Category Archives: politics

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein

Thoughts on the closure of The Forum Music Centre

Yesterday I got the news that The Forum Music Centre is to close at the end of August. From what I can gather, previously agreed council funding has been pulled which, in turn, has put the skids on a second grant from One North East. I don’t know if the funding was pulled because of wider cutbacks from our beloved, barely-elected coalition government but it seems bit too much of a coincidence that a grant that was on the table suddenly isn’t post-emergency budget.

2 July, 2010 – 9:18 pm | By MrBlackett | Posted in knobbers, music, politics | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Tory candidate thinks gays are possessed by demons

Rising Tory star Philippa Stroud ran prayer sessions to ‘cure’ gay people See also: Who would voters be electing in Sutton and Cheam – Philippa Stroud or her husband?

2 May, 2010 – 5:07 pm | By MrBlackett | Posted in politics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

UKIP – The party for the common man.

I’m not one for forcing my political preferences down anyone’s throat. I prefer to point out what a typhoon of bell-ends Parliament is filled with. Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and the BNP all have their pond-life and I wouldn’t claim otherwise. That said, I feel it’s now time to come out of the political closet. …

26 April, 2010 – 3:31 pm | By MrBlackett | Posted in politics, video | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Racism Awareness Centre

Your Old Crap Website – BNP I’m only posting this for one joke. The rest of the site is great but that loud cackle the North of England just heard was me laughing at Racism Awareness Centre.

24 April, 2010 – 2:01 pm | By MrBlackett | Posted in politics, racists | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Run, Jack Straw and Jerry Dammers! It’s BNP Horse!

From the damaged brain slop of savechristianityinuk: The LibLabCon fat cats are powerless to resist the BNP horse. POWERLESS I TELL YOU!

24 April, 2010 – 1:22 am | By MrBlackett | Posted in politics, video | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Camerwrong is a shite name but…

23 April, 2010 – 6:30 pm | By MrBlackett | Posted in politics, video | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Johann Hari on the leaders debates

The forces that have been blocking British democracy are becoming visible in this election “The reaction of the right-wing press to briefly losing the ability to frame how politicians address the public has been a frenzied panic worthy of Basil Fawlty. They have “revealed” Clegg is a paedophile-cuddling, Gaddafi-licking foreigner and crook who wishes we …

23 April, 2010 – 12:42 pm | By MrBlackett | Posted in politics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Smile!

I was just flicking through my feeds when I came across this picture of Gordon Brown smiling

7 May, 2009 – 4:40 pm | By MrBlackett | Posted in knobbers, politics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)