A tweet by Emma Burnell pointed me towards this blog post by Tracy Hill about UKIP, and the threat they pose to Labour. You can read the whole blog post to look at the stuff about UKIP, but there is
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Category: UK Politics
If you’re British and care about UK-EU relations, then you’re either in a state of permanent delusion or permanent depression
Two grandees of UK politics were at it again today. Peter Mandelson, while at least acknowledging an in-out referendum for the UK, was nevertheless pompous and deluded in the FT: “pro-Europeans […] should acknowledge that their case has largely been
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The Guardian | Sharon Bowles topping the EU’s power list is a lesson for Westminster
“A very particular type of politician thrives in the House of Commons. One that can deal with the yah boo of prime minister’s questions, the everyday heckling and intimidation. It makes for amusing theatre, but probably not for good politics.”
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LabourList | Labour’s approach to EU budget reform is all wrong
“If anyone in the Labour Party should know how the European Union works it’s Peter Hain. A member of the Convention of the Future of Europe in the early 2000s, Hain will have seen how sensible proposals, compellingly argued, can
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How the Tories got it wrong with the @David_Cameron Twitter account
This is not a post about the politics of David Cameron. It is instead an analysis of what the Tories did wrong – in communications and web tech terms – with the launch of the @David_Cameron Twitter account that finally
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Labour might win, but British politics will not
At one level all looks fine for Labour and Ed Miliband as the party kicks off conference in Manchester this week. The party is 10 points ahead in the polls, is facing an unpopular and weak government. Roll on 2015.
Continue reading There’s not a hope the next election in the UK will be about policy – it’s deluded to even argue that it could be
Labour grandee Paul Richards has penned a tremendously misjudged piece on LabourList, so much so I think it deserves to analysed a bit. This is especially vital because the main premise – that Labour can win an election in the
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From Assange to Tehran, and from Tottenham to Cairo – British politicians not understanding the interconnected world
Steve Bell’s Guardian cartoon has William Hague in the barrel of a tank’s cannon approaching the Embassy of Ecuador in London – reference to the robust wording of the British Embassy in Quito’s letter to the Ecuador government (excerpt here).
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2 hours of school sport, or not? Is it even the right question to ask?
The political debate around the legacy of the Olympic Games over the last few days has revolved around whether every kid in every British school should have to do two hours of compulsory sport every week. Cameron thinks not, while
Continue reading LabourList | What are we actually trying to achieve through school sport? Do we even know?
“The political debate around the legacy of the Olympic Games over the last few days has revolved around whether every kid in every British school should have to do two hours of compulsory sport every week.Cameron thinks not, while Boris
Continue reading LabourList | Farage is right: the UK is not a self governing nation (but not in the way he sees it)
“Everyone’s favourite damp-rag bashing rumbustious politician Nigel Farage has been at it again, claiming today that he “could not care less” who wins the next general election as the UK. “The penny is beginning to drop […] that we are
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Buying tweets in UK politics
There was an interesting debate on Twitter yesterday between @PaulLewis and @RowennaDavis about the latter being paid £75 to tweet about the Sky News show Murnaghan. It turns out that for more than a year non-Sky journalists have been paid
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