So was 2010 a good election to lose?
Enforced rest at the hands of the electorate is at best only a small silver lining to a larger political cloud. … Read the full post »
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Alistair Darling
Alistair Darling was Chancellor of the Exchequer during Gordon Brown’s stint as Prime Minister, 2007-10.
Remember how Labour promised cuts bigger than Thatcher during this Parliament?
Labour likes attacking the public spending cuts made in this Parliament. But do you remember what Alistair Darling said he was going to do? … Read the full post »
Alex Salmond: my part in his downfall by Alan Cochrane
Journalist Alan Cochrane’s bombastic diaries cover the Scottish independence referendum, starting with the long run up from January 2012. … Read the full post »
A reminder: how Labour promised to cut deeper than Thatcher
Alistair Darling: We will cut deeper than Margaret Thatcher – The Guardian … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #12 is out: Nick Clegg’s conference speech in Birmingham
Liberal Democrat Newswire #12 brings you analysis and the full text of Nick Clegg’s speech to Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham. … Read the full post »
Nick Clegg’s speech to Liberal Democrat conference
Liberal Democrat conference has been a lot about what won’t happen or isn’t the case. Much less so about what the party is for. … Read the full post »
Vince Cable does gloom
The public’s attitude towards gloomy politicians is a curious one: only too happy to mock politicians who only talk up the positive but also frequently going off politicians who talk up the negatives. It happens across all parties, as we saw in the last Parliament where both Alistair Darling and George Osborne tried talking gloomily … Read the full post »
22 Days in May by David Laws – book review
David Laws’s book 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition is written in a lively style which gives some freshness to the now familiar sequence of events. … Read the full post »
Alan Johnson – “an instinctive cutter”
Given how I’ve previously pointed out that Yes, ministers can disagree and the world doesn’t end, it would be wrong to shout “splits! splits!” at what is going on in the Labour Party over economic policy. The latest disagreements between leader Ed Miliband and Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson do however highlight just how much work … Read the full post »
Eight lessons from the general election campaign for activities outside politics
Social media was a core part of how parties across the political spectrum ran their election campaigns for May 2010. … Read the full post »