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The Wilted Rose
http://thewiltedrose.wordpress.com
This blog aims to highlight snippets from the press, media or internet - or videos from YouTube - showing the absolute political, economic, social, environmental and ethnical/moral bankruptcy of the Labour Government. We are well and truly Browned off with Labour, having had Blaired vision previously, and we might even write a serious article once in a while.
Recent Posts
Is Labour serious about child protection?
I don’t particularly like writing about this issue, but it seems to be even more and more relevant. Child protection is critical in these immoral times, given NSPCC stats and other figures showing how prevalent the appalling and iniquitous chil...
Politicians and policy wonks : a case study in arrogance (2)
Fiona Millar, former employee of Cherie Blair, knows best. Well, that’s the arrogant tone she adopted towards local hero Toby Young on Newsnight on Monday evening. Now Millar has restyled herself as an education campaigner, and she is a typical New...
Politicians and policy wonks : a case study in arrogance (1)
Last night’s Newsnight was instructive. We had Lord Lawson, chief climate change denier and a ‘boom and bust’ chancellor, lecturing Professor David Blanchflower – the only Monetary Policy Committee member to get it right, and the academic who...
Labour selects Cllr Jenny Chapman for Darlington
Well, congratulations to Cllr Jenny Chapman, cabinet member for education/children’s services, on her selection to stand as Labour’s parliament candidate in Darlington. She’s certainly a formidable political figure in the town, and ...
A reminder of my faith
I have added a new tab at the top of the page just to reaffirm my faith. I have been blogging on The Wilted Rose on and off for about 40 months now and, although I have made it clear that I am an evangelical Christian and since many of my posts (for ...
NSPCC v Tatchell: Have we the guts to protect kids?
As someone who has campaigned on this blog for better child protection procedures and for tougher sanctions against abusers, I can categorically state that one of the most important challenges facing policy-makers is how to protect children. The NSPC...

