• Coalition is contradictory and incompatible on Europe – Miliband

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:43:54
    David Miliband MP, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, said today that the Coalition Government held contradictory and incompatible views on Europe, resulting in inaction and no policies.David Miliband said:"We will hold the Government to account for their promises on Europe. Their contradictory, mutually exclusive and incompatible promises on Europe.

  • Statement by Gordon Brown

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:43:54
    Text of statement given by Gordon Brown 7 May 2010 With the outcome of the general election, we find ourselves in a position unknown to this generation of political leaders with no single party able to have a commons majority and therefore have a majority government.

  • More women MPs than all other parties put together

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:43:54
    Acting Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman MP said she was proud of Labour's achievements for women as she joined with the rest of her female Labour colleagues.

  • Gordon Brown Statement 10 May 2010

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:43:54
    Gordon Brown today in Downing Street gave the following statement:"We have a parliamentary and not presidential system in this country and as I said on Friday, with no party able to command a parliamentary majority arising from the general election, my constitutional duty as prime minister is to ensure that government continues while parties explore options for forming a new administration with majority support in the House of Commons.

  • Labour's NEC agrees timetable for the election of next Leader of the Labour Party

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:43:54
    Labour’ National Executive Committee has today agreed on a timetable for the election of the next leader of the Labour Party.

  • Con-Dem government's 'recipe for muddle and confusion' on energy - Ed Miliband

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:43:54
    Ed Miliband MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, today told the House of Commons that the coalition’ energy policy is only papering over the cracks and fails to deliver the long term coherence and certainty that the country needs.

  • PLP nominations period for Leadership Election to close on 9 June

    Updated: 2010-05-31 21:43:54
    Ray Collins, General Secretary of the Labour Party said:"The NEC's procedures committee have considered the period for PLP nominations for the Leadership election and have decided that the closing date will be 9 June."

  • Michael Gove reportedly has no "ideological objection" to firms running academies making a profit

    Updated: 2010-05-31 19:58:10

  • Major blamed for 1922 putsch

    Updated: 2010-05-31 19:32:57

  • The Coalition will try to tough out the Telegraph's Danny Alexander revelations

    Updated: 2010-05-31 08:45:03

  • The government information and data being opened up to public scrutiny

    Updated: 2010-05-31 06:23:16

  • The Telegraph guns for Danny Alexander after toppling David Laws

    Updated: 2010-05-30 21:18:06

  • Hague, IDS and Gove top Cabinet league table; Cable and Huhne get wooden spoons

    Updated: 2010-05-30 14:56:38

  • Are these the seven big ideas of Cameronism?

    Updated: 2010-05-30 07:39:00

  • David Laws’ Resignation Letter, and David Cameron’s response

    Updated: 2010-05-30 03:00:00
    This is the exchange of letters between David Laws and David Cameron, the Prime Minister. Post from: The Wardman WireDavid Laws’ Resignation Letter, and David Cameron’s response

  • If there's anyone out there who still opposes reform of the House of Lords…

    Updated: 2010-05-29 20:23:53
    …I have two words for you: Ian Blair. Britain is run by and for an unelected nomenklatura. The most powerful apparat of all is the House of Lords that Tony Blair created: a corporatist chamber whose nominees come largely from NGOs and state institutions, and whose instinctive solution to any problem is to spend money. Ian [...]

  • Immediate reactions to David Laws' resignation

    Updated: 2010-05-29 19:00:06

  • Danny Alexander replaces Laws

    Updated: 2010-05-29 18:55:04

  • David Laws has resigned according to ConHome sources

    Updated: 2010-05-29 17:26:59

  • Growing support for Coalition among Tory members

    Updated: 2010-05-29 12:33:33

  • David Laws paying rent of £40,000 to long-term partner may have broken Commons rules

    Updated: 2010-05-29 07:20:05

  • Regional round-up

    Updated: 2010-05-28 10:41:23
    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 The Lib Dem deputy leadership race : Believe it or not , it's a coverted position The life and death of the ID card by Annabelle Williams Regional round-up May 28th , 2010 A Liberal Democrat councillor is facing calls to resign after a picture mocking the disabled and comparing them to Liverpool council’s Labour Party appeared on her Facebook webpage . Councillor Sharon Green has apologised for the picture but claimed she could not be held . responsible” Local councils in Northern Ireland have been asked to find the money to fund a huge reform of local government , which would see the

  • Who should be on BBC Question Time panels in this age of Coalition government?

