Lord Lucan Awards - Best Blog

The award for best blog was a tricky one to decide. There is a lot of good stuff out there (incidently there is also a lot of sh*t). However, the winner has a well established blog which updates regularly and on the whole provides interesting reading. The political views expressed I don't always agree with but it provides a balance in opinion. The mixture of the light hearted stories, the serious rants, the personal and the updates of what the latest things to break in Portcullis House are whitty and well written. I also had the delight of meeting the man behind the blog the other day and may I say he seemed decent bloke. The winner of the Lord Lucan Award for Best Blog 2007 goes to...

Kerron Cross

Lord Lucan Awards - Best New Blog

The winner of the best new blog goes to a blog which is new and is good. Stating the obvious there. The winning blog has provided me with much entertainment with the author's rants on some of the characters around parliament and gives a proper intsight into the reality of the life of a bag carrier. A shared stance on the opinion of Iain Dale has swayed my opinioin in awarding the award to this blog and coverage over the last six weeks of Party Animals has been extremely amusing. Unlike myself, who might have off days (such as Friday where I had a slightly sore head) or won't update for a week because work gets in the way this blog gets updated regularly and with lengthy articles that one can enjoy while drinking their morning coffee. The winner of the Lord Lucan Award for Best New Blog 2007 goes to...

Hamer Shawcross

Lord Lucan Awards - Best Bag Carrier

And so the bandwagon of the Lord Lucan Awards moves onto the Best Bag Carrier Category. This award goes to somebody who meets a number of criteria. Firstly this person is a S&S regular and has not done anything stupid which relates to drinking (like giving up beer for lent). Secondly they have got to be a decent bloke who is prepared to have a laugh at their expense. Committment to work is not an essential as frankly most Bag Carriers don't do much in the first place. The winner of this category has only been in Parliament for a short while but has become a regular in the Sports, almost a daily basis, a top chap who doesn't wander about with his head up his arse and deserves a massive pay rise. The winner of the Lord Lucan Award for Best Bag Carrier and this slap this award on his CV is from the office of Alan Keen MP...

Mr. Will Hardy

Lord Lucan Awards - Best Peer

This award is the first Lord Lucan Award to be awarded posthumously (admitably it is only the second Lord Lucan Award to be awarded but there goes). The winner of this award was a former Cheif Whip before being shafted by Blair and his cronies in a bid for absolute control during a reshuffle. After being consigned to the backbenches he took his roll in parliament very seriously and was seen in his office working away almost every single day, which bearing in mind there are certain Peers who probably don't even know where the Chamber is makes this quite an achievement. However, he was always polite to staff and an instantly recognisable face that was as much a part of the House of Lords as the afternoon nap. Sadly, illness started to affect him towards the end of last year and just before Christmas he passed away. The tributes lead by Baroness Amos after his death in Chamber saw a number of Peers in tears, such was his popularity. The Lord Lucan Award for Best Peer 2007 goes to...

Lord Carter of Devizes

Lord Lucan Awards - Best MP

The first in a series of awards that were announced yesterday and will be awarded over the next few days. First up is the award for best MP. This was a tricky category from which to choose a winner as MPs continually to fail to do anything worthwhile. However, the winner of this award has done not a great deal and her ministerial role in the department of health has not been spectacular although she has managed to not to screw up completely unlike her boss as certain Ms. Hewitt. Where she wins this award is in the fact that in the dullness of bald/grey politicians she shines forth with her beauty and is very fit. Lord Lucan is proud to announce the winner of the Lord Lucan Award for Best MP in 2007 goes to...

Minister for Fitness, Caroline Flint

What's The Story?

Apologies for not posting last week this was due to other commitments (eg work) but hopefully the in-tray has shrunk in size a bit and I hope to be blogging a bit more consistently. Anyway, over the weekend the BBC was banned from releasing a story on the Cash for Honours affair. There seems to be a bit of a mystery as to who leaked it, although one suspects number 10. However, the injunction placed on the story means that this was a big piece of this very large jigsaw puzzle. There was an injunction on the second arrest of Levy and Lucan who has been very good on his predictions on this suspects (and for libel purposes here this is purely a guess and he has no concrete evidence to prove in fact he doesn't even have some weak evidence to support this theory) that Blair might have been questioned under caution but he will wait and see. The truth will out.

In other news, Lord Lucan is announcing the Lord Lucan Awards. These are a collection of political/blogging awards that will be for the people by the aristocracy. Over the next few days the awards will be announced. So watch this space.