UK Politics

According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election on May 6th: We believe that the green agenda is fundamentally rooted in Labour values. Labour’s environment, energy and climate change policies are about securing fairness, creating jobs and building strong […]

According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election on May 6th: Since 1997 Labour has transformed the UK’s constitutional arrangements in order to break up longstanding concentrations of power, improve transparency, make government more accountable to the people and […]

According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election on May 6th: We are determined to continue to bear down on crime and we recognise that even though crime and anti social behaviour is down, it is still a real […]

According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election on May 6th: If Britain is to thrive in the modern globalised high skill economy we cannot afford to take our foot off the pedal of driving standards in schools, on […]

According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election on May 6th: A strong society depends on strong families. That is why we have always made supporting every child and every family our priority, to give them opportunities to get […]

According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election on May 6th: When Britain was hit by the global recession, we faced a choice – we could let the recession run its course, as the Tories had in the 1980s […]

No big surprise the general election has been called by Prime Minister Gordon Brown for May 6th 2010. Parliament will dissolve on April 12th 2010. One full month of general election campaigning to look forward to and it looks like they are going to go on the negative based on recent Conservative and Labour campaign […]

During Wednesday’s Prime Ministers Question Time, the opposition leader David Cameron stated he wants Unite Trade Union members to cross the picket lines and go to work and wanted Prime Minister Gordon Brown to make the same statement. Around 90% of the Unite trade union members voted to go on strike if British Airways management […]

To traditional Labour voters and those that care about workers rights and the NHS who have voted Labour in the past and are planning to vote Conservative at the 2010 general election. I don’t think Labour’s done a particularly good job in many areas of government, but they do have their successes as well like […]

Dear Conservative Shadow Cabinet and Conservative Blue Blog Moderator Earlier this month I made a comment at the Conservative Blue blog, specifically in response to this blog post:http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php/2010/02/02/ask-me-your-questions-on-the-economy/ I think you’ll agree a blog post titled “Ask me your questions on the economy” by George Osborne (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Conservative General Election […]

The UK general election is expected on May 6 2010, where around 45 million eligible voters will place a single X against the political party/candidate they want to represent them for up to 5 years. With our current first past the post electoral vote system only the candidate with the most votes in each of […]

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 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 […]