• Jim Knight's response to Cameron's proposals on benefit fraud

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Responding to David Cameron's proposals on benefit fraud Jim Knight, Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform, said: The Labour Government halved welfare fraud over the past decade and it's right that this should remain a priority.

  • More unanswered questions from Liam Fox - Bob Ainsworth

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Bob Ainsworth MP, Labour’ Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, has responded to Liam Fox’ speech today on cuts to the Armed Services at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors saying:“Today we had more unanswered questions from Liam Fox. He still can’ tell us how our nuclear deterrent will be paid for – but maybe that’ unsurprising as George Osborne seems to be calling all the shots.

  • Clegg's commitment to openness was empty rhetoric - Straw

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Shadow Justice Secretary, Jack Straw MP, responding to the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee’ damning criticism of Nick Clegg’ refusal to allow adequate scrutiny of his political reform Bills, said: ldquo;This correspondence is further evidence that Nick Clegg’ pre-election commitment to increased openness and accountability was just empty rhetoric. There is a sharp contrast between the way he is handling these major pieces of constitutional legislation and the way in which Labour in government handled equivalent legislation.

  • Coalition's U-turn on prison parties - Straw

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Responding to the coalition's u-turn today on prison parties, Jack Straw MP, Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary said: This is chaotic stuff and very early in the government's term.  

  • Results of Labour’s approach to supporting the recovery

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Alistair Darling MP, Labour's Shadow Chancellor said:"Today figures show the results of the Labour Government’ approach to supporting the recovery.

  • Huge risks the Government is running with the economy - McFadden

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Shadow Business Secretary, Pat McFadden MP, responding to the latest survey of business attitudes from the Federation of Small Businesses said: "This survey shows the huge risks the Government is running with the economy.  

  • "Home Secretary demonstrates a lack of understanding" - Johnson

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, Alan Johnson MP, responding to Theresa May's speech said: "The Home Secretary demonstrates a lack of understanding about the powers already available to the police. An Anti-Social Behaviour Order is one of a series of different powers available to the police and is used when other punitive measures have failed.

  • Darling responds to Osborne's Claims

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Labour's Shadow Chancellor Alistair Darling responded to George Osborne's claims today that the government’ economic policy is 'fair' and 'progressive'.

  • "David Cameron owes the public an apology today" - Khan

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Shadow Transport Secretary Sadiq Khan MP, responding to reports of the Coalition’ plan to raise the free bus pass age earlier than planned, said:“David Cameron owes the public an apology today. His mock outrage during the General Election campaign has been shown up as a cynical and misleading act, and his manifesto commitment to protecting concessionary fares as a sham.

  • Unlikely civil society will become "bigger" with large public spending cuts - Jowell

    Updated: 2010-09-03 02:38:55
    Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office Tessa Jowell MP, in response to David Cameron’ speech on the big society, said:“The content of today's speech is simply a brass-necked rebranding of programmes already put in place by a Labour Government.

  • Five reasons why the EU is more unpopular than ever

    Updated: 2010-09-02 15:55:53
    According to Eurobarometer, the EU is at a record low in approval ratings. Fewer than half of its citizens regard it as “a good thing” and only 42 per cent have confidence in its institutions. The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durrão Barroso, is in no doubt as to whose fault this is: We [...]

  • Does it matter that only three of the 23 Cabinet ministers have been councillors?

    Updated: 2010-09-02 15:46:21

  • William Hague given vote of confidence by Tory members

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:47:01

  • Did Alastair Campbell ghost Tony Blair's book?

    Updated: 2010-09-02 10:48:52
    My friend Bingo Williams draws my attention to a hilarious Mills-&-Boon passage in Tony Blair’s memoirs, in which he describes the night he decided to contest the Labour leadership. Perhaps Alastair Campbell, once a writer of soft porn, helped with the drafting: That night she cradled me in her arms and soothed me; told me what I [...]

