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An Important Anniversary!
by: LesAbbey
As the Tories, Gordon Brown and that pinhead Andrew Adonis beat up on the unions again, my thanks to the BBC for pointing out the anniversary and Wikipedia for being an easy source of information.
On this day in 1834 six farm workers from Tolpuddle are sentenced to transportation to Australia for forming a trade union.
In [...]
Leafy Streets, Marginal Seats
by: BevinBoy
There are nine parliamentary seats in Birmingham – ten if you include Sutton Coldfield (which we like to do, just to annoy them). Of these, eight are currently held by Labour, one by the Lib Dems and one by the Tories (that’ll be Sutton Coldfield again). Up until recently, I lived on the outer reaches [...]
Banning Legal Highs?
by: Davideeinkl
What’s the point in that? Are they going to buy paracetamol, asprin, beer, tobacco and anything else that’s ever hurt anyone?
Red Rag – It’s a good economics news day and boy are the Tories peeved
by: Red Rag
You always know it must be a good news day economically by the faces on the Tory MP being interviewed. Within minutes of the ne unemployment figures being released and showing a fall in the number of JSA claimants and those classed as unemployed including those not eligible for benefit fell 32,300 and 33,000 respectively. There was [...]
Time to prove that a hung parliament can work, for the sake of the markets
by: B Dog
A hung parliament is now more likely than a Tory majority. Hung parliaments have a history of ineffectiveness, and eventual dissolution. Capital markets are scared at the thought of this – without strong leadership to pull the U.K. through the murky recession, it will be difficult to agree and push through tough financial measures. If [...]
Parliamentary Selections News.
by: Andrea
With the GE likely date approaching, the party is moving fast in terms of selections for still vacant seats (and some MPs are still announcing their retirements now with less than 2 months to go..).
Shortlists announced for Liverpool Walton and Stalybridge & Hyde. Candidates selected in Barnsley East, Airdrie & Shotts, Dunbartonshire West and Walsall [...]
13 years ago, did you know Labour would make the country far less liberal?
by: Davideeinkl
I was talking to my Labour MP not to long ago. One of the things I complained about was how much less free we are under Labour, they’ve made 1000’s of petty laws an new offences whilst doing nothing about serious crime other than fudging the statistics.
Rather than more good old fashioned policing we’ve got [...]
Pickles throws a faux fit over Union donations to Labour…..but has also said they are “massively important”..more round faces than the Town Hall clock
by: Red Rag
Red Rag – There is nothing more unappealing visually that a Tory throwing a faux fit of angst. Cameron does it that poorly now at PMQ’s, I have more or less got used to it. PMQ’s without his now perfected, stern face/quiver lip combo is not a proper PMQ’s.
Taking his lead from Cam the Sham, Eric Pickles [...]