Henley MP , Boris Johnson, has announced his intention to run for Mayor of London.
Books by and about Boris:
Have I Got Views For You
Seventy Two Virgins
The Dream of Rome
Lend Me Your Ears
Friends Voters Countrymen
Boris by Alan Glimson.
The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze, written by Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes, it details more than 140 instances of New Labour sleaze since 1997 - cronyism, nepotism, sex, money, drugs. Examples of sleaze include:
- Peter Mandelson's Mortgages
- Ron Davies's 'Moment of Madness'
- David Blunkett and Nannygate
- Bernie Ecclestone's Donation
- Loans for Lordships
- John Prescott's Cocktail Sausage
- Lord Irvine's Wallpaper
- Margaret Beckett's Air Miles
- Cherie Blair's Freebie Holidays
- Tessa Jowell's Mortgages
- The Dodgy Dossier
- Stephen Byers
- Jo Moore Burying Bad News
- Derek Draper and Lobbygate
- Badger Watching with Ron Davies
- Cherie Blair Signing the Hutton Report
- Gordon Brown and the Smith Institute
- Cherie Blair's 'lecture' tours
- Gordon Brown’s Spinning Addiction
It's available for £7.99 from the Politicos bookshop.
Via Breitbart and Drudge
Voters in France have resoundingly endorsed President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to overhaul the French economy, giving his party a commanding lead in the first round of elections for parliament.
Mr Sarkozy's UMP party won 39.6% of the vote, while the opposition Socialists had 24.7%, the Interior Ministry said.
Mr Sarkozy's conservatives have a strong advantage heading into the decisive runoff next Sunday, on track to expand their absolute majority in the 577-seat parliament.
MADRID - Spain's ruling Socialists and opposition conservatives both claimed victory in weekend local elections that were seen as primaries for next year's general elections.
With 100 percent of the vote counted, the ruling Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialist party had 34.9 percent against 35.6 percent for the right wing Popular Party led by Mariano Rajoy, a difference of 155,991 votes.
The Socialists, however, won 679 more town hall council seats than the Popular Party out of a total of 66,162 that were up for grabs.
Socialist win more seats, PP more votes
Honours even in Spanish polls
Senior Spanish leaders react to poll results
Rival parties split Spanish election
Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail has managed to pull off a coup that has astonished the Irish media. Despite being in power for 10 years, Fianna Fail has managed to gain seats in the Irish general election. Mr Ahern had been at the centre of a series of scandals regarding acceptance of cash gifts from Irish businessmen (otherwise known as Bertigate), and it was widely predicted that Fianna Fail would lose seats, and Mr Ahern his premiership. Instead, it appears that a surge in support came through on polling day.Fianna Fail representatives explained that a large portion of that late surge in vote came from the under-25s.
The biggest shock of the night was the Progressive Democrats leader and Justice Minister, Michael McDowell losing his seat.
Negotiations to form a coalition government are underway , but its looking increasingly likely that it could be a Fianna Fail / Labour coalition, despite Labour's assurances to the contrary.
However, a rainbow coalition involving Fine Gael, Labour , the Greens and the Progressive Democrats , while unlikely, cannot at the present time be ruled out.
Morning Ireland, RTE radio (podcast feed)
Election 2007 - full coverage from RTE
More from RTE
Due to Ireland's complex proportional representation voting system, counting is still going on in many constituencies. However, the latest results , and percentage voting share, are as follows:
Fianna Fail - 74 seats 44.1%
Fine Gael - 48 seats, 27.3%
Labour - 20 seats, 10.1%
Green Party - 5 seats, 4.7%
Sinn Fein - 4 seats, 6.9%
Progressive Democrats - 2 seats, 2.7%
Others - 5 seats, 6.6%
Ireland goes to the polls today in one of the tighest contests in history.
Full coverage here on the RTE website.
Cameron steps up grammars attack (BBC)
Class war hots up - Nick Robinson, BBC
An Opinion on Grammar school stuff , Dizzy Thinks
Tory grassroots have acquired a new confidence, ToryDiary
Cameron - schools not my clause four, Guardian
Cameron attacks "deluded" grammar school defenders, Times
