steel. A report by consultancy firm CE Delft was pushed by the Guardian this week, claiming Tata benefited overwhelmingly from European Emission Trading Schemes (ETS): “No other British company has benefited from the EU’s emissions trading scheme as much as Tata Steel”.

Who funds CE Delft? The firm’s website lists clients including the European Commission and the European Parliament. Indeed 14% of their clients are EU institutions. He who pays the piper…

April 15, 2016 at 11:15 am

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Sadiq’s Sacked Aide Applies For New Job With Labour

Guido hears that Shueb Salar, the Sadiq Khan aide who was sacked for claiming the murder of Lee Rigby was “fake” and tweeting about “hoes, bitches and faggots“, has been applying to Labour MPs looking for a new job. He hasn’t been suspended from the party then…

So far Salar has been unsuccessful, MPs have only had to Google his name to find out about his unfortunate recent history. They were however surprised to see who Salar had put down as his reference: Sadiq Khan, who publicly has tried to distance himself from his radical aide. “Punctual, conscientious, occasional tendency to extremism…”

April 15, 2016 at 10:16 am

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Irish Times Breaks Celebrity Threesome Injunction

Yesterday Guido gave an interview* to the Irish Times about the Celebrity Threesome Injunction. Lawyers Carter Ruck claim this article and others, despite being typed and uploaded in Ireland to be hosted on servers in the United States protected by the First Amendment, breaches their injunction covering England and Wales.

The injunction is incredibly restrictive; it not only prohibits reporting the facts of the matter, it prohibits linking to the story, identifying the National Enquirer or this site in any way. Which is why the British press is referring to a mystery “top blogger” and Google has been forced to remove links to our articles. The Irish Times however identifies the “top blogger”, names this website and even handily gives the headline to cut and paste into Google to easily find the censored article. Not really a legal issue for a foreign printed publication.

However as the photo above shows, the international edition of the Irish Times was freely available in London. It is printed at the Newsfax plant in Hackney…

*The article is no longer on the Irish Times website, it has been copied from the Google cache and is reproduced in full in the comments below.

April 15, 2016 at 8:56 am

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Diane Abbott: Business Class War

A co-conspirator has spotted a discarded BA Executive Club pass on a pavement outside the Parliamentary estate, belonging to one Ms D Abbott. Diane will want that back before she jets off to lunch with tax dodgers and millionaires in […]

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April 14, 2016 at 5:05 pm

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Totty Watch Poll

Debate swirls in Westminster about Tory MP Col Bob Stewart’s use of the word “totty” to describe the Speccie’s Isabel Hardman…

Isabel Oakeshott says: “Strong women don’t need to whine about sexists calling us ‘totty’”

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