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Week 19:Villain – Mitt Romney

May 13, 2012

Our award for the greatest villain of the last week goes to the Republican presidential hopeful, Willard Mitt Romney. Our award this week goes to the Republican’s presumptive nominee for US president for a combination of bigotry and political cynicism.  His graduation speech delivered yesterday to students of the evangelical Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia [...]

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Week 18: Villain(s) – The Tory Right

May 6, 2012

This weeks award for Villainy, goes to the Tory Right Wing, and in particular MPs Jackson, Mensch, Coffey and Bone – The Fetid Four! Ok, we don’t like the Tories on these pages – their ideology and principles are not ours, however, like everyone else, we listened to Opposition Leader Davey Cam tell us about [...]

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Week 17: Villain – George Osborne

April 29, 2012

Our award this week for the greatest villain of the last seven days goes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gideon George Osborne There were two contenders for Villain of the Week this week: Osborne and Jeremy Hunt.  Ultimately, Gideon won out: the damage and misery he is inflicting on the country outweighs the Westminster [...]

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Week 16: Villain – The Mail On-Line

April 22, 2012

This Week’s Villain of the Week (incredibly for the first time) is the The Forger’s Gazette , The Daily Hell, I mean the Mail On-Line This week’s news has been dominated by the trial of Norwegian mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik.   The trial has been faced with the sickening spectacle of Breivik gloating about the [...]

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Week 15: Villain – Bernie Ecclestone

April 16, 2012

This week’s Villain of the Week is the Head of Formula 1 – Bernie Ecclestone. The people of Bahrain want reform. They want free elections. They want free speech. They want a greater respect for their human rights and they want a greater redistribution of the Country’s wealth. A year ago they took to the [...]

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Week 14: Villain – Andrew Lansley MP

April 8, 2012

This week our award for the greatest villain of the last seven days goes to the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley Not content with passing the bill that erodes the very essence of the National Health Service, it was revealed this week that Andrew Lansley had ordered the health watchdog, the Care Quality [...]

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Week 13: Villain – Antonin Scalia

April 1, 2012

This Week’s Villain of the Week is the Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for his nakedly partisan interventions in the argument on the Affordable Care Act In 1774 John Adams, later the second President of the United States, writing anonymously called for a ‘government of laws, not men’.  This formulation of one of the essentialelements [...]

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Week 12: Villain – George Osborne

March 25, 2012

This Week’s Villain of the Week is the Chancellor of the Exchequer and cheerleader for the 1%…George Osborne There was only one possible winner of our Villain of the Week Award as George Osborne delivered a budget that was being leaked before as a game changingcareer making budget for him.  This we were told would [...]

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Week 11: Villain – Nick Clegg

March 18, 2012

This Week’s Villain of the Week is the Deputy Prime Minister and current holder of our Prat of the Year Award, Nick Clegg Sometimes it goes beyond mere pratishness. In managing in one week both to ensure the passing of the Health and Social Care Bill and thereby the dismantling of the NHS in the [...]

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Week 10: Villain – Shirley Williams

March 11, 2012

This Week’s Villain of the Week is Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby It gives me no pleasure to pen this week’s Villain of the Week – as a young Lib-Dem apparatchik I worked closely with Shirley Williams on a Lib-Dem Employment Policy Paper. I found her to be incredibly intelligent with absolute integrity, as [...]

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Week 9: Villain – Barclays Bank

March 4, 2012

This week, Barclays Bank wins our award for the most villainous behaviour of the last seven days There were a number of stories about Barclays in the news this week: that its share value has risen to an eight-month high, second the revelation that it has borrowed £31bn in cheap loans from the European Central Bank to [...]

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Week 8 – Villain: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria

February 26, 2012

This week, our award for the biggest villain of the last seven days goes to President Assad of Syria, for the sixth time since we started this blog. In a week when the shelling of Homs escalated still further and Marie Colvin was killed, and on the day an utterly cynically superficial referenda for constitutional [...]

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Week 7: Villain – Andrew Lansley MP

February 19, 2012

This week’s Villain of the Week is The Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley. There is a theory about Andrew Lansley that suggests that, despite his rather dull personality, he is in fact a hugely ambitious and driven politician who desperately wants to carve his name in history by presenting to the nation a [...]

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Week 6: Villain – Louis Suarez

February 12, 2012

This Week’s Villain of the Week Award goes to Liverpool’s Uruguayan Striker, Louis Suarez. As anyone who dips into the musings of Allthatslleft knows, I am a football fan and a Liverpool supporter. I’ve been a Liverpool fan since 1977 and, perhaps unfairly, I have brought up my little North boys to be Liverpool fans [...]

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Week 5: Villain – President Bashar Assad of Syria

February 5, 2012

This week saw another week of Syrians demonstrating against the Assad regime, not just inside Syria, but outside almost every Syrian Embassy across the world. This week also saw the a resolution put before the Security Council of UN calling for Assad to stand down and be replaced by a democratically elected government. A resolution [...]

