Blog Update General Ramblings 21 March 2005 I read Piers Morgan’s diaries feeling like one of the great excluded: Faces pressed against the glass of the wondrous celeb world our leaders now inhabit. While he was editor of the Mirror Piers had 22 lunches 6 dinners 6 interviews 24 one-on-one meetings and innumerable phone calls with Tony Blair. Read more...   right to reply #2 News Flash 16 March 2005 Austins response to the Guardian letter Read more...   right to reply News Flash 16 March 2005 Read the response to Austins Guardian article Read more...   Sold for the sake of it Council Housing 15 March 2005 This could be John Prescott’s finest hour. Our deputy prime minister is embarking on what he hopes will be the final stages of his eight-year war against councils and council housing. Read more...   LESS AND LESS THE YORKSHIRE POST. THAT BECOMES MORE TORY AS THE ELECTION LOOMS. THIS BECOMES MORE General Ramblings 14 March 2005 I missed out on last week`s battles, boozing and bickering. All night sittings are a bonding experience. Some make the bonding more physical than others. Read more...   Council Housing evidence session update! News Flash 09 March 2005 The House of Commons ‘Council Housing’ group yesterday (March 8) held the final evidence gathering session of its inquiry to demonstrate support for the ‘fourth option’ for council housing. Read more...   Not the Yorkshire Post! General Ramblings 07 March 2005 The briefings from the Brownies that Gordon is to be brought back to running Labour’s election campaign and Alan Milburn demoted may be just a touch of tat for tittery for keeping out the People’s Gordon in the first place. Yet they indicate a problem... Read more...   Stay tuned folks! News Flash 04 March 2005 Austin’s manifesto is coming soon... e-mail me with your ideas and input!!! This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   An evidence session for the Council Housing Group is announced Council Housing 03 March 2005 The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs is holding its third evidence taking session next Tuesday (8 March) as part of its inquiry to demonstrate support for the ‘fourth option’ for council housing. MPs will be hearing evidence from tenants, councillors, council officers and trade unions. Read more...   Still Not the Yorkshire Post. But better than great slabs of prejudiced prose on the opinion and edi General Ramblings 28 February 2005 Welcome back Alistair. Your Prime Minister needs you to be coherent. So does your party. You should never have gone into show biz. Sadly in those months off you’ve lost the old sureness of touch if not your mastery of the ffffing language. Read more...   News from the Office of Austin Mitchell Opinions 23 February 2005 "There's plenty of trouble still to be made and I want to play my part in making it" Read more...   Blog Update... General Ramblings 22 February 2005 Fit for Bloggers. Not fit for the Yorkshire Post... Read more...   Wednesday 16th February General Ramblings 17 February 2005 NOT THE YORKSHIRE POST. AGAIN l5 Feb “Vote for us. We’re not the Tories”. “Vote for Tony. He’s not Michael Howard” will be the themes of our election campaign. Indeed, the most exciting part if the six bland pledges are the policy. Read more...   European Union Bill, A Confidence Trick Warn Labour Euro Sceptics News Flash 10 February 2005 Government is smuggling through a constitution the people don`t want by an incomprehensible Bill Read more...   STILL NOT THE YORKSHIRE POST (Column not published on Tuesday 8 February) General Ramblings 07 February 2005 BLAIR V BROWN: ROUND 18 Growing speculation (which must come from Downing Street because no-one else would be that daft) says that after the election Tony will take Treasury away from Gordon and make him Foreign Secretary. Read more...   Tuesday 1st February General Ramblings 31 January 2005 Not the Yorkshire Post Free Bludgers Blog Tuesday l Feb. UNLOVED LEADERS. Every time I nominate Charles Kennedy for awards his Liberal colleagues don`t support him. His MPs resent him. As a party of individuals they all think they’d be better Leaders. Only voters like him. Read more...   Blog Update 24th January General Ramblings 24 January 2005 The nice lady editor of the Yorkshire Post asked David Currie and I to write regular columns at 20p a word. This was ruinous for a cash strapped YP. After four months they fired the editor for Un-Yorkshire activity (a.k.a. spending brass) and brought in the editor of the Sheffield Star to cut costs by firing me, though not David. So here`s the YP in exile published for free from a secret location in Grimsby: Iskratyke. Read more...   January 13th - Brown Blair meeting General Ramblings 14 January 2005 Thursday, 13 January Unable to get into Monday`s Great Party Meeting. I arrived late. It was packed. “Where were you when history was made, daddy?” “Locked out. With a lot of press people”. Blair gives the feel of a weary man on his last lap, trotting out the inevitable answers and tricky deceits, but in mechanical fashion with no feeling his heart is in it. He wants a third victory on a meritocratic, not an egalitarian platform. After that it`s in the lap of the gods. Read more...   Happy New Year! General Ramblings 07 January 2005 Blog of the Season and a Happy New Blog. 2005. A promising year. (I`m still promising after all these years). A year in which we dedicate ourselves to your delight and promise anything you want, “as resources allow”, and of course without Yob Behaviour, booze, salt or sugar. Read more...   *****NEWS FLASH****** News Flash 09 December 2004 CAMERA TO THE RESCUE: PHOTOGRAPHER MP VOLUNTEERS TO SAVE THE PEACE PROCESS Read more...

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