IEA: Osborne’s Living Wage Hits Poor, Young, Minorities, Consumers, Taxpayers
George Osborne’s Living Wage is likely to see those it is supposed to help lose out, according to a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs. The IEA finds that modest minimum wage increases...
View ArticleFriday Caption Contest: The Horror Edition
Via The Mirror: Osborne Goes Rambo in Vietnam Entries in the comments please… The post Friday Caption Contest: The Horror Edition appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
View ArticleHamilton Foresaw UKIP Rival’s Expenses Scandal
Guido must ask Neil Hamilton for next week’s lottery numbers. On Sunday UKIP’s Welsh Assembly leader sent this email to colleagues on the party’s NEC, including links to newspaper articles concerning...
View ArticleRio Judge Orders Arrest of Top Farron Donor
A judge in Rio has ordered the arrest of a top donor to Tim Farron. Marcus Evans, whose firm was previously under fire for selling unlicensed rugby tickets, is one of four men at the centre of a new...
View ArticleSong for Jeremy
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View ArticleSaturday Seven Up
This recess week 165,457 visitors visited 466,344 times viewing 705,369 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were: Corbyn to Attend Momentum Event With Vile Internet Troll Diane Abbott on...
View ArticleSunday Selection
BEST OF SEEN ELSEWHERE Fear of angering Muslims means electoral fraud will continue, Jane Kelly Why economists are hopeless when it comes to Brexit, Allister Heath In praise of Philip Davies, Mark...
View ArticleSpAd List: New Appointments
A few more updates to our nearly-complete SpAd List. Sajid Javid has hired Carrie Symonds as his media SpAd at DCLG – Symonds is a former Head of Broadcast at CCHQ and most recently was a spinner for...
View ArticleSadiq Khan’s Name Booed at Corbyn Rally
Sadiq Khan is an elected LABOUR Mayor who’s putting Labour policies into action. Shocked that members have booed him pic.twitter.com/Km6DgQtY7R — Jack Slater (@Jack_Slater) August 21, 2016 NEC member...
View ArticleTimes Runs Full Page Ad for “China Heroes”
On Page 22 of today’s Times sits a series of articles in contrast with the rest of the paper’s coverage of Team GB’s record Olympics haul. A bold headline emblazoned with the Chinese flag praises...
View ArticleOily Smith the Devolution Dodger
Oily’s at it again, this time lying about his record as a “committed devolutionist”. Plaid Cymru’s Liz Saville Roberts lashed out at the Labour hopeful, calling his earlier claims a “perfect...
View ArticlePRCA Complain to Carolyn Harris Over Lobbyist’s Pass
Following up Guido’s story Francis Ingham, the ever-lunching director general of the trade association for lobbyists the PRCA, has written an open letter to Carolyn Harris to complain about the...
View ArticleNow European Parliament Claims EU Olympic Victory
Huge congratulations to all the European winners and participants at #Rio2016, you did brilliantly! pic.twitter.com/vPTjkedjXD — European Parliament (@Europarl_EN) August 22, 2016 Following on from...
View ArticleCorbynistas Attempting to Preempt Co-op Plan
In yesterday’s Sunday Times, Tim Shipman revealed that some nameless Labour moderates might use their sister Co-operative Party to form a new opposition. While plans for the immediate future include...
View ArticleVoting Has Begun
Guido’s co-conspirators have been sent their electronic security codes, confusingly the two-part security codes were both sent in the same email, which seems like a pointless waste of time from a data...
View ArticleHow British Empire Beats EU for Olympic Medals
The former countries of the British Empire won 396 medals – 138 more medals than a post-Brexit EU. While the European Parliament invents an EU state to “win” the Olympics, the medal tally of a...
View ArticleMay Hires New Press SpAd
Theresa May has hired Patrick McLoughlin’s spinner Tim Smith as her final Downing Street press SpAd. Another alumnus of the CCHQ press office, Smith has been a SpAd at Transport for the last year,...
View ArticleTeam GB Sing National Anthem on Victory Jet Home
Victorious Team GB athletes launched the first of the days renditions of “God Save the Queen” while departing Rio on BA’s specially chartered VictoRIOus 747. Team GB’s post-Brexit spirit seems fine...
View ArticleFancy a Job in Danczuk’s Office?
Simon Danczuk is advertising for a new parliamentary assistant. “Sex mad” spanking fan Danczuk, recently revealed to have engaged in a steamy unprotected romp with a 22 year-old on the desk in his...
View ArticleCorbyn’s Train Squat Doesn’t Stand Up
Images released by Virgin Trains show that honest and authentic Jeremy Corbyn staged that video in which he sat on a train floor and appealed for “public ownership” of the railways. Virgin revealed...
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