This Government…
It has been more than 20 years since the Conservative Party won a General Election, and with good reason. The British public do not trust this collective of upper-class, incompetent fools to govern...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing
The Falkland Islands. A small outcrop of rocky islands a couple of hundred miles off the coast of Argentina. On those rocky islands are about 2,500 residents, the majority of whom are sheep farmers....
View ArticleHold A Referendum And Stop Banging On About Europe
This week, the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his party would hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union “within the first half” of the next Parliament,...
View ArticleWe need more representation not less
Today’s post was written by guest blogger and author Stephen Liddell, who can usually be found on his blog stephenliddell.wordpress.com. I strongly recommend that you see that site for similar...
View ArticleHow will the EU budget impact upon the UK?
With the recent EU budget being agreed across all EU member states, how will this affect the UK and EU relations as a whole? “I didn’t quite get a thank you!” as the PM mocked Ed Miliband when...
View ArticleNo Change Here
David Cameron and Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo credit: The Prime Minister’s Office) Britain is now counting the days until the Coalition Government delivers its fourth Budget. There is every indication...
View ArticleCameron’s Next Big Commons Defeat?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) We were all taken by surprise last Thursday when David Cameron walked out of cross-party talks on the implementation of the Levenson Inquiry’s recommendations, but it was Ed...
View ArticleCarey’s Right: There is a Perscuted Minority
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) A former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has used an article in the Daily Mail to attack the Coalition Government, and more specifically David Cameron, of...
View ArticleCould Blair Have Won in 2010?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Obviously, the answer to that question is ‘no’. So why did I ask it? Because on Saturday, that was the questioned posed by the man himself in an interview- and he had a...
View ArticleOn The Alternative Queen’s Speech
It is no secret that the Conservative Party has a large wing that is on the right (dubbed the ‘rabid right’ by some liberal critics) of the party’s leader on many issues: these Tory...
View ArticleThe Cruelty of Worcestershire County Council
Worcestershire County Council has achieved something amazing. Something that has not only stunned us all, but something that has stunned us again with the little attention it has received. If you...
View ArticleThis Isn’t 1992, Mr Cameron
The Conservative Party is well aware that the next few weeks will be a rare opportunity for them to smash through Labour’s somewhat thinned poll lead (currently 7-10%) before the Opposition gets its...
View ArticleSyria
The UN emblem Syria. The civil war. An issue which has become impossible to ignore as much of the world prepares to commit acts of warfare to remove the regime which is thought to have “crossed the red...
View ArticlePartisanship and Our Politics
Photo credit: Aidan Jones Earlier this week, I wrote an article, Plaid Cymru Thinks Big, in which I expressed my support for much of the policy platform of the Welsh nationalist party. Given that I am...
View ArticleYes, The Poor Should Pay Tax
The signature policy of the Liberal Democrats in the Coalition government is a failed attempt at electoral reform the raising of the Personal Allowance to £10,000. In other words, nobody is taxed...
View ArticleWhat Would A EuroArmy Mean?
Over the next 48 hours, European premiers will be meeting to conclude a two week conference on the role the European Union will play in co-ordinating the armed forces across its 28 member states. The...
View ArticleConservatives Condemn Themselves to Opposition
Press stories are circulating this morning about David Cameron’s determination to avoid a second-term coalition with the Liberal Democrats. It is said that Cameron wants a firm commitment in the...
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