Back in January of 2014 my girlfriend and I visited Reykjavik. At the time, the mayor was Jon Gnarr, a former comedian, who set up The Best Party as a response to the anger and exhaustion Icelandic people had of their current, post crash, political parties. Gnarr’s party jokingly promised to be ‘openly corrupt’ as […]
TAGGED WITH: Iceland, Jon Gnarr, Labour, Politics, Reykjavik, Theresa May CATEGORISED BY:Blog Brexit Conservatives Corbyn Eagle News Seeing The Bullshit May 8th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebI’ve made a small promise to myself to stop having opinions on things the second I read about them. I honestly feel like one of our current biggest problems in society is a snap reaction that isn’t processed, dwelled on, and thought about carefully before we spew more vile into the endless sick puddle of […]
TAGGED WITH: Labour, Lib Dems, Politics, tiernan douieb, voting CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservative Election News Electoral Dysfunction May 4th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebHaving already written about The Conservative Party, The Labour Party, and the other possible kingmaker parties, I was going to write a blog about all the other itty bitty parties and independent candidates that are running in the election. But it turns out, there are 426 of those in Great Britain alone, with a further 36 in Northern […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, Politics, Steve Coogan, tiernan douieb, voting CATEGORISED BY:Armando Iannucci Blog Comedy Conservatives General Election 2015 News Why You Should Vote For…pt 3: The Kingmakers April 27th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebThis is the penultimate one of these blogs. You’ll either have registered to vote by now, or not bothered and left it up to everyone else to decide who’ll fuck up the UK best. Thanks for that. Sorry this one’s taken a while but lots has happened in the election campaign over the last two weeks. […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, housing, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP, tiernan douieb, UKIP, voting, Wizard Of Oz, xenophobia CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives General Election 2015 News UK General Election 2015: Why you should for…2. The Labour Party April 14th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebOften, whenever I’ve criticised the Conservatives online, some idiot has responded with ‘Well what about Labour though?’ Usually using far too many capital letters and a lack of understanding that it is possible to be disillusioned by all parties at once. To prove I’m not one to pick sides, and as Labour have finally launched […]
TAGGED WITH: Labour, Politics, tiernan douieb, Tony Blair, voting CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy David Cameron Economy Ed Balls Ed Miliband Education EU General Election 2015 News The Battle For Number 10 March 27th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebI watched the ‘Battle For Number 10’ television debate this morning. I’ve recently discovered that if I watch political debate programs while on our exercise bike then I seem to pedal much harder out of sheer frustration for the entire affair. When attempting to fix my life and get healthier for the umpteenth time in […]
TAGGED WITH: Jeremy Paxman, Kay Burley, Labour, Muppet, Newsnight, Politics, Salmond, satire, Shredded Wheat, SNP, Sturgeon, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:Battle for Number 10 Blog C4 Channel 4 Comedy Conservatives election 2015 exercise bike News Vote If You Want To February 5th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebIt’s National Voting Registration Day today*. The name is pretty explanatory and if you haven’t already signed up to vote in this year’s incredibly unpredictable general election then you can now do so online, which finally caters for our sedentary, apathetic online lives. I’m pleased there’s a push to get people to vote and I’m […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, MPs, old people, students, the NHS, tiernan douieb, tigers, TTIP, UKIP, voting, welfare CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives democracy Election EU News I Vote For Voting May 18th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI was talking to a chiropractor at a wedding yesterday. Yes I know that’s a lot of info to take in right there but there’s no need for you to have anything other information about the situation than that. Though it should be known that it was a lovely day and my good friend Jacqui […]
TAGGED WITH: human rights, Jurassic Park, King Kong, Labour, Liberal Democrats, NHA Party, NHS, Partly Political Broadcast, Politics, The Green Party, Thursday, tiernan douieb, UKIP, voting CATEGORISED BY:Ben Hilton Blog Comedy Conservatives environmental problems Euro Elections Godzilla News Laboured Joke May 7th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI find it hugely depressing that Labour aren’t top of the public opinion polls by a long stretch in the UK at the moment. I’m not surprised at all. I have no hope in them, or any intention of voting for them at all. But it’s still saddening, because they should be. It’s exactly one year […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, MEP, MP, Nick Clegg, Parliament, PEB, Politics, Shoreditch, tiernan douieb, twitter, UKIP CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives David Cameron Ed Miliband Election News Well Then! April 22nd, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebA long running in-joke between me and my best mate Mat, is in the midst of an argument you are obviously losing to shout ‘Well then!’ very loudly, as to pretend the others very valid point has backed up your losing point. The dealer of the ‘Well then!’ automatically wins on the basis of the […]
TAGGED WITH: hype, Ian Dunt, Labour, political, Politics, shouting, Stuart GoldSmith, tax rates, television, tiernan douieb, xenophobia CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives European elections free speech Google News