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Manifesto
Today’s by-election in Stoke-on-Trent is being contested by several candidates: Independent – Mohammad Akram Liberal Democrat – Zulfiqar Ali Conservative – Jack Brereton Monster Raving Loony – The...
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Dotting i’s and crossing t’s. Barbara Fielding of the Abolish Magna Carta Reinstate Monarchy Party polled 137 votes in the Stoke-on-Trent by-election. That put her in sixth place behind Labour (7854),...
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On UK politics
As Helen Zille puts foot firmly into mouth with her “Colonialism wasn’t ALL bad” tweet, thus conveniently removing the spotlight of the SASSA scandal from the rotten and rotting ANC, I spotted this on...
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When the UK PM called a general election recently, I spotted this line on Facebook: Please god let the “great” British public stay in bed and let the rest of us make a sensible decision. …which, you...
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It isn’t, are you?
Left-leaning UK Facebook is knee deep in election propaganda at the moment. A lot of it centres around the assertion that Theresa May “is evil”: a convenient strawman argument, distracting us neatly...
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Confident?
It’s a potential watershed day for South Africa today. Yet another no confidence vote on our rotten president in Parliament, but this one has an edge on the previous versions in that it’s a secret...
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One for December
Just leaving this here. Oh no. Wouldn’t it be awful if there was some sort of previously unforeseen problem with the election process for a new ANC leader and we were stuck with Jacob Zuma for an (as...
View ArticleLess shit candidate wins
A nation breathed a collective sigh of relief today as it emerged that the less shit of two candidates for an important job had won the election for the position. Many people had been concerned that...
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The Blame Game
OK. Here goes. I rarely do “opinion” posts on the blog any more because there’s rarely anything I feel strongly enough about to be bothered to wade through mentions on Twitter, comments on here,...
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No-one is reading anyway
I’m busy, and I’ve not had chance to blog yet today. There was a visit to the knee doc (but more of that later), there was a lot of lab work, there was other stuff. Now it’s lunchtime and it’s become...
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That Monologue
Deeply corrupt President and all-round infected haemorrhoid Jacob Zuma has just refused to resign during his near hour long rambling monologue on SABC. He says that the ANC has given him no reasons for...
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Episode IV – A New Hope
Episode IV because we don’t really count Kgalema Motlanthe. Sorry, Kgalema. Don’t @ me. And so, pushed right to the very edge, refusing to jump, and defiantly telling us that the fall wouldn’t hurt...
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Call me cynical
Some few facts for you to help make up your mind on whether I’m being cynical here: Fact 1: Eskom, our national power utility, a state-owned enterprise, has been run into the ground by mismanagement...
View ArticleFed up with Brexit
I am. And I’m not even very involved. (More involved than some people think (bless him and his little army), but still…) I’m fed up with the mess that it’s made of politics, the economy, the people and...
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TSROD understandably making gains
Further to my post yesterday and my ongoing and increasing disillusionment with anything political, be it British, European or South African, this fits so nicely. To be honest, the only reason that...
View ArticleA man in the know speaks
There’s no doubting that SA is in a bad place at the moment regarding its power supply. Years of corruption, mismanagement and poor maintenance have left us in a deep hole. What I didn’t know was quite...
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This is a local tweet, for local people…
With apologies to The League of Gentlemen… This tweet was of the first things I saw when I logged on this morning. And oh, well played, that man. My goodness! Some water for that burn, ma’am? (for...
View ArticleElection predictions (rolls eyes)
Pisspoor local online rag Business Insider has wasted yet more pixels by asking two “top astrologers” to predict the results of the upcoming South African elections. What follows is an absolute...
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Minor manifestos (1)
Over the next week and a half, I’m going to have a wander through the manifestos of some of the smaller parties fighting the elections in search of the best election promises. I’m not promising a...
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Step forward The Green Party of South Africa – it’s your turn to have your manifesto scrutinised by the 6000 miles… election team. I came into this one rather sceptical, I’ll be honest. And, it turns...
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