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Week 4: Villain – Stephen Hester

January 29, 2012

The Villain of the Week Award for this week goes to Britain’s highest paid public sector worker, Chief Executive of RBS, Stephen Hester Because let’s be clear, that is what he is.    RBS would not exist at all today if it hadn’t been for the taxpayer bailing it out in October 2008. It’s market exposure [...]

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Week 3: Villain – Newt Gingrich

January 22, 2012

This week, we are giving our Villain of the Week award to presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich Today we learnt that Newt Gingrich easily won the South Carolina primary(more on this later), putting him in serious contention for the Republican nomination for President.  A week ago, this seemed unlikely, but on Monday night, Gingrich entered a [...]

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Week 2: Villain – Iain Duncan-Smith

January 15, 2012

This Week’s Villain of the Week, is the ‘quiet man’ himself, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan-Smith. ‘We’re all in this together,’ said the Coalition government – well, I must have missed the Bill to reform the banking and financial institutions, or the provision in the Finance Bill to introduce a properly [...]

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Week 1: Villain – Viktor Orban

January 8, 2012

Our inaugural Villain of the Week award for 2012 goes to Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary. I have to confess that until this week I knew very little about the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, and his ruling party, Fidesz. But Orban’s use of his party’s 68% of the seats in Hungary’s Parliament [...]

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Week 52: Villain – David Cameron

January 1, 2012

This week’s Villain of the Week award goes to the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron MP For the second time this month, if surprisingly only the third time this year, Davey Cam picks up our Villain award, this time for his misuse of the New Year’s Honours. There is a bit of prattery [...]

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Week 51: Villain – Kim Jong-Il

December 25, 2011

This Week’s Villain is the late Leader of North Korea, the Great Leader, Kim Jong-Il. What a total villain! A bastard of the first order! A self-obsessed, brutal, megalomaniac who ensured that the people of North Korea lived in fear and poverty whilst he used up the country’s wealth and natural resources to maintain a [...]

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Week 50: Villain – James Murdoch

December 18, 2011

This Week’s Villain of the Week is the Chairman of News Corporation Europe and heir apparent to the News Corp empire, James Murdoch When I was writing my piece yesterday on the first anniversary of the Arab Spring, I was reminded of how that (Bahrain apart) these supposedly revolutionary republics, all end up being monarchies [...]

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Week 49: Villain – David Cameron

December 11, 2011

This Week’s Villain of the Week is our  petty, Europhobe  Thatcherite Prime Minister, David Cameron Yesterday one of our regular correspondents, Geoff Elliot, said that he thought that this week’s Villain award was a nailed on certainty, and he was of course right. There could only be one possible winner: the Prime Minister David Cameron.     [...]

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Week 48: Villain – Rt.Hon. George Osborne MP

December 4, 2011

This week’s Villain of the Week Award, following a unanimous decision by the Committee is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP. It wasn’t hard to choose this week’s Villain. George Osborne is a naturally gifted political villain, and I don’t mean in a pantomime way where the villain of the piece is necessary [...]

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Week 47: Villain – Danny Alexander MP

November 27, 2011

This week’s Villain of the Week Award goes to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP. This week Danny Alexander warned the Trade Union Leaders that they must show leadership and call off the strike. In a rather unsubtle threat, he stated that the offer on the table was a good one, but [...]

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Week 46: Villain – Sepp Blatter

November 20, 2011

This Week’s Villain of the Week is FIFA President Sepp Blatter Great progress has been made in football over the last couple of decades in dealing with racism.   It seems like another age since black footballers were routinely subjected to monkey chants in the English game, or that a player like the wonderful John Barnes [...]

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Week 45: Villain – James Murdoch

November 13, 2011

At a time when there seems to be a huge amount of villainous behaviour going on – this week we’ve chosen James Murdoch as our Villain of the Week Just when you think that the story about News International couldn’t possibly get any worse, there is a new revelation to remind you just how sordid [...]

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Week 44: Villain – Angela Merkel

November 6, 2011

The Winner of This Week’s Villain of the Week is…Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel   There has always been something vaguely reassuring about the presence of Angela Merkel at the pinnacle of European leaders, even if she is from the centre right.   Compared to the raving egomania and populist rabble rousing of Nicolas Sarkozy and the [...]

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Week 43: Villain – Adrian Beecroft

October 30, 2011

This week the Allthatsleft Villain of the Week Award goes to former Chief Investment Officer and Senior Managing Partner of Apax and member of the government’s Challenge Group, Adrian Beecroft Way back in June 2010 the newly elected Coalition government set up the laughably named Independent Challenge Group to ‘think the thinkable’ on public spending [...]

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Week 42: Villain – Dave Harnett

October 23, 2011

This week, of Villain award goes to Dave Hartnett, the permanent secretary for tax at HM Revenue & Customs, for both cutting deals with businesses such as Goldman Sachs and Vodafone to let them off paying millions in tax and, it is alleged, then misleading Parliament about it. As we’ve pointed out many times on these pages, [...]

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