A simple little dictionary with the hot topics in politics at the moment, so beginners can look slightly more informed. This could be an updated yearly thing, so enjoy it. If you can think of better ones, please post them in the comments! A is for… Afghanistan NATO forces are fighting insurgents in Afghanistan with [...]
John Prescott made an extremely appropriate, intelligent and articulate comment recently. Whether he knew it or not.* John Hutton, a former Labour minister who has been appointed as “chair of a new public sector pension commission” joining Labour MP Frank Field’s appointment as a “Povery Tzar”. Prescott called them both “Collaborators.” A piece on LabourList [...]
The Labour Party last week launched an interesting social media experiment. (Tories in the audience will now be yelling “Because you have no money!”) The idea was to let ordinary members create a poster for billboards, as the Tories attempts from high-up ad companies were getting hammered on the internets with their three campaigns ruthlessly [...]
Though many aspects of Spain are incredibly backwards, there’s something incredibly modern about their politics. They don’t have silly minority parties like the Lib Dems, they don’t have mad communist parties like in France, and they actually talk about the problems instead of personalities, unlike Britain. What most struck me though, is their campaigning, and I have two main [...]
Three months after David Cameron held a public meeting in Bath, Nick Clegg, better known as leader of the Shadow Conservative Party, has managed to find time in his busy, busy, schedule to do likewise. When Cameron came to visit, the Lib Dems criticised the Tories over the amount of information participants were asked to [...]
Mark Reckons has commented on David Cameron’s proposal of a Tory / Liberal Democrat alliance. (Here’s the link to that) In his piece, Mark shrewdly challenges Cameron to “prove it!” (Something the media tend to forget) and suggest that if the Tories are serious about an alliance, they should back Proportional Representation, no, sorry; he [...]
Panic-stricken MPs at the epicentre of the Expenses Scandal put out a range of “constitutional reforms” that would be able to fix parliament despite not having anything to do with the problem. Fixed Term Parliaments have been shelved for a long time now; it was Labour Policy in 1992, but since they didn’t win nothing [...]
While covering up unfortunate remarks made by his colleagues, David Cameron told us again that he wants to reduce the number of MPs. The logic is, on the face of it, that fewer MPs will claim fewer expenses. It true in absolute figures, less so in proportion. Members of Parliament are quite unpopular at the [...]