    Updated: 2010-05-28 07:35:39

  • Thoughts from Dunkirk

    Updated: 2010-05-28 06:57:10
    One of my favourite Second World War anecdotes is about a Highlander who, observing the rout at Dunkirk, tells his sergeant: “If the English give in, too, this could be a long war”. There is something elementally British about that remark and, indeed, about its context. In war, we tend to begin badly and pull ourselves [...]

  • What do you think of the Cabinet? What do you think of David Davis? Do you think the Coalition is a good thing overall?

    Updated: 2010-05-27 23:35:03

  • The life and death of the ID card

    Updated: 2010-05-27 15:39:33
    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 Boris Johnson : Make London Greener by Laura Sainsbury The life and death of the ID card May 27th , 2010 May 1995 Plans for an ID card are conceived when the Tories launch a green paper on identity cards . Tony Blair opposes the scheme and at the Labour Party Conference he says : Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right , that money provide thousands more police officers on the beat in our local communities” May 1997 Labour’s election victory halts any progress plans for ID cards included in the Conservative Party . manifesto September

  • The significance of Brady's election

    Updated: 2010-05-27 07:31:01

  • Green MP on Queen's Speech

    Updated: 2010-05-25 20:34:00
    : Greenman's Occasional Organ Ecosocialist . Syndicalist . Critical . Techno-Progressive Tuesday , May 25, 2010 Green MP on Queen's Speech Green Party leader’s comment on the Queen’s Speech It’s a pack of half-hearted measures” says UK’s first Green MP Caroline Lucas MP , the first Green MP in the UK parliament , commented this : afternoon It’s a pack of half-hearted measures . For example they talk about far-reaching political reforms , but all they’re offering is a referendum on AV , which would go nowhere near far enough . There are warm words on climate change and energy efficiency , but no real detail . We need to see genuine commitment to serious targets and to the investment needed to meet those targets . Even worse , the fact that this comes the day after we’ve heard of budget cuts

  • So who runs the CCTV for the police?

    Updated: 2010-05-11 11:12:22
    Bookmark this category In some cases not the police, what happens to the video? Sent from my HTC

  • So where do we find ourselves today in England?

    Updated: 2010-05-10 22:03:53
    By all reasonable counts the labour party no longer has a case govern the United Kingdom. The Labour party lost more seats in the 2010 election that at any party at other time since the 1931 election, the Lib Dems did not get the breakthrough that they wanted and lost ground with the electorate returning [...]

  • So who gets the vote of an underwhelmed English Shooter

    Updated: 2010-05-05 01:41:02
    Bookmark this category So the day is almost on us where we place out X in the box, and I must say that I am underwhelmed with the campaign. All three parties are going to put taxes up and cut spending in the next 18 months, all three want to cut the number of MPs and tinker [...]

  • Happy St. Georges day

    Updated: 2010-04-23 12:23:45
    Nice to see the flag fly today. Sent from my HTC

  • Election seat calculator

    Updated: 2010-04-22 23:02:36
    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: 2010-04-22 22:35:26
    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: 2010-04-21 21:00:00
    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: 2010-04-21 20:12:05
    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: 2010-04-21 19:44:30
    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: 2010-04-21 18:59:17
    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: 2010-04-21 18:27:10
    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: 2010-04-21 17:42:35
    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: 2010-04-21 17:02:08
    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: 2010-04-21 15:15:23
    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: 2010-04-21 14:58:36
    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: 2010-04-21 14:22:06
    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...

  • Choices choices

    Updated: 2010-04-13 20:18:55
    Bookmark this category Any preference? Sent from my HTC

  • I feel good

    Updated: 2010-04-12 22:49:51
    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: 2010-04-11 22:37:10
    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: 2010-04-08 01:15:53
    Bookmark this category Is it me? Sent from my HTC

  • Taking a small stand

    Updated: 2010-04-07 18:22:35
    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: 2010-04-06 09:45:40
    Bookmark this category I’ve got 8 small fingers and 2 thumbs, leave me be I’m working on it. Sent from my HTC

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