Labour Party

The slow death of political parties – perhaps they should try some marketing?

August 22, 2011
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The BBC finally cottoned on to something that some of us have known for ages – political parties are dying out: Political party membership appears to be in terminal decline in the UK – so can anything be done to reverse the trend? And does it matter? It was once a source of cultural identity [...]

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Ed Miliband’s Money Quote on Pensions

July 28, 2011
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This is from the Labour Party’s Annual Report and Accounts, registered with the Electoral Commission, on page 19: “Following the UK Government’s announcement in summer 2010, the inflation index to be used to derive statutory pensions increases has been changed from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). Due to a [...]

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From Flight to Reality.

November 30, 2010

It wasn’t Howard Flight’s ‘first’ acknowledged gaffe – that was his statement in 2005 that an incoming Conservative government would make deeper cuts than those publicly announced. Michael Howard removed him as a Conservative candidate for that transgression. His latest alleged ‘gaffe’ was to say that: “We’re going to have a system where the middle [...]

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The Woolas Affair: Should MPs Be Above The Law?

November 16, 2010

On 5th November a specially convened electoral court handed down a judgment in which it declared that Phil Woolas had knowingly made untruthful statements in the course of his campaign to be re-elected as MP for Oldham and Saddleworth East. As a result the election has been declared void and Mr Woolas’ status as MP [...]

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NHS 0, Labour 2

April 12, 2010

Hot on the heels of the Labour Party’s distasteful attempt to scare cancer sufferers into voting for them comes the news that somehow, by pure coincidence, the Labour Party has managed to source a list of ostensibly private work email addresses for NHS staff in an attempt to coerce them into signing a petition saying [...]

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Prospective Labour Candidate branded unacceptable for speaking the truth…..

April 9, 2010

Stuart Maclennan, Labour’s ex-candidate for Moray branded House of Commons speaker John Bercow a “t**”, and “an opportunist little t***” and another claimed the Tory is “detested”. He also attacked the Lib Dem leader, saying Nick Clegg can “f*** right off if he thinks he’s in the same league as Brown and Cameron” in ‘Tweets’ [...]

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‘Brown’ Sugar, and other euphemisms.

March 9, 2010

Southern voters might be surprised to learn that the Labour heartlands are not the romanticised ‘green valleys’  surrounding the far from romantic pit villages of the Rhonda Valley that the wind-bag Neil Kinnock liked to promote as the seat of Labour Power. Nor are they the teeming back alleys of Liverpool surrounding the now redundant [...]

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