Why am I always going on about the Stiperstones? These photographs by a gentleman named Graham may help you understand.
The other day, while discussing the death of Baby P (can't we all, like Heresy Corner, call him Peter now?) I wrote: Ed Balls has now announced yet another enquiry, but such enquiries have had remarkably similar findings going right back to the death of Dennis O'Neill in 1945.The extent to which the death of Dennis O'Neill and the events that followed it set the pattern for later deaths and inquiries can be seen from this article on the Community Care site: Sir Walter Monckton's one-man, four day inquiry opened on 10 April 1945. He found that the Goughs had ...
A few weeks ago when the Government started dropping hints that it was intending to borrow its way out of recession, my immediate worry was that it signalled a return to Government spending as a way of stimulating the economy. In more recent days, the indication from the Treasury is that the stimulus is more likely to take the shape of tax cuts. Let's hope so. Today, Government Ministers went on a media frenzy to say that their initiative to cut wasteful spending had been more successful than they had hoped for. Maybe it's a sign that spending is not ...
The Kingston Guardian website has an article that refers to Ian and me, so I guess it will appear in the Surrey Comet as well this week. Kingston councillor perks made public. Perks given to Kingston councillors have been made public in the latest register of gifts and hospitality. Leader of the council Councillor Derek Osbourne was entertained by the Korean...
I see from the news that the Leader of Haringey Council has finally been forced into an apology. This is perhaps the first step in realising just how much anger and revulsion the terrible death of Baby P has aroused in the country. Would he have apologised earlier instead of putting up the rather arrogant Sharon Shoesmith, had the media and the government reacted so angrily? Probably not.
It can only be two years since David Cameron pledged the Tory party to stick to Labour's spending plans. Now he's ditched the commitment. After getting hammered by Labour at the last election for wanting to slash spending on schools and hospitals, it was totally understandable why he pledged his party to match Labour pound for pound. It was a key part of the story that helped Cameron decontaminate the Tory brand. And it is easy to see why Cameron wants to disassociate his Party from Labour's spending plans now. With the public finances becoming a national embarrassment, why would ...
Nick Clegg has today made comments about the Conservative plans on the economy that I think are quiet true and one of them made me laugh, the comment is: "After months of wandering aimlessly on economic policy David Cameron has finally performed a full U-turn." Now that is exactly what the Conservatives have done, first they didn't say anything and just criticised the government and now they have come up with plans that I don't even think the shadow chancellor has a say in. Osborne is being pushed to a side and eventually the way things are going the Tories ...
Tue 18th
21:00
****UPDATE*** Lib dem council tells residents remove your doormats or face legal action
Well, your intrepid reporter decided to investigate the story below and here is what I found. The story doesn't just appear in the Conservative media. The Mirror carries the story too along with the Daily Telegraph. Apparently, three residents in Revenge House, at The Anchorage, Gosport, Hants, have been told to remove the rubber-backed mats. Surveyors felt that the mats were a tripping risk and that if they were not removed then the tenants would be breaking the terms of their lease re; putting objects in communal areas. Luckily there is not a blanket ban but the council is threatening ...
I'm not a monarchist. I once proposed a motion on the abolition of the monarchy at conference. But I'm fully in favour of Prince Charles being able to say whatever the heck he wants (subject to the normal constraints of the law, natch). I really cannot see why Lord Taverne wants to muzzle Charles (and has been pontificating across to airwaves to this effect). From my republican point of view, if Charles is busy spouting off left and right then people will agree or disagree with him as they see fit. But the more that they do so, the more ...
It's been a busy week in Lanson Boy's life. I was up in Cambridge on Saturday to watch the mighty Cornish All blacks defeat one of the strongest teams in League Two with a last minute try and conversion. Being Cambridge, I also had the chance to stay with my randmother and meet up with two cousins who were in town at the time. Then it was off to Kent to do a couple of days photography with PPCs and county candidates - first of all in Shepway and then in Canterbury. It was great to meet up with Neil ...
As you've probably heard from elsewhere by now (thanks, LJ Server Move Day!), some bright spark has put the entire membership of the Bastard Nazi Party, names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, occupations, EVERYTHING online. Oh dear. Apparently the poor little dears are quaking in their boots because someone might find out that they are funding a racist, evil, nasty little party. I know I should be railing about the loss of privacy etc., but really? I am having a hard time not cracking out in the full Sid James.
