LunchtimeList No.20 – Friday 6th February, 2009

COMMENT OF THE WEEK:

Josh Eades: ‘Dozy Doris will be too busy writing his article for tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph to be bothered about London.’

Congratulations, Josh! A bottle of House of Commons champagne is on its way to you. Get commenting and you could be the next winner!

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ON LABOURLIST TODAY

Grassroots blogger Mark Nottingham tells us how they’re already campaigning for an election in Kent.

Tom Miller asks if we still need Trident.

Former Blair adviser Conor Ryan gives Nick Clegg’s education plans a D.

Derek Simpson from Unite looks at the aftermath of the wildcat strikes. We have the full government briefing.

Plus more articles will be going up throughout the day.

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BANKERS!

The government must find a way of stopping the obscene bonuses planned by some of the banks. Robert Peston has the background.

IAIN DALE

The papers are full of comment that demonstrates how wrong Iain Dale is – literally too many pieces to link to! Now that Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and his family have expressed their outrage will the Tory blogger still not admit he got it wrong?

Meanwhile Boris Johnson has joined Dale and Tebbit in defending Carol Thatcher. They do seem to be just the same old Tories…

MORE ON TORY TOFFS

Look at them all, having a ball.

FINALLIST

Blair does God with Barack. Read the full speech here and watch the video of his introduction here.

Is Richard Carling a fair weather friend? There is a more serious question too, which we will be asking on LabourList later.

The Tories’ plan to let schools pay teachers whatever they like.

Jack Straw blogs about the white stuff.

Well done to Peter Kenyon for taking on the bankers on their home turf – with some good old fashioned democracy.

Martin Kettle, after going all Tory, has now turned into Ramsay MacKettle. Can’t the Guardian get a proper commentator on Labour? How about poaching Steve Richards?

Obama lays out the case, rather brilliantly, for the kind of action the government is taking and the Tories oppose.

Thatcher is still leading a bunch of loonies.

Don’t miss Bob Dylan on Coronation Street.

Political Betting on how Cameron could fix it for himself.

HERO of the day: Hazel Blears, with a great response to the misguided George Monbiot.

ZERO of the day: Jeremy Clarkson. Is it really in order to call the PM a ‘one-eyed Scottish idiot‘ ? If you think not, tell the BBC. It’s certainly causing a rumpus in Scotland.

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