Parties and Politics: A Study of Opposition Parties and the PAP in Singapore
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 50 minutes ago
Are all parties underestimating the opposing leaders? James Forsyth had a post on the Spectator CoffeeHouse blog last night setting out a view that’s often expressed on PB threads:- “We just need to ram Gordon Brown down the electorate’s throat’ one Tory staffer said to me today when talking about how the party could get [...]
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 51 minutes ago
So much of the green debate is dominated by fundamentalists. Some who deny that climate change is happening at all (man made or natural) and some who are closed to the practical concerns of intelligent critics such as Lord Lawson and Bjorn Lomborg. In Greg Clark the Tories have a climate and energy spokesman who is determined to pursue a sensible environmentalism. Policies such as his 'Green Deal'...
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Conservatives today launch the Ethics and Accountability section of the ‘Fixing our Broken Politics’ chapter of the Conservative Party’s draft manifesto. The section outlines plans to clean up politics by: · Insisting that MPs’ expenses are published online, and supporting the implementation of the independent proposals to clean up the House of Commons. · Bringing...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Tony Benn’s lament that politics should be about issues, not personalities, is one echoed even by many who would struggle to find any issues on which they agree with him. But it’s not a view I share. Why? Because the detailed policies of election manifestos or conference speeches frequently get swept aside in power by events. [...]
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Chris Grayling is determined to press ahead with the plan for directly elected police chiefs. In the most important manifestation of David Cameron's localist agenda the police will be forced to pay much greater attention to the concerns of different communities. Also within Grayling's brief we can expect a multi-pronged reversal of Labour's policy of uncontrolled immigration. David Cameron has promised...
Next Left (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Last week I posted - alas, somewhat tetchily - about the recent debate in the House of Lords on the proposal to allow civil partnership ceremonies to be performed on religious premises. The proposal, put forward as an amendment to the Equality Bill, was purely permissive, designed to allow religious groups (e.g., Liberal Judaism, Quakerism) who favour such ceremonies to carry them out but leaving other...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
(With thanks to today’s Guardian). The Tories were today forced to recall a consignment of hybrid policies following widespread complaints that their economic model failed when it encountered bumpy or slippery surfaces. The party is already facing criticism over the recent recall of many of its other policies, including marriage tax-breaks, which have been affected by [...]
Adam Smith Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Commons to vote on electoral reform You've really got to hand it to Gordon Brown. After nearly 13 years in government, and just a few weeks left until a general election he looks set to lose, he's suddenly decided we need to change Britain's electoral system. And yet he chooses to champion a reform that (a) won't win him any more seats, (b) won't persuade the Lib Dems to go into coalition with him,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Conservatives should support referendum to introduce the alternative vote method because that is the system they use for their own internal party elections, say Lib Dems David Cameron was accused of hypocrisy ahead of today's Commons vote on a referendum on electoral reform because Tory MPs will oppose a system they use in internal party elections. Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman,...
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
There are many flaws in the First-Past-The-Post system of voting. But at least you only get one vote to expend upon one candidate, and you can be sure that the winning candidate received more votes than any other candidate; that is to say, the winning candidate is sure to be the most popular of all the candidates. Yet today MPs vote on an amendment to the Constitutional Reform Bill on whether or not...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Look at a Lib Dem election campaign, whether it’s a sitting MP or target seat challenger, and you’ll invariably find a hard working local campaigner, a local champion, and leaflets full of local stories. That’s not at all what you see in Conservative literature. Across many seats the Tories have all but given up promoting [...]
John Redwood's Diary (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
John Redwood has welcomed confirmation from the Government that householders who clear snow from the pavements outside their homes are unlikely to face any legal liability should someone slip or have an accident. In response to a letter sent by John to the Department for Transport seeking clarification on the legal risks to homeowners, Sadiq Khan, [...]
SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Going by the last set of polls, if the election was held today, Labour in Scotland would gain 3 seats, an increase of 7.7% while in England and Wales Labour would lose 108 seats, a decrease of 35%. It is a remarkable juxtaposition for a party that is already losing its way. Many conclusions can be drawn from this. Scots really, really dislike Tories, Tony Blair was more right of centre than Brown,...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Conservative Home are today setting out "ten good reasons why we can support the Conservatives with enthusiasm." Top of the list is George Osborne, prompting Labour List editor, Alex Smith, to tweet, "Wow, April 1st already." But the justification - lowering corporation tax - is not something to laugh at. Tim ...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Michael Gove's plan to introduce 'the Swedish model' into the British education system will end the local authority monopoly of schools provision and give more and more parents a choice of school. Faith groups, businesses and voluntary consortiums will be able to set up new schools within the state system and will have freedom to choose their own internationally-recognised system of examination and...
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carrolltrust | 05/02/2010
UK Government high level sources have confirmed that pressure is now mounting on the Home Secretary Alan Johnson MP the former Minister of the DBERR Insolvency Agency responsible for the Gerald Carroll Trust Case. Serious concerns are being expressed by the White House and Kremlin aides to both President Obama and Prime Minister Putin with the latest revelations in the Carroll Case involving Baroness
carrolltrust | 28/01/2010
The Carroll Foundation Charitable Trust a philanthropic industrial global conglomerate with over forty charities embraced the Oxford University "seat" of the Carroll Chair of Irish History the US Capitol Hill Historical Society in conjuction with the Carroll Institute Annapolis Maryland and the Leap Castle Trust County Offaly Ireland. The HM Queen Elizabeth II Gerald Carroll charitable interests included
carrolltrust | 22/01/2010
HM Crown Ministry of Defence Carroll Foundation Trust civilian and military establishment interests formerly at Farnborough Airport Hampshire UK a major research development facility which involved “just about every form of military aviation development you could imagine" under the umbrella of the Defence Research Agency (DRA) and Farnborough Aerospace Development Corporation (FADC) are "named" as
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