I'm as weary as anyone else about this topic. There are very few people out there who believe the war to defend us against so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction -WMD (remember them?) Untold damage has been done by Labour MPs in the then Government who convinced their supine MPs that we had to bomb Iraq because of Saddam's WMD. Today I read that Jack Straw is still digging his heels in and insisting he did the right thing as then Foreign Secretary, after Lord Bingham, the former senior law lord and one of Britain's most respected judicial experts, described the ...
{andover_guildhall.jpg} Andover's Lib Dem councillors are continuing to question the running costs of the Guildhall and Rendezvous. The borough's Overview and Scrutiny Committee were told on 6 November that the net cost of running the Guildhall was £74,000 and that income had dropped from over £44,000 in 2006/2007 to just £25,000 in 2007/2008. Future revenues from letting the Upper Guildhall are expected to be only £16,000 but officers admitted this was difficult to predict. Income from the Rendezvous so far is a mere £4,500. St. Mary's councillor Mike McGarry raised this at the full council meeting quizzing cabinet members about ...
The Hackney Gazette reports that the borough council has backed down over its decision to withdraw an invitation to Iain Sinclair to launch his new book in one of its libraries: On Tuesday, a spokeswoman said: "The council was never against Iain Sinclair launching his book in Hackney and the decision to cancel the planned launch of his forthcoming book from Stoke Newington library was not motivated by the desire to ban or censor his opinions."She added that the council now plans to invite the author to speak at one of its events early next year, likely to be held ...
Mary Dejevsky has a thoughtful-but-wrong piece over at the Indy. She begins by admitting a sneaking sympathy for the intentions of the Conservatives to legislate for tax breaks for married couples, but stops short of full support for such "starry-eyed" proposals: I doubt that efforts to rebuild the institution as such, will produce more stable families. [...]
Via The Inquirer and Engadget, posted to the Apple Support forum: Please help! I took my husband's iPhone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo! account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted [...]
It is a great tragedy that the media only mentioned Somalia, because Somali pirates have taken a huge oil tanker. Thousands of people have been dying in a brutal civil war in Somalia and the country has now descended further into chaos, with Islamic extremists controlling most of the country. I've blogged fairly regularly on the issues (see Somalia tag). Somalia is a real tragedy, having had a civil war for 2o years, with hundreds of thousands having died, and the population in constant fear and uncertainty. If that is not seen as important enough for the Media to report ...
Conservatives appear to have turned viciously on their own elected representatives. The election of a new Leader of the Tory MEPs has been met with scorn and contempt here on the website for Conservative Party activists. There are one ore two positive comments hidden among a tide of hatred. People on that site are accusing the new Leader of of their [...]
Could it be that British summer holidays cancelled by striking pilots will ultimately sink the ID card scheme? Labour's cardboard coercion may yet be grounded on the runway of Manchester airport; at least, we can hope. The Indie reports that resistance is growing to government plans to pilot ID cards on, erm, pilots. Staff at Manchester and London City airports, along with overseas students, are among the groups being targeted first for Labour's laminated gifts of joy. The British Airline Pilots Association is threatening strikes and the airline bosses, of the British Air Transport Association, are also annoyed that their ...
The report from the Organ Donation Taskforce on the potential impact of an opt-out system for organ donation in the UK is available in pdf format here. I have opposed opt-out organ donation since some barking mad judge suggested it. The whole idea is totally illiberal and smacks of an authoritarian state "owning" our bodies. I was surprised that the Liberal Democrats supported the idea. Norman
Yesterday saw the erection of the West End Christmas Tree at Seabraes, in preparation for the Lights Switch On on Wednesday of next week! See photo right. I'll be writing an update on all the West End Christmas Week planned activities later this week. We are having our final planning meeting tomorrow.
I have been at College all day today so not found much time to blog so I thought I would post now. The polls are taking a very interesting turn and the latest Mori post has suggest that the Conservatives only have a 3% lead on Labour which is very interesting. The Results of the poll are: Conservative 40% Labour 37% Lib Dems 12% David Cameron will be looking at these results and thinking of ways to sort his party so he can try and win the next general election. Gordon Brown will be looking at these results and laughing ...