  • ConservativeHome's September survey is live

    Updated: 2010-09-02 10:39:49

  • Regional round-up

    Updated: 2010-09-02 10:12:51
    Total Politics because knowledge is power Home Magazine Blogs YouTube Daily Politico Subscriptions Internships Editorial Board The Team About Contact Shop Political Speeches Political Blogs Political Quotes Interview : Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council Top 50 Scottish blogs by Asa Bennett Regional round-up September 2nd , 2010 Lancashire County Council has unveiled a cuts package that could hit jobs in Lancashire children’s homes and young people’s services . Conservative leaders at County Hall claim they have tried to minimise the impact on frontline operations , following reductions in government grants totalling 22m . But opposition councillors insist the most vulnerable will be hit hardest by the raft of spending . cuts Stoke-on-Trent City councillor Dave Sutton , who announced

  • The Coalition will drift Leftwards unless the Right organises

    Updated: 2010-09-02 07:56:11

  • New York Times reopens tabloid hacking claims allegedly involving Downing Street Communications Director

    Updated: 2010-09-02 07:44:37

  • How blue is the Coalition? Part Three: Public Services

    Updated: 2010-09-02 06:30:46

  • Shooting tonight

    Updated: 2010-09-01 20:25:43
    Down the club with Little Miss English Shooter, what a nice evening. Sent from my HTC

  • HTC Peep is down

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:49:15
    So while I have a cool phone the twitter application is down, it looks like it is being reported all over the web as an issue with the program PEEP and http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2010/09/htc-peep-not-working-this-is-why/ so come on HTC get a wiggle on and fix this.

  • Greenland to Greenpeace: your hunger for publicity is putting our lives at risk

    Updated: 2010-09-01 10:15:55
    Those ingrate Inuit! They just don’t appreciate all the efforts that middle class Greenies are making on their behalf! The prime minister of Greenland – a socialist, no less – has attacked Greenpeace for sabotaging an Arctic exploration rig. Kuupik Kleist is plainly not a politician given to circumlocution: The cabinet regards Greenpeace’s action as very serious [...]

  • How blue is the Coalition? Part Two: Home and Constitutional Affairs

    Updated: 2010-09-01 06:33:49

  • At midnight, I became older than Homer Simpson

    Updated: 2010-09-01 00:01:25
    I mention it simply because it allows me to post a link to one of my favourite clips:

  • 142 schools to convert to Academy status in first wave of Gove reforms

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:03:06

  • Guess what Edward Heath's worst subject at school was

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:11:09
    I’ve often wondered whether Britain would have joined the EEC but for Edward Heath. Our membership was the product of despair. We joined at our lowest ebb, in the days of the three-day week, double-digit inflation, constant strikes and power cuts. It’s hard to imagine the Marketeers carrying Parliament, let alone winning a referendum, ten [...]

  • How blue is the Coalition? Part One: The economy

    Updated: 2010-08-31 06:08:28

  • 'Scotifying' the Scottish Tories

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:14:41

  • Coalition must offer "light at the end of the tunnel" to taxpayers

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:28:06

  • Extra spending on overseas aid does nothing to appease the mega-charities-cum-lobbyists

    Updated: 2010-08-30 04:22:47
    Two departments, as the whole country knows, are excused the general cost-cutting necessitated by Labour’s deficit: health and international aid. Not that these exemptions have generated much goodwill in the affected sectors. Here, for example, is a churlish piece by John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want. Apparently, international aid agencies are upset because ministers, [...]

  • Do open primaries favour plutocrats and extremists?

    Updated: 2010-08-29 14:39:24
    Open primaries are the best idea in contemporary politics. They shift power from party hierarchs to voters, from Whips to backbenchers and from ministers to Parliament. They serve to make legislatures more diverse and legislators more independent. I know, I know: you’ve heard it all before. This blog has been single-minded – tiresome, you might [...]

  • NHS Direct... The Gurkhas... Crossrail... The cuts get real

    Updated: 2010-08-29 07:57:03

  • Is it 'dirty tricks' to register a domain name that an opponent might want?

    Updated: 2010-08-28 19:29:28
    The answer, it seems, depends on whether it’s you or your opponent doing the registering. The excellent Dizzy Thinks posts here on the double standard of two Labour bloggers, Sunny Hundal (no surprise) and Will Straw (of whom we expect better). His short piece is well worth reading, even if you don’t usually follow hyperlinks. Dizzy asks: [...]

  • Jeremy Hunt: the BBC "has to live on the same planet as everyone else".

    Updated: 2010-08-28 17:19:58

  • First photos of Florence Cameron released

    Updated: 2010-08-28 13:12:02

  • Crispin Blunt decides "to come to terms with his homosexuality" and separates from his wife

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:00:05

  • Being Prime Minister means taking risks

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:44:30

  • Win a pair of tickets to see Yes, Prime Minister on stage in London!

