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Cameron is PM

admin | May 12, 2010

Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron is the Prime Minister
 
Ministers announced here
First Cabinet appointments in the Cameron-Clegg Cabinet here 
See photos of Dave’s first days in Downing Street via flickr
Keep up to date with all the Cabinet and Ministerial appointments on the Number 10 website including the Cabinet appointments list
Boris Johnson is delighted at the news and felt [...]

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With cat-like tread the revenue we steal

admin | April 15, 2010

[The Chorus of Labour M.P.s]
With cat-like tread
    The revenue we steal ;
Influence ped-
    d-ling is our new deal.
Of the truth
    We never speak a word ;
And Sterling’s fall
    can be distinctly heard.

[The Chorus of Lobbyists]
Taxi ! Tara !
Taxi ! Tara !

[Labour M.P.s]
So stealthily the tax-men creep
    While all across the country sleep.

Come, friends
    who used to be
Leaders of the [...]

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General Election Announcement 2010

admin | April 6, 2010

The Prime Minister – has announced the General Election for May 6 with the rallying call to his party: ‘Let’s go to it’   

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The Budget Song 2010

admin | March 24, 2010

To keep up with a small Dungeekin tradition here is a specially commissioned little Budget Song for you all.  Enjoy.
Ronan Keating ‘When you say nothing at all’
You can keep up with Dungeekin via his inimitable tweets @dungeekin
It’s amazing how you can still try to be smart,
Thanks to you our economy’s fallen apart,
This Budget Day you have done [...]

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David Willetts MP responds to Boris and baby boomers

admin | March 10, 2010

This is not an attack on the baby-boomer generation;  it is instead an appeal to the better nature of the boomers – an appeal to Edmund Burke’s understanding that a nation is “a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are [...]

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Gordon Brown and Alternative Voting

admin | February 9, 2010

Downing Street has admitted “time is tight” to get laws for a referendum on scrapping Britain’s first past the post voting system through Parliament.  Gordon Brown wants to replace it with “alternative vote,” where candidates are ranked in order of preference.  The Prime Minister says this is a better way of choosing MPs but the [...]

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The Queen’s Speech 2009 (The Mikado)

admin | November 18, 2009

Dungeekin provides a musical rendition on the Queen’s Speech this afternoon
Many of the original words are resonant today.
In a break from Tradition, this year saw Her Majesty the Queen deliver the speech at the State Opening of Parliament not in words, but instead in song:
As each year for the Government a speech one must propound,
One’s [...]

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Sir Christopher Kelly Report

admin | November 4, 2009

 Our favourite satirist, Dungeekin, back in the ring with The (Grace) Kelly Report
The (Grace) Kelly Report

So, Dear Reader, today will see Doctor Kelly lance the festering boil that is the MP’s expenses scandal. In his honour, and with the enjoyable spectacle of MPs losing their gravy train ahead, I thought we should have a little [...]

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