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 their customers and the public in general. After becoming PM Brown has said that regulations should have been tighter around the world, however his statements during an interview in ITV’s…
“A Fairer Country” – Lib Dem Manifesto
Following on from the two big boys the Lib Dems published their manifesto yesterday. Somewhat ironically, the party that’s been the loudest critic of the big banks and their role in the economic downturn chose the heart of the City of London to have their press launch. The overall message seems to be “trust us”; there is no marketing wet dream slogan to stand behind….
Nick Clegg and Paxman
The BBC has Paxmans full interview with Nick Clegg here. Paxman comes off as being his usual direct self, while Clegg took a little time to get in track, but did OK
“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 priority is to secure the recovery. Any party that says continuing the recovery is anything other than job #1 will be dead in the water, so no shocks there.. Labours…
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.
Carol Kean
Twenty minutes later I missed a call from my brother. I called back within a minute or two, dad answered the phone. The message was short and to the point, Mum’s gone.
And we’re off! Election 2010
Having spent most of the last month in London has been rather tough at times, however feeding my ongoing interest of British politics has been one of the bright spots. Dad is a Daily Mail reader, previously he got the Mirror untill that paper got caught in the race for the bottom a few years ago. Historically my family is a center voting, concentrating on…
What will May 7th look like?
If neither party have a majority in the House of Commons all of a sudden Nick Clegg and the Lib-Dems become both the major parties best friend. Heading into the election the Lib-Dems have 63 seats in parliament and won 22% of the vote in the 2005 election.