• Grey Squirrel Control – a video presentation with Julian Evans

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:13:14
    Following on from his video on grey squirrel damage, Professor Julian Evans discusses ways of controlling them. Lots more discussions, demos and tips at http://www.woodlandstv.co.uk/

  • Big Trees, Little Trees – a video presentation with Julian Evans

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:13:14
    Another reason to get your boots on and take a walk in the woods this Easter weekend … Learn how to gauge the maturity of trees in this video clip from the “Walking in the Woods” series with Professor Julian Evans. Lots more discussions, demos and tips at http://www.woodlandstv.co.uk/

  • Harman and Miliband launch Labour's BAME Manifesto

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Harriet Harman and David Miliband today joined leading Labour BAME candidates, including Keith Vaz, Chuka Umunna, Diane Abbott and Dawn Butler, to launch Labour’ Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) manifesto. You can download it here.The BAME manifesto sets out key policies and pledges which will deliver growth, jobs and good public services and a future fair for all; and builds on Labour’ record of standing up for BAME families and communities throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

  • VIDEO: Peter Madelson, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper on Families

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Video of this morning's press conference with Peter, Ed and Yvette on the choice families will face on May 6th.  

  • How would cutting child tax credits help society? - Cooper

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Yvette Cooper, Labour’ Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to David Cameron’ speech this morning and the IFS’ criticism of Tory policy on tax credits

  • Labour’s manifesto for families – “Your Family, Your Choice”

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Peter Mandelson, Labour's Chair of Election Strategy, Ed Balls, Labour's Schools Secretary, and Yvette Cooper, Labour's Work and Pensions Secretary today set out Labour’ manifesto for families at a press conference in London. To read a copy, please click here

  • Tory school plans can only mean cuts to other schools – Ed Balls

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Ed Balls, Labour’ Schools Secretary responding to comments from the Conservative leader of Kent County Council and Conservative Cabinet Member for schools in Hampshire

  • Labour will give police the tools they need

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Alan Johnson, Labour’ Home Secretary, Peter Mandelson, Labour’ Business Secretary and John Denham, Labour's Communities Secretary, today set out Labour’ tough policies on CCTV, DNA evidence, Community Payback and Labour’ crack-down on anti-social behaviour.

  • Labour launches Health Manifesto: an NHS guaranteed to all, personal to each

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, has today launched Labour's Health Manifesto, Your Personal NHS Guarantee. Labour outlines our plan for a better NHS. An NHS that is on the side of the patient, not the system.

  • A Nightmare on Your Street

    Updated: 2010-04-30 11:11:34
    Labour’ fourth election film shifts the focus of the election campaign onto Conservative policies and how they would make families worse off.

  • Brown vow as Cameron claims TV win

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:45:06
    Brown vow as Cameron claims TV win

  • Will voters turn away from Labour to the ‘untrustworthy’ Conservative Party or the ‘inexperienced’ Lib Dems?

    Updated: 2010-04-30 09:36:41

  • Tories will use final week of campaign to set out clear policy guarantees for every voter

    Updated: 2010-04-30 06:51:23

  • David Cameron, marathon man?

    Updated: 2010-04-30 06:04:26

  • Leaders' debate: the verdicts on who won

    Updated: 2010-04-30 05:42:00
    The opinion polls suggested David Cameron won last night's third and final leaders' debate, however political analysts are far more divided.

  • Vote 2010: live election blog - April 30

    Updated: 2010-04-30 05:00:00
    <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=f783820bfd" Vote 2010: live election blog - April 30

  • ConHome's expert panel assesses tonight's leaders' debate

    Updated: 2010-04-30 03:06:46

  • Post-debate polls give Cameron the victory

    Updated: 2010-04-30 03:06:44
     

  • The Lib Dems have no cause to feel secure in the West Country

    Updated: 2010-04-30 03:06:43

  • Live blog of the final Leaders' Debate

    Updated: 2010-04-30 03:06:42

  • What Gordon Brown did next…

    Updated: 2010-04-30 03:06:23
    This is very droll. Hat-tip, Iain Dale.

  • Live blog: final leaders debate - 29 April 2010

    Updated: 2010-04-29 21:45:00
    Live blog: the final leaders' debate - 29 April 2010 The final TV debate has taken place exactly a week before Britain goes to the polls on 6 May. Who triumphed - Brown, Cameron or Clegg? See the live blog conversation as it happened plus poll results.

  • Leaders debate three: immigration centre stage

    Updated: 2010-04-29 21:27:00
    In their final TV debate, the leaders clash on immigration and banking reform. A victory for Gordon Brown, says Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon. But a post-debate ITV/ComRes poll puts the Tories on top with 35 per cent.

