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Tom Watson right, Mike Hancock and Bob Russell wrong
As per Early Day Motion 2427, it’s Labour MP Tom Watson who has got it right and Lib Dem MPs Mike Hancock and Bob Russell who are wrong. Sigh. Mind you, at least Jeremy Corbyn and Keith Vaz are in the wrong camp too. Them also being right might have just been too much to [...]
A trio of Tory / Liberal Democrat disagreements in government
Like London buses, Tory / Liberal Democrat disagreements are coming along all bunched together at the moment: Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has criticised “climate sceptics” and others who he argues are decrying the UK’s potential for renewable power … His comments are being interpreted by some as a riposte to Chancellor George Osborne who is believed [...]
Why commission a report if you’re determined to ignore its conclusions?
Last August, the then Labour government commissioned a KPMG report into the future of NHS Direct (along with some other related NHS services). The report has been submitted to the current government, though not published. So if Labour MPs and members were saying how the government must publish the KPMG report right away to see [...]
Liberal Democrats back campaign to free our postcodes
Welcome news from the blog of Lynne Featherstone (who, apart from being a LibDem MP, is also chair of the party’s Technology Advisory Board):
We need postcodes to be owned by the public – not sold to the public. Postcodes are the basic pre-requisite for allowing services to be developed that support democratic accountability.
It’s an important [...]
Tom Steinberg, Tom Watson et al
For those just coming to this news: Tom Steinberg (of MySociety) fame is going to advise the Conservatives, as explained by him here and criticised by Labour MP Tom Watson here. My one thought to add is that, thank goodness for once the answer to “we need to do internet stuff” has been for a [...]
Bugger, an MP has just given me some homework
Ah, the perils of blogging. A little while back I blogged about the Government’s failure to use its existing legal powers to clarify how imprint rules for election leaflets apply to online campaigning, such as emails or YouTube videos. Got a bit of traffic, a few comments and an MP (Lynne Featherstone) decided to put in [...]
