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BRACKNELL
BNP ELECTION RESULTS | 17 hours ago
Bracknell is the old seat of Andrew MacKay husband of Julie Kirkbride, the husband and wife team that had lots of questions but very few excuses concerning their expense claims. So Mr MacKay jumped ship from this very safe Tory seat, to a very safe p read more
Tories to reinstate people’s right to self-defence
The Chronicles from the Empire | 18 hours ago by Sten A. Hankewitz
What do you do if someone breaks into your house and threatens your family and possessions? Tories promise to allow people to defend themselves. Tories promise to reinstate people’s right to self-defence and allow householders to use reasonable read more
Tories plan to give home-owners the right to defend their homes a…
Mums Finance | December 20th 2009 by wendy
Homeowners would be handed a licence to kill burglars by a Tory government. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling raised the election stakes on crime by promising law-abiding citizens extra rights to defend themselves. If the Tories win the election, read more
Tory 'Smear Jobs' Typical Of Harper's Governing Style
Buckdog | December 20th 2009 by leftdog
"Is everyone who disagrees with Prime Minister Stephen Harper a Taliban stooge, a raving anti-Semite or a loony-left extremist? You'd think so, to hear the shabby low blows Harper and his cabinet are forever aiming at any and all who dare to criticiz read more
Tories and the ‘God Squad’
Backseat Blogger | December 20th 2009
This piece, “Boom times for PMO’s God squad,” by Linda Diebel really pisses me off. In 2006, with the advent of a Conservative minority, Reid, once a catalyst for the evangelical movement in Canada, began to go stealth. He became ch read more
UKIP IS FOR OLD FARTS
BNP ELECTION RESULTS | December 20th 2009
CLICK HERE for the latest mori poll. Depending what headline propaganda machine driven institution you listen to. You may well believe that the Tories have a 17% lead, and all ready to lead the country into oblivion next year.But look deeper into the read more
BROMSGROVE
BNP ELECTION RESULTS | December 20th 2009
Bromsgrove hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, due to the rum accounting skills of Julie Kirkbride and her MP expenses. Having finally decided to quit parliament (she will of course get a healthy pension instead of quitting now as she should read more
John Brigden selected for Dover
Liberal Democrat Voice | December 19th 2009 by Mark Pack
Dover and Deal Liberal Democrat Association have selected John Brigden to be their PPC for the next election. John has been a Sevenoaks District councillor for some years, is an experienced campaigner, and has family connections with Deal. He is the read more
Blacking up? Wrong?!
Open Prism | December 19th 2009 by R Blake
Wearing blackface, all-black beauty contests, ethnic minority shortlists--they are the perceived hallmarks of a racially liberated society, but one man--Mr. Philip Davies MP--decided to challenge the equality commission on these and other similar PC read more
What the papers say…
Liberal Democrat Voice | December 19th 2009 by Mark Pack
Vince makes the front page of the Daily Express, Nick scores two page leads in the Mail, Huhne forces a Tory U-turn, Paddy bazookas a Brigadier, Bob Russell biffs a Bishop and The Telegraph’s Deputy Editor says George Osbourne is a childish prat read more
Is the plan to punish the poor?
John's Labour Blog | December 18th 2009 by John Gray
Letter published by Newham Recorder this week. There is a delay before they put the "Postbag" letters on their Internet site.I think it is a pretty safe bet that the Tories will hammer the hard pressed working families who depend upon tax credits to read more
The only Green Party
Stuart Jeffery - Green Politics in Maidstone | December 18th 2009 by Stuart Jeffery
As Copenhagen fails due to greed, intransigence and a lack of polictical will, my anger grows at claims of greenness and those who deny the climate catastophe is man-made.Compare these letters in today's Guardian and Indy with the approach of the Tor read more
Shadow cabinet to repay £24,782
The Chronicles from the Empire | December 18th 2009 by Sten A. Hankewitz
Conservatives’ shadow cabinet, altogether 28 senior Tories, are to pay back a total of £24,782 in expenses following Sir Thomas Legg’s inquiry, the BBC reports. New revelations include defence spokesman Liam Fox, who must repay £7,984 i read more
Well-deserved
Dawg's Blawg | December 18th 2009
The Globe and Mail's Paul Koring has won the 2009 Amnesty International Canada's Media Award for excellence in human rights journalism, for his coverage of the Abousfian Abdelrazik affair.Koring just never let go of that one, and his digging played a read more
Lib Dems hold Whittle Hall, Great Sankey Parish Council
Liberal Democrat Voice | December 18th 2009 by Mark Pack
Another victory against the Tories, this time in the constituency of Warrington South. Congratulations to new Councillor Matt Newton and the team at Warrington Liberal Democrats on winning the Whittle Hall by-election, Great Sankey Parish Council. T read more
Brown Days, a new Gotterdammerung
Ana the Imp | December 17th 2009 by AnatheImp
We are witnessing an interesting process of degeneration at the present, or a reverse metamorphosis: New Labour, the Blair Project, is dying by rapid degrees. In its place the Old Labour Adam is re-emerging, blinking in to the light, full of ancient read more
Rumours abound over IPSOS poll....and then there was none...has t…
Red Rag | December 17th 2009 by Bullingdon Boy
There was an opinion poll that was taken last weekend that is yet to be published.It is an IPSOS poll which will presumably be published by the Observer this weekend. The last poll this company did again we had to wait for a week for and it showed th read more
Devastating aka Jumping the Shark
Backseat Blogger | December 17th 2009
Ooooh look. Mr Colvin responds. Colvin Returns Fire writes Scott’s Diatribe But the best post, the one that shows that this issue has jumped the proverbial shark belongs to Dr. Dawg. Entitled Devasting“, John lets it all hang ou read more
A World Of Dreams Shattered.
