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Interview: Tim Archer
4th May 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
Tim Archer is the Conservative PPC for Poplar and Limehouse. Why did I ask him for an interview? Well, apart from the fact that Poplar and Limehouse is my constituency, it's also a very interesting seat. Over to UK Polling Report:
Poplar and Limehouse is perhaps the most surprising seat on the Conservative target list, requiring a swing of just under 6%, the same sort of figure as more obvious targets... -
Alan Duncan’s irrational behaviour
13th August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
So Alan Duncan has put his foot in it again. What to do with a politician who gets caught speaking his mind? There are several issues being vacuum-packed into one in the representations this story is receiving across various media. Duncan defenders have pounced on the argument that Heydon Prowse's behaviour was ungentlemanly because he was invited for a drink in Westminster by Duncan and used the opportunity to secretly record him. "What kind...
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We shall not be moved (again)
3rd August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Apologies for my absence; I have been moving house. This isn’t supposed to be an introspective blog, but I have been racking my brains for the last few days in an attempt to make what I want to write somehow relevant to the world of politics and thus far I have failed to construct even a tenuous link, and time is dragging on. One may well come to me in...
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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...





