LABOUR SLEEZE MERCHANT SNAPPED

We wish we had snappers like this bugger here in NZ. All eyes in Britain are on the growing scandal around Labour sleaze merchants who have been outed by Brit Bloggers.

Now the Mirrors snapper James Vellacott has got a bloody good pic of one of the central characters in the scandal taking his bloody hard drive for a walk! We reckon there will be more scalps on the wall and it will seriously damage Gordon Brown.

GORDON BACKS A LOSER

WE hope that the Key administration doesnt head down the same path as the silly socialist Gordon Brown. . According to the UK Guardian It appears the UK central stimulus plank is about to go tits up. This sort of knee jerk stuff does not show a good understanding of business or what it really takes to create jobs.

REALLY BAD EDITING

This is from Bob from the Bluff

Gordon Brown gets called a very bad name in one of the great editing bloopers.-

UK GOVT STEPS IN AND SAVES THE ARSES OF ICESAVE DEPOSITORS

The Sweeper is keeping an eye on this fascinating yarn from the Guardian.

Icesave: Savers' money has been guaranteed by the UK government.

Savers with the internet bank Icesave will not lose a penny of their money even if it does fall into insolvency, the government said today."The government will guarantee that no retail depositor will lose money as a result of Icesave's collapse," a Treasury spokesman said. "Their money is safe and secure."The spokesman confirmed that the guarantee extended beyond the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), which protects up to £50,000 of savers' cash.An estimated 15,000 of Icesave's 300,000 savers have more than that sum invested, and some feared they could lose many thousands of pounds when the bank halted withdrawals yesterday after its parent company Landsbanki was nationalised by the Icelandic government.The chancellor will make a statement confirming the guarantee later today.Although Icesave savers will have 100% of their deposits covered, the Treasury said there were no plans to formally remove the limit on compensation from its current level of £50,000.Earlier, the prime minister, Gordon Brown, said the government would be taking legal action against the Icelandic government to recover any money lost by UK savers.