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A blog about British politics, some stuff about East Anglian politics, but mainly a rant from the viewpoint of a teacher and former Liberal Democrat councillor.
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The other by-election from yesterday that should worry Labour just as much as Glasgow East
Glasgow East we know about now. Terrible news for Labour, good news for the SNP and bad news for Gordon Brown. But any attempts to pass this off as a Scottish phenomenon should be ignored when you loo...
Labout set to lose in Glasgow East ?
John Pienarr, the BBC's political correspondent was hinting very strongly on Radio Five about 20 minutes ago that Glasgow East was on a knife edge and that Labour could lose.If so, it would mean the e...
BBC bias towards Tories in Henley by-election
A couple of weeks ago the Conservatives issued a leaflet in the Henley by-election claiming the Lib Dem candidate was not local, despite them knowing full well that he lives in the constituency. the L...
Is this the most boring campaign website ever ?
I don't know if the Tories are deliberately trying to suppress interest in the Henley by-election, but their campaign website certainly goes some way towards creating the impression that watching pain...
Are the Conservatives "Home and Dry" in Henley By-Election ?
Having spoken to a Tory friend of mine this evening his view is that despite a vigorous Lib Dem campaign, the Tories are home and dry with a safe win. Certainly the betting on Betfair supports this, b...
Are Labour in danger of looking a gift horse in the mouth ?
If reports are to believed, Labour are unlikely to field a candidate against David Davis in Haltemprice and Howden. There is a logic to this line in that it allows Labour to paint it all as a gimmick ...
Want to make the Tories spend more on their Henley campaign ?
It appears that the Tory candidate for Henley is making use of Google ads and his advert sometimes appears on this blog and other political blogs.So ... if you are feeling naughty and want to cost the...
Tory campaign in Henley makes first big blunder
Paul Walter is right to highlight the Tory blunder in Henley where they are issuing a leafelt claiming the Lib Dem candidate does not live locally when if they had bothered to check their facts they w...
For once I agree with David Cameron
For once I agree with David Cameron who summarised the result of the Crewe and Nantwich by-election as being the end of New Labour. We can only hope he is right.For me, New Labour was always the very ...
Tories break data protection laws in Crewe and Nantwich by-election
We all thought labour were incompetent when it came to protecting data, but the Tories showed today that they too have not got the first idea of how to keep peoples' personal data secure.It appears th...
Let's face it, anything but a comfortable Tory win should be unthinkable
The Tories keep playing down their chances of victory in Crewe and Nantwich, raising the labour majority of 7,000 in 2005 and trying to manage expectations. but let's be clear, if the Tories cannot wi...
If I were free this weekend, this is hardly going to make me want to go to Crewe and Nantwich
As The Times puts it, this is hardly Obama's "Yes we can" video.I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but I think this might be the video I need at home put on a loop to help my son get to sleep at ...
If other parties did it we would accuse them of being scared
For most of the 1990's you were hard pressed to find a Conservative candidate willing to use the word "Conservative" on their leaflets, so damaged was it as a brand and ever since 2003, the same can b...