Unusually for me, for the past couple of weeks I've been watching PMQs. It hasn't been a happy experience for me. On both occasions Clegg has been felled by Brown, who on both occasions has simply swatted him away by smearing about £20bn cuts in public services. And I can't help but feel that the confusion at the heart of Clegg's own strategy has lead these blows to be effectively self-inflicted wounds. It's time he rethought this strategy. Instead of flailing wildly once Brown has accused him of wanting to cut public services, he should confront it face on. I'd ...
Bath MP Don Foster has today written to Bath & North East Somerset Council urging them to actively participate in a scheme that could dramatically reduce the number of HGVs driving through Bath. Don said, "I have long argued that we should be working with sat nav companies to provide sensible and appropriate routes, not just the theoretical best route that they provide. I think...
Massive price hikes have led to a drop-off in demand for Council services according to opposition Councillors on Bath and North East Somerset Council. Liberal Democrats on the Council committee scrutinising Health and Older People's issues have strongly and consistently opposed the Cabinet member's decision, made earlier this year, to put up prices of community...
Following my request to meet with the Secretary of State for Children, School and Families last week - I was given a short meeting with Beverley Hughes the Minister. The reason I wanted to meet was to really find out more about the terms of reference and remit of the urgent investigation Ed Balls has ordered. I asked if it would be made public - and am assured it will be following the department's decision on what comes next. I asked if the three inspectorates would be including any public and service user information to inform their investigations. She said ...
Yes, I've seen it. Yes, I have a working link, no I won't provide it. The BNP blog comments are fill of "The Reds will firebomb my pub" and "now I'll get grief from every coon who comes into the shop"... so no paranoia or prejudice there then.. ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Running the national economy is like driving in a motor race. Except that you are four inches tall. You don't know where you are and you don't have a map. There are lots of pedals, but you don't know what they are supposed to do. When you press them, they sometimes make the car lurch around unpredictably, sometimes just blow out air or wipe the windows. The other drivers don't agree on the rules. Some of them seem to be playing Grand Theft Auto. Oh, and by the way, a couple of other guys are fighting you for a share ...
Dave Hill has the latest on the Ian Sinclair saga. This is the case of the author banned from launching his book about Hackney in Hackney libraries because of his scepticism about the benefits of the 2012 Olympics for the borough. As the only Olympic venue for Hackney was to be the media centre, and [...]
Please, please somebody in comments tell me this story from Conservative Home isnt true...surely a very late April Fool? "Gosport Council bans doormats The Daily Telegraph reports that Lib Dem-run Gosport Council is banning doormats on health and safety grounds. Intriguingly a Council spokesman is quoted justifying the decision. But Cllr Keith Gill, the Lib Dem councillor in charge of housing, attacks it. Who is in charge of the clattering train? If Cllr Gill thinks it was a mistake why hasn't the order by rescinded, apologies issued, the relevant housing officer sacked, etc? Why is the Council still going ahead ...
Rather unfortunately, the entire membership list of the BNP appears to have been leaked online. The information includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and some ages. There are children (for example, where it was a family membership) who's details, including their age, are included. Since many BNP members could find their jobs in danger if their employers finds out about their membership, they are understandably somewhat less than impressed. Lancaster Unity has more information and The Register is also carrying the story.
A little while ago Refugee Action, a charity which helps refugees and asylum seekers, held a briefing for councillors and others interested in issues of asylum and refugees in Liverpool. It clashed with one of the Executive Member meetings so I couldn't go. I am very interested in this topic though so was really pleased that one of the staff of Refugee Action was prepared to come along and talk to me separately about the work they did. We met on Friday and it was good to get an update on the situation as it relates to Liverpool. I ought ...
Yes I had to double take that as well when I read it on Liz Williams Singing My Song blog. However, it does appear that church and religious leaders in California have been one of the first groups to file a law suit against Proposition 8 which overturned the States Supreme Court Ruling, in March this year, that 2000's Proposition 22 violated the equal protection clause of the California Constitution and upheld the right held that individuals of the same sex had the right to marry under the California Constitution. Rev. Rick Schlosser, Executive Director of the California Council of ...
