Really, I want the Lib Dems to do well in Eastleigh…
On Thursday the most interesting by-election of this Parliament takes place. Eastleigh, recently vacated by the disgraced Chris Huhne, sees the two Coalition parties fight it out. It is a Liberal...
View ArticleDavid Cameron’s UKIP Conundrum
The Eastleigh by-election can described as a hard fought win for the Liberal Democrats or a sign that Ed Miliband’s one nation message has travelled no further south than the Watford gap. However, the...
View ArticleThe Left Should Unite and Strike Now
“Anyone in this party who’s in any doubt who we should be fighting, what we should be debating, where our energies should be focused – I tell you: our battle is with Labour. This is a bunch of...
View ArticleCameron’s Mythical Dragons
You know a Government is in trouble when they start slaying mythical dragons. David Cameron announced this week that immigrants families would face being ineligible to apply for a Council house for up...
View ArticleFor Hilda
Hilda Margaret Elizabeth Sanderson 1935 – 2013 Yesterday, on Tuesday 9th July, my dear mother-in-law died in Dewsbury Hospital. After being severely affected by one stroke some days earlier, a week...
View ArticleThe Left must not turn on itself over Europe
Until recently, much of the EU Referendum debate has been seen as a blue-on-blue matter. David Cameron on one side, and the person most keen to replace him, Boris Johnson, on the other. This has been...
View ArticleA Response to a Left-wing ‘Remainer’
Yesterday, an person who I will not name posted this on the Internet: My warning to all Lexiters – and there are many on my timeline, unfortunately. I’m afraid this is my vision. On June 24th we wake...
View ArticleProgressives must accept a Brexit world
If the UK votes to leave the EU, mark the evening of June 13th 2016 as the time when everything changed. The news of two new polls broke last night. You Gov recorded a seven point lead for Leave, and...
View ArticleHow PR could be Labour’s next radical reform
Unless the opinion polls are wrong on an massive scale, it’s likely that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party will be massively defeated by a coalition of Theresa May’s Conservatives and former UKIP voters...
View ArticleA new politics needs a new parliament
Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! Guy Fawkes, guy, t’was his intent To blow up king and parliament....
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