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The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Adrian Ramsey has launched his bid to become the very first deputy leader of the Green Party. Adrian is a bit of a local legend round these parts and is in a good position to oust Charles Clarke at the next General Election so I thought I'd take a quick look at his rather impressive campaign website, just as I did for Caroline's and just as I'll do for any other leader or deputy leadership campaign...
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The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
The former Minister of Unfitness for Purpose, Charles Clarke, has given vent to a discharge about what's wrong with our public services. The problem, apparently, is that the Government isn't making enough money out of them. Clarke, whose most famous contribution to fiscal efficiency is probably this, suggests "user charges" as an alternative to privatisation, since "the assumption, made by many,
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Charles Clarke: Don't dismiss the idea of paying for some public services. It can be the best and most painless way to improve them
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Greater Manchester Fabian Society (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Charles Clarke calls for taxpayers to pay directly for specific services in todays Guardian . There are two major problems with such an idea that initially spring to mind: 1) such taxing creates new and extra layers of bureaucracy and 2) have the potential to lessen redistribution even further if not done in the right way.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Taxpayers should be asked to pay directly for a wider range of public services, the former cabinet minister Charles Clarke suggested today
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Keep Tony Blair For PM (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Home All Contents of Site - Index Comment at end 17th July, 2008 Martin Bright at The New Statesman has an interesting article today on Charles Clarke’s new paper “Achieving the Potential“. I heard Mr Clarke on Today, this morning, and he did not criticise Mr Brown. Well, not in so many words. But Mr Bright says his [...]
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Burning our money (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
The Bloke was on R4 Today this morning to discuss Charles Clarke's new paper on public sector service charges. In it, Clarke calls for an extension of charges across a wide range of public services, including health, education, and transport. He says: "The fundamental case for increasing the role of such ‘user charges’ is to increase equity, reduce social division and increase the resources available...
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The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Today's guest post comes from Norwich councillor Adrian Ramsay (pictured, right) who is destined to unseat Charles Clarke at the next election - really. Here Adrian takes on the fact that not everything that has eco- in its name is necessarily good for the environment. In recent years there has been an upsurge of large-scale projects purporting to be ‘green’. The Green Party has been proved right about...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said attempts to secure 42-day detention "severely" damage the fight against terrorism.
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The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
The ex-Minister of Unfitness for Purpose, Charles Clarke, has expressed "very serious doubts" about locking people up for six weeks without charge. He wrote to Agent Smith before the recent vote, worrying that the bribes offered to Labour rebels would make the law unusable: "I remain very concerned about the possibility of ever using this power to extend to 42 days, so that the whole process is
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Former home secretary Charles Clarke has warned ministers that attempts to secure 42-day pre-charge detention will "severely" damage the fight against terrorism.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Former home secretary Charles Clarke has warned ministers that attempts to secure 42-day pre-charge detention will "severely" damage the fight against terrorism.
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Little's Log (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
I am against 42 days detention without trial; not least because it won't actually work but for 2 other reasons - firstly the loss of our historical rights in this country to have a fair trial without being detained by the force of law, and secondly I believe that works fills the time given to complete it - so if you give the police 42 days they will take it; I just don't believe they need this time...
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BLOGDIAL (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
6 June 2008 It has been learned that UK local authorities have been using RIP to spy into citizen communications and private data despite the assurances of Charles Clarke MP, in the attached letter, that this would not happen. File names and title by Cryptome. __________ Please feel free to publish the attached letter and/or this covering email. This letter [...]
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Former Cabinet Minister Charles Clarke has predicted Gordon Brown would be ousted as Labour leader before the next General Election, it was claimed last night.
