Posts Tagged ‘election’
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 [...]
Give parliament a clean start
Just 265 MPs have stated definitely that they will stand again, and parliamentary officials are predicting a quarter of MPs will eventually stand down before the General Election, according to the Daily Telegraph. Although this is set to be the biggest exodus in living memory, voters may legitimately be asking the question: "why aren't more [...]
In 2010, demand better
British democracy has three problems. The vast majority of votes make no difference to who forms the government. The system persuades governments to go for short term wins at long term cost. Many politicians believe, or have believed, that you can get away with it. Actually, we don't have to have any of these things, and in 2010, we are in a [...]
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