Excellent news today – oneseat.eu has passed the 1 million signature barrier! This will not have a direct impact straight away, but it will at least act as a decent tool in the armoury of those that are calling for the abolishment of the Strasbourg seat of the European Parliament. […]
Aside from the issue of party leadership that I have written about here, what else can we learn from the Swedish election campaign – for the sake of the future of the Swedish Social Democrats, and for Labour too? Beyond any debate that may arise here, this will be the […]
Spending the last 4 days of the Swedish election campaign in Stockholm with the Social Democrats has been an eye-opening experience. The stark realisation – starting on Saturday (the day before Sunday’s poll – result here, and here (Swedish official results)) that actually they were going to lose, was the […]
It has been somewhat surprising to discover this morning that my blog has been ranked number 10 in Iain Dale’s Top 100 Labour Blogs – see his blog here. His guide to political blogging will be distributed at this autumn’s party conferences – could be quite useful! But why me? […]
I’m currently in the middle of moving to a new flat – all my furniture moves tomorrow, and I’ll only move sometime next week – due to British Gas! It has been impossible to get all the certificates and checks complete on time, and the landlord will not let me […]
Two weekends, two election campaigns: I’ve been in Berlin this weekend and they are in the middle of a campaign for the Berliner Landtag, the state parliament. While I found the campaigning methods in Sweden last week quite fun and progressive, the efforts at promoting the elections in Berlin strike […]
For someone renowned for having decent political antennae, Tony Blair really seems to have lost it with regard to his future. His response today to ongoing speculation about how long he will stay as Prime Minister has been to say, well, it’s not me speculating – The Guardian here. I’m […]
It looks like the inevitable will happen – the UK government will impose restrictions on freedom of movement for Romanians and Bulgarians once those countries join the EU in 2007 – news from The Guardian here. There’s much smoke and little fire in this debate, and it really infuriates me.
There’s been plenty of talk, and now we are ready to go with a number of events from the Labour Movement for Europe this autumn. The main series of events is entitled EUROPA-Soirée – a get together each month in The Ship & Shovell pub close to Charing Cross, with […]
Wow! He’s the European Commissioner responsible for Research, so you would hope he would be quite high tech, but Janez PotoÄ?nik has launched a new website with animations, an audio message greeting you, and a gaudy yellow background too. So for details of what the EU is spending its €4.5bn […]
20 days to go until the Swedish election, the campaigns are in full swing. So what should be made of all of all of this? And might the Social Democrats manage to hold on to power in the face of the conservative ‘alliance’? For election news in English, try The […]
The online petition calling for one seat for the European Parliament – oneseat.eu – has now passed 900000 signatures. It’s an excellent initiative to call for the ending of the wasteful monthly trips of the European Parliament to Strasbourg. Anyone in favour of an effective European Parliament and value for […]
