http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it's a unique way to raise money for charity...A Chilean prostitute has become an instant celebrity in the Roman Catholic country after auctioning 27 hours of sex to raise money for a disabled children's charity.Maria Carolina has made headlines and appeared on talk shows since she announced her donation ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/1049.html Want to read all about it? You can't at the Downing Street website because it's all been blocked out as "party political content". I am, of course, referring to the press conference on Labour's current woe: illegal donations.It is ridiculous that quite so much of the official transcript needs to ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/prime-minister-party-political-content.html She says she hasn't, claiming that she and her campaign team "acted at all times within both the letter and the spirit of the law." Yet her leader, her Cabinet colleague and her husband have all said it is illegal to take undeclared donations from a third party. And that ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/has-harman-broken-the-law.html The Welsh national dish... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/cheese-on-toast.html What's that proverb about throwing stones? Oh yeah, that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw them.Brown has at least acted decisively and has pledged to return the money. Will either of the Lib Dem leadership nominees accept the challenge to return the £2.4 million they were unlawfully donated, ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/1045.html As Brown becomes more Mr Bean than Stalin, free in The Times is a checklist of forthcoming fiascos from Bean's Brown's Labour government to tick off:After the Government lost 25 million bank details down the back of the Chancellor’s sofa, pictures of an ashen-faced Alistair Darling and a grim Prime ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/forthcoming-fiasco-checklist%e2%84%a2.html Greenpeace have decided to name a whale, and have an on-line poll to decide what to call it. The name that just has to win, for the sheer hilarity of making a rabid green activist say it, has to be Mister Splashy Pants.Go here to vote!via ASI http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/mister-splashy-pants.html Does anyone else find it amusing and slightly ironic that Brown's chief money-spinner and general election director is named Mendelsohn?Especially considering his well-known animosity towards the similarly-named man who used to hold a position not a million miles different to that. http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/1042.html HMRC staff are said to want punchbags to take their frustrations out on because morale is so low.I suggest two punchbags - one with the Alastair Darling's face on, and one with Gordon Brown's.Or maybe they'd prefer dartboards...? http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/punchbags.html This passage has won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which is given to "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it."His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/11/1040.html