Archive for andy burnham
Labour health policy descends into mess on first day of conference
At a Q&A session, Labour leader Ed Miliband said: I think what would be not sensible is for us to come along and say, ‘well, Andrew Lansley, now Jeremy Hunt, they’re changing all the arrangements, have these new clinical commissioning groups and so on, and we’re just going to reverse it all back and spend [...]
Running commentaries are not a bad thing
It’s become rather a political cliché for politicians or their spokespeople to say ‘we’re not going to provide a running commentary’ as a way of rebuffing repeated questions from journalists about an unfolding story or sequence of events. It is easy to see why people will often want to avoid given minute by minute updates, especially if [...]
Do you remember how Labour’s London campaign collapsed into chaos and confusion in 1998?
No, I don’t either. Which leaves me puzzled. Because, you see, Labour MP and campaign coordinator Andy Burham has said that his party would not be working much for a Yes vote in the AV referendum as, It would be a recipe for chaos and confusion if Labour candidates were also supporting AV in their [...]
John Prescott illustrates Labour's progressive problem
Many Liberal Democrats become very suspicious when they hear Labour members talk about the need for a broad progressive coalition, suspecting that for many of them the definition of progressive is really “agreeing with Labour”. Labour’s reaction since the general election has done little to assuage such fears, with a sequence of policies that were [...]
Independent Safeguarding Authority: kudos to Sarah Teather
Although some of the problems with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) are very much to do with how they’ve decided to go about doing their job (see my letter to Sir Roger Singleton for an example), some of the problems are to do with how the law has been written. There are some MPs who [...]
Should product placement be banned from TV shows?
Here’s Don Foster’s take on the subject:
In the current financial climate, we have to look at all revenue options including product placement.
The previous Secretary of State, Andy Burnham, was wrong to have ruled out the option of product placement.
With Google now having a larger advertising revenue than ITV, the commercial television companies need to fight [...]