SUBROSA | December 17th 2009 by Subrosa
I Know Airlines Come And Go But.....................Christmas hurts. Many Companies run a financial calendar year. So if they have cash flow problems, the holiday becomes that time when they have to show their hand. Retail figures are horrendous and read more
Conservative candidate to be chosen by ‘open primary’
Salisbury and Stonehenge | December 17th 2009 by Matt Penny
Following the resignation of Salisbury’s sitting MP, Robert Key, the Salisbury Conservative Association are going to select their next Prospective Parliamentary Candidate by means of an ‘open primary’. This means that anybody who is read more
The 150,000 Death Health Care Plan
John's Labour Blog | December 17th 2009 by John Gray
After all the fuss and nonsense about "NHS death panels" this is a estimate of the number of Americans who have died due to the lack of medical insurance.The figures I think speak for themselves.Thank God for the NHS (or rather Nye Bevan)BTW - Who r read more
A Hunt for the Masses
Ana the Imp | December 16th 2009 by AnatheImp
Dear old Henry 'Orator' Hunt, the star of the Peterloo Massacre, a man who has had a particularly bad historical press. There have, however, been one or two attempts to redress the balance, and he is now more properly seen as a pioneer of working-cla read more
There is nothing prudent about letting unemployment spiral
The Third Estate | December 16th 2009 by Salman Shaheen
According to the Latest figures unemployment is currently hovering at just below 2.5 million. By now the national, and party political, debate about how we deal with the recession has taken a certain shape. It is, many would have us believe, a ch read more
BIRMINGHAM IS NOW OFFICIALLY MUSLIM AND IS A NO GO AREA FOR ANY O…
BNP ELECTION RESULTS | December 16th 2009
People say that the BNP is doing nothing but scare mongering and the things many nationalists talk about are just flights of fancy with a hidden agenda. But each time we say " Look the government is doing this to our country, and we want it stopped " read more
The Tax on Home Owning? - Home Information Packs and Stamp Duty
Hampstead Lettings | December 16th 2009 by susan george
With the Tories bid to win support through scrapping the Home Information Pack and a pledge to scrap the stamp duty levy on homes worth £250,000 or less,it would seem that the UK property market is being unburdened. Sellers will no longer have to fo read more
Quote du Jour: Run away! Run away!
liberal catnip | December 15th 2009
"Where the hell are the (Conservative) members?" said NDP MP Paul Dewar (Ottawa Centre) asked reporters.What if they called a committee meeting and no Tories came? Meanwhile, the fugitive Cons are mulling over sending parliament to Prorogue-a-Tory read more
TORIES SPLIT OVER THE EAST OF LUTON
Qurban Hussain - Standing up for Luton | December 15th 2009 by Qurban Hussain
Two scheduled meetings involving Luton and Central Bedfordshire Councillors have been cancelled as members squabble over whether a plan for 5,500 new homes East of Luton should go ahead. An added complication was introduced when, without any explanat read more
Well isn’t this just special?
Backseat Blogger | December 15th 2009
Good idea: Have a “where’s waldo?” theme content with the PM anywhere but in Copenhagen. Bad idea: Publish a picture of the PM getting shot in Dallas. Doesn’t anyone have a brain over there in Liberal headquarters? Even read more
ConHome reacts to the falling Tory poll lead - It changes how it…
Red Rag | December 15th 2009 by Bullingdon Boy
With the poll lead falling for their party in the majority of pollsters ConservativeHome have found a way to put them all together and predict the outcome. Up until the other day, like most blogs, they used the UK Polling report swing calculator and read more
Liberal Democrats challenge Conservatives totake action to ensure…
lesbonner | December 15th 2009 by Les Bonner
David Cameron was challenged by the Liberal Democrats yesterday not to wait until the election before taking action to compell peers and MPs to pay taxes in the United Kingdom. The Liberal Democrats offered to use their two parties’ combine read more
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