Labourlist (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009 | Politics
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 We all know the BNP are a shameless mob, so it should come as no surprise that they've now directly copied the design of Barack Obama's campaign website. The new look has been launched this week...spot any similarities? Temerity indeed.
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago | Politics
Jackie Ashley reveals the sensational fact in her Monday Guardian column: "Some Labour people may think I'm sounding too gloomy, but those who have been privy to recent private polling are a lot more than gloomy. This suggests that Labour could return to the Commons with just 120 MPs or thereabouts, taking the party back to 1930s territory. As ministers look for jobs to keep themselves going after...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
"Amid all the detailed argument about the Lisbon Treaty and referendums, it is easy to ignore a basic truth about Cameron's EU strategy and the trajectory upon which he is now set. This will be the first unequivocally Eurosceptic government of modern times." So says Matthew d'Ancona in The Sunday Telegraph . Thus, following in the footsteps of Daniel Finkelstein and Benedict Brogan , he is...
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Would his plan have gone through if his ratings were better? The key impact that opinion polls have is not in predicting the general election but in setting the whole back-cloth for the way current politics is conducted. So is this how we should explain the lack of support for Mr. Brown’s tax plan from [...]
Calling England (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009 | Politics
'Combat Barbie' is the new Miss England. Apparently there have been internal ructions in the Beauty Camp and runner-up Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge is the new Miss England after the winner was involved in a fight and subsequently fired. L/Cpl Hodge, who has won a medal for bravery in Iraq, 'wowed' the judges with her performance of a rifle drill, a first for the beauty pageant's talent section. I think...
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009 | Politics
In a double page spread in today's Guardian John Harris takes a critical look at the diversity of the next generation of Conservative MPs. He focuses on the number of Tory MPs that are likely to have been privately-educated but...
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Man escapes Labour's Merseyside, yesterday Funnily enough, I was just ranting over the Sunday Roast about how East Germans were kept in their place by free jobs for life, free housing, free education and free health as long as they gave their total and utter obedience to the Party and the State. They managed to placate an entire nation for 40 years. Labour have managed it in just 12 years. Guess what?...
Birkdale Lib Dems blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009 | Politics
Confirmation, not that more is required, that the nasty rightwing moraliser who loves to go on about decent standards is not such an upright toff as he would have folk believe. Todays Independent carries the story: Natural slap *Years ago, when the Tory MP Eleanor Laing was speaking in the Commons in favour of lowering the age of consent for gays, she was interrupted by that grand old cauldron of moral...
Parburypolitica (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009 | Politics
Griffin exposed by a 13 year old school boy on a school history trip to war memorial in Belgium. If you want to send more 13 year olds to visit war memorials click here. If you want to send Nick Griffin to peddle his hate on the sacrifices of dead soldiers you’re a twat. If you’re offended by [...]
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009 | Politics
I am pleased to see that the BBC has caught up with the rest of us in speculating whether the One Wales Agreement will survive the Labour leadership contest due to the three candidates' reluctance to commit to a referendum. Both Carwyn Jones and Edwina Hart seem convinced that we cannot proceed without full consultation within the Wales Labour Party, whilst Huw Lewis wants to defeat the Tories first....
And another thing... (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009 | Politics
LIBERAL Conspiracy reports optimistically that Students for Sensible Drugs Policy UK (aka “students”) will hold a demonstration tomorrow in support of the martyred Professor Nutt. Dress: casual Location: wherever you want it to be, innit? Prescribing an exact location would be, like, so authoritarian, yeah? Time: straight after SpongeBob Squarepants but before Harry Hill’s TV Burp....
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009 | Politics
Please tell me that Speaker Bercow actually did some research into Sir Ian Kennedy before appointing this close personal friend of Alastair Campbell to be the head of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority...
The Red Rag (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009 | Politics
Repeat after me - I must not smack female MPs bottoms Quote of the day. "I'm quite a normal person. Will I slap a colleague in friendship? It's certainly possible. Perhaps, if these these things were normal, you don't remember them...You might just do it now and again if you felt so disposed, if you had a sensible, friendly relationship with an individual... But do I go around pinching bottoms?...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009 | Politics
David Cameron's Lithuanian partner has revealed his homophobic views in an email to Left Foot Forward. Valdemar Tomasevski MEP - leader of the 'Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania' and a member of David Cameron's alliance of far right Europeans - describes homosexuality as an "evil" from which children should ...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009 | Politics
This is a cross post by Ben Cohen of Z Word According to The Scientist magazine, which can be considered an authority on such matters, the Weizmann Institute of Science, located in Rehovot, Israel, comes in at number two on a list of the ten leading international academic institutions working in the life [...]
