At the up coming UK general election there’s a realistic possibility of a hung parliament. All serious polls point to a Conservative election win, but with UKIP’s strong showing in the 2009 EU elections and the Tories appearing to be turning their back on Euroscepticism, could Eurosceptic UKIP split the Conservative vote (Eurosceptic Conservative MPs […]

Watched Question Time the other night and a young man in the audience said: “The longer we can avoid David Cameron the better.” And there was a big applause, think the biggest of the program, see around 3 minutes 30 seconds of the Question Time clip below: There was also a very funny joke by […]

I’m not a big football fan, I normally only watch events like the World Cup, still I’d hate to see the beautiful game of Football damaged by the BNP Immigration policy. The BNP Immigration Policy states: “Stop all new immigration except for exceptional cases” Unless Football players are “exceptional cases” this means British Football teams […]

The National Minimum Wage was legislated for by the Labour government ~10 years ago. At the time the Conservative party argued against the national minimum wage on the grounds it would cost the country jobs, businesses would stop investing in Britain because labor costs would be so high. To date we’ve not seen great job […]

The town of Wootton Bassett is associated with honouring soldiers killed in Afghanistan, every time a fallen soldier returns home the town comes out in force to honor our loss. Very patriotic and no matter how you feel about the Afghanistan war what happens in Wootton Bassett is a very moving event. Makes me proud […]

The Barking and Dagenham (North London) Parliamentary Constituency will be the battle ground for the British National Party leader Nick Griffin (MEP) during the 2010 General Election. Currently the parliamentary seat is held by Labour Margaret Hodge, but in the 2006 council elections the BNP gained 12 of the 51 council seats, making the BNP […]

The United Kingdom Independence Party (which also uses the expansion UK Independence Party, commonly known as UKIP, pronounced /?ju?k?p/ roughly yoo-kip) is a conservative, eurosceptic political party. Its principal aim is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. UKIP currently holds thirteen seats in the European Parliament and two in the House […]

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a centrist political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. The two parties had formed the electoral SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years before then. The party’s leader is Nick Clegg. The Lib Dems […]

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again. Labour first surpassed the […]

The Green Party was a Green political party in the United Kingdom. It has been succeeded by three political parties: * the Green Party of England and Wales * the Green Party in Northern Ireland * the Scottish Green Party The Green Party was originally formed as PEOPLE, or the Ecology Party, in Coventry in […]

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservatives, the Conservative Party, or Tory Party is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form during the early 19th century, it has since been the principal party of the political right in Britain, and it is the oldest political […]

Also see the BNP Manifesto 2010. The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party with strong racist and fascist roots. Formed as a splinter group from the racist/fascist National Front by John Tyndall in 1982. Until 2009, when the BNP was challenged in the courts on grounds of racial discrimination, it restricted membership […]

It’s going to be no big surprise (assuming no big upsets) in 2010 when either MP Gordon Brown (Labour) or MP David Cameron (Conservative) remains or becomes Prime Minister for the next parliamentary session. Prime Minister Polls [poll id=”9″] [poll id=”10″]

Mr Speaker, today’s Pre-Budget Report takes place at a critical time for our economy and for our country. Governments across the world have taken co-ordinated steps to deal with the biggest financial crisis for over half a century. In the UK, our action has reduced the impact of this downturn on families and businesses. But […]

Found an interesting article on the BBC website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/7949104.stm from the Daily Politics show back in March 2009. A poll was conducted with just over 1,000 eligible voters asking the following questions with the following answers. 1. The current economic crisis has made me more likely to support Britain joining the Euro Agree- 31% : Disagree- […]

A commenter on the UK General Election 2010 site gave me a good idea for a poll, the commenter suggested a good way to choose a political party to vote for in the next general election is list the 3 most important political issues to YOU, then go look at the various political parties polices […]