Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
Where to find Lib-Dem policies
Now that the General Election is on the horizon, people are getting increasingly interested in what the parties stand for. Both David Cameron and Gordon Brown have tried to suggest that they are very, very close to the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg has pointed out that this is entirely not the case -- indeed, the Liberal Democrats are not for [...]
The phoney war begins
Everyone knows that the General Election is this year. So, like clockwork, on the year's first working day, the spin machines of both Labour and the Conservatives trundle into action, and then into overdrive and counter-spin, back-spin, side-spin and top-spin. How long before they go into tail-spin? You can now watch both in glorious [...]
For “war-cabinet” read “My team isn’t good enough”
UK Conservative leader David Cameron has a problem. If he really believes that he is going to lead the country later this year (though the polls are pointing towards a hung-parliament), then his team is simply not strong enough. True, he's got former chancellor Ken Clarke -- good old Ken -- but, aside from that, he has no-one with economic clout [...]
Decade of distrust reaches an end
The 2000s began with the end of Bill Clinton's US presidency limping out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. They finished with the UK House of Commons facing a collapse of public trust which is set to result in 1/3-1/2 of MPs leaving or losing their seats in the 2010 General Election, and trust in politicians at an all time low of 13%, according to [...]
