The position of Prime Minister’s Spouse should be directly, and separately, elected. So we could pair Gordon with Samantha, Dave with Sarah, or maybe even Nick (Clegg) with Nick (Griffin). The possibilities are as endless as the attention span of an ITV early evening news viewer. The morons would vote for the spouse, and the rest of us would vote for the actual government. Everyone gets to e...
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LiberalConspiracy on 16th Mar 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Prince Charles and ex-prime minister Tony Blair will be guests in the first week of new ITV morning show Daybreak.
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BBCPolitics on 5th Sep 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Prime Minister Gordon Brown swapped the political ping-pong of government for an actual game with Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Andy Burnham yesterday during a visit to Tottenham Hotspur’s training complex in Chigwell, London.
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TheHerald on 17th Jan 2009 (via theherald.co.uk)
ITV no longer has any entitlement to the 3 button on every remote control in the country. It is high time to re-regionalise ITV under a combination of municipal and mutual ownership, and to apply that same model (but with central government replacing local government, subject to very strict parliamentary scrutiny) to Channel Four. You know what you have to do.
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DavidLindsay on 30th Sep 2008 (via davidaslindsay.blogspot.com)
Wicked whisper - which senior Tory told new telly political duo Alex Forrest and Lucy Manning they were certain to become the "Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole" of ITV? Three Line Whip home
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RosaPrince on 29th Sep 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Nick Clegg fights against Government’s shameful abandonment of Gurkhas At Prime Minister's Questions this week Nick Clegg outshone his political opponents and exposed the moral vacancy of the Prime Minister and his Labour Government. Nick accused the Prime Minister of giving evasive answers on the issue of the Gurkhas because he knows that what he and his government are doing is wrong. ...
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LibDems on 30th Apr 2009 (via libdems.org.uk)
Competition Minister Gareth Thomas has published for consultation draft statutory undertakings which, if accepted, would require Sky (British Sky Broadcasting Group plc) to divest a proportion of its shares in ITV.
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PublicTechnology on 5th Jan 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
I am a loyal Conservative; very loyal, in fact, and I support the work of David Cameron specifically as Prime Minister and the Tory-led coalition generally. They are a much better government than Labour could ever have formed. However, tonight, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have made a big mistake and even loyal Conservatives have to say this. This morning, the Cable story (I though...
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LittlesLog on 21st Dec 2010 (via antonylittle.blogspot.com)
Asked who would be running the Government when the Prime Minister was on holiday, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister would be in charge of the Government over the summer, as would normally be the case. Put that Alastair Darling would be in charge when the Prime Minister was away, the PMS said that the Prime Minister was the Prime Minister and would remain in charge, whether he was on holiday ...
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DowningStreetSays on 23rd Jul 2008 (via downingstreetsays.com)
With advertising revenues falling sharply, both ITV and Five are cutting jobs. Drama output on ITV is being reduced from eight hours per week to seven. With prodcution of Heartbeat and The Royal now on hold, ITV Yorkshire's Leeds studios will be closed, with the loss of 192 jobs. As The...
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Tigmoo on 5th Mar 2009 (via writersguild.blogspot.com)