So, the Conservatives won't stick to Labour's spending plans for 2010/11. It at least does set the stage for a bitterly contested election (in 2009 I believe). On a whole raft of issues there is going to be a bitter contest and a clear difference. The challenge that presents to us is finding our own narrative; one that isn't going to be drowned out by the two major parties. Here, thanks to Politics Home, is what Nick Clegg had to say to the earlier press conference given by David Cameron which he said showed the Tories had "nothing to say ...
What are your man made seven wonders of Yorkshire and your seven natural wonders? The Yorkshire Ridings Society are doing a feature in The Ridings newsletter in which it seeks to find out what people think are the seven wonders in the real county. Ours are as follows: York MinsterMiddlesbrough Transporter BridgeHumber BridgeCastle HowardGuildhall, HullLeeds Town HallScar House Dam Brimham Rocks Malham CoveHigh ForceAysgarth FallsFlamborough HeadRoseberry ToppingHornsea Mere
Today's imaginary prize for Liz's QOTD goes to a certain elephant:- Sometimes I have to think that you people are not MONKEYS at all, but some kind of no-horned species of BERSERK RHINOCEROS: angrily charging in with no second thoughts, or even first thoughts. Made me collapse giggling at my desk. I'm having that sort of day.
This West Lothian man went far. The chairman of Disney Consumer Products Worldwide is Andrew Mooney originally from Whitburn, West Lothian and is today featured in the Edinburgh Evening News. The son of a late miner who then worked at the British Leyland plant at Bathgate. Having left school at 16 to become a trainee accountant instead of going to college Mooney worked up his experience level while others were getting their qualifications. Via 20 years with Nike where he was worldwide head of marketing, Disney came headhunting for him in 2000. After a recent trip to Scotland he reflects ...
Because a threat to one minority threatens all. PDF press release here, with link to the full petition. I hadn't heard that this might be coming, but I'm proud to say that the petitioners include two Anglican bishops, Marc Andrus and Jon Bruno, +California and +Los Angeles respectively (and yes, that does mean I'm also often ashamed when Anglicans do things they shouldn't.) Thanks to religion_clause for the link.
Interesting article in this morning's Western Mail on moves to reform the funding formula which determines how much the Welsh Assembly Government has to spend on services. The paper tells us that an independent body, known as the Calman Commission, is investigating possible changes in the way the Scottish Government is funded. Its recommendations could lead to a wholesale shake-up affecting all the countries of the UK. They go on to explain that one of the options being mooted would involve replacing the Barnett formula with a new arrangement under which countries would get a funding allocation based on the ...
Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire: Whilst claims of huge increases in US electoral turnout this year have turned out to be myths, with turnout only rising by around 1% on 2004, the continued gradual improvement in turnout in British elections is going largely unremarked. The improvement is not yet sufficient to cause rejoicing, but there are solid grounds for being cautiously optimistic, particularly as the next general election is likely to be the first since 1992 in which the outcome is in real doubt before the votes are counted, which should give a further boost to turnout levels. The evidence ...
If you ran Islington how would you spend the money? Islington's budget consultation is now available online. The Lib Dem administration was elected on a pledge to keep council tax below the London average (it was the highest in London under Labour!) and each year they consult to check people's thinking on how it should [...]
Barack Obama has resigned from the United States Senate because he was not planning to go back to Washington in December anyway. This means there are now 48 Democrats, 49 Republicans, 1 Independent who is as loyal a Democrat as they come (Bernie Sanders) and Joe Lieberman, whose future is on the line. Joe Biden has not yet resigned his Senate seat.
Sandy Szwarc passes on some horrific accounts of forced abortion in China - and the penalties for trying to avoid it, including house demolition - together with some interesting remarks from Frank Furedi on whether overpopulation is really the problem we've been told it is. I don't have enough information to judge that issue, but I do believe that women's right to physical integrity should mean equal protection for the right to choose to bear a child and the right to choose not to. There is room for reasonable argument about exactly where the State's right to enforce one particular ...
The Labour Government is becoming obsessed with supermarkets. First they suggested we might like to vote there. We've seen Post Offices and pharmacists move into supermarkets. Then there was the GP clinic in Sainsbury's. Whatever next? Well, now Jacqui Smith thinks the local Tesco could be the perfect place for you to give your fingerprints [...]
This is more moving than I would have expected, especially the first entry: chrchceilingcat. Hat-tip to ms_katonic.
