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MPs who opposed expenses reform: how did the three Labour MPs facing trial vote?
A footnote to my post about the subsequent expenses revelations regarding the 21 Conservative MPs who voted down expenses reform in 2008, before the Daily Telegraph revelations forced everyone’s hand. Of the three Labour MPs now facing criminal charges, two also voted against reform (David Chaytor and Elliot Morley) whilst the third, Jim Devine, abstained [...]
Lib Dems and Labour headed in opposite directions on health and crime
Earlier this week I highlighted how Nick Clegg’s speech laying out the foundations of the Liberal Democrat general election manifesto was based around four steps in which health and crime did not feature. Those two policy areas have been dominant in the party’s campaigning over the previous three general elections – in particular in marginal [...]
Peckham Labour councillor quits party
This in from Peckham Liberal Democrats:
Labour Councillor for Peckham Ward, Ola Oyewunmi has sensationally quit the party and applied to join the Liberal Democrats. In her letter of resignation she accused Labour of ‘running out of ideas, energy and time.’
Ola had been a member of the Labour party for more than 10 years [...]
“Race advisor slams Lewisham Labour over ‘apartheid system’”
So reports the Lewisham News Shopper:
A RACE and equality advisor to the Mayor [of Lewisham] has resigned from the Lewisham Labour Party claiming it runs an “apartheid system”.
David Michael, chairman of Lewisham Local Police Consultative Group and Sir Steve Bullock’s advisor on community cohesion, was due to contest the Whitefoot ward in 2010 but has [...]
How do the messages on the main political party websites compare?
Comparing the popularity of different words in the latest stories from the the Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Labour Party websites reveals striking differences in the messages being put out by each party online.
Reproduced below are three word clouds, where the bigger a word is the more often it appeared on that party’s latest website stories. [...]
The problem with Gordon’s speech was that it was so Gordon #lab09
Living in London and (attempting) to use the Tube most days, it’s deeply ironic the legacy of Gordon Brown’s political career which I am reminded of most often – his insistence on forcing through the botched part-privatisation of the Tube – is something quite at odds with his overall record.
For his overall record is not [...]
