Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Jul 10, 2011, 9:07 am
...News International that is. Listen to the end if you have a few minutes.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Jun 12, 2011, 4:32 pm
Which Labour MPs are still on the bus with Ed?
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Jun 12, 2011, 3:06 pm
You had better watch your back then Ed.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 31, 2010, 8:23 am
Lib Dems will narrowly win the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election with a Tory swing in their favour. All 3 main party leaders (Cameron, Clegg and Miliband_E) will still be in post by the end of the year.The AV referendum will be comprehensively defeated. Sarah Palin will do something that will...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 30, 2010, 2:43 pm
Here are my favourite posts from each month of 2010 Jan Old Labour Old Danger Feb More Labour Lies Exposed - Unemployment Mar Jobless figures fiddled to hide massive 10% rise in long term unemployed Apr A future fair for all - animated manifesto film - Edited for accuracy May Widget: Gordo...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 21, 2010, 9:47 am
A little snow and BP at the Trafford Centre decides to charge 10p a litre more than the local price. I am not a advocate of price control, let the market do that. They are free to rip people off if they are daft enough to pay. I would urge people to shop around to stop this kind of profiteering. Upd...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 21, 2010, 7:05 am
Today is officially the first day of winter. I'm not sure what that makes the last few weeks! I tend not to comment much on what used to be called 'Global Warming' before we had ten consecutive years without any, but I have to say that the 'warmists' are looking quite silly. Last year was the coldes...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 20, 2010, 11:56 am
I know it has been 50 years but I can't see sales from this shop covering the rent. At least Granada is private and not wasting our license fee. Let's hope the BBC doesn't follow with an Eastenders shop. Coronation Street souvenir shop.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 17, 2010, 1:52 pm
So Ed Miliband has gone for a Christmas card that truly reflects his personality. Many shades of grey. The only dash of colour is the red in the corner, very apt indeed. The card features his partner Justine Thornton and their two children baby Samuel and Daniel who was born in 2009. On the subject ...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 17, 2010, 8:43 am
How social media, web and mobile tells the story of the Nativity. The Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon... H/T Excentric
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 14, 2010, 3:56 pm
David Cameron kicks Gordon Brown out of number 10. Could you ask for a better Christmas present?
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 14, 2010, 1:25 pm
So farewell then Iain Dale your blog has had to go to free up some time to host your radio show Dizzy said you were a big beast but Keith's mum said you had lost a lot of weight E.J. Thribb aged 17½
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 9, 2010, 4:34 pm
Join us tonight at 10:35 for a Question Time live blog. David Dimbleby is joined in London by Liam Fox MP, Norman Lamb MP, Sadiq Khan MP, Aaron Porter and Janet Daley. Question Time 9th December 2010
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 9, 2010, 1:50 pm
The NUS should have their assets sequestrated until they have paid for the damage done to the Treasury building and Parliament Square. They should also be charged for the policing in the same way that football clubs are. These thugs should be made to learn that their actions have consequences and th...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 9, 2010, 8:14 am

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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 9, 2010, 6:53 am
Shell’s Vice President for Africa, Ann Pickard "I do not like to talk to US Government officials because the US Government is leaky." Consul General Donna M. Blair "She may be concerned that by telling us the true impact of the attack, more bad news about Shell’s Nigerian operations will leak ou...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 8, 2010, 4:15 pm
Paypal have behaved badly, they have tried to cut off funding from Wikileaks because of government pressure. Wikileaks have not been found guilty if any illegal activity, as far as I know they haven't even been charged with any. So show Paypal your support for Wikileaks by boycotting them. I will al...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 8, 2010, 12:51 pm
The Coalition Government is reforming higher education funding to ensure universities have the money they need. Following the advice of the independent funding review, set up by the last Labour Government, the upper limit on tuition fees is being raised to £9,000. Students will pay nothing up fro...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 8, 2010, 11:07 am
I have just read an intersting cable that was leaked on Thursday speculating on who would replace Gordon Brown and listing his possible successors . It praises David Miliband and James Purnell but contains a damning assessment of Ed Balls, and Harriet Harman. Ed Miliband doesn't even rate a mention....