Saturday: Young Master Gideon Oboe, the ESTEEMED* Shadow Chancellor has now become so SPECTACULARLY inept that he's managed to turn even "statin' the bleedin' obvious" into an OWN GOAL: "Sterling Collapse! Run on the Pound, Yah Boo Sucks!" he told the Times. Wise words, I think you'll agree. But this simple statement, following the Pound's loss of a third of its value on the international money markets, that the British Currency MAY be in a spot of bother seems to have provoked YET MORE opprobrium for the gormless Gideon. Indeed the Labour now accuse HIM of causing the Sterling Crisis ...
Doing a little keeping up with the opposition I see that Labour in West Lothian are still encouraging people to vote for them on 3rd May....2007. Sadly this is not the first time Labour websites in the area have been way behind. Mind you seeing as Tam Smith the Linlithgow and Falkirk East SNP Westminster PPC's own site is currently not available which at least is better that not updated since January like that of the Tory candidate Andrea Stephenson.
I picked up this discussion on Conservative Home via CiF. I have to say that much of the debate around diversity and why women are not being picked is far more sophisticated that ours. I might also add that they are having a debate. There's always a few 'best person for the job' commenters but many of the people commenting do not view it as just a coincidence or a naturally occurring phenomenon that 85% of selections in the last few months have been of men. Most refreshingly they are actually having a proper conversation about it. We always get ...
... to link to the Daily Fail, I am amused by their update on I'm a Nonentity today: Paddick Porn!
Cowley Street has just reminded us of many things we called for first, and which have now either been implemented or taken on board by at least one of the other two main parties. Northern Rock nationalisation - it was clear to us that this was unavoidable in November last year. It took the Government until February to act. Independence of the Bank of England - longstanding Lib Dem policy. First Labour implemented it, over Tory opposition. Now even the Tories support it. Recapitalisation of the banks - Vince Cable was the first politician to call for this. Three days ...
steerpikelet would like your contributions. In other news, happy birthday lessien_c and addyit
On January 17th, the Federal Policy Committee, in association with the Keynes Forum, is arranging a one day conference at the London School of Economics (LSE) in London to look at "creating a progressive society". It promises to be a very interesting day, opening with a keynote speech from Nick Clegg MP. In the morning we will have a plenary session looking at the political challenges and opportunities for the party in creating a progressive society. In the afternoon plenary we will consider the issue of social mobility following the anticipated report from the Social Mobility Commission which Nick set ...
Today's Financial Times reports that, at a time when waiting lists are at a record high, the provision of social housing is 'drying up'. The landlords are urging the government to change the way they are funded. Associations have traditionally subsidised there development with the support of heavy borrowing and a large amount of debt. They also sell a large proportion of properties to private buyers to subsidise the social housing they are obliged to build. However, that market has collapsed so now the The Housing Corporation, which funds and monitors the sector, has begun an urgent review of 258 ...
Remembrance Day is always special and it is something I have always been passionate about. Both my grandfathers were in the Second World War, (my maternal grandfather was very affected by being the only survivor from his boat to Normandy and my paternal grandfather was one of the liberation team at Bergen Belsen). Going back a bit further, my parent's house is named 'Ashton' after my great aunt's brother who was killed at Mons (IIRC), we had a cousin imprisoned in the first world war who died in Cologne and my Mum has just given me the medals of my ...
Friday: His Most Britannic Fifth-Wheeledness has reached the age of the bus pass. As Mr Rory Bremner has joked in the past: Mrs the Queen has told the Prince that he will ascend to the throne in the traditional manner... or in her PRECISE words: "over my dead body". What, then, to get for the Man Who Has Everything (except a Job)? Well, how about a PLANET of his very own! Behold: Formalhaut Prime! Untainted by architectural carbuncles; unlikely to be reduced to grey goo by nanotechnology; almost certainly immaculate of GM agriculture. And a full twenty-five light years away, ...
