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Nationalisation is back in fashion at Labour HQ
Forcibly seizing people’s financial assets on pain of punishment? That’s back in style at Labour HQ with its demand that local Labour Parties sign over their properties to the national party or face expulsion from the party:
Ed Balls: My starting point is we are going to have keep all the cuts
Saturday’s Guardian has an interview with Ed Balls: Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has moved to challenge accusations that Labour is not credible on the economy by telling the public sector unions that he endorses George Osborne’s public sector pay freeze until the end of the parliament, and that he accepts every spending cut… “My [...]
Who could argue with this statement from Labour’s DCMS team?
Who indeed could disagree with this, from Labour’s ‘New Politics, Fresh Ideas’ website? Except perhaps that it isn’t new, or fresh. From http://www.fresh-ideas.org.uk/culture-media-and-sport. Hat-tip: Graham Neale
Labour’s rapidly warming official attitude towards the Liberal Democrats
Over on the Spectator website, Peter Hoskin neatly summarises the latest warming in the Labour Party’s official attitude towards the Liberal Democrats: Remember when MiliE described them as a ‘disgrace to the traditions of liberalism’? Since then he has said that, actually, he’d work with the Lib Dems so long as they ditched Clegg; that he’d work [...]
What won’t be in Ed Miliband’s speech
The dog that did not bark in the night-time was a key clue in the Sherlock Holmes story Sliver Blaze - and in penning those lines of dialogue, Arthur Conan Doyle ended up giving the English language a much used turn of phrase to describe the significance of things that don’t happen. Because they don’t happen, it [...]
Labour councillors ordered: don’t speak to journalists
Odd news from Liverpool, where Labour council leader Joe Anderson has taken such exception to local media coverage of a leaked document relating to the council’s controversial interim Chief Executive appointment that he, Has ordered all Labour councillors and council officials, including the press office, not to talk to either newspaper. (Liverpool Echo) A curious [...]
Meet Fred Walker, Wigan Labour's answer to Brian Coleman
Step one: you are a Labour councillor serving on the local fire authority and you oppose the axing of first class train travel for members of the fire authority. Step two: you put in a back claim for three years worth of travel, including numerous first class travel trips, totalling £20,000. Step three: your embarrassed [...]
Rolling news has a role after all and the cuts conundrum: posts of the week
Welcome to my weekly round-up of two blogging highlights from the past week: the post that I found most interesting or enjoyable to write and the post from someone else that I found most interesting or entertaining. A post from me… Economic statistic of the week: how the cuts compare A Parliamentary answer has revealed [...]
The most powerful party political broadcast I've seen broadcast live
Although it isn’t a Liberal Democrat (or Alliance, SDP or Liberal) party election broadcast, this is the one that had the biggest immediate impact on me when I saw it. It’s a tremendously well put together piece, using music in a powerful and ironic way (at a time when Labour was trying to wrest the [...]
Just how bizarre will the Brown / Blair revelations get?
The more that comes out about how Tony Blair and Gordon Brown behaved (or perhaps more accurately, how Gordon Brown behaved towards Tony Blair) the more you wonder quite what world they were living in. Here, courtesy of The Guardian’s Nicholas Watt, is one of the latest revelations of the sort of behaviour that would [...]