    Updated: 2010-08-27 05:07:23

  • Other budgets face cuts, but our contributions to the EU have risen to £2 million an hour

    Updated: 2010-08-26 20:05:22
    The Telegraph reports today that, while Brussels is urging its members to trim their spending, it wants to increase its own budget. No surprise there, then. Euro-integrationists are fond of likening the EU to a bicycle that must keep moving forward (though I’ve always felt that a ravening shark would make a better simile). But they [...]

  • 'Fairness' has now come to mean 'more state spending'

    Updated: 2010-08-25 19:55:42
    Neil O’Brien has already done a superb job of demolishing the claim that the last Budget was unfair to the poor. (The BBC, like The Guardian, told us that these claims came from a report by the “respected” Institute for Fiscal Studies, neglecting to mention that the report had been commissioned by a Left-wing pressure [...]

  • Nick Clegg and a Labradoodle: Long lost twins

    Updated: 2010-08-23 11:39:11
    : iPhone Mobile The Wardman Wire Politics and Life Subscribe Subscribe by email Portal Blog News Politics Local International Religion Media Legal Review Tutorial Browse : Home All WW Comment Internet Technical Labour Lib-Con 2010 Coalition LibDem Lookalikes Nick Clegg and a Labradoodle : Long lost twins Nick Clegg and a Labradoodle : Long lost twins By Matt Wardman August 23, 2010 The LibCon coalition is going through it’s first real what is Nick for and is he a Cameron poodle pressure spot , after what I think has been a very good start . They are tackling the difficult questions , while the Labour leadership contenders are floating on a pink the national finances were not in a mess and we were a competent government cloud out of their own . imagination Dr Pack may not thank me for this

  • From the country to the party

    Updated: 2010-08-19 23:37:14
    So today we are told that the Labour party are  ‘on the verge of bankruptcy’ , if they can not look after thair own finances should we be too surprised at the state of the finances of the country? So how long until they are bailed out by the unions? Back to the 80’s any one.

  • Well, did you evah

    Updated: 2010-08-11 22:26:49
    Well time for some tunes I think, tonight I will give you Iggy Pop & Deborah Harry.

  • Big brother gets a little smaller

    Updated: 2010-08-06 07:42:35
    Way back in January 2009 a database went on-line called ContactPoint giving access to 400,000 people to information about every child in the UK  they included name, address, date of birth, GP and school. No parent was able to have their child’s information removed from the database regardless of the lack of any wrong doing on their [...]

  • The NRA guidence to the committee

    Updated: 2010-08-05 21:56:14
    The NRA have published some guidance for us shooters in our submissions to the Committee Firearms Control Inquiry that this with the BASC guidance and get going. http://www.nra.org.uk/common/asp/content/content.asp?site=NRA&id=830

  • It’s not a communist state.

    Updated: 2010-08-05 21:42:47
     This is a fantastic little rant titled: David Mellor’s airport rage click and enjoy.

  • Home Affairs Committee firearms review

    Updated: 2010-08-04 22:03:23
    So the shooters of the UK have only a few days remaining to submit any ideas they have to the Home Affairs Committee firearms review. It has been reported in the last couple of days who is charging the committee and it is Labour’s Keith Vaz, and after looking at his voting record I think [...]

  • Quote of the day

    Updated: 2010-07-20 17:15:20
    Bookmark this category The new Government are looking to make the tax system a little more simple according to the BBC.   The quote of the day for me is from the BBC report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10691779    Mr Osborne said his "dream" was "that people might actually understand the tax laws which they were being asked [...]

  • Crime at lowest level – the figures must be wrong, Labour were in power not the Tories! Time to shift the goalpost.

    Updated: 2010-07-15 17:26:53
    , . iPhone Mobile The Wardman Wire Politics and Life Subscribe Subscribe by email Portal Blog News Politics Local International Religion Media Legal Review Tutorial Browse : Home All WW Columns Politics Decoded Crime at lowest level the figures must be wrong , Labour were in power not the Tories Time to shift the goalpost . Crime at lowest level the figures must be wrong , Labour were in power not the Tories Time to shift the . goalpost By Garbo July 15, 2010 Politics Decoded Spring 2010 by Garbo Bullygate exposes the poor spin operators at Tory HQ once again : Politics Decoded by Garbo Is Labour making a comeback Politics Decoded by Garbo Are the Tories bored of playing it safe or bored of losing Politics Decoded by Garbo Under-estimating the Labour party by Garbo Brown should call a

  • Nick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?”

    Updated: 2010-07-15 09:47:40
    Post from: The Wardman WireNick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?” Post from: The Wardman WireNick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?”</a

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