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Blue Bag – Labour phones chaos
by: DevonChap
Blue Bag – Labour’s re-election campagin was today in utter disarray when the information commissioner blasted the party breaching privacy regualtions for making Vera Duckworth call half a million people. Even worse for Brown the Clown, this was the second time they had been rapped over these abusive calls.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8506300.stm (Hint Red Rag – link to [...]
Not quite the pressing issue of the moment
by: DevonChap
PoliticaHome has a poll out just now showing that the voters are divided on AV and think it is an unimportant issue.
Of those with a definite view 53% oppose AV and 47% approve but 19% are unsure. 74% see electoral reform as one of the less important issues facing the country. Amusingly only 8% think [...]
Inheritance Levy for Social Care
by: Steve
On Politics Home today it is reported that the government are about to propose an inheritance levy (i.e. a tax) of £20,000 on estates when each person dies to fund their plans for social care for the elderly, projected by them to cost £650 million per year, and projected by everyone else who has a [...]
Red Rag to a Bull
by: Steve
Interesting I see that about half the recent threads on this site have been started by ‘Red Rag’
Call me picky but doesn’t he have his own web blog? Presumably nobody reads it so he comes here……
And what really triggers this gentle enquiry is the blatent electioneering and blinkered slant of his posts. No attempt at [...]
Red Rag – Nobel winning economist attacks Cameron but backs Browns policy on economy
by: Red Rag
Red Rag – Another in a long line of economists has got behind Brown over the economy and rejected Camerons and other views on the right as “fiscal fetishism”. In another blow to Camerons ever failing start to his electoral campaign Joseph Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and has served [...]
Red Rag – Tories PPC for Westminster North has resigned – Back to the Election Campaign drawing board
by: Red Rag
Red Rag – Looks like Cam the Shams demand that his party gets a grip has fallen on deaf ears…..their PPC’s have started resigning. I know the lead in the polls are falling but hey, the ship hasn’t started sinking too much yet and the rats have started jumping.
Cam the Shams electoral campaign has had [...]
Red Rag – Two faced Cameron spins better than Torvill and Dean on Parliamentary privilege
by: Red Rag
Red Rag – Cam the Sham appeared from the hole he and Chuckle Brother Osborne have been hiding down for the last few days, to show the old PR man has lost none of his old spin. With a straight face he said “Gordon Brown cannot reform the institution because he is the institution: He [...]
Devolution of further powers from London and increased dialogue are steps toward a united Ireland
by: BF
Labour can point to the Good Friday Agreement and the development of the peace process in the north of Ireland as a major success. The latest agreement on policing and justice, and the serious dialogue between republicans and unionists, helps prepare the ground for a united Ireland.