THE UNPAID YORKSHIRE POST Yorkshire Post Articles 11 July 2005 Tony’s on a roll. Last week had its wild fluctuations but each turn of fortune was so well handled by the Great Helmsman that even the downs put him up. Read more...   FURTHER APPLICATION FOR JOB AT YORKSHIRE POST Yorkshire Post Articles 04 July 2005 Richard Whiteley`s sad death is more awful because Richard was enjoying his fame, his life, his fans, and his OBE so much. Now he`s cut off in his prime, but knowing Richard he would have loved to be here to see the enormous response to his death. Read more...   ID Cards Opinions 04 July 2005 The ID Cards Bill is one of those things that are easy to rush into but which get disastrous later. The crucial issue is cost. Government estimates are low at the moment. They know that the higher the charge the more public opinion will turn against it. Read more...   Letter to Mervyn King June 2005 Monetary Policy 01 July 2005 Dear Mr King We have not offered the MPC the benefit of our advice for the last quarter because we discerned correctly that the Bank would not make any change to interest rates in the election period or immediately after. To argue for the necessary reductions would, therefore, have been a waste of our time. Read more...   THE GROWN UP'S YORKSHIRE POST Yorkshire Post Articles 20 June 2005 The European Union was invented to provide a stage for failing politicians to pretend to be statesmen even though they no longer had empires. Read more...   YORKSHIRE POST LITE Yorkshire Post Articles 14 June 2005 The prevailing happiness in Labour ranks at the Dead Parrot performance in Europe is becoming deleted by second thoughts. It boosts Tony`s short career prospects. Read more...   WHAT THE Y.P. DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ Yorkshire Post Articles 07 June 2005 The row over the fate of the unloved Euro-Constitution repeats the Dear Parrot sketch in Monty Python’s Other Flying Circus. When he brought the good news to the House Jack Straw played not John Cleese but the parrot, which he came to praise not to bury. No unseemly rejoicing, though Jack is as much relieved as anyone. No death certificate. Merely a postponement of the Referendum Bill. Read more...   Yorkshire Post Plus Yorkshire Post Articles 31 May 2005 We cracked open a celebratory cup of cocoa in the Mitchell household at the French referendum result. That`s the nearest I`ve got to being en fete since I was arrested for being drunk and disorderly on Bingley Grammar’s School exchange with Auxerre some time back in the fourth republic. Read more...   WHAT THE Y.P. IS MISSING Yorkshire Post Articles 17 May 2005 Becoming a statesman. I came down from Leeds on Sunday suitably dressed as a new revolutionary jeans, sweater, hoodie like any other teenager for the Tory Leadership. The lady pushing the trolley stopped. ”Don’t I know you? You’re a politician?...” Read more...   INSIGHTS YOU`RE NOT ALLOWED IN THE Y.P. Yorkshire Post Articles 11 May 2005 The solution to the Blair Brown rivalry and the problem of when Tony hands over the chalice he`s poisoned is blindingly simple. Even ESN Whips should see it. Read more...   Yorkshire Post: advanced version Yorkshire Post Articles 04 May 2005 This election has seen the Strange Death of Tony Blair and I’m amazed at the high level of anti-Tony abuse we’re getting. It`s almost as if he`d become Harold Wilson. I tell people he’ll soon. I have the answer to why and how. If we win with a hugely reduced majority he`ll go quick. Otherwise he`ll stay to lead the campaign for the Euro Constitution (yes, he’s still crazy after all these years).He’ll be defeated on that.Partly because he’s leading it. Then he’ll go.All that will of course be next year. Read more...   What the Yorkshire Post doesn't want you to read. Yorkshire Post Articles 26 April 2005 Experienced, older MPs have learned to ignore party manifestos. Tories do so because in the last three elections they’ve been such rubbish. We do so because they’ve zig-zagged so amazingly. In 1983 I was going to nationalise anything that moved, pull out of the Common Market, as it then was, and drop nuclear weapons, preferably on President Reagan. By the 1997 election I wasn’t going to do anything very much except smile benignly so as not to frighten the City. Read more...   Unpaid Yorkshire Post. The column they can't afford even though it's free Election 05 20 April 2005 Two features make this election more difficult to predict than any predecessor. The polls are usually pretty good predictors but got a bloody nose last time. So they’ve changed their methods. MORI continues with good old interviews, others have switched to cheaper phone surveys. A couple have gone to even cheaper email polling which is better at displaying trends rather than predicting results. So there are wide variations from a l0% Labour lead to a l%. The old trick of averaging them out won`t work because you can`t average different methods. Read more...   Election Campaign Launch - Text of Austin's speech, from Grimsby Town Hall, Tuesday April 12th Election 05 18 April 2005 Thank you for adopting me as your Labour candidate. I’m delighted to fight this election. We fight to win. I’m sorry though to present myself with a missing front tooth as if I was a National Front Candidate or had just had an argument with John Prescott. I was listening to World at One yesterday where Michael Howard was promising more police, cleaner hospitals, lower taxes, school discipline and controlled immigration. I don’t know if you were thinking what was thinking, which was why the hell didn’t he do all this in eighteen years in power? But it was such a mean, malevolent, nasty collection of policies that I was grinding my teeth in anger. One broke and fell out. Read more...   Grimsby Telegraph questions and Election 05 15 April 2005 Question 1 List six SPECIFIC things that you, not the Government, have done for Grimsby since elected.   Read more...   Still not the yorkshire post General Ramblings 11 April 2005 The amount of bile and accumulated bitterness that has poured over Rover in its demise astonishes me. It`s as if the columnists, economists and commentators hated manufacturing and wanted to see it dead as soon as possible on the grounds that the British can`t hack it. Read more...   Still not the Yorkshre Post. Just quality. General Ramblings 04 April 2005 Ave Atque Vale, as they say in Harrogate. To this purposeless Parliament. It grinds to a halt in a welter of confusion as bills are dumped, hopefully ID Cards and Gambling. Members disappear into retirement homes, the Priory or constituencies. The Tories stagger round like a flightless bird, Labour panics, and Charles Kennedy can`t keep the smirk off his face. Read more...   ELECTION BLOG!!! Election 05 04 April 2005 Bored of the election campaign already? Never mind, Austins Election Blog will provides an antidote to a boring national campaign. Read more...   Not the Yorkshire Post (again) March 29th General Ramblings 30 March 2005 NOT THE YORKSHIRE POST. Jim Callaghan was a Labour leader of a type we’ll never see again. Brought up in the party, steeped in the trade union movement, and programmed to its instincts. That production line is now closed down. Also he was a leader. Not charting his own course like Tony Blair and changing it every day, but leading the party and holding it together by listening to it. That was a great gift. I remember him listening to us as students in Nuffield College urging him to devalue, to us as MPs in the dining and tea rooms which he used to visit regularly, and later to me talking about the state of the party. He told me I`d become too cynical. Read more...   Austins Election No Spin Zone Election 05 22 March 2005 Welcome to my little election site. Not the most glittering but it will include verbs. Plus my my own views rather than Party line porridge. You`re electing an MP who should think for himself, not a parrot. Read more...

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