Category: UK politics
Weird drugs, bizarre sexual practises or something more sinister?
June 27th, 2011, No Comments
David Cameron’s constituency chairman dead at Glasto: David Cameron said he was “devastated” after the chairman of his local constituency was found dead in a portable toilet in a backstage area at the Glastonbury festival. Police said they did not yet know the cause of death of Christopher Shale, a 56-year old businessman, although friends [...]
Labour’s strategy: don’t oppose
May 31st, 2011, No Comments
Lenny riffs on Dan Hind’s observations on the need to break the ConDem coalition before the next election, and Labour’s role in this: I would guess he rightly judges Labour’s position, which is that the last thing they want at this point is political power. The Blairites are convinced that they would have to implement [...]
Your Happening World (20)
May 17th, 2011, 1 Comment
The perfect Daily Express cover. “Labour is facing a deep crisis that threatens its survival as a party of power, Ed Milibandwill be warned, on Wednesday as he is told to avoid the “politics of protest” and to focus on establishing political credibility.” Better not rock the boat Ed, or your masters might get upset. [...]
Yet Clegg does speak Dutch…
May 11th, 2011, No Comments
Daniel Davies analyses the LibDem’s failings: This is, to a large extent, why the vote share has collapsed. The median LibDem voter between about 2002 and 2010 was quite likely someone who believed (sensibly, a respectable case could certainly be made for this) that they were to the Left of Labour. Their signature policy was [...]
LibDem Fail
May 8th, 2011, No Comments
To start this post off, let’s look at the valiant effort one Andrew Hickey made a few weeks before last Thursday’s UK local elections/AV referendum, to defend the LibDem’s record in government by listing all the things it has done right. I won’t fisk it line by line, but if you look at it it’s [...]
How the Tories/LibDems are dumping the disabled
May 3rd, 2011, No Comments
Thanks to legislation introduced by Labour, the Tories and LibDems are now able to move almost a million people off disability benefits and onto much lower paying unemployment benefits, if any. Under the guise of getting people back into work, this is an another cynical move to cut spending as the jobs just aren’t there: [...]
No to AV: cake now rather than cake later
April 29th, 2011, No Comments
Or, any benefits of getting AV are speculative, but destroying Clegg’s career is an immediate payoff: It seems to me that the AV system itself is highly unattractive, that all the possible benefits which might accrue as a result of it are really quite speculative and far-future things, with very considerable potential to go wrong [...]
Police murderer says Ian Tomlinson “almost invited a physical confrontation”
April 7th, 2011, No Comments
From the Evening Standard: The policeman who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground moments before he died blamed him for provoking the clash, the inquest heard today. Pc Simon Harwood said that 47-year-old newspaper seller had “almost invited a physical confrontation” during the G20 protest in London . He went on to claim that his [...]
Most workers would rather bugger off today then tomorrow
April 5th, 2011, No Comments
Found at Pere Le Brun, this offensively stupid quote by Iain Duncan Smith: Most workers want to work on when they reach 65, Iain Duncan Smith claimed yesterday. He insisted that higher life expectancy meant people should – and usually want – to work for longer before taking their pension. The Work and Pensions Secretary [...]
That LSE – Khadaffi scandal
March 9th, 2011, 2 Comments
Justin puts it in perspective: So, we’re all jolly cross at the London School of Economics for taking Gaddafi’s cash. We’re less cross (if at all) at the arms trade for doing the same. I haven’t heard any calls for the head of BAE Systems to resign, for instance. After all, BAE Systems were only [...]
