Labour All Over: The Letter of Not the Spirit of the Rules
We’re now into week 2 of the election campaign and today Labour launched their manifesto. They were doing the launch here in Birmingham and I decided to go along and give Brown an old-fashioned...
View ArticleConservatives in Birmingham Ladywood
Last night I attended an election event hosted by the Conservatives for its members in Birmingham Ladywood. Nusrat Ghani, the Parliamentary Candidate, had been rendered voiceless by tonsillitis and...
View ArticleMy “BBC Question Time” Audience Experience
Janet Street-Porter has a potty mouth. Her verdict on the Leaders Debate? “Too much fucking testosterone. May as well just have been done with it and had the three blokes just slap their cocks on the...
View ArticleWhy I Voted Conservative
So, that is that. After weeks of campaigning we are down to one mammoth push today. The polls are inconclusive – at the moment my reading of them suggests we may not quite get the 310 seats...
View ArticleHung Parliament Leaves All Parties Hungover
An extraordinary election. No supporter of the mainstream parties will wake this morning with anything other than disapointment about the national picture: The Lib Dems must be crest-fallen. The...
View ArticleDoes Birmingham Need to Call in Independent Election Observers?
An account of day touring Birmingham’s polling booths – uncovering widespread irregularities – including rescuing a hapless Lib Dem – finding campaign literature inside polling booths – voters locked...
View ArticleGove’s Nightmare Week – A Lesson For The Coming Months
Michael Gove had, to put it mildly, an uncomfortable week. I can understand the frustration and rage that schools in Sandwell must have felt thinking their new build project had a green light to find...
View ArticleWhatever You Think of Him, Why We Should All Stand Up For Gareth Compton
It is the stuff of nightmares. You’re listening to a radio interview. The interviewee winds you up by saying that you have no moral authority to take a view on human rights. You react immediately...
View ArticleConservative Policy Forum Launch
The last time I heard Baroness Warsi speak her big thing was to make sure the Conservative party was “a political party, not a dining club”. The sentiment was spot on. New members (like myself),...
View Article“1.6 Million Children in the UK Live in Severe Poverty”. Erm. Really?
Today there has been an alarming headline that 1.6 million children in the UK live in ‘severe poverty’. Examples of the reportage can be seen at the BBC and Guardian. Every now and again a news stat...
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