Posts Tagged ‘confidence’
Election talk: fluff
Talk of a General Election in March is just fluff, unless we as a nation can decide what MPs are really for. But neither Brown nor Cameron, nor yet the Daily Telegraph, seem ready to face the real crisis: politics in Britain is broken, and it needs fixing fast. But what, and how? What kinds of Prime Minister are there? I made a little list: [...]
Utterly unproven
The consultation document is farcical, the case for change is not made, the future costs have not been calculated — so why are Warwickshire Fire Services pushing ahead with a plan to cut the fire service by more than fifty firefighters, close firestations and and abandon fire-engines on which they still have to pay fees whether they use them or [...]
A house divided
Prescott -- Miliband claims 'divide Labour' (BBC) Gordon Brown's Labour Party is a shadow of Tony Blair's. Blair ran his party with a combination of charisma, implied promises, and the fear of missing out. Brown doesn't so much run Labour as survive it. He is the eternal Mr Bean of British politics: no matter how hard he tries, things just keep [...]
Who now can claim that the Daily Telegraph helped democracy?
On the anniversary of D-Day, for the first time in British history, a far-right party with the fascist heritage of Hitler and Mussolini has won parliamentary seats from the British electorate — not one, but two. We can point to the economy, we can point to disillusionment with 12 years of Labour, we can point to the long established media [...]
