Articles tagged UK Politics:
LibDems Pick Mr Charisma
- 9 Feb 2013
This is the candidate the LibDems selected tonight to fight the Eastleigh by-election. His name is Cllr Mike Thornton. This is him at a council meeting. Hardly a surprise that he was so bored, listening to all those LibDem councillors drone on. I suspect this picture is going...
Right & Left Is So 1990s...
- 8 Feb 2013
What do the terms right and left mean any longer? These two words have defined political discourse and debate for most of the last century, yet they are becoming increasingly irrelevant as supposedly right wing politicians adopt what have been traditional left wing causes. In ...
Pryce & Huhne Phone Call: When Prurience Goes Too Far
- 7 Feb 2013
I’ve got Sky News on the TV at the moment and have just heard the phone conversations between Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce. I think it is scandalous that they have been made public. I almost felt dirty listening to them. I’m not sure what is proved by their release. Indeed, why...
Well At Least Chris Chope Avoided Referring to a 'Buggers' Muddle'...
- 6 Feb 2013
A majority of 225 is probably the highest the government has ever achieved at the end of a Second Reading debate. And yet it doesn’t feel like that, does it? And it certainly won’t in Number 10 today. I can’t for a moment imagine that the champagne corks were popping last nigh...
A Question for John Redwood: Are MPs Representatives or Delegates?
- 5 Feb 2013
John Redwood is a man of many opinions. Most of them are ones I agree with. He is a man I have immense respect and admiration for. I regard him as a friend. He’s also a superb blogger. So it was with some degree of horror that I read his blogpost on today’s gay marriage vote....
The Trials of Chris Huhne
- 4 Feb 2013
I’ve sat here for five minutes looking at a blank screen, not quite knowing what to write. You see, when a friend ends up in trouble, the last thing you want to do is stick the boot in. You want to empathise, sympathise and do what friends do. Stick by each other no matter wh...
The Question Closet Case Gay MPs Will Have To Answer
- 2 Feb 2013
I’ve been looking at the Coalition for Equal Marriage’s website, and their list of MPs who intend to vote against allowing gay people to marry on Tuesday. I note with interest the names of several MPs who most people in the Westminster Village know to be closet case gays. And ...
Forget Gay Marriage, It Must Be Equal Marriage, And This Bill Is Deeply Flawed
- 26 Jan 2013
Apparently we are supposed to call it equal marriage, not gay marriage, but just as the government makes clear it is determined to push ahead with legislation, we learn that the resulting marriages won’t be quite so equal after all. In fact, gay people who marry will have rat...
Is David Cameron Just an Enoch Powell Tribute Band?
- 25 Jan 2013
Courtesy of Grant Tucker’s book collection!
Why I am Falling Out of Love With Politics
- 25 Jan 2013
Last night I watched the second half of Question Time and then This Week. Midway through this week I began to realise how little political to-ing and fro-ing means to me any longer. I tweeted that maybe I was seeing politics and politicians in a similar way to the general pub...