April 29, 2005
Toni
Well, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings it is.
I am indebted to Alice Thomson for advising me that
and when [children] started singing, "Mr Blair, we don't care, you're wearing Cherie's underwear," they were quickly whisked away.
Of course, if you google this phrase (we always try to get multiple sources, of course) then you'll find lots of sites about underwear (and lack of it), but not much else, so we'll have to take Alice's word for it.
The point is though, sad though it is to admit it, the children got to the question of Blair's gender before I did. How they knew beats me, but never underestimate kids.
If you're keen, and have Quicktime on your machine, you can play the bush'nblair endless love video here. (broadband recommended)
Toni has a lovely singing voice...
Railtrack
I guess we shouldn't be astonished, the financial press has been convinced that Bozo Byers was up to no good for a while now, but the release of e-mails originating in government departments which clearly show a long term plot to nationalise railtrack without compensation, still come as a shock. Even more shocking is that Toni and our ZNL chancellor were "personally involved" in this "eye catching initiative".
One of the key architects is Ms Shriti Vadera. Shitty is a lovely piece of work.
A couple of Shitty quotes: -
"I was thinking we need a trigger to insolvency that we decisively pull"
and
"Can we engineer the solution through insolvency - finding the balance between not having triggered it and therefore avoid compensation of Human Rights Act but enough to be seen to have acted decisively rather than reacting to a failed privatisation that we refused to see and deal with earlier. Need detailed legal advice. How would we manage it?" (this under a heading 'Renationalisation'
A shitty prediction: -
Future Governor of the bank of England (by Evan Davies, BBC economic editor)
A shitty picture: -
Cardiff Central
Funny how the same constituencies keep coming up. You'll recall from here that this is where the Beany heartland is. Well it also turns out it's the best hope the libdems have for gaining a seat.
Last time looked like this: -
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Change | |
| Jon Owen Jones * | Lab | 13,451 | 38.60% | -5.10% | |
| Jenny Willott | LDem | 12,792 | 36.70% | 11.80% | |
| Gregory Walker | Con | 5,537 | 15.90% | -4.20% | |
| Richard Grigg | PC | 1,680 | 4.80% | 1.30% | |
| Stephen Bartley | Green | 661 | 1.90% | ||
| Julian Goss | SA | 283 | 0.80% | ||
| Frank Hughes | UKIP | 221 | 0.60% | ||
| Madeleine Jeremy | PA | 217 | 0.60% | ||
| Turnout | 34,842 | 58.30% | -11.70% | ||
| Majority | 659 | 1.90% |