Conservative MEPs take on Spanish fishing fleet

Posted by on Sep 25, 2006 in Uncategorized | 4 comments Conservative MEPs led by the erudite Struan Stevenson will take on the might of the Spanish fishing fleet this week to ban the cruel practice of removing fins from the Mediterranean blue shark. The World Conservation Council have announced that blue sharks are now an endangered species facing extinction because of the Chinese’s love of shark fin soup, which dates back 2,000...
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Charles Clarke and those "ill-advised" words

Posted by on Sep 25, 2006 in Uncategorized | 4 comments Did he mean it, or didn’t he? And did the presence of Ed Balls induce sacked Home Secretary Charles Clarke into admitting he was wrong about saying those nasty things about Gordon Brown. Clarke effectively conceded that his savage personal attack on the Chancellor had been unhelpful to the party. And he acknowledged that people, including himself, had behaved in “not the most best...
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