  • Underage Politics

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:06:11
    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 Election battleground : East Midlands Granny gobsmacked by Gordon gaffe by Guest Blogger Underage Politics April 29th , 2010 Helena Barber and Zoe Ovendon both 16, are UK Youth Parliament members for Kent . Blogging for Total Politics they urge those who are old enough to use their . vote On 6 May people all over the country will be making an important decision that will affect all our lives and the future of Britain . Yes , the 2010 general . election At each general election we witness 18-22 year olds being given their first opportunity to vote . Many young people would grab at this

  • Election battleground: East Midlands

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:06:11
    : 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 Underage Politics by Laura Sainsbury Election battleground : East Midlands April 29th , 2010 Psephologist Robert Waller analysed the marginal seats and boundary changes in every UK region for Total Politics in a long-running series from December 2008 onwards . With the election now just oone week away , we will look back at his findings in the run-up to the election . Today we look at the East Midlands . You can read the full article . here Victories in marginals in the East Midlands here defined as Northamptonshire , Leicestershire and Lincolnshire have bolstered Labour in recent

  • Review: Hustings in marginal Watford

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:06:10
    : 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 Granny gobsmacked by Gordon gaffe Trust : the obstacle a government needs to overcome first by Emily Sutton Review : Hustings in marginal Watford April 29th , 2010 AA Gill recently described Watford as the word for the little offcuts of the world , the edges of things that have no real purpose” . However , Watford is proving it does have purpose , real purpose especially come 6 May . This Hertfordshire town is a three-way marginal and has become a key target as the Conservatives , Liberal Democrats and the incumbent Labour MP all have a good chance of winning here . Last night all six

  • Tories 6% ahead of LibDems in YouGov tracker (which has Labour unchanged after BigotGate)

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:06:04

  • Two polls from the Con-Lab marginals and Lib Dem targets

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:06:03

  • The Party must be asked to endorse any post-election agreement with Clegg (or anyone else)

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:06:02

  • The Economist declares for the Conservatives

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:06:00

  • Cameron's three goals in Birmingham

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:05:59

  • "Bigotgate" looks nastier and is far more serious than the Prescott punch

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:05:57

  • Is Nick Clegg's dismissal of Eurosceptics his equivalent of Gordon Brown's bigot remark?

    Updated: 2010-04-29 19:05:43
    At what point in last week’s leaders debate did Nick Clegg register his single worst reaction from the watching public (as measured by the “worms” with which a representative audience signals its approval for what it is hearing)?  The answer is that Cleggie held up pretty well for most of the 90 minutes, but crashed [...]

  • Constituency profile: Bridgend

    Updated: 2010-04-29 11:05:14
    : 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 Regional round-up by Guest Blogger Constituency profile : Bridgend April 29th , 2010 By Dr Carwyn Tywyn During the 1980s and early 1990s , much was made of the ability of the Conservative Party to gain support from skilled working class men sometimes referred to as C2s Essex man white van man who became attracted to the Conservatives by populist economic policies . The reluctance of Welsh C2s to make a similar leap from Labour to Conservative was an important distinction between the political cultures of England and Wales at the . time If the Conservatives are to gain Bridgend from

  • What's the single worst aspect of Gordon Brown's &#039;bigoted woman' remarks?

    Updated: 2010-04-29 11:05:03
    Is it the duplicity – the contrast between Gordon Brown’s public persona and the thin-skinned, irritable, snarling inner self? Is it the haughtiness – the PM’s dismissal of views that conflict with those of the bien-pensant elite as ignorant prejudice? Is it the issue itself – proof that, for all its anti-immigration rhetoric, Labour looks down on [...]

  • Tonight's polls have Tory leads of 2%, 3% and 7%

    Updated: 2010-04-29 03:04:34

  • The Spectator warns Cameron against a coalition with the Liberal Democrats

    Updated: 2010-04-29 03:04:31

  • How a Tory government would regulate and police the banks

    Updated: 2010-04-29 03:04:30

  • Let's cut immigration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands

    Updated: 2010-04-29 03:04:28

  • David Cameron must press home that only a Conservative government would deal with the deficit as a matter of urgency - unlike Labour or the Lib Dems

    Updated: 2010-04-28 14:45:48

  • Canvassing today in a Betjemanesque corner of Surrey

    Updated: 2010-04-26 14:05:37
    Sorry about the light blogging over the past 48 hours. I’ve been trekking around the South East: Sussex yesterday, Hampshire the day before. Today I’ll be canvassing alongside two old friends: Jonathan Lord in Woking and Kwasi Kwarteng in Spelthorne. I would post some morale-boosting pictures from the campaign trail, but as the Blogs Editor [...]

  • Happy St. Georges day

    Updated: 2010-04-23 13:05:14
    Nice to see the flag fly today. Sent from my HTC

  • Election seat calculator

    Updated: 2010-04-23 00:55:17
    I have been playing on the BBC website with the “Election seat calculator”, did you know that the BBC reckon that with each of the three main parties getting 30% of the vote each and others getting 10% of the vote that the outcome will be heavily slanted in favour of one party. Give it a [...]

  • Leadership debates

    Updated: 2010-04-23 00:55:16
    Well I have watched one and listened to the other on the radio and as much as they are fun and generate lots of debate away from the TV I can’t help but think that most people vote to get rid of a government. In 1979 people wanted Labour out and voted for the Conservative party, [...]

