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Finally, the party has started
12th May 2010 | 6 comments | 1 person likes this
There was no point blogging over the last few days as either nothing or everything was happening. Now the dust is beginning to settle, things are becoming slightly clearer. A very neat deal has been done between the Lib Dems and the Tories. Several clever trade offs have been made: Osborne as Chancellor but Cable in the Treasury, Hague stays as Foreign Sec but Clegg gets to carve out his...
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Your options for government
6th May 2010 | 3 comments | 4 people like this
Please choose from one of the following options
Government tariff 1: Pray As You Go: Lib-Lab coalition (24 month contract)*Hung Parliament. Tories are the largest party but Lib Dems poll well. Labour are nowhere. Tories manifestly do not want a Lib-Tory coalition and Cameron rules it out. He’s playing the long game. Clegg has to stick to his refusal to work with the leader who polled lowest, so has to wait... -
A coalition post
26th April 2010 | 5 comments | 1 person likes this
Three articles have caught my eye this morning, partly because I was logging on here to write largely the same kind of piece only without the same level of detail, historical analysis or wordsmithsmanship. So instead, what with the wonders of the internet and everything, I will simply link to them and spare you 600 words on why the three party system is anathema to a well maintained and regularly serviced political system.
Telegraph.co.uk: Boris... -
Clegg shakes things up
16th April 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
Nick Clegg was only ever going to win last night's debate. All he had to do was not soil himself or suggest introducting sat nav for asylum seekers and he was there. This is, I think, because most people had absolutely no opinion of him. The vast majority of people have made up their mind about GB and DC; they are fixed entities. As such, they would both have to do...
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The internship system is a slave Labour Con
19th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Try not to glaze over. The MPs' expenses implosion has been death by a thousand receipts not just for the reputation of Parliament but for anybody interested in current political affairs. My brain is no longer able to compute nor care about the endless minutiae of their unintentional fraudulence, which, given the nature of the story, is the only manner in which it can be presented.
However, my minority but not unique position...
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