Panic-stricken MPs at the epicentre of the Expenses Scandal put out a range of “constitutional reforms” that would be able to fix parliament despite not having anything to do with the problem.
Fixed Term Parliaments have been shelved for a long time now; it was Labour Policy in 1992, but since they didn’t win nothing came [...]
Yesterday was the first official day a cut in VAT (TVA) came into effect.
Having criticised Gordon Brown not so long ago over his handling of the British economy, President Sarkozy decided to follow suit an implement his own temporary tax cut. Neoliberal Sarko is now nowhere to be found, but then again, it IS Sarkozy [...]
Brown lives to fight another day following the top secret meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday as Labour MPs chose to back him rather than sack him.
This was a mistake in my opinion, as I wrote on LabourList, but although I didn’t get my way, at least I generated 65 comments worth of debate. [...]
Health Secretary Andy Burnham wore a black tie to the funeral of several careers last night, calling the election of two BNP MEPs “a sad day for British politics”.
The Twitterati and Facebookers were the first to console themselves with the notion that the BNP actually had fewer votes than in 2004, and that the result [...]
I am absolutely furious at the disgraceful PPB released last week. There was no mention of Europe for the European Parliament Elections, there was no mention of councils for the Local Elections, and there was barely any mention of Labour either.
The broadcast was 2:40 of pure negative embarrassment. It is an obviously testing time for [...]