  • General Election 2010: The best of... politicans being pelted with eggs

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:19
    9PM: Ever since there have been election campaigns politicians have been forced to laugh off having objects hurled at them. And after Cameron's first brush with egg-wielding hoodies this afternoon, ITN have complied the best of the rest through history. Will save you trawling through YouTube...

  • General Election 2010: Osborne wins plaudits for combative debate with Cable

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:18
    8.15PM: His new haircut might not be to everyone's taste (old class warrior John Prescott has likened him to Lord Snooty in the Beano) but George Osborne has won some plaudits. According to James Forsyth at the Spectator Osborne's performance in today's Chancellor's debate 'showed there’s a lot of fight...

  • General Election 2010: Half of voters might change their minds before polling day

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:16
    7.44PM: Fascinating Ipsos-Mori poll out today. It says: 'Half the public (49%) say they may change their mind about who to vote for, it's highest level since we started asking this in 1983.' And turnout looks likely to be up. The percentage of those who say they are certain to...

  • General Election 2010: Greens 'on cusp of getting first MP'

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:15
    6.58PM: The Green Party leader claims that her party is close to getting their first MPs. 'We really are on the cusp of getting those first MPs elected,' Caroline Lucas tells the BBC.

  • General Election 2010: Cameron egged... caught on camera

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:14
    6.25PM: We now have video of the election campaign's first egging... Apparently the 16-year-old 'hoodie' wasn't making apolitical point. He just wanted to 'look hard'. Charming

  • General Election 2010: Campbell scoffs at 'Diana-ification' of Clegg

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:13
    5.41PM: Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, has scorned the ‘Dianification’ of Mr Clegg and his memo. He said it was ‘perfectly ludicrous for a politician at election time, even one who exploited the anti-politics mood quite well’. ‘The loss of his debate strategy note in the back of...

  • General Election 2010: New poll puts Lib Dems in joint lead

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:12
    5PM: The surge in support for the Liberal Democrats following last week's TV debate was confirmed by a further poll today on the eve of the second televised showdown. The Ipsos Mori survey for the Evening Standard showed Nick Clegg's party level-pegging with the Conservatives on 32%, with Labour trailing...

  • General Election 2010: Clarke accused of 'scaremongering' over hung parliament

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:11
    3.15PM: Ken Clarke's warnings over the dangers of a hung parliament have obviously needled Darling. In a Chancellor's debate on BBC 2's Daily Politics, Clarke was rounded on by both the Chancellor and Vince Cable for suggesting Britain may have to be bailed out by the IMF in the event...

  • General Election 2010: Clegg should have been a Tory - like his Dad

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:10
    2.57PM: Nick Clegg should have followed in his father's footsteps and become a Conservative, shadow business secretary Ken Clarke said today. Mr Clarke said he had once worked for the Liberal Democrat leader's father - also called Nick - in the City, telling reporters: 'He was a Tory, I think.'...

  • General Election 2010: Cameron egging was by 16-year-old student

    Updated: 2010-04-22 00:35:08
    2.20PM: Looks like Cameron's egging was by a 16-year-old student at the school he was visiting this afternoon. It glanced off his shoulder and splattered on the jacket of a police officer beside him, while the yolk also stained Mr Cameron's white shirt. Eye-witnesses said the young man who threw...

  • Labour’s manifesto: the legal bits

    Updated: 2010-04-20 14:24:26
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  • Choices choices

    Updated: 2010-04-13 21:36:33
    Bookmark this category Any preference? Sent from my HTC

  • I feel good

    Updated: 2010-04-13 05:16:58
    Tonight while I have been doing my paperwork for Mr Brown like a good tax payer I have had a couple of drams of 10 year Ardbeg and have had Mr Robert Palmer in the background, he is missed, I could do with a good night out at one of his concert, prehaps if Dave can [...]

  • Acoustic mirrors

    Updated: 2010-04-12 04:45:18
    This is a photo of the mirrors near Dungeness, sadly I can not get to them , this photo was taken from a few hundred feet while I was in a light plane today. Click on the image for a better view

  • Good value?

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:44:34
    Bookmark this category Is it me? Sent from my HTC

  • Taking a small stand

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:44:33
    Over the last few weeks we have had the car tax inspectors looking at cars to see how the tax is looking, someone pointed this out on eBay and as much as I do not think swearing is the best way to get your point over I can make an exception in this case, now [...]

  • Quote of the day

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:44:31
    Bookmark this category I’ve got 8 small fingers and 2 thumbs, leave me be I’m working on it. Sent from my HTC

  • Will a hung parliament be good for an English Parliament?

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:44:31
    Today we read on the BBC website that the SNP and Plaid Cymru “would demand fairer funding for Wales and Scotland to protect jobs, our schools, our hospitals and the most vulnerable in society.” The SNP & Plaid Cymru are hoping for a hung Parliament so they can press home their advantage and secure more funding [...]

  • Down the range tonight.

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:44:30
    Bookmark this category All good fun. Sent from my HTC

  • Broken down

    Updated: 2010-04-11 20:44:29
    Bookmark this category Called the AA, this should be intresting. Sent from my HTC

  • British Parliamentary Defeats and Refusing to Concede – some precedents

    Updated: 2010-04-09 15:45:39
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