Archive for Opposition watch

Tory donor, tax affairs, Oakeshott on the case: some things haven’t changed

25 August 2010
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Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott is clearly not put off by coalition from his pursuit of Tory donors and their tax statuses. Today it is Jon Wood, whose tax affairs have been in the papers with Lord Oakeshott saying, “Now is the time to take... »

How do you plan cuts? With an overnight trip to a luxury hotel of course

24 August 2010
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Labour-run Brent Council has hit the local and regional news for its decision to pay for 27 senior staff and Labour councillors to spend the weekend at a luxury country hotel – where they planned budget cuts. The council is quite right that it is good management practice for senior teams every now and again [...] »

Party finances in the news

20 August 2010
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For the Conservatives it’s the quitting of their next treasurer, David Rowland, whilst for Labour it’s John Prescott warning of the Labour facing bankrupcy (the context for which you can see in these graphs).  »

Conservatives forfeit £101,500 in donations

19 August 2010
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Two illegal donations totalling £101,500 dating back to 2004 and 2006 have been forfeited by the Conservative Party. »

The Miliband campaigning house parties

18 August 2010
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Over on the Total Politics website they’ve been poking fun at the ‘house party’ instructions issued by the David Miliband campaign. On reading the piece at first I thought it was being a little harsh, because house parties (where you invite electors – Labour members in this case – to a small event to discuss [...] »

UKIP leader Lord Pearson stands down

17 August 2010
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The BBC has the story about Lord Pearson standing down as UKIP’s leader following his less than successful general election performance (with that TV interview): In his resignation statement, Lord Pearson said he was “not much good” at party politics and UKIP “deserved a better politician… to lead it”. The outgoing leader had a difficult general [...] »

Two Scottish Labour councillors charged by the police

13 August 2010
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Andrew Reeves has got details of John Holden, charged over alleged benefit fraud, and Gilbert Davidson, accused of inappropriate behaviour towards a female colleague.  »

Philip Lardner gets official warning but keeps job

12 August 2010
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A quick update on Philip Lardner, whose suspension as a Conservative candidate during the election following homophobic comments we covered back in April – and who had previously been suspended by the Conservatives in 2008 for praising Rhodesian leader Ian Smith. After he made the homophobic remarks this year, he was also suspended from his [...] »

Alistair Darling wanted to raise VAT

14 July 2010
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Throws a bit of a spanner in the works of the Labour rhetoric about how awful anyone who contemplates raising VAT is: Amid reported wrangling between No 10 and the Treasury, Lord Mandelson suggested in his memoir that Mr Brown rejected a proposal from the chancellor to raise VAT while Mr Darling quashed calls for [...] »

Two Tory councillors quit following allegations over photos of young boys

6 July 2010
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The Kensington & Chelsea Chronicle reports: Two Tory councillors have resigned after it emerged inappropriate emails had been sent using the council’s email system. Former Kensington and Chelsea mayor Councillor Barry Phelps fired off a series of emails to Councillor Mark Daley, displaying black and white images of young boys with sexually suggestive captions added [...] »
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