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The Nasty Party
‘The Nasty Party’ used to be a term applied to the Tories. This is most emphatically no longer the case.
Putting aside historical issues for a moment and looking at recent weeks:
Kathz wrote about an issue (mirror) which I noted, but did not post about until now. That is of Labour playing nasty in Crewe.
The [...]
Posted in Electoral Reform, English Parliament, Identity Cards, UK Politics Also tagged Civil Liberties, Election, Electoral Reform, Gordon Brown, ID, identity, Labour, Nasty Leave a comment
Electoral Reform in the UK
Make Votes Count has re-branded their campaign, and produced an action plan, which I reproduce below:
If you would like to post this to your website, see the previous post for the code.
Posted in Electoral Reform Also tagged Conservative, David Cameron, Election, Electoral Reform, First Past the Post, FPTP, Gordon Brown, Labour, Lib Dem, Liberal Democrat, Make Votes Count, MP, Nick Clegg, Parliament, Politics, Single Transferable Vote, Tory, UK, United Kingdom, Westminster Leave a comment
Letter to Lord Falconer – English parliament
This letter will be going to Lord Falconer:
Dear Lord Falconer
Last Friday, you appeared on "The Today Programme". In the interview you discussed many things, not least of which was the anomaly that is the lack of parity between England and Scotland with regard to representation. There was this exchange:
John Humphreys: Yeah, but, but you’re ignoring [...]
Posted in English Parliament, Letters Also tagged Devolution, English Parliament, Harriet Harman, Labour, Scottish Parliament Leave a comment
Letter to Harriet ‘no anomalies’ Harman – English Parliament
This letter has been drafted for sending off to Harriet ‘no anomalies’ Harman.
Ten months ago I wrote to you after an appearance on "Question Time", a letter to which I never received a reply. To refresh your memory, there was a question about constitutional anomalies. At the time I was surprised that as a Constitutional [...]
Posted in English Parliament, Letters Also tagged Devolution, English Parliament, Harriet Harman, Labour, Scottish Parliament Leave a comment
Now That’s British!