After digesting the outcome of Monday night's PLP meeting, words fail me. Here below is a copy of some Daily Cartoons from The Independent (UK) that help chronicle a very English revolution. The cartoons are best viewed by starting at end of this post, and scrolling upwards.
Monday, 08 June 2009
Sunday, 07 June 2009
Saturday, 06 June 2009
Friday, 04 June 2009
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
Monday, 01 June 2009
Sunday, 31 May 2009
Saturday 30 May 2009
Friday, 29 May 2009
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Monday 25 May 2009
Sunday, 24 May 2009
Monday, 23 May 2009
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Saturday, 21 May 2009
Friday, 20 May 2009
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Monday, 18 May 2009
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Friday, 15 May 2009
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Monday, 11 May 2009
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Friday, 08 May 2009
Thursday, 07 May 2009
Wednesday, 06 May 2009
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
Monday, 04 May 2009
Sunday, 03 May 2009
Saturday, 02 May 2009
Friday, 1 May 2009
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Tuesday, 29 April 2009
Monday, 27 April 2009
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Saturday, 25 April 2009
Friday, 24 April 2009
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Sunday, 19 April 2009
"They" meaning this government (naturally) who, for some reason, quietly decided to end secret ballots at some time during its tenure between 1997 and now. Established by Gladstone in the Secret Ballot Act, 1872, (and reinforced with the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act of 1883) it goes without saying that ... Read Full Story.- - -
From my personal blog, Sunday, June 07, 2009: Brown booed by heroes at D-Day ceremony: Boos and calls of "where's the Queen?"
Note that the following report by BBC News apportions no blame to Gordon Brown. My late father, who served 25 years in Royal Army Medical Corps, would be rolling around in his grave if he knew the Queen had been excluded from yesterday's D-Day ceremony in France and that the French classed it as a Franco-American event. I am too angry and upset to write my own commentary on reports filed here over past week. Will do, if and when I have calmed down and Gordon Brown is not out by next week. Cranking up this blog after such a long hiatus is taking a little time.
17:14 GMT, Saturday, 6 June 2009 18:14 UK |
Brown booed at D-Day ceremonyThe Prime Minister has been booed as he arrived at a ceremony to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Boos and calls of "where's the Queen?" could be heard as he arrived at the final part of the day's events in Arromanches, in reference to the failure of the French government to invite the Queen to the commemorations. A government spokesman said that this year's anniversary of the Normandy landings was "first and foremost a Franco-American ceremony given the recent election of President (Barack) Obama". "There will be other June 6," said Luc Chatel, from President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling right-wing UMP party. France, he said, had sent an invitation to the British government, after receiving a request for one, but that it was not up to Paris to "designate British representation" at the D-Day event, he said. "The Queen of England, the head of the British state, is naturally welcome. Buckingham Palace has confirmed that it did not receive an invitation to the event, according to the normal protocol. Presidents Sarkozy and Obama are to take part in a D-Day ceremony at the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks Omaha beach on the Normandy coast. The two leaders will then hold a bilateral summit. - - - PARIS (AFP) – France insisted on Wednesday that the queen would be welcome to attend a commemoration of the D-Day landings, denying reports that she had been snubbed. French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be joined by US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Normandy landings commemoration in northern France, on June 6. But the queen has not specifically received an invitation from the French government, even though she was present for the 60th anniversary event in 2004, amid claims in the press that she was annoyed at being excluded. A spokesman for the French government, Luc Chatel, said France had invited Britain to attend the ceremony and that it was up to Brown's government to decide who was to represent it. "The Queen of England, as British head of state, is naturally welcome," he said, briefing reporters after a French cabinet meeting. "It's not up to France to decide who will represent Britain. "Our contacts on this ceremony were members of the British government who wanted to take part in a ceremony which was from the start Franco-American," he said. "June 6, 2009 is primarily a Franco-American ceremony," Chatel added, noting that the US president traditionally came to Normandy in his first year of office. Earlier, a Buckingham Palace spokesman had said: "No invitation has been issued as yet to any member of the royal family." He would not comment on whether one had been expected. The Daily Mail, which headlined its story: "Palace Fury At D-Day Snub To Queen", quoted an unnamed seniorBuckingham Palace source saying the royals had been keen to support the event and the situation was "very frustrating". The D-Day celebrations mark the anniversary of the allied landings in France, then occupied by Nazi Germany, in 1944 which marked a vital turning point in the course of World War II. |
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Photo: D-Day ceremony in France, Saturday, 06 June 2009. (Source: Mail on Sunday via comments at Guido Fawkes' blog)
