Grant Shapps and the strange password story
Conservative politician Grant Shapps is a man of many guises. Not all under his own name. But for a while in the earlier part of this century… … Read the full post »
Grant Shapps
Read about the controversial Conservative politician, Grant Shapps. He was elected Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield in 2005.
How the Tories could lose their Parliamentary majority, courtesy of the police and the voters
The optimistic Liberal Democrat may be wondering now if the party might go into 2020 with rather more than 8 MPs. The pessimistic Liberal Democrat will remember how the party fared the last time there was a hung Parliament… … Read the full post »
Grant Shapps 0 – Jeremy Browne 1
What happened when Conservative MP Grant Shapps tried to get Jeremy Browne to defect from the Lib Dems. … Read the full post »
Will the police be investigating Grant Shapps?
As then Labour MP Phil Woolas discovered*, it’s against the law to lie about candidates (Representation of the People Act 1983, Section 106). … Read the full post »
A brilliant press release from the Lib Dems
Being the person who originally spotted the Grant Shapps astroturfing incident back in 2007, I of course in no way find this amusing at all. … Read the full post »
Conservatives to adopt new campaign database software
The Conservatives will unveil Votesource, a replacement for the troubled Merlin voter contact database which CCHQ has developed in-house. … Read the full post »
That Grant Shapps is a very wise man…
“There are a string of things we [the Conservatives] want to do and can’t do because we are in coalition.” – Grant Shapps … Read the full post »
Lovely soundbite by Nick Clegg about Grant Shapps
Talking of the idea that Conservative Party Chairman (and bad interviewee) Grant Shapps will offer the Liberal Democrats party funding reform… … Read the full post »
How not to do an interview: Grant Shapps demonstrates
1. Running away from Michael Crick rarely works. 2. Running away from Michael Crick whilst he has a camera crew in tow even more rarely works. … Read the full post »
Councils to be banned from lobbying at party conferences
Central government decisions can have a huge impact on local government, so the idea of local government wanting to influence central government is perfectly acceptable. … Read the full post »