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 8, 2010, 10:01 am
Jack Straw too. Perhaps some Wikileaks will shed light on why.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 8, 2010, 6:48 am
About 1.6million people in Britain have never worked, 1.6 million parasites living off the backs of hard working taxpayers! According to Iain Duncan Smith hundreds of thousands of teenagers and adults have become used to languishing on benefit because work simply does not pay. This is bullshit, w...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 7, 2010, 5:24 am
Has anybody else noticed the extraordinary resemblance between Gordon Brown and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I think perhaps they are related. We should be told. From Wikileaks cable IRAN’S FIRST FAN As emotions run high following a week of adversarial debates between Iran’s four presidential candidates...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 6, 2010, 6:08 pm
This is what happens when a government takes on the Internet. In their determination to take WikiLeaks and Cablegate off the Internet, here is what the US government have achieved, WikiLeaks is currently mirrored on 507 sites. USA 0 - WikiLeaks 507 and it isnt even half time! wikileaks.as50620.net...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 6, 2010, 12:13 pm
Visitors to the blog today have included the US Senate, the House of Representatives , the Library of Congress and the World Bank. Quite scary, am I going to have my DNS entry removed in retaliation for reposting a number of cablegate documents? Or perhaps for putting up wikileaks IP address after...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 6, 2010, 6:19 am
In an unexpected turn of events climate alarmists gathering at tax payers' expense at a luxury resort in Cancun Mexico have not only found positive proof of rising sea levels, they have also obtained photgraphic evidence of the cause.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 5, 2010, 4:28 pm
Today's Wikileaks demonstrate how the US government leaned on Brazil to gain a competative advantage for Boeing. The first cable from Charge d'Affaires Lisa Kubiske seems very reasonable. She points out that with two months remaining before the Government of Brazil decides on a next generation fight...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 5, 2010, 10:25 am
Following my little anecdote about how reposting the wikileaks Galyna Kolotnytska cable had caused an explosion of hits to the Red Rag from people looking for pictures of the 'Voluptuous Ukrainian Nurse'. My friend the UK's leading (if not only) pizza blogger Simon Pickles has sought to use this as ...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 5, 2010, 8:26 am
Last night Mrs C and I celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary. In recent years we have flown to Paris and Madrid for our anniversary but due to business commitments we were unable to get away this year. So we decided we would stay in the UK and have a nice meal and overnight stay. Mrs C booked a...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 3, 2010, 7:44 am
David Chaytor, the former Labour MP, has pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud over his expenses. The former Bury North MP appeared at the Old Bailey charged with three counts of theft by false accounting under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 3, 2010, 7:13 am
Lord Justice Thomas, Mr Justice Tugendhat and Mrs Justice Nicola Davies delivered their ruling this afternoon. So Labour are right, unemployment is going to go up. By one ex MP Phil Woolas. Good riddance to the lying cheating incompetent toad.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Dec 3, 2010, 4:15 am
Wikileaks has had its domain names removed but can still be accessed directly via their IP address here: Cablegate Main Site
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 30, 2010, 6:21 am
This picture of Ukrainian nurse Natalia has gone viral and has been reposted all over the Internet as if it was Galyna Kolotnytska. This despite my original post clearly stating to those searching for pictures of her: Sorry I can't help but here is a picture of a random voluptuous Ukrainian. Her nam...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 29, 2010, 4:38 pm
In a frank exchange of views Prince Andrew attacks the corruption of French business practices overseas. When it was pointed out that the Kyrgyz Republic would need to change it's practices to attract western investment whilst it would not need to do so to attract the Russians or Chinese the Prince ...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 29, 2010, 3:57 pm
A fascinating and withering assesment of Robert Mugabe by Ambassador Christopher W. Dell. Sadly his assesment that "the end is not far off for the Mugabe regime" was as wrong as the similar predictions of his predecessors. 13th July 2007 C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 HARARE 000638 SIPDI...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 28, 2010, 7:43 pm
Unbelievable, the blog is being inundated by hits following my repost of three Wikileaks stories. Worldwide people are landing on the Red Rag, are they looking for information on US intentions towards Iran? North Korea perhaps? Or maybe even the US view on Gordon Brown? No, 90% of searches have been...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 28, 2010, 6:50 pm
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 TRIPOLI 000771 NOFORN SIPDIS STATE FOR NEA/MAG AND INR. E.O. 12958: DECL: 9/29/2019 TAGS: PREL PGOV LY PINR SUBJECT: A GLIMPSE INTO LIBYAN LEADER QADHAFI’S ECCENTRICITIES CLASSIFIED BY: Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador, U.S. Embassy Tripoli, Department of State. REASO...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 28, 2010, 6:30 pm
C O N F I D E N T I A L BERLIN 000153 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/03/2020 TAGS: PGOV PREL EFIN ECON GM SUBJECT: DEFLATED EXPECTATIONS FOR MERKEL'S DREAM COALITION AFTER FIRST 100 DAYS REF: 2009 BERLIN 1528 Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Greg Delawie for reasons 1.4 (b, d). ¶1. (C) Summary:...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 28, 2010, 6:09 pm
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 BERLIN 000802 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/16/2022 TAGS: PREL PGOV ECUN EU GM SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR ANGELA MERKEL IN WASHINGTON: GOALS FOR EUROPE, GOALS AT HOME REF: BERLIN 747 Classified By: DCM John Koenig. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d) ¶1. (C) Summary....
