Archive for April, 2005
On the home straight
The final week has begun. On Thursday we vote - or not. On Thursday the people decide who will run (or ruin) Britain for the next five years. Or not. It's your choice -- if you choose to make it. This is the home straight. Parties are now locked into their strategies. Michael Howard will go all out in his personal attacks on Tony Blair. Tony [...]
Hang your head in shame, Mr Howard
Tories just as guilty in war fiasco BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Election 2005 | Blair faces Iraq legal pressure It was the Tories who made the war possible. Without them, Tony Blair could not have got his majority in the House of Commons. And now they want to pin the blame on Blair, and get off themselves scot-free. But it won't wash, Mr [...]
Look who’s watching who
BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Election 2005 | Lib Dems triumph in ratings war More than half of the people watching TV at the time watched the Liberal Democrat party election broadcast when it was broadcast at quarter to seven on Wednesday evening. Overall, it pulled in 13.2 million viewers -- ahead of the Tories at 12.8 million and Labour at 11.9 [...]
Who killed MG Rover? “I” said Patricia Hewitt
Tonight's events have been absolutely extraordinary. Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced that MG Rover had called in the receivers, and that 6,000 jobs were on the line. This is bizarre enough. The government does not announce that a privately run business has called in the receivers, the business does it itself. But it's [...]
