Looks like New Labour’s TOP SECRET Robotics Division have been working overtime in their TOP SECRET lab deep in the bowels of the Houses of Parliament.
And we can report that the K3RR4 model that’s been so badly malfunctioning over the last few months is once again fully operational and back in service.
Yes, Labour’s Bristol East MP, K3RR4 McCarthy’s blog is back! After two long months of silence, systems manager, Dougie Alexander has allowed the K3RR4 three computations in just 24 hours.
However, despite the apparent rebuild and recalibration, the K3RR4 model still contains that annoying repetitive default mode that has to report to you all the time how hard it’s working; still has a tendency towards uttering the nonsensical – Barack Obama? Really resonates? – and it still comes with that unsightly and distinctive brown nose function as standard. Yesterday’s Spectator Coffee House blog reports:
Labour’s Kerry McCarthy asked a planted question [at PM’s questions]: youth unemployment is down 55% in her constituency. Really? A brief check suggests those on benefits simply shifted into other categories. There were 10,610 on benefits in Bristol East in August 1999 (the earliest figures available) and 11,970 in May 2007 (the latest available). This is what she should be worried about.
Despite being allowed to use the internet again, there is no comment from her on the plans for the BRT route down the railway/cycle path, surprising considering that it will carve up her constituency and is proving to be the hottest political potato in Bristol.
As a local politician surely she has an opinion on this – has anyone asked her?
McCarthy also managed to get onto page 2 of today’s Post, where she’s quoted as saying youth unemployment in my constituency has fallen by 58% since 1997.
Guess she hasn’t wayed up yet how many voters she will loose depending on which way she jumps on this one!
Kerry McCarthy has never departed from the line the government ideally wants from Labour MPs, on the range of topics I’ve written to her on. I invite any Labour Party members reading this to comment here on: any area of policy on which she has differed significantly from the government line; and any occasion on which she has taken a line against the government but in the interest of her Bristol East constituency.
Yes that appeared in the afternoon edition about 6 hours after it was reported here. Despite having a journalist based permanently in Westminster they still seem to have find out what’s actually happening up there off this blog.