Articles tagged EDP Column:
Is The Independent Group Destined to Become a Pub Quiz Question in History?
- 23 Feb 2019
It’s been a huge week in politics with MPs leaving both the Conservatives and Labour. Iain Dale says the new independent MPs need to quickly build a realistic policy platform. I was just 18 years old when the Gang of Four left the Labour Party to form the SDP in 1981. It se...
EDP/EADT Article: Is it Time to Axe HS2 & Spend the Money on Local Rail Schemes?
- 16 Feb 2019
Britain used to lead the world in visionary transport projects. Whatever happened to those halcyon days when someone invented something and within a few years it was built? I’ll tell you what happened. Our sclerotic planning system happened. It really is the roadblock to every...
EDP Column: What Price Loyalty? Does Parliament Reflect the Country on Brexit?
- 19 Jan 2019
Loyalty, loyalty, what price loyalty? Given the events in Parliament this week you might think that our local MPs might have shaken off the shackles of party loyalty and allegiance, but not a bit of it. Political parties are an always have been tribes. You’re elected under a p...
EDP Column: The Art of the Political Gaffe
- 13 Aug 2006
Well at least he said sorry. Ian Gibson’s ‘foot in mouth’ incident, when he appeared to describe the whole of the county of Norfolk as ‘inbred’, was the latest in the line of political gaffes which have damaged and sometimes ended the careers of those whom were unfortunate eno...