Tag Archive for ‘Labour’
Time for Party Conference radicalism and a more rational opposition
An odd thing happened to the Conservative Party conference this year – it changed. I have been to many conferences, although to be honest it is only in the past five or so years that I have endured the entirety of the event. What was odd was the atmosphere of virtual disdain for the process [...]
What if Brown has got it right?
Image via Wikipedia This has been a funny recession so far. It has come with quite devastating speed and yet, even now, the indicators are unclear as to its effect or how many will get hurt. Our economy is structured differently from the past (even less industry to get hurt) and is based more and [...]
The future of Royal Mail
Image via Wikipedia Something needs to be done about the future of Royal Mail. This is not about the future of Post Offices, although the need for Royal Mail to make savings cannot be separated from the costs of running the offices. As the report that Lord Mandy has received states the RM has very [...]
Darling commits borrowing suicide
2 Image via Wikipedia I have just listened to the most concerning financial statment from a Chancellor I think this country has ever faced. We are being told that Labour are going to borrow so much money to try and get the economy out of the mud that they cannot repay any of it until [...]
Mandy the red-tape Eurocrat
Image via Wikipedia So, your party is languishing in the polls and the General Election is looking like being a disaster. Members of your own cabinet are resigning and then deciding you are so useless that there is no point them even fighting the next election so decide to stand down from their seat. Who [...]
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