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The political future for Haltemprice & Howden
Apr 22nd
The constituency of Haltemprice & Howden has had an unusual recent history. In the upcoming general election, there could be another twist – but not necessarily one that means a change of MP. It could just be a simple change in majority size. To get an idea of what might happen, you need to see…
Should there be more parties in the debates?
Apr 20th
On April 15 2010, we saw the first of three historic TV debates between the leaders of the three biggest political parties in the United Kingdom. There has been plenty of analysis in the press, on the TV and online and people are still talking about it now. Many people feel that Nick Clegg put…
Who are the English Democrats?
Apr 11th
The first two of the inevitable myriad of election flyers arrived through my letterbox recently. They were from the English Democrats – one of the many minor parties who will be trying to win as many seats in the House of Commons as possible during this election. At present, they don’t have any MPs, but…
Could there be a hung parliament?
Apr 7th
Gordon Brown announced (yesterday) that the date of the 2010 General Election would be May 6th. After that announcement was made, He went off to campaign. Although the campaigning officially starts now, it has actually been taking place for several months and has featured various publicity stunts from all sides in an effort to get…
An unbelievable loss
Nov 25th
Prior to the event happening, many people would have assumed this sort of thing could never happen. Maybe you thought that there would be enough safeguards in place. Obviously, we now know that this is not true. What am I talking about? This blog entry is about the 25 million Inland Revenue records that were…
The Blair Effect
Jul 1st
The year was 1997 – Tony Blair had just won a historic general election and become Prime Minister. There were crowds of people cheering as he went down Downing Street. The following are extracts from his victory speech on May 2nd of that year: “And this new Labour government will govern in the interests of…