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 19, 2010, 9:05 am
Today Alistair Darling, Lord Malloch-Brown and Liam Byrne have joined the ever growing cabal of Labour cronies who have admitted that Labour were overspending before the recession. The comments are in stark contrast to postie Alan Johnson’s claim last week that “we were never living beyond our m...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 17, 2010, 8:25 am
From the Conservative Party press office. Andrew Griffiths MP has today written to Ed Miliband calling on him to voluntarily give up part of the Labour Party’s taxpayer-funded grant. While Government departments have had to make necessary reductions in budgets by 19 per cent and ministerial pay h...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 8, 2010, 6:33 pm
LOL.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 5, 2010, 4:55 pm
In comments to the Guardian newspaper, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Douglas Alexander has revealed that he is in favour of a cap on housing benefit. This puts him in direct opposition to Ed Miliband who has vowed to fight the cap and the whole package of Housing Benefit reforms. S...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 5, 2010, 4:24 pm
I have just received the text of a letter Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has today written to Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, to ask what part Labour Party headquarters played in producing and approving Phil Woolas’ election literature. It is pretty explos...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 5, 2010, 2:54 pm
So Labour have suspended Phil Woolas, they have also said they will not support his attempt to have a judicial review. Well, I suppose they had no choice given the court ruling today. However it was just last month Ed Miliband appointed him to the sensitive job of Shadow Immigration minister in the ...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 5, 2010, 9:16 am
Two High Court judges today ordered a re-run of this year's General Election campaign in Oldham East and Saddleworth after ruling that Labour's Phil Woolas knowingly made false statements about an opponent. Mr Justice Nigel Teare and Mr Justice Griffith Williams said Mr Woolas was guilty of illegal ...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Nov 3, 2010, 4:54 am

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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Oct 31, 2010, 5:32 pm
Labour’s position on the Government’s Housing Benefit cap is in disarray. In an interview on Sky News, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary and ex-Housing Minister John Healey stated, when asked whether it was right to cap Housing Benefit, that: ‘those top-level benefits do need to be capped’....
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Oct 31, 2010, 8:23 am
Police stopped 101,248 under anti-terror law last year - but didn't make a single terror related arrest. 506 of those stopped were taken into custody but none on suspicion of plotting terror attacks. The Home Office also revealed that no terror suspect was held for more than 14 days before being cha...
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Oct 30, 2010, 10:03 am
The Scottish Liberal Democrat election chairman, George Lyon, said: "There are no depths to which the Labour Party will not stoop. They aren't fit to be in opposition, let alone in government." He was referring to this.
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Ollie Cromwell posted an article on The Red Rag - Oct 30, 2010, 8:58 am
Harriet Harman has referred to Danny Alexander as a 'ginger rodent.' His red hair is as an inherited trait directly related to his ethnicity in the same way as skin colour. Imagine the uproar if she had called Diane Abbot a black rodent. Is there any difference? Political Betting's Mike Smithson is...
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