So the government's response (see linked story) is: A spokeswoman for the Department said: "We have not ordered councils not to reply to Mr Hemming." Why then do I have all these responses which say: Durham Your request for information on Part 8 Serious case reviews request 1 of 5, received on 01-JUL-2008, has been considered. Unfortunately we will not be able to provide you with this
The CBI yesterday predicted that unemployment could reach 3 million by the end of next year. Not only would that be a disaster to the people concerned and to the country, it does open up the prospect of revising my estimate that the general election will be in 2010. Quite how a Labour government would be able to explain away such economic competence would be interesting to see. But with the
The return of Mandelson to British politics has certainly increased the shrillness factor. Despite pledges of bi-partisanship in "facing this grave crisis", within a few weeks we are back to business as usual. Despite the blatant culpability of Gordon Brown- "no return to boom and bust" now sounds like a slightly off-colour Carry-On joke- the Conservatives have struggled to inflict further damage on the Labour government. There has been much discussion- not least amongst Conservatives- about why this could be. Some have pointed the finger at George Osborne. Certainly he has been guilty of some serious personal misjudgements- not least ...
It's a few years now since Islington achieved Fair Trade status. I was on the steering group at the time, and it was a happy day when we fulfilled the last criteria and could declare Islington a Fair Trade borough (which bizarrely involved me wrestling with a giant Fair Trade banana, while the then [...]
The Beeb have decided the angle to take on Liam Byrne's Memo To Civil Servants is that he's an 'amateur' diva. I, however, have a different take. This is the bit interested me: He tells officials to brief him "not what you think I should know but you expect I will get asked". Briefing notes should be in font size 16, on no more than one sheet of paper. "Never put anything to me unless you understand it and can explain it to me in 60 seconds," he adds. How deliciously revealing. Thank goodness Brown put an end to both ...
Martin Belam writes about the difficulty of keeping information out of the public domain in the internet age. The identities of Baby P and those convicted of harming him are projected by legal injunctions, but their names are not hard to find with a little Googling. He concludes: It is difficult to see how much longer the court ruling can be expected to hold. If the anonymity restriction is lifted, it will at least remove the curious moral anomaly that people who worked on the case are free to be named, shamed and hounded by the press, whereas the actual ...
Our Conservative friends are becoming increasingly upset with the way things are developing. Their lead in the polls is ebbing away, their Shadow Chancellor is looking increasingly vulnerable and they have little to say in terms of what to do next. Their response? Repeated claims that Gordon Brown isn't answering David Cameron's questions... Now I would be one of the last to suggest that Gordon
Thursday: I think I have to say I'm appalled about Baby P; apparently it's now COMPULSORY. So yes, I'm appalled. And, obviously, I'm appalled by the people who did it. But I'm ALSO appalled by the people who are BAYING for BLOOD. "Put them to the torture!" seems to be the common consensus. No, no, a thousand times no. COMPASSION is what is supposed to separate human beans from animals. And on that ground, Baby P's mother and her partner and their lodger have FAILED. But that is NO REASON for US to fail the same test. Torturing people is ...
In quite the reverse to those magnificent men in their flying machines, that self proclaimed custodian of the world's economic future Gordon Brown has said that while taxes will be cut next week expect them to rise again after. David Cameron in response did come out with the rather good line: "Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas." For it does seem that despite calls from the Lib Dems to make the tax cuts permanent and real to the lower paid through restructuring the system making it fairer and closing loopholes for the wealthy, this is a ...
Quite a lot it seems. Residents in another Islington - the one in New South Wales - have successfully lobbied to get their street name changed.
The Telegraph is leading with the story that legal advice given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq was fundamentally 'flawed', former senior law lord Lord Bingham has said. Lord Bingham, who stepped down in September, described the action by the UK and US as a 'serious violation of international law'. The UN had stated out [...]
I know there are a bunch of Crazy Cat Ladies (and Gentlemen. And one Gentleman who is also a Lady.) who read this blog. I suspect you will all be suitably amused by The Laws of Physics (Cats). Also cat-related: I was stunned to discover that even though I don't own a cat, {Is your cat plotting to kill you?} There's a discussion going on in the Lib Dem blogosphere about Jacqui Smith's proposals to do with prostitution. My brian is fired this evening, and it's like trying to think through fog, so I am not planning to make substantive ...
Former LibDem London Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick has apparently been banned from talking politics in the Aussie jungle. So he had to find other things to talk about on the set of I'm a Celebrity. According to the Daily Mail, after former Eastenders star Joe Swash revealed that he called his penis 'Alfie', Brian was quick to [...]
