Since the elction in May, or rather since the formation of the coalition I have been increasingly disenchanted with the Liberal Democrats, though many of my colleagues in the Labour party will say I was foolish to be giving them the benefit of the doubt in the first place.
Entries Tagged as 'Tories'
They think it’s all over…
May 12th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Politics
Quite an eventful evening apparently. I missed the events because I was over in Horsham for a constituency meeting. Somebody with a BlackBerry or iPhone or some other gadget let us know the main points so we were not completely in the dark, but I had to wait until getting home to find out any [...]
Fantasy cabinet
May 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Politics
I do hope Gordon decides to withdraw and let the Tories and Lib Dems come to some sort of arrangement. Personally I think the Lib Dems would be silly to have any formal coalition: better for them to let the Tories form a minority government. With any luck they would be prevented from carrying out [...]
Both the Tories?
April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Political parties don’t have the membership they once did, but I didn;t know things were this bad…
Tags: Local Papers·Tories
A week is a long time in politics
March 5th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Politics
If a week is a long time in politics then several weeks is long enough for an almighty u-turn. Or is it called a flip-flop these days?
David Cameron on Feb 8th:
For years all parties have taken the same view that someone’s tax status is a matter between them and the Inland Revenue. That needs to [...]
Are evangelicals shaping Tory policy?
February 25th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Life, Politics
This is not my question, but one asked on the front page of a free newspaper called Heart of West Sussex. The paper is a christian paper distributed around churches. Piles of the paper are left in the public areas of the Broadfield Community Centre.
Proof that targeted advertising works?
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Music, Politics, Technology
I have heard a lot about Eric Pickles putting adverts onto Spotify to promote the Tory party and I listen to a lot of music on Spotify, but I have not heard the Pickles ad at all. What I have heard many times is the Spotify advert aimed at advertisers, boasting about how they target [...]
More Tory climate change denial
November 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
Last week there was an interesting post at Next Left about the attitudes of prominent Tory bloggers to climate change. One of our local newspapers this week has a column to show that it is not just prominent Tories who hold suspect opinions on the topic: even the obscure ones are joining in the chorus.
Tags: Global Warming·Local Papers·Tories
Unite’s reaction to the Tory conference
October 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics
More specifically, Unite’s reaction to the proposals to cut 25% of the MoD budget. As somebody who works in the aerospace & shipbuilding sector covered by Bernie Hamilton I have more than a passing interest in this.
Tags: Tories·Trade Unions
Politicising the forces
October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
I hope I’m not the only one to be more than a little uneasy about the Tories politicising the army? We have had civil servants passing confidential documents to the opposition for political capital, Boris has already been hard at work politicising the Met – and anybody who was on a CND or anti-apartheid march [...]
Tags: Tories
I like the look of the display on it anyway,...
