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Cancel Hinkley, Because It Ain’t Worth It
This chart from Bloomberg Energy is devastating. For the same budget as Hinkley we could get 20 gigawatts more electricity from gas, or the same for a fraction of the cost. Even solar would produce...
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Vacancy for Trainee Scuttlebutt
Closing Date: 17 September 2016 Job Title: Trainee Reporter Working For: Guido Fawkes Location: London Salary: Competitive Job Details The Guido Fawkes website is looking for a full-time reporter to...
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Red Red Whine
Jeremy Corbyn is appearing at a press conference with UB40 this morning, and it’s a fitting endorsement in more ways than one. The eighties reggae band are of course themselves famous for an...
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Right Honourable Keith Vaz All Over Front PAges
He usually loves publicity… The post Right Honourable Keith Vaz All Over Front PAges appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
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Vaz Broke Law He Helped Draft
Lawmakers cannot be law breakers. This is even more crucial when it comes to being chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee which influences the drafting of criminal laws. Jeremy Corbyn said on...
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1922 Committee Nominations
Brady, Walker, Gillan, Clifton-Brown, Blackman and Nigel Evans have all been returned unopposed, but there’s plenty still to play for. 12 committee places up for grabs, 14 nominations received: 1....
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Vaz Charity Retains Carter Ruck
Keith Vaz’s diabetes charity Silver Star made the front page of the Telegraph yesterday and was covered extensively in the Mail and the Sun. The allegation – fiercely denied – is that the rent boys at...
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Ken Goes on TV to Talk Vaz, Ends Up Discussing Hitler
Ken Livingstone went on the BBC News channel this morning to discuss Keith Vaz. Naturally, he ended up talking about Hitler. He says he has “so much evidence” to prove he’s right and adds: “Adolf...
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Tories: “Lawmakers Cannot Be Lawbreakers”, Vaz Must Go
Leicester Tory councillor Ross Grant has told the Daily Politics that Keith Vaz must resign as an MP because “lawmakers cannot be lawbreakers”. Grant says it is nonsense to argue this is a private...
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Keith Vaz Resignation Statement
It is in the best interest of the home affairs select committee that its important work can be conducted without any distractions whatsoever. I am genuinely sorry that recent events make it impossible...
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New Green Leader Says UKIP are Fascists
New Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley is a complete non-entity, so it was important for him to make a good first impression on today’s Daily Politics. Would the smug former Tory take a more moderate,...
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May Hires 23 SpAds So Far
By Guido’s count Theresa May now has 23 SpAds, spinners and policy wonks at Number 10, still a little way off Dave’s chumocracy. The PM has hired former Foreign Office SpAd Denzil Davidson, Centrica’s...
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Vacancy for Trainee Scuttlebutt
Closing Date: 17 September 2016 Job Title: Trainee Reporter Working For: Guido Fawkes Location: London Salary: Competitive Job Details The Guido Fawkes website is looking for a full-time reporter to...
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Vaz Didn’t Declare Hotels Used For Encounters With Young Men
Tuesday’s Sun reported that between September 2013 and December 2014 Keith Vaz “often” stayed at the Washington Mayfair hotel, and “sometimes there were other young men with him”. The paper says Vaz...
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City Boys Staying in London
Mark Carney is up in front of the Treasury Select Committee this afternoon where he is going to have to explain why he cut rates and re-started QE prematurely to Jacob Rees Mogg, who thinks “He acted...
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Oily’s Confused Advice to Corbyn for PMQs
Oily Smith has helpfully written to Jezza with some advice on tactics at PMQs: “Of course, with six questions, you could cover more than one topic … although you know from your own experience that...
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PMQs: Who is Asking the Questions Today
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister Q1 Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West) Q2 Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) Q3 Richard Arkless (Dumfries and Galloway) Q4 Lucy Frazer (South East Cambridgeshire)...
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Home Affairs Chair Runners and Riders
So who will replace Vaz as Home Affairs select committee chair? It will be a Labour MP, so it’s the most influential job any exiled moderate is going to get for a while. Chuka Umunna – Is running....
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Corbynistas Enjoyed Grammar School Educations
Widespread bafflement that Jeremy Corbyn didn’t go with grammar schools as his line of questioning at PMQs. Guido can guess why… Jeremy Corbyn – Attended a grammar school. His son went to a grammar...
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Ken on Hitler, Yet Again
Ken Livingstone on anti-semitism row: you can’t say “telling the truth can bring the Labour party into disrepute” https://t.co/yUH5zWnfGn — Sky News (@SkyNews) September 7, 2016 Ken talking about...
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