http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a few days ago I wrote about the rules under which donations are made to political parties, and now the amounts that parties received in donations in the last quarter has been revealed. Between them they received £10.7m, split down as follows: Conservatives: £5.6m Labour: £3.8m Liberal Democrats: £945,192 This is up from £8.1m ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/political-donations-2.html Garfield minus Garfield http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/not-so-smart.html Just imagine: You are Gordon Brown. You have spent £167 million on advertising, £29 million on PR and sponsorship and £12 million on "strategic consultancy", totalling nearly £400m on spin in the past year. What would you expect to be getting for it? A positive personal rating? A poll boost? A donations ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/priceless.html A 19th century electoral system for the 21st century. The damning statement of the Electoral Commission in their report (pdf). It also reveals that the "current fragmented arrangements for electoral administration" treats voters as an "afterthought". The Electoral Commission has identiified massive loopholds in the electoral system that could allow for ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/voting-reform-we-the-people.html XKCD http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/mmm-bacon.html Here we go again. Why do these people always think that they can shut down a debate on the internet by complaining to an ISP and getting a blog deleted? It doesn't work. And, instead, backfires. Had she done nothing, the fact that Jenna Delich linked to the website of a known ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/open-debate-not-libel-threats-harrys-place.html First they brought in the "plastic plod", with little training and even fewer powers to put "a police presence" on the streets and save money at the same time. Yet that failed. And yet they wonder why. So they decided to go even cheaper, with civilian police. No, not special constables, who ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/policing-on-the-cheap.html This post at Liberal Conspiracy about the cock is required reading. I’m talking, of course, about the booming industry of surgical penis ‘enlargement’, the nearest male equivalent to labiaplasty. We’ve all had versions of those relentless spam emails, offering in poor English to furnish us with a magnificent schlong for the ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/the-male-sexual-organ.html More like not. Even though a fifth man has now been arrested under terrorism laws as part of an investigation into threats to kill Gordon Brown. However: It is understood no actual plot was in place. Yes, so that justifies arresting them and holding them for 13 days so far? As Steve Green ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/assassinating-brown.html No, it has nothing to do with the dead rising from the grave and eating brains convening a parliament. Rather, I presume that it is supposed to be a damning indictment of Cameron and the Conservative Party: This zombie politics offers rich pickings to a clever opposition. While the party in ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/08/zombie-politics.html