Today’s big news is that Gordon Brown is stepping down from leading Labour in the hope it will make it easier for Labour and the Lib Dems continue talking. For Clegg personally it does a…
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Finally, Polling day is here
Any general election day is something of a celebration of democracy: this one feels a little different, for only the second time in the last thirty years we may see a change of government. As…
Who am I putting an “X” next too?
Labour has had something of a deathbed conversion to a principal of Proportional Representation. An idea that the Lib Dems have held dear for many elections. This election has become more than who leads, but…
13 Years with a Labour majority
“What I’m interested in is the big poll on 6 May, when people really have to choose five more years of Gordon Brown – the uncertainty, the bickering, the haggling of a hung parliament –…
An interesting week in politics
It’s been an interesting week in the UK, Lib Dem Nick Clegg clearly won the first debate. For me this was because he used straightforward language and stayed away from the forced sloganeering that permeates…
Brown says mistakes were made
Gordon Brown admitted he made some mistakes when he listened to banking lobbyists and loosened regulations on their clients. Like the banking regulators in many other countries they put the banks interest before that of…
“Big Society” – Conservative Manifesto
Once again there is a lot of effort talking about how tomorrow will be different from the last few years, but with no compelling vision for what the country will look like in 2015 if we were to believe.
“The Future Business” – Labour Manifesto
Labour published their manifesto today, Cameroon and the Conservatives tomorrow and the third of the major parties, the Lib-Dems release theirs on Wednesday. Brown said Labour has a plan for the future and their first…
Manafestos, riots, NHS and NI
The open promise to keep “business taxes as low as possible” is a pointless waste of good paper and does nothing to help Labours’ dwindling credibility on the economy.
Voters just want to be respected, is that too much to ask?
May 7th could dawn with the same optimism we felt when New Labour swept aside the Tory old guard and promised us a new tomorrow.