Is Brown on the Chopping Block ?

BBC News: Reports on a move to get rid of UK PM Gordon Brown. This is far to late by Labour MP's, they are running scared that they will lose their seats, they are right to be scared, if its going to happen a Cabinet Minister has to resign, and a heavy weight at that, otherwise all we are seeing is a bunch of political dodos on the way to out, its that simple and brutal, this attempt will fail, what ever you think of the Conservative Party they are very effective of getting rid of a leader, just ask Lady Thatcher, at the end of the day you have to have the backbone to stick the political knife in, otherwise you sink on the RMS Brown or as we know it better the Titanic.

New Year Poll - Obama at 50%

Gallup: Reports on its first new poll of the new year, it finds that President Obama has a 50% approval rating, while 44% of Americans have a negative view of President Obama. In some respects this must be good news for the Obama White House, at least Obama is at the 50% mark, also as Gallup notes Ronald Reagan going in to his second year had a 49% rating; it should be noted that Reagan in 1984 won 49 states against Walter Mondale; thus this is not the end of the Obama Era, but what it does show is that the Obama Team have to change the message for the second year, it has to be about jobs, the Reagan recession turned in to the economic boom of the 80s. The present recession does not indicate that it will turn around that fast, so the Obama team has to stress jobs, making sure the media stress the limited good news, even if the recovery is a no job recover. It should be noted that 2010 Mid Term Elections will have a negative effect on the Obama Administration, it is expected that House Democrats will keep the House but with a much reduced majority, in the Senate the Republicans will pick up enough seats to filibuster most of the Obama Agenda. Thus the Oval Office has a few months to change the political landscape or Obama will look back at the first two years of his first term as the best and the rest a nightmare. That is the fun of politics folks, up and down.

NTA - Vote

Its that time of year folks, its time to vote David Tennant the best actor of the year and Dr Who the best Drama Show. Click here to vote, tell your friends its their duty to vote, Mr Tennant is the best Doctor since the 5th. Lets get voting folks, lets get this message around the world. Honour the Doctor and honour the Message, vote Dr Who.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has released the name of the soldier killed of late in Afghanistan, the soldier was " Private Robert Hayes of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment ". Our thoughts are with the family of Private Hayes.

NYT CRITICAL of OBAMA & BUSH 43

The New York Times: The Liberal NYT is back on its favourite hobby horse, it wants to grant rights to terrorists, this time the extreme liberal NYT is having a go at the US Court System, the NYT writes the following, " the Supreme Court has granted the government immunity for subjecting people in its custody to terrible mistreatment. " Thus Bush 43 and President Obama come under critical review, as stated in my last post while the rhetoric of Obama has to be the left his action on national security on the whole, has gotten him a B+ from this blog, he has carried on with rendition policies of Bush 43, he has increased drone attacks in Pakistan, he has increased US presence in Yemen another failed state. The extreme liberal NYT is not happy that the Obama Administration did not support a plan to get Bush era officials in to court, this was a wise move by Obama, he can not afford to be seen as weak on national security. The left have no place to go, they are not going to flush the first African - American President down the toilet, that would be racist, ironic, caught out by their own PC.

Military Exercise - Iran

WSJ: Reports that Iran will conduct a large military exercise before the deadline for its counter offer to the UN over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Thus folks we come down to the wire, the Obama Administration has to get tough sanctions through the UN Security Council with the support of China and Russia, also those sanctions have to be effective to prevent Israel taking military action. A recent article in the New York Times stated that Obama officials believe that with external and internal pressure on the regime, Tehran could become weak , also the drive by Iran to become a nuclear armed power has been delayed due to the lack of equipment and also action by the security services of the West; from the CIA to MI6; in other words sabotage. Thus Iran will define the Obama Presidency, any weakness and Iran become a nuclear armed power and Obama becomes another Jimmy Carter.

Death in Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that another British Soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the soldier was from the " 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment ". Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 246 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 213 in combat operations and 33 due to illness, accidents or other incidents. How many this year folks. The death toll in Afghanistan has well passed the total for Iraq, in that military operation and occupation the UK lost 136 of its Armed Forces in combat operations and 43 due to illness, accident or other incidents. One can postulate that the UK by the end, and there will be an end, could have lost close to five hundred of its Armed Forces in Afghanistan, is Afghanistan worth the cost folks.