'Government' Category
Ditch the spin doctors – The Nurse proposes ‘human’ politicians
The Nurse has noticed an interesting political phenomenon. Since the UK General Election she’s heard interviews with ex-MPs. And they’ve all had major personality transplants. What’s going on? As MPs these people never answered a straight question. They prevaricated, delayed, obfuscated, avoided responsibility and played the blame game. Some even had body language coaching, which just made them look… well, weird. Outside politics, [...]
Will the UK Conservative Party bring back foxhunting?
The Nurse despises foxhunting. While she is deeply suspicious of banning things - censorship being the thin edge of a very nasty wedge - cruelty is never acceptable. So she was interested to see, during a recent edition of the BBC’s Country File, a hunt spokesman confirm that if the Conservative Party won the next election they’d seek to reverse the foxhunting [...]
Appeal for party politics co-operation
The Nurse has been observing UK party politicians up to their usual tricks in the Houses of Parliament this week. Name calling, accusation and counter-accusation, boos and roars of derision. All highly unappealing. In times of crisis, with the economy going to shit around their ears, they’re fiddling – and wasting an enormous amount of time and [...]
World Leaders: Bush, Brown, Merkel, Ahmadinejad and Putin a ‘bunch of twats’
The Nurse, brooding in Solitary after an unfortunate lapse in discipline, is immeasurably cheered by the headline, ‘Brighton-based World Leaders release fifth short political animation’ The Nurse likes her humour grounded in intelligence. From that basis, wild flights of fancy go down well. Political incorrectness and irreverence are a must. Swearing’s always funny when used unexpectedly, by unexpected people in [...]
